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Waco, Texas (KWKT) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a health advisory over cases of malaria.
This is the first time in 20 years that the CDC has had to make an advisory over a local spread of malaria in the United States. The advisory was made after four cases were detected in Florida and another was detected in Texas.
Malaria, caused by a parasite that spreads through bites from Anopheles mosquitoes, causes fever, chills, sweats, nausea and vomiting, and headaches. It is not spread person to person.
Jeff Wooten, the owner of Cen-Tex Pest Control in Waco, Texas, said bugs nest in wet areas in the springtime to then move and populate in the summer.
He said it’s best to take care of your surroundings.
“Mosquitos kill more people than anything else on planet Earth,” said Wooten. “Nearly every year, mosquitoes kill the entire population of the city of Austin. That’s every man, woman and child killed yearly by mosquitoes.”
Wooten says bugs are attracted to any clutter that provides moisture and coverage, so cleaning your home and repairing any leaks can help deter them.
Standing water is another problem, Wooten said.
“Standing water in any pots or anything. Go ahead and dump that out and make sure those are cleaned out. That’ll prevent mosquitoes and every other type of bug from having a water source and multiplying,” he said.
Maintaining bushes in your yard and monitoring the outside perimeter of your home is another way to prevent bugs.
West Nile virus, similar to malaria, is also mosquito-borne, though Baylor Scott and White Hillcrest medical director Dr. Joshua Houser says it is a rare thing to see.
“You always see separate episodes of viral syndromes in the summer. West Nile is a very uncommon condition that we see here. It gets the media, but it doesn’t actually get seen very often,” said Houser.
When outside, Houser says, be sure to protect yourself.
“As much as possible, wear plenty of insect repellent as possible, long-sleeved shirts and long pants as much as possible to keep them from getting on you. Staying away from locations that have a lot of those insect types,” said Houser.
Wooten suggests that if you have a serious insect problem, you should consider professional services.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Wisconsin man given 16 years for shooting at kids throwing snowballs
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Children threw snowballs at cars. A Milwaukee man fired back with a gun.
Now, the man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison after the 2020 incident. William Carson was sentenced on Friday after a jury convicted him in November.
Prosecutors said kids were throwing snowballs at passing cars. In response, Carson parked his car, got out and began firing at the children as they ran away. Then, he drove off. Carson was arrested after a police chase with officers during a suspected OWI and later crashed. Police found a gun that matched the description of the one used in the shooting.
“This is a remarkable case because of the senselessness,” Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Michael Hanrahan said. “It shocked the community, which sees a lot of different gun violence, and it shocked the whole nation.”
Prosecutors asked for 25 years in prison. The victims wrote a note, saying they have emotional and physical scars that still haunt them, some citing moving out of the state after the shooting.
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The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is afoot, which marks one of the few events where we can ogle photos of adorable dogs and feel kind of classy about it.
So far, four finalists have been picked. These fine specimens will be joined by three others for Wednesday night's finale, where one outstanding canine will be crowned Best in Show.
Fans of televised bathroom accidents and people in suits staring pensively at dog underbellies can catch all of the heart-stopping action live on FS1 (because this is a sport!) or the Westminster Kennel Club website. The festivities start at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Now, on to the dogs! The WKC recognizes 211 different breeds of dog, and the whole point of the competition is to find the dogs that adhere most to their breed's standards (hence all of the underbelly scrutinizing). The show's finalists each represent the best of seven different groups of dog breeds: herding, hound, non-sporting, terrier, toy and working. While the four dogs already set to head to the final may vary in size, two virtues bind them together: They're all very good at being the types of dogs they are, and they all have excellent names.
Hound Group: Trumpet (Bloodhound)
Bloodhounds are "one of the oldest breeds of dogs that hunt by scent," according to Westminster Kennel Club classifications. A discovery by a trained bloodhound can even be used in a court of law! The American Kennel Club describes the ideal bloodhound expression as "noble and dignified, and characterized by solemnity, wisdom, and power." Trumpet has nailed it.
Non-sporting Group: Winston (French bulldog)
Ah, Winston. A classic French bulldog name for a classic guy. According to the WKC, Frenchies don't have a lot of, well, useful skills. But they make up for it by being cute. "Most French Bulldogs excel at being friendly, loving clowns whose raison d'être is to be adored," their breed description says. Winston's smiling little face has certainly gotten him far. (Also, one of Winston's owners is an NFL defensive lineman! That counts as a skill for him, right?)
Toy Group: Hollywood (Maltese)
Hollywood looks like she thinks she's better than everyone else, and she's right. Toy dogs are bred for human companionship and laps of luxury. The WKC Maltese breed description says they have been popular pets among royalty for centuries, due to their "elegance and beauty." Hollywood, star that she is, bested several other toy beauts, including Porsche, the first Russian toy dog to make it to the semifinals.
Herding Group: River (German shepherd)
German shepherds are favorites in the herding group, and it's easy to see why. Not only are they extremely smart and enthusiastic, they can be trained for work in law enforcement and the military. And yet, the WKC points out they are also family friendly, and make great service dogs. A German shepherd named Rumor won the WKC's Best in Show in 2017. Can River vie for a repeat?
Wednesday night will determine the finalists from the terrier, hunting and working groups. But only one of the final seven can be the top dog!
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy entertainment industry press releases from PR Newswire, including the Jonas Brothers' collab with Candy Crush Saga.
NEW YORK, May 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the entertainment and media industries stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
- Candy Crush Saga and Jonas Brothers team up to drop exclusive tracks in the mobile game 24-hours before anticipated "The Album" release
Jonas Brothers are heading to the Candy Kingdom for a special in-game takeover where players can interact with the "Candified" stars and stream exclusive music in-game, before listening to it anywhere else. - Victoria's Secret reimagines their iconic Fashion Show with a new generation of women from around the world
Presented as a feature length film, it will unite fashion, film, art, and culture featuring dynamic global creatives, top supermodels, musical talent and more. - IMAX Rockets to Biggest Global Opening of 2023 with $25 Million Debut of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3"
"Our record-breaking box office momentum in 2023 is carrying into a summer blockbuster season loaded with ambitious, IMAX-friendly cinematic experiences — yet another great sign for our performance this year," said Rich Gelfond, CEO of IMAX. - Announcing the 2023 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts
Clive Chang, President of YoungArts, said, "The 2023 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts represent the next generation of storytellers and changemakers in our country, exemplifying both academic excellence and artistic ingenuity spanning the visual, literary, and performing arts." - Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd Top 2023's List of the 50 Most Loved Bands
Steve Newman, RockMerch Social Media/PR Department, said, "This year's list has a lot of diversity that spans multiple genres from AC/DC to Bob Marley and Fleetwood Mac to Blondie." - International Artist Bruce Munro to debut "Field of Light" public artwork on Manhattan's East Side at site of proposed Freedom Plaza Project
Scheduled to open in Fall 2023 and remain in place for 12 months, Field of Light will transform this six-acre site into a welcoming art installation for members of the community and all New Yorkers, as well as present meaningful opportunities for engagement and educational programming. - Banda MS Presents ¿Cuáles Fronteras? with the Special Collaboration of Ice Cube
Set to revolutionize the music industry across México, the United States, and around the world, the single brings together two great musical artists who merge their distinct styles, cultures, and personalities to create a knock-out hit that addresses social issues. - Verse Orlando Opens in Lake Nona on Memorial Day Weekend Verse Orlando launches with four Mixed-Reality experiences and hours of jaw-dropping interactive visuals in what fans describe as: "Playing in a dreamscape video game."
- Artmarket.com: Artprice to introduce its own AI for the art market - Intuitive Artmarket®
Artprice by Artmarket's deployment of algorithmic AI via its proprietary Intuitive Artmarket® is a tool that can generate highly relevant and personalized recommendations, allowing users to go infinitely further in their discovery of art and the art market. - Visit West Hollywood Announces Lineup of Talented Tastemakers for Season Two of "Creators of West Hollywood" Series
The campaign features a new lineup of successful and uncommon individuals, each representing the best of West Hollywood in dining, nightlife, design, music, hospitality, fitness and shopping.
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Discover the perfect wedding space for your memorable, once-in-a-lifetime experience!
PORTSMOUTH, N.H., June 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Is that the sound of wedding bells we hear? If so, we should share a little secret about the region's most breathtaking wedding venue. Perched atop scenic downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire — in a spectacularly restored, circa 1905 gathering space — Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club is the perfect place to host the wedding of your dreams.
The high-touch hospitality team at Jimmy's is dedicated to delivering everything you need to host the most elegant, unforgettable wedding you can imagine. We invite you to explore the features and amenities that make Jimmy's a one-of-a-kind wedding venue for up to 300 guests.
