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AKRON, Ohio, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Akron Children's Hospital has joined an elite group of U.S. hospitals that have been verified as a Level 1 Children's Surgery Center by the American College of Surgeons Children's Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program (ACS CSV).
Akron Children's department of surgery earned the accomplishment after more than two years of work examining in detail its processes and procedures to ensure that each child's specific needs are met when surgery is necessary.
Akron Children's joins other top children's hospitals in achieving ACS CSV and is the only Northeast Ohio hospital to earn the designation.
"This shows that we deliver the best quality pediatric surgical care in Northeast Ohio," said Dr. Mark Wulkan, chair of the department of surgery at Akron Children's.
He added that the verification means both families and regional providers can have enhanced trust in the care Akron Children's provides.
"For parents, it gives them a level of comfort and calm when they have to bring their child in for something very stressful," he said. "They can be assured that we are operating at the highest level and their child will get the best care."
For providers, he said it means that when they refer patients to Akron Children's that they can trust that their patients will receive high quality patient- and family-centered care.
After the hospital's application was accepted, surveyors conducted a virtual site visit in June. The ACS team of surveyors consisted of experienced children's surgeons, anesthesiologists and nurses who reviewed the hospital's structure, processes and clinical outcomes data.
Akron Children's was notified Aug. 11 that it earned the recognition. According to the American College of Surgeons, Akron Children's met essential criteria for staffing, training and facility infrastructure and protocols for care. The hospital also participates in a national data registry that yields semiannual reports on the quality of its processes and outcomes, thus identifying opportunities for continuous quality improvement. The hospital will be evaluated every three years to maintain the verification.
About Akron Children's Hospital
Akron Children's Hospital has been caring for children since 1890, and our pediatric specialties are ranked among the nation's best by U.S. News & World Report. With two hospital campuses, regional health centers and more than 50 primary and specialty care locations throughout Ohio, we're making it easier for today's busy families to find the high-quality care they need. In 2021, our health care system provided more than 1.2 million patient encounters. We also operate neonatal and pediatric units in the hospitals of our regional health care partners. Every year, our Akron Children's Home Care nurses provide thousands of in-home visits, and our School Health nurses manage clinic visits for students from preschool through high school. With our Quick Care Online virtual visits and Akron Children's Anywhere app, we're here for families whenever and wherever they need us. Learn more at akronchildrens.org.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Polls closed two days ago in Arizona, but counting for the 2022 midterm elections continued Thursday as officials continued to tally votes cast in outstanding races for Senate and governor.
Arizona’s votes are announced in waves and typically take past Election Day itself to tally. The wait isn’t new, although in cycles past, the intervening pause has become a contentious time some candidates have used to cast doubts about an election’s integrity.
Here’s a rundown on how things are shaking out as Arizona’s ongoing vote count continues:
WHAT’S OUTSTANDING?
No winners have been called in all of Arizona’s top-of-the-ticket races, including Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly ‘s reelection battle against Republican Blake Masters, as well as the open governor’s race between Katie Hobbs, the Democratic secretary of state, and Republican Kari Lake, a former TV broadcaster.
The Associated Press also hasn’t called winners in contests for Arizona’s attorney general and the new secretary of state. And no race calls have been issued in some of the state’s U.S. House races.
Lake was about half a point behind Hobbs, and the Republican candidate for attorney general also trailed narrowly. Democrats had 5-point margins in the races for U.S. Senate and secretary of state, but with so many ballots outstanding, the contests were too early to call.
WHAT ARE THE RULES OF THE GAME?
Almost all of Arizona’s vote happens by mail, and counting all of those ballots can take a while, particularly in a county as large as Maricopa. The state’s largest — and fourth-largest in the country — Maricopa is home to a total of 4.5 million residents, and about 2.4 million registered voters.
Early votes in Arizona can be counted as they come in, meaning that officials don’t have to wait until polls close on Election Day to start.
WHAT HAPPENED ON ELECTION DAY?
There were some Republican activists in Arizona who advocated that voters intentionally wait until Election Day itself to drop off their ballots. Some of this push was based on unfounded theories that fraudsters could manipulate voting systems and rig results for Democrats, once they had seen how many GOP votes had been returned early.
Experts had also warned that such a last-minute crush of ballots could end up creating delays that can ultimately be used by a bad actor to undermine confidence in the election. There were some hang ups this year. About a quarter of voting centers in Maricopa County, Arizona’s most populous, had a printing problem on Tuesday, meaning that marks weren’t showing up correctly when voters showed up to print out their ballots.
The issue ultimately got rectified, and election officials assured voters that every ballot would be counted.
Most Arizona counties don’t count ballots in-house, with officials instead bringing them to a central facility. Maricopa County officials count drop box ballots at their central facility, which was the scene of protests by hundreds of Trump supporters, some of whom were armed, after his 2020 election loss.
WHY DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?
There was intense scrutiny on Arizona’s processes, rules and counting after the 2020 election, when Joe Biden notched his slimmest margin of victory in the state, becoming the first Democratic presidential hopeful to win Arizona since 1996.
In the weeks after that election, though, there were myriad protests and court challenges to the results.
In 2016, a decision to reduce the number of Maricopa County’s polling places during the presidential preference primary resulted in hours-long lines that caused some voters to leave the polls without casting their ballots.
In primary elections two years later, dozens of county polling places weren’t set up and ready to accept voters when polls were supposed to open, resulting in cascading issues throughout the day.
But there was no evidence of widespread fraud.
WHEN DO WE GET NEW NUMBERS?
Officials estimated Wednesday there were about 400,000 Maricopa County votes left to count, with about 275,000 of those being ballots that came in on Election Day itself — votes known in some places as “late earlies,” the counting of which has been known to hold up tabulation.
In all of Arizona, officials said there are some 600,000 ballots left to count.
There are also about 17,000 outstanding ballots — about 7% of those cast in person on Election Day — that were set aside due to a Tuesday printing problem at about a quarter of the county’s vote tabulation centers. A judge denied a request from Republicans to keep the polls open, saying he didn’t see evidence that people were not allowed to vote, and officials said those votes would be tallied throughout the week.
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Grocer shares "home for the holidays" meal ideas for as little as $10
CINCINNATI, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), America's grocer, today shared how it is helping shoppers save as they prepare for the holidays, including affordable meal ideas while families enjoy time together.
For families looking for easy, affordable meals during winter break, Kroger is suggesting options to feed a family of four at an average cost of approximately $10 per meal, including favorites such as:
- A traditional breakfast, including a dozen Kroger eggs, Kroger sausage patties, fresh fruit and toast.
- Grilled cheese, the perfect lunch prepared with Kroger American cheese slices, tomato soup and a side of fresh baby carrots.
- Spaghetti and meatballs, featuring Private Selection spaghetti noodles, Prego pasta sauce and Kroger meatballs alongside a fresh Kroger Caesar chopped salad kit.
- Chicken and veggies, a quick and easy meal serving Home Chef's rotisserie chicken, russet potatoes and your family's favorite Kroger frozen veggies.
- Pizza night with Home Chef's Ready to Heat pizza served alongside a fresh Kroger Mediterranean-style chopped salad kit.
"Whether you are shopping in-store, Kroger Delivery or Pickup, we make it easy to save this holiday season and every day," said, Matt Meyer, vice president of pricing and promotion. "From entertaining and preparing your holiday meal to cooking for kids at home for the holidays, we have customers covered with hundreds of ways to save on the products that mean the most to them. This month alone, we will offer more than $360 million in savings, ensuring our customers have all the fresh and festive food they need to make their holidays memorable."
The grocer's holiday savings event, running from December 11-24, is poised to help customers create unforgettable memories with family and friends with offers on the products they need most this season. For customers' entertaining and snacking needs, savings are available on items such as cheese, packaged meat, crackers and potato chips. Bakers should be on the lookout for offers to save on supplies like sugar, eggs, cooking sprays and baking mixes.
Holiday travelers can look forward to expanded savings on fuel this season. As shoppers stock up on gift cards for no-hassle gift giving, they will receive 2X Fuel Points on gift card purchases. Starting November 18, loyalty program members earned 4X Fuel Points on Fridays to save at the pump on items across the store with a digital coupon (limited time). Boost members will get 5X Fuel Points on Fridays with a digital coupon (limited time).
Customer's looking for even more savings and convenience, who have not yet joined Boost by Kroger Plus, can now try Boost with a free 30-day no-risk trial—a great way to maximize convenience and savings this holiday season. Boost members receive 2X fuel points for every dollar spent as well as exclusive savings on Our Brands, including Murray's Cheese, Vitacost, Home Chef™, Simple Truth™ and Private Selection™. New this month, eligible customers can enjoy the convenience of delivery for less through a monthly Boost subscription starting as low as $7.99 a month. Kroger estimates the membership can save customers up to $1,000 per year on fuel and grocery delivery.
The grocer also streamlines savings for online shoppers. Customers shopping or creating grocery lists online can view savings and clip coupons directly on participating products, whether shopping on the homepage, a featured shop or searching for items. At checkout on Kroger.com or the Kroger app, shoppers are notified if there are available coupons for items in their cart.
About Kroger
At The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), we are dedicated to our Purpose: To Feed the Human Spirit™. We are, across our family of companies nearly half a million associates who serve over 11 million customers daily through a seamless digital shopping experience and retail food stores under a variety of banner names, serving America through food inspiration and uplift, and creating #ZeroHungerZeroWaste communities by 2025. To learn more about us, visit our newsroom and investor relations site.
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- Transformative project significantly expands public transit options, saves up to 20 minutes off cross-county trips and creates equitable mobility to some of LA's key destinations
- Opening marks culmination of Arcadis' nine-year relationship with key client LA Metro, drawing on global expertise to provide construction management support services for major infrastructure work
- Use of innovative technologies such as Sequential Excavation Method (SEM) mining and digital traffic modeling key to addressing the more complex challenges of project
LOS ANGELES, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcadis is pleased to mark the grand opening of the new LA Regional Connector, having worked with key client Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) to provide construction management support services to help drive development since 2014. The new 1.9-mile underground light-rail extension will now support riders with a seamless one-seat journey from the heart of downtown LA to the communities of Azusa, Pasadena, East Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Long Beach.
The completion of the Regional Connector project improves connections by bringing together the Metro L (Gold), A (Blue), E (Expo), B (Red) and D (Purple) lines at the 7th Street/Metro Center Station. The new A and E lines will share five downtown Los Angeles stations, giving travelers plenty of transfer options along the way. Some customers riding to and through downtown Los Angeles could save up to 20 minutes by eliminating the need to transfer.
The Regional Connector will provide residents with much-needed access to public transit options and create equitable mobility to some of L.A.'s key business, educational, and cultural hubs.
Construction on the Regional Connector began in 2014, with Arcadis drawing on over 40 years of global experience to provide Construction Management Support Services to drive development. One of the key parts of the project was the strategic use of sequential excavation method mining (SEM), which is well-suited for tunneling in areas prone to earthquakes, such as Los Angeles, and doesn't disturb existing building foundations and utilities. Digital solutions also played an important role, including use of a digital traffic model during planning to help understand anticipated traffic patterns and help mitigate disruption during construction.
Macaria Flores, Arcadis City Executive in Los Angeles, said: "Los Angeles is challenged by traffic and congestion and the Regional Connector is part of that solution. The Regional Connector will get people out of their cars, onto public transportation, and improve quality of life for so many Angelenos."
Greg Steele, Global President of Mobility at Arcadis, said: "Increasingly, our clients are looking for well-connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure to benefit cities and communities all around the world. Drawing on decades of experience, we have been able to leverage our global knowledge from clients across Australia, Europe, and North America to deliver a project that truly sets the standard when it comes to seamless and sustainable transport options. The Regional Connector will not only support social equity, but also progress the sustainability agenda by helping to reduce transport emissions and drive wider economic growth."
Arcadis will continue to lead construction management support services, guiding the construction of the new light rail stations.
ABOUT ARCADIS
Arcadis is the leading global design & consultancy organization for natural and built assets. We maximize impact for our clients and the communities they serve by providing effective solutions through sustainable outcomes, focus and scale, and digitalization. We are 36,000 people, active in more than 70 countries that generate €4.2 billion in gross revenues (pro forma, based on 2021 FY results). We support UN-Habitat with knowledge and expertise to improve the quality of life in rapidly growing cities around the world. www.arcadis.com
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NEW YORK (AP) _ Value Line Inc. (VALU) on Tuesday reported net income of $3.8 million in its fiscal fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the New York-based company said it had net income of 40 cents.
The investment research provider posted revenue of $10.1 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $23.8 million, or $2.50 per share. Revenue was reported as $40.5 million.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):
11:55 a.m.
No. 1 Iga Swiatek will have to overcome past U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens to avoid becoming the next top woman out of the U.S. Open.
Rafael Nadal will need to beat the first player ever to come back from two sets down to beat him in a Grand Slam match to continue his unbeaten season in the majors.
Nadal will face Fabio Fognini in the nightcap at Arthur Ashe Stadium, after Serena and Venus Williams play their women's doubles opening match. Fognini beat the four-time U.S. Open champion in New York in 2015.
Afternoon play on Ashe was set to begin with Swiatek facing the 2017 champion in Flushing Meadows. Already, No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit — who lost to Serena Williams on Wednesday — and No. 3 Maria Sakkari are out, along with past champions Naomi Osaka and Emma Raducanu.
Men's No. 3 seed Carlos Alcaraz was set to follow the Swiatek-Stephens match against Federico Coria.
The first round of the doubles tournaments began Wednesday and continued Thursday. The Williams sisters were to play the Czech duo of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova.
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The partnership integrates Krisp's best-in-class audio capabilities with Twilio Video best-in-class solution.
BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, global software company Krisp announced a new partnership with Twilio (Inc.). The new integration partnership will allow Twilio Video customers to achieve high-quality audio when building video experiences through Twilio Video. With Krisp's background noise cancellation capabilities, environmental distractions are no longer a concern for developers building video applications using Twilio Video. Krisp will help Twilio Video customers create an exceptional audio experience, enhancing the video solution they are building through Twilio Video.
"Krisp is a natural technology fit within Twilio's solutions. Twilio customers will now have advanced voice and audio quality with their market-leading Twilio Video for both desktop and mobile devices." Robert Schoenfield
Krisp's technology helps create a distraction-free virtual environment even if your call participants have noisy physical work environments thanks to bi-directional noise cancellation. In a study with over 400 participants, 78% of respondents agreed that background noise from people on the other end of the call distracts them from the conversation taking place in their online meeting. By bringing Krisp to Twilio Video, developers now have the capability to build and launch video solutions for a post-Covid world where remote and hybrid interactions have changed the expectations of virtual communications platforms.
We are thrilled to partner with the Krisp team, who are leading the way in AI-based noise cancellation technology. Together we can provide exceptional audio quality to the billions of conversations on the Twilio Video platform, allowing customers to build engaging and personalized virtual experiences across telehealth, education, remote work, and more. - Gaurav Agarwal, GM at Twilio
Krisp is a global software company that develops audio solutions to empower everyone to communicate with clarity and confidence. Its AI-powered Noise, Voice, and Echo Cancellation technology has been recognized as an industry leader, named one of the Time 100 "Best Inventions of 2020" in the Artificial Intelligence category and one of "America's Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies" by Forbes. Krisp supports more than 150 million users across the world and thousands of small businesses, enterprise organizations, contact centers, and business process outsourcers to create clearer communication—regardless of where they work—and is trusted by some of the world's largest and most prominent organizations. Visit krisp.ai to learn more.
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Local group offers training for active shooter situations
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) -It is important to protect yourself in school or at your place of worship. No matter where you are, a local organization called ‘Protect His House’ is teaching the community how to respond during a shooting, hoping to save lives.
“Right now we’ve got a world where it seems like it’s borderline chaos,” said police officer and Protect His House instructor John Poitras. In the U.S., incidents, including shootings, have increased in churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques by nearly 35 percent from 2014 to 2018, according to FBI hate crime statistics.
Because of that, places of worship are upping their security measures.
“Monday of last week, we had an incident,” said Scott Parker, who is a part of the security team at his church in the Birmingham area. He says he wants his team to be ready for anything.
“Nobody in the security team has had any kind of training,” Parker said. Protect His House is an organization that teaches teams and individuals how to assess their situation, make an action plan, and intervene.
“I think that it’s important for us to get out there and train as brothers and sisters in Christ. It doesn’t matter what church you go to. If you’re Muslim, [go to a] Mormon church... we need to stand up and protect ourselves and be ready,” Poitras said.
They teach about tactics, response, and threat assessment.
“The very first thing you may have to do is run. Everyone knows how to run. But where to? We’re going to talk about exits in a building. It doesn’t matter [if it is] in a church setting...it could be in Walmart, have you ever thought about the exits in Walmart? Every Walmart bakery or kitchen is going to have an exit. Any restaurant is going to have an exit,” Poitras said.
The training will become first nature when you find yourself in a dangerous situation.
“When you have an emergency situation, you’re not going to rise to the occasion, you’re going to fall to the level of your training,” Poitras said.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s Energy Bureau announced Thursday that it was launching an investigation into how a private company was handling complaints about electric bills after Hurricane Fiona knocked power out to the entire island.
The announcement comes as a growing number of customers in the U.S. territory complain about being charged for electricity when they didn’t have power and receiving higher than normal power bills.
The Independent Office of Consumer Protection urged the bureau last week to investigate difficulties in filing such complaints.
The bureau called on Luma Energy to immediately stop any practice that prevents consumers from objecting to bills via telephone or online, and to extend the deadline for clients to file their complaints, among other things.
It also demanded that Luma Energy submit evidence within 10 days that it was complying with the bureau’s orders.
Luma spokespeople did not immediately return a message for comment.
Of Luma’s 1.47 million clients, more than 8,800 remain without power almost a month after Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico’s southwest region as a Category 1 storm.
Luma officials have noted that restoring power in part has been complicated by the crumbling state of Puerto Rico’s grid, which was razed by Hurricane Maria in 2017. Reconstruction of the grid has only recently started.
Luma, which took over the transmission and distribution of power in Puerto Rico more than a year ago, has faced growing criticism about lengthy outages that occurred frequently even before Fiona hit.
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Financial Advisors in the Horter Investment Management national network, will now receive one of the most comprehensive benefits packages available in the industry. From strategic training and coaching to discounted group health insurance and savings on operating costs, Horter has added a large host of benefits not seen among other financial advisor groups.
CINCINNATI , July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Horter Investment Management, LLC (HIM), a registered investment advisory firm with 50 investment advisor representatives and relationships with over 40 independent advisory firms representing over 60 additional investment advisor representatives, today announced their HIM Advisor Expanded Benefits Package, available immediately to all HIM financial advisors.
"Our new, expanded Financial Advisor Benefits Package contains the widest array of support we've ever offered," said Drew Horter, Founder & CEO Horter Investment Management. "Strategic advice and practical coaching techniques can help our advisors deal with the many challenges investors are facing in a down stock and bond market. To further enhance how we serve advisors, we have partnered with one of the nation's largest professional employer organizations to provide group health insurance and additional services to reduce operating costs. "
The New Horter Benefits Package for Advisors Includes:
- Extensive Advisor Training & Coaching
- Advanced Planning & Training
- Discounted Medical Coverage
- Discounted Prescriptions – (delivers up to 80% savings)
- 401K Brokerage Window Opportunities
- Manage outside client 401K and 403B assets with MPT Style
- Tactical Fund Advisors (TFA) Webinars
- Monthly Marketing for 20+ Attendees
"The new expanded Horter Advisor Benefits Package has really helped my practice," said Stephen Dissette, Investment Advisor Rep with Horter Investment Management. "I've discovered many techniques to help reduce risk and produce results for my clients."
Today, as industry experts continue to predict a declining market in the months ahead, the pursuit of effectiveness is a top priority.
"In the current market, to get the results you want from your investment dollars, choosing the correct Registered Investment Advisor is important," continued Dissette. "To my way of thinking, the RIA of choice is a Horter Investment Advisor."
Horter Investment Management, LLC, is a Cincinnati-based Registered Investment Advisor Firm, with over 50 investment advisor representatives and relationships with over 40 independent advisory firms representing over 60 additional investment advisor representatives. Drew K. Horter, CEO and Founder has over 40 years' experience in money management and providing investment advice. Mr. Horter has coached and mentored 100's of advisors over the past 15 years. Horter Investment Management is a fiduciary, specializing in a modernized, tactical investing approach across a range of risk profiles. More info: www.horterinvestment.com
Investment advisory services offered through Horter Investment Management, LLC, a SEC-Registered Investment Advisor. Horter Investment Management does not provide legal or tax advice. Investment Advisor Representatives of Horter Investment Management may only conduct business with residents of the states and jurisdictions in which they are properly registered or exempt from registration requirements. Insurance and annuity products are sold separately through Horter Financial Strategies and other non-affiliated insurance agencies. Securities transactions for Horter Investment Management clients are placed through AXOS Advisor Services, TD Ameritrade and Nationwide Advisory Solutions.
Past performance may not be indicative of future results and the performance of a specific individual account may vary substantially from the composite performance. Therefore, no current or prospective client should assume that future performance will be profitable or equal the composite performance results reflected herein. In calculating account performance, Horter Investment Management has relied upon information provided by various sources, primarily the account's custodian(s).
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Wheat for Jul. lost 20.75 cents at $10.5025 a bushel; Jul. corn was off 1 cent at $7.6825 a bushel, Jul. oats rose 7 cents $6.6675 a bushel; while Jul. soybeans fell 9 cents at $16.9850 a bushel.
Beef was mixed and pork was higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Jun. live cattle rose 1.20 cents at $1.3520 a pound; Aug. feeder cattle was off .02 cent at $1.713 a pound; while Jun. lean hogs was up .42 cent at $1.0842 a pound.
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NEW YORK, March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLC, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
Globus Medical, Inc. (NYSE: GMED)'s merger with NuVasive, Inc. Under the terms of the merger agreement, NuVasive shareholders will receive 0.75 of a share of Globus Medical Class A common stock for each share of NuVasive common stock. If you are a Globus shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Provention Bio, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRVB)'s sale to Sanofi for $25.00 per share in cash. If you are a Provention shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: INFI)'s merger with MEI Pharma, Inc. Per the merger agreement, pre-merger Infinity shareholders are expected to own approximately 42.0% of the outstanding equity of the combined company immediately following the merger. If you are an Infinity shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Halper Sadeh LLC may seek increased consideration for shareholders, additional disclosures and information concerning the proposed transaction, or other relief and benefits on behalf of shareholders.
Shareholders are encouraged to contact the firm free of charge to discuss their legal rights and options. Please call Daniel Sadeh or Zachary Halper at (212) 763-0060 or email sadeh@halpersadeh.com or zhalper@halpersadeh.com.
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Hiker dead after group runs out of water, got lost on trail in extreme heat
CAVE CREEK, Ariz. (3TV/CBS 5) – A man in his 20s died Monday afternoon when a group of hikers he was with ran out of water and got lost on a trail in Arizona.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office received a call around 1:30 p.m. for possible heat exhaustion at the Spur Cross Trailhead near Cave Creek, AZ Family reports.
“When we got out on that trail, the temperature on the asphalt alone was reading 127 off of our truck. I think it was 109 outside, so it was extreme heat,” said Scottsdale Fire Capt. Dave Folio.
According to the fire captain, a group of six was about four miles in on the trail when they ran out of water and got lost.
Their phones were dead, and they had to borrow someone else’s to call 911.
When deputies and firefighters arrived, the group of hikers was flown to safety.
A man in his 20s was taken to the hospital, where he later died from extreme heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
Officials said the other five hikers didn’t need to be taken to the hospital and are expected to be OK.
Folio is reminding hikers to be mindful of the extreme temperatures and to bring plenty of water if they plan on hitting the trials.
“If you get to half your water, we’re asking people to turn around and go back to the trailhead,” Folio said. “Have a plan. Know your limitations.”
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GOLFTEC returns with their annual Drive For HOPE campaign through Veterans Day
FRISCO, Texas, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PGA REACH has announced the official start of the PGA National Day of HOPE Campaign benefiting PGA HOPE (Helping our Patriots Everywhere) programs across the country. In its sixth year, PGA National Day of HOPE is a month-long campaign, running now through Veteran's Day (Nov. 11). This annual campaign celebrates our nation's heroes who protect our freedom, while raising awareness and support for PGA HOPE.
PGA HOPE is designed to introduce golf to Veterans and Active Duty Military to enhance their physical, mental, social and emotional well-being. PGA REACH and PGA HOPE aspire to create a physically and emotionally healthier Veteran community through a six- to eight-week curriculum led by PGA Professionals trained in adaptive golf and military cultural competency.
The PGA National Day of HOPE campaign launches in conjunction with the 2022 PGA HOPE National Golf & Wellness Week, which is held from Oct. 13-18. Through a longstanding partnership between PGA REACH and Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, 20 Veterans, all graduates of local PGA HOPE programs, will participate in an immersive, four-day event that includes advanced golf instruction and wellness training.
"The PGA National Day of HOPE campaign is a great example of the longstanding commitment PGA Professionals have made in serving our Veteran community," said PGA President Jim Richerson. "The launch of this annual initiative closely aligns with PGA HOPE National Golf & Wellness Week, which provides in-depth training from PGA Professionals for selected Veterans to take back to their communities, so they can help fellow Veterans utilize golf as a means of rehabilitation and fun."
This year, PGA of America Chief Membership Officer John Easterbrook Jr., PGA is serving as Campaign Chair for PGA National Day of HOPE.
"At the core of PGA HOPE is the Veteran; golf just happens to be a great vehicle to help the Veteran along his or her journey," says Easterbrook. "I'm so proud of our PGA Professionals across the country who have stepped up to lead a PGA HOPE program in their community. We are encouraging all supporters of the Veteran community to give with a purpose this Veteran's Day."
GOLFTEC—one of the nation's leading employers of PGA Professionals—returns as a partner to help galvanize support and awareness for PGA National Day of HOPE. In 2021, GOLFTEC conducted a DRIVE FOR HOPE campaign that donated $1 to PGA National Day of HOPE for every lesson given during the month of November. With those efforts, GOLFTEC and its team of over 500 PGA Professionals raised over $100,000.
"Our DRIVE FOR HOPE campaign is something we look forward to every year," says GOLFTEC CEO Joe Assell. "Through DRIVE FOR HOPE, we support the mission of PGA HOPE and celebrate our nation's heroes with every lesson we give."
In addition to corporate support, 33 PGA Sections representing over 40 states will offer online fundraising. In 2022, PGA National Day of HOPE is expected to raise over $200,000 for local PGA HOPE programs in all participating Sections. Serving 7,500 Veterans in 2022 and 30,000 annually by 2026, PGA HOPE is uniquely positioned to make a positive impact in Veteran communities across the U.S.
To learn more about PGA REACH and how you can support the 2022 National Day of HOPE Campaign, please visit the Official Fundraising Page.
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Police: 87-year-old killed in Walmart parking lot after driver backs out of parking spot
RINCON, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) - A woman has died in Georgia after she was hit by a car in a parking lot.
The Rincon Police Department reports that an elderly woman was killed in a Walmart parking lot after she was hit by a vehicle.
Police identified the victim as 87-year-old Beulah Miller. Authorities said a car was backing out of a parking space when she was hit.
The woman was struck at a low speed, but she did not survive her injuries, authorities said.
According to Rincon police, traffic investigators with the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office are handling the investigation.
A spokesperson for Walmart provided the following statement:
“We are deeply saddened by the tragic incident at our Rincon store. We’ll continue working closely with law enforcement as they investigate the incident, and we refer further questions to them.”
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Kelly Clarkson knows why you might think it, but she says her latest album, Chemistry, is about more than just her very public divorce.
Who is she? Clarkson is the Grammy-winning, chart-smashing singer and talk show host who has sold millions of records since winning the first season of American Idol in 2002.
What's the big deal? A lot's changed in Clarkson's life since her last non-Christmas album, Meaning of Life, came out in 2017.
What is she saying? Clarkson spoke with NPR's Juana Summers to talk about the highs and lows of love.
On whether it's fair to characterize the album as a divorce album:
I get why people would say that, because obviously I'm divorced now and I haven't had music since then. So it's like, "Oh, what is she going to say?" We're all guilty of that with any artists we love. And unfortunately, from tragedy and hurtful places, a lot of music that is highly relatable comes out of that. I'm not offended by it by any means.
But it was really important to me to have a full scope of a relationship and not just the negative. That's because you only see what was happening in the end and you don't remember that's not what it was the whole time. There were some beautiful moments like, how lucky am I to have felt that, to have been in love, to have that chemical reaction with someone?
