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Castro, formerly of YETI, joins Miro to lead the evolution of the company's People practices and culture and support scaling the Global team across its 12 hubs
SAN FRANCISCO and AMSTERDAM, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Miro, the online platform accelerating innovation through visual collaboration, today announced the appointment of Hollie Castro as its Chief People Officer. Castro brings more than 20 years of experience in designing people and operating practices for global businesses, specializing in building world-class teams and evolving company culture at high-growth startups and enterprises alike, including YETI, Cisco, GE, and BMC Software. In her role, Castro will lead Miro's People team, defining the strategies that will shape the company's global culture and further establishing Miro as an employer of choice. Castro will join Miro's Austin hub and will report directly to co-founder and CEO, Andrey Khusid.
"At Miro, our users and our people are at the heart of all we do," said Andrey Khusid, Miro co-founder and CEO. "Hollie's global business acumen and human resource expertise helps us continue developing a highly inclusive, deeply collaborative, high-functioning company culture, enabling us to realize our mission to empower teams to build the next BIG thing with Miro. We are excited to have her join to help shape this next stage of our journey."
Prior to joining Miro, Castro served as the Chief Human Resources Officer and SVP, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) at YETI. As an officer and member of YETI's executive team, Castro supported the company through its IPO in 2018, doubled headcount across 10 countries, and built its first Environment, Social, and Governance strategy. She also partnered closely with YETI CEO Matthew J. Reintjes to evolve and scale company culture and values, which were based on teamwork, innovation, humility, and customer centricity. While at YETI, Castro helped build a diverse leadership team and People function and developed sustainable practices across the organization, thereby helping to drive increased shareholder and employee value. This appointment marks Castro's fifth Chief People Officer role in which she has led significant culture, growth, and change agendas.
"Our ways of working are fundamentally shifting – hybrid teams are now commonplace, employee expectations are evolving, and the infrastructure we built around work is no longer relevant. This all presents tremendous opportunities for companies to reimagine their employee experiences and workplace cultures. Miro is well-positioned to be a leader in defining what the future of work really looks like, both through our product offering as well as through our own approach and practices," said Castro. "I'm excited to join Miro at this pivotal moment and I look forward to helping the company perfect the science behind successful distributed teams."
Castro joins Miro after the visual collaboration company secured the #4 spot on this year's Forbes Cloud 100, a definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, and announced Miro for Google Meet, which significantly advances its portfolio of products with Google Workspace.
Castro is currently on the advisory board at Texas A&M University's Mays Business School - Center for Human Resources. She holds an International MBA from Thunderbird University and is a Certified Professional Director with the National Association of Corporate Directors.
Miro is an online, visual collaboration platform designed to unlock creativity and accelerate innovation among teams of all kinds. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 35M users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,500 employees in 12 hubs around the world. To learn more, please visit: https://miro.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Monica Lewinsky had a tempered, compassionate response to the death of Ken Starr, the former independent counsel whose investigation of Bill Clinton helped reveal her affair with the president and, she once wrote, made her life a “living hell.”
“As I’m sure many can understand, my thoughts about ken starr bring up complicated feelings,” she tweeted Tuesday after reports that Starr had died at age 76. “But of more importance, is that i imagine it’s a painful loss for those who love him.”
Lewinsky was a White House intern in the mid-1990s, in her early 20s, when she began a relationship with Clinton, one that Starr would document in exhaustive, explicit detail. Starr had initially been retained to look into an Arkansas real estate deal Bill and Hillary Clinton were involved in, but his investigation shifted after he learned of allegations about the president’s private behavior. Lewinsky denied their affair in a sworn affidavit, but did not know that her former colleague, Linda Tripp, had been taping their phone conversations about Bill Clinton and would turn them over to Starr.
Lewinsky would recall with horror being interrogated for hours in 1998 by Starr’s prosecutors — but not Starr himself — and threatened with prison if she didn’t cooperate with their investigation, a demand she initially refused. Months later, she agreed to testify about the affair, and turned over to prosecutors a dress stained with the president’s semen, in return for immunity.
Lewinsky later wrote that she was diagnosed with “post-traumatic stress disorder, mainly from the ordeal of having been publicly outed and ostracized,” and was for years subjected to crude jokes. But starting with a Vanity Fair essay in 2014 and a TED talk she gave in 2015 on “The Price of Shame,” she has become a widely respected anti-bullying activist. David Letterman and John Oliver are among those who have apologized for once mocking her.
Writing in Vanity Fair in 2018, Lewinsky remembered finally encountering Starr in person, at a Greenwich Village restaurant the previous Christmas Eve. Starr stepped forward with a “warm, incongruous smile,” and introduced himself to Lewinsky, who was dining with her family.
“Ken Starr asked me several times if I was ‘doing O.K.’ A stranger might have surmised from his tone that he had actually worried about me over the years. His demeanor, almost pastoral, was somewhere between avuncular and creepy. He kept touching my arm and elbow, which made me uncomfortable,” she wrote.
“I turned and introduced him to my family. Bizarre as it may sound, I felt determined, then and there, to remind him that, 20 years before, he and his team of prosecutors hadn’t hounded and terrorized just me but also my family — threatening to prosecute my mom (if she didn’t disclose the private confidences I had shared with her), hinting that they would investigate my dad’s medical practice, and even deposing my aunt, with whom I was eating dinner that night.”
Starr would write about Lewinsky in his 2018 memoir “Contempt,” describing how “Monica screamed, she cried, she pouted, and complained bitterly about her scheming, no-good, so-called friend (Tripp).” But their threats, and the urging of Lewinsky’s mother to accept the prosecutors’ terms, did not change her mind.
“Monica overruled her mother. She would fall on her sword rather than implicate the president of the United States,” Starr wrote. “It was becoming increasingly clear: in thinking she was a naive, starstruck young woman in love who would quickly cooperate, we underestimated her. In her determination to protect the president, Monica kept a team of experienced FBI agents and career prosecutors twiddling their thumbs for much of the day.”
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Matthew D. Rolinger of Waterloo was bright, funny and charming. As a successful fundraiser, he had a sense of adventure that took him around the world. Matthew was also addicted to methamphetamine, an addiction that eventually took his life at the age of 47. In his obituary his family wrote that he “courageously battled an addiction to methamphetamine which ultimately took his life.”
On this edition of Talk of Iowa, we hear a heartbreaking story of addiction and loss. In the hope that Matthew's story will help others, all of his siblings joined Charity Nebbe for today's program. Matt was the youngest of four children. This conversation features the voices of Mark Rolinger, Cami Smalley and Susan Rolinger.
Later, as the use of methamphetamine in Iowa continues to rise, we discuss the toll this highly addictive drug is taking on individuals, families and communities across the state. Mark Sertterh of Shelter House in Iowa City talks about how he sees this drug impacting the population he serves.
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- Mark Rolinger, brother
- Cami Smalley, sister
- Susan Rolinger, sister
- Mark Sertterh, assistant executive director of Shelter House
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade ago, then-Vice President Joe Biden shocked the political world and preempted his boss by suddenly declaring his support for gay marriage — one of the country’s most contentious issues — on national television. But not everyone was surprised.
A small group had attended a private fundraiser with Biden weeks earlier in Los Angeles where he disclosed not only his approval but his firm conclusion about the future of same-sex marriage.
He predicted, “Things are changing so rapidly, it’s going to become a political liability in the near term for someone to say, ‘I oppose gay marriage.'”
“Mark my words. And my job — our job — is to keep this momentum rolling to the inevitable.”
The day that Biden envisioned may have arrived. He plans on Tuesday to sign legislation, passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress, to protect gay unions — even if the Supreme Court should revisit, as some fear or hope, its ruling supporting a nationwide right of same-sex couples to marry.
Biden’s signature will burnish his legacy as a champion of equality at a time when the LGBTQ community is anxious to safeguard legal changes from a backlash on the right that has used incendiary rhetoric, particularly against transgender people.
“It is a historic moment and a long time coming,” said Bruce Reed, the White House deputy chief of staff and a longtime adviser to Biden. “It’s all the more inspiring in light of what the country has been put through in recent years, and what courts have threatened of late.”
If there’s a feeling of anticlimax, it’s because the politics of marriage have shifted as dramatically as Biden predicted. Although the issue is not universally embraced — a majority of Republicans in the House and Senate voted against the legislation — it’s no longer considered a dangerous third rail.
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That wasn’t the case a decade ago.
Chad Griffin, who led the American Foundation for Equal Rights and the Human Rights Campaign, said it was common for lawmakers to tell him, “You know privately I’m with you, and you know so-and-so in my family is gay or lesbian, but politically, I can’t be out there.”
Activists’ frustration extended to President Barack Obama. He had made some changes, such as eliminating the “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule that prevented gay people from serving openly in the military, but had stopped short of embracing marriage equality despite lawsuits that were forcing the issue to the forefront.
As Obama’s vice president, Biden shared the same stance. In 1996, he had voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which prevented federal recognition of same-sex unions.
In April 2012, Biden attended the fundraiser at the Los Angeles home of a married gay couple — Michael Lombardo, an HBO executive, and Sonny Ward, an architect — and their children. When it was time for the question-and-answer session, Griffin decided he shouldn’t sidestep the issue.
“When you came in tonight, you met Michael and Sonny and their two beautiful kids,” he said to Biden. “And I wonder if you can just sort of talk in a frank, honest way about your own personal views as it relates to marriage equality.”
Biden responded as Griffin had requested — frankly and personally.
“All you got to do is look in the eyes of those kids,” he said. “And no one can wonder, no one can wonder whether or not they are cared for and nurtured and loved and reinforced. And folks, what’s happening is, everybody is beginning to see it.”
Just over two weeks later, Biden was on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” and host David Gregory asked whether he supported gay marriage. Biden said the issue came down to “a simple proposition.”
“Who do you love? And will you be loyal to the person you love?” Biden said. “And that’s what people are finding out is what all marriages, at their root, are about, whether they’re marriages of lesbians, or gay men, or heterosexuals.”
Biden said the president, not him, “sets the policies.” But he said gay couples should have “all the civil rights, all the civil liberties.”
Gautam Raghavan was leading LGBTQ outreach for the White House at the time. On the Sunday that the interview aired, he and his husband were hosting some friends for brunch, and the TV was on in the background.
“We were watching it and thinking, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe that just happened,’” Raghavan said. He can’t remember what they ate that morning, but “I’m sure we had a mimosa afterward.”
It was an unusually unscripted moment in carefully choreographed Washington.
For Biden, “all politics is personal,” said Reed, who was Biden’s chief of staff in the vice president’s office. “And I think that’s what prompted him to speak his mind.”
Not everyone was pleased. Obama was left trailing a step behind his vice president, and three days later did an interview to disclose his own support for gay marriage. He said Biden had gotten “a little over his skis” but there were no hard feelings.
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At the time of Biden’s interview, Jim Obergefell was living in Ohio with his partner, John Arthur, who had recently been diagnosed with the deadly disease known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS.
Marriage was always considered out of the question, Obergefell said, but Biden’s comments caught his attention. The following year, after the Supreme Court ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional, Obergefell proposed to Arthur.
They married in Maryland, where it was legal, but their home state of Ohio would not recognize their union. Although Arthur died in 2013, their legal battle continued to the Supreme Court. Obergefell met Biden for the first time in 2015.
“I just remember walking up to him and he hugged me and the first words out of his mouth were condolences for the loss of my husband,” he said.
The Supreme Court soon legalized gay marriage nationwide in a decision known as Obergefell v. Hodges.
Although the issue was widely considered to be settled, it resurfaced last June when the court’s conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in 1973. In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the court “should reconsider” other precedents as well, including the Obergefell ruling, raising concern that other civil rights could be rolled back.
Legislation to revive the right to abortion was politically impossible. But marriage might be a different matter, and supporters believed they could rally enough Republican votes to sidestep a filibuster in the Senate. They were right.
Obergefell, however, is not experiencing a sense of satisfaction.
“Our right to marry was affirmed by the Supreme Court. And in a perfect world, we would never have to worry about losing that,” he said. “We now know that rights that people counted on and expected are no longer safe.”
Instead of feeling happy, he said, “I’m on edge.”
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It’s a common sentiment right now in the face of political attacks over LGBTQ issues.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., signed legislation limiting teachers’ ability to talk about sexual orientation or gender identity in schools. In Texas, GOP Gov. Greg Abbott wants state child welfare investigators to consider gender-affirming care as a form of abuse.
Protesters, sometimes armed, have shown up at events where drag queens read to children. Five people were shot to death at a gay club in Colorado last month. The suspect has been charged with hate crimes.
“The story of civil rights in America is always evolving,” said Raghavan, who now runs the White House personnel office. “We should never assume that we’re done with something because we got a good court decision or a piece of legislation.”
Biden has taken steps to safeguard rights for transgender people, such as reinstating anti-discrimination provisions eliminated by President Donald Trump. Biden also ended the ban on transgender people serving in the military. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is the first openly gay Cabinet member, and Biden’s assistant health secretary, Rachel Levine, is the first transgender person to win Senate confirmation to an executive post.
Sarah McBride, a transgender state senator from Biden’s home state of Delaware, said it’s a comfort “for so many of us, who feel frightened or vulnerable or alone, to know that the leader of this country, the leader of the free world, not only sees us but embraces us.”
McBride worked for Biden’s eldest son, Beau, during his campaigns for Delaware attorney general, and she came out as transgender in 2012.
Before Beau Biden died from brain cancer in 2015, he helped pass Delaware laws that legalized gay marriage and banned discrimination over gender identity. McBride said the experience deepened the elder Biden’s own commitment to these issues and “he’s carrying on Beau’s legacy.”
As last month’s midterm elections approached, the White House played host to Dylan Mulvaney, a Broadway performer who has chronicled her gender transition on TikTok, to talk about transgender issues with Biden.
Conservative critics were apoplectic. Ben Shapiro, a popular commentator, called the interview “maybe the most disturbing clip in presidential history.”
But Biden, much like he has in the past, suggested that acceptance was possible — maybe even likely. Asked by Mulvaney how leaders can better advocate for transgender people, Biden responded that it was important to be “seen with people like you.”
“People fear what they don’t know. They fear what they don’t know,” he said. “And when people realize, individuals realize, ‘Oh, this is what they’re telling me to be frightened of, this is the problem.’ I mean, people change their minds.”
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Areas of Expertise now available on more than 100,000 doctor profiles.
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in rankings and consumer advice, today announced the addition of Areas of Expertise to its doctor-finder tool for patients. Powered by a new collaboration with CareJourney, the market leader in provider cost and quality data, the new feature adds pertinent information to more than 100,000 physician profiles in U.S. News' free, searchable Doctor Finder.
Through the collaboration, U.S. News has incorporated CareJourney's data-driven insights, allowing consumers to compare providers based on a doctor's areas of expertise by displaying the relative frequency at which a physician has treated a specific condition or has performed a specific procedure in Medicare beneficiaries, relative to peers nationally and within their state.
"Choosing a medical provider can be a challenging decision. Adding areas of expertise to the U.S. News' Doctor Finder has advanced our mission to help health care consumers identify and connect with the right provider for their needs," said Sumita Singh, senior vice president and general manager of Healthcare at U.S. News. "U.S. News' collaboration with CareJourney provides an in-depth expansion of our tool to provide even more free, comprehensive data on thousands of providers' expertise."
The Areas of Expertise insights are featured on doctor profiles of specialists in service areas such as cardiology, oncology, gastroenterology and orthopedics, with additional medical specialties to be added in the coming months. With this tool, consumers can easily conduct a customized search for a provider by specialty, location and name, and evaluate them on their experience in treating patients with similar needs.
"Too often patients are left to sift through recommendations from friends and family, navigate sparse and conflicting online patient reviews, or rely on profit-motivated referrals to choose where they get care," said Kevin Sheldon, chief operating officer at CareJourney. "We are thrilled to partner with U.S. News to build on the quality and depth of their data and help ensure that our unique provider insights reach patients and assist them in choosing the best care for their particular needs."
The Areas of Expertise addition to the Doctor Finder is part of U.S. News' expanding health care offerings to further empower patients with valuable information to make the best choices for their medical care.
About U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report is the global leader in quality rankings that empower consumers, business leaders and policy officials to make better, more informed decisions about important issues affecting their lives and communities. A multifaceted digital media company with Education, Health, Money, Travel, Cars, News, Real Estate and 360 Reviews platforms, U.S. News provides rankings, independent reporting, data journalism, consumer advice and U.S. News Live events. More than 40 million people visit USNews.com each month for research and guidance. Founded in 1933, U.S. News is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
About CareJourney
CareJourney is trusted by more than 150 customers as the healthcare industry's best source of provider cost and quality data, powered by AI, machine learning, data-driven physician taxonomies, 900+ chronic condition and procedure episodes, and a transparent methodology. CareJourney's clinically relevant and actionable analytics enable organizations to build and grow networks, improve provider performance, identify network integrity, strengthen referrals, and better manage at-risk populations.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – With $150 million in the bank, El Paso stands a good chance of having an expanded Veteran Affairs health care center by 2026, a top administration official said.
The goal of the expansion is to serve a growing veteran population in El Paso and increase mental health services, said Dennis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
“We believe El Paso is a groundbreaking new way for us to get construction done more quickly (and) we want to hold ourselves to those timelines,” McDonough said. “We’re anticipating beginning in April 2023 and then we anticipate finishing in 2026 with the new facility. That’s 51 months soup to nuts.”
Speaking at a House Appropriations subcommittee meeting this week, McDonough said site preparation is ongoing thanks to the initial appropriation. But full-fledged construction is pending on approval of a $550 million budget request for fiscal year 2023.
“We think that’s kind of a pilot for us to be able to speed to market the kind of care that we need in a growing community like El Paso, where we’re seeing significant demand from new veterans,” the secretary said.
U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, who represents portions of Northeast and Far East El Paso, has been pushing for the expanded VA health care funding.
“Last year, I secured initial funds for an updated VA healthcare center in El Paso but the work doesn’t stop there. While the first phase of funding is underway, I will push for full funding for this project in next year’s budget. As a veteran myself, providing for our military — both active duty and retired — is a top priority,” he said.
Some 46,000 veterans live in El Paso County, according to the Census Bureau.
Project update
- In FY2022, $150 million for the project was allocated to build on the existing VA healthcare center, expanding to additional care like mental health services.
- The VA will request an additional $550 million in FY2023 to complete construction and anticipated the project to take 51 months.
- Updates to the current facility will finish in April 2023 with the full project and new facility completed in 2026.
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When Josh McDaniels packed up and flew from Foxborough, Mass., to Las Vegas last offseason, he brought more than the Patriots’ offensive system with him.
He took every system.
How to build a coaching staff, how to enforce a culture, how to align your philosophies in all three phases of the game, including defense and special teams. Even how to run meetings.
Everything traveled with McDaniels, right down to the finer points of team-building. McDaniels handed the keys to his front office to Dave Ziegler, who before becoming the Raiders’ GM was a high-ranking Patriots executive. The foundation of Ziegler’s work would similarly carry over from Foxborough.
Which is what made the defining move of Las Vegas’ offseason so unusual.
In mid-march, the Raiders traded first- and second-round picks to Green Bay for All-Pro wide receiver Davante Adams. Not only that, but they inked Adams to a five-year contract worth $140 million. McDaniels and Zeigler made a 29-year-old wide receiver the 18th-richest player in the NFL this season, ahead of several starting quarterbacks, including Tom Brady.
Striking a deal that commits overwhelming draft capital and pays a receiver top dollar is nowhere in the Patriots’ front office playbook. Bill Belichick is willing to invest at the position, but historically prefers to spread the wealth and build depth with mid-tier veterans (see: Nelson Agholor and Kendrick Bourne free-agent signings in 2021). Not even Randy Moss or Wes Welker broke the bank in their prime as Patriots.
Two weeks after the trade, Ziegler explained the move while poolside at the NFL’s league meetings in Florida.
“What made this one probably unique was just being able to get a great player at a scoring position,” Ziegler said. “Receivers score points. So there’s value in players that score points.”
Around the same time Ziegler explained his cannonball trade, the Patriots made their version of a splash by adding DeVante Parker in a pick-swap trade with Miami. Parker, of course, came with a palatable salary, because the Pats wouldn’t have acquired him otherwise. A day later, the Herald consulted with an AFC executive, asking if Parker was still a difference-maker.
“No,” the executive said.
Four months later, Adams and the Raiders hosted the Patriots for two joint practices and a preseason game in Las Vegas. Both days, Adams obliterated Belichick’s defense. In 1-on-1 drills, 7-on-7s and full-team periods, Adams destroyed any and every defender in his path.
One Patriots defensive starter described his performance as the most dominant showing he’d ever seen. On Friday, Bill Belichick expressed something similar.
“Really special to see him up close,” he said.
What made Adams special, according to Pats cornerback Jonathan Jones, was his mastery of the simplest job a receiver has.
“He just knows how to get open,” Jones said. “He’s so deceptive that he can find ways to get open any time.”
Belichick dove a little deeper.
“Great ball skills, really smooth, very crafty runner, slick, good length, does a really good job of changing speeds. He’s just a really hard guy to cover,” he said.
This season, Adams has caught 82 passes for 1,247 yards and a league-leading 12 touchdowns, while Parker has predictably sputtered to 460 yards and one score. McDaniels has fully weaponized Adams, deploying him all across the formation and tasking him with running most every route. How much has that helped the Raiders?
Well, they’re 5-8 and all but guaranteed to miss the playoffs. Their glaring lack of talent at linebacker and in the secondary has allowed several opponents to stage improbable fourth-quarter comebacks. Las Vegas is 3-7 in one-score games.
As for the Patriots, they’ve lost two of their last three and seen their playoff odds fall below 50% because they can’t contain opposing No. 1 wideouts, even with one of the NFL’s better secondaries. Jones, hard as he tried, allowed Justin Jefferson to catch most of his nine balls for 139 yards and a touchdown in Minnesota on Thanksgiving. A week later, Stefon Diggs went off for seven catches, 92 yards and a touchdown in a Buffalo win.
Last Monday in Arizona, Cardinals wideout DeAndre Hopkins caught seven passes for 79 yards, mostly empty calories in a 14-point Patriots win. The key to “limiting” Hopkins was relinquishing the idea of playing 1-on-1. The Pats played zone on 83% of their coverage snaps, a season high.
“It was just a good switch-up and great game plan,” Jones said.
So what will Adams manage Sunday, with Jalen Mills already ruled out, and his replacement, Jack Jones, listed as questionable? Man or zone, Adams should dictate the game’s outcome as much as any player.
Because that is the power of an elite player at a scoring position. A player who can flip high-leverage moments for his team by winning his matchup; plays on third-and-long, inside the red zone or during two-minute drills. The Patriots have struggled in those areas virtually all season, and unsurprisingly rank among the worst offenses in the NFL.
Does the lack of a true No. 1 target explain away all those woes? No. But Adams does more than score for Las Vegas. He carries a gravity, like a great shooter in basketball whose mere presence stretches a defense and creates opportunities for teammates who need that help to succeed. Belichick sees it on film.
“Yeah, there’s a definite attention to him. Double (Adams)-type calls,” Belichick said. “Or you just see the awareness of teams like the Chargers or Denver that play him regularly ... and all that is all part of I would say just a general awareness of him. But you better have it, or he’ll kill you.”
And on Sunday, “you,” will be the Patriots, a team forever reluctant to make the type of gamble Zeigler took in March.
While the payoff won’t be enough to spring the Raiders into the postseason, it could let McDaniels drag his old team down with him on Sunday.
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Every year toward the middle of October, I get a call from my friend Al Foster. That’s when he asks three or four of us to help him “winterize” his koi pond. Koi are the colorful ornamental carp that are seen in ponds throughout the world. They are descendants of common carp and along with goldfish are the most popular freshwater ornamental fish in the world.
The oldest mention of colored carp in Japan dates to 720 A.D. The name “koi” came into usage 200 years ago when Japanese farmers in Niigata prefecture bred koi from the black carp they were raising as a reliable food source for the winter. Some of those fish were more brightly colored. The farmers started selectively breeding them to enhance that trait. Initially, they kept the colored carp for their own enjoyment. Those carp came to be known as “nishikigoi.” As the popularity of the colored carp spread throughout the world nishikigoi, which means “brocaded carp,” was shortened to “koi.”
Koi were unknown to the outside world until 1914 when they were part of an exhibit at an annual Exposition in Tokyo. They eventually made their way to the United States in the 1950s when it became feasible to fly them here from Japan. Nowadays, koi are available in many varieties of color patterns. The average life span of a koi is 40 years. The oldest is believed to have lived 230 years. The most expensive koi was purportedly sold to a Chinese collector for $2 million.
I can’t remember when Al first invited me to help with his koi pond, but it has become one of the fall events I look forward to every year. Those autumn events include big game hunting, the Blue-winged olive hatch and fishing to brook trout and brown trout that are brightly colored when they spawn in the fall.
I think part of the reason Al included me is that he knew I was a fly fisherman and occasionally fished for carp. He also knows I just like being around fish. I can’t say I haven’t wondered what it would be like to catch a koi on a fly, either.
A few years ago, he needed to drain the pond to make repairs. The koi had to be removed to holding tanks. Al asked me to net the fish and move them to the tanks because I was a fisherman. It seemed natural to him that I would be suited for this job. Hefting a 20- or 30-pound fish in a net and walking it over to a holding pond has its challenges, too. For the record, I should say that’s the closest I’ve ever come to fishing for koi.
We winterize the koi pond by assembling a structure Al and a friend designed and built a number of years ago. It looks like a greenhouse. The structure keeps the leaves off the water, discourages bears looking for a pre-hibernation protein boost, keeps other fish-loving predators out of the pond and insulates it from freezing over. It takes two or three hours to put the structure together if everything goes according to plan. Al rewards us with a barbecue when we’re done.
You must be wondering by now what does winterizing a koi pond have to do with a newspaper column devoted to the outdoors. All I can say is it’s not too much of a stretch to go from angling for common carp with a fly rod, to appreciating colored carp that have been refined by breeders all over the world for hundreds of years.
In Japan, koi are a symbol of luck, prosperity and good fortune. They also symbolize perseverance in the face of adversity. Maybe helping Al’s koi survive another winter will bring me luck and good fortune on my fishing trips in the coming year. I hope that’s true, but if it isn’t I still just like hanging out around fish. It doesn’t matter if I’m watching a trout rise to a mayfly hatch, catching a common carp on a fly rod or helping shelter koi for the winter, it’s all good.
I once heard that in ancient China people would go out to the river, set up chairs and just watch the caddisfly hatch. I don’t know if fish were rising to the caddisflies or not, but I bet they were and if they were I bet some of those people were wondering if they could catch them.
Whether you’re fishing to a tailing common carp or a rising trout or watching koi swim around in a pond, you ultimately come to believe that a well-lived life includes being outdoors and in my case around fish. That’s why I’m a fisherman. When I’m old and too beat up to wade the rivers and catch trout, I envision a day when I carry a chair to the river and simply watch the trout rise to a hatch of insects or sit quietly around a koi pond just observing the colorful fish.
If that’s a little too romantic a view of a fisherman’s life, maybe it’s just a good thing to get together with friends and help out. Besides, nobody puts together a better barbecue than Al.
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GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — The Atlantic City High School defense shut down Absegami, and the Vikings got a three-touchdown performance from Sah’Nye Degraffrenreidt for a 32-7 win in a West Jersey Football League game Friday night.
Degraffenreidt, a wide receiver, caught TD passes of 29 and 20 yards from quarterback Joe Lyons. On the last play of the game, Degraffenreidt returned a kickoff 85 yards for a score.
"We came to play,” said Degraffenreidt, a 15-year-old sophomore and an Atlantic City resident. “Our running backs opened things up for the receivers. We had a lot of offense.”
Atlantic City improved to 2-0 overall and 1-0 in the WJFL United Division.
”It feels good to be 2-0,” Atlantic City coach Keenan Wright said. “Our defense is pretty fast, and we played together. We had a lot of rain this week, so we looked at a lot of film. We were well prepared.”
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Vikings running back Allen Packard went 8 yards for a TD in the first quarter. A.C.’s other touchdown came when linebacker Iquan Campos picked off a fumbled Absegami snap in mid-air and returned it 70 yards for a score. Lyons also ran a successful 2-point conversion.
Braves quarterback Emir Chambers scored on a 71-yard run near the end of the game.
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WAYNE, Pa., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Argosy Private Equity ("Argosy"), a lower middle market-focused private equity firm, announces the final closing of Argosy Investment Partners VI, L.P (and its parallel fund, together "Argosy VI") at $422 million.
"This is an exciting milestone for Argosy. We are grateful for the continued support of our existing investors and for the strong interest we received from new investors, which allowed us to exceed our target fund size for Argosy VI by more than 20%," said Sarah Busch, Head of Investor Relations.
Argosy VI will continue to build on Argosy's 30-year track record of investing in U.S. based companies with motivated management teams, sustainable competitive advantages, and strong growth potential. Consistent with Argosy V, Argosy VI will focus on making control investments in niche manufacturing and business-to-business service companies with $20 to $100 million of revenue and $3 to $10 million of EBITDA.
"Argosy's brand has been built upon being disciplined investors in the lower middle market and we continue to believe in the opportunity it has to offer," said Michael Bailey, Partner. "Argosy VI will continue to execute the strategy we have built over the past three decades, and we look forward to working with the management teams we will partner with throughout Argosy VI."
With a team of 22 professionals, Argosy has invested in over 125 companies since its founding and can execute deals of varied sizes through an extensive network of partners, including senior lenders, mezzanine debt providers and equity co-investors.
"Over the last 30 years, we have developed several key differentiators that will allow us to continue executing our proven strategy," said Steve Morgenthal, Managing Director. "This includes our experienced team, a robust deal sourcing capability, a strong focus on risk mitigation, and Argosy's VAM™ – our Value Acceleration Methodology. Driven by our four full-time internal operating partners, VAM™ enables us to help our portfolio companies' leadership teams grow and professionalize their lower middle market businesses."
Winston & Strawn provided legal counsel for Argosy VI.
Argosy Private Equity, founded in 1990, specializes in providing capital and operating and financial expertise to lower middle market companies across a broad range of industries. Argosy partners with motivated management teams to invest in companies with sustainable competitive advantages and attractive growth prospects. Argosy Private Equity is a division of Argosy Capital Group, Inc. ("Argosy Capital") together with Argosy Real Estate Partners, Argosy Credit Partners, Argosy Strategic Partners and Argosy Healthcare Partners. Argosy Capital is a Registered Investment Adviser with approximately $2.7 billion of assets under management. All of the Argosy Capital funds focus on lower middle market investment strategies.
For more information on Argosy Private Equity, please visit www.argosype.com.
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$310,605 - this is the new estimated cost to raise a child through their high school years, factoring in today’s inflation rate, according to a new Brookings Institution report.