The Wow Factor
Located in the heart of historic Portsmouth, New Hampshire this architecturally stunning local landmark is built to bring people together…and set your wedding apart with a rare, one-of-a-kind "wow factor."
A towering glass-and-steel atrium. Intimate rooms with fireplaces and bay windows. Balconies overlooking the grand main stage. Opulently appointed rooms with captivating artwork. Original arched stained-glass features. And so much more.
The flexible, high-ceilinged spaces — alive with the vibrations of such world-class musical artists as Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Mavis Staples, John Scofield, Taj Mahal, Robert Cray and Wynton Marsalis — can be configured to meet your needs.
Extraordinary Culinary Experience
Wedding dinners are also memorable at Jimmy's, where our team works with you to design a delectable culinary experience that lives up to their flavorful motto, "The Pursuit of Deliciousness."
At Jimmy's, we cultivate personal connections with the local farmers and fishermen who supply the fresh local ingredients used to create a unique New England-inspired cuisine. That same personal touch extends to coordinating with you to create your ideal wedding day menu.
Wired to Inspire
Engineered with the leading-edge sound and lighting systems required to showcase world-class musical artists, Jimmy's also offers in-house theater and projector capabilities, plus a seven-camera video system to capture key moments or record your entire ceremony for future viewing and sharing.
Making Your Special Day "Extra Special"
Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club is a singularly spectacular, full-service wedding venue with a personality and charm unlike any other — a place where the hospitality team puts heart and soul into curating a truly memorable wedding day experience for you and your guests.
To start a conversation about hosting your special wedding event at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club, please fill out our Event Request Form. Or contact 888-603-JAZZ.
ABOUT JIMMY'S JAZZ & BLUES CLUB
The mission of Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club is to provide guests a one-of-a-kind, world-class experience featuring serious jazz and blues music served with exceptional cuisine. Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club features a spectacular and visually breathtaking environment engineered to deliver the highest quality acoustics while utilizing state-of-the-art production, sound and lighting technologies. Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club is located within a beautifully restored 1905 building at 135 Congress Street in the heart of historic downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. For more information visit www.jimmysoncongress.com or follow us on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/JimmysJazzBlues and on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/jimmysjazzblues/. Sign-up for Jimmy's Email Newsletter to stay informed on Upcoming Shows, New Artist Announcements, Promotional Offers, Ticket On-Sale Dates, Special Performances, and Jimmy's Sunday Jazz Brunch.
PRIVATE EVENTS AT JIMMY'S
An architecturally breathtaking center of arts and culture in the heart of historic Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club offers a rare and spectacular venue to host important corporate functions, weddings, intimate or large-scale social gatherings, private parties, and memorable celebrations. The team at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club put heart and soul into creating a stunning full-service event space with new state-of-the-art production, sound & lighting technologies delivered with outstanding next-level culinary experiences. Our high-touch approach with professional and experienced event staff ensures that everything is tailored to exceed your expectations. To start a conversation about hosting your event at Jimmy's Jazz and Blues Club, please call us at 888-603-5299, or fill out Jimmy's Private Event Request Form.
JOIN THE TEAM AT THE LABRIE GROUP FAMILY OF RESTAURANTS
Motivated by a commitment to culinary and hospitality excellence, founders Michael and Peter Labrie and their leadership team understand it is essential to seek out talented team members for each of The Labrie Group family of restaurants — Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club, The Atlantic Grill, The River House, and Rio Tequila Cantina — all in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Career opportunities and current job openings can be found at www.TheLabrieGroup.com.
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PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday the West should step up sanctions against Iran by targeting government officials who are part of the violent crackdown on protesters demanding women’s rights in the Islamic Republic.
Iranian women — and some men — have been protesting the government’s severe restrictions on their daily life since late September after the death of a 22-year-old Mahsa Amini following her arrest for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code.
Tens of thousands of people across France and Europe have marched in solidarity protests with rebelling Iranians, demanding freedom for women and an end to the compulsory headscarf. French music and film stars, including two Oscar-winning actors, Marion Cotillard and Juliette Binoche, filmed themselves chopping off locks of their hair in support of protesters in Iran.
“Women in Iran fight this fight with exceptional courage under the threat to their lives and the lives of their loved ones,” Macron told public radio FranceInter in a broadcast Monday.
Their rebellion against the cleric-led state has “burst the ideological bubble” that Tehran has been sending to the world, Macron said, namely that Iranians don’t want Western values and that women there “were somehow happy to live in this constant state of obstruction.”
The ongoing protests of young Iranians born after the 1979 toppling of the monarchy who have only lived in the Shiite cleric-led state has proven them wrong, Macron said.
“The grandchildren of the (Islamic) revolution are leading a revolution against that revolution,” Macron said.
He added that the West needs to support them in their struggle, including by toughening European sanctions targeting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
“I am in favor of a strong diplomatic reaction and sanctions on the regime’s personalities who are in responsible for the repression of this revolution,” Macron said.
His comments were recorded after his meeting Friday in Paris with four activists campaigning for Iranian women’s rights from exile.
Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani blasted Macron for meeting with the activists, who included two U.S.-based Iranian dissidents, Masih Alinejad and Ladan Boroumand. Kanaani on Monday warned Macron that supporting Iranian dissidents “whose true nature is known by the Iranian people” is a “wrong, short-sighted policy” that could endanger France’s “long-term interests” in the region.
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Amber Alert issued for 2 missing girls in North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. (Gray News) - An Amber Alert was issued for two endangered girls missing in North Carolina.
The Durham Police Department is searching for 7-year-old Makayla Grace Gnije Hatch and 8-year-old Kaylee Amira Grace Hatch. The two girls were last seen July 28 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Makayla is described to be 4 feet and 3 inches tall and weighs about 41 pounds. She has black braided hair with clear beads and brown eyes. Makayla was last seen wearing a pink and coral lace dress, white ruffle socks and black shoes.
Kaylee is described to be 4 feet and 8 inches tall and weighs about 105 pounds. She has black braided hair with clear beads and brown eyes. Kaylee was last seen wearing a lavender, pink and white floral dress with a silver belt and white sandals.
The girls may be traveling with 34-year-old Garrett Hatch. He is described to be 5 feet and 3 inches and weighs about 230 pounds. He has black hair styled in long dreads and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a pink, black and white block shirt with white pants and black shoes.
Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to call 911 or the Durham Police Department 919-560-4440.
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Subsidiary Sands China Ltd. joins the DJSI World Index
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) has once again been recognized on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), with placement on DJSI World Index for the third consecutive year and on the DJSI North America Index for the seventh time. Sands' Asia subsidiary, Sands China Ltd., was named to the DJSI World Index for the first time, along with a repeat appearance on the DJSI Asia Pacific Index.
The Dow Jones Sustainability™ World Index comprises global sustainability leaders as identified by S&P Global through the Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). It represents the top 10% of the largest 2,500 companies in the S&P Global BMI based on long-term economic, environmental and social criteria.
Sands was one of only three companies in the Casino & Gaming industry category to be included on the DJSI World Index, and it is the only company in the group to be included on the DJSI North America Index. Sands China is one of only two companies in the category to be included on the DJSI Asia Pacific Index.
"Our continued recognition on this premier global sustainability benchmark is a testament to our multi-faceted and long-standing commitment to environmental and social leadership," said Patrick Dumont, president and chief operating officer. "This focus further extends the value our world-class integrated resorts contribute to local economies and quality of life. Inclusion on the 2022 Indices was driven by our emphasis on being the employer and partner of choice in the regions we call home, the strategic investments we make to ensure our communities' strength and resiliency, and our leadership in delivering comprehensive initiatives to minimize environmental impact."
Earlier this year, Sands announced its 2025 ambitions in the areas of workforce development, Team Member volunteerism, and carbon emission reduction, aiming to continuously evolve and expand its impact within the company's corporate responsibility pillars of People, Communities and Planet.
Under the People pillar, Sands aims to invest $200 million in workforce development by 2025. The company is focused on building the workforce of the future, through professional growth and advancement for Team Members and the local labor pool, especially small and medium enterprises; health, safety and wellbeing; diversity, equity and inclusion; protection of fundamental human rights and freedoms; and responsible gaming and business practices.
The global Sands Cares community engagement program leads Sands' Community pillar and drives efforts to address hardship relief, promote educational opportunities and learning resources especially for underserved groups, advance local business and nonprofit partners, provide disaster relief and preparedness support, and preserve and protect the cultural and natural heritage of host communities.
Finally, Sands works to ensure the long-term environmental health of its regions through the Planet pillar, led by the Sands ECO360 global sustainability program, which drives initiatives addressing low-carbon transition, water stewardship, waste, plastic and packaging, and responsible sourcing.