So "Favorite Kind of High" is more of that sexy, intoxicating beginning part of a relationship. There's "Magic," where it's like you're struggling, but the person is magical, you're in love. There's that kind of chemistry of holding on to something that you shouldn't be that's maybe unhealthy for you. That's what the album is — it's all these different types of chemistry that you can feel in a positive or negative way.
On how she decided which songs to include on the album:
I kind of gauged which songs were going to make the album with what was already out there without me having any control. A lot of things — whether it be court documents or what [people] thought they knew — there was just so much that was public without anybody in the situation saying anything. So I kind of gauged what I felt at the moment was like, "This is OK, because this has all been talked about already. So I can at least explore this honestly and vulnerably."
On what she hopes the album does for others experiencing heartbreak:
I think anyone going through something like that, the tough part about it is, no one knows exactly what you're going through, everybody's situation is so different. So that's so isolating and you feel so alone.
I remember, even after I wrote my whole record, Lucious ended up coming out with this album called Second Nature, [and] I have worn that album out. I relate to so many of those songs and you could definitely tell a lot of it was about a relationship not working out. So to find a connection like that is so healing, and I hope that my album does that for someone.
There's a purpose for it like, OK I went through something that maybe other people, maybe this will make them feel less alone, you know, when they're crying on their floor and their world is a dumpster fire.
So what now?
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Joseph Snodgrass recorded his third hat trick of the season and increased his team-leading goal total to 16 as Oakcrest defeated Vineland 8-2 in Mays Landing.
Marek Guerrier and Connor Flynn each added two goals for Oakcrest, which improved to 3-7 overall and 3-4 in the Cape-Atlantic League National Division.
Jorge Curtidor-Cornejo had 14 saves in the win.
Vineland fell to 2-12, 1-8.
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NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. ("Axsome" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: AXSM) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and docketed under 22-cv-03925, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Axsome securities between December 30, 2019 and April 22, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"), and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Axsome securities during the Class Period, you have until July 12, 2022 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Axsome is a biopharmaceutical company that engages in the development of novel therapies for central nervous system disorders in the United States. The Company is developing, among other product candidates, AXS-07, a novel, oral, rapidly absorbed, multi-mechanistic, and investigational medicine for the acute treatment of migraine.
Axsome consistently touted AXS-07's regulatory and commercial prospects in anticipation of the Company's submission a New Drug Application ("NDA") to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for AXS-07 for the acute treatment of migraine (the "AXS-07 NDA") based on the drug's positive results in two Phase 3 trials. However, unbeknownst to investors, the Company's preparation and eventual submission of the AXS-07 NDA was plagued with chemistry, manufacturing, and control ("CMC") issues.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Axsome's CMC practices were deficient with respect to AXS-07 and its manufacturing process; (ii) as a result, Axsome was unlikely to submit the AXS-07 NDA on its initially represented timeline; (iii) the foregoing CMC issues remained unresolved at the time that the FDA reviewed the AXS-07 NDA; (iv) accordingly, the FDA was unlikely to approve the AXS-07 NDA; (v) as a result of all the foregoing, Axsome had overstated AXS-07's regulatory and commercial prospects; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On November 5, 2020, Axsome issued a press release reporting the Company's third quarter 2020 results. That press release disclosed that the Company "plans to submit the [AXS-07] NDA to the FDA in the first quarter of 2021, versus previous guidance of the fourth quarter of 2020, to allow for inclusion of supplemental manufacturing information to ensure a robust submission package."
On this news, Axsome's stock price fell $5.22 per share, or 6.99%, to close at $69.51 per share on November 5, 2020.
Then, on April 25, 2022, Axsome disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that, "[o]n April 22, 2022, Axsome . . . was informed by the [FDA] that [CMC] issues identified during the FDA's review of the Company's [NDA] for its AXS-07 product candidate for the acute treatment of migraine are unresolved." That filing also disclosed that "[b]ased upon the time remaining in the NDA review cycle, the Company expects to receive a Complete Response Letter [('CRL')] with respect to this NDA on or about the Prescription Drug User Fee Act target action date of April 30, 2022."
On this news, Axsome's stock price fell $8.60 per share, or 21.99%, to close at $30.50 per share on April 25, 2022.
Finally, on May 2, 2022, Axsome announced that it received a CRL from the FDA regarding the AXS-07 NDA for the acute treatment of migraine. According to the Company, "[t]he principal reasons given in the CRL relate to [CMC] considerations" including "the need for additional CMC data pertaining to the drug product and manufacturing process."
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Ping Identity Holding Corp. ("Ping" or the "Company") (NYSE: PING) in connection with the proposed acquisition of the Company by Thoma Bravo. Under the terms of the merger agreement, the Company's shareholders will receive $28.50 in cash for each share of Ping common stock owned. The transaction is valued at approximately $2.8 billion.
If you own Ping shares and wish to discuss this investigation or have any questions concerning this notice or your rights or interests, visit our website:
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Weiss Law is investigating whether (i) Ping's board of directors acted in the best interests of Company shareholders in agreeing to the proposed transaction, (ii) the $28.50 per-share merger consideration adequately compensates Ping's shareholders, and (iii) all information regarding the sales process and valuation of the transaction will be fully and fairly disclosed. Notably, at least one analyst set a price target for the Company of $38 per share, $9.50 above the per-share merger consideration.
Weiss Law has litigated hundreds of stockholder class and derivative actions for violations of corporate and fiduciary duties. We have recovered over a billion dollars for defrauded clients and obtained important corporate governance relief in many of these cases. If you have information or would like legal advice concerning possible corporate wrongdoing (including insider trading, waste of corporate assets, accounting fraud, or materially misleading information), consumer fraud (including false advertising, defective products, or other deceptive business practices), or anti-trust violations, please email us at stockinfo@weisslawllp.com
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Environmental groups are once again at odds with politicians and fishermen in New England in the wake of a decision by high-end retail giant Whole Foods to stop selling Maine lobster.
Whole Foods recently said that it will stop selling lobster from the Gulf of Maine at hundreds of its stores around the country. The company cited decisions by a pair of sustainability organizations to take away their endorsements of the U.S. lobster fishing industry.
The organizations, Marine Stewardship Council and Seafood Watch, both cited concerns about risks to rare North Atlantic right whales from fishing gear. Entanglement in gear is one of the biggest threats to the whales.
The decision by Whole Foods was an “important action to protect the highly endangered” whale, said Virginia Carter, an associate with the Save America's Wildlife Campaign at Environment America Research & Policy Center.
“With fewer than 340 North Atlantic right whales in existence, the species is swimming toward extinction unless things turn around,” Carter said.
Whole Foods said in a statement last week that it's monitoring the situation and "committed to working with suppliers, fisheries, and environmental advocacy groups as it develops.”
The company's decision to stop selling lobster drew immediate criticism in Maine, which is home to the U.S.'s largest lobster fishing industry. The state's Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, and its four-member congressional delegation said in a statement that Marine Stewardship Council's decision to suspend its certification of Gulf of Maine lobster came despite years of stewardship and protection of whales by Maine fishermen.
“Despite this, the Marine Stewardship Council, with retailers following suit, wrongly and blindly decided to follow the recommendations of misguided environmental groups rather than science,” Mills and the delegation said.
Whole Foods was not the first retailer to take lobster off the menu over sustainability concerns. HelloFresh, the meal kit company, was among numerous retailers to pledge to stop selling lobster in September after California-based Seafood Watch placed American and Canadian lobster fisheries on its “red list” of seafoods to avoid.
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With Russia believed to have been flaring large amounts of gas near the Finnish border since July, releasing approximately 9,000 tonnes of CO2 per day, DW looks at the potential climate impact.
In its recent analysis of activity at the under-construction Portovaya liquid natural gas facility not far from where the Nord Stream 1 pipeline enters the Baltic Sea, Norwegian-based company Rystad Energy said Russia was flaring gas that would ordinarily have been supplied to Europe. Had relations with the West not soured as a result of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Flaring is generally a common practice near oil fields and processing plants across the world, with companies burning off gas that is generated as a byproduct during various processes involved in oil exploration and extraction.
Firms usually resort to flaring when they lack adequate infrastructure or financial incentives to bring the gas to market. Or when it needs to be released for safety reasons, in order to manage changes in pressure during crude oil extraction.
Huge volumes of gas are currently lost to flaring each year. According to the World Bank, in 2021 approximately 144 billion cubic meters of gas were burned in thousands of flares at oil production sites worldwide — enough to power the whole of sub-Saharan Africa or almost two-thirds of the European Union's net domestic electricity generation.
Flaring is seen as environmentally preferable to venting gas directly into the atmosphere.
"If you have in parts of your grid too much gas, you have to release it and of course for the climate it is better to burn it because you massively reduce the greenhouse gas effect than if you release the natural gas, as it is CH4 [methane]," said Stefan Lechtenböhmer, professor and director of future energy and industry systems at the Wuppertal Institute, a German think-tank.
Compared to the CO2 released from flaring, methane is around 80 times more potent for global warming over a 20-year period.
Despite this, gas flaring is still considered economically unproductive and a critical climate issue. "You have the CO2 emissions, but no use from it: you don't produce electricity, you don't produce heat, you don't drive industry processes etc," Lechtenböhmer said.
Gas wasted in flaring, venting and methane leaks from oil and gas operations led to around 2.7 billion tons of CO2 equivalent emissions in 2021. According to the International Energy Agency, preventing this loss would have the same impact on global temperature rise by 2050 as immediately eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from all the world's cars, trucks and buses.
Zongqiang Luo, senior gas and LNG analyst at Rystad Energy says the sheer volume of gas being burned at the LNG facility in Russia makes it a particularly concerning case. "A normal, standard procedure will not flare that amount of gas."
Although the exact volume of gas being lost to flaring at Portovaya is difficult to calculate accurately, Rystad estimates it to be around 4.34 million cubic meters per day. That equates to 1.6 billion cubic meters annually, around 0.5% of the EU's annual gas demand needs.
Rystad Energy has described the situation as an "environmental disaster" with around 9,000 tons of CO2 being emitted daily.
Lechtenböhmer said this daily gas burning was equivalent to roughly 10-12% of the amount of gas currently delivered every day through
"It is an environmental crime of the largest proportion — it is protracted, it goes on for months, and as we are now learning, it is highly visible," said R. Andreas Kraemer, founder of the Ecological Institute, a non-profit research organization based in Berlin.
The Russian gas giant Gazprom has slashed flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to just 20% of capacity since mid-July, blaming technical reasons like faulty equipment for the cut.
Germany rejects this argument and says the reduction in gas supply was a political move in response to Western sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine war.
Some argue that after Russia cut supplies to its European customers, it couldn't divert the gas to anywhere else and therefore opted to burn it off.
Gazprom, which according to Rystad Energy, is building the plant where gas is being flared, did not respond to requests for comment.
Experts such as Kraemer have also expressed concern about the pollution from black carbon — more commonly known as soot — produced during flaring from the incomplete burning of fuels like natural gas. Black carbon is a powerful contributor to global warming, converting solar radiation into heat and impacting rainfall patterns.
Kraemer regards the northern geographical position of the Portovaya flare as concerning.
"I think from that location, it [black carbon] will go far," he said, explaining the heat could make it rise to high altitudes where it can be blown across significant distances. "They [black carbon particles] will eventually settle on the ground. And if they settle on snow, then they change the absorption of sunlight by the surface of the snow or ice and that can accelerate Arctic melting.”
Using calculations of the estimated flow rate through the flare, it is likely that this single flare is currently producing more black carbon than the entire country of Finland, said Matthew Johnson, professor and head of the energy and emissions lab at Carleton University in Canada.
Based on Rystad's analysis, the World Bank said that on a daily basis the individual flare at the Portovaya LNG facility is equivalent to around 6% of the daily flaring estimated for Russia in 2021. Most Russian flaring is driven by oil production in a small number of fields in East Siberia.
By volume the country flaresmore gas than any other globally, topping a list that includes Iraq, Iran, US and Venezuela.
Nico Bauer, senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said Russia's performance to reduce gas flaring is insufficient.
"Russia's government planned to reduce gas flaring from about 12% of associated gas to below 5%, which is the share achieved in countries with advanced gas production industries. However, this has not been achieved."
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INDIANAPOLIS (WXIN) – If you are having trouble accessing Twitter, you aren’t alone: A Twitter outage prompted thousands of reports from users Thursday morning.
The issue was first detected by the real-time status-monitoring site Downdetector just before 8 a.m. EST on Thursday, followed by a flood of similar reports. By 8:30 a.m., more than 54,000 reports of Twitter being down were reported to the website.
The issue was not isolated, either: The outage was reported across the country, according to Downdetector’s reported problems map.
Users trying to access the platform were shown an error screen which displayed the following message: “Something went wrong, but don’t fret — it’s not your fault. Let’s try again”
Service appeared to have been restored by 9 a.m., though the company has yet to acknowledge the outage or provide a reason for the issue on its blog.
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Snow showers continue into Saturday
Light snow showers will come and go through Saturday. With a bit of a break during the overnight. That said, a bit of a dusting is possible in the colder periods. It will not rise to the occasion to cause any issues on the travel scene.
We’re still breezy. Chilly too. Highs are confined to the upper 30s to about 40 on Saturday. That gusty breeze persists, reaching 25-30 mph out of the northwest.
Temperatures do start to bounce back next week. We’ll hit highs well into the 50s. A generally dry start to the week should end with some rain on next Friday.
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Paris Hilton is saying goodbye to a best friend.
The 42-year-old shared on May 22 that her chihuahua, Harajuku B----, has passed away.
"Today, my heart breaks as I say goodbye to my precious chihuahua, Harajuku B----. For an incredible 23 years, she filled my life with so much love, loyalty, and unforgettable moments," Paris wrote on Instagram alongside a series of sweet snaps of the pup. "She lived a long, beautiful and iconic life, surrounded by love until her final peaceful slumber."
"Words cannot express the immense pain I'm feeling right now," continued Paris. "She was more than just a pet; she was family to me, a loyal friend who was always by my side through every twist and turn life brought my way."
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And as the pup to a huge star for over 20 years, Harajuku was with Paris for every big and small moment in her life, by her side since before The Simple Life first aired in 2003.
"From the glitz and glamour to the quiet moments behind the scenes, she was always there, a tiny ball of love, brightening up even the darkest of days," Paris explained. "We shared so many memories, laughter, and tears."
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Paris closed out the sweet post with a message of gratitude for her friend.
"Rest peacefully, my sweet darling. Thank you for blessing my life with your unconditional love," the Paris in Love star wrote. "You may be physically gone, but the imprint of your pawprints on my life will never fade. Rest gently, sweet friend, knowing that you will be cherished and missed always. Love and miss you forever."
After sharing the heartbreaking news, Paris' post was filled with comments of support from fans and fellow celebs.
Elle Fanning wrote, "An unbearable pain…. Rest peacefully sweet baby!!"
Paris' sister, Nicky Hilton, commented three crying emojis, while another user commented, "She was 23? That's amazing!"
"Thank you honey, I am in so much pain that I am in shock," Paris replied to the comment. "I had her so long, I can't believe that she's gone."
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Mortgage lenders lost hundreds of dollars on average for each loan they originated last year while soaring interest rates dampened demand, according to a new report.
The report from the Mortgage Bankers Association revealed that banks and mortgage companies lost an average of $301 for each loan originated in 2022, down from an average profit of $2,339 per loan the year before.
“The rapid rise in mortgage rates over a relatively short period of time, combined with extremely low housing inventory and affordability challenges, meant that both purchase and refinance volume plummeted,” Marina Walsh, MBA’s vice president of industry analysis, said in a press release.
“The stellar profits of the previous two years dissipated because of the confluence of declining volume, lower revenues, and higher costs per loan,” Walsh added.
The report showed that the cost per loan swelled to a study high of $10,624.
“Companies could not adjust their capacity fast enough. The number of production employees declined, but not at the same pace as origination volume,” Walsh said.
Mortgages are getting more expensive
MBA’s report also found an all-time high cost for first mortgages. The average loan balances for first-time mortgage holders shot up to $323,780 in 2022, up from $298,324 in 2021.
This marks the largest single-year increase in the history of the report, which began in 2008.
Mortgage rates rose rapidly during the latter half of 2021 while the Federal Reserve battled growing inflation with a series of jumbo interest rate hikes. At their height, rates for the benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage crossed the 7 percent threshold.
Despite the U.S. central bank’s ongoing effort to tamp down inflation leading to even more interest rate increases, mortgage rates have settled.
The average rate fell for the fifth straight week last week to 6.28 percent. At the same point last year, the average rate sat at 4.67 percent.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Nikese Toussaint was at church, so she didn’t see the text message from her sister.
All she knew at that point was that their brother and his wife, who live in the U.S., had landed safely in Haiti to visit ailing relatives and prepare for Rara, a colorful and boisterous festival born out of the dark days of slavery.
It wasn’t until Toussaint got home and her sister followed up the unread text with a phone call that she learned her warnings had materialized: their brother, an accountant; his wife, a social worker; and another person were snatched off a public bus amid a surge in gang-related kidnappings.
Toussaint took a deep breath. Not again, she thought.
Seventeen years earlier, gangs had kidnapped two of her cousins in the capital of Port-au-Prince. They were eventually released but remain traumatized.
This time, the gang that kidnapped her brother, wife and another person is demanding $200,000 — each.
“How are we ever going to come up with that money?” Toussaint told The Associated Press in a phone interview Monday from the U.S.
The kidnapping occurred March 18, and since then, her brother, Jean-Dickens Toussaint, has been allowed to make only two brief calls.
All his family knows is that he and his wife, Abigail Michael Toussaint, are tied up. The phone calls are too brief to find out if they are being given food or water or treated generally well, Nikese Toussaint said.
The couple were on their way to Jean-Dickens Toussaint’s hometown of Leogane, which many Haitians believe organizes the country’s best Rara festival. Three pandemic years had gone by since he last led a Rara band through those streets, and the 33-year-old accountant was excited to resume his role as “colonel.”
Rara is similar to a carnival, with drums, bamboo instruments and metal horns accompanying singers as they parade through the town behind band leaders like Toussaint in an homage to the slave revolution that led Haiti to become the world’s first Black republic.
But the celebration was cut short.
The Toussaints, who are from Tamarac, Florida, never made it to Leogane.
Gangs stopped the public bus they were on as it tried to cross Martissant, considered ground zero for ongoing violence that has worsened since the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
The gangs apparently noticed the suitcases in the bus and zeroed in on the couple and the person accompanying them on the trip, Nikese Toussaint said.
The family paid someone they trusted $6,000 to give to the gang, but the money vanished. It’s not unusual for gangs in Haiti to refuse to release kidnapping victims even after they’ve been paid, but Toussaint believes it was a scam.
“That’s when we said, ‘Uh, oh, we have to get help,’” she recalled. “We didn’t know what to do at that point. We don’t want to take any more risks.”
Toussaint said her family is in touch with the FBI, which is helping with the case.
“To the gangs, I want to say, we want our family back. We are not rich over here,” Nikese Toussaint said.
A statement from the U.S. State Department said the agency was aware of reports of two U.S. citizens being kidnapped and was in regular contact with Haitian authorities.
The kidnappings are the latest to target U.S. citizens, although most victims are Haitian, ranging from wealthy business owners to humble street vendors. At least 101 kidnappings were reported in the first two weeks of March alone, with another 208 people killed in gang clashes during that period, according to the U.N.
The ongoing violence in Port-au-Prince and beyond also has displaced at least 160,000 people as warring gangs set fire to neighborhoods in their bid to control more territory.
More than a week has gone by since the Toussaints were kidnapped. Their family is trying to stay strong because the couple have a son who turns 2 on Tuesday.
“We’re trying to smile,” Nikese Toussaint said of their video calls with the boy. “We have to smile with him, and give him love, and at the same time we get a little smile (from him), and that’s when the pain gets a little harder.”
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LONDON (AP) — After seven decades on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II is widely viewed in the U.K. as a rock in turbulent times. But in Britain’s former colonies, many see her as an anchor to an imperial past whose damage still lingers.
So while the U.K. is celebrating the queen’s Platinum Jubilee — 70 years on the throne — with pageantry and parties, some in the Commonwealth are using the occasion to push for a formal break with the monarchy and the colonial history it represents.
“When I think about the queen, I think about a sweet old lady,” said Jamaican academic Rosalea Hamilton, who campaigns for her country to become a republic. “It’s not about her. It’s about her family’s wealth, built on the backs of our ancestors. We’re grappling with the legacies of a past that has been very painful.”
The empire that Elizabeth was born into is long gone, but she still reigns far beyond Britain’s shores. She is head of state in 14 other nations, including Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Bahamas. Until recently it was 15 — Barbados cut ties with the monarchy in November, and several other Caribbean countries, including Jamaica, say they plan to follow suit.
Britain’s jubilee celebrations, which climax over a four-day holiday weekend starting Thursday, aim to recognize the diversity of the U.K. and the Commonwealth. A huge jubilee pageant through central London on Sunday will feature Caribbean Carnival performers and Bollywood dancers.
But Britain’s image of itself as a welcoming and diverse society has been battered by the revelation that hundreds, and maybe thousands, of people from the Caribbean who had lived legally in the U.K. for decades were denied housing, jobs or medical treatment — and in some cases deported — because they didn’t have the paperwork to prove their status.
The British government has apologized and agreed to pay compensation, but the Windrush scandal has caused deep anger, both in the U.K. and in the Caribbean.
A jubilee-year trip to Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas in March by the queen’s grandson Prince William and his wife Kate, which was intended to strengthen ties, appears to have had the opposite effect. Images of the couple shaking hands with children through a chain-link fence and riding in an open-topped Land Rover in a military parade stirred echoes of colonialism for many.
Cynthia Barrow-Giles, professor of political science at the University of the West Indies, said the British “seem to be very blind to the visceral sort of reactions” that royal visits elicit in the Caribbean.
Protesters in Jamaica demanded Britain pay reparations for slavery, and Prime Minister Andrew Holness politely told William that the country was “moving on,” a signal that it planned to become a republic. The next month, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne told the queen’s son Prince Edward that his country, too, would one day remove the queen as head of state.
William acknowledged the strength of feeling and said the future “is for the people to decide upon.”
“We support with pride and respect your decisions about your future,” he said in the Bahamas. “Relationships evolve. Friendship endures.”
U.K. officials hope countries that become republics will remain in the Commonwealth, the 54-nation organization made up largely of former British colonies, which has the queen as its ceremonial head.
The queen’s strong personal commitment to the Commonwealth has played a big role in uniting a diverse group whose members range from vast India to tiny Tuvalu. But the organization, which aims to champion democracy, good governance and human rights, faces an uncertain future.
As Commonwealth heads of government prepare to meet in Kigali, Rwanda, this month for a summit delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, some question whether the organization can continue once the queen’s eldest son, Prince Charles, succeeds her.
“Many of the more uncomfortable histories of the British Empire and the British Commonwealth are sort of waiting in the wings for as soon as Elizabeth II is gone,” royal historian Ed Owens said. “So it’s a difficult legacy that she is handing over to the next generation.”
The crisis in the Commonwealth reflects Britain’s declining global clout.
Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth under its authoritarian late President Robert Mugabe, and is currently seeking readmission. But many in its capital of Harare have expressed indifference to the queen’s jubilee, as Britain’s once-strong influence wanes and countries such as China and Russia enjoy closer relations with the former British colony.
“She is becoming irrelevant here,” social activist Peter Nyapedwa said. “We know about (Chinese President) Xi (Jinping) or (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, not the queen.”
Sue Onslow, director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London, said the queen has been the “invisible glue” holding the Commonwealth together.
But she says the organization has proven surprisingly durable and and shouldn’t be written off. The Commonwealth played a major role in galvanizing opposition to apartheid in the 1980s, and could do the same over climate change, which poses an existential threat to its low-lying island members.
“The Commonwealth is reflective of global trends,” Onslow said. “So if you think about the creeping authoritarianism that has happened in non-Commonwealth countries … this is happening in Commonwealth countries too. Progress towards greater democracy and good governance is definitely under pressure and there has been regression.”
But she said the Commonwealth has also shown resilience.
“The Commonwealth has shown a remarkable ability to reinvent itself and contrive solutions at times of crisis, almost as if it’s jumping into a telephone box and coming out under different guise,” she said. “Whether it will do it now is an open question.”
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Alex Turnbull in Paris, and Andrew Meldrum in Johannesburg, contributed to this report.
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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday said China is the top security threat to the United States, despite Russia's invasion of and war against Ukraine.
China "is the only competitor out there with both the intent to reshape the international order, and increasingly the power to do so," Austin said at the Pentagon while unveiling the country's National Defense Strategy.
Beijing seeks to 'refashion Indo-Pacific,' Russia only an 'acute threat'
The document said Beijing is attempting to "refashion the Indo-Pacific region and the international system to suit its interests and authoritarian preferences." The strategy said China's "coercive activity" towards Taiwan is "destabilizing" and a challenge to peace in the region.
Meanwhile, the strategy labels Russia as only an "acute threat" amid Moscow's "brutal, unprovoked war against Ukraine."
"Russia presents serious, continuing risks in key areas," the document said. "These include nuclear threats to the homeland and US allies and partners; long-range cruise missile threats; cyber and information operations, counterspace htreats, chemical and biological weapons (CBW); undersea warfare, and extensive gray zone campaigns against democracies in particular."
China, Russia continue cooperation
The US report noted that China and Russia are becoming closer, despite "diverging interests and historical mistrust."
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday reaffirmed support for Moscow in a call with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, state broadcaster CCTV reported. Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, recognized Taiwan as a part of China during the Valdai Discussion Club event in Moscow.
Other threats listed in the Pentagon strategy include North Korea and Iran expanding their military and nuclear capabilities, along with terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda and the so-called "Islamic State" (IS). Climate change was also listed as an "emerging threat," a reversal in policy from former President Donald Trump's administration.
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Journalist Luke Harding saw firsthand the nature of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, while serving as Moscow Bureau Chief for The Guardian from 2007 until 2011. The Kremlin didn't like what he was writing, Harding says, and, consequently, his apartment was broken into, he was spied on, harassed and, finally, expelled from Russia.
"The country was lurching towards darkness," Harding says. "It was already authoritarian when I got there, but it was going towards totalitarianism."
Harding says it was clear that Putin had never really accepted the independence of post-Soviet republics. In 2014, Russia occupied parts of eastern Ukraine, and annexed Crimea. So when Russia sent tanks to the Ukrainian border in autumn 2021, he knew it wasn't a bluff. Instead, Harding says, "I thought we were hurtling towards a terrible and big invasion."
Harding began reporting from Ukraine in December 2021 and was in the country's capital of Kyiv on Feb. 23, the night before the Russian invasion began. That night, he recalls, the city was a portrait of normalcy: A busker played Édith Piaf songs outside his hotel, while couples dined at cafes and women sold tulips out of buckets. Just hours later, at 4 or 4:30 a.m. on Feb. 24, Harding's phone rang, and he learned that war had begun.
"I threw on my boots and my coat and, like everybody else, descended to the hotel's underground garage," he recalls. "My mind was whirring. It was going very, very fast."
As a foreign correspondent, Harding was initially focused on the geopolitical fallout of the invasion. But then a mother arrived at the shelter with two small children who were clutching coloring books, and a different reality set in: "What became clear to me at that moment was that as Russian bombs are falling and the first tank columns were trundling towards the Ukrainian capital, that civilians were going to be killed. Perhaps not these kids, but other kids," he says. "And, in fact, more than 400 children have been killed."
Harding has continued to report from Ukraine throughout the year. In the spring, he reported from Bucha and from Mariupol. More recently, he was in Kherson, covering the liberation of the city and the death, destruction and landmines left behind by the Russians.
"When you do these things, you are somewhat rolling the dice," he says of reporting from a war zone. "You don't want to hang around, but at the same time, unless you go to the front line, how can you report on the lives of people who live there?"
Harding's new book, Invasion, chronicles the war and his experiences covering it, and analyzes the politics, strategies and delusions behind it.
"This is a terrible story," he says of the war. "I guess my plea, if I have a plea, is that we continue to pay attention to Ukraine and its fate. And we continue to read the news to think about it with kindness and with empathy."
Interview highlights
On the destruction and mass graves in Russia-controlled Mariupol
Mariupol, which I visited in late January of this year, it's a horror show. I mean, it's hard to be definitive about what's happened, because obviously, this is now under Russian control. But we know from people who are there, from eyewitnesses, from people who've subsequently escaped, that thousands of civilians were killed by it, by Russian bombing, by Russian aviation, by an airstrike on a theater where 600 women and children were sheltering. I talked to one of them who escaped, who said she was in one half of the building and the other half was obliterated, including the wing where pregnant women were living. So it's absolutely awful. Some bodies were buried in school playgrounds, in front yards, by the side of the road. Others were taken to a mass grave site outside town. Some people, I think, are still entombed under the rubble.