Jerry Davich, The Times
$310,605 - this is the new estimated cost to raise a child through their high school years, factoring in today’s inflation rate, according to a new Brookings Institution report.
This is the new estimated cost to raise a child through their high school years, factoring in today’s inflation rate, according to a Brookings Institution report.
This estimate includes costs for the daily essentials such as meals, housing, clothing, and health care, as well as for hidden costs that most parents dole out at some point, such as sports equipment, dance lessons, haircuts, and school field trips, among countless other expenses. And let’s not forget diapers, an item that may be purchased someday by children for their parents later in their life. (It’s only fair, right?)
When I was a young father, I relied on government assistance for a couple of years to purchase infant formula, baby food, and early childhood health care for my two children. I simply couldn’t afford those basic necessities. I could barely afford rent money for a crappy, crowded duplex and its monthly utilities. In fact, one day when my father was babysitting my kids at my house while I was working in our family business, NIPSCO shut off our power because I got too behind on my bills.
How embarrassing. Hopefully my kids were too young to remember it.
I’ve struggled financially for most of my life. Having enough money to raise two kids was always a daily challenge. Just after they both left home and began lives as adults and highly successful working professionals (earning much more money than I’ve ever made), I fell in love with a woman who just happened to have two young children.
I felt as if I was jumping back on a spinning merry-go-round that just threw me off a few minutes earlier. I hung on tightly with one hand while pinching my pennies with the other hand. Not a pretty sight.
These days, I’m officially a father of four. And proudly so. But I have no idea how I afforded it. Initially, had no clue how much money it would cost to raise kids.
In the early 1980s, if God approached me in a dark alley in a trench coat and opened it just enough to show me a child to purchase, I’m not sure I would have bought one. Even at sale price.
“How much for just one?” I’d ask God with a skeptical look on my shadowy face.
“$89,720,” He’d reply, looking down both sides of the alley to make sure no one watched.
“Why such a high cost?” I’d ask, rubbing my chin.
“Well, a U.S. Department of Agriculture report from 1980 estimates it would cost nearly $90,000,” He’d reply. “But listen up punk. If you wait until 2022, it’ll run you more than $300,000 per kid.”
“What?” I’d reply with a startled expression. “I’ll take two. No, make it four. I’m no dummy.”
God gave me a wink and disappeared into the night. To this day, I’m still offended he called me a punk.
In the 1960s, parents paid just $25,299 to raise a child, before it was adjusted for inflation. Still, they got a heck of a deal, I say. I often reminded my folks: “Hey, I’m worth at least $25,000.” They often asked for proof. I’m still working on it.
My older brother, Joe, took a different tact with our parents and their financial struggles to raise kids.
“YOU brought me into this world!” Joe would tell my father during one of their many arguments.
“And I can take you out of it!” my dad would reply with a sly smile.
The latest cost to raise a kid is close to a four-decade high, with inflation trends factored in. That’s a lot of money, especially for parents of multiple children. How do they do it? A colleague of mine recently had a baby. My immediate thought was how much they may end up spending to raise their child. Just curious.
Another question I’ve been wondering: What are childless people spending all of their money on? Birth control?
For those parents of kids with (ahem) questionable price tags, the next time your child disappoints you, angers you, or defiantly challenges you, I suggest you take a deep look into their rebellious eyes and quietly ask yourself this question: Are they really worth $310,605?
The answer may be a silent “No,” or possibly an emphatic “Hell no!” But since you’ve invested so much money into them already, you might as well reach into your pocket once again, open your wallet once again, and hand them something worth tens of thousands of dollars — a condom.
No words need to be spoken.
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Public gets glimpse at work of emergency responders at MAAC event
Valparaiso police Sg.t Joe Cowser and a K-9 give a demonstration during the First Responder Appreciation and Demonstration Day on Saturday.
Public gets glimpse at work of emergency responders at MAAC event
Walter Bryant, 5, of Valparaiso, tries out the firefighters hose with MAAC trainee David Brasher-Harding, of Hobart, during the First Responder Appreciation and Demonstration Day on Saturday at the Multi Agency Academic Cooperative taining facility in Valparaiso.
Steel poles are supporting the Bailly Homestead house for now. Once the building is fully restored, the National Park Service plans to seek a private vendor to reuse the building for lodging or another use.
Casey Parker from the College of Business looks on as Arianna Peterson spins the wheel for some Purdue swag at the Purdue Northwest Welcome Rally on Thursday.
Doug Drummond, of Crown Point, waits for the start of the Hometown Heroes Charity Motorcycle Run near Bulldog Park in Crown Point Sunday morning. Over 70 riders participated riding from Crown Point to Hebron and Lowell supporting Crown Point EMA.
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Public gets glimpse at work of emergency responders at MAAC event
Valparaiso police Sg.t Joe Cowser and a K-9 give a demonstration during the First Responder Appreciation and Demonstration Day on Saturday.
Jeffrey D. Nicholls, The Times
Public gets glimpse at work of emergency responders at MAAC event
Walter Bryant, 5, of Valparaiso, tries out the firefighters hose with MAAC trainee David Brasher-Harding, of Hobart, during the First Responder Appreciation and Demonstration Day on Saturday at the Multi Agency Academic Cooperative taining facility in Valparaiso.
Jeffrey D. Nicholls, The Times
Historic Dunes buildings are being restored
Todd Ravesloot, chief of facilities at Indiana Dunes National Park, stands on the front porch of the house at Bailly Homestead.
Doug Ross, The Times
Historic Dunes buildings are being restored
Steel poles are supporting the Bailly Homestead house for now. Once the building is fully restored, the National Park Service plans to seek a private vendor to reuse the building for lodging or another use.
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Valparaiso head coach Bill Marshall watches the Vikings defense against Hammond Central in the second quarter Friday evening.
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Valparaiso’s Sammy Ampeliotis (32) intercepts a pass intended for Hammond Central’s Dashawn Woods (3) in the second quarter Friday evening.
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Hammond Central’s Jordan Woods (1) is caught by Valparaiso’s Tyres Morris (15) in the first quarter Friday evening.
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Crown Point at Andrean football
Crown Point's J.J. Johnson hands the ball to the referee following his touchdown.
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Merrillville at Hobart football
Hobart's Trey Gibson, far left, reaches forward as he's tackled on Friday in Hobart.
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Hobart's Noah Ehrlich, left, aims for open teammate Jaelen Williams on Friday in Hobart.
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Merrillville at Hobart football
Hobart's Nathan Queer reacts after the Brickies recovered a Merrillville fumble on Friday in Hobart.
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Merrillville at Hobart football
Hobart fans rally as Merrillville prepares to receive the kickoff on Friday in Hobart.
Kale Wilk, The Times
Crown Point at Andrean football
Crown Point's Micah Jones and JJ Johnson celebrate Johnson's touchdown.
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Purdue Northwest Welcome Rally
Senior Izzy Gomez poses with school mascot Leo at the Purdue Northwest Welcome Rally Thursday.
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Purdue Northwest Welcome Rally
Casey Parker from the College of Business looks on as Arianna Peterson spins the wheel for some Purdue swag at the Purdue Northwest Welcome Rally on Thursday.
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Groundbreaking for the Silos at Sanders Farm industrial development
Ground has been broken for The Silos at Sanders Farm industrial complex in Merrillville.
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Taking advantage of the weather
With summer winding down, a couple row their kayaks on Cedar Lake Monday afternoon.
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Relaxing on Cedar Lake
Tommy Westbury take a photo of his wife, Jessica, and a carp that she caught at Cedar Lake.
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Doug Drummond, of Crown Point, waits for the start of the Hometown Heroes Charity Motorcycle Run near Bulldog Park in Crown Point Sunday morning. Over 70 riders participated riding from Crown Point to Hebron and Lowell supporting Crown Point EMA.
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Riders head to their motorcycles for the start of the Hometown Heroes Charity Motorcycle Run at Bulldog Park in Crown Point Sunday morning.
Jeffrey D. Nicholls, The Times
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"Kelsie stated she would never leave her children home alone during the daytime while they were awake, however she thought they were asleep, so she left them overnight," police said.
The judge questioned whether the defendant would be able to pay $1,000 a month in restitution for two years. If she misses a payment, she could have her probation revoked and be sent to jail.
The arresting officer said in his incident report he did not immediately arrest the woman because he not see her exposing herself as he did with the man.
Employees at the Dick's Sporting Good store and Schererville police were on alert Saturday, because two thefts had been reported earlier in the day at the company's stores in Valparaiso and Hobart.
$310,605 - this is the new estimated cost to raise a child through their high school years, factoring in today’s inflation rate, according to a new Brookings Institution report.
$310,605 - this is the new estimated cost to raise a child through their high school years, factoring in today’s inflation rate, according to a new Brookings Institution report.
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CDC: 20K people may have been exposed to measles during religious gathering
JESSAMINE COUNTY, Ky. (CNN) - Officials say about 20,000 people may have been exposed to measles last month at a religious gathering in Kentucky.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about the exposure on Friday.
Officials said the event took place at Asbury University in Wilmore on Feb. 17-18.
A week later, the Kentucky Department for Public Health identified a confirmed case of measles in an unvaccinated person.
Those possibly exposed who are unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated were advised to quarantine for 21 days after their last exposure and monitor for symptoms of measles.
According to the CDC, measles is a highly contagious virus that lives in the nose and throat of an infected person. It can spread to others through coughing and sneezing.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday signaled that Democrats have little interest in moving a discharge petition to force a House floor vote on a clean debt limit increase.
He said it’s up to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to bring forward a bill to avoid a national default, noting that Republicans supported increasing the nation’s borrowing authority under former President Trump.
“The most viable option right now is for the extreme MAGA [Make America Great Again] Republicans in the House to get their act together and do what they consistently did when Donald Trump was the president of the United States of America,” he told reporters Thursday at a press conference about how a national default would hurt the U.S. economy.
Jeffries noted that “three times the House raised the debt ceiling” when Trump was president “without fanfare because the consequences of even threatening a default are so significant.”
“Certainly spiraling the country into a default would be devastating,” he said after he and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) presented a report by Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee projecting that a default would cost workers $20,000 in lost retirement savings because of the impact on the economy and likely require new homeowners to pay an extra $55,000 because of higher interest rates.
Asked to clarify that Democrats do not see a discharge petition as a viable option to circumvent McCarthy’s control of the House floor, Jeffries responded: “Right now, the option that is front of us are the extreme MAGA Republicans doing the right thing by the American people.”
The Wall Street Journal reported last month that top House Democrats had shelved, at least for a while, the prospect of collecting signatures from a majority of House members on a discharge petition to for a clean bill to raise the debt ceiling to the House floor for a vote.
Using a discharge petition to circumvent the Speaker is a time-consuming and laborious process as it requires collecting 218 signatures and the measure in question has to sit in committee for at least 30 days.
Furthermore, a discharge motion can only be offered at least seven days after it is entered on the discharge calendar and it must be offered either on the second or fourth Monday of each month.
Schumer told reporters that Democrats are willing to negotiate spending caps with House Republicans but insisted that must be part of a conversation about funding federal programs in 2024 and “should not be part of the debt-ceiling debate.”
“We understand we have to negotiate a budget, as we’ve done in previous years,” he said. “We’re going to have to come together, Democrats and Republicans, and hopefully pass a budget, not a [continuing resolution] but an omnibus. We did it last year.”
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Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy attended a rally in southern New Mexico on Monday for former U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell as the GOP tries to flip a congressional swing seat back to GOP control in 2024.
Herrell lost her 2022 reelection bid to Democratic Congressman Gabe Vasquez in the majority-Hispanic district along the U.S. border with Mexico.
The state’s Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces was the backdrop for Herrell's announcement that she will seek the Republican nomination again, amid supportive appearances by state legislators.
FORMER NM GOV. SUSANA MARTINEZ SAYS BORDER IS ‘WIDE OPEN’: I DON’T CARE WHAT MAYORKAS SAYS
Republicans have nominated Herrell on three previous occasions to seek the 2nd District seat. She lost an open race in 2016 and returned in 2018 to unseat former Congresswoman Xochitl Torres Small.
Republicans are separately challenging the new outline of the 2nd District in proceedings before the New Mexico Supreme Court. Political boundaries were changed under a redistricting plan from Democratic lawmakers that divvied up a politically conservative oilfield region among three congressional districts.
NEW MEXICO RIVERS TO BE STOCKED WITH FEWER RAINBOW TROUT AFTER WHIRLING DISEASE DETECTED AT HATCHERY
Herrell last year embraced a conservative platform of strict border security and unfettered support for the oil industry. The district as recently redrawn stretches from the U.S. border with Mexico across desert oilfields and parts of Albuquerque.
Vasquez won the seat while highlighting his Latino heritage and an upbringing along the border in a working-class, immigrant family. He advocated for solutions to climate change and efforts to ensure access to abortion.
Within weeks of the November 2022 election, Herrell registered to run again with federal campaign finance regulators.
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Pence defends joke about Buttigieg ‘maternity leave’
By HOLLY RAMER
Associated Press
KEENE, N.H. (AP) — The husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Thursday he hasn’t heard from Mike Pence in the days since the former vice president mocked his family, but will continue to hold him accountable for his words.
Chasten Buttigieg was asked on ABC’s “The View” whether Pence contacted him after joking at a dinner for journalists and politicians that Pete Buttigieg took “maternity leave” after he and his husband adopted newborn twins.
“Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets postpartum depression,” Pence said Saturday at the Gridiron Dinner.
Chasten Buttigieg, who said he doesn’t expect to hear from Pence, called the remarks “part of a much bigger trend attacking families.”
“I spoke up because we all have an obligation to hold people accountable for when they say something wrong, especially when it’s misogynistic, especially when it’s homophobic, and I just don’t take that when it’s towards my family, and I don’t think anyone else would, especially when you bring a very small, medically fragile child into it,” he said.
Pence defended his comments Thursday night after speaking at a Republican Party dinner in New Hampshire.
“The Gridiron Dinner is a roast. I had a lot of jokes directed to me, and I directed a lot of jokes to Republicans and Democrats,” he told reporters. “The only thing I can figure is Pete Buttigieg not only can’t do his job, but he can’t take a joke.”
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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Richard Evans makes his way through rows of his students in his third grade classroom, stooping to pick up an errant pencil and answering questions above the din of chairs sliding on hardwood floors.
The desks, once spread apart to fight COVID-19, are back together. Masks cover just a couple of faces. But the pandemic maintains an unmistakable presence.
Look no further than the blue horseshoe-shaped table in the back of the room where Evans calls a handful of students back for extra help in reading — a pivotal subject for third grade — at the end of each day.
Here is where time lost to pandemic shutdowns and quarantines shows itself: in the students who are repeating this grade. In the little fingers slowly sliding beneath words sounded out one syllable at a time. In the teacher’s patient coaching through reading concepts usually mastered in first grade — letter “blends” like “ch” and “sh.”
It is here, too, where Evans jots pluses and minuses and numbers on charts he’s made to track each child’s comprehension and fluency, and circles and underlines words that trip up a student a second or third time.
In a year that is a high-stakes experiment on making up for missed learning, this strategy — assessing individual students’ knowledge and tailoring instruction to them — is among the most widely adopted in American elementary schools. In his classroom of 24 students, each affected differently by the pandemic, Evans faces the urgent challenge of having them all read well enough to succeed in the grades ahead.
Here is how he has tackled it.
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GOING FROM PANDEMIC TO ‘NORMAL’ IS HARD
It is a Thursday in October, early in the school year. Six students surround Evans at the blue table, each staring down at a first-grade-level book about baseball great Willie Mays. Many are struggling.
“What sound does ‘-er’ make?’” Evans asks 9-year-old Ke’Arrah Jessie, who focuses through glasses on the page. She puts “hit” and “ter” together to make “hitter.”
Next to her, a boy takes a turn. He pronounces “high” as “hig.” Evans grabs a pen and jots down “night” and other “igh” words for a sidebar phonics refresher on the letter grouping. Meantime, the rest of the class reads on their own. While some page through below-grade-level readers, others plunge into advanced chapter books.
Most of these students were sent home as kindergartners in March 2020. Many spent all of first grade learning remotely from home full- or part-time. Even after schools reopened full time for second grade, COVID-related obstacles remained: masking and distancing rules that prevented group work, quarantining that sent kids home for a week without warning, and young children by then unaccustomed to — and unhappy about — full weeks of school rules.
Says Evans, who came to teaching at age 40 after a career as a computer graphics designer: “All year long, I had kids ask me, `Why do I have to be in school for five days?’”
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MOVING FROM ‘LEARNING TO READ’ TO ‘READING TO LEARN’
At the beginning of this school year, assessments showed that 15 of Evans’ initial 23 students were reading below grade level. Of those, nine were considered severely behind, lacking basic foundational skills usually learned in first grade. In a typical year, four or five students would be reading at the lowest level, he said.
“I know I have to do something about that. That’s my job,” Evans said, looking back.
There is no time to waste. Third-grade students are under urgent pressure to progress from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.” Studies show those who don’t read fluently by the end of this school year are more likely to drop out or fail to finish high school on time.
Among those starting out behind is Ke’Arrah, who spent more than a year learning remotely early in the pandemic. Her mother, Ashley Martin, could see the toll on her daughter’s drive to learn. So when Ke’Arrah was assigned to a new elementary school for this year, her mother re-enrolled her in third grade.
The pandemic cut first grade short for Ke'Arrah. To keep the family safe, Martin kept Ke’Arrah home in second grade, too, even when she had the option to return to school in person two days a week. She has four children younger than Ke’Arrah, including a son born just three days before COVID-19 shut down schools and businesses in March 2020.
“It was good for me, but not great for her because she’s on a computer,” said Martin, whose employer, a restaurant, temporarily closed.
Ke’Arrah, who likes math and wants to be a police officer, remembers the pull of her nearby toys as she tried to stay focused on her on-screen teacher.
“She was talking about boring stuff,” Ke’Arrah says. Last year's transition back to in-person school was rocky, her mother said. She finished behind in math and reluctant to read.
Midway through her second stint in third grade, Ke’Arrah shows progress. Martin has passed her love of the Junie B. Jones series of books to Ke’Arrah, and the pair read them together at bedtime. Small moments become reading lessons, too.
“She’s on the phone, I’m like: ‘Read that to me. Tell me, what does that say?' We’re out somewhere: ‘Read this to me. What does it say?’” Martin says.
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DOUBLING UP ON KIDS WHO NEED IT MOST
While many students are behind, Evans also referred more candidates than ever — five — for the school’s honors program because of their advanced scores on early assessments.
He pulled aside students who were reading well above grade level as the year began and explained they might not get as much one-on-one time with him, something he had never done before. That has allowed him to double up on the time he could spend helping other students to catch up, working with some groups twice or three times a week. The advanced readers spend that time reading and working together.
The range highlights the varied experiences during the pandemic, where some had more support at home than others.
“Were they read to? Was there someone to support them to do assignments and homework when they were not physically with the certified teacher and having direct instruction?” says Marcia Capone, assessment administrator in the district, which provided devices and internet hotspots to families.
In Niagara Falls, about one in four people live in poverty, and 80% of the district's students are economically disadvantaged, state data shows. Despite swarms of tourists to its namesake falls, the Rust Belt city has been scarred by an exodus of heavy industry and population that began in the 1960s.
Districts like Atlanta have sought to address learning losses by adding time to the school day. Others, like Washington, D.C., have pursued “high-impact” tutoring. Niagara Falls City Schools have doubled down on remedial work and differentiated learning, customizing students’ lessons to keep each student moving forward. The district has used federal pandemic relief money to put 12 reading specialists to work with first graders in its eight elementary schools, Superintendent Mark Laurrie said.
Using assessments to identify students' individual needs is the top strategy American schools are using to help kids catch up from the pandemic, followed closely by remedial instruction, according to a federal survey.
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WITH THIS STUDENT, IT WORKED — FOR A WHILE
Evans invested his own time in one of his neediest students, a boy who is repeating third grade at Evans' urging. He started keeping him after school once a week for an hour of intensive reading intervention.
“He’s like my little experiment,” Evans said after one tutoring session in November. “With intense intervention, can you turn this around?”
The two had just slowly worked through a phonics worksheet that had the student circle words that began with the same letter as pictures. In one problem, “candy,” “open” and “after” followed a picture of an ant. “Open?” guessed the fidgeting student.
Evans had him close his eyes and say the words, thinking about the first sound of each. The trick eventually led him to the correct word, “after.”
In other lessons, the student struggled to identify rhyming words and consonant blends. Each problem revealed another concept not yet mastered.
“Very good!” Evans said after the boy correctly added the missing “rd” to the end of lizard. He responded with a satisfied smile.
In a matter of weeks, the boy went from knowing just 11 sight words — common words like “because” and “about” that students should instantly recognize — to 66 of the 75 on the district’s third grade list.
“I want to be able to read chapter books, and I want to read big old dictionaries!” the boy said after a one-on-one tutoring session that had him working on what sounds letters make when together, like “sp,” and “sn.”
Then, midway through the school year, the child stopped staying after school. Evans said his student lost interest; without a parent’s nudging, there is only so much he can do.
Earlier in the year, the child’s mother had described pandemic remote learning as fraught. The family had internet connection issues, and it was difficult to schedule school sessions around her work as a nursing home aide.
"I have a younger daughter at home and it was just a mess. She’s screaming. It was just a whole thing,” she said by phone.
When the tutoring stopped, she did not respond to follow-up calls or texts.
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SHOWING LEARNERS ‘THERE'S A CONCERN FOR YOU'
Halfway through the school year, a new set of assessments suggests Evans' strategy is, overall, working. He loads results into an Excel spreadsheet which, combined with his own running charts, lets him evaluate growth from September to January and regroup students based on where they need help most.
“Thank God for paper and sticky notes,” Evans says.
What he saw in the charts arrayed in front of him was encouraging. Fifteen of his students had met or exceeded their scoring goals for this round of tests. Several who are receiving targeted help showed the biggest gains.
Ke’Arrah leapfrogged from a bottom level to the upper middle — to the relief of her mother, whose decision to have her daughter repeat third grade appears to be paying off.
“I know it’s going to be embarrassing when she gets older: `Oh, you’re a grade behind,'" Martin said. "But she’s going to have that knowledge.”
Despite the students’ progress, even some who see another big jump by the final assessments in May could finish behind typical third-graders. Evans has arranged for extra services for next year for three of his neediest students, including the boy he was tutoring after hours. But they will be far enough along to move on to fourth grade.
For the first time in his seven years teaching third grade, everyone improved, Evans says. “I don’t know if it’s the programs we’re using or if it’s the fact that everybody is more invested in it right now."
Maybe, he said, having so many students behind has made everyone in the building more invested in catching them up — "making them aware, `You know what? There’s a concern for you.’”
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INDIANAPOLIS — Two local organizations are teaming up in an effort to help homeless people around Indianapolis this winter, and they need your help.
OTG Kennels is selling raffle tickets to raise money to purchase warm sleeping bags and blankets for the homeless. The prize for the raffle winner is an American Bully puppy.
Refuge Place works with groups in the community to assist homeless individuals, among others, by providing essentials like food, clothing, personal hygiene items, and housing. They distribute many products during their Winter Warm-Up events.
If you would like to purchase a raffle ticket, you can do so by visiting OTG Kennels on Instagram. Tickets cost $50, and the winner will be chosen Friday.
Also, if you would like to support the cause another way, you can purchase these TETON Sports sleeping bags online and donate them directly to Refuge Place.
Refuge Place – Gospel Excellence Ministries Outreach
Address: 5601 East 71st Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46220
Find out more about this program on Instagram by clicking here. Learn more about Refuge Place by visiting their website, or by checking them out on Instagram.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
19-22-35-42-45
(nineteen, twenty-two, thirty-five, forty-two, forty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $153,500
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
19-22-35-42-45
(nineteen, twenty-two, thirty-five, forty-two, forty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $153,500
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Congratulations are in order for the good people of Tempe.
They might've cost themselves an NHL team, but that was a small price to pay to hang on to their wallets.
In a rare setback for billionaire owners and their endless scams to get the public to build them new places to play, the Phoenix suburb decisively turned back a $2.3 billion proposal that included a new arena for the Arizona Coyotes.
This one was a stunner for the NHL and the Coyotes, who thought they had worked their flimflam so well that nobody would notice it was nothing more than another egregious example of corporate welfare.
"The voters seem to understand, deep down, that these things are a bad idea," said J.C. Bradbury, an economics professor at Kennesaw State University in suburban Atlanta and vocal critic of publicly funded stadiums and arenas.
"Why are we subsidizing sports teams, no matter how much they claim it's going to spur economic development?" he asked. "It's like an extended warranty. Once you read the fine print, you don't want to do it."
Unfortunately, the owners still have the upper hand in their quest for newer and more profitable sporting venues.
Unlike the situation that played out in Tempe, most have recognized that you can't put these matters before the voters. Too much risk there. Just asked the Coyotes, who were convinced their proposal would pass easily based on internal polling.
It's much better to woo the local politicians, get them on board, rather than allow those whose money is actually being spent from making the call.
Just look what happened in Nashville, where city leaders recently signed off on a boondoggle that hands the Tennessee Titans a new domed stadium with the largest public commitment ever -- a staggering $1.2 billion from local and state coffers.
"Awful. Indefensible," Bradbury describes it. "The worst deal I've ever seen."
Not surprisingly, the voters in Nashville and Tennessee never got a chance to decide if that's how they want to spend all that money.
Their money, it should be noted.
"There's a reason the owners don't like go to the voters. The voters are suspicious," Bradbury said.
Meanwhile, another team is trying desperately to get a huge amount of public funding for a new stadium.
The Oakland Athletics want to move to Las Vegas, and they've already announced one site, and then another, for a $1.5 billion stadium on the famed Strip. They started out asking the public to kick in $500 million. When told that was a no-go, the A's reduced their asking price to $395 million. But there's still resistance to providing that much money, so the deal has yet to be finalized.
No matter what the price tag winds up being, it's sure to be a bad deal for the taxpayers of Las Vegas and Nevada, according to Bradbury.
"Why does this keep happening?" he said. "It's not even a debate. All of these are bad projects that the public shouldn't be involved in whatsoever. Yet they keep passing over and over again. They keep saying this one will be different. But it's the same old song and dance."
The ever-wily owners have figured out another angle to sell their awful stadium and arena deals: build more stuff around the venue.
Some are called mixed-use developments. In Tempe, all the extra bells and whistles were described as an entertainment district. Whatever the name, it's a bad deal for the taxpayers.
The Atlanta Braves established the model for this shakedown when they moved from perfectly functional Turner Field after the 2016 season to a new suburban stadium largely funded with public money.
But more important than the stadium was the hefty chunk of available land next to it. The Braves were allowed to build a development known as The Battery, which is comprised of restaurants, shops, hotels, apartments and office buildings.
Not surprisingly, all that additional revenue from non-baseball sources has made the team's multi-billionaire corporate overlords at Liberty Media a whole lot richer. Now, of course, this is the model that all sports teams are being urged to pursue when they start pushing for a new venue.
Now that Tempe has voted down the proposal for a new hockey arena, the Coyotes are expected to head elsewhere.
They got kicked out of the last arena they scammed off the Phoenix-area public, the one on the other side of town in Glendale, which forced the Coyotes to play this season at a 5,000-seat college hockey arena -- by far the smallest venue in the NHL.
They plan to stay there one more season, but will surely be looking for a new place to call home the following year.
Maybe they'll wind up in suburban Atlanta, playing in a new arena-slash-entertainment district like the one they wanted in Arizona.
Rest assured, there's always another scam to be had.
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(KTLA) – According to the FBI, about $2 billion is lost annually to wire-transfer fraud. Some cases involve newfangled payment apps, such as Zelle, while others rely on traditional fund transfers from bank accounts.
In many cases, scammers are reaching out directly and attempting to gain their victims’ trust, according to experts.
“Unfortunately, it’s being used by a lot of fraudsters who are using social engineering tricks to convince consumers that they work for the bank or they’re there to help them in some regard,” explained Linda Sherry, a director for Consumer Action.
Wire-transfer scams may be even more prevalent during holidays, experts say.
“It’s just very frustrating and very scary,” said Martina Boyeras Carbonell, who told Nexstar’s KTLA that she recently lost nearly $42,000 to a wire-transfer scam involving her bank account.
“I feel violated. All my personal information is out and all my savings are gone.”
Carbonell said she received bogus texts and calls from people claiming to be Chase bank employees. The scammers had done their homework.
“They already had my card numbers, my address, my account number, the name of my company, everything,” said Carbonell.
What the fraudsters apparently lacked was the password for her business account, which Carbonell said she may have unwittingly provided when she checked her online account during the two hours she was kept on the phone.
Sue Solleder, a real estate broker in San Diego County, lost more than $81,000 after hackers gained access to her Chase business account and made repeated attempts to wire money elsewhere.
She said Chase prevented the first 10 attempts from going through, but it green-lighted the next five. Solleder’s funds were whisked away to Delaware and then to Abu Dhabi.
“I just was so shocked,” said Solleder. “I never heard of anybody taking $81,000 from somebody.”
Even worse, after she brought the matter to Chase’s attention, the bank denied her claim for compensation, saying the cash transfers “were authorized” by Solleder.
That’s a key point. Banks exploit a loophole in federal banking rules that frees them from compensating people if they decide the customer “authorized” a transaction by providing information that facilitated the transfer. But Solleder claims that wasn’t the case.
After KTLA reached out to Chase about the theft, the bank said it would fully compensate Solleder for her missing $81,000. A bank spokesperson said it was clear her account had been hacked, even though the bank previously insisted she was partly to blame.
In Carbonell’s case, Chase at first insisted she wouldn’t be compensated either, because she provided information to the con artists. But when they were notified that she was tricked into doing so, Chase reversed course and said Carbonell would be paid back as well.
It’s important, then, that consumers know how to best protect themselves from scammers by following three key rules: Never rush into a wire transfer or other unexpected transaction; call the bank yourself and confirm if there’s an issue with your account; and have the bank verify that you didn’t authorize any transactions if you’ve been victimized.
Consumer advocates, meanwhile, say they would like banks to do a better job of spotting and preventing suspicious wire transfers.
“Their system is weak,” Carbonell said. “Hackers are able to get into personal accounts, business accounts, and on top of that they blame the customer.”
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PHOENIX (AP) — Skylar Diggins-Smith had 17 points and seven assists, Sophie Cunningham added 14 points and the Phoenix Mercury beat the Indiana Fever 99-78 on Wednesday night.
Phoenix (9-12) beat Indiana for a seventh straight time, including an 83-71 victory on Monday.
Shey Peddy and Diamond DeShields each added 13 points for Phoenix, which has won three straight games. Brianna Turner had 11 points and 11 rebounds and Diana Taurasi also scored 11. The Mercury had a season-high 29 assists on 38 made field goals.
Phoenix built a 49-43 lead by halftime behind 28 combined points from Diggins-Smith, Cunningham and Peddy.