The DJSI was launched in 1999 as the pioneering series of global sustainability benchmarks available in the market. The index family is comprised of global, regional and country benchmarks. The S&P Global CSA is an annual evaluation of company sustainability practices, covering more than 10,000 companies from around the world.
Sands is the world's preeminent developer and operator of world-class Integrated Resorts.
Our iconic properties drive valuable leisure and business tourism and deliver significant economic benefits, sustained job creation, financial opportunities for local businesses and community investment to help make our host regions ideal places to live, work and visit.
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Certified B Corp Best for the World™ company offers 10% off sitewide, including up to $880 off mattresses.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Avocado Green Mattress announced one its biggest sales of the year. The makers of certified organic and eco-luxury products launched an epic Presidents' Day sale with 10 percent off sitewide, with huge savings on certified organic mattresses, sustainable wood bed frames, adjustable bases, organic certified sheets and pillows, luxurious robes and pajamas, and clean skin + body products. Customers can even buy now and pay later, with up to 0% financing.
Customers can trust their shopping does good, too. As part of Avocado's partnership with 1% For the Planet, they'll donate 1% of revenues during the Presidents' Day Sale and beyond to Protect Our Winters, a nonprofit dedicated to safeguarding the planet from climate change.
And the savings are huge. Customers can save up to $880 on Avocado's top-rated certified organic mattresses. Using code SAVE10 at AvocadoMattress.com, shoppers will get 10% off the Organic Green Mattress, Organic Luxury Mattress, crib mattresses, and the radically affordable Eco Organic Mattress. Using the same code, shoppers can also save up to $340 on bed frames, including solid wood frames handcrafted in Avocado's own sustainable woodshop, or adjustable bases that quietly glide into the most restful, supportive position.
Shoppers will save 10% on bedding, which covers luxurious, naturally breathable, sheets, duvet covers, and pillowcases made with GOTS certified organic linen, cotton, and hemp. The SAVE10 code is also good for 10% savings on all pillows, toppers, dog beds, and bath products.
The savings don't stop there. The code SAVE10 is also good on Avocado's new insanely comfortable robe and pajama collection, as well as their skin + body lines. Customers will also save an additional 50% on luxurious fleece and cotton apparel collections, and another 30% on alpaca sweaters.
Every order also comes with free carbon negative shipping. As a Climate Neutral certified company — and one of B Corp's Best for the World™ brands — Avocado reduces its footprint, offsets all of its scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, and advocates for legislation that will help mitigate the climate crisis.
From the beginning, Avocado just wanted a new kind of mattress. One that was greener — better for people and the planet — affordable, and comfortable. It was a simple idea rooted in a much bigger vision. Five years later, Avocado continues to expand — from bedding, to furniture, to their skin + bath collection, and their line of responsible loungewear. As the company grows, Avocado continues to redefine what it means to be a sustainable, ethical brand. The company is a Certified B Corporation, a Climate Neutral® Certified business, and a member of 1% For the Planet, remaining true to its original purpose: to be one of the most sustainable companies on Earth. Learn more at AvocadoGreen.com.
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Spotify latest tech company to cut jobs, axes 6% of workforce
LONDON (AP) — Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it’s cutting 6% of its global workforce, becoming yet another tech company resorting to layoffs as the post-pandemic economic outlook weakens.
CEO Daniel Ek announced the restructuring in a message to employees that was also posted online.
As part of the revamp involving a management reshuffle, “and to bring our costs more in line, we’ve made the difficult but necessary decision to reduce our number of employees,” Ek wrote.
Big tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google announced tens of thousands of job cuts this month as the economic boom that the industry rode during the COVID-19 pandemic waned.
Ek said Stockholm-based Spotify was no different. The company’s operating costs last year were double its revenue growth, a gap that would be “unsustainable long-term” in any economic climate, but even more difficult to close with “a challenging macro environment,” he said.
Spotify had benefited from pandemic lockdowns because more people had sought out entertainment when they stayed home.
“I hoped to sustain the strong tailwinds from the pandemic and believed that our broad global business and lower risk to the impact of a slowdown in ads would insulate us. In hindsight, I was too ambitious in investing ahead of our revenue growth,” Ek said.
He said that’s why the company is cutting its global workforce by about 6%, without giving a specific number of job losses. Spotify reported in its latest annual report that it had about 6,600 employees, which implies that 400 jobs are being axed.
“I take full accountability for the moves that got us here today,” Ek said.
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Montreal-based trio Planet Giza has rizz, adapting '90s hip-hop-palettes and bringing back smooth grooves and funky flows. On "WYD," the first single off the group's upcoming album, adlibs dissipate over silky harmonies, a sparkling synth and a crisp beat. "WYD" indulges the cliché digital love story in an age that seems devoid of organic romance: "How I'm 'posed to not like your pictures on every post girl you bad as f*** / And them stories got our inside jokes you know damn well I'm swiping up."
The track has a certain je ne sais quoi that you can hear as Saba's melodic bars flirt with the rhythm. Intoxicating attraction forces a playa to want to break their patterns and settle down as the trio's somewhat juvenile lyrical charm finds the soft spot. While technology may have desensitized people to the point where fostering real connections seems futile, in "WYD," crushes prevail.
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National Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) – issued semi-monthly by Kessler Foundation and the University of New Hampshire
EAST HANOVER, N.J., April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- New data shows that Hispanics with disabilities in the United States rebounded to historic levels in the labor force following the first 12-month period of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the disparity between their non-Hispanic white counterparts remains, their recovery has narrowed this gap and surpassed that of their black/African American counterparts, according to experts speaking during last Friday's nTIDE Deeper Dive Lunch & Learn Webinar. To further improve employment opportunities for Hispanics with disabilities, experts also reviewed measures that address social determinants of health, education, and language barriers that disproportionately impact Hispanic communities.
Using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for persons ages 16-64, the monthly employment-to-population ratio averaged over the 12-month period, April 2022-March 2023, was 35.5 percent for Hispanic civilians with disabilities, compared to 38.0 percent for non-Hispanic white civilians with disabilities. However, estimates of 27.2 percent for non-Hispanic black/African Americans with disabilities indicate that this group has not rebounded as strongly as Hispanic and non-Hispanic white civilians with disabilities.
In contrast, the average monthly employment-to-population ratio was 71.8 percent for Hispanic civilians without disabilities, compared to 77.0 percent for non-Hispanic white civilians without disabilities in the same period. The monthly employment-to-population ratio, a key indicator, reflects the number of people in a population who are working, relative to the total number of people in that population. A 12-month average of this indicator is used to boost statistical precision. The 12-month period of April in one year to March in the next year is used to help examine employment trends before and after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown recession.
"Among people with disabilities, each group has recovered but not at the same rate. Breaking out segment estimates of Hispanic, non-Hispanic white, and non-Hispanic black/African Americans with disabilities shows a compelling story," summarized nTIDE expert Andrew Houtenville, PhD, professor of economics at the University of Hampshire (UNH) and research director of the UNH Institute on Disability. "Overall, we have seen a strong rebound in the job market for Hispanics with disabilities, reaching historic highs since bouncing back from the pandemic lockdown. Yet, there is still a substantial gap between Hispanic and non-Hispanic white civilians," he added. "Non-Hispanic black/African Americans with disabilities were slower to recover in April 2021-March 2022, but have since picked up ground over the past 12 months, he added.
Disparities Still Remain
Even with the latest employment-to-population ratio rally among Hispanics with disabilities, this group still faces barriers in accessing quality jobs due to language, cultural differences, and social determinants of health, according to Javier Robles, director of the Center for Disability Sports, Health and Wellness at Rutgers University and co-chair of the Rutgers University Disability Studies committee.
"We are talking about a varied population with many different cultures and languages," said Robles. Additional focus on providing tailored support and resources for Hispanic individuals with disabilities can help them access the programs and systems designed to reduce employment barriers, he added. These measures should emphasize promoting access to Spanish-language materials, addressing health disparities, and challenging societal attitudes towards disabilities in the Hispanic community.
"In addition, businesses need to understand the cultural aspects of hiring individuals from Latino cultures, particularly in the context of respect. In our culture, there is a deep respect for authority. A Latino with disabilities may not ask for an accommodation because they feel such a request questions that authority," Robles asserted. Addressing these underlying factors will help close the disability employment gap and create a more equitable workforce for all individuals.
Note on Data Collection and Language
When presenting information about race, nTIDE employs the terminology found in the survey that serves as the basis for BLS data, known as the Current Population Survey (CPS). Participants in the survey were asked to select one or multiple race categories from the following five options: White; Black or African American; American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian; and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander. Separately, participants are asked whether they are of Hispanic origin. The statistics presented in the nTIDE Deeper Dive represent participants who specifically indicated being of Hispanic origin; non-Hispanic origin and white only; and non-Hispanic origin and black/African American only. Respondents who chose more than one race category were not included in these calculations. Statistics for other categories are available upon request and may be the subject of future nTIDE Deeper Dives. The questionnaire may be found at the following link.