It's almost impossible to process. You can see a flourishing city of half a million people with ports, with restaurants, with live music, with culture, coffee — and now it's a ghostly ruin. ... There's been nothing like this since Guernica, or since the Second World War.
But it's almost impossible to process. You can see a flourishing city of half a million people with ports, with restaurants, with live music, with culture, coffee — and now it's a ghostly ruin. I mean, really, there's been nothing like this since Guernica, or since the Second World War. It's just a throwback to the darkest parts of the 20th century.
On Russia destroying the country it seeks to take
I think Putin doesn't much care. He just wants territory. And he views Ukraine as a lost Russian kingdom. I mean, he wrote an essay, if you can call it that, in the summer of 2021, which was published on the Kremlin website, where he said that Russians and Ukrainians were single people. He kind of romped through Ukrainian history to suggest that there's always been a sort of spiritual and cultural unity. I think his view is that basically either Ukrainians can be turned into good Russians or they can be destroyed. And he really doesn't care what the price is, if that is what we've seen in these pulverized cities, people cooking on open fires amid the ruins. If that means that tens of thousands of his own soldiers are killed in the process, he doesn't much mind. He's a sort of dictator in his late stage. He's in a strange and messianic realm where what you would consider reason or logic or even sort of Russian self-interest plays no role at all.
On Russians raping Ukrainian women during the occupation
There's pretty compelling evidence that rape has happened on a large scale. It's a difficult story to report because obviously a lot of women are reluctant to come forward. The Ukrainian authorities have said, certainly in Bucha, that there was a house where women were kept, about 30 of them, where they were serially raped. ... Sexual violence is definitely a part of this.
On mass looting
Looting is an easier story to report because it's everywhere. I mean, you drive to these areas that Russia has vacated and it's like there's been some sort of crazy car crash. Every 500 meters, you see cars marked with a "Z," the symbol of Putin's invasion, which have been crushed or wrecked or shot. You see debris by the side of the road and you also see abandoned washing machines. What's astonishing is many of the soldiers who were looting come from very, very poor rural areas of Russia. And I've talked to Ukrainians who say, "They stole my frying pan, they stole my cutlery, ... my laptop and my jewelry." Really, everyday things, but the washing machines seem particularly prized. ... There's been looting, theft on an absolutely extraordinary scale. And one thing that was also stolen, which is just astonishing, is the Russians, when they abandoned Kherson in November, they looted the contents not only of the art museum, but the zoo. And there's video of a Russian officer stealing the zoo's raccoon and taking it to Crimea.
These soldiers are very young. They're 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. They're young guys with no education from very poor backgrounds. And actually, the thing about Ukraine, certainly about Kyiv and the satellite towns around, it's quite affluent. Ukrainians generally live better than Russians and as well as this intense hatred of Ukraine — which Vladimir Putin has pushed and Russian state channels have promoted on TV for a long, long time — I think that there's an element of envy that actually Ukrainians have been living better than Russians, and that seems to be kind of driving a lot of the mayhem and the thieving that we've seen.
On Putin's messaging to Russians
[Russia's] whole thinking, the whole cosmic philosophy, is that they are merely responding to hostile deeds committed by the Evil West and America in particular. There's a phrase in Russian for it ... which means "a mirror answer."
And so Russians are not being told that Vladimir Putin unleashed an extraordinary war of aggression on Feb. 24 and is basically trying to conquer a sovereign state and to wipe it from the map. Russians are told that despite negotiations, despite overtures, despite a willingness to compromise, that the Kremlin has reluctantly been forced to defend its security interests in Ukraine because of American bullying, hegemony, because of NATO, and because the Americans and their Nazi allies were basically about to attack Russia. It's upside-down land, if you like.
On how the war in Ukraine might end
Ukraine has proved itself as a state. It's a country. It's a nation. It's an astonishing superorganism or collective of citizens who are all working towards victory. It's not just the soldiers on the front line, but it's old ladies making camouflage nets or students volunteering or making Molotov cocktails. You sense that the whole country is fighting against Russia, and also that the Russian plan, which was to take Kyiv in a matter of days, replace the government of Volodymyr Zelenskyy with a puppet administration, and to rule Ukraine as a colony from which "Ukrainianess" — the language, the culture, the symbols and memorials — were removed. That project has failed. ...
I think we've really reached the stage where it has to be a military victory. Too many Ukrainians have died. Too many people have been widowed. Too many kids have lost their parents. There is no mood inside Ukrainian society to yield or even to give up any territory whatsoever. So the Ukrainian position now, after nine months of horrible war, is maximalist. Zelenskyy wants everything back, all his territory. He wants reparations from Russia and he wants those who prosecuted this war, who launched it. Putin, the people around him, he wants them to stand justice, to be tried. And of course, Putin, by contrast, I think, still thinks he can win. He thinks the West is weak, irresolute, that sooner or later the U.S. will flake and its allies maybe as well. And that if he carries on with this kind of grinding volume that we've seen, he will either win completely or have quite a lot of Ukrainian territory which he can sell as victory to his domestic population.
So unfortunately, the corollary to all of that is that that I don't see peace. ... Unfortunately the war will go on and therefore that means that the Western world has to support and arm the Ukrainians until they reach victory. And that could be a while.
Sam Briger and Thea Chaloner produced and edited the audio of this interview. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Nishant Dahiya adapted it for the web.
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Police arrest man accused of stealing police car a second time
SHOREWOOD, Wis. (WISN) - In Wisconsin, police arrested a man they say stole a squad car, as he awaited trial for stealing a different squad car.
Video from the Shorewood Police Department shows the moment the stolen squad drives right past the officers while they were conducting a traffic stop Tuesday evening.
“Ah, someone just stole my squad,” an unknown police officer is heard saying in the video.
Even the man they’d just put in the back of the other squad saw it and commented.
“Someone just stole that police car,” the man is heard saying.
Within minutes police flooded the area, finding the squad car just a few blocks away and the suspect out of the car.
A bystander reported seeing the suspect take off and, about ten minutes later, Milwaukee officers found the suspect, identified as 34-year-old Daniel Barton, trying to hide inside a gym.
He was then taken into custody.
It’s not the first time Barton has been arrested for stealing a squad car, according to police.
“It’s that same person that stole an MPD squad before,” another unknown officer said.
He was arrested in December after a Milwaukee officer said Barton stole his squad car during a traffic stop.
There’s no video from inside the Shorewood squad, but according to the complaint from the Milwaukee incident, dash cameras captured the suspect “giggling as he drives off,” before abandoning the squad and running away. That time, he was found hiding in a garbage can.
Barton was charged with misdemeanor car theft for the Milwaukee incident and was free awaiting trial at the time of his arrest Tuesday.
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Everyone's Favorite Virtual Pet Just Became More Unique, United, and Universal!
IRVINE, Calif., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - The toy that sparked a worldwide virtual pet frenzy in the 90s is about to shake up the toy industry once again with an all-new device, Tamagotchi Uni, marking the brand's first simultaneous global launch of core Tamagotchi! With over 91 million sales worldwide, Tamagotchi is now connecting fans globally, for the first time with a truly unique device created for the modern digital world, taking its brand transcending nurturing virtual pet experience to a whole new level.
Tamagotchi Uni allows fans to connect in a completely new way with the Tamaverse, the metaverse of the Tamagotchi world. Fans can now play together with the Tamaverse's Tama Arena, Tama Parties, Tama Fashion, and Tama Travel features, opening up the fun to a global scale. Tamagotchi Uni is also chock-full of new features, allowing fans their own unique experience, including DIY activities, exploring with your character, and an in-device social platform.
Tamagotchi Uni personalizes the virtual pet experience like never before with endless character options, allowing Tamagotchi characters to now have different looks, personalities, and even hobbies! The ability to connect to Wi-Fi gives fans a chance to connect, customize their characters in unique ways, and have access to downloadable content and updates!
"Tamagotchi fans are always looking for new ways to personalize their experience while nurturing their character, and Tamagotchi Uni opens the door to endless possibilities to do so," said Tara Badie, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectibles America, Senior Director Brand Strategy. "Not only are we thrilled to be able to give fans this opportunity, we're excited to see them in the Tamaverse!"
Bandai Namco Toys & Collectibles America has tapped TikTok sensation, entrepreneur and global superstar, Charli D'Amelio, as the global ambassador to showcase what makes Tamagotchi Uni unique, united, and universal. A celebrated creator herself, Charli was a natural fit when choosing the face of Tamagotchi Uni, which expands on the nurturing play pattern with exciting features that infuse creativity and personality. The Hulu star will give her loyal fans a firsthand look at the new device with a content series on her social channels.
"I'm a HUGE Tamagotchi fan and I'm so excited to be able to partner with the brand to launch an all-new device designed for a new generation," said Charli D'Amelio. "The Tamagotchi Uni is a whole new experience and gives fans the opportunity to customize the play in an exciting and interactive new way!"
The global launch isn't the only first for Tamagotchi Uni. For the first time in North America and Europe, the on-the-go fun of Tamagotchi will be taken to the next level with a wristband to transform the device into a wearable accessory. The Tamagotchi characters fans have grown up knowing and loving will also speak for the first time alongside expanded gameplay.
Tamagotchi Uni is available for pre-order on Amazon starting today before launching at mass on July 15th, available in purple or pink shells with an included wearable wristband. Fans can also pre-order the Tamagotchi Uni Bands (choose between black or white) to change their look or a Lanyard (choose 2 different styles) to wear their Tamagotchi Uni differently. Later this month, Charli D'Amelio will kick off the global launch with a series of TikTok videos, Instagram content, press and interviews, and an exclusive media/influencer event preview in the heart of New York City.
Tamagotchi Uni Features:
- UNIQUE. Raise a UniTama that's one-of-a-kind, inside and out, with unique personalities, accessories and decorating.
- UNITED. Connect Tamagotchi Uni devices to play together, craft together, exchange items and propose!
- UNIVERSAL. Link to the world through the Tamaverse where you can meet characters from around the world, sample global fashions and share your UniTama's style, go on globetrotting adventures and meet the partner of your UniTama's dreams and get married!
- ACCESSORY. Wear it on your wrist with the included pink (purple) band to take it with you wherever you go and to interact in new ways! Has a pink shell with blue and green, blue buttons and a blue-translucent back. (Has a purple shell with pink and teal, pink buttons and a pink-translucent back.)
- MINI GAMES. Match your characters move in the Dance game, serve hamburgers in the Fast Food game and enjoy a seasonal game to earn Gotchi points to order food delivery, go shopping at the Tama Mall and more!
- CHARACTERS. Over 20 Adult characters to nurture which are a mixture of popular and new characters.
- RECHARGEABLE. Comes with a rechargeable battery and USB-C cord.
- UPDATES. Wi-Fi allows for updates for exclusive download items and new Tamaverse areas. Parental controls available.
- MULTILINGUAL. Choose from 7 languages for gameplay: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese
- Age 6+
For more information visit https://tamagotchi-official.com and www.youtube.com/@TamagotchiFriendsUS
About Bandai Namco Toys & Collectibles America Inc.
Bandai Namco Toys & Collectibles America Inc. exists to share dreams, fun and inspiration with people around the world. Connecting people and societies in the enjoyment of uniquely entertaining products and services, we're working to create a brighter future for everyone. A leader in developing engaging, quality toys that capture children's and collector's imaginative spirit and provide endless "Fun For All into the Future," Bandai Namco Toys & Collectibles America Inc. is the manufacturer and master toy licensee of some of the most popular brands in children's toys, pop culture figures and interactive entertainment today. The Bandai Namco Toys & Collectibles America Inc. brand family includes PAC-MAN®, Gundam, Dragon Ball®, Anime Heroes™, Bandai Hobby Model Kits, Tamashii Nations, DIGIMON® and Tamagotchi®, among other toys and hobby product lines. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California. Find out more about our expertise in connecting with kids in fun and fresh ways at www.bandai.com.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) today announced that Chief Financial Officer Mike Maguire and Chief Insurance Officer John Howard will present at the BancAnalysts Association of Boston Conference on Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, at 12:05 p.m. ET.
A live audio webcast and the presentation materials will be available on the day of the conference at ir.truist.com under Events & Presentations. A replay of the webcast will be available on the website for 30 days.
About Truist
Truist Financial Corporation is a purpose-driven financial services company committed to inspiring and building better lives and communities. Truist has leading market share in many high-growth markets in the country, and offers a wide range of products and services through our retail and small business banking, commercial banking, corporate and investment banking, insurance, wealth management, and specialized lending businesses. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Truist is a top 10 U.S. commercial bank with total assets of $548 billion as of September 30, 2022.Truist Bank, Member FDIC. Learn more at Truist.com.
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Blueberry Breakfast Rolls with toasted pecans by Casie Buck
Published: Mar. 3, 2023 at 3:48 PM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - We are always happy about two things: recipes that use blueberries, and breakfast recipes!
This recipe from Oaklea Mansion owner Casie Buck fulfills our breakfast dreams with this recipe.
Blueberry Breakfast Rolls
1 – 12.4 ounce package refrigerated cinnamon rolls with icing (8)
1 cup thawed blueberries, well drained
1/3 cup blueberry preserves (this is where I love to use farmers market preserves)
1 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel
¼ cup chopped pecans, toasted
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Lightly grease muffin cups.
- Cut rolls in half. Press half into muffin cups, mold ½ inch up the side of tin cup
- Cut rolls in half. Press half into muffin cups, mold ½ inch up the side of tin cup.
- Spoon into muffin tins and sprinkle with pecans.
- Bake approximately 12 minutes, cool 5 minutes, and 5 minutes more on a wire rack.
- Drizzle icing on top, thin icing with milk if desired
And Enjoy!
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With three-year revenue growth of ~300%, the bootstrapped start-up continues to prove that there is demand for innovation in the $51.6B global oral-care market.
SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cocofloss, maker of eco-conscious, effective, and fun oral care, today announced its inclusion on the annual Inc. 5000 list, placing it in the top .07% of privately-owned companies in the U.S. in terms of multi-year growth. The list's previous honorees include some of today's most recognizable brands, such as Facebook, Patagonia, Chobani, Under Armour, and Microsoft.
The oral-care disruptor came in at an impressive #140 in consumer products, #292 in California (one of the most competitive states for start-ups), and #1,868 in the U.S. overall.
For decades, the nation's $9.9 billion oral-care market has been a sleeping giant. Cocofloss is ready to wake it up. Founded in 2015 by Dr. Chrystle Cu, a preventative dentist, and her sister, Catherine Cu, a financial analyst, the company has more than tripled its business in the last three years. It is on target for similar YoY growth in 2022.
In an industry long ruled by legacy brands, dentist recommendations are key to converting new customers. Over the last three years, the number of dental customers on Cocofloss's pro-only site has grown by 172%. More and more dentists and hygienists are switching to Cocofloss because its textured weave actually removes plaque that "gliding" floss leaves behind. The Cocobrush, its super-soft toothbrush, boasts bristles that are 40% finer and are 16x better at removing plaque between teeth than an average toothbrush.
"When we launched our coconut oil–infused, delightfully fragrant dental floss seven years ago, no one was talking about oral care as self-care. Floss was strictly a commodity," said co-founder and CEO Catherine Cu. "We proved that customers are willing to pay more for floss that is more effective and makes them feel good. Today, beautifully designed oral-care is a booming category under the wider umbrella of self-care."
The co-founders soon realized that sustainability was the next big challenge in a sector dominated by single-use virgin plastics. In 2019, it began offering refill spools. In 2021, Cocofloss switched to a thread woven with ~85% recycled polyester, sourced from post-consumer PET water bottles. Last year, it also launched the Cocobrush, its toothbrush made with recycled ocean-bound plastic.
"We've demonstrated that you can invest in more sustainable materials — even when they cost more — without negatively impacting growth," said Cat. "Our commitment to putting the health of people and the planet first has only increased our loyal customer base. It's also helped us gain more GenZ consumers, who are now beginning to purchase oral-care products for themselves."
On 9/9, Cocofloss will expand into tooth care for tots with the launch of the Kids Refillable Cocoflosser, an environmentally friendly alternative to flimsy, disposable flossers. And in October, it will release CocoPlush Threaders, a fluffy floss made of 100% recycled polyester, designed for flossing around braces, bridges, and implants.
"We started off making floss both effective and fun. Today we're designing products to revolutionize your entire oral-care routine," said Dr. Chrystle Cu, co-founder and head of R&D.
Media Contact: press@cocofloss.com
About Cocofloss
Cocofloss was founded in 2015 by two remarkable sisters: Dr. Chrystle Cu, a preventative dentist, and Catherine Cu, a former financial analyst. They joined forces at Cocofloss to fight gum disease and cavities by making the world's most effective and delightful oral care.
Inc. 5000 Methodology
Produced every year since 1982, the Inc. 5000 list analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the U.S. 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. The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
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More than a dozen Indian Income Tax officials entered the BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai Tuesday morning seizing accounts, financial documents, and phones of BBC employees. They told those who had not yet come into the office to stay home. More than a 100 employees were in the offices at the time.
The searches came weeks after the BBC aired a two-part documentary series critical of India's prime minister, Narendra Modi. India: The Modi Question examined Modi's role in anti-Muslim raids that killed hundreds in his home state of Gujarat in 2002.
Modi's government banned it from being shown inside India and forced social media companies like Twitter and YouTube to take down clips using emergency laws.
After the documentary aired, a Hindu nationalist organization petitioned the country's Supreme Court to ban the BBC in India. The Supreme Court dismissed it.
A spokesperson for Modi's party held a news conference and told the media that the BBC was "rubbish" and alleged that it was "corrupt."
The BBC says it's "fully cooperating" with Indian authorities.
Last year, India fell to 150 out of 180 countries surveyed by Reporters Without Borders in its annual Press Freedom Index, its lowest rank ever.
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I was a little sniffy when Michael Gerson became a columnist for the Washington Post in 2007. He'd been a speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and while he'd crafted some of the President's most memorable lines, I was suspicious of the revolving door between politics and journalism. A columnist ought to have opinions. But I didn't believe they should be predictable, or polemical.
In fact, I still believe that. But I was wrong about Mike Gerson.
Mike died this week of cancer, at the age of 58. He had worked for politicians and evangelical leaders, but Mike's own voice in his columns was eloquent, singular, faithful, and often surprising. He made you want to know what he thought.
We exchanged emails, but never met. Mike once wrote a nice column about a book I wrote about adoption, reflecting on the adoption story that brought his wife from Incheon, South Korea to St. Louis - where the two met as children.
Mike was righteously critical in recent years of what he called a racist strategy among what had once been his own Republicans. He came to support more gun regulations, asking after this year's shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, "Is the slaughter of innocents the unavoidable price of freedom?"
Some of his most memorable and resonant columns were drawn from his own family life.
In 2013 after leaving his youngest son at college, he wrote:
"His life is starting for real. I have begun the long letting go. Put another way: He has a wonderful future in which my part naturally diminishes. I have no possible future that is better without him close....
"Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else's story. And it is enough."
And when he brought a new puppy - Jack - into his life this year, Mike recalled his last dog, Latte, who had comforted him through depression and cancer treatments:
"Can dogs really love?" he asked. "Science might deny that the species possesses such complex emotions. But I know dogs can act in a loving fashion and provide love's consolations. Which is all we really know about what hairless apes can manage in the love department as well...
"Why do we take in new dogs? Because their joy for living renews our own."
In a profession where we now talk about reach and analytics, pageviews and retweets, Mike Gerson's words pierced into our hearts.
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DALLAS, July 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PermRock Royalty Trust (NYSE:PRT) (the "Trust") today declared a monthly cash distribution to record holders of its trust units representing beneficial interests in the Trust ("Trust Units") as of July 31, 2023, and payable on August 14, 2023, in the amount of $482,857.69 ($0.039689 per Trust Unit), based principally upon production during the month of May 2023.
The following table displays underlying oil and natural gas sales volumes and average received wellhead prices attributable to the current and prior month net profits interest calculations:
Oil cash receipts for the properties underlying the Trust totaled $1.89 million for the current month, a decrease of $0.12 million from the prior month's distribution period. This decrease was due to a decrease in oil prices.
Natural gas cash receipts for the properties underlying the Trust totaled $0.09 million for the current month, an increase of $0.01 million from the prior month's distribution period. This increase was due to an increase in natural gas sales volumes.
Total direct operating expenses, including marketing, lease operating expenses, and workover expenses, were $0.78 million reflecting a $0.14 million increase from the prior month. Severance and ad valorem taxes were $0.16 million.
Capital expenses this month were $0.21 million, a decrease of $0.08 million from the prior month's distribution. Boaz Energy reports the decrease was related to the conclusion of two recompletion projects in Coke County, Texas.
Boaz Energy informed the Trust that this month's net profits calculation included the application of $20,000 net to the Trust of funds previously reserved by Boaz Energy to cover future capital obligations and expenses.
About PermRock Royalty Trust
PermRock Royalty Trust is a Delaware statutory trust formed by Boaz Energy II, LLC ("Boaz Energy") to own a net profits interest representing the right to receive 80% of the net profits from the sale of oil and natural gas production from certain properties owned by Boaz Energy in the Permian Basin of West Texas. For more information on PermRock Royalty Trust, please visit our website at www.permrock.com.
Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements contained in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements." These forward-looking statements represent the Trust's and Boaz Energy's expectations or beliefs concerning future events, and it is possible that the results described in this press release will not be achieved. These forward-looking statements include the amount and date of any anticipated distribution to unitholders, future cash retentions, advancements or recoupments from distributions, and statements regarding Boaz Energy's operations and the resulting impact on the computation of the Trust's net profits. The amount of cash received or expected to be received by the Trust (and its ability to pay distributions) has been and will continue to be directly affected by volatility in commodity prices and oversupply. Other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements include expenses of the Trust and reserves for anticipated future expenses, uncertainties in estimating the cost of drilling activities and risks associated with drilling and operating oil and natural gas wells.
Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and, except as required by law, the Trust does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Trust to predict all such factors. When considering these forward-looking statements, you should keep in mind the risk factors and other cautionary statements in the Trust's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 31, 2023, and other public filings filed with the SEC. The risk factors and other factors noted in the Trust's public filings with the SEC could cause its actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. The Trust's filed reports are or will be available over the Internet at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Juan Soto is joining Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr. in San Diego. Jorge López, Michael Fulmer and Tyler Mahle are going to Minnesota. Noah Syndergaard, David Robertson and Brandon Marsh are heading to Philadelphia, and Joey Gallo is looking for a fresh start with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Baseball’s trade deadline day was an action-packed affair — 27 trades in all — and no one had more fun than the Padres.
San Diego made the biggest splash, acquiring Soto in a massive deal with the Washington Nationals. The sweet-swinging Soto, still just 23 years old, joins Machado in the middle of the Padres’ order, and Tatis is on his way back after being sidelined by a broken left wrist.
“It’s pretty impressive to have those three types of guys on one team in the same lineup,” said Wil Myers, the Padres’ longest-tenured player. “Excited to see that trio, hopefully in the next week or two.”
The Cardinals and Yankees swapped big leaguers, with Gold Glove-winning center fielder Harrison Bader going to New York in exchange for left-handed starter Jordan Montgomery. The Atlanta Braves geared up for their title defense by sending former closer Will Smith to the Houston Astros for right-hander Jake Odorizzi, and then acquiring reliever Raisel Iglesias in a deal with the Los Angeles Angels.
The Toronto Blue Jays got second baseman Whit Merrifield in a trade with Kansas City — it’s unclear if Merrifield plans to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to play in Canada — and fortified their bullpen by adding Anthony Bass and Zach Pop in a deal with the Miami Marlins. The Brewers added reliever Trevor Rosenthal in a trade with San Francisco.
San Diego acquired Soto and first baseman Josh Bell from Washington for rookie left-hander MacKenzie Gore, first baseman/DH Luke Voit and prospects James Wood, C.J. Abrams, Robert Hassell III and Jarlin Susana.
After landing Soto, a generational talent who helped Washington win the 2019 World Series, San Diego also acquired infielder Brandon Drury from Cincinnati. The Padres sent minor league shortstop Victor Acosta to the Reds for the 29-year-old Drury, who has a career-high 20 homers this year.
“The atmosphere here is they want to win, and not just go to the playoffs but win a World Series,” said All-Star closer Josh Hader, who was obtained by San Diego on Monday in another big deal with Milwaukee.
Eric Hosmer was part of the Soto deal before he vetoed the move, and San Diego ended up trading the first baseman to Boston along with two minor leaguers and cash in exchange for minor league left-hander Jay Groome.
The Twins bolstered their pitching staff with three trades, acquiring López in a deal with the Baltimore Orioles and Mahle in a swap with rebuilding Cincinnati. Fulmer came over from Detroit for minor league right-hander Sawyer Gipson-Long.
The 29-year-old López is in the middle of a breakout season, with a sparkling 1.68 ERA and 19 of his 20 career saves. The 27-year-old Mahle is 5-7 with a 4.40 ERA in 19 starts. Fulmer has a 3.20 ERA and two saves in 41 appearances.
“Just completely life-changing. I’m just really thankful for the Orioles and what they’ve been doing, and I’m glad it’s coming to a new chapter with the Minnesota Twins,” López said on a conference call with reporters.
The Twins, who took a one-game lead in the AL Central into Tuesday night’s game against Detroit, have a 5.30 team ERA since the All-Star break.
Baltimore received minor league pitchers Cade Povich, Yennier Cano, Juan Nuñez and Juan Rojas from Minnesota for López. Cincinnati got the bigger haul of prospects — infielders Christian Encarnacion-Strand and Spencer Steer, and left-handed pitcher Steve Hajjar.
The Yankees and Cardinals are both eyeing October and they pulled off an old-school baseball trade. A speedy 28-year-old from Bronxville, New York, Bader has not played since June 26 because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot. When he returns, he likely would share center field with newly acquired Andrew Benintendi in a move that would put Aaron Judge back in right and see Aaron Hicks and Benintendi split time in left, with Giancarlo Stanton as the designated hitter.
Montgomery, who could make his Cardinals debut against the Yankees this weekend, is 22-20 with a 3.94 ERA in six big league seasons.
Looking for its first playoff appearance since 2011, Philadelphia added Robertson to its bullpen in a trade with the Chicago Cubs, and got Marsh and Syndergaard from the Los Angeles Angels.
Philadelphia sent minor league pitcher Ben Brown to the Cubs for the 37-year-old Robertson, one of the top relievers on the market ahead of the deadline. The Phillies got Marsh from the Angels in exchange for catching prospect Logan O’Hoppe, then separately acquired Syndergaard for outfielders Mickey Moniak and Jadiel Sanchez.
Robertson is 3-0 with a 2.23 ERA and 14 saves in 36 appearances this year. The right-hander finalized a $3.5 million, one-year contract with the Cubs on March 16.
Marsh is a lefty-hitting, righty-throwing 24-year-old with speed and power projection. He ranked among Los Angeles’ top prospects before debuting in the majors last season, but he has struggled in the big leagues.
Syndergaard, the former Mets star, is 5-8 with a 3.83 ERA in his first full season since 2019 due to Tommy John surgery.
Also on the move: Gallo was traded by the New York Yankees to the Dodgers for minor league right-hander Clayton Beeter, and Darin Ruf went from the Giants to the New York Mets for J.D. Davis and three pitching prospects.
The Mets also acquired reliever Mychal Givens from the Chicago Cubs for a minor league pitcher.
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AP Baseball Writers Ronald Blum and Jake Seiner, and AP Sports Writers Bernie Wilson, Stephen Whyno and Dave Campbell contributed to this report.
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Kershaw becomes Dodgers’ franchise strikeout leader
By JOE REEDY
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw became the Dodgers’ career strikeout leader during the fourth inning of Saturday night’s game against Detroit. The 33-year-old Los Angeles lefty began the game needing four to pass Don Sutton. He got Dustin Garneau to chase a curveball in the third inning to tie the Hall of Famer. Kershaw got Spencer Torkelson to whiff on a slider low and inside for his 2,697th strikeout and pass Sutton. Kershaw received a standing ovation from the fans at Dodger Stadium and tipped his cap after getting the record. Don Drysdale is third on the Dodgers’ career strikeout list and Sandy Koufax is fourth. Both of those Hall of Famers began their careers when the Dodgers played in Brooklyn.
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President Selina Meyer might soon come face-to-face with President Josiah Bartlet, as the stars of “Veep” and “The West Wing” unite for a Democratic fundraiser ahead of the midterm elections.
Cast members from both “Veep,” the HBO political satire that starred Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and “The West Wing,” the NBC series that aired from 1999 to 2006, are teaming up for an Oct. 9 virtual event benefitting the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
Dreyfus and “The West Wing’s” Bradley Whitford announced the fundraiser in a Tuesday video.
“In 2022, the road to saving democracy runs directly through my home state of Wisconsin,” Whitford said alongside Dreyfus.