Kelsey Mitchell scored 14 of her 21 points in the first half for Indiana (5-16). Victoria Vivians added 13 points.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When John Podesta left his job as an adviser to President Barack Obama nearly a decade ago, he was confident that hundreds of miles of new power transmission lines were coming to the Southwest, expanding the reach of clean energy throughout the region.
So Podesta was shocked to learn last year, as he reentered the federal government to work on climate issues for President Joe Biden, that the lines had never been built. They still hadn’t even received final regulatory approval.
“These things get stuck and they don’t get unstuck,” Podesta said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Podesta is now the point person for untangling one of Biden’s most vexing challenges as he pursues ambitious reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. If the president cannot streamline the permitting process for power plants, transmission lines and other projects, the country is unlikely to have the infrastructure needed for a future powered by carbon-free electricity.
The issue has become an unlikely feature of high-stakes budget talks underway between the White House and House Republicans as they try to avoid a first-ever default on the country’s debt by the end of the month.
Whether a deal on permitting can be reached in time is unclear, with Republicans looking for ways to boost oil drilling and Democrats focused on clean energy. But its mere presence on the negotiating table is a sign of how political battle lines are shifting. Although American industry and labor unions have long chafed at these kinds of regulations, some environmentalists have now grown exasperated by red tape as well.
That represents a stark change for a movement that has been more dedicated to slowing development than championing it, and it has caused unease among longtime allies even as it creates the potential for new partnerships. Still, this transformation is core to Biden’s vision of hard-hat environmentalism, which promises that shifting away from fossil fuels will generate blue-collar jobs.
“We have to start building things again in America,” Podesta said. “We got too good at stopping things, and not good enough at building things.”
What gets built, of course, is the question that’s the central hurdle for any agreement.
The issue of permitting emerged last year during negotiations with Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat who was a key vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, far-reaching legislation that includes financial incentives for clean energy.
Manchin pushed a separate proposal that would make it easier to build infrastructure for renewable energy and fossil fuels. His focus has been the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would carry natural gas through his home state.
Republicans called the legislation a “political payoff.” Liberal Democrats described it as a “dirty side deal.” Manchin’s idea stalled.
Nonetheless, Elizabeth Gore, senior vice president for political affairs at the Environmental Defense Fund, said the senator “gets a lot of credit for really elevating this.”
“It was his effort that really put this issue on the map,” she said.
Since then, the Capitol has been awash in proposals to alleviate permitting bottlenecks. House Republicans passed their own as part of budget legislation last month, aiming to increase production of oil, natural gas and coal. Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., recently introduced another proposal geared toward clean energy.
“I think there is a path forward,” Gore said, describing all the ideas “as stepping stones.”
Neil Bradley, executive vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was also optimistic.
“The hurdle isn’t whether people think it’s a good idea or not,” he said. “The hurdle is getting the details worked out.”
Despite broad interest in permitting changes, reaching a deal will likely involve trade-offs that are difficult for Democrats and environmentalists to stomach.
Republicans want to see more fossil fuels and, now that they control the House, no proposal will advance without their consent. But too many concessions to Republicans in the House could jeopardize support in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Biden has frustrated environmentalists by approving Willow, an oil drilling project in an untouched swath of Alaskan wilderness. After Podesta finished a speech on permitting at a Washington think tank this month, activists rushed to block his vehicle with a white banner that said “end fossil fuels” in bold black letters.
Podesta argues that it’s impossible to immediately phase out oil and gas, and he said the status quo won’t suffice when it comes to building clean energy infrastructure. He points to federal data analyzed by the Brookings Institution that found permitting transmission lines can take seven years, while natural gas pipelines take less than half that time.
He was circumspect when asked about where the negotiations may lead.
“There is bipartisan interest in the topic,” Podesta said. “Where any of that ends, I can’t predict.”
A deal could bolster Biden’s political coalition by easing tension between between environmentalists and labor unions, which have often been frustrated by objections to projects that would lead to jobs.
“They’ve unnecessarily taken food off the table of my members,” said Sean McGarvey, president of the North America’s Building Trades Unions.
The relationship with environmentalists “could turn into an alliance depending on how this process ends,” he said, but “we’ve got to do some good business to see if we’re inviting each other for barbecues and crab picks.”
Other factions of the green movement have already expressed frustration.
Brett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity, said the administration made a mistake by allowing Manchin’s proposal to be a starting point. The White House, he said, “negotiated away the game at the beginning and put the football on the 2-yard line.”
He also criticized Podesta’s approach to permitting.
“He’s dogmatically saying that environmentalists are the problem here,” he said. “It’s easy to caricature environmental legislation as the boogeyman.”
Historians trace the American regulatory system to a backlash against massive infrastructure initiatives in the middle of the 20th century, such as the interstate highway system and a series of dams. The projects raised concerns about environmental impacts and left local communities feeling steamrolled. More fears about ecological damage were sparked by an oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, and fires on the polluted Cuyahoga River in Ohio.
The result was the National Environmental Policy Act, signed by President Richard Nixon in 1970 to require federal agencies to consider the environmental ramifications of their decisions. State-level laws, such as the California Environmental Quality Act, proliferated at the same time.
“We have a system that works for what it was designed to do,” said Christy Goldfuss, chief policy impact officer at the Natural Resource Defense Council. “What we’re looking at doing is optimizing that system for the future we need. And that’s a fundamentally different conversation than anything we’ve had before.”
“It’s an incredibly difficult shift to make for the environmental movement,” she added. “And I don’t think everybody is going to make it. Some organizations are going to continue to stand in the way of development.”
And what about that transmission lines in the Southwest that Podesta was counting on?
The goal is to span about 520 miles, carrying electricity from a series of turbines in New Mexico that’s being billed as the largest wind project in the hemisphere. The lines were rerouted to satisfy the Department of Defense, which tests weapons in the area, but local conservationists still say that natural habitats will be threatened by construction.
On Thursday, nearly two decades after the initial proposal, the federal government announced it had approved the project.
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(WFLA) — U.S. officials are reporting two more deaths and additional cases of vision loss linked to eyedrops tainted with a drug-resistant bacteria.
The outbreak has infected 68 people in 16 states, according to the latest update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The bacteria has now caused a total of three deaths and eight cases of people losing their vision, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Tuesday. That’s up from one death and five cases of permanent vision loss reported last month.
The CDC said four people have undergone surgery to remove an eyeball due to the infections.
The CDC said it is investigating the outbreak of an extensively drug-resistant strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Health officials said the stain, called VIM-GES-CRPA, had never been reported in the United States prior to the outbreak.
“Most patients reported using artificial tears,” the CDC said. “Patients reported over 10 different brands of artificial tears and some patients used multiple brands. EzriCare Artificial Tears, a preservative-free, over-the-counter product packaged in multidose bottles, was the brand most commonly reported.”
Eyedrops from EzriCare and Delsam Phama were recalled in February and health authorities are continuing to track infections as they investigate the outbreak.
The CDC said it is still testing unopened bottles to see if they were contaminated during manufacturing.
The CDC and the Food and Drug Administration recommend clinicians and patients stop using EzriCare or Delsam Pharma’s artificial tears products.
According to health officials, those who have used EzriCare or Delsam Pharma’s artificial tears and have signs or symptoms of an eye infection should seek medical care immediately.
According to the CDC, eye infection symptoms may include:
- Yellow, green, or clear discharge from the eye
- Eye pain or discomfort
- Redness of the eye or eyelid
- Feeling of something in your eye (foreign body sensation)
- Increased sensitivity to light
- Blurry vision
“At this time, there is no recommendation for testing of patients who have used this product and who are not experiencing any signs or symptoms of infection,” the CDC said.
The recalled drops were manufactured by Global Pharma Healthcare in India, where the bacteria — Pseudomonas aeruginosa — is commonly linked to outbreaks in hospitals. It can spread through contaminated hands or medical equipment.
The FDA recently posted recall notices for two other types of eye drops from Pharmedica and Apotex for non-sterility concerns. The drops have not been linked to the VIM-GES-CRPA outbreak.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — He twice voted in favor of convicting former President Donald Trump in impeachment trials. He excoriated his fellow senators who objected to certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. He even scolded New York Rep. George Santos for his audacity in grabbing a prominent seat at the State of the Union speech after admitting to fabricating much of his biography.
After four years in Washington, Republican Mitt Romney has established himself as a rare senator willing to publicly rebuke members of his own party.
But the Utah senator’s outspoken stances, along with his willingness to work with Democrats, have angered some Republicans in the deep-red state he represents and led them to cast about for someone to try to dethrone him a primary race next year.
The 75-year-old said he hasn’t made a decision on whether to run for reelection in 2024 and doesn’t expect to until the start of summer.
“I’m sort of keeping my mind open,” Romney said in an interview. “There’s no particular hurry. I’m doing what I would do if I’m running with staffing and resources, so it’s not like I have to make a formal announcement.”
His decision about whether to run again comes as Trump is making his third campaign for the White House, presenting Romney an opportunity to continue to serve as a chief foil to the former president.
But that could also sustain the backlash Romney has faced for serving as a check on Trump, including being heckled at the airport, narrowly avoiding censure by the state GOP and becoming an insult that other Republicans use to slam their rivals as suspect: “A Mitt Romney Republican.”
Romney has earned a reputation for bipartisanship, from his role helping broker a sweeping 2021 infrastructure law with Democrats to his being one of only three Republicans to vote to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as a Supreme Court justice. He helped negotiate legislation to protect same-sex marriages in December by demanding language ensuring that the rights of religious institutions would not be affected. And he joined 14 other Republican senators in supporting a sweeping gun control measure last summer in the wake of mass shootings.
“I didn’t come to the Senate to just fight and lose,” Romney said. “I came to actually fight and win. And I fell in with a group of Republicans and some Democrats who felt the same way and wanted to work together on issues of significance for the country and for our respective states.”
But what garnered Romney heavy booing two years ago and a near censure from the Utah GOP was his vote in 2020 that made him the first senator in U.S. history to vote to convict a president of his own party in an impeachment trial. Romney voted to convict Trump on House charges that he had abused his power by urging the president of Ukraine to investigate then-candidate Biden. He voted to acquit on a separate charge that Trump had obstructed the impeachment investigation.
Romney did it again in the weeks after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, becoming one of seven Republicans to vote to convict Trump of incitement of insurrection.
Stan Lockhart, a former chair of the Utah Republican Party, said that while Romney’s votes in the impeachment trials drew a “huge negative outpouring,” he thinks that, nearly two years later, some of the support for Trump has softened and the hostility has “mellowed.”
Romney said he doesn’t have a measure of whether the backlash has eased, but said he was following an oath he took “to apply impartial justice.”
“People elect you and then you follow your conscience,” he said. “It would be sad if people who got elected to office tried to calculate their decisions based upon how popular it was at home. They have to do what they feel is absolutely right and then live with the consequences of that.”
No GOP challenger has stepped forward to run against Romney, but several prominent Utah Republicans are seen as potential candidates and at least on major conservative group is looking at spending in the race.
The anti-tax group Club For Growth, which used the phrase “Mitt Romney Republican” in attack ads in 2022, said the Utah Senate race is one where its political super PAC could likely get involved, throwing heft behind a conservative challenger.
“Even if he stays, I think there’s a desire among conservatives to have a real choice in Utah,” said Club For Growth President David McIntosh. “If somebody steps forward and is a credible candidate, we would definitely take a look at that.”
Former U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who gained the national spotlight leading the House Oversight committee through aggressive investigations of Hillary Clinton, said he is considering a campaign.
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, a Republican and staunch Trump ally, is among those seen as potential challenger. Reyes’ longtime political consultant Alan Crooks told the AP last year that Reyes was getting pressure to run and was well-positioned but wouldn’t say if he would launch a campaign.
The Western state allows candidates to secure a spot on the primary election ballot by collecting voter signatures — something a well-funded or popular candidate can generally do with ease — or by winning the support of 4,000 conservative leaning delegates at the state GOP party convention.
Romney is unlikely to win the support of delegates — he didn’t in 2018 — and the impeachment votes made it worse.
“Trump is still very popular among the base,” Utah GOP Chair Carson Jorgensen said. “Many Republicans felt it was a waste of time and taxpayer dollars to vote for impeachment.”
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After a difficult and costly rebuild of Interstate 4 from south Orlando to north of Altamonte Springs, the road is plagued with some of the nation’s worst traffic dysfunction along its tourism corridor.
Backups are status quo in the western nub of Osceola County where the tolled State Road 429 meets I-4 and at the interchange with U.S. Highway 27 in northeast Polk County.
Stop and go has a relentless grip on I-4 where it passes Walt Disney World in south Orange County.
Where the tolled State Road 528, or Beachline, T-bones into I-4 brings more grinding waste of time and fuel for commuters, tourists, service workers and cargo haulers.
It happens daily, without a trigger such as an accident and lingers stubbornly after rush-hour headaches have dissipated on the region’s other major roads.
It’s a mess that the state transportation department, according to recent comments in Central Florida, will address in coming months with its fullest presentation yet on major remedies ahead.
“It’s a very large, massive project that is very needed,” said Catalina Chacon, a DOT supervisor for I-4.
Local leaders say they have no details about what may be disclosed by the state agency.
National ranking
But I-4′s deterioration has data points that were examined by the global traffic analytics and consulting company, INRIX. Its findings underscore what drivers suffer.
A dozen I-4 miles, extending from the Beachline to S.R. 429, hosts the worst congestion in all of Florida, according to INRIX’s study last year of 684 highway corridors in the U.S.
That stretch also stands, according to the company’s 2021 Traffic Scorecard, as the nation’s third worst.
I-4 has graduated into a notorious class, ranking just behind New York City’s Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and, in the top spot, Los Angeles’ Interstate 5, and beating out the toughest commutes in Dallas, Chicago, Seattle, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.
I-4 is Central Florida’s busiest road, with an average of 100,000 to 200,000 vehicles daily depending on location, and a pillar of the region’s economy.
“It’s significantly more congested than it was pre-COVID,” said INRIX’s Bob Pishue of the 12-mile segment. Before the pandemic, traffic started to get bad by early afternoon, but now the sluggishness takes hold by noon. “There’s a longer congestion time,” he said.
By afternoon rush, the stretch between between S.R. 429 and Beachline is continuously and solidly slammed.
COVID factor
I-4′s rank of third on the INRIX national list may be linked to the pandemic. Florida rushed back to business as usual last year, putting vehicles back on roads sooner than many other states, Pishue said.
Florida’s quicker rebound to ugly traffic appears at play in another Central Florida road making INRIX’s list for worst congestion. In seventh place is the 3 miles along U.S. Highway 17, or John Young Parkway, from U.S. Highway 192, or Vine Street, through Kissimmee to Oaks Boulevard.
Fast-growing north Osceola County has dug a massive transportation hole by not keeping up with highway capacity.
Ranked eighth is a section of Interstate 95 in Miami-Dade County.
I-4 and U.S. 17 may slide down INRIX rankings when its 2022 report comes out late this year, Pishue said, depending on whether traffic in other states returns to levels of before the pandemic.
Even if that’s the case, the staggering rise and growth of subdivisions in the four corners area, where Lake, Orange, Osceola and Polk meet, will degrade I-4 traffic further, transportation officials have noted.
Critical corridor
I-4s fate and potential recovery rest in the hands of the Florida Department of Transportation.
“This is a critical corridor for you guys as well as for us,” said Chacon, DOT’s I-4 supervisor, speaking recently in one of many presentations to Central Florida officials. “We are doing as much as we can to advance it and get the funding to move forward to construction.”
But in the same presentations, DOT project manager Hatem Aquib said the large sums needed for I-4 upgrades have been unattainable.
“Some of these segments are hundreds of millions of dollars each,” Aquib said, while others “are over a billion dollars.”
Despite calls for dramatically scaling up public transportation, the state doubled down on I-4 as Central Florida’s transportation mainstay a decade ago.
Florida’s transportation department assembled financing and agreements that ceded significant responsibility to corporate interests for a “public-private partnership.”
In 2015, DOT and its contractors began construction in a project called I-4 Ultimate, which overhauled and added four toll lanes to 21 miles from west of Kirkman Road in Orange, through the heart of Orlando and to east of State Road 434 in Seminole County.
It was billed as amounting to 10 very large projects worth about $200 million each tackled simultaneously as the state’s priciest road job ever.
Most finished this year, I-4 Ultimate provided modern and generous interchanges, ramps and other roadway that have significantly eased traffic flows. But construction proved to be a slog at $100 million over its budgeted $2.3 billion, a year behind schedule, with a stunning five workers killed on the job and lawsuits among participants.
After that massive endeavor, the state has pivoted to a far less aggressive piecemeal approach for I-4.
Beyond ultimate
Long before I-4 Ultimate’s completion, DOT launched a vaguely funded program called I-4 Beyond the Ultimate. It would fix congestion outside the I-4 Ultimate footprint: along 20 miles to the north in Seminole and Volusia counties and 20 miles to the south, a stretch that includes INRIX third-worst corridor.
Beyond the Ultimate’s projects so far have been tiny compared to I-4 Ultimate and some work has been temporary. But newly available federal money recently has upped ambitions.
Chacon and Aquib have made several appearances in recent weeks before committees of the MetroPlan Orlando, which, like dozens of other such agencies in Florida, coordinates with local and state governments to craft comprehensive, long range transportation strategies.
They reported that several projects are gaining traction for construction starts within a year and completion within several years, with federal stimulus funding from the American Rescue Plan Act playing a critical role.
They include remakes of interchanges with Sand Lake Road and with Apopka Vineland Road. Embedded in those projects is another undertaking, building a single toll lane westbound from the International Drive area to Walt Disney World area.
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Chacon and Aquib said their agency is taking care to account for a proposed rail corridor for the local SunRail commuter train and the private Brightline Trains.
A prevailing goal in Central Florida is to build a shared rail corridor from Orlando International Airport to the Disney and south International Drive area. Additional corridor would be built from there to Tampa for Brightline’s service.
“Right now there is conversation about where rail is going to go along I-4,” Chacon said. “Is it in the median, is it on the east side, I don’t know.”
For now, funding prospects for the rail corridor along Interstate 4, including from federal infrastructure sources, appear more imminent and concrete than any that DOT has articulated for the clogged interstate.
That may change in a matter of months, according to Chacon’s repeated promises to MetroPlan groups.
“We feel very confident that by the end of this year or early next year, we will come back, give you an update on the overall, bigger picture, telling you what we are working on and what potential steps could move forward with the I-4 Beyond the Ultimate,” Chacon said.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — In a 10-year political career, Israel’s Yair Lapid has transformed himself from an upstart political novice to a feisty opposition leader to the savvy operator who toppled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Next week, he is expected to assume his biggest role yet — as the new prime minister.
Following the government’s decision to dissolve parliament, Lapid, now foreign minister, is set to take office as caretaker prime minister until elections in the fall. It will be a critical test for Lapid, 58, who will try to convince Israelis he is worthy of the top office as he takes on a resurgent Netanyahu.
“A year ago, we started the process of rebuilding, and now: we’re carrying it on, and carrying it on together,” Lapid declared late Monday as he stood alongside his main coalition partner, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
Officially, the two men were announcing the end of their year-old government — an alliance of eight diverse parties that was severely weakened by months of infighting and rebellion. But in many ways, Lapid sounded like he was beginning his next campaign.
“Even if we are going to elections in a few months, the challenges we face will not wait,” he said, pointing to Israel’s high cost of living and security challenges in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.
In a swipe at Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption charges, he vowed to “stand against the forces threatening to turn Israel into a nondemocratic country.” Netanyahu, believing he is the victim of a political witch hunt, has made clear he intends to take on the country’s legal and law-enforcement establishment if he returns to power.
A former author, columnist, news anchor, bank pitchman and amateur boxer, Lapid left a successful career as a media personality to enter politics in 2012 as head of a new centrist party popular with middle-class Israelis.
He promised economic relief, an end to controversial draft exemptions for seminary students and a more moderate approach to the Palestinians.
Unlike the right-wing parties that dominate Israel’s political system, Lapid favors peace talks leading to an eventual two-state solution with the Palestinians, although it’s unclear if he will ever have the kind of mandate needed to engage in such a process.
In 2013, he led his new Yesh Atid party to a surprisingly strong showing in parliamentary elections. Yesh Atid finished as the second-largest party, with 19 seats in the 120-member parliament.
Lapid became finance minister, a difficult and often thankless task. While marking some successes, his key promises of lowering the cost of living and bringing down housing prices failed to materialize. Netanyahu eventually fired him for insubordination.
Yesh Atid dropped to 11 seats in the 2015 elections. Lapid found himself in the opposition and appeared to be on the way to becoming the latest in a long line of centrist politicians to flame out after early success.
But Lapid managed to reinvent himself. He formed an alliance with former military chief Benny Gantz that came close to toppling Likud in three consecutive elections.
Those elections, focused on Netanyahu’s divisive personality and fitness to rule, all ended inconclusively. Moving to end the deadlock, Gantz briefly joined forces with Netanyahu in 2020 — leaving Lapid as opposition leader and a vocal government critic.
When the country went back to the polls in early 2021, Yesh Atid once again surged and emerged as the second-largest party in parliament. In a stroke of creative diplomacy and political savvy, Lapid cobbled together a new coalition that pushed Netanyahu into the opposition for the first time in 12 years.
Although Lapid was the mastermind of the alliance, he cemented the deal by agreeing to rotate the job of prime minister with Bennett — a move that was seen by many as selfless and statesmanlike. Lapid took on the post of foreign minister.
The coalition members spanned the Israeli political spectrum, with little binding them together beyond opposition to Netanyahu. The government made history by being the first to include an Arab party.
The coalition got off to a strong start — passing the first national budget in several years, navigating a pair of coronavirus waves and improving relations with the U.S. and Arab allies.
Ultimately, ideological differences caused it to unravel. Parliament is expected to dissolve itself in a series of votes over the coming days. Once that happens, Lapid takes over as caretaker prime minister until elections in October or November.
The coming months present great risk — and great opportunity. Once again, Netanyahu’s Likud party appears to be the front-runner. And once again, Netanyahu’s leadership style and legal woes are likely to be high on voters’ minds.
While Lapid is sure to face relentless attacks from Netanyahu, who has tried to portray him as a lightweight who betrayed Israel’s security by allying with an Arab faction, he will do so from the perch of the prime minister’s office.
After serving as foreign minister for the past year, he will have even more opportunities to strengthen his international standing. He is set to host President Joe Biden on a visit next month and will have the opportunity to speak at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
Lapid spoke to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday to prepare for Biden’s visit, the Foreign Ministry said.
“The visit will have significant implications for the region and the fight against Iran, as well as immense potential to significantly improve regional stability and security,” it said.
As caretaker prime minister, he is unlikely to launch any major military operations or bold peace initiatives with the Palestinians. If Lapid can keep things quiet and avoid controversy, he could be well-positioned for the next election.
“Lapid has to work now at looking prime ministerial,” wrote Anshel Pfeffer, a columnist at the Haaretz daily. “His new post, from next week on, as interim prime minister is his greatest asset going into the election.”
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Emily Ratajkowski is making the case for casual dating.
The model, who was recently linked to artist Jack Greer and Pete Davidson, was spotted having a night out with comedian Eric Andre in New York City on Jan. 7.
For the date night, in which the pair were photographed walking around the city, Emily looked stylish in a long black leather trench coat over a midi dress and on-trend black sneakers. As for the Man Seeking Woman actor, he sported a black coat with a green floral patterned shirt, khaki pants, and white Adidas sneakers.
Eric and the My Body author's night out comes a few weeks after Emily—who filed for divorce from ex Sebastian Bear-McClard in September after four years of marriage—was photographed sharing a smooch with Jack.
Prior to that, Emily was spotted out with was reported to have been dating Pete, including courtside at New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden in November.
However, a source close to Emily previously told E! News that same month that while they had "gone on a few dates" and "have flirtatious chemistry," they were keeping things casual.
"She's not exclusively dating anyone and is having fun," the insider noted in November. "Emily is in her 'single girl era' and wants to see what's out there."
Since her split, Emily has made it clear that she's not settling for less than she deserves, admitting on her podcast that she feels as though she attracts "the worst men."
"Sometimes I'm like, 'F--k.' Because I want a confident man," she explained on a Jan. 2 episode of High Low with EmRata podcast. "I don't want an overly confident man who has something to prove and is trying to prove it through me."
Emily continued, "What I hate with dating, with men in particular, is I feel like they're like, 'OK, yes, you're special. You've done it. And they love it and love it, and then slowly, they get emasculated and they don't know what to do with those feelings, and then they resent you. And then they start to tear you down, and then you're back to square one."
The 31-year-old explained that that was the reason why she was so critical in who she dates.
"And it's so f--ked up and unfair," she added, "because I feel like a lot of men who truly think they want a strong woman actually don't know how to handle it and they don't know what it means for their own identity."
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DOE awards a total of $75 million in grants to Smartville and nine other companies to advance projects that support battery reuse, recycling and upcycling efforts across the country
SAN DIEGO, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Smartville, a leading developer of reliable second-life energy storage systems, was awarded $5.9 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to breathe new life into batteries from retired electric vehicles (EV) via its MOAB™ energy storage systems. The grant, part of a $75-million funding package through President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, awards a total of 10 projects that advance technologies and processes supporting EV battery recycling and reuse efforts across the country.
Smartville will apply the funds to accelerate the commercialization of its large-scale, second-life energy storage system that uses repurposed EV batteries. First, the funding will help with Smartville's plans to have MOAB become a UL certified second-life EV battery pack energy storage system. Second, it will fund a large 4 MWh demonstration project in central California co-located with an existing power plant operated by a California independent power producer in an underserved disadvantaged community.
"Our second-life energy storage product repurposes EV batteries to reliably store power from solar and wind," said Antoni Tong, Smartville's CEO. "The outcome is that the system can sustainably power our communities, lessening our dependence on external energy sources."
In the last 10 years, more than 1.8 million Nissan Leafs and Teslas alone have been sold in the U.S. and sales for all EVs are expected to rise dramatically by 2035. The number of second-life EV batteries will continue to grow quickly, turning waste management challenges into sustainable energy opportunities. Most batteries retired from EVs retain 70 percent of their storage capacity, making them ideal candidates for stationary storage. Smartville's proprietary suite of software, hardware and diagnostics provides guaranteed performance from repurposed EV batteries for stationary storage serving enterprise and utility customers.
About Smartville Inc.
Smartville's mission is to be the world's most sustainable, scalable, and reliable EV battery repurposing platform, and to revolutionize energy storage on a global scale, one battery pack, one-kilowatt hour, at a time. For more information about Smartville, please visit www.smartville.io or follow the company on LinkedIn.
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The TSA says peanut butter is a liquid because its shape is dictated by its container. To pass through security, peanut butter in a carry-on needs to be 3.4 oz. or less.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif., July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Heffernan Insurance Brokers, one of the largest full-service, independent insurance brokerage firms in the United States announced a partnership with TrustLayer, to allow customers to access TrustLayer's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered collaborative risk management platform.
TrustLayer will enable faster and more efficient proof of insurance verification and help Heffernan customers better manage their risk by using its innovative digital solution. Virtually every business struggles with insurance verification. For those who do it well, the administrative burden is high — with manual processes and millions of static documents changing hands across the U.S. Unfortunately, for those who don't manage these processes well, the risk is astronomical, with studies showing that 75 percent of vendors are underinsured. TrustLayer uses robotic process automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence to automate this process securely, so companies can automatically verify the insurance and licenses of their vendors, suppliers, borrowers, and tenants. Further TrustLayer is building connectivity to systems of record to allow for truly validating whether coverage is in force.
"Our focus at TrustLayer is to help relieve risk management pain points and reduce friction for businesses across the entire economy. This partnership with Heffernan Insurance Brokers will help reduce risk and create a more efficient verification process for them and their customers," said John Fohr, co-founder and CEO of TrustLayer. "Modern risk managers are pushing the industry forward with their innovative spirit. These are the forward-leaning professionals that we're building TrustLayer for. The Heffernan team certainly embodies that belief and I look forward to working with them as we drive innovation across the insurance industry and improve the risk transaction experience for all involved."
"We are very excited to be joining forces with TrustLayer" shares Zachary Medellin, Heffernan's AVP of Compliance Management. "Together, we are ushering in a new era of risk mitigation and insurance compliance management for our clients. This innovative collaboration, of TrustLayer's award winning SaaS and Heffernan's insurance expertise, will allow us to effectively and efficiently track the insurance compliance of our client's business partners to ensure all necessary standards are met. Our goal is to empower our clients with the freedom to invest their assets and time into what they do best while allowing us to safeguard their operations. We look forward to further supporting our clients with another strong risk transfer tool."
About Heffernan Insurance Brokers
Heffernan Insurance Brokers, formed in 1988, is one of the largest independent insurance brokerage firms in the United States. Heffernan provides insurance and financial services products to a range of businesses and individuals. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., Heffernan has offices in San Francisco, Petaluma, Menlo Park, Truckee, Bakersfield, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles and Irvine, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Portland, OR; Seattle and Olympia, WA; St. Louis, MO; and London UK.
Employee-owned, Heffernan Insurance Brokers was named the Top Mid-Sized Broker in the United States to work for in 2009 by Business Insurance Magazine. The firm has been among the Top Greater Bay Area Philanthropists since 2003.
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About TrustLayer
TrustLayer is an AI-powered collaborative risk management platform working to digitize the highly manual, error-prone, and paper-based process of insurance verification. With TrustLayer, companies can securely automate the verification of insurance, licenses, and compliance documents of their business partners (i.e., vendors, subcontractors, suppliers, borrowers, tenants, ridesharing, and franchisees) in an easy-to-use digital dashboard. TrustLayer is working with dozens of the largest brokers and carriers in the U.S. to build out a fully digital proof of insurance solution so companies will be able to validate in real-time that their business partners have the correct coverage. The company is backed by leading investors, including Craft Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Box Group, Propel Ventures, Sure Ventures and PruVen Capital, and has also received investments from more than 20 of the top 100 insurance brokers. To learn more, visit trustlayer.io, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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ATLANTA — The polls closed in Georgia in all but a few precincts at 7 p.m. on Election Night, and now election observers are watching as results flow in for races such as governor, U.S. Senate and more.
The closely-watched Peach State is waiting to see if incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp or Democrat Stacey Abrams will lead the state for the next four years. If no candidate reaches the 50% + 1 vote threshold, a runoff would be held in a month's time.
Below, find a full county by county map outlining how each jurisdiction in Georgia is making its choice in the 2022 election for governor:
Georgia governor election results county by county map
(Editor's note: This map is compiled and updated by The Associated Press)
It's important to remember that the results, as they update, do not reflect the final outcome. Because of how elections are administered and votes are counted, full results may not be available on Election Night and may not paint a clear picture until a day or more later.
If the race does go to a runoff, the voting for that would be held on Dec. 6.