Live Webinar on Disability and Employment
In conjunction with each nTIDE report, experts host a 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (ET) Lunch & Learn Webinar via Zoom featuring in-depth analyses, guest speakers, and news updates from the field. Webinars include invited panelists who discuss current disability-related findings and events. On May 5, 2023, a guest panelist joins Drs. O'Neill and Houtenville, and Denise Rozell, policy strategist from the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD). Register for our upcoming nTIDE webinars on May 5 and May 19, 2023, at ResearchonDisability.org/nTIDE, where you will also find the nTIDE archives.
About nTIDE Updates
National Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) is a joint project of Kessler Foundation and the University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability. The nTIDE team closely monitors the job numbers, issuing semi-monthly reports that track the impact of economic shifts on employment for people with and without disabilities. As the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wane and inflation persistently rises, the nTIDE team has superseded its mid-month COVID Update to a "Deeper Dive" into the BLS data for people with disabilities.
About the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire
The Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire was established in 1987 to provide a university-based focus for the improvement of knowledge, policies, and practices related to the lives of persons with disabilities and their families. For information on the Institute's NIDILRR-funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Statistics and Demographics (StatsRRTC), visit ResearchOnDisability.org.
About Kessler Foundation
Kessler Foundation, a major nonprofit organization in the field of disability, is a global leader in rehabilitation research. Our scientists seek to improve cognition, mobility, and long-term outcomes, including employment, for adults and children with neurological and developmental disabilities of the brain and spinal cord including traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and autism. Kessler Foundation also leads the nation in funding innovative programs that expand opportunities for employment for people with disabilities. We help people regain independence to lead full and productive lives.
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Biden, GOP reach debt-ceiling deal, now Congress must approve it to prevent calamitous default
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an “agreement in principle” to raise the nation’s legal debt ceiling, but now Congress must rush to approve the spending cuts package in a matter of days to avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default.
The agreement risks angering both Democratic and Republican sides as lawmakers Sunday begin to unpack the concessions made to compromise. Negotiators agreed to some Republican demands for increased work requirements for recipients of food stamps that had sparked an uproar from House Democrats as a nonstarter. But they stopped short of greater spending cuts overall that Republicans wanted.
Support from both parties will be needed to win congressional approval before a projected June 5 government default on U.S. debts.
The Democratic president and Republican speaker reached the agreement after the two spoke Saturday evening by phone. The country and the world have been watching and waiting for a resolution to a political standoff that threatened the U.S. and global economies.
“The agreement represents a compromise, which means not everyone gets what they want,” Biden said in a statement late Saturday night. “That’s the responsibility of governing.”
Biden called the agreement “good news for the American people, because it prevents what could have been a catastrophic default and would have led to an economic recession, retirement accounts devastated, and millions of jobs lost.”
McCarthy in brief remarks at the Capitol said that “we still have a lot of work to do.”
But the Republican speaker said: “I believe this is an agreement in principle that’s worthy of the American people.”
With the outlines of a deal in place, the legislative package could be drafted and shared with lawmakers in time for House votes as soon as Wednesday, and later next week in the Senate.
Central to the package is a two-year budget deal that would hold spending flat for 2024 and increase it by 1% for 2025 in exchange for raising the debt limit for two years, pushing the volatile political issue past the next presidential election.
Driving hard for a deal to impose tougher work requirements on government aid recipients, Republicans achieved some but not all of what they wanted. The agreement would raise the age for existing work requirements on able-bodied adults without children from 49 to 54, but Biden was able to secure waivers for veterans and the homeless.
The two sides had also reached for an ambitious overhaul of federal permitting to ease development of energy projects. Instead, the agreement would put in place changes in the landmark 1970s’ National Environmental Policy Act that will designate “a single lead agency” to develop environmental reviews, in hopes of streamlining the process.
The deal came together after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Congress that the United States could default on its debt obligations by June 5 — four days later than previously estimated — if lawmakers did not act in time. Lifting he nation’s debt limit, now at $31 trillion, allows more borrowing to pay the nation’s already incurred bills.
Biden also spoke earlier in the day with Democratic leaders in Congress to discuss the status of the talks. White House officials will brief House Democrats on a Sunday video call.
McCarthy commands only a slim Republican majority in the House, powered by hard-right conservatives who may resist any deal as insufficient as they try to slash spending. But compromising with Democrats for votes, he risks losing support from his own rank-and-file, setting up a careerchallenging mo-ment for the new speaker.
Both sides have suggested one of the main holdups was a GOP effort to expand work requirements for recipients of food stamps and other federal aid programs, a longtime Republican goal that Democrats have strenuously opposed. The White House said the Republican proposals were “cruel and senseless.”
Biden has said the work requirements for Medicaid would be a nonstarter. He had seemed potentially open to negotiating changes on food stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, despite objections from rank-and-file Democrats.
Americans and the world were uneasily watching the negotiating brinkmanship that could throw the U.S. and global economy into chaos and sap world confidence in the nation’s leadership.
Anxious retirees and others were already making contingency plans for missed checks, with the next Social Security payments due next week.
Yellen said failure to act by the new date would “cause severe hardship to American families, harm our global leadership position and raise questions about our ability to defend our national security interests.”
Any deal would need to be a political compromise in a divided Congress. Many of the hard-right Trump-aligned Republicans in Congress have long been skeptical of the Treasury’s projections, and they are pressing McCarthy to hold out.
Lawmakers are not expected to return to work from the Memorial Day weekend before Tuesday, at the earliest, and McCarthy has promised lawmakers he will abide by the rule to post any bill for 72 hours before voting.
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Associated Press writers Stephen Groves, Fatima Hussein, Farnoush Amiri, Seung Min Kim and video journalist Rick Gentilo contributed to this report.
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Five killed in California Marine aircraft crash identified
Published: Jun. 11, 2022 at 12:05 AM EDT|Updated: 43 minutes ago
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Marine Corps has identified five people who died when their Osprey tiltrotor aircraft crashed during training in the California desert.
The pilots were identified Friday as captains Nicholas Losapio of New Hampshire and John Sax of California.
Also killed were three tiltrotor crew chiefs: Cpl. Nathan Carlson of Illinois; Cpl. Seth Rasmuson of Wyoming and Lance Cpl. Evan Strickland of New Mexico.
The MV-22 Osprey went down Wednesday afternoon during training in a remote area in Imperial County. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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HOUSTON — A Texas judge has stopped next week’s scheduled execution of a death row inmate who has long said he’s innocent so there can be more time to review his claims that he was convicted more than 20 years ago with false testimony and questionable evidence.
Cantu, 49, had been set for execution April 26. But state District Judge Benjamin Smith in Collin County, where Cantu was convicted, on Wednesday withdrew the execution date, saying more review is needed of the inmate’s new claims.
Bill Wirskye, first assistant district attorney with the Collin County District Attorney’s Office, declined to comment.
“Because Mr. Cantu’s case raises troubling questions that undermine the integrity of the conviction, the court’s decision to withdraw the execution date to permit further review was the appropriate next step,” Gena Bunn, Cantu’s attorney, said in a statement on Friday.
Sylvia Cantu, Ivan Cantu’s mother, said she remains hopeful “that all of this new evidence will finally be heard in court so that Ivan can come home.”
Two of the jurors who convicted Cantu have submitted declarations stating they now have doubts about the case.
“I do not want the execution of Mr. Cantu to be carried out unless a careful and thorough review of the evidence is conducted,” Maurice Jacob, one the jurors, wrote in declaration from earlier this month.
Prosecutors have claimed Cantu, who was convicted in 2001, killed Mosqueda, who dealt illegal drugs, and Kitchen as he tried to steal cocaine, marijuana and cash from his cousin’s home. Cantu has claimed a rival drug dealer killed his cousin.
In Cantu’s apartment, police found bloody jeans with the victims’ DNA, a key to the victims’ home and a key to Kitchen’s car. Police found Cantu’s gun at his ex-girlfriend’s home. Mosqueda’s blood was found on the gun’s barrel while Cantu’s fingerprints were found on the gun’s magazine.
In a 2005 affidavit, Matthew Goeller, one of Cantu’s trial attorneys, said Cantu admitted to him “that he had indeed killed Mosqueda for ‘ripping him off’ on a drug deal” and that Kitchen was killed because she was a witness.
Cantu’s then-girlfriend, Amy Boettcher, was the prosecution’s main witness. She testified Cantu told her he was going to kill Mosqueda and Kitchen and later took her back to the crime scene after the killings.
But in court documents, Bunn alleges Boettcher’s testimony is riddled with false statements.