“Every race up and down the ballot is crucial for Democrats to invest in and win,” Dreyfus said while promoting the key swing state event, which is available to donors who contribute any amount.
In addition to Dreyfus and Whitford, the political TV show mashup is poised to include actors Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Gary Cole, Richard Schiff, Matt Walsh, Anna Chlumsky, Tony Hale, Mary McCormack, Janel Moloney, Timothy Simons and Melissa Fitzgerald.
It’s not the first time that some fictional political power players from different TV shows have joined forces to raise money for Democratic causes. Last year, stars from “The West Wing” and ABC’s “Scandal” came together for a virtual event organized by then-President-elect Biden’s inaugural committee.
The cast of “The West Wing” also reunited for the first time in 17 years back in 2020 to promote When We All Vote, Michelle Obama’s voter registration and engagement initiative.
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Wheat for May was up 1.50 cents at $6.98 a bushel; May corn rose 1 cent at $6.7750 a bushel, May oats gained 5.50 cents at $3.4750 a bushel; while May soybeans advanced 2.25 cents at $15.1925 a bushel.
Beef higher, pork lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Apr. live cattle rose .72 cent at $1.7647 a pound; Apr. feeder cattle gained .37 cent at $2.0592 a pound; while May lean hogs was off 2.18 cents at $.7882 a pound.
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LOS ANGELES -- What happens when you reveal your deepest, darkest secret to your new friend? That's what Hulu's newest series "Am I Being Unreasonable?" explores.
"Am I Being Unreasonable?" stars Daisy May Cooper as Nic, a wife and mom who is in an unhappy marriage while grieving her one true love, a grief she can't share with anyone in her life.
Enter Jen, played by Selin Hizli. She's the new mom in town and she and Nic bond. In the midst of a booze-fueled night, Nic spills her secret to Jen. And as the show unfolds, we find out Nic isn't the only one harboring secrets, as those she holds closest have something to hide.
The idea for the story, written by Cooper and Hizli, came from a rather interesting place!
"Daisy and I have known each other for a long time but we got back in touch with each other during the 2020 lockdown when we were all stuck at home," Hizli told On The Red Carpet. "We started talking about some of our experiences."
Cooper added, "We've been friends, but we really came together when we both admitted that we didn't like somebody that was in our friendship group."
Whoops.
Cooper says her own life dramas fueled her performance.
"You see somebody dealing with grief... somebody well not dealing with grief actually. And having somebody who's trying to help with that grief by literally enabling Nic because Nic is a narcissist and that's all she wants is to be enabled," Cooper said. "That was my life at that moment. My life is sort of falling apart anyway so it was quite easy to sort of channel it!"
Selin said ultimately, the story is about friendship. And she took a moment to compliment her real-life pal Cooper.
"I think that Daisy is one of the most incredible actors that I've ever seen, not just because of her comedic performance but because she is brilliant at conveying emotions as well."
You can see more of our conversation with Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli in the video above.
"Am I Being Unreasonable?" is streaming now on Hulu.
The Walt Disney Company is the parent company of Hulu and this ABC station.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, September 26, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
547 PM CDT Mon Sep 26 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southern Duval,
southeastern Webb, southwestern Jim Wells and western Kleberg
Counties through 630 PM CDT...
At 547 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Bruni to near La Colonia Park to 9 miles
southwest of South Texas Botanical Gardens. Movement was south at 20
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Kingsville, Premont, Riviera Beach, Ricardo, Ramirez, Concepcion,
Riviera, Realitos, La Gloria, Bruni, Cruz Calle, Rios, Kingsville
Naval Air Station and Loyola Beach.
This includes the following highways...
US Highway 281 between mile markers 690 and 708.
US Highway 77 between mile markers 694 and 708.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2726 9799 2726 9851 2734 9852 2736 9856
2734 9859 2736 9863 2735 9880 2727 9880
2727 9901 2753 9890 2754 9822 2750 9787
2754 9756 2723 9753 2724 9763 2728 9765
2726 9773 2728 9776 2721 9797
TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 013DEG 19KT 2739 9885 2724 9818 2755 9752
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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NEW YORK (AP) — Cotton No. 2 Futures on the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Wednesday:
- Crocs launches weeklong free pairs of shoes giveaway for all
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- Court: Former Edenville Dam owner Mueller lied about 2020 dam failures
- Man sentenced in Midland drive-by shooting
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- Credit union opening creates interest
- Midland County COVID-19 report — Oct. 4, 2022
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- The following list includes recent reports from the Midland County Sheriff’s Office.
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The newest Kraken draftee, Brno, Czech Republic native Eduard Sale, is set to travel west next season. But probably not all the way to Seattle.
In an ESPN interview right after his name was called by Robert Kron, Kraken director of amateur scouting and a fellow native of Brno, Sale said it had been a long day of waiting.
“I’m very excited to be a Kraken and looking forward,” he said.
The Kraken’s two other first-round draft picks, both of whom were top-five selections, started the 2022-23 season with Seattle. But left winger Sale isn’t expected to make an immediate jump. However, after spending almost his entire young playing career in his native Czech Republic, he’s poised to make the move to North America in 2023-24.
He was drafted by the Barrie Colts on July 1, 2022, 29th overall in the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) import draft, an annual event in which every team may select the rights to eligible import players.
The Colts congratulated Sale on being drafted on Wednesday night, and Sportsnet insider Jeff Marek tweeted after he was taken: “Expect Seattle first round pick Eduard Sale to play with the OHL’s Barrie Colts next season.”
The Colts are a junior ice hockey team in Ontario Hockey League, based about an hour away from Toronto. The OHL is under the umbrella of the CHL. There are seven NHL draft picks on their roster, plus another signed as a free agent.
Sale won’t be the only first-rounder. Los Angeles pick Brandt Clarke (eighth overall, 2021) played nine games with the Kings and five more in the American Hockey League in 2022-23, but spent most of his time in Barrie. Clarke had 23 goals and 38 assists in 31 games, then 23 more playoff points as Barrie lost in the Eastern Conference second round against the North Bay Battalion, featuring 2022 Kraken draft choices Kyle Jackson and Ty Nelson.
In Barrie he can hone his skills, which were widely praised. After Sale was drafted, ESPN analysts singled out his offensive instincts, ability to find space in offensive zone and his puck-carrying talents, but signaled concern about his consistent effort.
He was ranked all over, from the top 10 through mid 30s. The Hockey News mock draft had Sale projected to go No. 11.
“Sale is a good skater and skilled passer who can find teammates in the offensive zone with precision,” Tony Ferrari wrote. “He is very good in transition, transporting the puck through the neutral zone and weaving through traffic to get his team in the attacking zone. He is quite an intelligent player, focusing on playing in the middle of the ice. Sale is a good shooter, but it lacks pop.”
Sale himself added that he’d modeled his game after Calgary Flames winger Jonathan Huberdeau.
He won’t be alone in the 2023 draft class for long, as the Kraken have nine picks in Rounds 2-7. They’ll be busy in the second round, where they have picks Nos. 50, 52 and 57 — the 52nd was theirs, the other two once belonged to Winnipeg and Toronto, respectively — then No. 168 and 180 in the sixth round. Each of the other four rounds feature one Kraken pick.
A trade could spice up the proceedings. None took place in the first round.
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, October 6, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
311 PM MST Thu Oct 6 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM
MST/330 PM PDT/ FOR WESTERN YUMA AND SOUTHEASTERN IMPERIAL
COUNTIES...
At 311 PM MST/311 PM PDT/, a severe thunderstorm was located near
Andrade, or 12 miles northwest of Yuma, moving southwest at 25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Andrade.
This includes CA Interstate 8 between mile markers 82 and 93.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
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6-year-old, others shot after basketball rolled into man’s yard
GASTON COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV/Gray News/AP) – Three people, including a 6-year-old girl, were hurt Tuesday night when a man opened fire in North Carolina.
“The bullet came back and went into my cheek,” the young girl said, whose name was not released.
The girl’s father was also hit by a bullet and was taken to the hospital with a punctured lung and liver problems.
“I couldn’t get inside in time, so he just…he shot my daddy in the back,” the 6-year-old recalled.
Neighbors were shocked that someone would open fire around so many children.
“We never expected to break a gun out with all those kids. I mean, that was insane,” said Jonathan Robertson who has lived in the neighborhood for a decade.
He said 24-year-old Robert Louis Singletary, the man accused of the shooting, was well-known in the area for yelling at the neighborhood kids.
Robertson said Singletary had yelled on several occasions and a ball rolling into his yard was the catalyst for Tuesday’s shooting.
“They were playing basketball and a ball rolled into his yard and they went to go and get it,” Robertson said. “It was just crazy.”
Police said Singletary went inside his home and came out with a gun, firing wildly at neighbors.
As parents were rushing to gather their children, the little girl and her father were hit while another woman suffered a graze wound.
Singletary ran to Florida but surrendered to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in Tampa Thursday afternoon, according to Gaston County Police.
“I want him to go to jail forever,” the 6-year-old girl said, a feeling that was echoed by the District Attorney’s Office.
“We’ll be damn sure to be loud and clear when this case comes to court,” District Attorney Travis Page said. “The people of Gaston County will see and hear our commitment to that prosecution.”
Singletary waived extradition during a brief court appearance Friday morning in Florida.
He replied, “indeed,” when Hillsborough Circuit Judge Catherine Catlin asked if he would sign the waiver to allow officials to take him back to North Carolina to face charges in Tuesday’s shooting of the girl and her parents. He will be held without bond on a fugitive warrant.
The judge said she would hold another detention hearing if North Carolina officials haven’t picked Singletary up by April 24.
Singletary is facing four counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Copyright 2023 WBTV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama scored on a long touchdown pass, a pick-six and a blocked punt.
And that was just the first six minutes.
Bryce Young passed for three touchdowns and rushed for a fourth, Will Anderson Jr. scored on an interception return and No. 2 Alabama rolled to a 63-7 victory over Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday.
The Crimson Tide (3-0) scored on offense, defense and special teams in the first six minutes and raced to a 28-0 first-quarter lead. It was a whirlwind start against the 49 1/2-point underdog Warhawks (1-2) a week after a much closer-than-expected victory over Texas cost Alabama the No. 1 ranking.
Afterward, Tide coach Nick Saban challenged the team to play to the program’s always lofty standard more consistently.
“There’s some evidence out there that this is the standard we want to play to,” Saban said, noting that the competition gets tougher with Southeastern Conference play upcoming.
It wasn’t a seamless performance throughout for either the Tide offense or Young, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner. But special teams came through, including a school-record for punt return yards.
Young completed 13 of 18 passes for 236 yards but also threw his first two interceptions of the season. He did run for a 7-yard score, where he spun near the goal line and dove across.
Anderson returned his first career interception 25 yards for a touchdown, one play after Young’s initial pick. The national sacks leader a year ago, he also got his second sack of the season.
“What can’t he do?” cornerback/return man Kool-Aid McKinstry said.
“He was probably surprised he caught it, I ain’t gonna lie,” linebacker Henry To’oTo’o said. “He had a little stiff-arm and he was just watching it when they did the highlights on the board. And he was like, ‘I can’t believe I did that.’”
Malachi Moore got a short scoop-and-score after Ja’Corey Brooks’ blocked punt.
Chandler Rogers completed 11 of 21 passes 96 yards for Louisiana-Monroe and was intercepted once. Malik Jackson ran for an 11-yard touchdown, set up by the Tide’s failed fourth-down attempt.
“It went like most people thought it would go,” Louisiana-Monroe coach Terry Bowden said. “They were just too good for us in every phase of the game. You could watch the video and say that’s kind of what you’re stepping into, but you still prepare for them not to play well or something to go wrong. And you have a better game.
“And as I talked to the team afterwards, they were so good in every phase.”
Jahmyr Gibbs remained the Tide’s most versatile weapon. He gained 36 yards on nine carries and caught four passes for 65 yards, including a 37-yard touchdown when he juked one defender and shed a couple of downfield tackle attempts.
The Tide outgained Louisiana-Monroe 509-169.
THE TAKEAWAY
Louisiana-Monroe: Managed to keep a horrid start from snowballing even more for awhile and actually was only outgained 132-125 before Alabama’s final drive of the second half. Bowden is now 3-4 against the Tide, with the first six meetings as coach of rival Auburn from 1993-98.
Alabama: This one won’t mean much in the big picture for Alabama’s season, but it started out as a nice, swift rebound from the Texas game. The Tide did have a lull before a pristine Young-directed TD drive in the final two minutes before the half.
LONG RETURNS
Alabama had 262 punt return yards to break a 75-year-old game record set against LSU in 1947. McKinstry flirted with scores on returns and Brian Branch produced one in the fourth quarter. McKinstry averaged 34 yards on his first four returns. Then Branch returned a punt 68 yards for a TD. Gibbs also had a 57-yard kick return.
“The blockers did their job and I can’t do anything but give them thanks for creating the lanes for me to take,” McKinstry said.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
There’s no chance Alabama will overtake No. 1 Georgia on Sunday after the Bulldogs beat South Carolina 48-7. Chances are the Tide will stay put.
TIGHT ENDS
Alabama’s receivers, for the most part, are having quiet seasons. The tight ends, however, came up big on the final first-half drive. Cameron Latu had three catches, including a 38-yarder when he reached over a defender downfield. Freshman reserve Amari Niblack then caught his first pass, a 15-yard TD.
UP NEXT
Alabama hosts Vanderbilt in the Southeastern Conference opener.
Louisiana-Monroe hosts Louisiana.
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Robert Saleh has praised how Zach Wilson’s mental acumen has grown in his second year in the Jets offense, and it showed on Wednesday’s practice from One Jets Drive.
“I think he’s a lot more comfortable in the offense,” Saleh said on Wednesday, prior to OTA practice. “I think he’s committed to the process of taking the snap and going through progression, understanding exactly where his eyes need to go on every snap.”
And Wilson looked exactly how his coach described his growth: comfortable.
The former No. 2 overall pick looked sharp when he went through his reads. There was a decisiveness and a solid command of where his eyes should be also, which explains why the ball was getting out so quickly.
An area of Wilson’s game Jets Mike LaFleur offensive coordinator explained last week.
“That’s why the walk throughs are so important just for a quarterback to train his eyes to hear the play call, go back to what you learned in the film room, even without the film, the board work and go through that process of getting my eyes in the right spot,” LaFleur said last Wednesday following an OTA practice. “If I’m not throwing a ball over 10 yards, why do I care where the safeties are? You don’t, you just look at number one. If one is open within the timing of what we’ve taught in our footwork and those routes, you throw it to him. If not, you progress the two, and then decide as I’m getting down to a check down.”
The Jets started competition periods with third down, 11-on-11 drills. And Wilson was 6-8 with a highlight throw going to receiver D.J Montgomery who beat the No. 4 overall pick Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner deep down the field.
All of Wilson’s competition’s were for first downs.
Most of Wilson’s passes were basically, one, two, three, throw.
There wasn’t much hesitation with the young QB when he went through his progression and he was getting the ball out fast, something that he struggled with in his first year. He had the second-highest time to throw in the NFL at 3.00 seconds according to Next Gen Stats.
Not being able to read defenses quick enough were part of the reasons for those struggles, which are normal for rookies.
But other times he attempted to do too much and ran around to create a play out of nothing, which explains why his time to sack was second highest in the NFL at 5.07.
So there’s clear growth within that department of his game. How much? Hard to tell but the improvement is evident enough.
OTHER OTA OBSERVATIONS
- Garrett Wilson mossed Justin Hardee for a touchdown during red zone 7-on-7s. Wilson did limp off the field after that play, but there’s no indication it was anything serious. Wilson also flashed elite quickness on his release at the line of scrimmage on another play while being guarded by Gardner. Zach Wilson threw an errant pass that fell incomplete, but Garrett Wilson’s twitchiness stands out.
- Through the first few practices made available to the media, Montgomery has made a plethora of dynamic plays through the passing game.
- Ashtyn Davis caught an interception off of Joe Flacco during team 11-on-11.
- Linebacker Javin White caught an interception from a Wilson pass to end practice.
- D.J. Reed, Denzel Mims, Mekhi Becton, George Fant and LaMarcus Joyner were notably absent during voluntary practices.
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Natrona County Arrest Log (2/23/23 – 2/24/23)
This log may not reflect all arrests for this time period.
For example, police will not release any information about juvenile arrests. State law prohibits any official from identifying a person accused of a sex crime until the defendant is arraigned in district court.
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Everyone listed here is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
The charges listed here are what the arresting agency has recommended to the Natrona County District Attorney's Office. However, formal charges filed by prosecutors may differ from the recommended charges listed here.
Here is the list of arrested people and their charges as reflected in the logs:
- Preston Mooney, 22 -- Possess controlled substance - powder or crystal, hold for Casper Re-entry Center, fail to comply.
- Ricky Perry, 44 -- Criminal warrant.
- Alcina Reed, 19 -- Liquor law - minor possesses alcohol, resisting arrest.
- Ashley Schulte, 39 -- Domestic battery - first offense.
- Kevin Skaj, 33 -- Hold for probation and parole.
Guy in the Chair: A Look Inside the Casper-Natrona County Public Safety Communications Center
For the Casper Police Department and every other first responder agency, there is the Casper-Natrona County Public Safety Communications Center. They are this town's 'Guy in the Chair,' taking calls, directing traffic and, quite literally, saving lives.
K Street Sewer Line Maintenance in Casper
The City of Casper and contractors are conducting sewer line maintenance in north Casper for the next several weeks. The work will affect access on K Street to Lincoln Elementary School, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Wyoming, residences and businesses. The city urges drivers to exercise caution because portions of K street often will be narrowed to a single lane with the use of signs and portable traffic signals.
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A sonic boom heard across Washington, D.C., on Sunday was the result of a fighter jet investigating an aircraft in a restricted area, according to U.S. officials.
An unresponsive business Cessna 560 Citation V plane was flying over D.C. and northern Virginia, causing the military to scramble a F-16 fighter jet, which was traveling "at supersonic speeds" and is what led to the sonic boom sound, the North American Aerospace Defense Command confirmed.
"The civilian aircraft was intercepted at approximately 3:20 p.m. Eastern Time. The pilot was unresponsive, and the Cessna subsequently crashed near the George Washington National Forest, Virginia," NORAD said in a statement to Scripps News.
Officials attempted to establish contact with the pilot, even using flares to get the pilot’s attention before the plane crashed. It's unclear who was on board of the plane and why nobody was responding.
According to reports, a White House official said President Joe Biden was briefed on the incident.
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Discreet Labs is proud to announce that Peter Abilla, previously part of Harmony's core team, has signed on as Chief Business Officer. Abilla will be involved with Discreet Labs' flagship project Findora, a protocol focused on scaling Ethereum privacy.
Abilla has a long history in software development and the crypto space. Before working at Harmony, he served as the Vice President of Growth Marketing and Community for both Mainframe and ThunderCore. He has also worked with Oasis Labs in Community and Developer Marketing.
In Abilla's more than two years at Harmony, he led the pivot to focus on developers and building a healthy DeFi system, which resulted in unprecedented growth for the ecosystem.
Discreet Labs believes he can bring that same developer-focus to their flagship privacy project, Findora. Abilla is excited to support developers and help established projects integrate Findora's unique privacy-preserving zero-knowledge technology across GameFi, DeFi, TradFi, and other Web3 areas.
Findora provides a foundation for web3 privacy through advanced zero-knowledge proof cryptography and revolutionary blockchain architecture.
Findora combines a UTXO ledger with an EVM ledger so developers can leverage both blockchain models as they build. This allows Findora to be scalable, private, and as programmable as any EVM-compatible chain.
"I'm excited to be working with Discreet Labs," Abilla commented. "Their researchers have contributed to major breakthroughs that can revolutionize blockchain privacy – a field of research that is often overlooked but desperately needed. Findora's technology has the potential to speed mass adoption of Web3 through giving institutions the privacy they need to participate in the space."
"Peter has done great things for other ecosystems, and we know he can do the same for the Findora ecosystem," says Warren Paul Anderson, CEO of Discreet Labs. "He will be instrumental in building partnerships and getting the message out to key players about the importance of building scaleable privacy for crypto and Web3."
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House GOP leaders’ furious scramble to secure the support needed to pass a debt limit bill is not going well.
On Tuesday evening, the prognosis for the package was looking even worse than the shaky ground it stood on before lawmakers left Washington last week.
A small but consequential number of GOP lawmakers on Tuesday said they intend to vote against the party’s debt limit package if it hits the floor without substantial changes — changes Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is vowing not to make as he aims to pass the bill this week.
The critics’ opposition appears to be enough to sink the bill, which would be an embarrassing defeat for McCarthy in the first big legislative test of his young Speakership, while also weakening the Republicans’ hand in the coming fight with President Biden over how to raise the debt ceiling and prevent a government default this summer.
For at least one member who has long been resistant to the bill, a whip attempt fumbled.
“I had a meeting and they didn’t show. So I’m definitely a no now,” said Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), who has previously said he would never vote for a debt limit increase but had remained open to the GOP bill last week.
He declined to say which member of leadership missed the meeting.
“I’m not gonna flip a vote because of my ego,” Burchett said. “Just don’t take me for granted.”
Another major sticking point is midwestern Republicans who want to cut portions of the bill that would get rid of tax breaks for ethanol.
The whole Iowa delegation of four House Republicans, along with other midwestern lawmakers like Reps. Derek Van Orden (R-Wis.) and Mark Alford (R-Mo.) huddled with McCarthy in the Speaker’s office on Tuesday evening. They all declined to comment afterward, but Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said she’s spoken with several of those lawmakers and “I know some of them are a no.”
McCarthy said the ethanol issue is still unresolved.
“We’re working through that. A lot of them bring up a lot of issues there,” McCarthy told reporters. “This bill is to get us to the negotiating table, it’s not the final provisions, and there’s a number of members that will vote for it going forward and say there are some concerns they have with it … but they want to make sure the negotiation goes forward.”
The defiant Speaker – who has frequently pointed to surviving a historic 15-ballot election for the gavel this year as evidence he can win support in the narrow majority – is brushing off the struggles of getting his conference on the same page.
McCarthy said that he will get the votes “the same way we’ve done it every week when you talk to me about every other bill we’re bringing to the floor.”
Earlier in the day, Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.), a key player in the House GOP’s debt limit bill and strategy, was spotted heading into the office Mace, another vocal critic of the bill.
Afterwards, Mace said the arm-twisting was unsuccessful, telling reporters that she’ll vote against the package unless it undergoes fairly major changes.
“I’m a no right now,” she said. “Multiple people have reached out over the last couple of days, and today as well, and … everything I’ve said to you is what I’ve communicated back to them.”
Mace’s reservations are two-fold. She opposes the bill because of the elimination of the green energy tax credits, like those encouraging solar and wind power, which were adopted as part of Biden’s climate package last year.
“You’re closing a tax credit — essentially you’re increasing taxes,” she said.
Mace is also critical that the package doesn’t go further to reduce deficit spending, saying Republicans should use the bill to get more aggressive with efforts to rein in the nation’s $31.4 trillion debt, even if only to send the message to voters that the party is serious about the issue.
“This isn’t a serious plan to tackle the spending and the debt problems that we have today,” she said. “If it’s just a messaging bill, why aren’t we putting the best message forward to show how responsible Republicans can be when given the opportunity?”
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is also vowing to oppose the bill if it remains unchanged. Last week he had warned that he was a “hard no” unless the bill were amended, including tougher new work requirements for recipients of federal benefits.
“Nothing has changed from my previous statement,” he said Tuesday.
Asked if he’ll remain opposed unless the bill is revised, Santos was terse.
“Yes,” he said.
And there’s more.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) said he remains a “lean no” on the bill, saying the cuts proposed in the bill are not steep enough.
“I’ve made suggestions to the Speaker, he kind of laughed them off,” Biggs told One America News on Tuesday, comparing the difference between the status quo and the GOP bill to the difference between driving off a cliff at 80 miles per hour or 60 miles per hour.
“Either way when you go off the cliff, you land,” Biggs said.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is also warning that he’ll withhold his support unless the work requirement provision is altered to expedite the date when it would take effect, from 2025 to 2024.
“Otherwise, it’s a no vote from me,” he tweeted.
Still, House leadership and their allies are projecting confidence. Leaders plan to present the details of the bill to members at a closed-door conference meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday morning.
“People wanted to know what the final details were. So on any major package like this, people want to see how much is this going to save taxpayers. You look at each of the pieces,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said.
Scalise declined to say whether the bill would come to the floor on Wednesday, as some members had projected.
“I think we’re in a really good spot,” said Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), head of the Main Street Caucus.
Mychael Schnell contributed.
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By some measures, democracy has been in decline around the globe for more than a decade and a half, but there are encouraging signs in places you might not expect. One is the United Kingdom, where former Prime Minister Boris Johnson tried to chip away at checks and balances during his time in office.
The system, however, fought back, most recently in a 106-page parliamentary committee report out Thursday that said Johnson had lied to Parliament over parties that violated his government's own COVID restrictions. Johnson resigned his seat in the House of Commons last week after receiving a draft of the report. In a resignation letter that may sound familiar to Americans, the former prime minister painted himself as a victim and called the committee a "kangaroo court."
"Their purpose from the beginning has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts," Johnson wrote.
He added: "I am not alone in thinking that there is a witch hunt underway, to take revenge for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result."
The committee called Johnson's response "vitriolic" and an "attack on our democratic institutions."
In fact, polls have shown that the vast majority of British people think Boris Johnson is untrustworthy, and the parliamentary report was just the latest shot in a battle over the country's democratic system. It is a story that feels relevant to the U.S., where another norm-busting former leader faces potentially more serious consequences for his behavior.
"Behaving as if he was world king"
During his roughly three years in office, Johnson tried to erode limits on executive power. He sought to restrict public protests, shut down Parliament, sell off a public TV network critical of his government and weaken the country's electoral watchdog.
"He was behaving as if he was world king, as he used to describe himself, and that the conventional constraints of the British constitution didn't apply," says Baron William Wallace, a member of the House of Lords with the Liberal Democrats, an opposition party. Wallace is referring to the oft-reported anecdote that when Johnson was asked as a child what he wanted to be, he replied "world king."
Johnson did not try to weaken democratic norms as severely as, say, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has packed the courts and increased control over the media. But Benjamin Ward, a deputy director in Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia division, says smaller attacks can have a cumulative effect.
"When you fray the democratic fabric, it actually has a very long-lasting impact," says Ward.
Police arrested peaceful protesters at coronation
Johnson left No. 10 Downing St. last summer, but his policies are still felt, most recently during the coronation of King Charles III in May. As crowds gathered along the parade route in London, protesters arrived in a van filled with hundreds of signs that read "Not My King." Before they could hand out the signs, police arrested them.
"This was a direct attack on democracy, because democracy requires the freedom to dissent," said Graham Smith, leader of the anti-monarchy group Republic, when speaking to Piers Morgan on Britain's TalkTV.
Police were relying on a controversial new law that began with the Johnson administration that allows them to detain people based on the suspicion they will lock themselves together or to objects and cause disruption.
The evidence? Police found luggage straps in the protesters' van. Smith says they planned to use the straps to attach the signs to a pushcart so they wouldn't fall off.
"If they wanted to advertise how awful and draconian this legislation was, then they couldn't have picked a better target than us," Smith told Britain's Times Radio. "We have a very good, strong record of being a peaceful, law-abiding campaign."
A "huge risk of abuse of power"
Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, a member of the opposition Labour Party, who serves in the House of Lords, sees the new law as a form of thought crime.
"The police now have a blanket power to stop people on the day of a protest and search them to look through their rucksacks ... to see whether there are bicycle chains or glue or tape or whatever," she told NPR. "What you've really done is just to hand this huge risk of abuse of power over to the police."
Smith says he spent 16 hours in jail. Police acknowledged they couldn't prove the case and released him without charge. But Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defended the new law, which authorities said had been drafted to thwart protesters' recent, aggressive tactics such as super-gluing their hands to rail cars.
"It is ... the right of the British public to be able to go about their ordinary day-to-day life without undue serious disruption," Sunak told the House of Commons last month, adding, "that's why it's right that the police have extra powers."
"The British people will never forgive you"
Boris Johnson challenged the British system soon after taking office in 2019. He tried to close down Parliament, which would have prevented lawmakers from scrutinizing his Brexit bill. Britain's Supreme Court ruled Johnson's move "unlawful" and reinstated the legislature. The prime minister responded with populist rhetoric, casting it as an us-vs.-them conflict.
"We will not betray the people who sent us here," Johnson said. "We will not abandon the priorities that matter to the public and we will continue to challenge those opposition parties to uphold democracy."