11Alive is committed to helping you vote confidently by understanding the 2022 election issues that impact you. Our goal is to educate and inform our audience about the election process. We plan to do that by verifying facts, providing context, and explaining the system.
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MADRID (AP) — The Spanish league filed another complaint to authorities on Thursday following racial insults aimed at Real Madrid forward Vinícius Júnior.
It was the seventh official complaint made by the league for insults against the Brazilian player, who is Black. The latest complaint came after someone called him a monkey during Madrid’s 0-0 draw at Real Betis on Sunday.
The complaint was made to a court in Seville to try to identify the person and take the appropriate legal measures against the individual. Betis is based in Seville.
Vinícius has been subjected to racist insults since he came to play in Spain five years ago, though very little has been done to punish fans.
Some of the league’s complaints have already been shelved by Spanish prosecutors.
Last month, Spain’s anti-violence commission proposed a fine of 4,000 euros ($4,200) and a 12-month ban from stadiums for a fan who called Vinícius a monkey in a league match against Mallorca.
Valladolid recently suspended 12 season ticket holders while investigating their alleged verbal abuse of Vinícius.
The first trial against a fan who racially insulted a player in Spain is expected to begin this year following remarks by an Espanyol supporter against Athletic Bilbao forward Iñaki Williams a few years ago.
Also, authorities have yet to find those responsible for hanging Vinícius’ effigy from a bridge in Madrid before the derby against Atletico Madrid last month.
The league has increased the number of overseers at matches to try to identify perpetrators of insults against players, especially when Vinícius plays.
In order to speed up the identification process, the league has set up a complaints channel through its website for fans who may have images or any information about the perpetrators.
The attacks against Vinícius increased after he began celebrating his goals by dancing. Some players have accused him of provoking them and opposing fans during games.
Betis forward Aitor Ruibal said after Sunday’s match against Madrid that “it was normal” for fans to insult Vinícius and for opposing players to try to foul him hard because of the way he plays. The Betis player received a lot of backlash for his comments and later said his words were taken out of context.
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Cascade at Highland Park opens for sales this weekend!
FONTANA, Calif., Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Richmond American Homes of California, a subsidiary of M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MDC), is pleased to announce the debut of a new neighborhood in the popular Highland Park masterplan in Fontana. Cascade at Highland Park offers an inspired array of two-story floor plans with the designer details today's homebuyers are seeking.
Opening for sales this weekend
Prospective homebuyers and area agents who would like to learn more about Cascade at Highland Park are encouraged to stop by Richmond American's temporary sales center on Saturday, December 3, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The community will open for sales at that time.
About Cascade at Highland Park (RichmondAmerican.com/Cascade):
- New two-story homes from the $500s
- 2-car alley-entry garages
- Three versatile floor plans to choose from
- 3 to 4 bedrooms, approx. 1,860 to 2,060 sq. ft.
COMING SOON: Talise at Highland Park (RichmondAmerican.com/Talise):
- Two-story detached cluster homes with shared open spaces
- 2-car front-entry garages
- Four thoughtful floor plans to choose from
- 3 to 4 bedrooms, approx. 1,410 to 1,950 sq. ft.
The gated, master-planned community of Highland Park boasts a wealth of exciting amenities, including a community clubhouse, pool, dog park and picnic area. Residents will also appreciate close proximity to I-15 and easy access to nearby parks, trails, the Sierra Lakes Golf Club, the Auto Club Speedway and the SBD International Airport.
Those who choose to build a new home from the ground up at Cascade at Highland Park will have the opportunity to work with professional design consultants at the builder's Home Gallery™ to select colors, textures, finishes and fixtures for their new living spaces—a complimentary service!
The temporary sales center for Cascade at Highland Park is located at 15049 Mansard Lane in Fontana. For more information, call 909.942.6780 or visit RichmondAmerican.com.
Operating under the name Richmond American Homes, MDC's homebuilding subsidiaries have built more than 230,000 homes since 1977. Among the nation's largest homebuilders, MDC's subsidiary companies have operations in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington. Mortgage lending, plus insurance and title services are offered by the following MDC subsidiaries, respectively: HomeAmerican Mortgage Corporation, American Home Insurance Agency, Inc. and American Home Title and Escrow Company. M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "MDC." For more information, visit MDCHoldings.com.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A trial in a lawsuit accusing three major U.S. drug distributors of causing a health crisis throughout West Virginia was postponed Tuesday, a day after the companies prevailed in another case in the state.
Attorneys who represented Cabell County and the city of Huntington on the losing end of a verdict announced in federal court Monday were granted a continuance of a trial a day later in Kanawha County Circuit Court. The trial involves more than 100 other cities and counties statewide against the same defendants: AmerisourceBergen Drug Co., Cardinal Health Inc. and McKesson Corp.
Attorneys for the municipalities and the companies met in the judge’s chambers just prior to the start of the hearing. Once in the courtroom, attorneys for the plaintiffs asked that the start of the trial be continued. The defense had no objections and the request was approved.
In the federal bench trial, U.S. District Judge David Faber said the plaintiffs offered no evidence that the companies distributed controlled substances to any entity that didn’t hold a proper registration from the Drug Enforcement Agency or the state Board of Pharmacy. The defendants also had systems in place to monitor suspicious activity, as required by the Controlled Substances Act, he said.
“Plaintiffs failed to show that the volume of prescription opioids distributed in Cabell/Huntington was because of unreasonable conduct on the part of defendants,” Faber wrote in a decision that came nearly a year after closing arguments in that case.
The Cabell County-Huntington lawsuit alleged the distributors created a public nuisance by flooding the Ohio River community with 81 million pills over eight years. The suit sought more than $2.5 billion that would have gone toward abatement efforts. But Faber said West Virginia’s Supreme Court has only applied public nuisance law in the context of conduct that interferes with public property or resources. He said to extend the law to cover the marketing and sale of opioids “is inconsistent with the history and traditional notions of nuisance.”
The companies blamed an increase in prescriptions written by doctors along with poor communication and pill quotas set by federal agents.
Huntington has long been an epicenter of the nationwide opioid addiction and overdose epidemic that has been linked to more than 500,000 deaths over the past two decades. That status led West Virginia to being aggressive in lawsuits over the trauma earlier than most states. It settled with the three distributors in 2017 and 2019 in deals worth a total of $73 million.
But the state did not participate in a $21 billion nationwide settlement with those companies that was finalized this year and would have resulted in a larger payout for West Virginia than what the state received in the earlier deals.
The nationwide impact of Monday’s ruling in West Virginia could be muted because the companies have struck the broader settlement, which is intended to have most of the funds go to fighting the opioid crisis.
In another lawsuit, the state of West Virginia reached a tentative $161.5 million settlement in May with Teva Pharmaceuticals Inc., AbbVie’s Allergan and their family of companies and a $26 million settlement in March with Endo Health Solutions.
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LOUISVILLE • Ripley had the odds stacked against them on Monday night.
And despite a valiant effort in the first half, a poor third quarter allowed No. 1 seeded Louisville to pull away with a 70-40 win, ending the Lady Tigers season in the first round of the Class 4A playoffs.
“We knew it was an uphill battle whenever we got the 4-seed and had to come down here,” said Ripley head coach Chad Brown. “We battled with them the first half. But their depth and their athleticism showed in the second half and wore us down. We turned it over early in the third quarter and they never looked back.”
Ripley trailed just 31-25 at the half as the 3-ball kept them in the game. Seniors Serena Adams and Nevaeh Young each connected on a pair of 3-pointers – one in each quarter – while Starr Vernor added her only make in the second period.
Throughout the first half, the Lady Tigers handled the full-court pressure applied from the Lady Wildcats.
But that was a much different story in the third quarter, where turnovers came in bunches to see Louisville transfer those into layups and a 25-4 run across the first eight minutes of the second half.
“They started double-teaming Paris (Morgan) all the way up the floor. They forced us to bring the ball up the floor with our other guards and we had a hard time doing that,” said Brown. “They played us baseline-to-baseline. They did a good job of denying Paris and making somebody else beat them. And once we did get up the floor, we weren’t able to convert on shots and they would leak out and throw it long for a layup.”
Due to the nature of the turnovers, Ripley’s leading scorer, junior forward Alorian Story, was held in check. Story didn’t score until the third quarter – marking her only basket on the night to finish with five points.
“We couldn’t get it down there to her. They were putting tons of pressure on us,” said Brown. “… They probably put more pressure on us than anybody had all year. And that’s probably the best team we’ve played all year.”
Ripley’s season ends with an 11-17 record and will lose four seniors in Adams, Morgan, Young and Khiyana Fisher, who missed the entire season with an injury.
“They’ve experienced a lot in their four years,” Brown said of his senior group. “They’ve experienced a state championship. They experienced COVID. They experienced just a ton in their four years. But they leave with not only a state championship, but a lot of wins, playoffs every year, multiple Tippah County Tournament championships, so they have a lot to be proud of.
“You know, this year wasn’t what we wanted it to be, but we knew it was going to be a tough year because we lost so much from last year. But they can leave with their heads up high, knowing they left a mark on Ripley basketball that they can be proud of.”
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Hoosier Lotto" game were:
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Hoosier Lotto" game were:
04-08-13-14-22-28
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WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, May 7, 2023
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
1012 PM CDT Sun May 7 2023
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR
ABILENE...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of west central Texas, including the following
county, Taylor.
* WHEN...Until 1115 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1011 PM CDT, a strong thunderstorms over Abilene will move
east at 20 mph.Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in Abilene. Up to 0.5 inches of rain have fallen.
- Abilene is the most likely place to experience minor
flooding.
Quick rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are expected over the
area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Abilene, Wylie, Potosi, Hamby, Impact and Kirby Lake.
- This includes the following highways...
Interstate 20 between Mile Markers 281 and 292.
This includes the following Low Water Crossings...
Intersections along Buttonwillow Parkway, Butternut
Underpass, Curry Lane from Clack Street to Catclaw Drive,
Intersections along Sammons Street, FM 3308 crossing Draw,
South 27th Street at Catclaw Creek, 2000 block of Oak Street,
North 6th Street and Willis, Antilley Rd. crossing Button
Willow Creek and Broken Bough At Chimney Rock.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Hidalgo
and south central Starr Counties through 1045 PM CDT...
At 1013 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Grulla Middle School, or near Garciasville, moving east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel 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...
Palmview, Penitas, Sullivan City, La Joya, Los Ebanos, Garciasville,
La Grulla, Narciso G. Cavazos Elementary School, Abram-Perezville and
Cesar Chavez Middle School.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will relay your report to the National Weather Service
office in Brownsville.
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MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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Good morning, Early Birds. Words we hope never to include in a letter to the British prime minister: “Last night I drank far too much.” Send us your tipsiest tips: earlytips@washpost.com. Thanks for waking up with us.
At the White House
Biden heads to Ohio – a state that embodies the challenges facing his party
President Biden is heading to Ohio this afternoon, making his sixth trip to the state since taking office. No other state that’s not on the East Coast has received as many presidential visits.
The event is vintage Biden: He’ll appear with union workers at a Cleveland high school, where he’ll announce a milestone in his administration’s efforts to shore up struggling multiemployer pension plans and keep retirees from seeing their benefits cut. He's expected to contrast his efforts with the legislative agenda advanced by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.).
But Biden’s decision to travel to Ohio casts a spotlight on a state that has become increasingly unfriendly toward the party in recent elections and that embodies many of Democrats’ challenges heading in the midterms.
Intel has put its plans to build a $20 billion semiconductor factory in Ohio on hold while Congress feuds over legislation meant to spur domestic manufacturing — a blow for Biden, who called the field where the factory would be erected “the ground on which America’s future will be built” in his State of the Union.
The killing of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, by police in Akron, Ohio, last week touched off days of protests and calls for Biden to do more to fulfill his promises to reform police departments.
Ohioans are pessimistic about the economy amid rising inflation even as its unemployment rate has steadily dropped.
And the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last month let a six-week abortion ban to take effect in Ohio — one of the most restrictive measures of any swing state. Democrats have denounced the ban and have argued the backlash against it will help them overcome Biden's unenviable November's elections despite Biden’s unenviable approval rating.
“I think it makes every race in Ohio more competitive,” said Justin Barasky, a longtime Ohio Democratic operative in Ohio who was campaign manager for Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) when he won reelection in 2018.
Dems bank on abortion anger
Democrats need all the help they can get in a state that Donald Trump carried twice, winning by roughly the same margin in 2020 than he did in 2016 even as Biden prevailed in three other Rust Belt states Trump carried.
Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan is mounting an underdog campaign against Republican J.D. Vance for the open Senate seat that Sen. Rob Portman (R) is vacating. And Nan Whaley, Dayton's Democratic mayor, is betting that anger with Ohio’s new abortion restrictions will help her defeat Mike DeWine, the state’s popular Republican governor.
In an interview, Whaley said she’s been surprised by the intensity of voters’ response.
“I was in Youngstown this past week with building trades members, so you can expect — they were all male,” she said. “And I'm talking about my position on collective bargaining and the prevailing wage — and they brought up abortion. I mean, I was surprised.”
Whaley has said she'll lead an effort amend Ohio's constitution to protect abortion rights if she wins. But she's facing an uphill battle. A Suffolk University/USA Today poll conducted in May before the court struck down Roe found DeWine leading Whaley, 46 percent to 30 percent. Just 37 percent of likely Ohio voters approved of Biden's job performance; 57 percent disapproved.
But a slim majority of likely voters also said the Ohio legislature should protect abortion rights if Roe was struck down.
Whaley is gambling that Ohio voters will be angrier with DeWine than they are with Biden.
“Ohio is a frustrated state, and I think that’s what people miss about it,” she said. “When Ohio voted for Barack Obama, they wanted to set the place on fire, and when they voted for Donald Trump, they wanted to set the place on fire.”
Key candidates won't appear with Biden
Biden's trip comes at a time when many Democrats want the president to show more fight on issues like abortion as other leaders in the party are trying to tap into that anger, our colleagues Ashley Parker and Matt Viser report.
- “In the view of many distraught Democrats, the country is facing a full-blown crisis on a range of fronts, and Biden seems unable or unwilling to respond with appropriate force," they write. “Democracy is under direct attack, they say, as Republicans change election rules and the Supreme Court rapidly rewrites American law. Shooting sprees are routine, abortion rights have ended and Democrats could suffer big losses in the next election.”
It’s not clear whether Biden will talk about abortion in Ohio, and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to say on Tuesday whether Biden will address Walker’s killing in his remarks. His speech is meant to tout his economic accomplishments.
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, White House senior adviser Gene Sperling, and Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio) and Sherrod Brown will be there, according to a White House official. So will Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), who’s facing a tough race after her Toledo-area seat was made more Republican during redistricting.
But Whaley and Ryan are keeping their distance, citing scheduling conflicts, along with state Rep. Emilia Sykes, who’s running for an open swing district centered in Akron, a short drive south of Cleveland. A Sykes spokeswoman, Samantha Herd, said she couldn’t attend “due to previous commitments which include continuing to monitor the situation in Akron with other community leaders.”
Iris Harvey, the president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, said she'd like to see Biden use the speech to reassure Americans that they’re allowed to cross state lines to get abortions without fear of breaking the law and to encourage employers to make provisions for employees who take time off to travel out of state to seek abortions.
“We need our commander in chief to explain that abortion is health care, and to help reduce the stigma that many of the anti-abortion groups are imposing on people seeking abortions and their providers," she said.
Highland Park shooting renews debate on gun-control restrictions as community mourns
The latest from Highland Park: “Vice President Harris called for tighter gun restrictions, including a nationwide ban on assault weapons, ‘to end this horror’ during a Chicago appearance Tuesday evening, a day after a gunman killed seven and wounded dozens more at a July Fourth parade in Highland Park,” the Chicago Sun-Times’s Mitchell Armentrout reports.
- Authorities have charged Robert E. Crimo III, 21, “with seven counts of first-degree murder but said there was no definitive motive for the rampage,” per our colleagues Kim Bellware, Mark Berman, Bryan Pietsch and Gerrit De Vynck.
- Crimo had two prior run-ins with law enforcement, per our colleagues Kim Bellware, Mark Berman, Bryan Pietsch and Gerrit De Vynck. He “had so alarmed his family with violent threats in 2019 that they summoned police, who confiscated more than a dozen knives and other sharp weapons from his home.”
MORE: ‘Nothing feels safe:’ Americans are divided, anxious and quick to panic. By The Post’s Marc Fisher.
On the Hill
Georgia grand jury subpoenas Sen. Graham, Giuliani and Trump legal team
Save the date: “Sarah Matthews, who served as deputy press secretary in the Trump White House until resigning shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, has been subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating the insurrection and has agreed to testify at an upcoming hearing,” CNN’s Katelyn Polantz and Ryan Nobles first reported. Matthews could appear before the committee as early as July 12.
More bad news for Trumpworld: Several of former president Donald Trump’s closest advisers — including Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani — are being subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in Georgia’s Fulton County, “as part of an ongoing investigation into Trump’s potential criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election,” our colleague Matthew Brown reports.
- Others include Kenneth Chesebro, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis and Cleta Mitchell, “all of whom are believed to have knowledge of Trump’s attempts to tamper with the election process in battleground states such as Georgia.”
From the courts
Gov. Andy Beshear releases emails showing Biden plan to nominate antiabortion Republican as judge
More from the Biden-McConnell deal: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s office “turned over a June 23 White House email that confirms Biden intended to nominate anti-abortion Republican [Chad Meredith] to a lifetime appointment as a federal district judge in Kentucky,” the Louisville Courier Journal’s Joe Sonka, Michael Collins and Joey Garrison report.
- Email from White House aide Kathleen M. Marshall: “To be nominated tomorrow: … Stephen Chad Meredith: candidate for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.”
- Email from Coulter Minix, a Beshear staffer in the governor’s D.C. office: “Thanks, Kate. I’ll share the info and appreciate the heads up.”
Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) and other officials told The Courier Journal they “believe Biden agreed to appoint Meredith, a Federalist Society attorney who has fought against abortion rights, so that [Sen. Mitch] McConnell would not hold up future White House nominations.”
The Media
Early reeeads 🐣
- Democrats vying to be Md. attorney general have a long history. By The Post’s Joe Heim.
- Climate activists plan to disrupt Congressional Baseball Game. By The Post’s Hau Chu.
- Justice Dept. sues Arizona over requiring proof of citizenship to vote. By The Post’s David Nakamura and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez.
- Prominent Black women urge Biden to ‘make a deal’ for Brittney Griner. By The Post’s Dave Sheinin.
- Biden awards Medal of Honor to four Vietnam War soldiers. By The Post’s Dan Lamothe.
- Gun violence in America: A long list of forgotten victims. By AP News’s Michael Tarm and Brynn Anderson.
- Boris Johnson fights for political survival as cabinet ministers quit. By BBC News’s Joshua Nevett.
- One of the few potential bright spots for Democrats in 2022: The senate. By the New York Times’s Blake Hounshell.
- The Rise of the Far-Right Latina. By the New York Times's Jennifer Medina.
- ‘Be absolutely furious’—Dems want more from Biden after Highland Park. By Politico's Christopher Cadelago and Jonathan Lemire.
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It was evident when Jaylen Brown’s first free throw attempt fell far short, looked forced and uncomfortable, the second attempt would be a challenge to convert.
Brown stood at the free throw line with a chance to give the Celtics a lead with 7.6 seconds left in overtime and then a chance to tie. He missed both opportunities. An old issue returned to haunt Brown with a vengeance on Thursday at TD Garden.
The Celtics’ second-best player having an All-Star caliber season blew his chance to help his team win a game they worked so hard to control until they slipped in overtime.
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The 120-117 loss to the Knicks was a bitter one, and Brown became the central figure of the burden, having cracked under the pressure of such a high-intensity game.
Brown is better than he showed at the free throw line — he’s 78.5 percent for the season — and during the game. But elite professional athletes have nights like these, in which they have to accept failure, turn off their phones from social media and reflect.
“Just have be better to be honest,” Brown said. “Tonight was just a rough game. I’m a better basketball player than I played today. Those missed free throws kind of embodied the whole game. I really didn’t get it going, didn’t give my team enough energy to win.”
Brown scored 22 points on 8-for-22 shooting and three turnovers after getting the day off Tuesday in Miami. The difference between Brown and Jayson Tatum is Tatum always has been considered the more skilled player. Brown has had to work vigorously to improve his all-around game and he has.
He has become a better midrange shooter, he’s fierce at the rim and a reliable 3-point shooter. The two he needed to improve was free throw shooting — especially in the clutch —and ball handling, and he’s taken a step forward in both.
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But this game is humbling. Just when you believe you’ve solved those free throw jitters, ; you’re trying to knock down two in front of 20,000 fans, a national television audience.
The second free throw really never stood a chance, not because Brown didn’t try to make it, because he tried the same form that caused him to short-arm the first one. He stepped to the line for the second, heard “encouragement” from Knicks guard Jalen Brunson, smiled, took a deep breath and then released. Clank.
The Celtics would have another chance, with Tatum missing a rushed 3-pointer in the final seconds that could have tied. But it’s Brown who goes home into the chilly night lamenting his mistakes, perhaps doubting himself and clamoring for another chance.
The hope for Celtics faithful is this moment encourages, motivates and fuels Brown to be better. There are flaws and there have been some disappointing moments, such as the two missed free throws in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Heat, when the Celtics could have taken the lead with 2 minutes, 18 seconds left.
Brown has bounced back with the best season of his career, but he’s been plagued at times with turnovers and missed free throws. He is a top 20 player in the world, an athletic marvel who has improved immensely since his rookie season.
But it’s time for Brown to take that next step, shore up those weaknesses and improve.
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“I think for your own sanity, you just let it go,” Brown said. “You come out and keep playing basketball and come out and be a better version of yourself. I love this game, and I love the highs and lows that come with it, so you don’t shy away from it. You take it, wear it and be better on the next one.
“I’ve been through worse, to be honest. Tonight I had a chance to help my team get a victory and we came up short and it’s tough but I’d done seen worse.”
The Celtics are officially in a slump, having lost their last three games. They still own the best record in the NBA and still have the potential to win 60 games and reach the NBA Finals but they’ll need that Brown who refused to remain content with his game. They’ll need that Brown who can hit those clutch free throws and be more sure-handed with the ball.
“Everybody needs a pick-me-up but we’ve got the utmost confidence in him,’ Tatum said. “I can’t bet on NBA games but I would bet everything I got he’s in that situation again, he would knock them both down. Just short-term memory, move on and get ready for Saturday.”
Brown can’t lament too long on this setback, but he does need to store it in the back of his mind, use it as fuel and work on those weaknesses that separate him from being a top 10 player. There’s no doubt he’s capable.
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Jim Clyburn becomes assistant leader, stays in Democratic leadership
By Daniella Diaz, CNN
Rep. Jim Clyburn, who is the current Democratic whip, was elected by affirmation as assistant leader in the next Congress after Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island launched a last-minute bid to run against him Wednesday.
Cicilline surprised Democrats with his 11th hour bid, saying in a letter to his colleagues obtained by CNN that he believed it was important to have an LGBTQ person in leadership. During a closed-door meeting with Democrats on Thursday, he addressed his caucus and announced he was withdrawing his name, paving the way for Clyburn to win by acclamation.
Clyburn is the only lawmaker of the top three Democrats who is staying in leadership in the next Congress. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced weeks ago they would step down from leadership and become rank-and-file members in the next Congress.
House Democrats chose caucus chair Hakeem Jeffries of New York to succeed Pelosi as leader of the Democrats in the chamber next year, a historic move that will make him the first Black person to lead one of the two major parties in either chamber of Congress.
Jeffries ran unopposed as leader, with Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark, current assistant speaker, running as whip and California Rep. Peter Aguilar, previously vice chair of the caucus, and was expected to win the spot to lead the House Democratic caucus. Clark and Aguilar won those positions as well.
Clyburn will be fourth in line in leadership now.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A ninth horse died Saturday after being injured following the sixth race at Churchill Downs, making it the ninth fatality since late April at the home of the Kentucky Derby.
Swanson Lake, a 3-year-old filly, was pulled up by jockey James Graham about 100 yards past the finish line after placing fourth in the $120,000 race. She was vanned off the track.
Dr. Will Farmer, the track’s equine medical director, said Swanson Lake sustained “a significant injury to the left hind leg.” Upon further diagnostics, it was deemed inoperable and the filly was euthanized.
Trained by Mike McCarthy, Swanson Lake was winless in two career starts and had earnings of $9,200. She is owned by BG Stables.
Earlier Saturday in Baltimore, a horse trained by eventual Preakness winner Bob Baffert was injured in a race on the event’s undercard and was euthanized.
A horse died May 14 after a race at Churchill Downs.
Two horses were euthanized after being injured in races hours before the Kentucky Derby on May 6. Five others were euthanized after training and racing incidents at the track in the days leading up to the Derby.
Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. was indefinitely suspended by Churchill Downs during Derby week after two of his horses collapsed on the track and died. Kentucky racing officials also scratched his Derby entry, Lord Miles.
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ECU_C.Johnson 60 pass from Ahlers (Daffer kick), 12:19.
ECU_Winstead 23 pass from Ahlers (Daffer kick), 2:21.
ECU_C.Johnson 74 pass from Ahlers (Daffer kick), 14:09.
USF_Horn 91 pass from Bohanon (Shrader kick), 13:13.
ECU_R.Jones 21 pass from Ahlers (Daffer kick), 6:50.
ECU_R.Harris 5 run (kick failed), 3:12.
ECU_C.Johnson 14 pass from Ahlers (Daffer kick), :18.
USF_Horn 27 pass from Bohanon (Shrader kick), 12:12.
USF_Atkins 4 pass from Bohanon (Shrader kick), 7:30.
ECU_C.Johnson 9 pass from Ahlers (Daffer kick), 3:40.
USF_Bohanon 1 run (Shrader kick), 14:56.
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RUSHING_East Carolina, Gunn 15-61, Harris 10-39, Ahlers 4-9. South Florida, Battie 15-96, Bohanon 13-74, Dukes 6-16, Horn 1-10, Atkins 1-6.
PASSING_East Carolina, Ahlers 31-41-0-464. South Florida, Bohanon 17-27-0-261.
RECEIVING_East Carolina, C.Johnson 7-197, R.Jones 6-84, Winstead 6-74, Calhoun 5-44, J.Johnson 3-25, Harris 2-28, Gunn 2-12. South Florida, Horn 8-178, Weaver 5-55, Battie 2-20, Atkins 1-4, Mottillo 1-4.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Rangers are more than a decade removed from their only World Series appearances and mired in the longest stretch of consecutive losing seasons in the franchise’s half-century in Texas.
They are again looking for a new manager and already have made a change in front-office leadership.
Less than nine months after a record offseason spending spree of more than a half-billion dollars, the Rangers said Wednesday that Jon Daniels is out as president of baseball operations after leading the club for 17 years. That was only two days after first-time manager Chris Woodward was fired late in his fourth season of what had become an extended rebuilding process.
Texas will have a losing record for the sixth year in a row unless it wins at least 29 of its last 46 games.
What the Rangers really hope to do over these final seven weeks is to build momentum going into 2023, which general manager Chris Young said is still when they expect to be a playoff-caliber team again.
“We want to continue to create a competitive, energetic team that takes the field night in, night out prepared to win,” Young said. “And I think that we want to see improvement in our fundamentals, just the basic fundamentals. It’s something that we haven’t executed those at the level we need to to become a championship team.”
Texas will get more looks at youngsters like speedy outfielders Leody Taveras and Bubba Thompson, infielders Josh Smith and Ezequiel Duran, and left-handed starter Cole Ragans, who are all already in the big leagues.
The next full-time manager will be the fourth for Texas since Daniels became the team’s general manager in October 2005.
The Rangers won American League championships in 2010 and 2011 under Ron Washington, the first manager hired by Daniels after Buck Showalter was fired at the end of the 2006 season. Washington resigned late in the 2014 season for personal reasons.
Jeff Banister won AL West titles the next two seasons but was gone less than two years after that. The Rangers then hired Woodward, who was coming off back-to-back National League championship seasons as third base coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“I take a lot of responsibility for our performance over the last six years, and we haven’t been good enough,” Daniels said earlier this week. “But ultimately, this is a team effort. … When we were good, it wasn’t about me. It’s always been a team effort. We have a ways to go. We have a lot of good people here. As far as my personal accountability or situation, that’s something we’ll address down the line.”
Daniels didn’t elaborate then on what he meant, but that became clear Wednesday. He held the titles of team president and GM from 2013 until December 2020, when former big league pitcher and MLB executive Young was brought on as general manager.
Young will assume oversight of all aspects of the baseball operations department.
The Rangers are clearly better than they were last season, when they lost 102 games before adding All-Star shortstop Corey Seager ($325 million, 10 years), Gold Glove second baseman Marcus Semien ($175 million, seven years) and starting pitcher Jon Gray ($56 million, four years).
While those big-dollar signings last December didn’t immediately alter the team’s timetable for being a playoff contender, there was at least the expectation for more positive progress this season.
Woodward was fired Monday, the two-year mark since the Rangers last had a winning record. They were 10-9 one-third of the way through the 2020 season that was delayed and shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic, then lost eight games in a row.
Interim manager Tony Beasley, the third base coach since 2015 and longest-tenured member of the coaching staff, will be given consideration for the full-time job. Young said the team’s win-loss record the rest of the season won’t necessarily reflect the level to which Beasley is a candidate.
The Rangers split their first two games under Beasley, who had never before managed a big league game but was previously a minor league manager for eight seasons in two other organizations. Washington (now third base coach for reigning World Series champion Atlanta) and Banister (now Arizona’s bench coach) were first-time MLB managers in Texas, just like Woodward.
“We didn’t expect to go worst to first this season,” Young said. “Culture builds, and Woody has had an impact on that culture, a very positive impact in a lot of ways. This is about moving forward, what the next step is and building that culture. And we feel that the time is right.”
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The FBI has revoked the security clearances of three agents who either took part in the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, or later expressed views about it that placed into question their “allegiance to the United States,” the bureau said Wednesday in a letter to congressional investigators.
The letter, written by a top official at the FBI, came one day before at least two of the agents — Marcus Allen and Stephen Friend — were set to testify in front of a House Judiciary subcommittee investigating what Republicans contend is the “weaponization” of the federal government against conservatives.
For several months, Republican lawmakers have been courting FBI agents who they believe support their contentions that the bureau and other federal agencies have been turned against former President Donald Trump and his supporters both before and after the Capitol attack.
Some of the agents have come forward as self-described whistleblowers and taken steps like writing a letter to the leaders of the FBI complaining about ways in which the bureau has discriminated against conservatives.
The agents who had their security clearances revoked — Allen, Friend and a third man, Brett Gloss — have all been suspended by the FBI as the bureau reviews their cases, according to congressional investigators.
Lawyers for Allen and Friend did not respond to messages seeking comment. A lawyer for Gloss could not immediately be reached.