Boettcher, who died in 2021, testified Cantu stole and later got rid of Mosqueda’s Rolex watch. But the watch wasn’t stolen and was later found by Mosqueda’s family, Bunn said.
Boettcher told jurors Cantu proposed to her on the night of the killings with an engagement ring he stole from Kitchen. But witnesses have since said Cantu and Boettcher had announced their engagement and showed off the ring a week before the killings, according to Bunn.
Boettcher testified Cantu placed his bloody jeans and socks in their kitchen trashcan on the night of the killings. But Cantu’s lawyers have questioned this because a police officer who was in his apartment the next day did not see the bloody clothes in the trashcan and they weren’t discovered until several days later, supporting the defense’s theory that someone else put them in the trashcan.
Jeff Boettcher, Amy’s brother, testified that prior to the killings, Cantu told him he planned to kill Mosqueda and Cantu had tried to recruit him to “clean up” afterward. However, Jeff Boettcher has since said he “lied” and was not a credible witness due to his history of drug abuse, according to court documents.
“Absent the largely unimpeached testimony of the Boettchers, it is unlikely that Mr. Cantu would have been convicted,” Bunn said in court documents.
Bunn has credited an independent probe by Matt Duff, a private investigator, with uncovering much of the new evidence in the case. Duff has chronicled his findings in a podcast called “Cousins By Blood.” ___ Follow Juan A. Lozano on Twitter at https://twitter.com/juanlozano70.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The morning clouds will gradually clear throughout the day, with breezy southwest winds picking up this afternoon.
Highs will stay in the low 70s, with a brief drop to the 60s Tuesday as a storm system passes to our north.
Dry and warmer conditions return for the second half of the work week with a weak storm system potentially impacting the region over the weekend.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House dropped plans Friday to nominate an anti-abortion lawyer backed by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell for a federal judgeship in Kentucky.
The decision to back off the nomination of Chad Meredith came amid a split between McConnell and Republican Sen. Rand Paul, his fellow Kentuckian, over the selection.
The White House pointed to resistance from Paul in abandoning the nomination.
“In considering potential District Court nominees, the White House learned that Senator Rand Paul will not return a ‘blue slip’ on Chad Meredith,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement. “Therefore, the White House will not nominate Mr. Meredith.”
A Paul spokeswoman did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment Friday evening.
President Joe Biden had intended to nominate Meredith for a district court judgeship in eastern Kentucky. The plan, first revealed by the Courier Journal of Louisville, had languished for several weeks. The potential nomination drew resistance from Democrats from Kentucky to Washington.
McConnell, a key player in putting conservatives on the federal bench during Donald Trump’s presidency, told The New York Times that the White House intended to follow through on its commitment to nominate Meredith until Paul objected.
Meredith, a well-known conservative in Kentucky, defended the state’s anti-abortion laws in court. He also successfully defended a state law that stripped Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear of his emergency power to implement COVID-19 restrictions.
Meredith previously served as chief deputy general counsel to former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin. Meredith then worked for Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who appointed him as the commonwealth’s first solicitor general in 2019. He left government to join a law firm. Meredith’s father, Stephen Meredith, is a state senator in Kentucky.
The decision to abandon the Meredith nomination caused reverberations in Kentucky. Scott Jennings, a Kentuckian and former adviser to President George W. Bush, called it a “sad day” and said it was “indefensible what’s happened to him.”
“Chad is a terrific human being and exactly the kind of young, conservative judge you’d want on the bench,” said Jennings, who has close ties to McConnell. “He could’ve been there for four decades. It’s a miracle McConnell had Biden talked into it and a tragedy that Senator Paul killed the nomination.”
Abortion-rights supporters applauded the development.
In a statement, NARAL Pro-Choice America President Mini Timmaraju said: “We’re pleased that the Biden administration made this decision — it’s the right call. With abortion rights and access on the line in Kentucky and across the country, it is absolutely essential that all judges defend and uphold our fundamental rights and freedoms, including reproductive freedom.”
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MONTROSE, Pa. (AP) — A plea hearing has been scheduled for next week in the long-running case of a natural gas driller facing felony charges over allegations it polluted the aquifer of a small Pennsylvania community 14 years ago.
Houston-based Coterra Energy Inc. will appear in Susquehanna County Court on Tuesday, according to online court records.
Coterra’s corporate predecessor, Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., with 15 criminal counts after a grand jury investigation found the company drilled faulty gas wells that leaked flammable methane into residential water supplies in Dimock and surrounding communities.
Dimock drew national notoriety after residents were filmed lighting their tap water on fire in the Emmy Award-winning 2010 documentary “Gasland,” one of the ever to emerge from the U.S. drilling and fracking boom. The tiny crossroads in northeastern Pennsylvania is about 15 miles (24 kilometers) from the New York state line.
Many residents continue to avoid using their well water, using bottled water, bulk water purchased commercially, and even water drawn from creeks and artesian wells instead.
Cabot, which merged with Denver-based Cimarex Energy Co. to form Coterra, has long maintained the gas in residents’ water was naturally occurring.
Ahead of the plea hearing, top officials in the state attorney general’s office, which is prosecuting Coterra, earlier this week on a plan to connect their houses to a clean source of water.
The plan calls for Pennsylvania American Water, a water utility, to drill two water wells and build a treatment plant that will remove any contaminants from the water before piping it to about 20 homes in Dimock.
Messages were sent to the attorney general’s office and to Coterra on Wednesday seeking details about the upcoming plea hearing.
On Tuesday, the company — the most prolific driller in the nation’s No. 2 natural gas-producing state — said it was working to resolve the criminal charges.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland Guardians manager Terry Francona has agreed to return for an 11th season after leading the majors’ youngest team to a division title and the AL Division Series in 2022.
The 63-year-old Francona has not signed a contract, but said Friday he intends to be back next season. He’s dealt with health problems the past two years and will have another operation next week.
Chris Antonetti, the team’s president of baseball operations, said Francona is welcome to manage the Guardians “for as long as it makes sense on his end.”
Francona said his young squad energized him this season. The Guardians went 92-70 and won the AL Central. They swept Tampa Bay in the wild-card round before losing the division series to the New York Yankees in five games.
A two-time World Series winner with Boston, Francona has led Cleveland to four division titles and six playoff appearances.
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Is it worthwhile saying something after the fact? I honestly don’t know why I didn’t speak up more forcefully earlier; I guess the trip seemed farther off and less extreme in its length. I had in my mind four to five days, despite his sharing the flight info, etc.
Any tips on approaching him and on turning my terrible attitude around?
— Fuming Mad
Fuming Mad: Do not approach him in anger. You agreed to this, and it sounds as if he has every reason to believe you did so with your eyes open — even though they obviously weren’t. Don’t send him off on his break with the weight of your foul mood.
Instead, into every millimeter-size crack in your schedule in the next week, put in some planning for your own seven-day, purely for-fun trip.
Then take that trip. A conversation here without an actual rebalancing of responsibilities isn’t fairness; it’s just words.
Also, if you can afford for him to take a week-long funfest that involves air travel, then you can afford to hire a dog walker to cross at least that much off your list.
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· I’m going to take Carolyn’s suggestions a few steps further.
Hire a neighborhood kid as a “mother’s helper” for the week. Schedule in some fun time: some with your toddler, some just for yourself. Get a sitter for an evening and hang out with your friends. Get a massage. Order a pizza for yourself with every topping your husband hates.
And start planning your week-long getaway where your husband will be home with the kiddo and the dogs.
· Okay, so you whiffed the “how long this trip is” part. But the truth is that, even if it was a four- or five-day trip, it’s a lot to leave one person to handle. So the point is not to be mad at him, but to say: “We didn’t do enough planning for how everything would get handled with just me available to take care of it. We need to do a better job of paying attention to that in the future and not just assuming that the person who is holding down the fort can handle it all for anything more than a day or two.”
Give it to him as a gift that you are not leaving him in the same position as you take off on your own funfest … of whatever length.
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CONCORD, N.H. — A Massachusetts woman who disappeared during a weekend hike in New Hampshire was found dead Wednesday on what would have been her 20th birthday.
Emily Sotelo of Westford, Mass., had planned to hike three peaks in the White Mountains on Sunday. Officials said her mother dropped her off before dawn at a campground near Franconia Notch and alerted authorities when she failed to return by late afternoon.
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department officers and volunteers from more than a dozen search and rescue teams spent the next several days combing the area, using aircraft and scent dogs. They found tracks and items belonging to Sotelo at the headwaters of Lafayette Brook on Tuesday, but by that night were describing their efforts as a recovery mission rather than rescue.
Sotelo’s body was found on the northwest side of Mount Lafayette in Franconia at 11:15 a.m., officials said. An Army National Guard helicopter brought the body to the nearby Cannon Mountain ski area.