Johnson presented himself as the champion of ordinary Brexit voters against the opposition politicians and lawyers who, he said, were conspiring to sabotage Brexit. Sam Fowles is an attorney who helped argue for Parliament's reinstatement before the Supreme Court. Fowles recalls stepping into a cab after winning the case and hearing news of the verdict on the car radio. He and his fellow lawyers were smug and happy.
"The cabbie turned 'round to us and looked me dead in the eye and said, 'The British people will never forgive you for what you've just done,'" Fowles said. "That brought home to me that there is such a disconnect in this country between what is actually required for democracy and what is actually going on."
The British system relies on "good chaps"
Britain's political system is particularly vulnerable to attack by someone who simply ignores norms. The United Kingdom has no written constitution or formal written rules.
"There is this phrase that the U.K. system relies on 'good chaps,'" says Tim Durrant, a program director at the Institute for Government, a London think tank. "It relies on people who are willing to behave, and if someone is willing to misbehave, then there is very little the system can do to curtail that."
Johnson continued to attack institutions that tried to hold him to account. Last year, he called for the government to sell off Channel 4, an aggressive, editorially independent network. The government argued that Channel 4 could better compete with the help of private finance.
Many saw the move as revenge. During the 2019 election campaign, Channel 4 embarrassed Johnson during a debate on climate change. Johnson refused to participate, and Channel 4 replaced him with a melting block of ice.
"There is a theory that Channel 4 was never forgiven for doing this," says Baroness Jane Bonham-Carter, a member of the House of Lords with the Liberal Democrats who once worked at Channel 4.
Bonham-Carter says Johnson's government wanted to cripple the broadcaster because they saw it as "intrinsically opposed to them." She says the House of Lords had major problems with the plan, which eventually died.
How the system fought back
While in office, Johnson did succeed in undermining some forms of public accountability. For instance, the Electoral Commission was stripped of its power to file criminal cases over campaign finance violations.
Many saw this as political payback. In the past, the Electoral Commission had hit the Conservative Party and Vote Leave, the pro-Brexit referendum campaign led by Johnson, with huge fines for violating campaign finance laws.
But, overall, the British system has proven resilient.
"In the end, in a mature democracy, these institutions think, well, unless we stand up for ourselves, it doesn't really matter and there is no point in existing, so we might as well do it anyway," says Tony Travers, a professor of government at the London School of Economics.
Johnson ultimately failed due to self-inflicted wounds. Last summer, lawmakers in his own Conservative Party pressured him to resign as prime minister. They feared his lies about government get-togethers during the pandemic would cost them at the polls.
Brian Klaas, a political scientist from Minnesota who teaches at University College London, says Britain's political institutions did a pretty good job of standing up to Johnson.
"There has been an erosion of democracy during the time I've been here in Britain. There's no question about that," says Klaas, the author of Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us.
"But there's been more punch-back from the forces of institutional order and from the voters that are punishing those who actually do this."
Klaas says that's one reason why the Conservative Party, which Johnson recently dominated, is on track to lose the next election by a big margin.
NPR London producer Morgan Ayre contributed to this story. The audio for this story was produced by Monika Evstatieva. It was edited by Barrie Hardymon.
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Popeye’s has struck again with a spicy new menu offering, blackened chicken sandwiches.
The sandwiches debuted on the chain’s menu boards nationwide to the delight of fans earlier this week.
The fried chicken sandwich sells in classic and spicy for about $4.99 a piece for a limited-time. What sets the blackened sandwiches apart is they are breading-free. So, it’s all about the spice.
In fact, Popeye’s is advertising the new item as “no breading, all flavor.” The chain revealed on Twitter it uses a combination of black pepper, cumin, red pepper, garlic, onion, paprika, white pepper and salt.
For Popeye’s, the release of a new chicken sandwich is big news. The chain only entered the chicken sandwich arena in 2019, igniting a chicken sandwich wars with competitor Chick-fil-A.
In a press release, the chain noted its culinary team took four years to develop this “version of the classic Blackening cooking technique, which originated in Louisiana and is used to better seal in seasoning and spices to flavor the meat.”
So was the wait worth it?
I hit the drive-thru and ordered one “classic” and one “spicy” to find out what all the fuss is about. The sandwiches come packaged in a white sleeve tucked into a signature Popeye’s aluminum foil pack.
Clearly, the ratio of chicken to brioche bun is a bit off. The bun dominates the sandwich, which is slathered in mayonnaise and Popeye’s pickles. Any actual blackening on the chicken was hard to detect, but the filet itself was juicy and tender.
The flavor definitely follows the Louisiana Cajun profile. I prefer the spicy sandwich over the classic, just for the zip. I mean, if you’re going to order a blackened chicken sandwich it might as well have some heat.
But, the spicy isn’t blow-your-head off hot like get me a drink ASAP. Those who don’t like spice, should stick to the classic.
The sandwiches clock in at about 973 calories for the combo, just slightly less than Popeye’s classic chicken sandwich, which boasts 1,122 calories for a combo.
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Prince Harry interviews set to raise heat on UK royal family
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is expected to lob more criticism at the U.K. royal family in broadcast interviews to promote his soul-baring new memoir, which has generated incendiary headlines even before its official release.
A prerecorded interview with Britain’s ITV is scheduled to air Sunday evening. CBS show “60 Minutes” is set to run a conversation with the prince later, and he is appearing on “Good Morning America” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
In extracts released in advance, Harry tells ITV journalist Tom Bradby that he cried only once after his mother, Prince Diana, died in 1997 — at her burial. He said he feels guilt about not showing emotion when he and his brother Prince William greeted crowds of mourners outside Kensington Palace, Diana’s London home.
In the book, “Spare,” Harry blames his family’s stiff-upper-lip ethos, saying he had “learned too well … the family maxim that crying is not an option.”
“There were 50,000 bouquets of flowers to our mother and there we were shaking people’s hands, smiling,” Harry told ITV. “I’ve seen the videos, right, I looked back over it all. And the wet hands that we were shaking, we couldn’t understand why their hands were wet, but it was all the tears that they were wiping away.
“Everyone thought and felt like they knew our mum, and the two closest people to her, the two most loved people by her, were unable to show any emotion in that moment.”
“Spare” is the latest in a string of public pronouncements by the prince and his wife Meghan since they quit royal life and moved to California in 2020, citing what they saw as the media’s racist treatment of Meghan, who is biracial, and a lack of support from the palace. It follows an interview with Oprah Winfrey and a six-part Netflix documentary released last month.
The Associated Press purchased a Spanish-language copy of the book in advance of its publication around the world on Tuesday.
In the ghostwritten memoir, Harry, 38, describes the couple’s acrimonious split from the royal family in 2020, after their suggestion of a part-time royal role was rejected. Harry contrasts the withdrawal of the couple’s taxpayer-funded security with the case of his uncle, Prince Andrew, who was removed as a working royal over his friendship with the U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Last year, Andrew settled a lawsuit from a woman who accused him of sexually abusing her while she traveled with financier Epstein when she was 17. Andrew paid an undisclosed sum as part of the settlement, but didn’t admit wrongdoing.
Harry alleges that no one considered removing Andrew’s security despite the “shameful scandal.”
The book also explores Harry’s grief at the death of his mother and his long-simmering resentment at the role of royal “spare,” overshadowed by the “heir” — older brother William. He recounts arguments and a physical altercation with William, reveals how he lost his virginity (in a field) and describes using cocaine and cannabis.
He also says he killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving as an Apache helicopter pilot in Afghanistan — a claim criticized by both the Taliban and British military veterans.
Royal officials haven’t commented on the allegations, though allies have pushed back on the claims, largely anonymously.
Veteran British journalist Jonathan Dimbleby, a biographer and friend of King Charles III, said Saturday that Harry’s revelations were the type “that you’d expect … from a sort of B-list celebrity,” and that the king would be pained and frustrated by them.
In the ITV interview, Harry says he wants reconciliation with the royal family, but “the ball is in their court.”
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LIZZO: (Playing flute).
AILSA CHANG, HOST:
This is the haunting sound of Lizzo trying out a more-than-200-year-old glass flute at the Library of Congress earlier this week. As NPR's Chloe Veltman reports, the pop music star delighted fans when she played the historic instrument, which belonged to founding father James Madison at a concert in Washington, D.C., last night.
CHLOE VELTMAN, BYLINE: When Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden found out Lizzo was coming to D.C., she tagged the star and classically trained flautist in a tweet, inviting her to come check out the library's formidable collection of historic flutes.
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LIZZO: (Playing flute).
VELTMAN: Lizzo had a go on President James Madison's flute. And then Hayden offered her the opportunity to play the instrument at her concert. Security was tight. Library spokesman Roswell Encina says the flute even had its own escort.
ROSWELL ENCINA: We contacted Capitol Police to make sure that the flute was transported to the arena safely. Two curators from the music division were with it.
VELTMAN: This isn't any old glass tube. Encina says master French flute maker Claude Laurent made the instrument specially for Madison. It nearly perished when the British set fire to the White House in 1814.
ENCINA: It's one of the items that Dolley Madison rescued from the White House, along, of course, with George Washington's portrait.
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VELTMAN: The audience at Capital One Arena in D.C. last night screamed in anticipation as Lizzo lifted the flute to her lips and told her fans to be patient.
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LIZZO: It's like playing out of a wine glass.
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VELTMAN: Wearing a sequined bodysuit that shimmered like the instrument she held in her hands, she played one long note...
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LIZZO: (Playing flute).
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VELTMAN: ...Did a little trill and a little twerk...
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LIZZO: (Playing flute).
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VELTMAN: ...And thanked to the Library of Congress for the opportunity.
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LIZZO: We just made history tonight.
VELTMAN: She might be right. According to the Library of Congress, it's unlikely anyone else, not even James Madison, has ever played this flute.
Chloe Veltman, NPR News.
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Memorial Day is Monday, May 30, and there will be a number of events across the Twin Cities metro area to honor those who died while serving in the military. Here’s a look:
Bayport: 8:30 a.m. Monday. Bayport American Legion Memorial Day Parade will advance north on Minnesota Highway 95 from Central Avenue to Seventh Avenue North, then west to Fifth Street, then south two blocks to Fifth Avenue, then west to the conclusion at Hazelwood Cemetery. After parade, a ceremony will be held at Hazelwood Cemetery featuring the Stillwater Area High School Wind Symphony and the featured speaker will be Dave Schell, a Vietnam veteran and Stillwater native.
Mahtomedi: 10 a.m. Monday. Memorial Day Address by Command Sgt. Major Tom Trost at Lakeview Cemetery at 170 View Road.
Mahtomedi: 11 a.m. Monday. Memorial Day Address by Command Sgt. Major Tom Trost at Evergreen Memorial Gardens at 3400 Century Ave. N.
North St. Paul: Noon. Monday. Memorial Day Commemoration at Veterans Park at 2438 Margaret St. Attendees asked to gather at 11:45 a.m. Honor guards from the North St. Paul VFW Post 1350 and American Legion Post 39 will fire a 3-volley salute, provide flag detail and play taps. Sgt. Major Thomas Trost, U.S. Army (retired) will provide remarks.
North St. Paul: 9 a.m. Monday. Memorial Day Address by Command Sgt. Major Tom Trost at St. Mary’s Cemetery at 2980 Helen St.
Red Wing/Hastings: 6 a.m. Monday. Memorial Day March. Beginning at Field of Honor in Bay Point Park in Red Wing, the 28-mile march is expected to reach the Hastings arch bridge at 5:30 p.m. More information at https://www.marchforthem.org/
South St. Paul: 9:30 a.m. Monday. Memorial Day parade. Parade will start on Sixth Avenue, travel west on Southview Bvld. and then north on 15th Avenue to Oak Hill Cemetery. A program at the cemetery will follow the parade. A picnic will be held afterwards at Gallagher Hansen VFW Post 295 at 1401 Thompson Ave.
Stillwater: 11:30 a.m. Monday, ceremony begins at Stillwater Veterans Memorial. Later there will be a flag raising and T-6 Thunder Flight Team flyover and band playing. Third and Pine streets. More information at www.stillwaterveteransmemorial.org.
Stillwater Area: Monday. The honor guard and auxiliary of VFW Post 323 will participate in the following services: 7 a.m. Rutherford Cemetery; 7:30 a.m. St. Mathews Cemetery; 7:50 a.m. Withrow Cemetery; 8:20 a.m. Marine-On-St. Croix Cemetery; 9:15 a.m. Houlton (Wis.) Cemetery; 9:35 a.m. Fairview Cemetery; 9:50 a.m. Salem Cemetery; 10:15 a.m. Stillwater Veterans Memorial; and 10:45 a.m. VFW Home Post. Times are approximations.
St. Paul: 10:30 a.m. Monday. Veterans For Peace will hold a Memorial Day Service. Music, spoken word and a chance to remember all who have bene lost to wars. Minnesota State Capitol grounds. If the weather is inclement attendees will gather under the walkway between the VA administration buildings. Those who attend are asked to bring a chair and whatever they need to be comfortable.
St. Paul: 3 p.m. Monday. Vietnam veterans memorial observance sponsored by the Anoka County Chapter 470 Vietnam Veterans of America. March of the color guards. Guest speaker Dick Bergling, a Navy veteran. Minnesota State Capitol grounds, Vietnam veterans memorial.
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Strong storms damage home in Hobe Sound
Published: Jun. 12, 2023 at 4:10 PM EDT|Updated: 40 minutes ago
Some areas of Hobe Sound sustained damage after strong storms blew through over the weekend.
At least one home sustained damage in the Woodbridge Mobile Village located off U.S. Highway 1.
Resident Joseph Diorio was busy Monday breaking down a carport that ended up on the adjoining roof.
There were reports of 45 mph straight-line winds in the area late Sunday afternoon.
"The trees were bending. The furniture blew over," Diorio said. "It was just like a normal storm on a Sunday afternoon. Then I got a call to come and look at this. The sun was out by then."
Diorio said his home was not damaged inside.
There was no other damage in the immediate area and no reports of any injuries from Sunday's weather.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cypress Creek Renewables announced today that it reached an agreement to sell a 45MW portfolio of Illinois solar projects to Nexamp. The portfolio consists of 15 separate community solar projects across ComEd and Ameren utility territories. The projects are anticipated to be operational by the Fall of 2023.
"It has been a pleasure to strengthen our relationship with Nexamp as we work to bring low-cost, reliable clean energy to the people of Illinois," Sarah Slusser, CEO of Cypress Creek Renewables said. "Cypress Creek is committed to helping Illinois achieve its ambitious goals established under the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act through these projects and dozens more in development. The passing of the Inflation Reduction Act has made these goals even more attainable and will bring even greater benefits to local communities."
Once complete, the projects will generate enough renewable energy to meet the needs of approximately 6,000 average homes while offsetting 25,500 metric tons of CO2 annually, the equivalent of taking 4,800 cars off the road. The projects are also expected to create significant local construction jobs and generate millions in new property tax revenue and other community benefits over their operational life.
"Nexamp has worked hard to be an impact player in Illinois' clean energy future, and we're proud to have earned the trust of the talented Cypress Creek team to bring this impressive portfolio online," said John Murphy, Chief Strategy Officer, Nexamp. "Illinois has taken decisive action to cement itself as a national climate leader and now serves as an emerging model for a truly diversified clean energy sector. Nexamp is committed to being an enthusiastic partner in realizing Illinois' renewable employment and deployment goals, delivering direct benefits to Illinoisians in every community."
Nexamp's industry-leading community solar program is already serving thousands of Illinois ratepayers, and thousands more will be eligible to enroll in this portfolio starting in 2023. With no credit checks, no fees to enroll, no long-term contract and no equipment to install, subscribers can begin saving as soon as the project goes live. To learn more, visit https://www.nexamp.com/community-solar/.
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Cypress Creek Renewables is a leading renewables developer and independent power producer. It develops, finances, owns, and operates utility-scale and distributed solar and energy storage projects across the United States with a mission to power a sustainable future, one project at a time. Since inception, Cypress Creek has developed 12GW of solar projects. Today it owns 2GW of solar facilities in operation and has a 17GW development pipeline. Cypress Creek's leading O&M services business operates and maintains 4GW of solar projects for customers across 23 states. For more information about Cypress Creek, please visit www.ccrenew.com.
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Nexamp is leading the transformation to the new energy economy with proven solar and storage solutions that make clean energy more accessible for our customers and partners. Our comprehensive solar and energy storage capabilities—including project development and acquisition, design, construction, and operations—enable clean energy savings and benefits for more customers. Nexamp's industry-leading community solar platform makes solar an option for anyone, offering guaranteed savings on annual electricity costs. With more than 1 GW of renewable energy generating assets currently in operation or under construction, we are building a decarbonized energy future. Visit us at www.nexamp.com.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hip-hop became a cultural phenomenon against the backdrop of American history, and now Public Enemy’s Chuck D has committed himself to explore the artform’s origins.
Chuck D rounded up several rap greats — including Ice-T, Run DMC and MC Lyte — who offered their firsthand accounts ahead of this year’s 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Their reflections are explored in the four-part docuseries “Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World,” that aired on PBS and is available to stream on its platforms and YouTube with a premium subscription.
The series delves into the history of hip-hop including the genre’s radical rise from the New York City streets, creating a platform for political expression and being a leading voice for social justice
“Fight the Power” touches on how the hip-hop has played an impactful role in speaking up against injustice in the aftermath of America’s racial and political reckoning in 2020 after George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police. The series, executive produced by Chuck D, features archival footage and insightful interviews from of rap’s most integral figures including Fat Joe, Lupe Fiasco, Grandmaster Caz, B-Real of Cypress Hill, Melle Mel, will.i.am, John Forte, Roxanne Shanté and Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets.
In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Chuck D talked about hip-hop’s cultural growth in 50 years, the genre being the backbone for Black men’s voices and how rap could last for another half century.
Remarks have been edited for clarity and bravery. ___ AP: You mentioned in your docuseries that hip-hop was a catalyst for the Black Lives Matter movement. How so?
CHUCK D: It’s a collective where people felt the same way. It spoke politically to the injustice regarding George Floyd and was a spark that connected around the world. Hip-hop has done the same thing. Hip-hop ties human beings for their similarities and knocks the differences to the side. It’s a movement, when you talk about collective people feeling similar, enact upon something and still even stay within the constraints of the law. Younger people say, “OK, listen, we’re going to speak truth to power right now. We’re going to protest march. We’re going to show you numbers that you ain’t seen in a long time about something you probably didn’t care about.” That’s hip-hop, right?
AP: During the birth of hip-hop, how do it help encourage Black voices?
CHUCK D: Black men didn’t have a voice. You might’ve sung records for people who were fortunate to become recording artists. Our music has always been code. Hip-hop is the term for our creativity, maybe for the last 50 years. But before that, we always was creative and musicianship, vocalization, arts and craft, and also the movement of dance. Just that the elements had gotten refined in another period in the ’70s out of another Big Bang Theory of socio political environments. That’s where that voice came out and it came out culturally. It still speaks loudly, culturally.
AP: How does your documentary amplify that notion?
CHUCK D: Some people like to deal with hip-hop where they first started. I think what this documentary series says is “Nah, this is where it started.” You might have picked up on it after you were born in the 1990s and picked up maybe 2000, but it started before you.
AP: What do you want people to take away from your documentary?
CHUCK D: I don’t want people to do what they don’t want to do. If you say you love hip-hop, then you should be able to know about what you love. You don’t have to love hip-hop. I used to ask people straight out, “Do you love hip-hop?” They would respond “Oh yeah. I love it.” Then I was ask, “Do you love Black people?” They would say “What’s that got to do with it?” I’m here to tell you that the culture and the music comes out of the people. Sometimes your love of it got to infuse and give something back to the people. That’s the cycle.
AP: How do you feel about hip-hop being misinterpreted at times?
CHUCK D: I’m 12 years older than hip-hop, so I’m not in awe of it. I’ve seen the trajectory and my involvement in it was to see if I can make it go head-to-head, stand shoulders and shoulders next to everything else that gets bragged and talked about. I’m a big sports fan. You know, a lot of people in New York broke up because the Giants lost. That’s how they tied into their loyalty for something that they say that they love. Well, people love music, too. They seem to know less about it than they know about sports, because sports make sure you’re not stupid. Stephen A. Smith now is a superstar journalist who makes sure that if you come in the room, you’re not stupid about sports. You can’t go off the top of your head and freestyle what you think when it’s fact. This four-part series at least deals with facts, especially in this misinformation age. Facts are important. Facts is not opinion, bro.
AP: How have you seen hip-hop transcend?
CHUCK D: Africa is the future of hip-hop. It’s 54 African nations. Not only are they spitting like crazy, but they’re also braiding languages. Hip-hop is going to like 3.0 when you talk about Africa. Hip-hop is there. So that’s the sustaining power if you want to pay attention to it.
AP: Do you feel like rappers can still be commercially successful while being socially conscious?
CHUCK D: Depends on where they are and who they’re talking to. If you’re in France, it might work for you. Each level that you get into it, you got to go deeper because you build a fan base that’s three times harder than you. If you’re an activist, you’re going to bring on activists that’s really doing this. You as an artist could engage on it and group them together.
Now, as far as what’s going to make that artists keep a light on or go out and get the Lamborghini, that’s a personal thing. Money is relative. There’s pressure put on the arts. That’s an illusion. It’s a little unfair to any art — which is not supposed to bring you an industry. It’s supposed to be able to bring a canvas to the world.
AP: What’s it going to take for hip-hop to live for another 50 years?
CHUCK D: Commitment collective, people recognizing that this is a part of us and recognizing more parts of us that have been part of our cultural history around the world. We got to recognize the world too.
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WATCH | Chilling photos, videos released by National Guard show flood rescues in eastern Ky.
EASTERN KENTUCKY (WKYT) - Chilling video was released of people being rescued from their rooftops and flooded homes by the National Guard in eastern Kentucky.
More than 1,400 Kentuckians have been rescued by first responders. Those rescues are still going on in areas that have been challenging to get to.
Rescue after rescue, grateful Kentuckians have been lifted into the air and escaping with their lives as their homes are swallowed by water.
Video released Monday by the Kentucky National Guard shows the damage from the air. Several feet of water are still standing in places, making these air rescues one of the only ways to save people.
“The Kentucky National Guard and others are doing incredible work, and we are grateful,” Governor Andy Beshear said.
The Tennessee and West Virginia National Guard have also been in the air and on the ground helping save people. More than 650 people had been rescued by helicopter within three days, and hundreds more by boat. Crews have been up in the air with search and rescue dog Callie, who is trained in finding people who are stuck.
Elderly people, young children, and families all rescued from raging waters, or what’s left of their homes. Once they are saved, the victims are taken to a nearby airport, and on to a shelter, grateful to be somewhere safe.
Governor Beshear said Monday morning there is still an unknown number of people who are unaccounted for. He does fear the number of missing people is in the hundreds. We know there are still reports of missing loved ones.
If you need to report a missing loved one, you should call the Kentucky State Police post that covers the county they’re from.
Due to a high volume of calls, they’re asking people to only dial 911 if you have an emergency. They provided these numbers for other needs:
- If you wish to report a missing loved one in the counties of Breathitt, Perry, Knott, Letcher or Leslie counties, contact Post 13 Hazard at 606-435-6069.
- If you wish to report a missing loved one in the counties of Magoffin, Johnson, Martin, Floyd, or Pike counties, contact Post 9 Pikeville at 606-433-7711
- If you wish to report a missing loved one in the counties of Jackson, Owsley, or Lee counties, contact Post 7 Richmond at 859-623-2404
- If you wish to report a missing loved one in the counties of Wolfe or Morgan counties, contact Post 8 Morehead at 606-784-4127
- If you wish to report a missing loved one in Harlan County, contact Post 10 Harlan at 606-573-3131
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Hi. Yeah, I'm always scrolling from tiktok to Instagram to Facebook. And lately it seems like all I'm seeing on the apps are these spring cleaning hacks. They promise to save you time and money. But you know, me, I got to test them out to see if they really work. Let's go. First thing to clean is one of the filthiest places in your house. No, it's not the toilet. It's your couch. All you need to do is boil *** pot of water with *** lid. Take *** dish towel, we're using *** microfiber towel. They say that's best, but you can use *** regular dish towel if you want and just tie it up onto the top here. So it stays and boil it, the water with this on top. Now, come over here, I filled up this bucket with water up to about here and I put in *** teaspoon of laundry detergent. Right. I'm just going to dip this in like that just like that. That's all you need to do. It's really, really hot still. And now let's go to the couch. Ok. First of all, don't steam clean your dog. Just the couch So this basically becomes your steamer, like I said, so all you want to do is take it to the fabric and do this back and forth, back and forth. Fourth, you are getting rid of bacteria. You are getting rid of dust mites every 6 to 12 months. Do something like this. Look how easy this is. And you're cleaning your couch on the chi. Next up, we're cleaning that nasty gunk off the bottom of your frying pans. I hate scrubbing this stuff and I saw *** hack where you can keep the scrubbing to *** minimum, which I like the best. Ok. So grab some salt. I have some sea salt here and just pour it over the area that you wanna clean. Right? So you just do something like that. Then baking soda, same exact thing. Pour it right over the area just like this. Get *** healthy amount on. Then dish soap. I'm using Dawn pour the dish soap on like that. Then all you have to do is grab *** griller prat or you're using the scrub out of here and just really lather it up. Then I want you to get *** paper towel, put the paper towel on top, then pour white vinegar on the paper towel on top like this. And just let that sit for 10 minutes. We'll do that. We wait as those ingredients start eating away at the dirt and grime. All right, let's check it out the So you do that, you just scrub it for another, you know, couple of seconds just like that. Then I'm gonna get *** fresh paper towel just to wipe it off to see what we got here. Wow. Look at that. So much better. So much better. It works. Finally, you can make your stainless steel refrigerator, fingerprint and smudge proof. So here's what you do. Get *** spray bottle, fill it up with one part vinegar to two parts water, one part vinegar to two parts water, use that to clean off the dirt. But here's where the magic happens. Then I want you to take another microfiber towel, you know, just *** dry one, take olive oil, OK? They say they take olive oil, put *** tiny bit on, we're talking about like that much, OK? That's it. OK? Then I'm gonna rub that together. Then we're going to go with the grain of your stainless steel. Mine goes up and down. So I'm just gonna kind of go like this like this like this like this. See, olive oil is not just for cooking, OK? Then take the other part of the towel, the dry part and just stay with the grain buff it out. Look at that. Look how nice that is. Now, I just need to have my kids not ruin it again. Check out this before and after. Amazing. Pretty cool, right? If you've got *** hack and you want me to try it out. Send it right over. I love these. Find me on Facebook. I'm under Jeff Rosson or on Twitter at Jeff Rosson. Back to you.
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Springtime savings are in the air, with massive markdowns on home goods. Wayfair is again running its 5 Days of Deals promotion, offering big savings on a variety of furniture and home goods.CLICK HERE TO SHOP ALL EARLY DEALS.During the sale, which runs March 31 through April 1, customers can shop thousands of products to find everything they need for their homes this spring and beyond, all with free shipping.ABOVE VIDEO: Spring cleaning hacks that will save you time & moneyWayfair's 5 Days of Deals will also feature daily doorbusters that will be released throughout the sale period, featuring big savings on cookware, bedding and more.So what kind of products should you be on the lookout for? Prices were slashed pretty much on every item imaginable during the company's last 5 Days of Deals promotion in October, with discounts of up to 80%.There's no trick or promo code. Just big savings on mattresses, furniture, bedding, pillows, wall art, kitchen appliances and more.Below are some of the best early deals we have found so far. This story will be updated throughout the 5 Days of Deals.SHOP DEALS BY CATEGORY BELOWShop furniture dealsShop outdoor dealsShop bedding and bath dealsShop deals on rugsShop deals on decor and pillowsShow organization dealsShop deals on lightingShop kitchen dealsShop deals on appliances Can't see any of the below deals? Click here.SHOP ALL WAYFAIR DEALS HERE.
Springtime savings are in the air, with massive markdowns on home goods.
During the sale, which runs March 31 through April 1, customers can shop thousands of products to find everything they need for their homes this spring and beyond, all with free shipping.
ABOVE VIDEO: Spring cleaning hacks that will save you time & money
Wayfair's 5 Days of Deals will also feature daily doorbusters that will be released throughout the sale period, featuring big savings on cookware, bedding and more.
So what kind of products should you be on the lookout for? Prices were slashed pretty much on every item imaginable during the company's last 5 Days of Deals promotion in October, with discounts of up to 80%.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Opendoor Technologies Incorporated.