Gloss’s top-secret clearance was revoked two weeks ago after bureau investigators determined that while moving with the pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, he entered a restricted area of the Capitol grounds — a violation of federal law.
While he has not been charged with any crimes, Gloss was found by the FBI to have provided “false and/or misleading information” about what he saw on Jan. 6 and about whether he was in a restricted area that day, according to the letter, which was sent to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the chair of the weaponization subcommittee, by Christopher Dunham, the FBI’s acting assistant director.
Gloss denied witnessing violence or being in the restricted area at the Capitol, but those statements were inconsistent with photographs he took on Jan. 6 as well as with publicly available videos, the letter said. Gloss also failed to report his presence near the Capitol, the letter added, even after being warned by one of his supervisors to do so.
“Mr. Gloss’ refusal to provide full, frank and truthful answers to lawful questions of security officials in connection with a personnel security or trustworthiness determination should result in an adverse clearance action,” the letter said.
A spokesperson for Jordan, Russell Dye, characterized the FBI’s action as “a desperate attempt to salvage their reputation” that was coming “before brave whistleblowers testify about the agency’s politicized behavior and retaliation against anyone who dares speak out.”
Allen’s top-secret security clearance was revoked after the bureau found that he had “expressed sympathy for persons or organizations that advocate, threaten or use force or violence,” the letter said. FBI investigators determined that Allen had sent an email from his bureau account to several colleagues months after the Capitol attack, urging them to “exercise extreme caution and discretion in pursuit of any investigative inquiries or leads pertaining to the events of” Jan. 6, the letter said.
Allen also sent an email linking to a website stating that “federal law enforcement had some degree of infiltration among the crowds gathered at the Capitol,” leading Allen to comment that this supposed fact raised “serious concerns” about the U.S. government’s participation in the riot.
FBI investigators also found that Allen, who filed a lawsuit against FBI Director Christopher Wray last year contesting the initial suspension of his clearance, failed to provide relevant information to fellow agents investigating the riot about people who allegedly took part in the attack, the letter said.
The letter noted that when another agent asked Allen to conduct open-source research about a Jan. 6 suspect, he reported back that he had found no information that the person had engaged in any criminal activity or had any “nexus to terrorism.”
Based on Allen’s reports, the letter said, the other agent closed the case, but it was later reopened after a different FBI employee discovered publicly available information showing that the target of the inquiry had assaulted police officers at the Capitol.
Friend, whose security clearance was revoked Tuesday, had refused last summer to take part in a SWAT arrest of a Jan. 6 suspect who was facing misdemeanor charges. Friend had taken the position that the raid represented an excessive use of force.
“I have an oath to uphold the Constitution,” Friend, a 12-year veteran of the bureau, told his supervisors when he declined to join the operation on Aug. 24 in Jacksonville, Florida. “I have a moral objection and want to be considered a conscientious objector.”
According to Justice Department records, there was only one Jan. 6-related arrest in the Jacksonville area on Aug. 24: that of Tyler Bensch, who was accused of being a member of a right-wing militia group connected to the Three Percenter movement.
What Friend omitted from his account was that while Bensch was charged with only misdemeanors, documents in his case say that on Jan. 6, he posted a video of himself outside the Capitol wearing body armor and a gas mask and carrying an AR-15-style rifle. The documents also say that witnesses later told the FBI that they had seen photographs of Bensch carrying a similar rifle at other times.
According to the letter, Friend “espoused an alternative narrative about the events at the U.S. Capitol” during his communications with his supervisors about refusing to participate in the arrest of Bensch.
The letter also noted that in September 2022, Friend downloaded documents from FBI computer systems to “an unauthorized removable flash drive.” The letter did not specify what sorts of documents Friend had taken with him.
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When it’s time to rest and relax, you don’t want to do it in your out-and-about clothes. You want to wear the most comfortable clothes you own. Usually, that means your favorite ratty T-shirt and worn-out pajama bottoms. But consider trying athleisure wear instead. These clothes are just as comfortable as your pajamas, but you can also wear them to work out or make casual trips to the grocery store.
In this article: Under Armour Athleisure T-Shirt, Dragon Fit Athleisure Tank Top and CRZ Yoga Athleisure Pants.
What is athleisure?
Athleisure clothing is, essentially, anything mainly designed to avoid irritating your body while working out. The exact origin of the term “athleisure” is disputed, as is the timeframe for when it truly began to take off. Some say the trend took off in the 1960s and 1970s when tracksuits were popular, in the 1980s from the influence of hip-hop or even in the 2000s and 2010s when yoga pants exploded.
Athleisure examples
Athleisure wear can be divided into tops and bottoms.
- Tops include shirts with long, short or no sleeves that have moisture-wicking properties. Hoodies, sweatshirts, sports bras and sports bra/tank top hybrids are also included in this category.
- Bottoms mainly include joggers, sweatpants and yoga pants. Depending on who you ask, basketball and track shorts can also be included in this category.
Cost
You can choose from an excellent selection of high-quality/low-cost clothes, and you will find a lot of options that rarely exceed $50. However, the cost for most brand-name athleisure wear starts at $100 or more.
Best athleisure tops for men
Amazon Essentials Athleisure T-Shirts
This two-pack of shirts is perfect for the budget-conscious buyer. They come in six sizes and 14 pairs, with most pairs have two different-colored shirts.
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Carhartt Athleisure Long-Sleeved Shirt
This shirt is perfect for your next cold morning run or cozying up on the couch with a good TV show. It comes in 11 sizes and four styles.
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This is a great shirt to wear to work if you don’t want to change your top when it’s time to exercise after clocking out. It comes in five sizes and 59 styles.
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Real Essentials Athleisure Long-Sleeved Shirts
Protection from ultraviolet rays makes these shirts perfect for outdoor excursions. They come in six sizes and 13 sets, most of which have four different-colored shirts.
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Under Armour Athleisure T-Shirt
This shirt has a loose cut so it can better move with your body. It also wick sweat away quickly. It comes in 14 sizes and 88 styles.
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Best athleisure bottoms for men
These pants have a decorative zipper on the right leg that helps elevate them above the drab design of most joggers. They come in five sizes and 10 styles.
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These pants have an elasticized waist and an internal drawcord, which allows you to have the most comfortable fit possible. They come in five sizes and 10 styles.
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These pants have two deep pockets, one on each side, and a zippered pocket above the right buttock. They come in five sizes and 16 styles.
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Don’t let the look fool you; these are still joggers despite appearing to be “normal” pants. They have tapered legs with elastic cuffs and come in eight sizes and 43 styles.
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These pants have several pockets for the person who needs to carry plenty of stuff with them. They come in five sizes, 11 standard colors and three fleece-lined colors.
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Best athleisure tops for women
Amazon Essentials Athleisure T-Shirt
This light, breezy shirt is perfect for lounging or wearing over a sports bra. It comes in 12 sizes, 16 styles sold individually and five styles sold in pairs.
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Core 10 By Reebok Athleisure Sweatshirt
This sweatshirt is light, so it won’t add weight while you work out, but thick enough to keep you warm. It comes in eight sizes and 10 styles.
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This sports bra/tank top hybrid has cups to provide some extra support and is meant for use during low- to medium-impact activities. It comes in five sizes and 16 styles.
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Dragon Fit Athleisure Tank Top
Another great sports bra/tank top hybrid, this one comes down a little lower under the armpit to give you extra ventilation. It comes in five sizes and 23 styles.
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This all-in-one dress has a skintight bodysuit underneath the skirt, which allows you to stay protected and covered while you exercise or relax. It comes in six sizes and seven styles.
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Best athleisure bottoms for women
These pants’ pockets have zippers, so there’s no risk of anything falling out or being pickpocketed. They come in six sizes and eight styles.
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These pants have zippered pockets to keep your items secure and a stretchy lining to ensure the most comfortable fit. They come in seven sizes and 30 styles.
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These pants have front and back pockets, which is a rarity for pants of this type. They come in six sizes, two inseams and 15 styles.
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These pants have wide, flowing cuffs that make them perfect for floating around your home on your days off. They come in five sizes and 45 styles.
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These are wrinkle-free and stretchy, making them a good fit for anyone who tosses their clothes on the chair instead of putting them away. They come in seven sizes and 10 styles.
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DETROIT – Lucas Raymond scored his first two goals of the season, Ville Husso made 30 saves and the Detroit Red Wings beat the Minnesota Wild 2-1 on Saturday night to end a two-game losing streak.
Raymond finally broke through in the eighth game of the season after scoring 23 times last season as a rookie for Detroit.
Raymond broke a tie on a power play with 4.3 seconds remaining in the second period.
Driving into the goal crease with the puck, he managed to jam it through the legs of goalie Filp Gustavsson before tumbling into the netminder.
Raymond has five goals in three career games against Minnesota.
Kirill Kaprizov opened the scoring for the Wild at 1:28 of the first period on the second shot of the game.
Breaking in on a 2-on-1, Karpizov used Jared Spurgeon as a decoy and snapped a high wrist shot under the crossbar behind Husso.
Raymond tied it with 3:09 left in the first. He fired a wrist shot from the bottom edge of the right faceoff circle past Gustavsson on the blocker side.
Husso improved to 3-1-1. Gustavsson made 23 saves in dropping to 0-3.
The Wild lost in regulation for the first time their five-game trip. Minnesota is 2-1-1 on the trip.
After opening the season with back-to-back wins, Detroit went 1-2-2 in the five games prior to Saturday.
Both right wing Givani Smith and defenseman Jordan Oesterle made their season debuts for Detroit. Smith was recalled earlier in the day from the Grand Rapids of the AHL.
SABRES 4, BLACKHAWKS 3, OT: At Buffalo, New York, Victor Olofsson scored twice, including in overtime, and Buffalo defeated Chicago.
Olofsson got his sixth of the season 36 seconds into overtime. He hit a slap shot from the right circle off a pass from Tage Thompson.
Buffalo had dropped two in a row. The Sabres trailed 3-1 after two periods, but Thompson scored twice in the third. Craig Anderson made 23 saves.
Olofsson opened the scoring in the first with a power-play slap shot from the slot.
But the Blackhawks responded with three straight goals.
Jason Dickinson, Sam Lafferty and Taylor Raddysh scored for Chicago.
Arvid Soderblom made 41 saves in his season debut.
Thompson, who led the Sabres with 38 goals last season, entered with one goal, but he crashed the Chicago net twice while erasing its two-goal lead.
Thompson’s first goal came off a rebound of a shot by Kyle Okposo at 11:55 of the third. He tied it when he tapped in a pass from Jeff Skinner to the left of Soderblom with 3:13 left.
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Turkey makes more arrests in connection with deadly bombing
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s justice minister says the number of people in custody in connection with the deadly bomb attack on a bustling pedestrian avenue in Istanbul has increased to 50. Sunday’s explosion hit Istiklal Avenue in the heart of the city, killing six people and wounding several dozen others. Turkish authorities blamed the attack on Kurdish militants but the outlawed groups have denied involvement. Police on Monday detained a Syrian woman who is suspected of leaving the bomb and other suspects. On Tuesday minister Bekir Bozdag said the number of suspects in custody has reached 50. State media said police detained two brothers, included one who allegedly planned to help the bomber flee Turkey.
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Three representatives from Texas voted against Kevin McCarthy to be speaker of the House. All represent different parts of the state but they stood united against McCarthy until Friday afternoon.
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CEDARHURST, N.Y., Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues this alert to shareholders of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), if they purchased the Company's securities between August 1, 2019 and July 28, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Shareholders have until December 27, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in the securities class action lawsuit.
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UNITED NATIONS — Russia couldn’t escape its war against Ukraine during its highly contentious presidency of the U.N. Security Council, and the war will still loom over Switzerland as it takes over the monthlong presidency Monday for the first time since becoming a full member of the United Nations in 2002.
Switzerland’s U.N. Ambassador Pascale Baeriswyl said at the traditional opening press conference that her country’s approach has been to work for unity of the council’s 15 members and to be “a bridge builder.” She conceded, nonetheless, that she expects “some heated or polarized discussions.”
Fireworks are almost certain during Switzerland’s signature events, starting Wednesday with a session on how to ensure trust to sustain peace in the future and another on May 23 on protecting civilians in armed conflict.
The council is also highly likely to hold a meeting on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, she said, which is certain to pit Moscow against Kyiv’s allies.
“We will try to conduct tho (open) meetings in a calm way,” Baeriswyl said. “When it comes to closed consultations, I may be asking in a little more active way council members to really stay respectful with each other.”
Russia started its presidency by giving the spotlight to its commissioner of children’s rights, who is accused with President Vladimir Putin of war crimes for deporting Ukrainian children to Russia. Then, it went after the West by claiming it is violating international laws by arming Ukraine.
At its premiere event last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov defended his country’s military action and accused the U.S. and its allies of undercutting global diplomacy — the foundation of the United Nations ,which was created to prevent a third world war.
Envoys from the U.S. and several allies responded to the video briefing by Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian children’s rights commissioner, by walking out of the council chamber. Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia’s accusations about arming Ukraine drew a blistering response that Ukraine has every right to defend itself against Putin’s invading army.
And U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Western envoys berated Lavrov for violating the U.N. Charter by attacking Ukraine and occupying part of its territory.
Switzerland Ambassador Baeriswyl was among those who accused Russia of violating the U.N. Charter, saying Ukraine’s “state sovereignty, territorial integrity and the prohibition of the use of force continue to be flouted by the military aggression of a permanent member of the Security Council against its neighbor.”
The presidency of the Security Council, the U.N.’s most powerful body charged with maintaining international peace and security, rotates monthly in alphabetical order of its 15 members.
John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, said Russia’s presidency shows the “dysfunctional nature” of the Security Council, which has been paralyzed over Ukraine since Putin’s February 2022 invasion of its smaller neighbor. He said the same holds true during China’s council presidency.
“Obviously, they’re not going to permit any serious discussion of some of the real security crises around the world, and even if they did permit the discussion, they would block the council from doing anything through the veto,” he said in a phone interview with AP.
Bolton said “it’s unfortunate but ironic to say the least” that the promise at the end of the Cold War in 1990-1991 that the Security Council could really be effective and address global crises after decades of paralysis because of the veto power of the United States and the Soviet Union has ended, alluding to the ongoing paralysis over Ukraine and other hotspots because of Russia’s veto.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida advised school districts to ignore protections for LGBTQ students that President Joe Biden's administration is trying to implement, saying the anti-discrimination language is not binding law and following the guidance could result in breaking state law.
Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz wrote to school districts Thursday saying they should not change current practices because of proposed new rules under Title IX that would extend sexual discrimination protections to students based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.
“Nothing in these guidance documents requires you to give biological males who identify as female access to female bathrooms, locker rooms, or dorms ... or to allow biological males who identify as female to compete on female sports teams,” Diaz said.
He added that doing any of those things would “jeopardize the safety and wellbeing of Florida students and risk violating Florida law.”
Last year, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning anyone assigned male at birth from participating in girls' or women's sports. This year, he signed a bill that prohibits discussion of gender identity or sexual orientation in public schools at least through grade 3.
Earlier this month, a federal judge in Tennessee blocked implementation of the proposed new federal protections after 20 states sued over the issue.
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TORONTO, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Cybeats Technologies Corp. ("Cybeats'' or the "Company") (CSE: CYBT) is pleased to provide an update on the commercial success of its SBOM Studio platform, with several recent contract announcements with large multinationals from various industries. These agreements, including the company's largest commercial agreement to date, demonstrate the growing demand for SBOM Studio. Additionally, the company is actively engaged with several Fortune 500 companies piloting SBOM Studio.
Integral Ad Science1 (Nasdaq: IAS), a global leader in digital media quality and advertising technology, has signed a two-year license to Cybeats SBOM Studio on December 4, 2022. Ensuring that ads are viewable by real people, their mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality for the world's leading brands, publishers, and platforms.
"We have seen firsthand the benefits of using SBOM Studio at our organization. Not only does it provide valuable insights for informed decision making at the executive level, but it has also significantly improved the efficiency of remedying software vulnerabilities across our entire company. The ROI of implementing SBOM practices with the help of Cybeats' SBOM Studio has been impressive, and the tool has greatly reduced the effort required to safeguard our valuable software assets. We highly recommend SBOM Studio to other organizations looking to strengthen their cybersecurity posture," said Robert Janecek, CIO, Integral Ad Science.
"Cybeats has now signed several large global leaders across a broad spectrum of industry verticals, providing important market validation of our SBOM Studio solution and invaluable implementation experience across a variety of sectors," said Yoav Raiter, CEO, Cybeats Technologies Corp. "The industry is quickly recognizing our market-leading technology, and combined with our real-world experience, is translating into a growing pipeline of large opportunities to carry us through 2023 and beyond."
Cybeats recently signed and announce a a three year contract with a global leader in energy management and automation solutions2. The multi-year SBOM Studio engagement will see Cybeats' leading solution deployed with the global infrastructure leader to reduce the cost of securing its products by streamlining the discovery and resolution of software vulnerabilities across the organization.
"We are excited to have received endorsements from such renowned customers and hope to use this momentum to build confidence in our future prospects across a variety of market verticals," said Bob Lyle, CRO of Cybeats. "SBOM Studio offers strong unit economics and the potential for rapid scaling through large deal sizes, as demonstrated by recent agreements with some of the largest companies in the world across diverse industries."
Cybeats recently announced a licence and services agreement with a Fortune 500 industrial technology company, which manufactures products and provides services to clients worldwide. The pilot with this client started in late 2022, which involved evaluating multiple solutions, and ultimately ended with Cybeats' SBOM Studio winning the contract.3
Some of the notable ongoing SBOM Studio pilots with Fortune 500 companies from various industries include:
- Smart building technologies, software and services company
- Medical technology and devices company
- Top five largest diversified video game and entertainment company
Cybeats was able to list publicly on the CSE in November 2022 and was soon thereafter added to the CSE25™Index on the Canadian Securities Exchange. As a requirement for inclusion in the CSE 25 Index, a company must fall within the top quartile of eligible securities listed on the CSE by market capitalization.
SBOM Studio is a solution to the pressing issue of cybersecurity vulnerabilities across the global software supply chain. With the increasing frequency of high-profile cyber attacks and new regulations around the world, it is more important than ever for organizations to prioritize the protection of themselves and their customers. SBOM Studio provides a comprehensive solution to this problem, enabling companies to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve compliance while improving visibility and security of the software supply chain.
Cybeats' SBOM Studio enables organizations to efficiently manage, distribute, and view their software bill of materials (SBOMs) in a single interface. By doing so, they can easily identify and address cybersecurity vulnerabilities, reduce the cost of protection, and improve compliance. SBOM Studio is specifically designed to support software producers and consumers who use open source and 3rd party software components and who are transitioning to more transparent software development practices. The tool is compatible with various SBOM generation tools and can validate and correct imported SBOMs to improve their accuracy.
Come meet Cybeats at CES 20234 at booth 6653! The 'most influential tech event in the world' is in Las Vegas from January 5 - 8, 2023. To register, please visit: https://registration.experientevent.com/ShowCES231
Join us at the CISO Forum Canada in Toronto, Ontario from January 30 to 31, as Cybeats leads a panel discussion on Software Supply Chain Security with cybersecurity leaders from CN Rail, Craft Ventures and SAP: https://www.siberx.org/event/ciso-forum-canada-2023/
Join us at the Fira Gran Via, Barcelona from 27 February – 2 March, 2023 at MWC Barcelona5, the world's most influential exhibition for the device connectivity and security industry: https://www.mwcbarcelona.com/
Come meet us at S4x23 in Miami February 13-16! Discover new ideas and come up with innovative ways to use these new ideas to deploy secure and resilient industrial control systems6: https://s4xevents.com/
Cybeats is a cybersecurity company providing SBOM management and software supply chain intelligence technology, helping organizations to manage risk, meet compliance requirements, and secure their software from procurement to development and operation. Our platform gives customers comprehensive visibility and transparency into their software supply chain, enabling them to improve operational efficiency and increase revenue. Cybeats. Software Made Certain. Website: https://cybeats.com
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CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago firefighter’s two remaining children have died days after a fire at the family’s Northwest Side home also fatally injured his wife and 7-year-old son, authorities said.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office said firefighter Walter Stewart's 2-year-old son, Emory Day-Stewart, and his 9-year-old daughter, Autumn Day-Stewart, died Saturday and Friday, respectively, from injuries related to smoke inhalation, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
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Stewart's wife, Summer Day-Stewart, 36, died Thursday, and their son, Ezra Stewart, 7, died Wednesday.
She and the three children were rescued Tuesday night from the family's burning home in the Montclare neighborhood and rushed to hospitals with smoke inhalation, officials said.
Stewart was not part of the fire crew that responded to the fire, but when he heard the address of the fire over radio dispatch, he went to the scene and gave his wife CPR, Chicago Fire Department spokesperson Larry Langford said.
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The fire began in the home’s kitchen but its cause remained under investigation, he said.
The Chicago Fire Department is raising money to help Stewart’s family face the “unspeakable tragedy” through its charity, Ignite the Spirit.
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Robert Eugene Curtis Dec 29, 2022 Dec 29, 2022 Updated 44 min ago 💬 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Robert Eugene Curtis, 35, of Kingston, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, at his home.Private arrangements were from George A. Strish Inc. Funeral Home, 105 N. Main St., Ashley. Start a dialogue, stay on topic and be civil. If you don't follow the rules, your comment may be deleted. User Legend: ModeratorTrusted User Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Robert Eugene Curtis Kingston Arrangement George A. Strish Inc Pass Away Ashley Recent Obituaries Bogdon, Thomas Bronack, Joseph E. Butchko, Rosemarie Cicon, Anna Curtis, Robert Eugene Cutter, Mary Rita Denman, Ronald Dudzik, Paul S. Exter, Alexander Paul Gibson, Kathleen R. "Kathy" Gibson, Kathleen R. "Kathy" Jesikiewicz, Rosalie C. Karnis, Kristopher "Big Kris" Kasisky, Phoenix R. Nevel Sr., Donald W. Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. Local Obituaries Each day's obituaries, delivered to your inbox. Please enter a valid email address. Sign up Manage your lists Parade Parade
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ALLENTOWN (Video courtesy of Service Electric) - Bailey Falter and three relievers combined on a four-hitter as the IronPigs completed a three-game sweep with a 7-1 victory over Charlotte on Sunday at Coca-Cola Park.
Lehigh Valley broke the game open with three runs in the seventh inning and added three more in the fourth. Simon Muzziotti, Jim Haley and Esteban Quiroz all drove in two runs for the IronPigs and Vito Friscia had three hits.
Lehigh Valley will head to Toledo to begin a six-game series on Tuesday.
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Selma Blair poses with cane on Vogue cover amid MS battle: ‘Wished myself dead’
The 'Cruel Intentions' star was diagnosed with MS in 2018
Selma Blair is taking a stand in her battle with multiple sclerosis, commonly known as MS.
The 50-year-old actress struck a powerful pose while holding a cane on the cover of British Vogue’s May 2023 issue.
The "Cruel Intentions" star stunned in a golden-beige gown with stylish cutouts. She stood with confidence while holding her black and silver cane.
The cover read, "Selma Blair, Reframing Fashion, Dynamic, Daring & Disabled."
‘DANCING WITH THE STARS’: SELMA BLAIR'S SON CALLS MOM 'MS SUPERHERO' AFTER BLINDFOLDED PERFORMANCE
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"I have an emotional and physical attachment to the cane," she shared during the British Vogue cover interview.
"I settle in my voice and body as soon as I hold [it]. It’s an extension of me. And I know it adds to visibility. So many younger people have started publicly embracing their sticks more. I do think representation matters. If I can help remove stigma or over-curiosity in a crowd for someone else, then that’s great."
Blair detailed her experience with MS and pointed out that she lived with the disease for 40 years before being diagnosed. She expressed that she’s done staying quiet on the subject.
"If you’re a boy with those symptoms, you get an MRI. If you’re a girl, you’re called ‘crazy.’"
The "Legally Blonde" star continued to candidly speak out about how she suffered from MS all those years, and doctors disregarded her symptoms for decades.
SELMA BLAIR SAYS SHE'S 'IN REMISSION' FROM MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: 'MY PROGNOSIS IS GREAT'
Blair added that when she was growing up, she would wake up in the middle of the night laughing hysterically, and as an adult she experienced "waves of uncontrollable crying that came out of nowhere."
"I just thought I was a hugely emotional person," Blair noted.
While she was not yet diagnosed with MS, Blair said, her frontal lobe became damaged, which is equivalent of a brain injury, according to the media outlet.
She did not get a diagnosis until 40 years later.
"I looked like a ‘normal’ girl to them," she remarked, "but I was Disabled this whole time."
Blair went on to share her symptoms and said that her condition fluctuates.
She told British Vogue that on a good day, she is laughing and out of the house with friends. On a bad day, she is vomiting, collapsed in bed.
"Sometimes I can’t eat for days, and then when I can relax, I overdo it and all the hunger rushes in. I require more sleep than a bear in winter."
Blair revealed for decades that she felt alone and ashamed living without a diagnosis that made her mind spiral into dark thoughts.
"As an adult, the lassitude and anxiety became terrifying, actually. I made mistakes. Wished myself dead. Attempted suicide. A few times. Out of desperation."
The actress first shared that she'd been diagnosed with the disease, which causes the immune system to attack the protective covering of nerve fibers and impacts communication between the brain and the body, in 2018.
She has been in remission since 2021, when she underwent stem cell transplantation to treat the condition.
The Hollywood actor reflected on her career and admitted she was terrified that her illness would interfere with her work.
"I was worried since the beginning of time that a glaring fault would remove me from the workforce. And usually it was my incoordination or getting stuck, too weak or sick, in my trailer – or any time, really. The vomiting or body issues were terrifying, [and the] baldness or rashes."
Blair was terrified of being "found out" and said she had been living in "terror."
After her tumultuous ride with MS, Blair is proud to be an advocate for the disabled community and work with disabled allies.
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"I didn’t imagine I could ever make a difference by showing up as myself and being open about my experiences. But when others with mobility aids rallied around my presence on the red carpet with a cane and in the midst of an MS flare, I noticed. I felt empowered to share. . . . Now it’s a conscious choice to."
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Blair said she finds joy in simply walking her dog or creatively moving furniture around her home in the middle of the night.
"I am so grateful for the peaceful hours now."
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
1-1-2-7, FIREBALL: 1
(one, one, two, seven; FIREBALL: one)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
1-1-2-7, FIREBALL: 1
(one, one, two, seven; FIREBALL: one)
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Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy's dance team is growing.
After opening up to fans about her fertility journey, the "Dancing With the Stars" pro is officially pregnant, a rep for the couple confirms to E! News.
Murgatroyd also shared the happy news on her Instagram Jan. 13. "It brings me immense joy to finally announce that @maksimc and I are expecting our Chmerkovskiy #2," she captioned photos of her growing baby bump. "After 2 years of constant struggle and heartache, 3 miscarriages and a failed embryo transfer…we have a healthy bun in the oven :)) It was a shock to all of us and we found out right before I was going in for my second round of IVF."
"I want to thank ALL OF YOU who've been on this fertility journey with me from the beginning," she continued. "It feels like I'm sharing this news with my extended family. Thank you for sharing your stories and tips to get me through my IVF cycle and thank you for the plethora of encouraging comments and DM's …I read them all."
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Murgatroyd, 36, and Chmerkovskiy, 42, who share 6-year-old son Shai, will welcome their bundle of joy in June.
Murgatroyd's pregnancy news comes just months after Chmerkovskiy spoke exclusively to E! News about the couple's journey to expand their family.
"We still want a family that's bigger than what we are," Chmerkovskiy shared in October. "We are still going to continue attempts and we'll see what happens, regardless of the fact we're going to have a bigger family whether through adoption or whatever this may be."
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As he noted, "This is not over for us."
People was first to share the pregnancy news.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has found no evidence of an atmosphere at one of the seven rocky, Earth-sized planets orbiting a nearby star.
Scientists said Monday that doesn’t bode well for the rest of the planets in this solar system, some of which are in the sweet spot for harboring water and potentially life.
The NASA-led team reported little if no atmosphere exists at the innermost planet in the Trappist system, 40 light-years away. The researchers used a special technique geared toward a warm planet like this one. Results were published Monday in the journal Nature.
The lack of an atmosphere would mean no water and no protection from cosmic rays, said NASA’s Thomas Greene, the lead researcher.
As for the other planets orbiting the small, feeble Trappist star, “I would have been more optimistic about the others” having atmospheres if this one had, Greene said in an email.
Because this innermost planet is bombarded by solar radiation — four times as much as Earth gets from our sun — it’s possible that extra energy is why there’s no atmosphere, Greene noted.
More observations are planned not only of this planet, but the others in the Trappist system.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Todd Haimes, who led the Roundabout Theatre Company from an off-off-Broadway company teetering on the edge of bankruptcy into a major theatrical force with works on five stages — including three Broadway theaters — and dozens of Tony Awards, has died. He was 66.
Haimes, the artistic director and CEO of the nonprofit Roundabout, died in New York City on Wednesday due to complications from cancer, according to Matt Polk, his longtime friend and spokesperson.
“Rest in peace, Mr. Haimes,” actor Mark Ruffalo, who starred in a Roundabout revival of “The Price” on Broadway in 2017, wrote on Twitter. “You were a wonderful and kind soul. Thank you for the chance to work at the Roundabout with you. You will be missed on Broadway, the theater world, and the world at large.”
Broadway shows under Haimes' 39-year tenure include “The Real Thing” with Ewan McGregor, “A Soldier's Play" with David Alan Grier and “On the Twentieth Century” with Kristin Chenoweth. Other triumphs include ”The Humans," the 2011 revival of “Anything Goes” with Sutton Foster and “Nine” with Jane Krakowski.
Roundabout had a long, successful history with "Cabaret," reviving it in 1998 with the Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall-directed version starring Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson and then reviving it again with Cumming and Sienna Miller in 2014.
During Haimes’s tenure, Roundabout shows won 34 Tony Awards, 58 Drama Desk Awards, 73 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 21 Lucille Lortel Awards and 14 Obie Awards.
Haimes was a Yale MBA who was appointed Roundabout executive director in 1983 to a company that had been in Chapter 11 since 1977 and was evicted from its space on 23rd Street. By 1991, Haimes had Roundabout operating its own venue at its first Broadway home at the now-closed Criterion Center at Broadway and 45th Street.
The company's early successes include “Anna Christie” starring Liam Neeson and Richardson, and a revival of “She Loves Me,” both in 1993. He instituted the Early Curtain series in 1993, which saw 7 p.m. openings to attract the after-work crowd.
Roundabout grew to encompass the American Airlines Theatre, the Studio 54 theater, the Stephen Sondheim Theatre and the off-Broadway Laura Pels Theatre and another black box in the basement of the Pels.