Officials said Sotelo was close to reaching her goal of hiking New Hampshire’s 48 peaks above 4,000 feet before she turned 20 but was unprepared for the deep snow and high winds on Sunday.
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Russian missiles rock Zaporizhizhia as Ukrainian forces advance in 'annexed' regions
Ukraine advances troops along the front lines in the south and north amid Russian attempts to annex four regions
At least seven Russian missile strikes rocked the city of Zaporizhzhia Thursday, as Moscow looks to gain control over "annexed" regions as Ukrainian forces continue to advance.
Residential buildings were hit in the regional capital killing at least one and trapping at least five in the rubble, including a 3-year-old.
"Preliminary data on victims of the enemy attack. One woman was killed. There are at least five people under the rubble of houses," Head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Starukh, said on Telegram.
Starukh originally said two people had been killed but later confirmed that one of the injured victims had been saved after receiving medical attention.
The strikes came just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy said three more towns located in the northern part of the Kherson region – in southern Ukraine – had been "liberated."
"There will be more," he said in an overnight address referring to Ukraine's counteroffensive in the south.
The U.K. defense ministry said in its daily intelligence update Thursday that Ukrainian units had pushed the front line forwards by another 12 miles along the east bank of the Inhulets and west bank of the Dnipro.
However, the ministry noted they had "not yet threaten[ed] the main Russian defensive positions" in Kherson.
"Russia has committed the majority of its severely undermanned airborne forces, the VDV, to the defense of Kherson," U.K. defense officials said. "Therefore, Russia currently has few additional, high quality rapidly deployable forces available to stabilize the front: it likely aims to deploy mobilized reservists to the sector."
CALLS FROM THE FRONT LINES REVEAL MORALE COLLAPSE IN RUSSIAN ARMY: REPORT
Ukrainian troops are also advancing by pushing south, out of the northern Kharkiv region, which it has largely retaken from Russian occupying forces.
They have advanced east into Luhansk and Donetsk.
Zaporizhizhia remains a highly contested region where fighting continues, and Fox News Digital could not immediately confirm whether any advances had been made in the region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin officially claimed the four regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as Russian on Wednesday, despite continuous reports of retreat by Moscow’s troops.
When asked by reporters if there was a contradiction between Putin’s rhetoric on seizing the four regions and the reality on the ground a Kremlin spokesperson said, "There is no contradiction whatsoever."
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"They will be with Russia forever, and they will be returned," Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to Reuters.
Mobilized forces are expected to reinforce Russia’s efforts in eastern Ukraine, though they are also believed to be under-armed and under-trained.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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KHARKIV, Kharkiv Oblast — An explosion Saturday caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia, damaging an important supply artery for the Kremlin's faltering war effort in southern Ukraine and hitting a towering symbol of Russian power in the region.
Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, which killed three people. The speaker of the Russian-backed regional parliament in Crimea accused Ukraine, but Moscow didn’t apportion blame. Ukrainian officials have repeatedly threatened to strike the bridge and some lauded the destruction on Saturday, but Kyiv stopped short of claiming responsibility.
The explosion, which Russian authorities said was caused by a truck bomb, risked a sharp escalation in Russia’s eight-month war, with some Russian lawmakers calling for President Vladimir Putin to declare a “counterterrorism operation," shedding the term “special military operation” that had downplayed the scope of fighting to ordinary Russians.
Putin signed a decree late Saturday tightening security for the bridge and for energy infrastructure between Crimea and Russia, and put Russia’s federal security service, the FSB, in charge of the effort.
Hours after the explosion, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that air force chief Gen. Sergei Surovikin would now command all Russian troops in Ukraine. Surovikin, who this summer was placed in charge of troops in southern Ukraine, had led Russian forces in Syria and was accused of overseeing a bombardment that destroyed much of Aleppo.
Moscow, however, continues to suffer battlefield losses.
On Saturday, a Kremlin-backed official in Ukraine’s Kherson region announced a partial evacuation of civilians from the southern province, one of four illegally annexed by Moscow last week. Kirill Stremousov told Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti agency that young children, their parents and the elderly could be relocated to two southern Russian regions because Kherson was getting “ready for a difficult period.”
The 19-kilometer (12-mile) Kerch Bridge, on a strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, is a symbol of Moscow’s claims on Crimea and an essential link to the peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The $3.6 billion bridge, the longest in Europe, is vital to sustaining Russia's military operations in southern Ukraine. Putin himself presided over the bridge’s opening in 2018.
The attack on it “will have a further sapping effort on Russian morale, (and) will give an extra boost to Ukraine’s,” said James Nixey of Chatham House, a think tank in London. “Conceivably the Russians can rebuild it, but they can’t defend it while losing a war."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a video address, indirectly acknowledged the bridge attack but did not address its cause.
“Today was a good and mostly sunny day on the territory of our state,” he said. “Unfortunately, it was cloudy in Crimea. Although it was also warm.”
Zelenskyy said Ukraine wants a future “without occupiers. Throughout our territory, in particular in Crimea.”
Zelenskyy also said Ukrainian forces advanced or held the line in the east and south, but acknowledged “very, very difficult, very tough fighting” around the city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces have claimed recent gains.
Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said a truck bomb caused seven railway cars carrying fuel to catch fire, resulting in the “partial collapse of two sections of the bridge.” A man and a woman riding in a vehicle on the bridge were killed, Russia’s Investigative Committee said. It didn’t say who the third victim was.
All vehicles crossing the bridge are supposed to undergo state-of-the-art checks for explosives. The truck that exploded was owned by a resident of the Krasnodar region in southern Russia, the Russian Investigative Committee said, adding the man's home was searched and experts were looking at the truck’s route.
Train and automobile traffic over the bridge was temporarily suspended. Automobile traffic resumed Saturday afternoon on one of the two links that remained intact, with the flow alternating in each direction, said Crimea’s Russia-backed leader, Sergey Aksyonov.
Rail traffic was resuming slowly. Two passenger trains left the Crimean cities of Sevastopol and Simferopol and headed toward the bridge Saturday evening. Passenger ferry links between Crimea and the Russian mainland were being relaunched Sunday.
While Russia seized areas north of Crimea early during its invasion of Ukraine and built a land corridor to it along the Sea of Azov, Ukraine is pressing a counteroffensive to reclaim that territory.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its troops in the south were receiving necessary supplies through that corridor and by sea. Russia’s Energy Ministry said Crimea has enough fuel for 15 days.
Russian war bloggers responded to the bridge attack with fury, urging Moscow to retaliate by striking Ukrainian civilian infrastructure. Putin ordered the creation of a government panel to deal with the emergency.
Gennady Zyuganov, head of the Russian Communist Party, said the “terror attack” should serve as a wake-up call. “The special operation must be turned into a counterterrorist operation,” he declared.
Leonid Slutsky, head of the foreign affairs committee in the Russian parliament’s lower house, said “consequences will be imminent” if Ukraine was responsible. And Sergei Mironov, leader of the Just Russia faction, said Russia should respond by attacking key Ukrainian infrastructure.
Such statements may herald a decision by Putin to declare a counterterrorism operation.
The parliamentary leader of Zelenskyy’s party cast the explosion as a consequence of Moscow’s takeover of Crimea.
“Russian illegal construction is starting to fall apart and catch fire. The reason is simple: If you build something explosive, then sooner or later it will explode,” said David Arakhamia of the Servant of the People party.
The Ukrainian postal service announced it would issue stamps commemorating the blast, as it did after the sinking of the Moskva, a Russian flagship cruiser, by a Ukrainian strike.
The secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, tweeted a video with the Kerch Bridge on fire and Marilyn Monroe singing her “Happy Birthday Mr. President” song. Putin turned 70 on Friday.
In Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said “the reaction of the Kyiv regime to the destruction of civilian infrastructure shows its terrorist nature.”
The Crimean Peninsula is a popular destination for Russian tourists and home to a Russian naval base. A Russian tourist association estimated that 50,000 tourists were in Crimea on Saturday.
Elsewhere, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has lost its last remaining external power source as a result of renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators.
Ukrainian authorities were also just beginning to sift through the wreckage of the devastated city of Lyman in eastern Ukraine, assessing the humanitarian toll and possible war crimes after a months-long Russian occupation.
“Some people died in their houses, some people died in the streets, and the bodies are now being sent to experts for examination,” said Mark Tkachenko of the Kramatorsk district police.
Explosions also rocked the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early Saturday, sending plumes of smoke into the sky and triggering secondary explosions. Ukrainian officials accused Russia of using surface-to-air missiles in two largely residential neighborhoods.
Kharkiv resident Tetiana Samoilenko's apartment caught fire in the attack. She was in the kitchen when the blast struck, sending glass flying.