Shareholders who purchased shares of OPEN during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Opendoor securities between December 21, 2020 and September 16, 2022, both dates inclusive and/or (b) Opendoor common stock pursuant and/or traceable to documents issued in connection with the business combination between the Company and Opendoor Labs Inc. completed on or about December 18, 2020.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the algorithm used by the Company to make offers for homes could not accurately adjust to changing house prices across different market conditions and economic cycles; (ii) as a result, the Company was at an increased risk of sustaining significant and repeated losses due to residential real estate pricing fluctuations; (iii) accordingly, defendants overstated the purported benefits and competitive advantages of the algorithm; (iv) as a result, documents issued in connection with the merger between the Company and Opendoor Labs Inc. and defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
DEADLINE: December 6, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/opendoor-technologies-class-action-submission-form/?id=33234&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of OPEN during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is December 6, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Supreme Court to take up Alabama racial gerrymandering case
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday regarding whether the Alabama election map is fair to black voters.
Alabama is about 27 percent black, but only one of the state’s seven Congressional districts is competitive for minority candidates.
Several groups, including the ACLU, argue the map is in violation of section two of the Voting Rights Act. The 1965 law bars action that would “prohibit voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race.”
“We should have at least one majority-minority district, and at least one competitive district,” Alabama ACLU legal director Tish Gotell Faulks said.
Plaintiff Shalela Dowdy said the current map cheats black voters out of equal representation.
“I feel as if black Alabamans are not at the table,” Dowdy said. “We’re on the menu. And we’re on the menu to have our vote diluted.
The Alabama Secretary of State is tasked with defending the map in court. The office said they will not comment on pending legislation. In court filings, the defense argues the Voting Rights Act only covers access to the polls, stating “nothing in this section establishes the right to have members of a protected class elected in numbers equal to their proportion in the population.
State lawmakers have previously argued they cannot make the kind of map civil rights groups are asking for without explicitly making race a defining feature of their election map.
Over the past decades, the court has generally determined maps like Alabama’s to be unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court has become more conservative.
“For us to be standing in 2022, relitigating and fighting for what was won in 1965, to me is abhorrent,” plaintiff Letitia Jackson said.
There is a similar case going through the court system with Louisiana’s election map.
The decision in the Alabama case will likely determine the outcome in Louisiana as well.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz unveiled a $12 billion, four-year education budget Tuesday that includes big tax credits for families with young children as well as more money for public schools across the state.
The Democratic governor went to Adams Spanish Immersion Elementary School in St. Paul to echo the pledge he made in his second inaugural address two weeks ago to “be bold” and use the “historic opportunity” of a $17.6 billion projected budget surplus to make Minnesota the best state in the country for children and families.
“This gives us an opportunity that has not been presented very often,” Walz said at a news conference. He called it a “generational" chance to make investments that could put Minnesota at the forefront of improving education and reducing child poverty.
The former high school teacher proposed a refundable child tax credit of $1,000 per child younger than 18, and older kids with special needs, for families making less than $50,000 per year, with a maximum credit of $3,000. The credit would phase out for families making more than $50,000.
Walz also called for increasing the state's child care credit to allow families making under $200,000 to receive up to $4,000 for one child, $8,000 for two kids and up to $10,500 for three to help them with day care costs. Many families could qualify for both tax credits.
The governor's proposals are part of a bigger overall state budget he’s due to announce next Tuesday, which is expected to total in the mid- to high $50 billion range. He also plans to roll out other pieces of his budget in the coming days.
Walz told reporters his overall budget proposal will include tax rebates from the surplus that all filers would receive in the coming months, though he didn't say how big. That money would arrive in taxpayers' bank accounts much sooner than the proposed tax credits. But Democratic legislative leaders have been unenthusiastic about rebates, saying they wanted to prioritize families with kids.
Other highlights include a 4% increase in the state's general education funding formula for next year and 2% for the year after. Breakfasts and lunches would be free for all students. There would also be more money for hiring school counselors, nurses and social workers.
And the governor would create a new Department of Children, Youth and Families that would be separate from the Department of Education. It would take over several programs now run by the Department of Human Services, an agency that critics have said is too big to manage effectively.
“This is a bold education budget that recognizes the scale of the multi-billion-dollar challenges we’re facing in Minnesota’s classrooms, from staffing, to mental health, to the rising costs of educating students in poverty and with special needs,” Denise Specht, president of the teachers union Education Minnesota, said in a statement.
The $12 billion is rounded up from $5.2 billion for the upcoming two-year budget period that begins July 1, $6.6 billion in the following two-year budget, and less than $1 million in the current budget, for a total of about $11.8 billion, Ahna Minge, the state's budget director, told reporters.
Democratic leaders of the Senate education committees said earlier Tuesday that they're closely aligned with the governor and will sort out any difference as the legislative session unfolds.
“When you look at what we have as a surplus, and what we have available to us ... it's more or less a drop in the bucket,” Sen. Mary Kunesh, of New Brighton, who chairs the education funding committee, told reporters.
Sen. Steve Cwodzinski, of Eden Prairie, who chairs the education policy committee, said it's not just academic needs that aren't being met, but students' social, emotional and physical needs as well.
"And we pride ourselves on being an education state?” Cwodzinski asked.
But Republicans, who are in the minority in both chambers this year, said the governor's proposals would waste the surplus and expand the bureaucracy without improving school performance.
“The Democrats’ education spending proposals are really a public relations stunt to send even more money into struggling schools without any accountability to parents or student achievement,” Sen. Jason Rarick, of Pine City, ranking Republican on the education funding committee, said in a statement.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Rui Hachimura, LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers made an early statement in the wide-open Western Conference playoffs.
Hachimura scored a playoff career-best 29 points, including 21 in the second half, and James added 21 points and 11 rebounds as the seventh-seeded Lakers beat the No. 2 seed Memphis Grizzlies 128-112 on Sunday in the opening game of their series.
Memphis had the NBA’s best home record at 35-6 but no longer has home-court advantage against LA. Game 2 is Wednesday at FedExForum, and the Grizzlies have major concerns about star Ja Morant, who aggravated a right hand injury.
“We didn’t execute the priorities of the game plan,” Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins said. “Get back. Execute half-court defense and get rebounds.”
Austin Reaves added 23 points, including nine straight in the closing minutes as the Lakers pulled away. Anthony Davis had 22 points and 12 rebounds, and D’Angelo Russell, who scored only two points in the Lakers’ play-in win over the Minnesota Timberwolves, finished with 19 points.
Hachimura missed only one of his nine shots in the second half, including making all five of his 3-point attempts.
“The second half, we were in a good rhythm,” Hachimura said. “We were sharing the ball and all the shots just came to me.”
Reaves added: “Rui was huge (Sunday). His skillset is crazy. For us to get him with all the talent we have, it just brings another aspect to our team.”
Jaren Jackson Jr. led Memphis with 31 points, while Desmond Bane scored 22. Morant had 18 points before leaving in the fourth quarter with the hand injury. The Grizzlies’ leading scorer’s availability for Game 2 is uncertain.
“I’m in a good bit of pain,” Morant said. “My main focus was to be out there for my guys. Another incident where, you know, that’s pretty much in jeopardy.”
It was Hachimura from Japan who provided Los Angeles some breathing room in the third quarter, connecting on all four of his 3-point attempts. Hachimura’s only previous playoff experience was in 2021 with Washington, which lost a first-round series to Philadelphia. The Lakers acquired him from the Wizards in a midseason trade.
“He’s multifaceted,” Lakers coach Darvin Ham said of Hachiumura. “He’s strong. He has great hands. He can get out and run, go up top. Very, very athletic and can really put the ball in the hole as you saw today. Just encouraging him to be assertive, aggressive.”
Los Angeles had to get through the play-in tournament this year after missing the playoffs in 2022. The Lakers were eliminated in the first round by the Phoenix Suns a year earlier.
Memphis finished with 51 wins, its second straight 50-victory season.
After the Grizzlies used a second-quarter burst to take a 65-59 lead into the break, the teams swapped leads through much of the second half, and Memphis still held a 101-100 advantage with 8:36 left.
But Hachimura made a 13-foot jumper, and Reaves nailed a 3-pointer as the shot clock was expiring. Then, as Memphis got close again with about three minutes left, Reaves went on his individual scoring spree, and the Lakers closed out the game with the final 15 points.
“It’s one game,” Bane said. “It’s the first of four games for a reason. You want to win every game, but most of the time that doesn’t happen.
“We obviously wanted to start it off with a win, but whey won, and we get another opportunity on Wednesday.”
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Lakers: This is the first time Los Angeles has faced Memphis in the postseason. … Davis left the court late in the second quarter with an injury to his right arm. He returned to start the second half. … The first Los Angeles turnover came with 8:41 left in the second quarter. Its second came a minute later. … James passed Robert Horry for 24th on the Los Angeles all-time playoff scoring list in the second quarter.
Grizzlies: C Steven Adams (right knee PCL sprain) and C/F Brandon Clarke (left Achilles tendon tear) were out and are expected to miss the playoffs. … Morant played with his right hand wrapped from what Jenkins described as a contusion in his pregame availability. Morant hurt the hand again in the fourth quarter when he landed awkwardly. … Memphis has now lost the first home game in each of its last three postseason series.
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BROWARD COUNTY, Florida (WJW) — A Florida couple is suing McDonald’s and franchise management company Upchurch Foods, claiming negligence and poor training after they say their 4-year-old daughter suffered second-degree burns from a “dangerously hot” chicken nugget.
The incident occurred in 2019 when the child was eating a Happy Meal in the back of the car, but the case went to trial this week.
According to the lawsuit, the child was “disfigured and scarred” after a nugget got wedged between the child’s thigh and the seatbelt.
The lawsuit says the nuggets were “unreasonably and dangerously hot” and “unfit for human handling.”
The parents are seeking more than $15,000 in damages.
They say their daughter suffered “emotional distress” and will continue to need medical care in the future.
Scott Yount is representing McDonald’s.
“Ms. Holmes purchased 32 chicken McNuggets that day. The evidence will show [that for] 31 of them, there was no problem,” Yount said Tuesday afternoon in court, WPLG reported.
Yount said the child actually dropped six nuggets on her lap.
“She has one burn, and that’s the one location where the McNugget was trapped by the seatbelt for two minutes,” he said. “The Chicken McNuggets are not defective, they are not unreasonably dangerous, they are not dangerously hot, and there is no negligence.”
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(The Hill) – The Senate on Tuesday broke through nearly 30 years of stalemate on gun control legislation by voting 64 to 34 to advance an 80-page gun safety bill to respond to the mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas, that left 31 people dead, including 19 school children.
The Senate voted to proceed to the bill just more than an hour after negotiators unveiled its text, giving lawmakers little time to digest its details.
The bill had strong momentum after a group of 10 Republican senators led by Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), who has an A-plus rating from the NRA, earlier this month signed onto a bipartisan framework of principles with 10 Democrats.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) gave the effort another boost last week when he announced that he supported the bipartisan framework and would also support legislation based on its key points.
Every Senate Democrat was expected to support the bill, even though it didn’t include more far-reaching reforms that many of them support, such as bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and universal background checks.
The vote shakes up the politics of the gun violence debate in Congress as many of the Republicans who voted to proceed to the bill have A or A-plus NRA ratings.
Here are the 14 Republicans who voted yes:
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)
Cornyn is a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who negotiated with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) last year on legislation to expand background checks for commercial sellers but without success.
Cornyn scored one of the few notable accomplishments on gun violence legislation in recent years when he coauthored and helped pass the Fix NICS Act in 2018. The legislation required federal agencies to produce plans for uploading all relevant information to the National Instant Criminal Background Checks System.
McConnell tapped Cornyn to lead the negotiations for Republicans shortly after a bipartisan group of senators met in Murphy’s basement to begin talks in hopes of finding a way to respond to the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings.
Cornyn has an A-plus rating from the NRA and McConnell has praised him for knowing more about gun-safety policy than anyone else in the Senate GOP conference.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
McConnell showed his interest in passing a bill to respond to the violence in Buffalo and Uvalde when he tapped Cornyn to lead the negotiations with Democrats.
A Republican senator close to McConnell said the leader’s decision to task Cornyn with the job showed that he wanted to get a positive result.
McConnell later said as much when speaking to reporters this month.
“I am hopeful that we could come up with a bipartisan solution that’s directly related to the facts of this awful massacre,” he said in late May.
McConnell announced last week that he would support the gun-safety bill if it hewed to the bipartisan framework endorsed by 10 Republican and 10 Democratic senators on June 12.
McConnell also has an A-plus rating from the NRA.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)
Tillis made up the core negotiating group along with Cornyn and Democratic Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).
He was initially seen as skeptical toward gun-safety legislation when early on during the debate he raised concerns about red flag legislation but once Cornyn and McConnell brought him into the talks he turned out to be a valuable asset to the negotiations.
Tillis is viewed as a good political barometer of the Republican Party and his support for the framework likely encouraged other Republicans to sign on.
He has an A NRA rating.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
Collins is one of the principal dealmakers in the Senate and she attended the first meeting in Murphy’s hideaway in late May. Collins was particularly active in the talks to combat illegal straw purchasing and firearms trafficking.
She introduced the Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act in April of last year.
Collins has a B rating from the NRA.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
Graham cosponsored legislation with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in 2018 to amend the federal criminal code to authorize and establish procedures for a family member or law enforcement officer to request a court order to take away a firearm from someone judged to pose a risk to himself or others.
Graham attended the first meeting of the bipartisan group in Murphy’s hideaway and said afterward that he supported legislation to create incentives for states to administer red flag laws if they chose.
Graham has an A rating from the NRA.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)
Cassidy worked on the mental health component of the gun safety bill and participated in the first bipartisan discussion in Murphy’s office via telephone.
Cassidy is building a reputation for himself as a bipartisan dealmaker. He signed a statement last year endorsing a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure framework, which paved the way for the deal eventually passing.
He’s not up for re-election until 2026.
Cassidy has an A rating from the NRA.
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
Blunt is the chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee and a close ally of McConnell’s.
He’s not as moderate as other Republicans who signed onto the bipartisan framework on gun-safety principles earlier this month.
McConnell’s desire to get a result on gun-safety legislation may have helped Blunt vote yes. He is retiring from Congress at the end of the year.
Blunt has an A rating from the NRA.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.)
Burr is another McConnell loyalist who is retiring from Congress at the end of this year.
The prominent role that his home-state colleague Tillis played in the talks gave Burr more incentive to vote for proceeding to the bill.
He also signed onto the bipartisan framework of principles released on June 12.
He has an A-plus rating from the NRA.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah)
Romney has emerged with Collins and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) as the three most likely Republican swing votes in this Congress.
He voted twice to convict former President Trump on impeachment charges.
Romney kept his involvement in the discussions pretty low-profile but he signed the June bipartisan framework.
He played a prominent role in negotiating last year’s bipartisan infrastructure bill and earlier this bill hashed out a compromise with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on a $10 billion COVID relief package.
He is one of the biggest bipartisan dealmakers in the Senate and has an A rating from the NRA.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio)
Portman was one of the 10 Republican senators who endorsed the June framework along with 10 Democrats.
He is an advisor to McConnell’s leadership team and will retire from Congress at the end of the year.
Portman was one of the lead negotiators on last year’s bipartisan infrastructure bill. More recently he has emerged as the Senate’s leading champion for supporting Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion.
He has an A rating from the NRA.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)
Capito was one of the four surprise Republican votes for proceeding to the gun safety bill Tuesday evening.
Capito did not endorse the June framework and when asked about it said she would have to review the details of the legislative text before rendering an opinion on whether she would support or oppose the bill.
Capito is also an advisor to McConnell’s leadership team and her home-state colleague Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was an early participant in the bipartisan discussions on responding to the violence in Uvalde.
Capito has an A rating from the NRA.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)
Ernst didn’t endorse the bipartisan framework when it was first unveiled this month and also said she wanted to review the legislative text before making a decision.
Ernst is a member of McConnell’s leadership team as the vice chairwoman of the Senate Republican Conference.
She was seen as a possible yes vote after she signaled willingness to consider raising the minimum age for buying an AR-15-style rifle to 21.
She has an A rating from the NRA.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
Murkowski was viewed as a mystery vote heading into floor consideration of the gun safety bill.
Murkowski deflected reporters’ questions about the various gun-safety proposals in recent weeks by saying she was focused on other issues.
She played a leading role in negotiating last year’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill and isn’t afraid to break with the majority of her conference on big votes.
She famously opposed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation in 2018 and voted to impeach Trump for inciting insurrection last year.
Murkowski is up for re-election in November but she has a built a political base for herself in Alaska that includes many moderate Republicans, independents and Democrats.
She has an A rating from the NRA.
Rep. Todd Young (R-Ind.)
Young was one of the biggest surprises to emerge on Tuesday after he voted to proceed to the legislation.
He’s a former member of McConnell’s elected leadership team as someone who chaired the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 2019 and 2020.
Young has a pragmatic streak and knows that showing independent voters and suburban women, two key electoral blocs, that Republicans know how to govern is good politics in general elections.
Young is a former Marine Corps intelligence officer and has an A-plus rating from the NRA.
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PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man who killed three students and injured five more in a school shooting a quarter century ago has a chance at parole this week.
Michael Carneal was a 14-year-old freshman in 1997 when he fired a stolen pistol at a before-school prayer group in the lobby of Heath High School, near Paducah, Kentucky. He received a life sentence with the opportunity for parole after 25 years, the maximum allowed at the time for someone his age.
In one of the few interviews he has given since then, he told Kentucky newspaper the Courier Journal in 2002, “I perceived my life as miserable. Nobody loved me and nobody cared.”
Carneal said then that he was sorry for what he had done and acknowledged that he was only thinking of himself at the time, not the people he would hurt and kill. He said there was no simple answer for why he lashed out, but he was suffering from delusions and paranoia at the time. He said that therapy and medication he received in prison had stabilized his mental health. “It seems weird to say, but I am not really a violent person,” he added.
Carneal, who is now 39, did not respond to a recent written request for an interview from The Associated Press.
Carneal’s parole hearing is scheduled to start on Monday with testimony from those injured in the shooting and close relatives of those who were killed. On Tuesday, Carneal will make his case for release from the Kentucky State Reformatory in La Grange. If the board rules against him, they can decide how long Carneal should wait before his next opportunity to seek parole.
Killed in the shooting were were 14-year-old Nicole Hadley, 17-year-old Jessica James, and 15-year-old Kayce Steger. The injured include Missy Jenkins Smith, who was paralyzed and uses a wheelchair. She met with Carneal in prison in 2007 and had a long conversation with him. He apologized to her, and she said she has forgiven him.
“A lot of people think that exonerates him from consequences, but I don’t think so,” she said, adding that she is opposed to his release from prison. She worries that he is not equipped to handle life outside of prison and could still harm others. She also doesn’t think it would be right for him to walk free when the people he injured are still suffering.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Daniel Boaz, the lead prosecutor for the area that includes Paducah, wrote a letter to the Kentucky Parole Board on Sept. 9 opposing Carneal’s release.
“I experienced and witnessed the immediate effects of Michael Carneal’s actions on December 1, 1997 and have dealt with the effects of his actions since then,” Boaz wrote.
The families of the children who were killed suffered a “loss is too vast to be put into words,” he wrote. While incarcerating Carneal for the rest of his life “may seem like a harsh penalty, it is only a pittance in comparison to what these families suffer.”
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Reilly is 3rd Partner to Join the National Practice This Year
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Joseph "Joe" Reilly, an experienced attorney who advises financial services companies in a wide variety of regulatory, enforcement, and compliance matters, has joined Troutman Pepper's nationally recognized Consumer Financial Services Practice Group as a partner. He most recently practiced at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP.
Based in Washington, D.C., Reilly has over two decades of experience representing financial institutions – from fintech start-ups and neobanks to lenders and mortgage servicers – in a wide variety of regulatory, enforcement, and litigation matters. He has extensive experience in enforcement actions, informal investigations, and examinations by the CFPB, OCC, Federal Reserve, FDIC, SEC, numerous state agencies, and the mortgage government-sponsored enterprises such as Fannie Mae.
Reilly's compliance counseling covers the entire panoply of consumer and business lending laws and rules under TILA/Reg. Z, ECOA/Reg. B, RESPA/Reg. X, UDAAP, EFTA/Reg. E, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, debt-collection laws, GLBA privacy provisions, and state licensing regimes, among others. For banks and bank-affiliated clients, he also advises on bank powers, federal preemption, interstate expansion, and a range of Bank Holding Company Act matters, including rules on inter-affiliate transactions, tying, and director qualifications.
"We are delighted to welcome Joe – a highly sought-after financial services and bank regulatory compliance attorney – to Troutman Pepper," said John West, chair of the firm's Business Litigation department. "His expertise, including particular knowledge of mortgage compliance issues, will greatly benefit our mortgage, fintech, and payments company clients across the firm."
"Joe is a well-known financial services authority both in D.C. and nationally who not only brings mortgage regulatory expertise but state licensing capabilities to the firm," said Henry Liu, managing partner of Troutman Pepper's Washington, D.C. office.
Reilly is the third partner to join the firm's highly regarded Consumer Financial Services team in the last two months. Partners Jessamyn Vedro and Andrew Mann joined in March and April, respectively. Last year, Troutman Pepper attracted an industry-leading, seven-partner team to the practice. The team helps clients resolve litigation, provides regulatory guidance, and assists with investigations and actions initiated by federal and state government agencies.
"Troutman Pepper has a market-leading financial service team that is known for its dedication to client service," Reilly said. "I look forward to partnering with my colleagues across the firm to better serve our clients' needs."
Reilly earned his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served on the Virginia Law Review, and his bachelor's degree from Stanford University. After law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Dennis Jacobs, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a member of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm's litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients' most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
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CCSO looking for attempted murder suspect
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a fugitive wanted on charges of attempted second-degree murder.
They are currently looking for Nicholas Jerome Bell who is described as 5-feet-6-inches tall, 150 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair.
He is wanted for charges of attempted second-degree murder, as well as aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
If you have any information on Bell’s whereabouts, please call 911 immediately and do not approach or attempt to apprehend. He is considered armed and dangerous.
Anyone with information regarding this case can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS to remain anonymous and be eligible for a cash reward of up to $3,000.
Tips may also be made online at www.southwestfloridacrimestoppers.com or on the P3Tips mobile app.
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DALLAS, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- New Western, the national real estate investment marketplace, has been honored with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award in the U.S. small and medium company category, recognizing the Best Places to Work in 2023. Unlike other workplace awards, the Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award, now in its 15th year, is based solely on the input of employees, who voluntarily provide anonymous feedback by completing a company review about their job, work environment and employer on Glassdoor, the worldwide leader on insights about jobs and companies.
"New Western has intentionally cultivated a culture of grit, tenacity and accountability. With merit-based raises and promotion from within, we pride ourselves on healthy competition," said Kurt Carlton, co-founder and President of New Western. "As we continue to grow and open new markets across the United States, we look forward to seeing our team continue to thrive, learn, and grow personally and professionally."
"The past year brought extreme highs and lows for job seekers and employees, but despite an increasingly uncertain job market, Glassdoor data shows there are still companies hyper-focused on creating outstanding employee experiences," said Christian Sutherland-Wong, Glassdoor Chief Executive Officer. "It's encouraging to see companies doubling down on employee mental health and wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, competitive benefits and flexible work environments as we head into 2023. I sincerely congratulate all of the Best Places to Work winners."
On Glassdoor, current and former employees voluntarily and anonymously share insights and opinions about their work environments by sharing a company review, designed to capture a genuine and authentic inside look at what a specific job may be like at a particular company. When sharing a company review on Glassdoor, employees are asked to rate their satisfaction with the company overall, and key workplace factors like career opportunities, compensation and benefits, culture and values, senior management, diversity and inclusion, and work/life balance. In addition, employees are asked to describe the best reasons to work at their companies as well as any downsides. Complete awards methodology can be found here.
For the complete list of the Glassdoor Best Places to Work winners in 2022, please visit: gldr.co/BPTWSMB
New Western makes real estate investing more accessible for more people. Operating in most major cities, our marketplace connects more than 150,000 local investors looking to rehab houses with sellers. As the largest private source of investment properties in the nation, we buy a home every 13 minutes. New Western delivers new opportunity for all—a fresh start for sellers, exclusive inventory for investors, and affordable housing for buyers. For more information, visit www.newwestern.com.
Glassdoor is revolutionizing how people everywhere find jobs and companies they love by providing deeper workplace transparency. Professionals turn to Glassdoor to research ratings, reviews, salaries and more at millions of employers, and to Fishbowl by Glassdoor to engage in candid workplace conversations. Companies use Glassdoor to post jobs and attract talent through employer branding and employee insights products. Glassdoor is a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings, a leading global technology company, and a part of its fast-growing HR Technology business unit. For more information, visit www.glassdoor.com.
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Minnesota officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright freed
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kim Potter, the Minnesota police officer who mistook her gun for a Taser and killed Daunte Wright in 2021, was released from prison early Monday.
The Minnesota Department of Corrections said Potter was set free around 4 a.m., the unannounced timing chosen “out of an abundance of caution.” The department confirmed Friday she would be released Monday but declined to say what time out of security concerns.
Potter, a white officer for the Brooklyn Center Police Department in suburban Minneapolis, fatally shot Wright, who was Black, during a traffic stop in April 2021. The shooting happened during the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer who killed George Floyd, and Wright’s death set off several days of protests.
Potter, now 50, appeared much thinner in a new photo released last week by the Department of Corrections. Her attorney, Earl Gray, said he had “no idea” why her appearance had changed.
Potter was released from the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee and will be on supervised release until Dec. 21, when her two-year term sentence for manslaughter expires. Corrections spokesman Andny Skoogman said in a news release that Potter will live in Wisconsin during the supervised release.
Minnesota law requires those sent to prison to serve two-thirds of their sentence behind bars and the remaining time on supervised release, Skoogman said. In Potter’s case, she served 16 months of her two-year sentence.
“The term of imprisonment is set by law; there is no parole board and no time off for good behavior,” Skoogman said.
The sentence from Judge Regina Chu drew strong criticism from Wright’s family and their attorney, civil rights lawyer Ben Crump. The state attorney general’s office had sought a sentence recommended by state guidelines of just over seven years in prison.
Wright’s mother, Katie Wright, said after the sentencing that Potter “murdered my son,” adding: “Today the justice system murdered him all over again.”
Defense attorneys argued at the sentencing hearing that Potter deserved leniency because Wright was trying to drive away and Potter had the right to defend herself. Judge Chu said at the time that the case was not the same as other high-profile killings, including George Floyd’s death that resulted in a 22 1/2-year sentence for Chauvin.
“This is a cop who made a tragic mistake,” she said.
Wright, a 20-year-old father, was killed on April 11, 2021, after Brooklyn Center officers pulled him over for having expired license tags and an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror. Officers discovered he had a warrant for a misdemeanor weapons possession charge, and he was shot during a struggle as officers tried to arrest him.
Civil rights advocates say laws against hanging objects from rearview mirrors have been used as a pretext for stopping Black motorists.
Potter is heard on video yelling “Taser” several times just before she fires her pistol as Wright tried to drive away from the traffic stop.
Potter, a 26-year police veteran, apologized to Wright’s family at sentencing and spoke directly to his mother: “Katie, I understand a mother’s love. I’m sorry I broke your heart ... my heart is broken and devastated for all of you.”
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Corvette Racing, a joint effort between General Motors and the engineering company Pratt & Miller, has been one of the most successful teams in sports car racing over the past quarter of a century.
Its yellow Corvettes are regulars in IMSA SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship races, including in this past weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans where the team’s no. 3 Corvette C8.R took home a class victory.
However, with the arrival of a new Corvette Z06 GT3.R race car next year, GM will end its full factory effort and pass the mantle to customer teams. That’s according to Mark Stielow, GM’s motorsport competition engineering director, who spoke recently with Sportscar365.
“As we moved into the GT3 platform we wanted to be able to be more customer-based,” he said. “There was a lot of internal debate inside GM and us about whether we’d want our customers racing against a factory.”
Stielow said GM will likely still support drivers by getting them into teams fielding the Corvette Z06 GT3.R in what he referred to as a “hybrid” program. The move is likely to attract more customer teams, which would lead to more Corvettes on the track.
Stielow also indicated that Pratt & Miller may be among the teams fielding the new race car, though any entry will likely have a different name than the current Corvette Racing banner.
The Corvette Z06 GT3.R was shown for the first time in January. The car is still in development but deliveries are confirmed to start in the third quarter of the year, giving teams enough time to test the car ahead of the 2024 season.
The car’s main competition will be in the GTD class of the SportsCar Championship, as well as the comparable LMGT3 class to be introduced to the World Endurance Championship in 2024.
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CNN — Legendary broadcaster Vin Scully, the voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers for more than six decades, has died at the age of 94, the team announced Tuesday.
“We have lost an icon,” said Stan Kasten, the President and CEO of the Dodgers, in a statement.
“The Dodgers Vin Scully was one of the greatest voices in all of sports. He was a giant of a man, not only as a broadcaster but as a humanitarian,” Kasten said.