His leadership included outreach and education programs and also provided a home to emerging playwrights as part of the Roundabout Underground program. Alumni include Stephen Karam, Lindsey Ferrentino, Steven Levenson, Joshua Harmon and Ming Peiffer.
“He changed my life, and the lives of countless others in New York theater. We all mourn his loss,” wrote Warren Leight, whose play “Side Man” made it to Broadway in 1998 thanks to Haimes.
He is survived by his wife, Jeanne-Marie Haimes; a daughter, Hilary Haimes; a son, Andrew Haimes; two stepdaughters and three grandsons and a granddaughter.
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Linktree launches new Web3 features to continue to empower creators
MELBOURNE, Australia, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Linktree, the link-in-bio category leader enabling creators to streamline their online identity and monetise their following, today announced a new set of NFT features for creators in the Web3 space. Linktree users can seamlessly showcase NFTs and build a community around ownership, adding more value to creators across the digital universe.
While Web3 remains at a nascent stage, it offers creators tremendous power through new models of patronage, future investment and ownership. With the introduction of the new NFT capabilities, Linktree is solidifying its commitment to empower the creator community by enabling new ways for creators to monetise their craft and curate a digital identity. Several of the features specified below were developed in partnership with OpenSea, the world's largest NFT marketplace.
Following Linktree's recent $110M USD raise, the business is focusing on introducing new revenue streams and creating further value for creators and brands. With a significant and continuously growing creator base with a strong affinity for Web3, Linktree is excited to empower these individuals to showcase, curate, and grow these digital offerings.
Linktree's Web3 features include:
- NFT Gallery Link: The NFT Gallery link allows Linktree users to showcase NFTs right on their Linktree. Creators can add the URL of an OpenSea collection to generate a preview, and have the option of connecting their Metamask wallets to verify ownership of the collection. Alternatively, creators can connect their Metamask wallets and pick up to six owned NFTs to display them in the NFT gallery. Visitors can then click through to OpenSea to view and purchase the available NFTs.
- NFT Profile Image and Background: By connecting their wallet, creators can use their NFTs as their profile images or backgrounds on their Linktree. Verified NFTs will be displayed in a hexagonal frame to make them stand apart as profile images, and backgrounds will have a verification badge at the bottom of the creator's Linktree. Visitors can then click to find out more about the NFT on Linktree. Linktree is leveraging OpenSea and Metamask to power this verification.
- NFT Lock: NFT creators can lock their links using a smart contract address. Only visitors who own NFTs from a particular collection can unlock the link by connecting their wallets to prove ownership. This feature allows creators to make the distribution of benefits easier, thus making it more worthwhile to own an NFT from their collection.
Alex Zaccaria, co-founder and CEO of LInktree, shared: "Web3 and the power of blockchain has granted creators exciting ways to monetise their passions and build their community. As the creator ecosystem migrates towards this new iteration of the internet, Linktree is excited to provide a home for creators to aggregate their digital assets and showcase what's important to them."
Regarding the partnership between Linktree and OpenSea: "Linktree is hyper-focused on empowering all creators through partnerships & integrations with the platforms they rely on to grow and monetise," says Nick Rizzuto, Head of Partnerships & Innovation at Linktree. "Millions of people have chosen Linktree as their 'digital home' to bring together what's most important to them, and so we wanted to give users a tangible means to display their digital art. OpenSea has been at the forefront of introducing the world to NFTs and is already widely popular on Linktree, so they were a natural partner to help power this functionality."
Ryan Foutty, VP of Business Development at OpenSea adds "The new Linktree x OpenSea integration allows users to prominently display the work they've created or proudly collected, now just one click away on Linktree. We know many NFT creators and collectors already use Linktree to link to their collections on OpenSea, and we're excited that the Linktree integration makes NFT displays that much more seamless and engaging."
Linktree is dedicated to supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion as it continues to empower creators around the world. To amplify this mission, Linktree has purchased a 'World of Women Galaxy' from the 'World of Women' collective, which is a community who are taking action to increase diversity in the NFT space, educate and onboard the next generation of creators, and promote equal opportunities for all . Linktree is also committed to maintaining its climate positive status by continuing to invest in green projects as it adds more Web3 features.
As one of the top 300 most popular website destinations globally, with over 1.2 billion monthly views, Linktree continues to prioritise the needs of creators, consumers and brands.
About Linktree
Linktree enables creators, brands, artists, publishers, agencies, and businesses of all sizes to curate an online ecosystem, engage with their audience and monetise their passion. Linktree is among the top 300 most popular website destinations globally, with 1.2 billion unique visitors a month.
In 2021 alone, Linktree enabled over 1 million artists to generate 90 million visits to streaming providers – twice as many artists and three times as many clicks as in the year prior. The platform is utilised by more than 24 million creators, artists, and brands globally including TikTok, Selena Gomez, Noah Beck, Bella Poarch, Red Bull, Shawn Mendes, the Los Angeles Clippers, Comedy Central, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, and HBO.
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Islamic State group says leader Abu al-Hassan al-Qurayshi killed in battle
BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed in battle recently, the group’s spokesman said in audio released Wednesday. He gave no further details.
Al-Qurayshi is the second IS leader to be killed this year at a time when the extremist group has been trying to rise again with its sleeper cells carrying out deadly attacks in Iraq and Syria.
Little had been known about al-Qurayshi, who took over the group’s leadership following the death of his predecessor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, in a U.S. raid in February in northwest Syria.
The death marked a blow to the group that was defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria two years later. The announcement by IS spokesman Abu Omar al-Muhajer came at a time when IS has been trying to carry out deadly attacks in parts of Syria and Iraq the extremists once declared a caliphate.
“He died fighting the enemies of God killing some of them before being killed like a man on the battlefield,” al-Muhajer said.
Al-Muhajer said that Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi was named as the group’s new leader.
“He is one of the veteran warriors and one of the loyal sons of the Islamic State,” al-Muhajer said. Little is also known about Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi.
Asked in Washington about al-Qurayshi’s death, the spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council, John Kirby, said: “We certainly welcome the news of the death of another ISIS leader. I don’t have any additional operational details to provide at this time.”
Al-Qurayshi is the third leader to be killed since founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was hunted down by the Americans in a raid in northwest in October 2019.
No one claimed responsibility for the killing.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck near the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe on Friday and was felt as far away as Puerto Rico.
The quake occurred at a depth of 103 miles (166 kilometers) just west of Guadeloupe, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Strong earthquakes have occasionally struck the eastern Caribbean. A magnitude 7.4 quake that struck in November 2007 caused damage in the French Caribbean island of Martinique and power outages in the region. A magnitude 6.0 quake that hit in November 2004 near Dominica killed at least one person in Guadeloupe.
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Though she might have been a teen girl's dream in the '90s, Keri Russell's 11-year-old daughter, Willa, is not impressed by her role as the shy college student, Felicity.
"My daughter about a year ago -- she's kind of mature for her age and she was bored one day -- I said, 'Hey, Willa, I did this show about this college girl and you might think it's cool. It's really sweet,'" Russell recalled on Wednesday's Jimmy Kimmel Live. "And so I showed it to her. I put it on and I downloaded an episode from Amazon or wherever you get it these days."
But despite her mom's enthusiasm for sharing her past work with her, Willa was not interested in the series.
"After about 15 minutes, she turned it off and she went, 'Ugh, mom, it's so cringy.' She was actually grossed out by me," the mother of three shared. "I was like, 'Oh, I thought you might like it.' And she was like, 'Ugh, so cringy.'"
Upon reflection, Russell seemed to understand why Willa might not be as interested in Felicity, noting, "Like, why would you think I'd want to watch your college experience making out with weird boys and stuff?"
The beloved series, created by J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves, ran for four seasons from 1998 to 2002 and co-starred Scott Speedman and Scott Foley. Russell shares Willa and son River, 15, with her ex-husband, Shane Deary. She's also mom to 6-year-old son, Sam, with current husband Matthew Rhys.
In 2021, Russell told ET of Felicity, "I think it was the first story that I really loved... it was the first character that I really cared about."
As for a reboot, she added at the time, "I'll do it. People need a feel-good something and that would definitely be a feel-good something."
During Wednesday's Jimmy Kimmel Live, Russell noted that Willa had not seen her childhood role on The Mickey Mouse Club either, noting, "I feel like she might like that."
And also on Thursday's episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, Russell shares that though she was about five years older than some of the MMC's most famous members, including Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, and Ryan Gosling, "they were wildly talented."
Now Russell is currently promoting her new film, Cocaine Bear, which is directed by Elizabeth Banks.
"Banks called me, it was like in the middle of COVID... the whole world was broken," Russell told ET at the film's premiere earlier this week. "And I just thought, 'This is exactly what we should make!'"
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Which tablets are best for travel and why?
Revenge travel is a thing. People want to make up for all the time they lost over these past couple of years by having a luxury vacation. Whether beaches, mountains or even a foreign country is your destination this year, you’ll want to pack accordingly. For many, that means bringing essential gadgets.
A tablet is ideal because it can do anything your laptop can and more. But not all tablets are ideal for travel. Size and weight can make the difference between convenience and burden, for instance, so you want to be sure you have a suitable model for travel.
Summer vacation essentials
When you go on a vacation, you need to pack a temporary life. This includes everything you need to live while you are gone. Some of us think we require a lot more than we really do. Others never bring enough. As with nearly everything, balance is the answer. Still, with summer, besides undergarments, toiletries, appropriate clothing, medicines and money, there are a few unique items you need to fit in your suitcase.
- Sunscreen
- Lip balm
- Sandals
- Bathing suits
- Towels
- A hat
- Sunglasses
- Beach toys
- Entertainment
Why bring a tablet on vacation?
If you have everything on your phone, you might wonder why you even need to bring a tablet on vacation. You probably don’t need a tablet if it’s just a day trip or even a weekend. However, once you get into the territory of staying for a week or more, you’ll find a tablet comes in handy.
Stream entertainment
There was a time when going on vacation meant you had access to things like movies and cable channels that you couldn’t get at home. Now, as long as you have connectivity and a device, you can access nearly any movie or TV show you want to watch, no matter where you are, even on a camping trip. A tablet has a larger screen than your phone, so it is much easier on your eyes, and more than one person can view it simultaneously.
Unlimited reading
With access to online books, you no longer have to worry about packing enough reading material for the entire trip. Even better, if you pick a book that doesn’t meet your expectations, you aren’t stuck finishing it. You can just move on and find a real page-turner.
Create in the moment
One of the best ways to get your creative juices flowing is to have a change of scenery. New locations spark new ideas. If you bring your tablet along, you don’t have to wait until you get home to let the muse take control. You can start creating when you are inspired. This can be writing poetry, drawing, composing a song or even finally starting that great American novel or screenplay that’s been living inside you for many years.
Pretend you aren’t on vacation
If you’re one of the many people working remotely, you know that you’re not limited to only working at home. With a tablet and connectivity, your boss doesn’t have to know you are finishing your work with your toes in the sand and a cool drink by your side. You could go away for weeks at a time and not have to worry about using up any of your PTO.
Considerations
Space
The first and foremost thought when packing is space. Fortunately, a tablet doesn’t take up much room, so it is easy to take anywhere. If screen size isn’t vital, you can purchase a tablet that isn’t much larger than a book. According to the FAA, a tablet is an approved carry-on item if you are flying, so you don’t even have to pack it in your luggage.
Weight
Weight is one thing you shouldn’t worry about with a tablet. Even the heaviest model will weigh less than two pounds, so that shouldn’t impact your packing.
Consider purchasing a tablet case
If you are going to be traveling with your tablet, even if it is water-resistant, dustproof and shockproof, it is best to put it in a tablet case. Not only will the case give you peace of mind when trying to cram your device in that already overfilled suitcase, but the best models add functionality, such as a keyboard or a stand that props the screen up for easy viewing.
Capabilities
To be of value on your vacation, the tablet you get needs to be able to do what you want it to do. While most models are fairly universal, make sure suitable apps are available. You don’t want to get to your destination and find you can’t open that urgent Word document from work.
Connectivity
If you plan ahead then connectivity won’t be as big of a deal. Yes, you will need to touch base with your work and stay connected via Slack or Discord, but you can do that on your phone. As far as entertainment goes, many streaming apps, such as Netflix, have a download option. This means you can download content before you leave, so you won’t have to worry about setting up a hot spot and having a strong signal. However, it does mean you will need a tablet with enough internal storage to download everything you want to watch and read while on vacation.
Price
While everyone has a different level of comfort, there is a greater risk of damage or theft while traveling. When going on vacation, you might have greater peace of mind knowing that you are bringing along an item that only costs a few hundred dollars, not a few thousand.
Best tablets for summer vacation
Apple iPad Pro 12.9-Inch Tablet
If you want a high-end tablet that gives you the best experience, whether you are creating, streaming, working or whatever, this is the model you should consider. It is pricier, so only go with this option if you can protect it from damage while enjoying your fun in the sun.
Not only can you get work done on vacation, you can use this tablet as a camera. It has a rotatable 13-megapixel high-res camera and comes with a kickstand that supports the 11-inch tablet in either portrait or landscape mode.
Sold by HP
The Surface is Microsoft’s innovative model that helped change the mobile computing game. It is reasonably priced and highly versatile. The battery lasts up to 11 hours and has a USB-C port and a headphone jack. If you have to get work done, Word, Excel and PowerPoint all work on this tablet.
This is a great option for travel because it has a large 11-inch display and Dolby Atmos Quad speakers to deliver a premium streaming experience, no matter where you are. It is a versatile and affordable option.
Sold by Lenovo
This model is very highly recommended for travel because its trademark kid-proof case makes it an extremely rugged device. It also comes with a two-year worry-free guarantee, which means the company will replace your tablet if it does happen to break.
Sold by Amazon
Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 Android Tablet
Samsung is a recognized name in quality devices. This tablet is best for Android fan. It is thin and light but has a smaller screen at 8 inches. This makes it great for travel but not ideal for viewing content with another person unless you like snuggling.
Sold by Amazon, Dell and Staples
Hyundai HYtab Pro 8LA1 8-Inch Tablet
The Hyundai is another small, affordable tablet that is tiny enough to be taken anywhere. This device runs on Android 11, which is about 20% faster than Android 10, making it a good choice for vacation streaming. The tablet features an expandable microSD slot that supports up to 128GB of additional storage.
Sold by Staples
The most affordable tablet just got an upgrade. The new 12th generation model has twice the RAM of the previous Fire 7 and it is 30% faster. At just 7 inches, it is also the smallest. This makes it an excellent choice for an individual looking for a budget offering that is easy to pack.
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DENVER — We're down to the conference finals in the NHL's Stanley Cup Playoffs and what a couple of matchups we have. No matter what team you're a fan of, if you love hockey, you have to at least be a little excited for these player matchups we're getting.
On one hand, in the Western Conference, we're getting an Oilers vs. Avalanche matchup that includes four top 10 NHL skaters in Edmonton's Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl and Colorado's Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar. On the Eastern Conference side, you have the two-time defending champ Lightning taking on the Rangers, a team hardly anyone expected to get this far. That matchup features two of the NHL's best goalies in Andrei Vasilevskiy and Igor Shesterkin.
With just four teams left, Conn Smythe Trophy buzz is heating up ahead of the conference finals. The annual award is given to the most valuable player in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, almost always to a player on the team that wins the Stanley Cup.
Last year, Tampa Bay's Andrei Vasilevskiy became the first goaltender to win the award since Jonathan Quick in 2012. It's happened three times now in the past decade.
Oddsmakers in Vegas have released who their top candidates are before the conference finals, with MacKinnon and Makar leading the way, as the Avalanche are the favorite out of the remaining four teams to win the Stanley Cup.
Top five Conn Smythe candidates
Nathan Mackinnon, F, COL
While Edmonton's Connor McDavid is arguably the best player in hockey and the best player remaining in the playoffs, the Avalanche are heavily favored to defeat the Oilers and eventually go on to win the cup. So that leaves Avs stars MacKinnon and Makar as the top two candidates.
MacKinnon has been very solid in the playoffs thus far with 13 points in 10 games including eight goals over those 10 games.
Cale Makar, D, COL
Makar has been arguably just as impressive in the playoffs as MacKinnon, matching his 13 points but with 10 assists and three goals. The 23-year-old defenseman finished the regular season with 86 points, second in the league among defensemen (Roman Josi, 96) and he'll look to keep creating chances for Colorado in the Western Conference Finals.
Connor McDavid, F, EDM
He's the best player on the ice whenever he's on it and if you have ever watched an Edmonton Oilers game, you know what I'm talking about. Connor McDavid's dazzling speed and fluidity is mesmerizing.
His biggest obstacle to winning the award comes here in the Western Conference Finals, as he'll need to will his team to a series victory. He currently is tied for the lead in playoff points at 26 in 14 games, along with his teammate Leon Draisaitl. McDavid has seven goals and 19 assists in the playoffs. He also led the NHL in points in the regular season with 123 (44 goals, 79 assists).
Andrei Vasilevskiy, G, TBL
If the Lightning are going to three-peat, it's going to take some more stellar play from Russian goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy, who has been dominant the last several years in the playoffs.
Among goalies that have played more than 10 games during this Stanley Cup Playoffs, Vasi leads in goals against average with 2.23. He's gone 8-3 in 11 games. He also leads all goalies who have played in 10+ playoff games this year with a .932 save percentage, just ahead of his Eastern Conference Finals opponent Igor Shesterkin (.928). He was able to get the Conn Smythe last year, and if the Lightning can get another cup, he could certainly do it again.
Leon Draisaitl, F, EDM
He's almost just as much as a scoring threat as Connor McDavid and he's on his team. How is that fair? Leon Draisaitl has the co-lead for playoff points with 26, along with McDavid. In the regular season, the 26-year-old center finished fourth in the league in points with 110, just 13 behind his teammate.
That makes him a threat for the Conn Smythe award, IF the Oilers can get past the Avalanche and go on to win the cup. He's a bit more of a scoring threat than McDavid, as McDavid collects so many points on assists. Draisaitl had 55 goals and 55 assists in the regular season while McDavid had 44 goals. So, if the Oilers can get to the finals and Draisaitl racks up the goals in that series, he could grab the trophy.
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OTTAWA, OH (WLIO) - All nine school districts in Putnam County showcased their artistic and musical talents under one roof.
The 10th annual Putnam County Arts Festival was held at Ottawa-Glandorf High School Sunday afternoon. Over 1,000 pieces of visual art from all grade levels were on display, and choir and band students from the different schools in the county performed together.
Some schools in Putnam County have smaller numbers of students, so hosting a joint arts festival lets those students see what their peers are capable of and what they can learn from each other as artists.
"It's a great way for them to collaborate with some other students and also some feedback we've gotten from kids in the past is it just builds up their confidence. They realize they can perform and play with other good musicians, and also they can see that their art, visual art displays that they do can match up with other kids too," said Gary Herman, the curriculum coordinator at the Putnam County Educational Service Center.
A professor from Bluffton University came to judge the high school art exhibit and awarded fifteen best-in-show ribbons.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Oakland’s last-ditch effort to revive an antitrust lawsuit against the National Football League over the Raiders’ move to Las Vegas in 2020.
The city had been seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in its claim that the league violated federal antitrust law by acting like a “cartel” that sent the Raiders away when Oakland refused to meet the NFL’s “increasingly exorbitant” demand for public money to build a new stadium.
The federal appeals court in San Francisco rejected the lawsuit, and the justices said Monday they would not intervene.
The Raiders were involved in an earlier antitrust suit against the NFL, when owner Al Davis wanted to move the team from Oakland to Los Angeles.
Davis eventually won his lawsuit and the Raiders moved south in 1982, only to return to Oakland in 1995.
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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — Kellen Amos had 20 points in Central Connecticut’s 82-73 victory over Hartford on Wednesday night.
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ROGERS, Ark. — The best of what makes Arkansas a nature-lovers paradise, from trails to tailgates, will be showcased all under one roof at the Channel 5 Presents Ozarks Home & Outdoor Recreation Expo on Oct. 21-23, 2022 at the Rogers Convention Center.
The only fall expo will feature more than 100 local and national businesses that maximize the outdoor quality of life in your backyard and beyond.
This three-day event will give you and your family many ways to explore the Ozarks beautiful and bountiful nature areas and help you build that same sense of wonder into your own home, decor and outdoor spaces.
Outdoor enthusiasts will be able to explore and shop with various outdoor exhibitors, all under one roof. Vendors will have on-site demonstrations and activities, along with prizes and giveaways.
Outdoor categories include, but are not limited to:
- Hiking
- Biking
- Kayaking
- Canoeing
- Boating
- Camping
- Climbing
- Golfing
- RVs
- ATVs
- Outfitters
- Guides and much more
Make your backyard the best with hot tubs, spas, turf and more.
Thousands will head to the expo to enjoy what NWA has to offer, including food trucks from our favorite local eateries.
Exhibitors can expect a show with a fully immersive experience, top-notch customer service and a sense of community and compassion that ensures they are receiving nothing but the best in personalized and genuine support.
The Ozark Home & Outdoor Recreation Expo is brought to you by the same company as the NWA Home & Outdoor Living Expo, which is the area’s largest spring home and outdoor show.
Exhibitor space is limited, so contact Rebecca Coombs at 479-283-4942 or ozarksrecshow@gmail.com to reserve expo space today.
Channel 5 is a proud presenter of the Ozarks Home & Outdoor Recreation Expo.
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JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – The border economy continues its post-COVID-19 recovery, with manufacturing in Juarez being one of the main drivers.
Juarez has created 19,000 new year-over-year jobs compared to El Paso, Texas’ 5,800 and Las Cruces’ 3,500, according to the latest monthly Paso del Norte Economic Indicator Review from the Hunt Institute at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Most of Juarez’s new jobs (11,800) are in manufacturing, where 330 U.S.-run factories known as maquiladoras are churning out components for automakers in Detroit, computer boards for Asian clients and medical devices for the U.S. market.
But local stakeholders worry their workforce may not be keeping up with global trends. Sixty percent of maquiladoras here cater to the automotive industry, which has begun a transition toward electrical vehicles. Production lines are increasingly automated.
That’s why the state of Chihuahua, the Juarez Maquiladora Association (Index), and the Juarez Technological University (UTCJ) are starting a high-tech training program — the Index Juarez University — for current and future maquiladora employees.
“We have received inquiries from investors all over the world that demand a highly skilled workforce. They want workers competent in skills that are not part of college curricula,” said Oscar Ibanez, the ranking state official in Juarez.
The Index Juarez University this fall will begin training its first cadre of engineering students and graduates in industry-specific information technology, international commerce, advanced English, and mechatronics – a science that combines mechanics, electronics and computing. They will train on Saturdays so they can continue their studies or go on with their jobs on weekdays.
“It will be based on what the industry needs. We will try to match the needs of industry and provide specialization to reduce the gap between what (is taught) at schools versus the actual jobs,” said Sergio Colin, president-elect of Index-Juarez.
He said the maquiladora association is embarking on similar projects all over Mexico to attract more foreign investment with the lure of the highly skilled workers their manufacturing operations require.
“We need to provide the (utility) services, the buildings, the infrastructure they need and also the people they need,” Colin said. “Juarez has excellent people for the jobs of today but we need to make sure we provide the more specialized (workers) they need.”
The training also will give these engineers and skilled technicians the bargaining power to secure better-paying jobs. That is something that Juarez Chamber of Industry President Thor Salayandia says is badly needed on the border.
Wages still an issue for maquiladora workers
“We are coming out of very difficult years due to the (COVID-19) pandemic. New investment is coming in from abroad. New industrial parks are already under construction,” Salayandia said. “(But) wages in Juarez are very low. Most industry is cost-center, with budgets well defined and with limitations on how much they can pay the worker.”
Salayandia said it’s time for Juarez to attract new industry that comes here not just because of affordable workers or the closeness to the United States, but because of the skill of its workforce. Maquiladoras are Juarez’s principal employer, with more than 300,000 workers on their payroll.
“To be a city with low wages is complicated because we will continue to be a city with little development,” he said, referring to limited individual purchasing power in Juarez and a tax base that limits infrastructure improvements. “We need to bring in a different type of manufacturing operation […] Those who can put out a (finished) product, not just those that fill orders for other companies and, thus, have limited wages.”
According to Glassdoor.com.mx, the base pay for a production operator in Juarez is $310 a month, compared to $2,400 a month for an engineer involved in manufacturing. Industry officials say production operators typically get additional stipends for attendance, punctuality and production goals met. Meal, transportation and new employee bonuses also are offered by some plants.
Colin said he could not share more detail about which companies will benefit from Index Juarez University because of non-disclosure agreements with the plants.
But, “believe me, many in local industry are involved in (finding a role) in that new electrical mobility. So, we are on track,” he said.
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Welcome to the LGBTQ Pride Month edition of Our Roots newsletter.
Pride Month is held annually in June to honor LGBTQ people’s rights after the liberation of the 1969 Stonewall Riots.
There are several safe space events going on throughout Central Florida for Pride Month. These events are focused on healing and community support by several LGBTQ organizations.
LGBTQ TOURISTS FLOCK TO FLORIDA
Thousands of LGBTQ+ tourists flooded into Central Florida the first weekend of June to celebrate the annual Gay Days events. Three hotels were home to both men and women this year: Gay Days at Disney, One Magical Weekend and Girls in Wonderland. To find more about the events visit our story here.
LEGACY WORK FOR PULSE SURVIVORS & SUPPORT STAFF
June 9, June 13
QLatinx will host a legacy work event Friday at 6 p.m. for employees of organizations that support survivors and community members affected by the Pulse tragedy. Then on June 13, a virtual event “Community Care Rooms” will be hosted for community members, first responders and organizational staff to debrief. These are a series of events QLatinx is hosting focused on healing and support throughout the month of June.
To see a full list of the other events visit here.
PRIDE OF COLOR EVENT
June 24, at Kaya
Local organizations will be hosting an event to recognize Queer Black, Indigenous, Asian American, Latinx, Pacific Islander, communities. The event is being held at KAYA on June 24 from 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. Tickets are free. Peer Support Space will have a decompression space and care packages The event will have artists, performances, food, and education from (Contigo, QLatinX, The Center, Pineapple Healthcare and more)
To get tickets or find out more about the event visit here.
LAKE COUNTY TO HOST FIRST-EVER “PRIDE” EVENT
June 17, at Wooton Park
Lake County will have its first LGBTQIA+ PRIDE event. The celebration is set to take place at Wooton Park on June 17. There will be drag entertainment, food, vendors, and live music. For more information visit here.
7-YEAR PULSE REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY
June 12, Steinmetz Hall @ DPAC
The ceremony is free and can all be viewed on the onePULSE Foundation Facebook page, as well as ClickOrlando.com. The event will honor and bring together Pulse nightclub victims’ families, providing a space to remember their loved ones in peace.
To reserve a free seat, visit, www.drphillipscenter.org
Thank you for spending your time with me today on the special edition of Our Roots newsletter honoring our local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer community. If you have a story idea or photos you would like to share from this month’s events, feel free to reach out to me, Vic Price (she/her/they) at VPrice@wkmg.com .
To see more in-depth coverage of Pride Month, please visit https://www.clickorlando.com/topic/Pride_Month/
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Opinion: Who gets to be an ‘L.A. Pilates girl’?
In January, TikTok creator lizzyhopz went viral with a video in which she chanted: “L.A. Pilates girl, beige, white, ivory.” She was mocking the neutral palette typically seen in Pilates studios as boring interior design choices.
As a Pilates devotee, I thought of her lyrics during a recent workout. Everyone around me was a shade of beige, white or ivory. It made me wonder: Who gets to be an L.A. Pilates girl? An exercise that was intended to be based in community has become exclusive, from what I’ve seen, with mostly wealthy white women dominating Los Angeles’ Pilates culture. In a city known for fitness, people of color like me don’t always feel welcome in such spaces, and because they’re so expensive, some exercise outlets can feel out of reach.
In recent years we’ve seen a rise in body acceptance and fat inclusivity, but thinness has remained a goal for women.
There are various forms of Pilates. Some workouts only use mats, while what’s known as “reformer Pilates” includes a machine with a sliding seat. The practice has its origins in helping people with mobility challenges. Founder Joseph Pilates created his namesake workout in prison, where he was interned as a German prisoner of war by the British during World War I. Pilates’ focus was on rehabilitation: He created an early prototype of the reformer Pilates machine by attaching springs to sliding hospital beds so that injured patients who were unable to walk could have their own opportunities for physical movement. Later, in New York, his techniques caught on with dancers. His protege Kathleen Stanford Grant, a legend in Black dance history, emphasized inclusivity in her work. As Grant put it, “the Joe Pilates studio was open to all races, religions, political views and so forth. And that also goes in the work itself.”
Today classes offering different types of Pilates cost around $30 to $40 per class, while unlimited monthly packages range from $300 to $400 per month. This price point makes Pilates inaccessible for many. The only way I have been able to afford reformer Pilates classes, which are almost always offered through private studios, is through the fitness subscription service ClassPass, and using the discounted corporate rate at that.
Because it’s pricey, Pilates has gained an infamous reputation for being exclusive and white, deterring many of my friends who have expressed interest in the workout. It’s not meant for them, they believe. As an Asian American woman with a larger body size, I can understand. Often, I feel like a sore thumb among a sea of thin white women when I enter a Pilates class. The large mirrors don’t help. Sometimes it feels as though I get ignored by other classmates, such as when they look away when I smile at them. Perhaps I am imagining things, perhaps they were having a bad day, perhaps they didn’t want my presence to disturb their environment. But it’s a sign of how I often don’t feel a sense of belonging or camaraderie in these spaces.
What keeps me coming back to Pilates, however, is my love for the practice itself. The movements look graceful and simple to the outsider, but all Pilates practitioners know how much focus, strength and humility it takes to execute a move. And that’s just during class — much like the New York dancers of the mid-20th century, I’ve noticed improvements in technique, performance and rehabilitation that carries over to other exercise methods and sports that I do. Pilates has helped me lift heavier, stretch deeper in yoga and walk farther without pain.
I wanted to take the prerequisite to martial-arts training to prevent sexual assault, a class that would teach me how to firmly say “no.”
Is there a way to make Pilates more accessible to all — both financially and socially? Harking back to Joseph Pilates’ crafty spirit, I’ve seen TikTokers use benches, rowing machines and the like to create “makeshift” reformer Pilates machines of their own. There are also collectives such as Black Girl Pilates that support both Black female students and instructors. One of my go-to places, the Studio MDR (the most diverse of the studios I’ve attended), has hosted donation-based classes.
When fitness blogs and magazines speak about Pilates, there’s often discussion around Pilates aesthetics, such as what to wear for your workout, and body image, the kind of killer abs you can obtain. The imagery reinforces a standard thin white female as the ideal candidate for this exercise. But the more we shift our conversations around fitness to the benefits of athletic performance, rehabilitation and feeling better in our bodies (no matter the size), the more we can open up these spaces for everyone.