“Now I have no roof over my head. Now I don’t know what to do next,” the 80-year-old said.
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6TH AUGUST 2022, 11am start, 25 km, 1,700 m elevation gain
STRANDA, NORWAY
ANNECY, France, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Golden Trail World Series went to a Nordic country for the first time in its history! This weekend, the Stranda Fjord Trail Race was the 3rd leg of the world trail cup. A physically and technically demanding race that attracted the world's best athletes to Scandinavia for the event.
"Shine a spotlight on trail running in Norway"
Anders Kjaerevik (Salomon team, Norway) was really looking forward to this Norwegian. He lives a few hours from Stranda. For him, the arrival of GTWS in his country is a real opportunity for local trail running and its development. "It's fantastic! When I heard that there was going to be a race in Norway, I couldn't believe it. Trail running isn't very popular here. Sport is really focused on cross-country skiing. But we have some very good runners. Just look at Stian Angermund (winner of the 2021 GTWS). But few of them will race against the best European runners because logistics are complicated and they don't have time to manage all the travel arrangements. I think having an event like this with the best runners attending will help shine a spotlight on trail running and help it grow here. I hope that the Golden Trail series will stay here a few years, especially seeing as we have the perfect terrain for the races! "
Jonathan Albon (The North Face team, GB) agrees. He moved to Norway 7 years ago and won the race thanks in particular to his perfect knowledge of the terrain. "I decided to enter the race a week before. I thought I couldn't miss the one time the best runners were coming to Norway. It was fun to see them here even if different qualities are required because the trails are very technical. It showcases trail running here and that's great."
20 nationalities in the top 50!
Looking at the top 50 women and men who crossed the finish line, there are 20 different nationalities, proof that the Golden Trail Series is achieving one of its key objectives: bring the world's best athletes together for each leg. There are European runners of course, as well as athletes from the Untied States, Mexico, Columbia, Morocco, Australia and New Zealand. The final in Madeira may be even more international as other athletes, from Africa for example, could qualify. "I think it's because the Golden Trail Series has found the right compromise that all athletes like, avoiding lots of series and lowering the standard," Anders Kjaerevik explains. "It's excellent and that's why so many athletes want to take part. "
Next stop: Switzerland
We've barely time to enjoy victories for Jonathan Albon and Sophia Laukli (Salomon team, USA) in Stranda before the Golden Trail World Series heads to the next leg in Switzerland: Sierre-Zinal. This 4th leg will take place on 13th August.
Results
Men
- JONATHAN ALBON (GBR – THE NORTH FACE): 02:24:02
- MANUEL MERILLAS (ESP – SCARPA): 02:26:45
- BART PRZEDWOJEWSKI (POL – SALOMON): 02:26:59
- FRÉDÉRIC TRANCHAND (FRA – SCOTT): 02:27:40
- DAVIDE MAGNINI (ITA – SALOMON): 02:29:48
Women
- SOPHIA LAUKLI (USA – SALOMON): 02:57:36
- ÉLISE PONCET (FRA – SIDAS X MATRYX): 03:00:13
- EMELIE FORSBERG (SWE – NNORMAL): 03:01:34
- BLANDINE L'HIRONDEL (FRA – EVADICT): 03:01:50
- SARA ALONSO (ESP – SALOMON): 03:03:52
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MDR Leader's Continued Momentum Fueled by Strong Customer Demand for its Industry-leading Technology
DENVER, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Canary, a leader in managed detection and response, today announced it has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue. This milestone is validation that the software-driven MDR approach pioneered by Red Canary is delivering customer value at scale. Nearly 1,000 customers, including many of the world's largest and fastest growing companies, trust Red Canary's industry-leading technology to protect their environments from cybersecurity threats. By providing industry-best detection and response across cloud workloads, identities, SaaS applications, networks, and endpoints, Red Canary is able to find and stop these threats, no matter where adversaries choose to attack.
With its latest innovations in readiness, intelligence, and 24x7 managed detection and response, Red Canary is the only vendor today that provides a leading combination of:
- Unmatched depth of detection: by processing massive amounts of streaming data, Red Canary can significantly increase the detection of confirmed threats
- Speed and flexibility of remediation: by focusing on detecting and responding to early-stage adversary activity, threats can be stopped before they can negatively impact organizations
- Quality of partnership: by providing 24x7 access to deep security expertise, customers get unlimited access to global threat intelligence and threat hunters
An obsession with serving and protecting customers through this approach has been the foundation of Red Canary's success and continues to fuel the company's growth and customer retention. Since inception, Red Canary has raised $86 million from investors, including Summit Partners, Noro-Moseley Partners, Access Venture Partners, and Legion Capital. The company has now surpassed $100 million in ARR with a continued commitment to durable growth and delivering healthy and consistently improving operating margins. Key milestones from recent quarters include:
Financial Highlights
- Served 246 new customers in FY23 for a total of nearly 1,000 customers across every major industry, and increased the number of customers with over $100,000 in ACV by 30% year-over-year
- Received an average overall Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) rating of 99.2% in FY23, which represents an industry-leading score and ongoing commitment to deliver an exceptional customer experience designed to help customers achieve their security outcomes
- Realized a 63% attach rate of Active Remediation in Q4 FY23, demonstrating the value of the company's comprehensive approach and continued commitment to delivering new solutions to encompass its customers' security operations
Product Innovations & Community Highlights
- Announced Red Canary Readiness, a new portfolio of offerings that will revolutionize how teams prepare and train for incident response
- Expanded user protection coverage with more detection analytics and response actions in identity and email environments, including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Okta, and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
- Announced Linux EDR, a lightweight solution for gaining visibility into cloud workloads, so teams can detect threats and protect production Linux systems without downtime or performance impact
- Introduced Red Canary Mac Monitor, a free tool for gathering macOS telemetry, so security teams and researchers can quickly and effectively analyze macOS security events
- Launched its most comprehensive Threat Detection Report ever, reaching tens of thousands of cybersecurity professionals, with research showing a noticeable increase in cloud and identity-specific techniques
"Red Canary is at the center of our customers' security operations. We have an unwavering focus on delivering the absolute best quality at scale, and that is fundamentally what drives our success," said Brian Beyer, CEO of Red Canary. "This commitment together with Red Canary's operational excellence is creating the leading and most durable winner in the industry."
"We know the cybersecurity space well, and we believe that Red Canary has delivered industry leading cybersecurity protection in the most efficient manner in the industry," said Andrew Collins, Managing Director at Summit Partners. "The $100 million ARR milestone helps demonstrate that a sustainable business model can be achieved with a maniacal focus on solving the customer's cybersecurity needs and not on unsubstantiated hype. We are thrilled to partner with the entire Red Canary team as they continue to scale."
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Q. Our entire childhood, my mom consistently used my own achievements to push my brother to be better. I was two years younger, a year ahead in school, bolder and more fearless than him in every way.
Mom made it a competition between us to help him overcome his fears. She fueled it until she died.
My brother and I are now in our late 40s. We are both successful, but have made very different choices.
I turned down lucrative opportunities to prioritize my children over work. He and his wife did the opposite. They both placed their career first and neglected their child. I ended up taking care of my nephew a lot over the years to make up for it.
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These days, my brother takes every opportunity to blast his success to me. He tells me how much money he makes, how much his wife makes, how much money they have in the bank, etc.
I am trying to be a better person and ignore it, but it is exhausting. He never asks about my life and what I care about. I wouldn’t trade my life and the strong bond I have with my kids and their son over all the money he has, but how can I change the dynamic?
I know he only brags to me and not to our other brother.
At this point, I am considering cutting him off completely.
Am I overreacting? Why does it bother me so much?
ANNOYED LITTLE SISTER
A. Imagine how it would feel to be told that you are never “enough.” This is the script that your mother wrote for your brother. He is trying to flip that script, and establish that he has finally won your lifelong competition.
I suggest that you — the bold and secure one — be brave enough to let him off the hook. Basically, I’m suggesting that you try to take the air out of this through gently surrendering.
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You could start with: “You talk about your wealth a lot when you’re with me. Why is that?”
You could then try telling him, “I know that Mom always set us up in a competition. I can only imagine what it was like for you. But I think she would be really proud of your success. I hope that you don’t feel like you have anything left to prove.”
Only do this if you genuinely want to try to change the dynamic.
Q. I am 76 years old. My husband passed away eight years ago. Four years later, I moved to be near my son and grandchildren. I left a small town where I lived for 58 years, a church I loved, and many friends.
Two of my grandchildren are now in college. I pick the youngest one up from school every day. We do lots of things together, but he is almost 12 and growing more independent.
I am active in my church here and have a few friends, but I still pine for my hometown. I taught school there for 34 years, then took care of my parents and my husband.