“He loved people. He loved life. He loved baseball and the Dodgers. And he loved his family. His voice will always be heard and etched in all of our minds forever.”
The beloved radio and TV broadcaster, who was born Vincent Edward Scully in New York on November 29, 1927, died at his home in Hidden Hills, Los Angeles County, according to the team. He is survived by his five children, 21 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Among his many honors, Scully received The Presidential Medal of Freedom, The Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame.
A graduate of Fordham University, Scully began his career with the Dodgers in their original home in Brooklyn, New York, when he was recruited by Hall of Fame broadcaster Red Barber to be the third man on the broadcast crew.
By 25, he became the youngest person to broadcast a World Series game in 1953, and when, two years later, Barber left to join the New York Yankees, Scully was the voice for the Dodgers.
Barber was an early influence on the young broadcaster as he told the Baseball Hall of Fame: “Red was my teacher … and my father. I don’t know — I might have been the son he never had. It wasn’t so much that he taught me how to broadcast. It was an attitude. Get to the park early. Do your homework. Be prepared. Be accurate.”
From the broadcast booth perch, Scully became the narrator for the story of baseball’s greatest franchises. He was there when the “Boys of Summer” won their first World Series in 1955 and called the final innings of Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series. It was one of more than 20 no-hitters that Scully covered in his career, the team noted.
When the franchise abruptly left Brooklyn for Los Angeles in 1958, Scully also departed his native city to extend a career that lasted 67 years with the Dodgers, the longest tenure of any broadcaster with a single team, the team said.
In addition to covering the Dodgers, he also was heard on national TV as an announcer for golf and football as well as baseball.
His most famous calls included when the Braves’ Hank Aaron’s hit his 715th home run in Atlanta, moving ahead of Babe Ruth, and the injured Kirk Gibson’s bottom-of-the-9th walk-off home run in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.
Friends and fans pay their respects
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, speaking after the team beat the Giants in San Francisco Tuesday night, said the broadcaster inspired him to be better.
“There’s not a better storyteller. I think everyone considers him family. He was in our living rooms for so many generations. Dodger fans consider him part of their family. He lived a fantastic life, a legacy that will live on forever.”
Fellow Southern California sports icon Earvin “Magic” Johnson said that “Dodger Nation” had lost a legend. “I’ll always remember his smooth broadcasting style. He had a voice & a way of storytelling that made you think he was only talking to you.”
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James described Scully as “Another great one who made sports so damn special.”
Tennis great Billy Jean King said Scully would be missed: “He was a true sports storyteller,” she said on Twitter
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said his passing marked the end of a chapter in the city’s history. “He united us, inspired us, and showed us all what it means to serve. Our City Hall will be lit up for you tomorrow Vin, our dear friend, the Voice of LA. Thank you from a grateful and loving city.
Scully broadcast his final home game for the Dodgers on September 25, 2016.
In a 2020 interview with CNN, Scully described what it felt like: “When I was leaving Dodger Stadium, my last day at the stadium, I hung a big sign out of the door of the window of the booth, and it said, ‘I’ll miss you.’ That’s how I felt about the fans.”
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- TruVivo, the largest co-culture advancement in more than a decade, is a novel hepatic in vitro 2D+ system comprised of all-human cells that mimics the microarchitecture and functionality of the human liver
- TruVivo represents a new paradigm in hepatic testing by offering the simplicity and flexibility of a 2D model, along with the robust data of a 3D model
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LifeNet Health LifeSciences, the leader in all-human research solutions, today launched TruVivo, a pioneering all-human cell-based liver system, to support vital drug and compound development and discovery. TruVivo is the biggest co-culture advancement in more than a decade, offering stable, reliable results – well to well, experiment to experiment, and user to user.
This novel 2D+ system – which offers the simplicity and flexibility of a 2D model, with the robust data that typically accompany 3D models – has been proven during several years of extensive research and development. Leading pharmaceutical and agriscience partners have conducted extensive validation testing on TruVivo. Their findings have been featured in multiple scientific poster presentations, including most recently at the 2023 Society of Toxicology annual meeting.
"TruVivo delivers a superior combination of human relevance, reliability, simplicity, and longevity," said Louis Dias, General Manager of LifeNet Health LifeSciences. "We believe this system will accelerate the movement toward New Approach Methodologies to replace traditional, animal-based studies, making it a valuable tool in the pharmaceutical, agriscience, and food industries."
Unlike other models, which rely on cells from animal sources, TruVivo is comprised of primary human hepatocytes, along with endothelial and stromal cells, all from donated human tissues. LifeNet Health prescreens all cells as part of a stringent qualification process. In this unique platform, cells are combined in an optimized ratio, which enables them to form a native, tissue-like architecture that mimics human liver microarchitecture. This creates a stable phenotype, including functional bile canalicular networks, synthesis of key biomarkers, and phase 1 and 2 metabolic pathways.
"TruVivo is an ideal system for applications that require prolonged or repeated compound exposures, because of the higher hepatocyte content and the stable, long-term activity of drug-metabolizing enzymes with minimal feeder-cell background contribution," said Ed LeCluyse, PhD, LifeNet Health LifeSciences Chief Scientist. "This makes TruVivo a great option to meet the growing demand for a system that can test low-turnover compounds quickly and easily."
TruVivo is also easy to use compared to current liver models. All components, including cryopreserved cells and required media, can be stored on site, giving researchers flexibility and control over experimental workflows. TruVivo requires only basic cell culture knowledge and standard cell culture equipment.
"This technological breakthrough reflects LifeNet Health's continued commitment to accelerating discovery in the field of life sciences," said LifeNet Health President and CEO Rony Thomas. "TruVivo will expedite drug development efforts, supporting lifesaving pharmaceuticals, treatments and cures – bringing a new platform to researchers around the world."
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STOUGHTON, Massachusetts (WJW) – A Massachusetts woman who was reported missing last week has been found alive at a state park, local officials said Tuesday.
Emma Tetewsky, 31, had gotten stuck in a “swamp-like” area at Borderland State Park and remained there for “at least three days,” police said.
Tetewsky was found Tuesday by hikers who heard her screaming for help.
The hikers, unable to free Tetewsky themselves, contacted police, who deployed ATVs to rescue her.
“Emma was conscious and alert and she was taken by ambulance to a local hospital for observation,” police said in a Facebook post.
Tetewsky was last seen by residents in Stoughton, Massachusetts, on Monday, June 26. Her family reported her missing the following day.
Tetewsky did not have a cell phone or money with her at the time.
“The public never gave up hope that she would be located safely. She could not have been located without the public’s help,” police said.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, May 2, 2023
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
1130 AM CDT Mon May 1 2023
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Texas...
Attoyac Bayou Near Chireno affecting Rusk, Nacogdoches, San
Augustine and Shelby Counties.
For the Attoyac Bayou...including Chireno...Minor flooding is
forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Do not drive cars through flooded areas.
Caution is urged when walking near riverbanks.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
For more hydrologic information, copy and paste the following website
address into your favorite web browser URL bar:
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The next statement will be issued Tuesday morning at 700 AM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL TOMORROW MORNING...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Attoyac Bayou Near Chireno.
* WHEN...Until tomorrow morning.
* IMPACTS...At 14.0 feet, Expect lowland flooding for the next
several days of the heavily wooded floodplain. Ranchers that have
cattle and equipment near the river should move them to higher
ground.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 10:30 AM CDT Monday the stage was 12.9 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 14.0
feet this afternoon.
- Flood stage is 14.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
14.5 feet on 12/19/2015.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Breonna Taylor’s mother endorsed a grassroots campaign Monday aimed at defeating Republican Daniel Cameron’s bid for Kentucky governor, reviving anger over a criminal investigation he led that yielded no charges against any officers for the fatal shooting of the Black woman during a police raid.
Tamika Palmer plunged into the political fray on what would have been her daughter’s 30th birthday. Breonna Taylors death in 2020 spurred nationwide racial justice protests alongside the killing of George Floyd.
Palmer and other activists announced a campaign to bolster voter registration and turnout against Cameron’s bid to unseat Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear in November.
Taylor’s family and scores of protesters have long blamed Cameron for a lack of criminal charges against the officers for Taylor’s death on March 13, 2020. Police opened fire into Taylor’s Louisville apartment after her boyfriend fired a shot at them from a hallway, wounding one of the officers. Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, has said he thought he was firing at an intruder.
Kentucky’s first Black attorney general, Cameron was thrust into the national spotlight when his office investigated the shooting and actions of officers that day.
Cameron has defended the investigation, saying he “followed the law without fear or favor.” Palmer and other activists said Monday that Cameron’s handling of the case shows he’s unqualified to be governor.
“He decided that we didn’t matter,” Palmer told reporters in a downtown Louisville park that was the epicenter of 2020 protests in Louisville. “He decided that Breonna didn’t deserve justice.”
Lonita Baker, one of the attorneys who represented the Taylor family’s lawsuit against the city of Louisville and its police department, said Monday that Cameron’s investigation left her angry.
“As a former prosecutor, I knew that there was sufficient evidence to indict the officers responsible,” Baker said. “As a former prosecutor, I knew that Daniel Cameron did not even present the question of whether those officers should be indicted.”
At a widely viewed news conference in September 2020, Cameron announced the grand jury’s findings, which was to charge one officer with endangerment for firing into a neighbor’s apartment. That officer later was acquitted at trial. After the grand jury’s findings were revealed, Cameron said the grand jurors “agreed” that homicide charges were not warranted against the officers. That statement outraged protesters and prompted some grand jurors to take the extraordinary step of speaking publicly to dispute Cameron’s account of the closed proceedings.
In a 2021 interview with The Associated Press, Cameron said his prosecutors had an obligation “to bring forward recommendations on which they think they can prove in front of a jury in a trial. That was what our prosecutors believed was appropriate.”
At Monday’s anti-Cameron event, Shameka Parrish-Wright, who is Black and a former Louisville mayoral candidate, said she “would love to see a Black man as governor, but not Daniel Cameron.”
“He lost that when he denied Breonna Taylor justice,” she said. “He lost that when he didn’t appoint a special prosecutor. He lost that when he failed to properly inform the grand jury.”
Activists said they plan to open offices in Louisville and another in Lexington – Kentucky’s two largest cities — to canvass neighborhoods and operate phone banks in a mobilization against Cameron. In 2019, Beshear carried the counties containing those two cities by about 135,000 votes in barely defeating then-Republican Gov. Matt Bevin.
Cameron, who is closely aligned with former President Donald Trump, says Taylor’s death was a tragedy. In campaign speeches, Cameron has turned protests over the case into an appeal for support from Republican voters, portraying it as an example of his steadfastness in the face of pressure. He speaks about a July 2020 demonstration by protesters on his front lawn that led to dozens of arrests.
“My obligation is to follow the law, no matter what — even when protestors show up on my lawn,” Cameron said in a statement Monday.
In 2020, three jurors on the 12-member grand jury came forward to say Cameron’s team limited their scope and misled them about what charges they could consider against the officers. Beshear, who preceded Cameron as attorney general, points to that development in criticizing Cameron’s handling of the case.
“First time I’ve ever heard of it happening, grand jurors come forward and accuse the top prosecutor of lying,” Beshear said in a recent interview with the AP. “Of lying about what they were told, lying about what they were shown and lying about what they could decide.”
Kentucky state Rep. Kevin Bratcher, a Republican from Louisville, has staunchly defended Cameron’s handling of the case.
“I think that the way the critics of Daniel have attacked him is not fair, because I think he did what he thought was right and he stuck to the letter of the law,” Bratcher said recently.
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When Sheryl Sandberg said last week that she was resigning as chief operating officer of Meta, she also reflected on her legacy as a woman in tech.
“I’m especially proud that this is a company where many, many exceptional women and people from diverse backgrounds have risen through our ranks and become leaders — both in our company and in leadership roles elsewhere,” she wrote in an announcement posted on her Facebook and Instagram pages.
Yet even as Sandberg lauded the progress of women at Meta, the broader reality for female leaders at the top of the tech industry has been far more disappointing. And with her exit this fall, Silicon Valley is losing one of its most visible and outspoken female executives, leaving few — some would say zero — similar peers in her wake.
Sandberg, 52, was part of a cohort of women at major tech companies who made keynote speeches, rose to the level of founders like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg, and had a seat at the table at high-powered business gatherings like the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. But over the years, many of these women — including Marissa Mayer of Yahoo, Meg Whitman of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Ginni Rometty of IBM — have departed, often with their reputations in tatters.
More broadly, women have not made notable gains in recent years in the highest echelons of Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Meta and other tech giants where the corridors of power continue to be dominated by men. The industry’s record on female leadership trails that of other industries, even as tech exerts more influence in the global economy and in people’s lives.
“The CEO is the face of the company,” and in the tech industry, “somehow collectively the world seems to want the face to be a white man,” said Jenny Lefcourt, a founder of All Raise, a nonprofit focused on advancing gender and racial equality, and an investor at Freestyle Capital.
At Silicon Valley’s top 150 firms by revenue, 4.8% were led by women at the end of 2020, unchanged from 2018, according to a report by the law firm Fenwick & West. In contrast, the percentage of female CEOs of companies in the S&P 500 index rose to 6% at the end of 2020 from 4.8% in 2018.
Some women in positions of power at publicly traded tech companies, such as Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s general counsel, have become targets of harassment. Others, such as Françoise Brougher, the former chief operating officer of Pinterest, have sued for discrimination. And in recent years, female tech leaders have often appeared to be hired to clean up someone else’s mess, leading to the term “glass cliff,” a play on “glass ceiling” and a reference to the high risks of the roles.
Some women now in charge of public tech companies include Safra Catz of Oracle, Lisa Su of Advanced Micro Devices and Sarah Friar of Nextdoor, though they have tended to be more private than Sandberg.
Alphabet, which owns Google, and Microsoft also have women in their executive suites, such as their chief financial officers (Ruth Porat at Alphabet, Amy Hood at Microsoft), and those heading up business units, including Susan Wojcicki at YouTube. A generation of tech startups are also led by women, such as Melanie Perkins at design software maker Canva and Fidji Simo at delivery company Instacart.
But women still face obstacles in nearly every facet of the tech ecosystem. Annual diversity reports published by Amazon, Google and Apple show incremental gains for women in leadership. Venture capital firms remain dominated by men, while female founders garner a tiny portion of funding. Stories about toxic workplaces, discrimination and harassment continue reverberating throughout Silicon Valley.
“If we stay at this current rate of progress, it will take way beyond our lifetimes to get to parity,” Lefcourt said. “We need exponential change from here.”
In the internet era, some women were tapped to lead, including Carol Bartz, the former Autodesk CEO who became Yahoo’s CEO in 2009. Other women joined startups like Google, which soon ballooned. When Sandberg left her job as a Google vice president for Facebook in 2008, she helped create a new archetype of an experienced female executive who was helping to professionalize startups founded by men. (Facebook was renamed Meta last year.)
“It wasn’t that she was just a COO, Mark made sure she was truly elevated in stature,” said Emilie Choi, the chief operating officer of Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange, referring to Sandberg and Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. Choi said she and other women in tech used Sandberg’s template to work alongside tech founders.
In 2013, Sandberg published her bestselling business manifesto, “Lean In,” which encouraged women to grab opportunities and to more aggressively seek promotions and raises.
The difficulties that women faced in tech were highlighted by Ellen Pao, a venture capital investor who sued her employer, Kleiner Perkins, for discrimination in 2012. She lost the case in 2015, but the high-profile trial showed the ills of Silicon Valley’s boys club. Pao has since created Project Include, a nonprofit focused on diversity and inclusion.
Pao said that while more people now believe women and others when they speak up about discrimination and harassment, tech companies haven’t done much to improve their workplaces.
“We don’t get many metrics on diversity and inclusion, and the ones that are shared show little progress, especially at the executive levels,” she said.
In the aftermath of her trial, tech companies began releasing annual diversity reports outlining the gender and racial disparities in their workforces. Venture capital firms, many of them with only male partners, added women to their partnerships.
At public tech companies, more women were named to executive jobs. Ursula Burns was elevated to Xerox’s CEO in 2009. Mayer became Yahoo’s CEO in 2012 after a long career at Google, while Rometty was named IBM’s CEO that same year. In 2014, Catz became co-CEO at Oracle. Microsoft appointed Hood chief financial officer in 2013, while Google hired Porat as chief financial officer in 2015.
But many of them encountered difficulties steering aging tech companies. Of those women, only Catz, Hood and Porat remain in their roles.
“The snail’s pace of progress for women leaders in Silicon Valley is worse than disappointing,” said Nicole Wong, a deputy chief technology officer for the Obama administration and a former Twitter executive. “It makes the commitments that tech leaders made around racial and gender diversity in 2014 look performative.”
In 2017, stories of sexual harassment by powerful men in Silicon Valley became part of the #MeToo movement. That year, a group of female investors created All Raise.
In 2018, California passed a law requiring publicly traded companies to have at least one female board director, leading to scores of women joining corporate boards. (A California judge struck down the law last month; the state has said it will appeal the ruling.) Another new law, passed last year, the Silenced No More Act, provides legal protection for people who speak publicly about discrimination or harassment they experienced at work.
Women in tech have continued speaking out about unfair treatment. In 2020, Brougher reached a $22.5 million settlement with Pinterest for discrimination and retaliation. A discrimination lawsuit by Emily Kramer, a former chief marketing officer at the financial startup Carta, is working its way through the courts.
There have been some signs of progress. Over the past five years, Katrina Lake of Stitch Fix, Julie Wainwright of The RealReal, Jennifer Hyman of Rent the Runway and Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble took the companies they founded public. And following in Sandberg’s footsteps, female chief operating officers are now more common in tech. They include Choi at Coinbase, Gwynne Shotwell at SpaceX and Jen Wong at Reddit.
At Meta, Sandberg hired and promoted women, such as Marne Levine, the chief business officer, and Lori Goler, the head of human resources and hiring. The percentage of women in Meta’s management with titles of director or higher increased to 35% in 2021, from 30% in 2018, according to the company’s data.
Meta also developed women who now lead other tech companies, including Simo, who oversaw the main Facebook app before becoming Instacart’s CEO last year.
“Sheryl’s leadership has really mattered to a lot of us,” said Kate Rouch, the chief marketing officer of Coinbase who was an employee at Meta until August.
But when Sandberg leaves her job in the next few months, Javier Olivan, a longtime Meta executive, will take over the role of chief operating officer. Olivan will be one of four top deputies to Zuckerberg focused on technology and policy — and all of them are men.
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Delta Air Lines Announces Webcast of December Quarter and Full Year 2022 Financial Results
Published: Dec. 30, 2022 at 7:30 AM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
ATLANTA, Dec. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) will hold a live conference call and webcast to discuss its December quarter and full year 2022 financial results at 10 a.m. EST, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023.
A live webcast of this event will be available at ir.delta.com. An online replay will be available at the same site shortly after the webcast is complete.
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The Daily Pledge for Thursday, August 18th comes from Mr. Juanes’s class at Johnson Elementary.
Published: Aug. 12, 2022 at 11:38 AM CDT|Updated: 47 minutes ago
The Daily Pledge for Thursday, August 18th comes from Mr. Juanes’s class at Johnson Elementary.
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The Global Digital Marketing Agency Received a Platinum Award in Two Categories for Its Brand Campaign for First Horizon Bank
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mindgruve, one of the fastest-growing digital marketing agencies in the U.S., was recognized as a Platinum winner in the 2023 AVA Digital Awards for the Let's Find a Way brand campaign for First Horizon Bank. The campaign won a Platinum award, an honor only the top 16 percent of entrants earn, in the digital advertising and video production categories.
Click below to watch the Let's Find A Way campaign videos
The Let's Find a Way campaign was designed to expand brand awareness and establish trust with existing and potential clients in the bank's portfolio of markets. The series of videos feature real client stories to showcase First Horizon's commitment to building and nurturing personal relationships with its clients. The videos were featured in a robust, integrated digital campaign targeting the bank's extensive southeast footprint, specifically in newly acquired markets. The campaign yielded quarter-over-quarter increases in impression volume and new customer acquisition.
"We know how important it is for First Horizon to establish trust within the communities the bank serves, and this campaign perfectly captures the bank's dedication to helping its clients reach their financial goals," said Chad Robley, CEO and founder of Mindgruve. "We are honored to be recognized alongside so many prestigious companies for our work on the Let's Find a Way campaign. With more than 20 years of marketing experience in the financial services industry, our team of experts has helped brands like First Horizon form meaningful connections with their clients across a digital landscape."
AVA Digital Awards is sponsored and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP). The international organization consists of several thousand production, marketing, communication, advertising, public relations, and freelance professionals.
In addition to the work on Let's Find a Way, Mindgruve serves as the agency of record for First Horizon Bank, helping lead creative, web presence, digital media, analytics, and public relations. Mindgruve recently launched a new website for the bank that features a revamped user interface, mobile-first layout, and an elevated design.
Aside from its most recent win at the AVA awards, the Let's Find a Way campaign has also been recognized by the Best in Biz and MarCom awards. Click here to see a full list of AVA Award winners.
About Mindgruve
We are a global digital agency comprised of strategists, creatives, media experts, data scientists and engineers driven by one common purpose — accelerate business growth through marketing and digital transformation. For more information, visit https://mindgruve.com/ or follow us on LinkedIn.
About First Horizon
First Horizon Corp. (NYSE: FHN), with $80.3 billion in assets as of September 30, 2022, is a leading regional financial services company, dedicated to helping our clients, communities and associates unlock their full potential with capital and counsel. Headquartered in Memphis, TN, the banking subsidiary First Horizon Bank operates in 12 states across the southern U.S. The Company and its subsidiaries offer commercial, private banking, consumer, small business, wealth and trust management, retail brokerage, capital markets, fixed income, and mortgage banking services. First Horizon has been recognized as one of the nation's best employers by Fortune and Forbes magazines and a Top 10 Most Reputable U.S. Bank. More information is available at www.FirstHorizon.com.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Just the size of his hand, the radio set hung in the busy marketplace stall is essential to Mark Nyabanda.
“I can’t do without it,” said the 25-year old, taking a break from selling fertilizer in Mbare market in the capital, Harare, to listen to a radio weather report warning of possible floods.
Radio bulletins also provide him with information on disease outbreaks, political news and entertainment, he said.
“I don’t trust these new technologies," he said, referring to social media. "They are full of falsehoods. We saw it during the coronavirus outbreak.”
In many Western countries, conventional radio has been overtaken by streaming, podcasts and on-demand content accessed via smartphones and computers.
But in many of Africa's 54 countries, with a combined population of 1.3 billion people, traditional radio sets are widely used, highlighting the digital divide between rich countries and those still struggling to have reliable internet.
Radio sets are all over the place in Zimbabwe. Rural livestock herders dangle them from their necks while tending animals while those in the cities listen to their radio sets for news.
When schools closed during the coronavirus pandemic, sub-Saharan African had the highest proportion of schoolchildren who lacked internet connectivity to participate in remote learning online lessons, according to the United Nations children’s agency. Many students relied on lessons beamed via tiny solar-powered radio sets at home.
More than 80% of people in Africa own a mobile phone with access to a mobile phone network, according to Afrobarometer, a leading research institute. But “fewer than half” have mobile phones with internet access. The number of those who have access to computers at home is even lower at 28% of people polled in 34 African countries in a survey on the digital divide published in December last year.
“Closing the digital divide remains a critical issue for most African countries, and for the continent as a whole,” said Afrobarometer.
The lack of internet connectivity means traditional radio “remains king,” said Afrobarometer in another survey last year.
Radio is “overwhelmingly” the most common source of news in Africa, according to the survey. About 68% of respondents said they tuned in at least a few times a week, compared to about 40% who use social media and the internet.
Traditional radio sets are easy and inexpensive to use versus the higher cost and logistical problems of getting access to the internet.
Many small radio sets now come with inbuilt solar panels that allow people to listen to broadcasts even when they don’t have electricity. Especially in vogue are radios that also now come with a cell phone charger and a flashlight — all huge conveniences in a continent where electricity outages are rampant and internet connection spots are often distant.
“People don’t have to worry about network or data expenses. And one can’t be switched off for not paying license fees,” said Stanley Tsarwe, coordinator of journalism studies at the University of Zimbabwe. “The radio set has become very powerful and multi-functional and that becomes critical in Africa where access to power and access to the internet are very limited” he said.
Many people trust information from their radio sets over other sources, said John Masuku, a veteran radio broadcaster of five decades.
“There is a lot of disinformation and misinformation so people still want to check … if it is not said on radio then it is not fact. That is why radio is popular and celebrated in Africa,” he said.
Broadcasts in local languages are also attract radio listeners. Zimbabwe's state radio and a host of community stations offer broadcasts in Shona, Ndebele and 12 other local languages, he said.
However, the way many in Africa listen to the radio is changing as internet penetration improves. The number of people getting news at least “a few times a week” from either social media or the internet or both has almost doubled from 24% to 43% over the past decade, according to Afrobarometer.
The falling prices of mobile phones that can access FM radio stations is also shifting how people listen to radio in Africa, said Tsarwe of the University of Zimbabwe.
“There is an ongoing convergence between radio and digital mobile technologies, especially the mobile phone," he said. "Radio is integrating more rapidly with the mobile phone because it is much more accessible in Africa. The mobile phone is the future of radio in Africa.”
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FIRST ON FOX: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said there was a "significant decline" in the total number of queries the FBI made into U.S. citizens between 2021 and 2022 under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
ODNI issued its annual transparency report on the intelligence community’s use of national security surveillance authorities on Friday. The report also outlined the rules designed to "protect civil liberties and privacy and ensure complicate with the Constitution and laws of the United States."
FISA WARRANTS DROPPED SHARPLY DURING CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, INTEL AGENCIES SAY
Section 702 of FISA allows the government to conduct targeted surveillance of non-U.S. persons located abroad to acquire foreign intelligence information. When U.S. citizens are flagged as part of these investigations, the FBI takes over the process of querying them for possible security reasons.
"There was a significant decline in total FBI U.S. person queries in the period December 2021-November 2022," the report states, crediting a "number of changes FBI made to its systems, processes, and training relating to U.S. persons queries."
JORDAN SAYS FBI SHOULD BE KICKED OUT OF PROBES INTO US CITIZENS FLAGGED IN FISA INVESTIGATIONS
Between December 2021 and November 2022, the FBI conducted approximately 204,000 queries, a 95% drop from the previous year's reporting period.
During the December 2020 to November 2021 reporting period, the FBI used personal identifiers to query U.S. citizens nearly 3.4 million times. Testimony by U.S. officials before Congress this week revealed that up to 30% of those queries were conducted "in error."
A query is a "basic analytic step foundational to efficiently and effectively reviewing data lawfully collected and already in the government’s possession." Queries are conducted by authorized personnel to "more efficiently identify foreign intelligence information and, in the FBI’s case, evidence of a crime."
Queries can help to "find connections between individuals and entities," as well as to identify threats to the United States homeland or national security interests abroad. Queries also help to identify potential victims of national security threat activity — like possible victims of cyber attacks on U.S. infrastructure by foreign actors.
"Queries that return no results may be just as useful as those that do return results because they may sometimes indicate that a person or matter which was believed to be of concern is, in fact, not," the report states.
FLASHBACK: JIM JORDAN'S BIG IDEA: ENACT FISA REFORM TO FIX 'SYSTEM-WIDE' PROBLEM
Between December 2021 and November 2022, the FBI's queries conducted based on evidence of a crime "increased slightly this year." But the number of instances in which the FBI "failed to obtain a required court order prior to reviewing the results of certain evidence of a crime-only queries declined."
The report also shows the FBI opened "zero" investigations into U.S. persons who are not considered a threat to national security.
HOUSE INTEL UNVEILS BIPARTISAN GROUP TO OVERSEE FISA SECTION 702 REFORM, END 'EGREGIOUS ABUSES'
In December 2022, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassified a 2021 report that detailed FISA abuses. The report stated that the FBI, under Section 702, searched data for an unnamed member of Congress and local political organizations to determine if they had ties to foreign intelligence.
During a House Intelligence Committee hearing earlier this year, Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Ill., said he believed he was the unnamed lawmaker unlawfully queried by the FBI.
FISA Section 702 is set to sunset on Dec. 31, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are proposing reforms in order to reauthorize the section, with more congressional oversight.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, and LaHood, R-Illinois, the leader of the bipartisan FISA 702 Working Group said that "while there was a sharp decline in U.S. person queries from December 2021 to November 2022, it is incumbent upon Congress, not the Executive Branch, to codify reforms to FISA Section 702."
"Without additional safeguards, a clean reauthorization of 702 is a non-starter," they said. "The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence launched a bipartisan working group to perform a thorough and comprehensive review of FISA and confront the missteps and inappropriate actions taken by the FBI."
They added: "We need to pass substantive and meaningful reforms to help deter abusive behavior by the FBI in the FISA process."