Amanda Walujono, a writer based in Los Angeles, is working on her debut novel. @misamandary
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Aari McDonald is getting better on her reads every day.
The most recent one is slowing down to realize it's time to focus only on her professional playing career.
That's why the Atlanta Dream's starting point guard has decided not to return to the Arizona program as its director of recruiting operations for the 2023-24 season.
Instead, she's going to play professionally overseas during her WNBA offseason.
The UA program announced Wednesday afternoon that they hired Ryan Thorne, who served as the Wildcats’ graphic designer and photographer for the last four years as an undergraduate, to take on her previous staff role.
One person who understood this decision — and even pushed for it — is her coach, Adia Barnes.
"I'm excited for her," Barnes said. "This is what I wanted Aari to do ever since she graduated — to play in the WNBA and overseas. I was sad when Aari left overseas (in 2021) because I know she could be amazing in Europe, make a ton of money and just have a great career -- work, play and get better in the offseason.
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"Even when Aari decided to come to here with me I made her wait a few extra weeks so she for sure knew that she didn't want to play overseas because I thought playing overseas was the best thing for her."
When the opportunity came back around in April, Barnes and McDonald had long conversations about it. In the end, McDonald realized it was the best thing for her playing career.
Barnes told her former player, who helped put Arizona back on the map and led the Wildcats to a WNIT Championship and a spot in the 2021 NCAA championship game, that she "needs to go play."
"I said, 'I'm always going to be here. I'm not going anywhere. You can go play for 2-3-4 years and I'm always here, you can come back after,'" Barnes said. "The door is open for her. I encouraged her and want her to play because I want her to make the most money she can in the prime of her career. I'm going to be at Arizona whether she stops next year or stops in 10 years."
McDonald has a number of offers to play for top teams in Europe and hasn't decided on which one she will take at the moment, Barnes said.
Last fall, she joined Barnes' staff to start her education for the next phase of her life — coaching. She shadowed Barnes all season to learn about everything that goes into leading a program.
McDonald also spent hours training for her third WNBA season while in Tucson. Most days, she put in two or even three workout sessions that included being up at 5 a.m. for a class at F45, lifting, and on the court. The Dream sent a development coach Dale McNeil to Tucson to work on specific parts of her game. McNeil was in Tucson at least twice a month during the last half of the Wildcats’ season.
Barnes and UA assistant coach Salvo Coppa also helped McDonald with her offseason development. Only two games into the season, Barnes has seen a jump in McDonald's performance, especially in her three-point shooting.
She started the first two games of the WNBA season at point guard, with veteran Danielle Robinson out with an injury. On Tuesday night, McDonald hit the go-ahead three-pointer and a key defensive rebound as the Dream came from 19 points down to defeat the Minnesota Lynx 83-77. She dished six assists, which ties her career high.
Barnes is also seeing the intangibles McDonald gained by observing up close what goes into coaching.
"I think seeing what the coach's perspective is, what coaches go through and effective ways to communicate, she learned a lot with me here. I knew it would translate to her as a player and later on as a coach," Barnes said.
McDonald isn't the only former player that Barnes is advising on playing as long as they can. She's also been talking to Sam Thomas, who was waived by the Phoenix Mercury last week and Trinity Baptiste, who is playing in Mexico for this summer season.
"I'm still here; I'll still help them," Barnes said. "These are players I love and I'm going to help them. Like Trinity. I always say to her, 'When you are done give me a call.' If you can play for 10 more years, why not? It's your time to go play, travel the world. I've lived all over the world. It changed my life."
Barnes played professionally overseas and in the WNBA for 13 years. She won the 2004 WNBA Championship with the Seattle Storm.
The program also officially announced the hiring of assistant coach Anthony Turner, director of operations Lauren Flaum and video coordinator Kyle Hutson — all of whom Barnes had shared with The Star on May 6.
Contact sports reporter PJ Brown at pjbrown@tucson.com. On Twitter: @PJBrown09
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It’s time to stock up on Bath & Body Works body care products!
The retailer will be marking down select body care items to their lowest price of the season for one day only: Saturday, April 23. Select body care items, including fine fragrance mist, body lotion, body cream and shower gel in new and best-selling fragrances (including men’s), will be priced at $5.50. Regularly priced between $13.50 and $17.50, you’ll be saving between $8 and 12 per item.
The sale, which will be in stores and online, is the perfect time to stock up on your favorite scents, try some new ones you’ve had your eye on or grab some Mother’s Day gifts.
Because the sale is only good on select body care items, we can’t say exactly which ones will be marked down, but we can show you some of the new and popular fragrances you’ll be able to find.
Butterfly Fragrance Mist
A brand new scent, the Butterfly Fragrance Mist is regularly priced at $17.50, so you’d be saving $12. With fragrance notes of raspberry nectar, iris petals and airy vanilla, Bath & Body Works says it smells like “an inspiring flight through sweet, floral spring air”.
Japanese Cherry Blossom Body Cream
Bath & Body Works’ top trending floral fragrance, Japanese Cherry Blossom, has a new look just in time for Mother’s Day. Made with hyaluronic acid and shea butter, the lotion includes scents of Japanese cherry blossom, Asian pear, fresh mimosa petals, white jasmine and blushing sandalwood.
Ocean 3-in-1 Hair, Face & Body Wash
From Bath & Body Works’ men’s collection, the Ocean 3-in-1 Hair, Face & Body Wash is infused with vitamin E, shea butter and aloe and lathers well to nourish and condition.
With scents of blue cypress, vetiver and coastal air, it will remind you of what it feels like to take a refreshing dip in the ocean.
Rose Tangerine Tea Body Lotion
A new aromatherapy fragrance, the Rose Tangerine Tea Body Lotion would make a great Mother’s Day gift, as it comes in a bottle perfect for displaying in a guest bathroom or on a bedside table.
Lightweight, fast-absorbing and hydrating, the lotion has fragrance notes of tea extract and rose and tangerine essential oils.
Cacao Rose Body Wash & Foam Bath
Featuring another new scent, the Cacao Rose body wash and foam bath from their aromatherapy line is two products in one. You can use it either as a body wash in the shower or bath, or pour some under running water for a luxurious bubble bath.
With fragrance notes of cacao and rose essential oils to inspire feelings of love, beauty and confidence, Bath & Body Works says it smells like an arrangement of flowers and chocolate.
You can find all the body care that will be on sale by visiting Bath & Body Works website on April 23.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of Yuga securities, which were sold as various non-fungible tokens (or "NFTs") and the native token ApeCoin (APE) between April 23, 2021 and December 8, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important February 7, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
The case is against Yuga Labs, Inc., Wylie Aronow, Greg Solano, Kerem Atalay, Zeshan Ali, Nicole Muniz, Jasmin Shoemaker, Patrick Ehrlund, Christopher Lyons, Alexis Ohanian, Amy Wu, Maaria Bajwa, Dean Steinbeck, Guy Oseary, Mike Winkelmann, Madonna Louise Ciccone, Paris Hilton, James Fallon, Electric Hot Dog, Inc., Universal Television, LLC, Justin Bieber, Gwyneth Paltrow, Serena Williams, Thomas Pentz, Austin Richard Post, Calvin Broadus Jr., Kevin Hart, Alexander Pall, Andrew Taggart, Wardell Stephen Curry II, Nayvadius Wilburn Cash, Abel Tesfaye, Khaled Mohammed Khaled, Adidas America Inc., Adidas Venture B.V., Ivan Soto-Wright, and Moonpay USA LLC (together, "Defendants").
SO WHAT: If you purchased Yuga securities, which were sold as a suite of digital assets (including the flagship NFT collection referred to as the Bored Ape Yacht Club ("BAYC") and the native token ApeCoin (APE) on various cryptocurrency exchanges), during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Yuga class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10344 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 7, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants violated provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by making false and misleading statements concerning Yuga's growth prospects, financial ownership, and financial benefits for Yuga securities investors, as well as using celebrity promoters to lure in unsuspecting investors so that Yuga insiders could sell the unregistered Yuga securities in violation of the Securities Act of 1933.
To join the Yuga class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10344 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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This is the second of four investments planned by Paychex to support U.S. worker well-being
ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Paychex, Inc., a leading provider of integrated human capital management software solutions for human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance services, today announced that the hunger relief organization Feeding America® will receive a $1 million grant from the Paychex Charitable Foundation. The grant, which allocates $250,000 annually over four years, will support local food banks that deliver equitable access to nutritious food in key markets where Paychex has a high concentration of employees.
This is the second major gift from the Paychex Charitable Foundation within its strategic giving framework focused on well-being, addressing mental health, physical health, financial health, and professional skills development. In March, Paychex announced a $1 million gift to Mental Health America to support mental and emotional well-being. This gift to Feeding America addresses the second focus area on physical health.
"Our position as one of the country's leading providers of HR solutions has offered us valuable insight into the most pressing issues facing American workers today," said John Gibson, Paychex president and CEO. "Food security is a driving factor in overall health and well-being, providing the foundation to achieve quality education and economic stability in our local communities. Our work with Feeding America will make a meaningful difference in fighting hunger across the U.S."
Feeding America is the nation's largest hunger-relief organization. Through its robust partnership network, the organization provided 5.2 billion meals to people experiencing hunger last year.
"Impacting nearly 34 million people in the US, food insecurity is an issue that exists in every county, parish, and borough in the country," said Lauren Biedron, vice president of corporate partnerships at Feeding America. "Which is why we are grateful for partners like Paychex, who are showing up to help local communities thrive. With their support, we can continue to advance change and ensure equitable access to nutritious food for all."
In addition to this financial gift from the Paychex Charitable Foundation, Paychex will also be seeking opportunities to engage its 16,000 employees as a volunteer network to help advance Feeding America's mission to end hunger in local markets. The markets that will receive funding through this gift are: Albuquerque, NM; Baton Rouge, LA; Chicago, IL; Lehigh Valley, PA; Los Angeles, CA; Mesa, AZ; Pembroke Park, FL; Rochester, NY; San Diego, CA; and Tampa, FL.
To learn more about the Paychex Charitable Foundation, visit the organization's website.
About Paychex
Paychex, Inc. (Nasdaq:PAYX) is a leading provider of integrated human capital management solutions for human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance services. By combining innovative software-as-a-service technology and mobility platform with dedicated, personal service, Paychex empowers business owners to focus on the growth and management of their business. Backed by 50 years of industry expertise, Paychex serves more than 730,000 payroll clients as of May 31, 2022, in the U.S. and Europe, and pays one out of every 12 American private sector employees. Learn more about Paychex by visiting www.paychex.com and stay connected on Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Feeding America
Feeding America® is the largest hunger-relief organization in the United States. Through a network of more than 200 food banks, 21 statewide food bank associations, and over 60,000 partner agencies, food pantries and meal programs, we helped provide 5.2 billion meals to tens of millions of people in need last year. Feeding America also supports programs that prevent food waste and improve food security among the people we serve; brings attention to the social and systemic barriers that contribute to food insecurity in our nation; and advocates for legislation that protects people from going hungry. Visit www.feedingamerica.org, find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium will be the neutral site if Buffalo and Kansas City meet in the AFC championship game.
The NFL decided to put that potential matchup in a neutral city after the Bills’ Week 17 game against Cincinnati was canceled when Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest on the field.
The Chiefs (14-3) are the No. 1 seed in the AFC, but played one more game than the second-seeded Bills (13-3). The league brokered the neutral site deal because Buffalo could have been the top seed with a victory over the Bengals.
The Buffalo-Cincinnati game Jan. 2 was halted in the first quarter after Hamlin collapsed and was resuscitated on the field.
Hamlin was released from a Buffalo hospital on Wednesday.
The NFL said Thursday that Atlanta was designated as a potential backup postseason site before the 2022 season. All other potential matchups in the AFC title game will be played on the higher seed’s home field.
“We are heartened by the continued improvement and progress of Damar Hamlin in his recovery, and Damar and his family remain top of mind for the entire NFL community,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. “We are also grateful to Arthur Blank and the Atlanta Falcons for agreeing to host the AFC championship game in Atlanta should the Bills and Chiefs advance.”
Steve Cannon, vice chairman of Falcons owner Arthur Blank’s Sports and Entertainment portfolio, which also includes the MLS’ Atlanta United and Mercedes-Benz Stadium, said Atlanta is accustomed to hosting such big events as the Super Bowl in 2019, the college football national championship game in 2017 and this season’s College Football Playoff semifinal Peach Bowl.
“We’re certainly ready to host it,” Cannon said Sunday when he confirmed Atlanta’s interest in the game. “Even though we’ve never hosted an AFC championship, that’s certainly who we are. Yes, and guess what, it’s going to be awesome. We’re going to do a great job, just like we did for semifinals of college football.”
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OXFORD — Santa Claus arrived early in Oxford and his bag contained bicycles.
The two-wheeled dream machines were made possible by a yearly effort on the part of the Anniston Kiwanis Club. On Saturday morning, volunteers from area Boys & Girls Clubs and the Donoho School Key Club helped the club distribute bikes to parents, guardians and children during the annual Christmas bike giveaway.
This year, they put together about 100 bikes to give to children in need; volunteers from the Anniston Fire Department, Wig’s Wheels and Sparklight helped out, too. B.R. Williams helps store the bikes in the days leading up to the giveaway. Martin’s of Oxford is also a partner in the project.
Volunteers met and gave the bikes away on the side area at Martin’s in Oxford.
Nine-year-old Brayden Briggs of Anniston could not wipe the smile off his face as he helped clear a few groceries from a seat of his grandmother’s van. Sonde Coleman, a Kiwanis past president, climbed into the vehicle to help Brayden secure his bike, and his smile was unceasing.
“I’m going home to ride,” he said.
To help ensure the safety of all who would enjoy their new wheels, the Kiwanians also gave a bike helmet for each bike given away.
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Polimaster® innovative electronic personal dosimeter offers best-in-class radiation dose detection
STERLING, Va., May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Polimaster Inc., one of the world leaders in solutions for radiation control, announces the release of RadFlash®, a groundbreaking electronic personal dosimeter.
Medical personnel, customs and security officers, and many other professionals work in contexts with X-ray and gamma radiation exposure. Monitoring this exposure is essential to ensuring safe and successful operations. With a suite of advanced capabilities, RadFlash® offers high safety and functionality for personal dose monitoring tasks.
"RadFlash® gives you immediate feedback, high precision, and unmatched flexibility," said James Mehalchick, President of Polimaster Inc. "With this industry-leading device, medical and security professionals can increase their comfort and confidence, while simplifying the data management process. This all translates into greater safety and higher efficiency."
An active dosimeter, RadFlash® detects and displays radiation exposure readings in real time. It features a precise LCD screen readout and uses programmable visual and audible alarms, so that the wearer can immediately react to any changes in the exposure environment. Thus, it functions flawlessly as a standalone device.
"Each detail of its design," said Mehalchick, "from the precise detector down to its resistance to disinfecting agents, is focused on improving user experience and long-term device performance, for the ultimate protection."
Other features include:
- Intuitive single control button
- Two independent alarm thresholds for both dose and dose rate
- Bluetooth integration
- Wireless charging
- Miniature, lightweight design (2.5"x1.97"x0.7"; ≤ 50 g)
Functionality can be expanded through the use of the Polismart® app, which lets users monitor readings and control device settings from a tablet or smartphone. The app automatically calculates a safe stay time based on the dose and dose rate data.
In addition to Polismart®, Polimaster offers an Automated Personal Dosimetry System PM530 and a Real-Time Dosimetry System PM531. With these, organizations can collect, monitor, and manage employee exposure data with ease, saving time while ensuring safety and compliance with protocols.
For more information, visit RadFlashNow.com.
About Polimaster, Inc.
Since 2004, Polimaster, Inc. has designed and manufactured world-class solutions for radiation detection, monitoring, and control. Every day, thousands of industry professionals rely on its products to protect themselves, others, and the environment from the harmful effects of radiation. Polimaster's mission is to combine technical expertise and cutting-edge technology to enhance the safety of people everywhere.
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Former Intercom and Twilio executive will lead Apollo.io's global growth strategy and drive revenue expansion initiatives
SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Apollo.io, the leading go-to-market sales platform, today announced the appointment of Leandra Fishman to its executive team as the company's first Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). She brings extensive experience in scaling revenue organizations and will focus on enhancing the company's sales, customer success, and support teams. She joins a seasoned leadership team at Apollo.io, which recently hired Dzmitry Markovich as SVP of Engineering from Dapper Labs and Dropbox, and Shek Viswanathan as a Chief Product Officer from Qualtrics.
"Apollo.io eliminates costly redundancies in the sales tech stack to provide one unified solution for go-to-market teams to effectively target, engage, and convert buyers into long-lasting customers," said Founder and CEO, Tim Zheng at Apollo.io. "We are excited to welcome Leandra during a time when we are experiencing unprecedented growth. Her expertise will be instrumental in shaping Apollo.io's go-to-market strategy, driving revenue, and positioning the company for further expansion."
Leandra brings over 30 years of experience to Apollo.io leading large teams and driving growth across all customer segments and deal sizes. Most recently, she was the CRO at Intercom, which during her tenure ranked No. 35 on the 2022 Forbes Cloud 100 List with over $200 million in annual revenue. Previously, as the SVP of Sales and Success for SendGrid, she led the company through a successful IPO and helped double its market cap in its first year as a public company. After SendGrid's acquisition, she became VP of Commercial Sales at Twilio.
In the last year, Apollo.io has doubled annual revenue, quadrupled its active user base, and doubled its headcount — becoming one of the fastest-growing companies in SaaS. The company currently serves over 160,000 companies and millions of users globally including renowned companies like Stripe, Autodesk, Rippling, and Docusign. Apollo is the No. 1 ranked Sales Intelligence and Sales Engagement solution on G2, empowering sellers to find, prioritize, and convert prospects who are actively looking to buy.
"Apollo.io's platform is driving real value for global businesses, and I'm thrilled to join the team at such a pivotal moment in the company's expansion," said Leandra Fishman, Apollo.io CRO. "The opportunity to make the next generation of go-to-market sales accessible to all is truly compelling, and I look forward to contributing to Apollo.io's success."
To learn more about Apollo.io, sign up for free at apollo.io.
Apollo.io is hiring! Visit the careers page at: https://www.apollo.io/company/careers.
About Apollo.io
Apollo.io is the leading B2B sales intelligence and engagement platform, trusted by over 160,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Apollo.io provides sales teams with easy access to contact data for over 265 million contacts, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping sales professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers.
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West Point cadets pass by historical reminders constantly — from Grant Hall and Bradley Barracks to the statues of Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower overlooking the parade fields.
Now a commission created by Congress is recommending changes at the storied academy when it comes to buildings, places and memorials that include the names or images of Robert E. Lee and other Confederate officers during the Civil War. The commission also took aim at towering bronze panels in a science building that depict dozens of historical events and people, including a hooded figure above the words “Ku Klux Klan.”
The report from the Naming Commission this week on the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy is part of the military’s broader efforts to confront racial injustice. The panel was created to identify Confederacy-affiliated military assets.
The commission last month recommended that nine Army installations honoring Confederate officers be renamed. For West Point, the recommendations include renaming buildings like Lee Barracks and modifying memorials that include Confederate officers.
“The Commissioners do not make these recommendations with any intention of ‘erasing history,’” the panel said in its report. “Rather, they make these recommendations to affirm West Point’s long tradition of educating future generations of America’s military leaders to represent the best of our national ideals.”
West Point said it was reviewing the recommendations and will collaborate with the Army to implement changes, once approved.
“As a values-based institution, we are fully committed to creating a climate where everyone is treated with dignity and respect,” the academy said in a prepared statement.
More than a half-dozen of the commission’s recommendations for West Point involve Lee, who graduated second in his class in 1829 and later served as superintendent at the academy on the Hudson River. That was before he resigned from the U.S. Army to lead Confederate troops during the Civil War.
The commission recommended that Lee Barracks, Lee Road, Lee Gate, Lee Housing Area and Lee Area Child Development Center all be renamed. Also, a portrait of Lee in his Confederate uniform in a library building should be relocated or removed.
And Lee’s quote about honor at the academy’s “Honor Plaza,” should also be removed, the panel said.
The report said Lee’s armies “were responsible for the deaths of more United States soldiers than practically any other enemy in our nation’s history.”
“I think sometimes we forget that Lee didn’t fight against the Union. He fought against the United States Army,” said Ty Seidule, a retired brigadier general who serves as vice chair of the commission.
Two other Confederate officers in the commission’s crosshairs were West Point grads P.G.T. Beauregard and William Hardee. The panel called for Beauregard Place and Hardee Place to be renamed.
The commission also found issues with a trio of 11-foot high bronze plaques at an entrance to Bartlett Hall, which depicts dozens of historical people from Benjamin Franklin to Clara Barton.
The panel said the triptych, dedicated in 1965, should be modified to remove the names and images of Lee and others who served in the Confederacy. The commission also noted that toward the lower left of one of the plaques is the image of an armed man in a hood, with “Ku Klux Klan” written below.
The panel said that while the KKK image is not strictly within its Confederacy-focused mission, “there are clearly ties in the KKK to the Confederacy.” They encouraged the U.S. defense secretary to address military assets that highlight the KKK.
West Point said in a statement that the artist, Laura Gardin Fraser, wanted to document “both tragedy and triumph in our nation’s history.” In a guide to the work, the artist referred to the KKK as “an organization of white people who hid their criminal activity behind a mask and a sheet.”
The estimated cost of addressing the recommendations is more than $420,000 — with $300,000 of that for changes to Reconciliation Plaza, which includes a series of markers illustrating acts of reconciliation between the North and South. The panel said engraved images that commemorate people who served in the Confederacy should be removed.
The panel said Confederate memorials didn’t crop up at West Point until well into the 20th century with the rise of the “lost cause” movement, which emphasized the supposed nobility and righteousness of the South while downplaying the fact that the Confederacy was meant to perpetuate slavery.
Seidule, who headed the history department at West Point and is now a professor at Hamilton College, said this is an opportunity to rename military assets like Lee Barracks for “true American heroes.”
“I don’t know who that’s going to be,” he said. “But it will be somebody who fought for their country, not somebody who tried to destroy it.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of Frank, a student loan assistance startup company that J.P. Morgan Chase acquired for $175 million two years ago, has been arrested on charges that she duped the financial giant by dramatically inflating the number of customers her company had, authorities said Tuesday.
Charlie Javice, 31, of Miami Beach, Florida, was arrested Monday night in New Jersey on conspiracy, wire and bank fraud charges.
A charging document in Manhattan federal court said she claimed her company had over four million users when it had fewer than 300,000 customers.
Authorities said Javice, who appeared on the Forbes 2019 “30 Under 30” list, would have earned $45 million from the fraud.
A message seeking comment was sent to an attorney for Javice, who was expected to make an initial appearance in court later in the day.
In a release, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said Javice “engaged in a brazen scheme” to defraud the acquiring financial company by fabricating data to support lies she told in a bid to make tens of millions of dollars from the sale of her company.
“This arrest should warn entrepreneurs who lie to advance their businesses that their lies will catch up to them,” he said.
According to a criminal complaint, Javice in 2017 founded TAPD Inc., which operated under the name Frank, to provide an online platform to simplify the process of filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, a free federal government form used by students to apply for financial aid for college or graduate school.
In 2021, Javice sought to sell her company in her role as its chief executive to a large financial institution, the complaint said.
When JPMC sought to verify that her company had 4.25 million customers, Javice asked her company’s director of engineering to create an artificially generated data set, but the individual declined, it said.
She then hired an outside data scientist to create the synthetic data set as she purchased for $105,000 on the open market real information for over 4.25 million students, the complaint said. But it added that the data she purchased did not contain all of the information she had told JPMC was maintained by Frank.
In a civil complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the regulatory agency alleged that Javice made numerous misrepresentations about Frank’s alleged millions of users to entice JPMC to purchase the now shuttered Frank.
Gurbir S. Grewal, director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, said in a release that “even non-public, early-stage companies must be truthful in their representations.”
He added: ““Rather than help students, we allege that Ms. Javice engaged in an old school fraud: she lied about Frank’s success in helping millions of students navigate the college financial aid process by making up data to support her claims, and then used that fake information to induce JPMC to enter into a $175 million transaction.”
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Michelle Wu ran as a progressive. And as mayor, she’s acted like one.
She’s pressed for free public transit and called for the return of rent control.
She has long voiced skepticism, though, about one of the most insistent proposals on the Boston left — replacing a School Committee appointed by the mayor with one elected by voters.
And last week, she took action, vetoing a City Council measure that would have advanced the idea (the state Legislature would have to give final approval).
That made for some uncomfortable conversations with progressive allies, no doubt. And it may have hurt the mayor with the broader electorate, too.
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After all, Boston voters overwhelmingly approved a nonbinding referendum in 2021 to turn the school board into an elected body.
But Wu did the right thing.
And now, with supporters of an elected committee suggesting they may pursue a binding referendum, the voters could be tasked with pushing back on an ill-considered idea.
It may not be a natural fit; school board elections have a certain democratic appeal. But if voters study the matter, they’ll realize that elections open up public education to all sorts of political meddling.
The recent controversies over COVID-19 and critical race theory make that clear. And Boston had its own problems with grandstanding and dysfunction when the city’s School Committee was an elected body decades ago.
The switch to an appointed panel in 1992 didn’t solve all of the Boston Public Schools’ governance problems.
But it did bring a modicum of stability. For the past 30-plus years, ultimate authority for public education has rested with a series of long-serving mayors. And the voters have had the ability to oust any of them for failing to do enough to improve the schools.
Proponents of an elected School Committee say it would mean even greater accountability.
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But with more than a dozen elected officials in charge of a system as complex as the Boston Public Schools — the City Council proposal would expand the school board from the current seven to 13 members — voters would have a hard time figuring out where to place the blame or affix the ribbon.
And this is no time for muddled responsibility.
On the heels of a state report identifying “entrenched dysfunction” in the Boston Public Schools, a new and well-regarded superintendent, Mary Skipper, is moving to implement a sweeping program of reforms in everything from transportation to services for English language learners.
And the mayor and her School Committee must ensure the work gets done, as Wu suggested in a letter to the City Council explaining her veto.
“Respectfully,” she wrote, “I cannot support legislative changes that would compromise our ability to stabilize and support the Boston Public Schools during this critical period.”
Wu has suggested, in the past, that she would be open to governance changes.
When she was campaigning for mayor, she supported a hybrid, partially elected School Committee. But she has put even that idea aside for now. And she would be wise to leave it there.
In her letter to the council, Wu wrote that she is “confident that BPS is on the cusp of the kind of transformative change that our students, families, and educators have been demanding for decades.”
A strong hand is the best chance for the kind of transformative change the mayor is promising.
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And if it doesn’t come, Boston voters should have a clear sense of whom to blame.
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JAKARTA, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 8th, Chinese automaker Wuling celebrated the Indonesian production rollout of its first global electric vehicle, the Air ev (right-hand drive version). This marks an important milestone for Wuling New Energy in global outreach as it achieves one million production models. Mr. Airlangga Hartarto, Coordinating Minister of Economic Affairs, and Mr. Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita, Minister of Industry, Indonesia, together with Chinese ambassador to Indonesia Lu Kang, attended this launching ceremony.
Based in China, Wuling New Energy has sold more than 1 million vehicles in 5 years, marking it the leading new energy automobile company in worldwide which reached this target the fastest. Joining the global market push, the Air ev will accelerate expansion in global markets, with the first stop in Indonesia. Moving forward, the Air ev will enter India, Egypt, and more regions around the world, asserting China's status as a leader in smart automotive manufacturing.
The Air ev rollout aligns with the 'blue ocean' market focus of the Chinese "Belt and Road" initiative and acts to represent China's strengths in intelligent manufacturing. As the best-selling Chinese car brand in Indonesia, the Indonesian government noted the great importance of the development of Wuling. In preparation for the global launch, the Air ev will be on display at the Indonesian International Auto Show on August 11th.
Garnering international recognition and praise, the Air ev is set to upgrade the world's perception of "Made in China." In November 2022, the G20 summit will be opened in Bali, Indonesia, and due to its superior-quality travel experience and commitment to environmental sustainability, the Air ev has been chosen as the official vehicle for the 2022 G20 Summit. Wuling will demonstrate the innovative achievements of China's intelligent manufacturing on a global stage, adding value to the summit to be a complete success.
Wuling New Energy drives development with innovation. The company is set to make every effort to advance on its overseas activities, continuing to bring high-quality new energy vehicles and service experiences to global car owners whilst demonstrating the high-tech capabilities of "Made in China."
About SGMW
Founded in 2002, SGMW owns two high valued Chinese car brands, "Wuling" and "Baojun". At present, SGMW has five major production bases: Liuzhou Hexi Headquarters, Liuzhou Baojun Base, Qingdao Branch, Chongqing Branch, and PT SGMW. In 2021, SGMW sold 1,760,176 units, up by 13.5 percent year-on-year, making it not only the No. 1 national car brand in terms of sales volume, but also has been well-recognized by more than 25.5 million customers. SGMW exported 145,550 units/set of vehicles and spare parts in 2021, covering more than 40 countries and areas, like Central and South America, Africa, Middle East and Southeast Asia.
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Jane Fonda says she has cancer, is dealing well with chemo
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jane Fonda said on social media Friday that she has cancer.
“So, my dear friends, I have something personal I want to share. I’ve been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and have started chemo treatments,” the 84-year-old actor wrote in an Instagram post.
“This is a very treatable cancer,” she added, “so I feel very lucky.”
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a cancer that begins in the white blood cells and affects parts of the body’s immune system.
Fonda acknowledged that unlike many, she is privileged to have insurance, and access to the best doctors and care.
“Almost every family in America has had to deal with cancer at one time or another and far too many don’t have access to the quality health care I am receiving and this is not right,” she said.
Fonda said she has begun a six-month course of chemotherapy, is handling the treatments well, and will not let it interfere with her climate activism.
Fonda has dealt with cancer before. She had a tumor removed from her breast in 2010, and has also had skin cancer.
Part of a legendary Hollywood family, Fonda gained fame for both her acting and her activism starting in the late 1960s.
She won Oscars for her performances in 1971′s “Klute” and 1978′s “Coming Home.”
She has also starred in the films “Barbarella” and “9 to 5,” and in the Netflix series “Grace and Frankie.”
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New quarterly digital publications kick off with "The Motivation Issue"
NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, SHAPE (www.shape.com), the digital fitness destination and community, launched its first digital magazine, a new quarterly that will expand SHAPE's daily wellness coverage into a fully themed, magazine-style package of new articles examining the topics most relevant to today's active readers.
SHAPE's first issue, "The Motivation Issue," examines its topic from all angles, diving into the science of motivation, and sharing tips from experts about different techniques to motivate readers during their workouts and their daily lives.
Covering this issue is Emily in Paris star Ashley Park, who explains in her cover interview that her own daily motivation can be traced back to beating cancer as a 15-year-old.
"Once cancer physically left my body, I made it my mission to not let it affect my life," she tells SHAPE. "I didn't want it to define me. People were so worried about me, and I became the person that was like, 'I'm fine. Don't worry about me. I am going to go after what I want and just do it.'"
Later in the issue, Park's Pilates instructor, Brandon Perry, details the workout that she relies on for readers to replicate. The full issue will also include stories examining the science and psychology of motivation, and features revealing how Peloton's star instructors inspire their classes, and why working out with a buddy can keep you on track to meet your goals.
"When it came time to choose a theme for our first digital issue, the answer was a no-brainer," said Alyssa Sparacino, SHAPE's editorial director. "Motivation, in all its complexities, speaks so squarely to what SHAPE stands for: a balanced perspective on health, empowering information that's meant to guide–never dictate–and inclusive stories that speak to anyone at any point in their wellness journey."
For more on SHAPE's first digital issue, visit here.
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SHAPE is a digital fitness destination and community that offers inclusive, trusted, and empowering expert-led guidance and advice for anyone, at any point in their wellness journey. We deliver science-backed information to help you safely navigate your path, whether you're working toward a specific fitness goal or just hope to feel better and have more energy. Our vast library provides expert advice, editor reviews, trend reports, and personal essays all with the goal of inspiring you to take on your next wellness challenge with confidence and enthusiasm. We understand that your wellness journey doesn't end just because you crossed one finish line — and we're right beside you, every step of the way. SHAPE is part of the Dotdash Meredith publishing family. www.shape.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday that a high school football coach who knelt and prayed on the field after games was protected by the Constitution, a decision that opponents said would open the door to “much more coercive prayer” in public schools.
The court ruled 6-3 for the coach with the conservative justices in the majority and the liberals in dissent. The case was the latest in a line of rulings for religious plaintiffs.
The case forced the justices to wrestle with how to balance the religious and free speech rights of teachers and coaches with the rights of students not to feel pressured into participating in religious practices. The liberal justices in the minority said there was evidence that Bremerton (Washington) High School Coach Joseph Kennedy’s prayers at the 50-yard-line had a coercive effect on students and allowed him to incorporate his “personal religious beliefs into a school event.”
Dissenting Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the decision “sets us further down a perilous path in forcing states to entangle themselves with religion.”
But the justices in the majority emphasized that the coach’s prayers came after the games were over and at a time when he wasn’t responsible for students and was free to do other things.
The coach and his attorneys at First Liberty Institute, a Christian legal group, were among those cheering the decision. Kennedy said in an interview that his first reaction was one of pure joy.
“Just like in all my football games I just threw my arms up, you know, ‘touchdown,’” he said. He described the seven years since the dispute began as tough on his family but “absolutely worth it.”
Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority in the ruling, declared, “The Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression, for religious and nonreligious views alike.
Gorsuch noted that the coach “prayed during a period when school employees were free to speak with a friend, call for a reservation at a restaurant, check email, or attend to other personal matters” and “while his students were otherwise occupied.”
It would be wrong to treat everything public school teachers and coaches say and do as speech subject to government control, he wrote. If that were the case, “a school could fire a Muslim teacher for wearing a headscarf in the classroom or prohibit a Christian aide from praying quietly over her lunch in the cafeteria,” he wrote.
He closed by writing that: “Respect for religious expressions is indispensable to life in a free and diverse Republic—whether those expressions take place in a sanctuary or on a field, and whether they manifest through the spoken word or a bowed head.”
The decision continues a pattern in which the court has ruled in favor of religious plaintiffs. Last week the court ruled that Maine can’t exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition aid for private education, a decision that could ease religious organizations’ access to taxpayer money.
In dissent, Sotomayor wrote Monday that players “recognize that gaining the coach’s approval may pay dividends small and large, from extra playing time to a stronger letter of recommendation to additional support in college athletic recruiting.” And she said “some students reported joining Kennedy’s prayer because they felt social pressure to follow their coach and teammates.”
Sotomayor was joined in her dissent by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.
Paul Clement, the attorney who argued the case on behalf of Kennedy, said in a statement that the decision would allow the coach “to finally return to the place he belongs – coaching football and quietly praying by himself after the game.”
Kennedy now lives in Florida, and it was unclear when — or if — he might move back across the country to Washington state for a part-time job that had paid him less than $5,000. He said in the interview that he is in Florida to help his father-in-law but his family remains in Washington and it was never his intention to remain in Florida permanently. He said his lawyers and the school district would need to work things out for him to return to coaching.
He started coaching at the school in 2008 and initially prayed alone on the 50-yard line at the end of games. Students started joining him, and over time he began to deliver a short, inspirational talk with religious references. Kennedy did that for years and also led students in locker room prayers. The school district learned what he was doing in 2015 and asked him to stop out of concerns the district could be sued for violating students’ religious freedom rights.
He stopped leading students in prayer in the locker room and on the field but wanted to continue kneeling and praying on the field himself after games. The school asked him not to do so while still “on duty” as a coach after the games. When he continued, the school put him on paid leave. The head coach of the varsity team later recommended he not be rehired because, among other things, he failed to follow district policy.
In a statement, the Bremerton School District and its attorneys at Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, said the decision undermines the separation required by the Constitution. The school district said in a statement that it had “followed the law and acted to protect the religious freedom of all students and their families.”
Rachel Laser, the head of Americans United, said the decision “opens the door to much more coercive prayer in our public schools” and undermines the religious freedom of students.
The school district’s attorney, Richard Katskee, said it is studying the decision and considering its next steps.
Three justices on the court — Breyer, Kagan and Justice Samuel Alito — attended public high schools, while the other six attended Catholic schools.
The case is Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, 21-418.
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“Peter Pan,” “Hairspray” and the return of “SIX” are among the shows in the newly announced The Broadway @ the Ordway season.
The season includes four shows, plus “SIX.” Subscriptions start at $159 and are on sale now at ordway.org. Individual show tickets will go on sale later this summer. Subscribers have the chance to purchase single tickets to “SIX” before they go on sale later this year.
The lineup includes:
“Come from Away” (Oct. 6-15): This Canadian musical is based on the events in the Newfoundland town of Gander during the week following the September 11 terrorist attacks, when 38 planes, carrying some 7,000 passengers, were forced to land in the small town. The Broadway production closed last fall after 25 previews and 1,670 regular performances. In a Pioneer Press review last year, Dominic P. Papatola wrote that the show is “an unapologetically optimistic story about the human spirit.”
“Peter Pan” (Dec. 6-31): For the holidays, the Ordway is bringing a new production of this family favorite to town. It’s directed by Emmy Award-winner Lonny Price (“Sunset Boulevard,” “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill”) with additional book by playwright Larissa FastHorse (“The Thanksgiving Play,” “What Would Crazy Horse Do?”). The songs include “I’m Flying,” “I Gotta Crow,” “I Won’t Grow Up” and “Neverland.”
“Hairspray” (March 12-17): This smash adaptation of John Waters’ 1988 film ran for more than six years on Broadway and has lived on through numerous tours and productions around the world. Marc Shaiman wrote the music and joined Scott Wittman to pen the lyrics for the songs – “Welcome to the ‘60s,” “Good Morning Baltimore” and “You Can’t Stop the Beat” among them – that gleefully recall 1960s dance music.
“On Your Feet!” (April 5-7): A jukebox musical based on the lives and music of 26-time Grammy Award-winning husband-and-wife team Gloria and Emilio Estefan, “On Your Feet!” features the hits “Rhythm Is Gonna Get You,” “Conga,” “Get on Your Feet,” “Don’t Want to Lose You Now,” “1-2-3” and “Coming Out of the Dark.”
“SIX” (July 16-28, 2024): This tale of the six wives of Henry the VIII first hit the Ordway in 2019. It was scheduled to open on Broadway in March 2020 on the day all theaters were closed due to the pandemic. It went on to open in October 2021 and earned eight Tony nominations and wins for best original score and best costume design in a musical. It returned to the Ordway for a sold-out run last year. Writing in the Pioneer Press, Rob Hubbard said the show is “quite attuned to the current high-stimulation zeitgeist, rocking, rapping and dancing its way through an exhilarating 80 minutes ideal for the short-attention-span set. And it’s unrelentingly fun.”
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SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J., Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT) today announced that the company will present a company overview at the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Monday, Jan. 9, at 7:30 a.m. PST/10:30 a.m. EST.
The presentation will be webcast live on the Events and Presentations page under the Investor section of PTC Therapeutics' website at https://ir.ptcbio.com/events-presentations and will be archived for 30 days following the presentation. It is recommended that users connect to PTC's website several minutes prior to the start of the webcast to ensure a timely connection.
PTC is a science-driven, global biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of clinically differentiated medicines that provide benefits to patients with rare disorders. PTC's ability to globally commercialize products is the foundation that drives investment in a robust and diversified pipeline of transformative medicines and our mission to provide access to best-in-class treatments for patients who have an unmet medical need. The Company's strategy is to leverage its strong scientific expertise and global commercial infrastructure to maximize value for its patients and other stakeholders. To learn more about PTC, please visit us at www.ptcbio.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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RICHMOND, Va. — John Hill, a descendant of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill, said he drove overnight from Ohio to Virginia to witness the removal of the last standing Confederate monument in Richmond.
Hill watched as crews took down the 130-year-old statue at the intersection of Hermitage Road and West Laburnum Avenue on the city’s Northside.
“His remains are underneath that monument. I just want to make sure they’re removed respectfully,” Hill said about why he made the eight-hour drive. “It’s a tough day. Trying to be calm about everything and hope everything goes well.”
Hill fought in Richmond Circuit Court to stop the statue's removal.
“I went [to court on] Sept. 29 to testify and prove my lineage to Hill and showed them my family tree information,” he said. “They denied [my request] and said it belongs to the city even though it was paid for by the Hill Monument Association and A.P. Hill’s family and friends.”
While Hill's remains will be sent to Fairview Cemetery in Culpeper, the family argued that the statue portion of the monument was a grave marker, thus making it personal property.
However, in October, a Richmond Circuit Court Judge ruled that the city could call the shots where the statue would go. City leaders asked for it to be placed in the Black History Museum alongside the other recently removed Confederate monuments.
A judge denied the Hill family's emergency injunction. The statue will remain in city storage as the appeals process continues.
“A.P. Hill didn’t own any slaves at all," Hill, who said his lineage could also be traced back to Robert E Lee, said. "He was fighting an invader, 75,000 troops were raised in 1861 to invade his homeland, and he fought back just like any man would."
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney addressed reporters as the Hill statue laid down nearby on a flatbed truck.
"This wasn't just two years of work. This was 100 years of difficult work," Stoney said. "I’m proud we have arrived at this moment in our history. Now we can turn the page and focus on lifting more people up, becoming more inclusive, and creating a place where everyone belongs."
Amanda Lynch held her Starbucks coffee as she waited in the chilly weather for the removal process to begin. She lives nearby and wishes her grandparents were here to watch the moment.
"I think with this being the last one to come down, it’s become a full circle moment for me," Lynch said.
Her daughter, Ava Holloway, was one of the ballerinas featured in a viral photo on the steps of the Lee statue on Monument Avenue.
"For us to have been so involved in this process of Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, but then also the removal of the Lee monument to this being the final chapter of Richmond’s history coming to a close. It's just nice," Lynch said.
Richmond's Confederate statues were first torn down by protesters and then removed by contracted crews after Black Lives Matter protests against racial injustice and police brutality following the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The major league batting average rose to .245 in May from .231 in April, leaving the overall figure for the first two months at .240, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
This year's figure is four percentage points above last year’s average through the first two months.
Last season’s final average of .244 was the lowest since 1972. The slow starts in both this season and last appeared to threaten the record low of .237 in 1968. After that year of the pitcher, the mound height was lowered from 15 inches to 10.
Averages tend to be lower early in the season, when pitchers are ahead of the hitters and cold, wet weather impacts games in the parts of the U.S. Some speculated this year's shortened spring training impacted early offense due to shorter appearances by starting pitchers and expanded rosters that allowed managers to bring in more hard-throwing relievers.
Home runs also were up slightly in the last month, rising from 0.91 in April to 1.08 in May. This year’s average of 1.00 is more than 10% below last year’s 1.13 per game. Last year averaged 1.14 in April and 1.12 in May, with average rising to 1.22 by the end of the season.
Hits per game rose from 7.62 per team per game in April to 8.29 in May. This year’s season average of 8.00 is slightly above last year’s 7.79 at through two months during a season in which the final figure was 8.13.
Walks and strikeouts are down, with walks at 3.17 per game from last year’s 3.32 through May 31 and strikeouts at 8.33 from last year’s 8.99 for the first two months.
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MINERVA, Ohio, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Glove is partnering with Ohio Penal Industry (OPI) and the University of Akron to produce nitrile gloves in Ohio! Bringing back glove manufacturing to the U.S.A. Working together to provide education and a path for success for both incarcerated adults and American manufacturing.
Ohio Penal Industry staff members from The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction met with University of Akron (UA) representatives from school's polymer science program. UA will be providing courses with a path to an associate degree in technical studies for the staff and incarcerated adults who work in our nitrile glove operation at Madison Correctional Institution. Summit Glove provides technical support and guidance throughout the project. Thank you to UA and Summit Glove for being a part of this new industry!
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LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — Two small airplanes collided in midair near Denver on Saturday, killing three people, authorities said.
It wasn’t known what might have caused the crash between the four-seater Cessna 172 and the Sonex Xenos, a light, aluminum, homebuilt aircraft that can seat two.
Nearby residents who heard the crash and rushed outside told CBS affiliate 9News in Denver they were surprised the planes could have struck each other on such a clear morning.
One of the planes crashed in a field, the other in a stand of trees, near Vance Brand Airport in Longmont, Colorado, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Denver. Two people were found dead in one wreckage, and one person in the other, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office said.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating. The NTSB said a preliminary report would be released in about 15 days.
The collision happened just before 9 a.m. Saturday. The identities of the victims were not immediately released.
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- FIRST QUARTER REVENUE OF $115.3 MILLION; UP 6% YEAR-OVER-YEAR
- FIRST QUARTER GAAP EPS OF $(0.04); EPS, EX-ITEMS, $0.08
- LAUNCH OF INDUSTRY CARBON CAPTURE AND SEQUESTRATION ("CCS") CONSORTIUM
- CCS STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH TALOS ENERGY INC.
- REDUCES NET DEBT BY $3.3 MILLION
- ANNOUNCES Q2 2022 QUARTERLY DIVIDEND
AMSTERDAM, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Core Laboratories N.V. (NYSE: "CLB US" and Euronext Amsterdam: "CLB NA") ("Core", "Core Lab", or the "Company") reported first quarter 2022 revenue of $115,300,000. Core's operating loss was $400,000, with a loss per diluted share of $0.04, all in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"). Operating income, ex-items, a non-GAAP financial measure, was $7,200,000, yielding operating margins of 6.2% and earnings per diluted share ("EPS"), ex-items, of $0.08. During the first quarter of 2022, the Company recorded: 1) approximately $3,900,000 of non-cash stock compensation expense associated with full recognition of awards when employees reach their eligible retirement age, 2) severance and facility consolidation expense of $3,300,000, and 3) bad debt expense of $800,000 for doubtful accounts receivable due from Ukraine clients. The severance and facility consolidation expense is associated with Core's continuing strategic objective to improve operational efficiencies and optimize Core's global network to support its clients. In addition to the anticipated typical seasonal decline in the first quarter of 2022, financial results were further impacted by higher-than-expected business disruptions associated with COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine geopolitical conflict. A full reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures is included in the attached financial tables.
Core's CEO, Larry Bruno stated, "First and foremost our thoughts are with our Ukrainian employees and their families during the unprecedented conflict. Core Lab has suspended operations in Ukraine to secure their safety. During the first quarter of 2022, two significant events impacted Core's financial results: 1) the continued outbreak and global spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, which generated a significantly greater impact than initially anticipated, and 2) business disruptions associated with the geopolitical conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which negatively impacted both business segments.
Despite these headwinds, we were pleased to announce an emerging growth opportunity during the first quarter, as we formalized our collaboration with Talos Energy Inc. ("Talos") to deliver CCS solutions aimed at reducing industrial carbon emissions. This alliance, built on complementary technical strengths in subsurface characterization and reservoir optimization, will enhance the speed at which scalable, reliable and sustainable carbon sequestration solutions can be delivered to the market. We are excited about the positive impact this work will ultimately have, by both returning value to our shareholders and advancing CO2 emission reduction initiatives. Additionally, during the first quarter of 2022, Core Lab inaugurated a joint-industry CCS consortium. Core Lab has a long history of conducting successful multi-company projects aimed at evaluating oil and gas opportunities. This new consortium will enhance the nascent CCS industry's knowledge of the geotechnical challenges associated with subsurface storage of CO2, with a focus on reservoir capacity, injectivity and containment integrity, all of which align with Core Lab's expertise in subsurface characterization. As government regulations encourage investment in CCS projects, Core Lab will see growing opportunities to leverage this expertise.
Looking forward, Core Lab's outlook for the remainder of 2022 remains positive with sequential improvement expected in the second quarter followed by further acceleration during the second half of the year. Furthermore, we continue to anticipate a multi-year international cycle supported by market fundamentals."
The on-going geopolitical conflict between Russia and Ukraine is adversely impacting service revenue and product sales, affecting both business segments. To date, Reservoir Description has been more heavily impacted by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. As part of Core's global laboratory network, the Company provides analytical services on crude oil, natural gas and derived products, including both reservoir condition analysis and ambient condition assay work. Business interruptions arising from cyber-attacks against third party facilities began prior to direct military engagement; these cyber-attacks disrupted demand for crude-oil assay work, particularly in Europe. As direct military conflict ensued, disruptions in crude-oil assay work in Europe, Russia and Ukraine were even further negatively impacted. Traditional supply chains associated with the movement of crude oil are realigning to new logistical patterns in response to both the military conflict and the economic sanctions imposed on Russia. Given that global demand for crude oil and natural gas has not meaningfully diminished, Core Lab expects supply channels to realign, and the demand for the Company's associated laboratory services to resume, albeit with a different geographic spread. Completion product sales delivered through Core's Production Enhancement segment directly into Ukraine have also been suspended. Core has historically generated approximately 5% to 8% of its total revenue from Russia, Ukraine and the Southeastern European region.
Also during the first quarter of 2022, global COVID-19 caseloads rose very sharply as the Omicron variant spread across all regions. More than 15% of Core Lab's employees tested positive for COVID-19 during the first quarter. In addition, other staff were subject to quarantine restrictions. As a business that runs on people more than, for example, equipment rental day rates, this higher-than-expected surge in COVID-19 cases caused disruption to the Company's operations; concurrently, clients were also impacted by the spike in COVID-19 cases and quarantine requirements, which delayed progress on projects.
Reservoir Description operations are closely correlated with trends in international and offshore activity levels, with approximately 80% of revenue sourced from outside the U.S. Reservoir Description revenue in the first quarter of 2022 was $74,800,000, down 7% sequentially and flat year-over-year. Operating income for the first quarter of 2022 on a GAAP basis was $400,000, while operating income, ex-items, was $3,900,000, yielding operating margins of 5%. Cost of operations in the first quarter of 2022 increased due to restoration of employee salary costs and continued operational inefficiencies associated with the global pandemic. In addition to the greater-than-expected COVID-19 caseload and typical seasonal decline in revenue, first quarter 2022 Reservoir Description results were negatively impacted by the Russia-Ukraine geopolitical conflict. The military conflict disrupted traditional patterns of crude oil movement in Russia, Ukraine and Europe and negatively affected demand for Core Lab's crude oil assay work in these regions.
During the first quarter of 2022, Core conducted a large core and reservoir data analysis workshop for Kuwait Oil Company ("KOC"). This comprehensive five-day workshop was the culmination of a multi-year, multi-well analytical program that included proprietary Core Lab technologies and interpretation techniques, focused on hydrocarbon potential and pay recognition in prospective unconventional and tight conventional reservoir targets. Core leveraged its proprietary, web-enabled RAPID™ database to organize and analyze well and laboratory data. Fracture analysis and interpretation was conducted utilizing Core's Dual-Energy Computed Tomography Scanner, which allowed for 3D visualization of conventional cores and calibration of third-party borehole image logs. Advanced petrophysical log models were developed that included fluid flow prediction and assessment of well productivity. KOC stated that the workshop was a great success and their technical teams are able to incorporate and build on the recently concluded work. An expansion of the study is currently being planned to include other fields and also to address additional reservoir challenges.
During the first quarter of 2022, Core Lab, under the direction of The CarbonNet Project commenced the next phase of advanced rock property analysis on conventional core extracted from the Gular-1 appraisal well, located in the Gippsland Basin, offshore southeast Australia. The CarbonNet Project is expected to be a world-class, CCS center to manage future carbon emissions from industrial sources in South East Australia. In a recent press release, the CarbonNet Project announced, "The CarbonNet Project is advancing the science and viability for establishing a commercial-scale carbon capture and sequestration network." If successful, the network would bring together multiple carbon dioxide ("CO2") capture projects in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, transporting CO2 via a shared pipeline and injecting it into deep, underground, offshore storage sites in the Bass Strait. During this phase of the CarbonNet Project analytical program, Core Lab is employing proprietary technologies to provide detailed insight into rock and pore system properties, rock-fluid compatibility, and fluid flow behaviors, as well as geomechanical properties. The results of the advanced testing will be utilized to expand the CarbonNet Project's understanding of the CO2 storage capacity, optimal methodologies for injecting CO2 and the integrity of the seal rock, all of which are critical to evaluating and reducing geologic risk associated with the project. A substantial risk in any CO2 sequestration project is failing to properly assess the complexity of the targeted geologic subsurface formation and the in-situ pore fluids. Core Lab's eighty-plus years of expertise in evaluating subsurface geology and fluid flow through natural porous media is essential for accessing these types of CO2 sequestration projects.
Production Enhancement operations, which are focused on complex completions in unconventional, tight-oil reservoirs in the U.S., as well as conventional offshore projects across the globe, posted first quarter 2022 revenue of $40,500,000, down 10% sequentially and up 27% year-over-year. Operating loss on a GAAP basis was $900,000, while operating income, ex-items, was $3,100,000, yielding operating margins of 8%. Production Enhancement's financial performance for the first quarter of 2022 was impacted by a sequential decrease of 19% in international product sales, which includes the suspension of product sales into Ukraine. However, energetic product sales into the U.S. market increased over 7% sequentially.
Production Enhancement has been a long-standing innovator of both energetic system products and diagnostic services, which aim to improve completions and monitor well performance. With Core's combined expertise in energetic systems and design and engineering of diagnostic technologies, Core Lab is pleased to announce the introduction of its patent-pending GoTrace™ product solution. GoTrace™ is an innovative, organically-developed, technology that directly incorporates Core's diagnostic services into the Company's energetic system products. The integration of Core's proprietary perforating products and diagnostic tracers into one system allows Core's clients to cost-effectively introduce unique tracers into specific perf clusters simultaneous with the perforating process. By providing diagnostic evaluation at the cluster level, clients gain significantly more granularity when evaluating a completion program, as compared to stage-level diagnostic treatment alternatives. Recently, TotalEngeries SE utilized Core's GoTrace™ technology in a recompletion project in the Barnett Shale. By deploying GoTrace™, TotalEnergies SE was able to determine whether the new perforation clusters were effectively stimulated. Core's diagnostic analysis of the restimulation treatment confirmed the clusters created with GoTrace™ were effectively stimulated, thus optimizing well performance.
During the first quarter of 2022, Core continued to generate free cash flow ("FCF"), with cash from operations of $5,300,000 and capital expenditures of $2,300,000, yielding FCF of $3,000,000. Core's free cash will continue to be returned to its shareholders via the Company's regular quarterly dividend and opportunistic share repurchases, as well as being applied towards reducing long-term debt.
On 2 February 2022, Core's Board of Supervisory Directors ("Board") announced a quarterly cash dividend of $0.01 per share of common stock, which was paid on 7 March 2022 to shareholders of record on 14 February 2022. Dutch withholding tax was deducted from the dividend at a rate of 15%.
On 27 April 2022, the Board approved a cash dividend of $0.01 per share of common stock payable in the second quarter of 2022. The second quarter dividend will be payable on 31 May 2022, to shareholders of record on 9 May 2022. Dutch withholding tax will be deducted from the dividend at a rate of 15%.
The Board and the Company's Executive Management continue to focus on strategies that maximize return on invested capital ("ROIC") and FCF, factors that have high correlation to total shareholder return. Core's commitment to an asset-light business model and disciplined capital stewardship promotes capital efficiency and are designed to produce more predictable and superior long-term ROIC.
The Board has established an internal performance metric of demonstrating superior ROIC performance relative to the oilfield service companies listed as Core's Comp Group by Bloomberg, as the Company continues to believe superior ROIC will result in higher total return to shareholders. Bloomberg's calculations using the latest comparable data available indicate that Core Lab's ROIC of 6.7% is one of the highest for all major companies in the oilfield service Comp Group.
As the Russia-Ukraine geopolitical conflict continues and the sanctions on Russia have expanded, the global crude-oil market continues to tighten, with demand for crude oil approaching pre-COVID-19 levels, resulting in higher crude-oil commodity prices. With consistent elevated crude-oil commodity prices and the tightening of crude-oil supply, the industry is preparing for an increase in activity, driven by demand, resulting in a multi-year cycle. These crude-oil market fundamentals are reflected in the gradual increase in the international rig count, with more oilfield equipment coming under contract and expanded capital spending plans for 2022. Core sees these as leading indicators of a growing international cycle.
With Core Lab having more than 70% of its revenue exposed to international activity, both business segments remain active on international projects. As additional field development projects emerge, wells need to be drilled and reservoir rock and fluid sampled before Reservoir Description participates in the cycle. The expansion of international developments, both short and long-cycle projects, provides growth opportunities for both segments into 2022 and beyond, with a particular focus on the South Atlantic Margin, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Core's North America revenue is correlated with completion and stimulation events and large-scale reservoir rock and reservoir fluid characterization studies, rather than with immediate changes in rig count. Wells need to be drilled and subsequently completed, stimulated, and cored, or have reservoir fluid samples collected, before Core can realize a revenue event. Core expects to continue benefiting from increased U.S. onshore activity, albeit led by private operators and somewhat moderated by capital discipline for larger publicly-traded operators.
For the second quarter of 2022, Core projects its business to improve, primarily from increasing activity levels in the U.S. and moderate improvement in international, offshore and deepwater markets, potentially offset by uncertainties associated with the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Core projects second quarter 2022 revenue to range from $119,000,000 to $125,000,000 and operating income of $9,400,000 to $11,800,000, yielding operating margins of approximately 9%. EPS for the second quarter of 2022 is expected to be $0.12 to $0.16.
The Company's second quarter 2022 guidance is based on projections for underlying operations and excludes gains and losses in foreign exchange. Second quarter 2022 guidance also assumes an effective tax rate of 20%.
The Company has scheduled a conference call to discuss Core's first quarter 2022 earnings announcement. The call will begin at 7:30 a.m. CDT / 2:30 p.m. CEST on Thursday, 28 April 2022. To listen to the call, please go to Core's website at www.corelab.com.
Core Laboratories N.V. is a leading provider of proprietary and patented reservoir description and production enhancement services and products used to optimize petroleum reservoir performance. The Company has over 70 offices in more than 50 countries and is located in every major oil-producing province in the world. This release, as well as other statements we make, includes forward-looking statements regarding the future revenue, profitability, business strategies and developments of the Company made in reliance upon the safe harbor provisions of Federal securities law. The Company's outlook is subject to various important cautionary factors, including risks and uncertainties related to the oil and natural gas industry, business conditions, international markets, international political climates, including the Russia-Ukraine geopolitical conflict, public health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and any related actions taken by businesses and governments, and other factors as more fully described in the Company's most recent Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K filed with or furnished to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These important factors could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on current expectations of the Company's performance and are subject to a variety of factors, some of which are not under the control of the Company. Because the information herein is based solely on data currently available, and because it is subject to change as a result of changes in conditions over which the Company has no control or influence, such forward-looking statements should not be viewed as assurance regarding the Company's future performance.
The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this press release, except as required by law.
Visit the Company's website at www.corelab.com. Connect with Core Lab on Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Management believes that the exclusion of certain income and expenses enables it to evaluate more effectively the Company's operations period-over-period and to identify operating trends that could otherwise be masked by the excluded Items. For this reason, management uses certain non-GAAP measures that exclude these Items; and believes that this presentation provides a clearer comparison with the results reported in prior periods. The non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to, and not as a substitute for, the financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP, as more fully discussed in the Company's financial statements and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Return on Invested Capital ("ROIC") is presented based on management's belief that this non-GAAP measure is useful information to investors and management when comparing profitability and the efficiency with which capital has been employed over time relative to other companies. The Board has established an internal performance metric of demonstrating superior ROIC performance relative to the oilfield service companies listed as Core's Comp Group by Bloomberg. ROIC is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to net income.
ROIC of 6.7% is defined by Bloomberg as Net Operating Profit After Tax ("NOPAT") of $24.7 million divided by Average Total Invested Capital ("Average TIC") of $368.8 million where NOPAT is defined as GAAP net income before minority interest plus the sum of income tax expense, interest expense, and pension expense less pension service cost and tax effect on income before interest and tax expense. Average TIC is defined as average of beginning and ending periods' GAAP stockholder's equity plus the sum of net long-term debt, lease liabilities, allowance for doubtful accounts, net balance of deferred taxes, and income tax payable.
Core uses the non-GAAP measure of free cash flow to evaluate its cash flows and results of operations. Free cash flow is an important measurement because it represents the cash from operations, in excess of capital expenditures, available to operate the business and fund non-discretionary obligations. Free cash flow is not a measure of operating performance under GAAP and should not be considered in isolation nor construed as an alternative consideration to operating income, net income, earnings per share, or cash flows from operating, investing, or financing activities, each as determined in accordance with GAAP. Free cash flow should not be considered a measure of liquidity. Moreover, since free cash flow is not a measure determined in accordance with GAAP and thus is susceptible to varying interpretations and calculations, free cash flow as presented may not be comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies.
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Wishing Makenzie Burk a fond farewell
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - KSWO will say a fond farewell to 7News anchor Makenzie Burk this Friday, following over 6 years with the station.
Born and raised right here in Lawton, Makenzie graduated from Cameron University with her bachelor’s degree in Communication in 2016, before coming to work at the station.
She is best known for her ‘Outdoor Adventures,’ empowering women across Oklahoma to get involved in outdoor activities, like hunting, fishing, and kayaking.
However, one of her most memorable features, will always be her dedication to the safety and well-being of southwest Oklahoma residents.
As she continually went out of her way to bring breaking news to area residents; during severe weather, fires and evacuations, and the struggles of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Makenzie will be sincerely missed, but we know that no matter what the future brings, she will go on to do remarkable things.
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