Turner and LaHood said that FISA Section 702 is an "irreplaceable national security tool," but stressed that Congress "must protect the American people’s privacy and civil liberties."
House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, this week during a hearing focused on FISA, proposed removing the FBI "altogether" from querying American citizens.
FISA reform became a priority for both Republicans and Democrats following a 2019 review from Horowitz. That review found significant inaccuracies and omissions by the FBI in a FISA warrant application to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in 2016, and has proposed significant reforms to FISA Section 702 since.
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A pair of deputies were “ambushed” and killed as they attempted to serve a warrant at a home in Georgia, police said.
The Cobb County deputies arrived at the door of a Marietta-area residence on Thursday just after 7:45 p.m., Sheriff Craig D. Owens said in a press conference. The officers were there to present a warrant for failure to appear for theft by deception.
The deputies knocked on the door and rang the doorbell several times, but they did not get a response. Owens said that just as they were getting inside their cruiser to leave, another vehicle pulled up to the home, which the deputies assumed belonged to the suspect. The minute they moved away from their own vehicle, gunfire erupted.
“What I can tell you in this moment is this — in plain terms, it’s very simple,” Owens said late Thursday. “My two deputies were ambushed this evening and killed.”
It’s not clear whether the deputies returned fire, but Owens said they did manage to radio in the violence.
The names of the officers, who have both served for at least five years, won’t be released until families are notified.
“It is a night of heartache for two families from the Cobb sheriff’s office, two wives who have lost their amazing husbands,” the sheriff said. “These two deputies served Cobb County with dignity and honor.”
Two suspects were also arrested in connection with the incident. One of them barricaded themselves in wake of the shooting, but ultimately surrendered peacefully after several hours of negotiation, the sheriff’s office said in a tweet.
The suspects have not been identified.
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NORTH CAROLINA, USA — After no one won Saturday night, the world's largest jackpot ever now increases to $1.9 billion.
To help you out, we'll even the odds and give you a list of the luckiest numbers in Powerball history. These statistics are from 2015 up to Oct. 31, 2022.
Most common main numbers
According to lottonumbers.com, these are the most common numbers picked in the past. (Note: These are the white balls.)
- 61: Drawn 78 times
- 32: Drawn 77 times
- 63: Drawn 73 times
- 21: Drawn 73 times
- 69: Drawn 71 times
- 36: Drawn 70 times
- 23: Drawn 70 times
- 39: Drawn 69 times
- 62: Drawn 69 times
- 59: Drawn 68 times
Most common red ball numbers
These numbers had the most draws for the RED Powerball in recent years:
- 24: Drawn 45 times
- 18: Drawn 42 times
- 4: Drawn 36 times
- 13: Drawn 34 times
- 21: Drawn 34 times
- 10: Drawn 33 times
- 6: Drawn 33 times
- 26: Drawn 33 times
- 19: Drawn 32 times
- 3: Drawn 32 times
The "unluckiest" number
The unluckiest number is 34. It's been picked the least often. Since 2015, it has only been drawn 44 times. It was last drawn on Sept. 21, 2022.
Two are better than one
Since it's always best to have a pair, we'll look at the most common ones in Powerball history.
- 32 and 58-- drawn 12 times
- 8 and 27 -- drawn 11 times
- 7 and 15 -- drawn 11 times
- 36 and 61-- drawn 10 times
- 51 and 61-- drawn 10 times
More than one way to win!
Even if you don't get all six numbers, you can still win. Here are some combinations that can lead you straight to the bank.
So there's a chance?
There's always a chance to win but it might only be $4 if you choose either the red ball OR the red ball and one white ball.
Still worth a shot? The choice is yours.
Check out the odds below for all the ways to match.
Powerball's 10 largest jackpots
1. $1.586 Billion – Jan. 13, 2016 (Prize shared by winners in CA, FL, TN)
2. $768.4 Million – March 27, 2019 (WI)
3. $758.7 Million – Aug. 23, 2017 (MA)
4. $731.1 Million – Jan. 20, 2021 (MD)
5. $699.8 Million – Oct. 4, 2021 (CA)
6. $687.8 Million – Oct. 27, 2018 (IA, NY)
7. $632.6 Million – Jan. 5, 2022 (CA, WI)
8. $590.5 Million – May 18, 2013 (FL)
9. $587.5 Million – Nov. 28, 2012 (AZ, MO)
10. $564.1 Million – Feb. 11, 2015 (NC, PR, TX)
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz suddenly and surprisingly rested their case Wednesday after calling only a fraction of their expected witnesses, leading to a shouting match after the judge accused them of a lack of professionalism.
Cruz’s attorneys had told the judge and prosecutors they would be calling 80 witnesses but rested at the beginning of Wednesday’s court session after calling only about 25. There were 11 days of defense testimony overall, the last two spotlighting experts about how his birth mother’s heavy use of alcohol during pregnancy might have affected his brain’s development and led to his murder of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago.
The sudden announcement by lead attorney Melisa McNeill led to a heated exchange between her and Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, who called the decision without warning to her or the prosecution “the most uncalled for, unprofessional way to try a case.”
The 12-member jury and 10 alternates were not present but were lining up outside the courtroom to enter. The sudden announcement also meant prosecutors weren’t ready to start their rebuttal case.
Lead prosecutor Mike Satz threw his hands up when Scherer asked if he could begin and, with a nervous laugh, said “no.”
“We’re waiting for 40 more (defense) witnesses,” Satz said.
Scherer then accused Cruz’s attorneys of being inconsiderate to all involved, but especially the jurors for wasting their trip to court.
“To have 22 people march into court and be waiting as if it is some kind of game. I have never experienced such a level of unprofessionalism in my career,” Scherer said, raising her voice.
McNeill countered angrily, “You are insulting me on the record in front of my client,” before Scherer told her to stop. Scherer then laid into McNeill, with whom she has had a testy relationship since pretrial hearings began more than three years ago.
“You’ve been insulting me the entire trial,” Scherer barked at McNeill. “Arguing with me, storming out, coming late intentionally if you don’t like my rulings. So, quite frankly, this has been long overdue. So please be seated.”
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty last October to murdering 14 Stoneman Douglas students and three staff members on Feb. 14, 2018. His trial, now ending its second month, is only to determine whether he is sentenced to death or life without parole. For a death sentence, the jury must be unanimous.
After his attorneys rested, Cruz told Scherer he agreed with the decision.
“I think we are good,” he said.
When jurors were told of the decision, several stared at the defense table, appearing stunned.
Cruz’s attorneys have tried to show how his late birth mother’s alcohol abuse during pregnancy put Cruz onto a lifelong path of erratic, bizarre and often violent behavior that culminated in the shootings. They also tried to show that his adoptive mother, Lynda Cruz, became overwhelmed after her husband died when Cruz was 5.
They called witnesses who knew his birth mother, Brenda Woodard, a Fort Lauderdale prostitute. They testified she drank fortified wine and malt liquor and abused cocaine during her pregnancy.
They called Cruz’s psychiatrists and psychologists and teachers from his preschool, elementary and middle school years — they all testified he was a slow developing child who hurt others, had frequent outbursts, made threats and had few friends.
The defense concluded their case by calling Dr. Kenneth Jones, one of the nation’s leading fetal alcohol experts, who said in his five decades of research he had never seen a birth mother who had more documented drinking than Woodard. He believes Cruz’s doctors didn’t properly diagnose him with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, meaning he never got the right treatment.
But Cruz’s attorneys had been expected to call his younger half-brother, Zachary, who was a central figure in their case with witnesses accusing him of bullying his smaller, weaker brother. They also presented no witnesses from the school for students with behavioral problems that Cruz attended and no witnesses to discuss his troubled days attending Stoneman Douglas, where he was frequently searched for weapons.
Two attorneys who have followed the trial are stunned by the defense’s decision.
“Wow. That is a shocker,” said David Weinstein, a Miami defense attorney and former prosecutor. He said perhaps the defense was worried the prosecution’s cross-examination of their witnesses was hurting their case, but “I am surprised that there was no testimony about his high school years or more about” Cruz.
Robert Jarvis, a professor at Nova Southeastern University’s law school near Fort Lauderdale, said the decision is hard to fathom.
“Perhaps the defense felt it had made its case. Perhaps the defense felt it was losing the jury and further witnesses would only alienate the jury. Perhaps the defense felt that the witnesses to be called would give the prosecution too much leeway to explore matters during cross-examination that the defense did not want explored,” Jarvis said.
Still, he said Scherer’s dressing down of McNeill was uncalled for. He has been an outspoken critic of Scherer’s selection to oversee such a complicated case — she had never tried a first-degree murder trial before being assigned Cruz’s.
“It was the defense’s right to rest when it thought the right moment was reached. Indeed, I have never heard of a judge effectively demanding that a party call all its proposed witnesses,” Jarvis said. “This is just another example of Judge Scherer not being the right judge.”
The defense is trying to overcome the prosecution’s case, which focused on Cruz’s massacre as he stalked a three-story classroom building for seven minutes with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle. Satz played security videos of the shooting and showed the rifle Cruz used. Teachers and students testified about watching others die.
Satz showed graphic autopsy and crime scene photos and took jurors to the fenced-off building, which remains blood-stained and bullet-pocked. Parents and spouses gave tearful and angry statements about their loss.
Prosecutors said they will need more than a week to prepare their rebuttal case. The trial is now tentatively scheduled to resume Sept. 27 and conclude the week of Oct. 10.
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AP writer Freida Frisaro in Miami contributed to this report.
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Marcelo J. Barrionuevo, M.D., IVF FLORIDA physician, presents a keynote address at the South Florida Fertility Expo on family-building options for those facing infertility
MARGATE, Fla., April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Marcelo Barrionuevo, M.D., a fertility specialist at IVF FLORIDA, has been invited to be a keynote speaker at the Fifth Annual South Florida Fertility Expo on Saturday, April 30, 2022. During the event, Dr. Barrionuevo will be discussing fertility preservation, and family planning using third-party reproduction options, including donor egg, donor sperm, donor embryos, and surrogacy. He will present his keynote discussions in Spanish and English.
The South Florida Fertility Expo is a one-day event that gathers information seekers interested in fertility, health and wellness, and fertility funding options. The event will feature more than 50 exhibitors, interactive workshops, and panel discussions on family building and fertility topics.
A new feature to this year's program is a Spanish-only workshop, which includes speakers and experts delivering topics for Spanish-speaking attendees. During this workshop, Dr. Barrionuevo will discuss fertility preservation, and the process of using egg donation, sperm donation, and embryo donation to build families. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions about IVF FLORIDA, donor success rates, and choosing a donor.
IVF FLORIDA's Dr. Barrionuevo is subspecialty certified in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. He earned his medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires Medical School in Argentina. Dr. Barrionuevo completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Sinai Hospital of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan. He then completed a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida.
Dr. Barrionuevo received several teaching and clinical excellence awards. He has presented numerous times at national and international meetings and has authored multiple publications. He has also received mentorship and patient care awards, including the 2022 Castle Connelly Top Doctors for Infertility honors. Dr. Barrionuevo sees patients at IVF FLORIDA's Coral Gables, Pembroke Pines, and Margate offices.
The Fifth Annual South Florida Fertility Expo is open to the public. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit southfloridafertilityexpo.com.
To learn more about fertility and family building options with Dr. Barrionuevo or any other IVF FLORIDA physician, schedule an appointment by calling 954-247-6200 or visit ivfflorida.com.
IVF FLORIDA Reproductive Associates has been providing fertility treatments in South Florida since 1986. Our IVF clinic was among the first in the region, and we have been a leader in the field ever since. We have six convenient locations throughout South Florida, including Coral Gables, Pembroke Pines, Margate, Boca Raton, Wellington, and Jupiter. IVF FLORIDA is among the founding partner practices of US Fertility, the largest physician-led partnership of top-tier fertility practices in the U.S. For more information, call 954-247-6200 or visit ivfflorida.com.
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Wisconsin man with a history of making threats charged with threatening to kill Gov. Tony Evers
MADISON - A Dane County man with a history of making threats against public officials has been accused in federal court with threatening to kill Gov. Tony Evers.
Michael Yaker, 52, of DeForest, was charged last week after saying Evers is "a Dead Man Walking" and "Marked For Elimination" in emails to the governor. He later told a Wisconsin Capitol Police officer he would like to "have my hands around (Evers') throat, ... I'd like to bash his head against a Concrete Wall Till The Concrete Turns to Dust...I'd Like to have his Blood On My Hands I'd like to See His Blood Drain Down The Gutter I'd Like Have to have shares of his skull in my Medicine Bag,” according to the criminal complaint.
A spokeswoman for Evers declined to comment. The Daily Beast first reported on the charges, which were filed Friday.
Yaker, a timber framer profiled by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2009, was charged in 2011 for stalking Dane County clerk Scott McDonell, who was the county board chairman at the time, after Yaker did not win a contract to build a county park shelter, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. Yaker brought a large ax to the City-County Building in Madison to confront McDonell at a public forum being held there and sent threats by email, according to a 2011 State Journal story.
Yaker was fined after pleading no contest in January to disorderly conduct for sharpening his ax in front of the building, according to the State Journal.
Yaker is charged federally because he allegedly made the threats from Kansas, according to the Dane County Sheriff's detective who investigated the matter.
Court records filed in the Western District of Wisconsin indicate Yaker is facing a felony count of transmitting interstate communications "containing threats to harm." A warrant for Yaker remained sealed Monday.
The charges come as federal officials have warned about a rising threat environment for acts of political violence and the recent assault by a hammer-wielding attacker on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A World Health Organization employee was abducted by unidentified assailants in northern Mali, the U.N. agency’s director-general said Tuesday.
Dr. Mahamadou Diawara was kidnapped from his car in the town of Menaka on Monday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference.
“Health workers should never be a target,” Tedros said.
WHO is working with authorities to investigate the abduction.
The West African nation has been battling a decade-long jihadi insurgency that has killed thousands. Jihadi groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have used hostage-taking for ransom as a way to fund operations and expand their presence.
Diawara has been working with WHO in Menaka for three years, providing medical care to communities that are often remote and face security risks and violence, the U.N. said. The driver of his car was attacked but not abducted, and he is recovering.
The kidnapping comes two months after a German priest was taken from Mali’s capital, Bamako. Rev. Hans-Joachim Lohre was abducted in November while preparing to celebrate Mass.
There are multiple armed groups in the Menaka region, but IS has a significant presence there, conflict analysts say.
“While unclear if the group is responsible for the kidnapping, there should be a concern of him being transferred to the group in exchange for money,” said Rida Lyammouri, senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, a Morocco-based think tank focused on economic and social policies.
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Here's why Bono was at Joe Biden's 2023 State of the Union
Rock star Bono was among the featured guests sitting alongside First Lady Jill Biden at President Joe Biden's 2023 State of the Union address.
The Irish lead singer of U2 sat alongside the family of Tyre Nichols and the 26-year-old who disarmed a gunman in last month’s Monterey Park, California, shooting
The guests were invited “because they personify issues or themes” Biden will address in the speech or they embody administration policies that are working for the American people, the White House said.
Above video: Joe Biden calls for an overhaul of cancer research, care in State of the Union
Bono was tapped for his advocacy and philanthropic support for global health and AIDS relief initiatives.
Working with other activists, Bono played a pivotal role in building public and bipartisan political support for the creation of PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), a program announced by President George W. Bush in his State of the Union 20 years ago.
PEPFAR is credited with revolutionizing the provision of life-saving HIV medications in poorer countries and saving 25 million lives worldwide, the White House said. Bono is the co-founder of the nonpartisan ONE Campaign, which works with governments to fight poverty and preventable disease, which has raised more than $700 million from businesses to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa.
"Twenty years ago, under the leadership of President Bush and countless advocates and champions, we undertook a bipartisan effort through PEPFAR to transform the global fight against HIV/AIDS. It’s been a huge success," Biden said Tuesday. "I believe we can do the same with cancer. Let’s end cancer as we know it and cure some cancers once and for all."
The cameras cut to the rock star after Biden told the story of 3-year-old Ava Barron. At only 1 year old, Ava was diagnosed with a rare kidney cancer, given a small chance for survival.
The young girl’s parents, Maurice and Kandice, wrote to Biden during her grueling treatment.
Marice and Kandice later said Ava beat the odds and is on her way to being cancer free, and she watched the address from the White House Tuesday night.
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LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of hotel guests trapped by flash flooding at Death Valley National Park were able to drive out after crews cleared a pathway through rocks and mud, but roads damaged by floodwaters or choked with debris were expected to remain closed into next week, officials said Saturday.
The National Park Service said Navy and California Highway Patrol helicopters have been conducting aerial searches in remote areas for stranded vehicles, but had found none. However, it could take days to assess the damage — the park near near the California-Nevada state line has over 1,000 miles of roadway across 3.4 million acres.
No injuries were reported from the record-breaking rains Friday. The park weathered 1.46 inches of rain at the Furnace Creek area. That’s about 75% of what the area typically gets in a year, and more than has ever been recorded for the entire month of August.
Since 1936, the only single day with more rain was April 15, 1988, when 1.47 inches fell, park officials said.
Nikki Jones, a restaurant worker who is living in a hotel with fellow employees, said rain was falling when she left for breakfast Friday morning. By the time she returned, rapidly pooling water had reached the room’s doorway.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Jones said. “I hadn’t seen water rising that fast in my life.”
Fearful the water would come into their ground-floor room, Jones and her friends put their luggage on beds and used towels at the bottom of doorways to keep water from streaming in. For about two hours, they wondered whether they would get flooded.
“People around me were saying they had never seen anything this bad before — and they have worked here for a while,” Jones said.
While their room was spared, five or six other rooms at the hotel were flooded. Carpet from those rooms was later ripped out.
Most of the rain — just over an inch — came in an epic downpour between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. Friday, said John Adair, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Las Vegas.
The flooding “cut off access to and from Death Valley, just washing out roads and producing a lot of debris,” Adair said.
Highway 190 — a main artery through the park — is expected to reopen between Furnace Creek and Pahrump, Nevada, by Tuesday, officials said.
Park employees also stranded by the closed roads were continuing to shelter in place, except for emergencies, officials said.
“Entire trees and boulders were washing down,” said John Sirlin, a photographer for an Arizona-based adventure company who witnessed the flooding as he perched on a hillside boulder, where he was trying to take pictures of lightning as the storm approached.
“The noise from some of the rocks coming down the mountain was just incredible,” he said in a phone interview Friday afternoon.
In most areas water has receded, leaving behind a dense layer of mud and gravel. About 60 vehicles were partially buried in mud and debris. There were numerous reports of road damage, and residential water lines in the park's Cow Creek area were broken in multiple locations. About 20 palm trees fell into the road near one inn, and some staff residences also were damaged.
“With the severity and wide-spread nature of this rainfall it will take time to rebuild and reopen everything,” park superintendent Mike Reynolds said in a statement.
The storm followed major flooding earlier this week at the park 120 miles (193 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas. Some roads were closed Monday after they were inundated with mud and debris from flash floods that also hit western Nevada and northern Arizona.
Friday’s rain started around 2 a.m., according to Sirlin, who lives in Chandler, Arizona, and has been visiting the park since 2016.
“It was more extreme than anything I’ve seen there,” said Sirlin, the lead guide for Incredible Weather Adventures who started chasing storms in Minnesota and the high plains in the 1990s.
“A lot of washes were flowing several feet deep. There are rocks probably 3 or 4 feet covering the road,” he said.
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Billeaud reported from Phoenix. Associated Press writer Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada, and AP Radio Correspondent Julie Walker in New York contributed.
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SALT LAKE CITY, March 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EKA Solutions Inc, the industry leading provider of cloud-based integrated freight management platform, EKA Omni-TMS™, today announced it has begun to deliver online embedded transaction based insurtech solutions to both EKA Omni-TMS™ and non-EKA TMS carrier, broker, and shipper customers.
"EKA in strategic collaboration with its risk management partner, Lockton, and its insurtech partner Redkik, has begun to deliver the vision of changing the process of purchasing and consuming insurance services by supply chain customers, and risk underwriting by insurance carriers." says JJ Singh, Founder and CEO for EKA Solutions, Inc. "During this first phase of disruption, the strategic partnership delivers embedded on-demand cargo risk coverage solutions to supply chain customers on a per shipment basis and elevates the customer experience to the next level." Adds, Singh.
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Espresso could lower your risk for Alzheimer’s disease, study finds
Coffee lovers — and their doctors — have long debated whether a jolt of espresso or a cup of coffee can provide health benefits. New research published Wednesday found that drinking a shot of espresso could lower a person’s risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers at the University of Verona in Italy analyzed compounds in espresso, which are made from coffee beans, and how they affected a protein called Tau, which plays a role in the development of Alzheimer’s. The protein can clump together, leading to symptoms of the disease such as memory loss.
As the concentration of the espresso extract grew, the team found the proteins didn’t form large tangles. Researchers said this showed signs that Alzheimer’s Disease could be slowed down or stopped due to espresso consumption.
"We have presented a large body of evidence that espresso coffee, a widely consumed beverage, is a source of natural compounds showing beneficial properties in ameliorating tau-related pathologies," the authors wrote in their study. "Our findings could pave the way for further investigation into the design of bioactive compounds in the prevention and treatment of tauopathies."
An espresso coffee is seen at Eternity Coffee Roasters during National Coffee Day on September 29, 2014 in Miami, Florida. The day is for coffee drinkers to celebrate and enjoy the popular beverage which 50% of the population, equivalent to 150 milli
Espresso coffee is among the most consumed beverages in the world. In some studies, coffee consumption has been associated with health risks. However, other studies have shown that when coffee is consumed in moderation, the drink could have beneficial effects on human health.
Coffee and health
Research published in March found that drinking caffeinated coffee did not significantly affect one kind of heart hiccup that can feel like a skipped beat.
RELATED: What the latest study on coffee says about heart risk
However, it did signal a slight increase in another type of irregular heartbeat in people who drank more than one cup per day. The study also found that people tend to walk more and sleep less on the days they drink coffee.
Coffee has even been associated with a lower risk of dying, based on large studies that observed participants’ behavior.
Despite research that has shown moderate coffee consumption can have health benefits and doesn’t raise the risk of heart rhythm problems, some professional medical societies still caution against consuming too much caffeine.
RELATED: Scientists say there is such a thing as drinking too much coffee
Experts say excessive amounts of coffee can cause heart palpitations, anxiousness and jitters in individuals.
This story was reported from Los Angeles. FOX News Digital contributed.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — China has long been seen by the U.S. as a prolific source of anti-American propaganda but less aggressive in its influence operations than Russia, which has used cyberattacks and covert operations to disrupt U.S. elections and denigrate rivals.
But many in Washington now think China is increasingly adopting tactics associated with Russia — and there’s growing concern the U.S. isn’t doing enough to respond.
U.S. officials and outside experts cite recent examples of China-linked actors generating false news reports with artificial intelligence and posting large volumes of denigrating social media posts. While many of the discovered efforts are amateurish, experts think they signal an apparent willingness from Beijing to try more influence campaigns as part of a broader embrace of covert operations, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.
“To us, the attempt is what stands out,” one U.S. intelligence official said.
An increasingly pessimistic mood in Washington about Beijing’s expansive political and economic goals and the possibility of war over Taiwan is driving calls for the U.S. to make a stronger effort to counter Chinese influence abroad.
Lawmakers and officials are particularly concerned about countries that comprise the “Global South” in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where both the U.S. and China have huge economic and political interests. Many of those countries have populations that support both sides — what an official called “swing states” in the narrative battle.
“This should be a whole of government effort,” said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois, who is the top Democrat on a newly formed House committee focusing on the Chinese Communist Party.
“The CCP is going around the world bad-mouthing the U.S., bad-mouthing our institutions, bad-mouthing our form of government,” Krishnamoorthi said in an interview. “We have to counter this because ultimately it’s not in the best interests of the United States.”
China’s embassy in Washington said in a statement that Beijing “opposes the fabrication and dissemination of false information” and blamed the U.S. in turn for making social media “into its tool to manipulate international public opinion and its weapon to stigmatize and demonize other countries.”
“On this issue, it is for the U.S. side to reflect on itself and stop shouting ‘catch a thief,’” said embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu.
Chinese state media and affiliated channels, as well as social media influencers with vast followings, routinely spread ideas the U.S. labels exaggerated, false or misleading. In recent weeks, China’s foreign ministry has called attention to the train derailment that released toxic chemicals in Ohio as well as allegations the U.S. may have sabotaged pipelines used to transport Russian gas.
The Biden administration has strongly rejected the allegations about the Nord Stream pipelines and defended its response in Ohio.
China has long been seen as less willing than Russia to take provocative steps that could be exposed and more concerned about being publicly blamed. U.S. intelligence judged that Russia tried to support Donald Trump in the last two presidential elections, while China in 2020 considered but did not try to influence the election.
But some U.S. officials believe China is now undertaking or considering operations it would not have in the past, according to the two people familiar with the matter. That’s partly due to fears in Beijing that they are losing a battle of narratives in many countries, one of the people said.
Officials noted public examples identified in recent weeks by groups that track disinformation and influence.
The research firm Graphika recently identified AI-generated videos that it linked to a pro-Chinese influence operation. One video attacked the U.S. approach to stopping gun violence; another “stressed the importance of China-U.S. cooperation for the recovery of the global economy,” according to Graphika. And threat analysts at Google said they disrupted more than 50,000 instances of posts and other activity last year linked to a pro-China influence operation known as “Dragonbridge.”
The AI-generated videos are clearly fictitious and Graphika said none of them had more than 300 views. Most Dragonbridge posts, Google said, also reached a tiny audience.
The U.S. intelligence official said Chinese tradecraft on social media was “uneven” and less sophisticated than what’s normally associated with the Kremlin. But that tradecraft — both in terms of social media operations and efforts to hide any linkage to Beijing — can be expected to improve over time and with practice, the official said.
And there are longstanding concerns in Washington about TikTok, the viral video-sharing app whose U.S. operations are currently undergoing a national security review. There’s no public evidence that Beijing has used its sweeping powers over businesses in China to direct content on the app or launch government-sanctioned influence operations, but there’s a belief that China could do so quickly enough not to be caught or stopped.
China is increasingly viewed unfavorably in the U.S., much of Europe, Australia, South Korea and Japan, according to Pew Research Center data published last year.
But in other countries in Asia as well as in much of Africa and Latin America, there are more positive attitudes about the Chinese government, often driven by Beijing’s economic investments and offers of infrastructure and security assistance.
Last year’s Africa Youth Survey, which was composed of 4,500 interviews of 18- to 24-year-olds in 15 countries, found that 76% of respondents believed China had a positive influence in their country. Of the U.S., 72% said they believed American influence was positive.
In the event of a war over U.S.-backed Taiwan, experts believe shaping global attitudes and narratives will be key in ensuring military and diplomatic support for either side.
Rep. Mike Gallagher, the Wisconsin Republican who chairs the new congressional committee on China, said in a statement after recently visiting Taiwan that Chinese influence operations are part of a broader strategy of “cognitive warfare.” He added that the committee would “work to expose the truth about the (Chinese Communist Party’s) pattern of aggression against America and our friends.”
The State Department’s Global Engagement Center is charged with countering Chinese messaging outside of both the U.S. and China. Speaking on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the department, a State Department official responded to concerns that the U.S. doesn’t directly counter many lines of attack from Beijing.
“There was a decision made that we were not going to get in the business of playing whack-a-mole with specific lines of Chinese messaging,” the official said. “Frankly, there’s just too much of it. It would be like trying to put your finger in the dam to stop the leak.”
The State Department instead tries to fund programs exposing facts and ideas that China wants to suppress. The Global Engagement Center has funded third-party research of China’s crackdown in Xinjiang province against Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups. Beijing has long tried to frame its operations in Xinjiang as countering terrorism and radicalism in the face of international criticism about its network of detention camps and its restrictions on movement and religious expression in the province.
State has also funded trainings for investigative journalists in countries that have received Chinese investment and a project that tracked Chinese dam construction along the Mekong River, which is a key source of water for Southeast Asian countries downstream from China.
The U.S. also uses direct investment as a tool for countering Chinese influence, though critics have questioned whether some funded programs are effective.
In one instance, the U.S. Agency for International Development last year proposed using funding from an annual fund for countering Chinese influence to support bakeries in Tunisia. According to two other people familiar with the matter, officials wanted to buy software for bakery owners to help them determine which of their products were most marketable. The people spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal agency deliberations.
In a statement, USAID said the Tunisia program was intended to “create sustainable demand-driven jobs” and promote Western software over Chinese programs that “might be easily accessible” but “less efficient.”
“We know that our grants-based assistance can go even further when put together with public and private investments, which far outstrip the resources that the PRC has brought to the table to date,” the statement said.
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