I have baby-sat for my grandchildren for 21 years, keeping them after school, on weekends, and taking them on extended vacations.
I want to move back to my hometown, but I am afraid that I will feel guilty for leaving my grandson. I feel time slipping away and want to have some time to do what I want to do while I still can.
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Do you think I should stay here for my grandson, or should I move back to my beloved hometown? Am I being selfish?
GUILTY
A. I think you should do something — for you. You might start by taking an extended trip to your hometown, perhaps staying in a rental or with a friend.
Talk with your family. I hope they will encourage you to freely make the choice that is best for you.
After decades of taking care of others, it’s time to take good care of yourself.
Q. I recognized myself in the letter from “Nice Guys Finish Last,” who is a softy as a landlord.
After 25 years as a landlord, I finally hired a property manager, and it was the best thing I ever did. It was worth the money not to have to deal with the problems that arose. And they were the “bad guys!”
FORMER SOFTY
A. It helps to remember that this is essentially a business relationship — on both sides.
Amy Dickinson can be reached at askamy@amydickinson.com.
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Ukrainian police, broadcasts return to long-occupied city
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities say Ukrainian police officers and broadcasts are returning to the southern city of Kherson following the withdrawal of Russian troops after more than eight months of occupation.
The chief of the National Police of Ukraine, Ihor Klymenko, said in a Facebook post on Saturday that some 200 officers were at work in the city, setting up checkpoints and documenting evidence of possible war crimes.
Police teams also were working to identify and neutralize unexploded ordnance, and one sapper was injured Saturday while demining an administrative building, Klymenko said.
Ukraine’s communications watchdog said national TV and radio broadcasts had resumed in the city, and an adviser to Kherson’s mayor said humanitarian aid and supplies had begun to arrive from the neighboring Mykolaiv region.
Speaking on Ukrainian TV, the adviser, Roman Holovnya, described the situation in the city as “a humanitarian catastrophe.” He said the remaining residents lacked water, medicine, and food.
The chairman of Khersonoblenergo, the region’s prewar power provider, said electricity was being returned “to every settlement in the Kherson region immediately after the liberation and obtaining mandatory permission from the military.”
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian military carried out “stabilization measures” near the southern city of Kherson on Saturday following the end of an eight-month occupation by Russian forces, a retreat that cast a further pall on President Vladimir Putin’s designs to take over large parts of Ukraine.
Residents of Kherson, the only regional capital captured by Russia’s military during the ongoing invasion, awoke from a night of jubilant celebrating that broke out in the city and surrounding areas after the Kremlin announced its troops had withdrawn to the other side of the Dnieper River.
In a regular social media update Saturday, the General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said the Russians were fortifying their battle lines on the river’s eastern bank after abandoning the capital. About 70% of the Kherson region remains under Russian control.
Ukrainian officials from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on down cautioned that while special military units had reached Kherson city, a full deployment to reinforce the advance troops still was underway. On Friday, Ukraine’s intelligence agency said it thought some Russian soldiers stayed behind, ditching their uniforms for civilian clothes to avoid detection.
“Even when the city is not yet completely cleansed of the enemy’s presence, the people of Kherson themselves are already removing Russian symbols and any traces of the occupiers’ stay in Kherson from the streets and buildings,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address late Friday.
Photos circulating Saturday on social media showed Ukrainian activists removing memorial plaques put up by the occupation authorities the Kremlin installed to run the Kherson region. A Telegram post on the channel of Yellow Ribbon, a self-described Ukrainian “public resistance” movement, showed two people in a park taking down plaques picturing what appeared to be Soviet-era military figures.
Moscow’s announcement that Russian forces planned to withdraw across the Dnieper River, which divides both the Kherson region and Ukraine, followed a stepped-up Ukrainian counteroffensive in the country’s south.
In the last two months, Ukraine’s military claimed to have reclaimed dozens of towns and villages north of Kherson city, and the Ukrainian General Staff said that’s where the stabilization activities were taking place.
The Russian retreat represented a significant setback for the Kremlin some six weeks after Putin annexed the Kherson region and three others provinces in southern and eastern Ukraine in breach of international law and in the face of widespread condemnation. The Russian leader unequivocally asserted the illegally claimed areas as Russian territory.
Russian state news agency TASS quoted an official in Kherson’s Kremlin-appointed administration on Saturday as saying that Henichesk, a city on the Azov Sea some 200 kilometers southeast of Kherson city, would serve as the region’s “temporary capital” after the withdrawal across the Dnieper.
Ukrainian media derided the announcement, with daily newspaper Ukrainskaya Pravda saying Russia “had made up a new capital” for the region.
Like Zelenskyy, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba sought to temper the excitement over the invaded nation’s latest morale boost., “We are winning battles on the ground, but the war continues,” he said from Cambodia, where he was attending a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Kuleba also brought up the prospect of the Ukrainian army finding evidence of possible Russian war crimes in Kherson, just as it did after the Russian Defense Ministry pulled back its forces in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions earlier in the way.
“Every time we liberate a piece of our territory, when we enter a city liberated from Russian army, we find torture rooms and mass graves with civilians tortured and murdered by Russian army in the course of the occupation of these territories,” Ukraine’s top diplomat said. “It’s not easy to speak with people like this. But I said that every war ends with diplomacy and Russia has to approach talks in good faith.”
U.S. assessments this week showed Russia’s war in Ukraine may already have killed or wounded tens of thousands of civilians and hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
While much of the focus was on southern Ukraine, Russia continued its grinding offensive in Ukraine’s industrial east, targeting in particular the Donetsk region city of Bakhmut, the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian General Staff said.
Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko reported Saturday that two civilians were killed and four wounded over the last day as battles heated up around Bakhmut and Avdiivka, a small city that has remained in Ukrainian hands throughout the war.
Russia’s continued push for Bakhmut demonstrates the Kremlin’s desire for visible gains following weeks of clear setbacks. Taking the city would open the way for a possible push onto other Ukrainian strongholds in the heavily contested Donetsk region. A reinvigorated eastern offensive could also potentially stall or derail Kyiv’s ongoing advances in the south.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region west of Donetsk, Russia kept up its shelling of communities near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the Ukrainian regional governor said. Russia and Ukraine have long traded blame for shelling in and around the plant, Europe’s largest.
Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, reemphasized that the United States would defer to Ukrainian authorities on whether or when to negotiate with Russia about a possible end to the conflict.
“Russia invaded Ukraine,” Sullivan told reporters on Air Force One en route to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as part of a trip by President Joe Biden to international summits in southeast Asia.
“If Russia chose to stop fighting in Ukraine and left, it would be the end of the war,” Sullivan said. “If Ukraine chose to stop fighting and give up, it would be the end of Ukraine.”
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Like many Americans, we’ll be firing up the grill this weekend.
As I was getting ready for our family’s upcoming Memorial Day barbecue, I thought it would be fun to update a few cookout classic side dishes.
Since so many people have food allergies these days, it can be tricky to make an old-fashioned barbecue allergy-friendly, but some new-to-market innovations can make it easier to update traditional recipes.
For example, if you have a dairy allergy, you would have to steer clear of banana cream pie. Whether it’s made from scratch or with packaged whipped topping such as Cool Whip, banana cream pie contains dairy. But don’t worry — you can make a perfectly delicious, creamy pie with coconut based whipped topping and you wouldn’t notice the difference in taste or texture.
Growing up, I don’t remember ever being wowed by classic coleslaw — most of the time it was bland looking (and tasting) but with today’s interesting slaw mixes you can come up with some dynamic options.
I like to mix broccoli slaw with a Brussels sprout mix to make a crunchy, interesting slaw. For the dressing, you can replace regular mayonnaise with one of the many vegan options available and you would hardly notice the difference.
Speaking of dressings, you can’t deny the popularity of ranch. If you want to skip the bottled stuff and make an updated version from scratch, try adding a pinch of paprika and rice wine vinegar to the mix. It elevates the flavor and adds an extra spark of tang to the dressing. You can also make it dairy-free by using vegan mayonnaise and sour cream.
Honey Crunch Coleslaw
12 ounce bag Cruciferous Crunch Coleslaw Mix, such as Trader Joe’s
12 ounce bag broccoli slaw mix
1 cup dried cranberries
3/4 cup mayonnaise (regular or vegan)
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon celery seed
1/2 teaspoon pepper
Add both bags of slaw mix and the dried cranberries to a large bowl and toss together.
Add the remaining ingredients to a bowl and whisk together.
Drizzle the dressing over the slaw mix and stir well to combine. Place the mixed slaw in the refrigerator and let it rest for about 30 minutes. Stir before serving.
Elevated Ranch Dressing
1 cup mayonnaise (regular or vegan)
1/2 cup sour cream (regular or vegan)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 tablespoon rice vinegar
1/2 tablespoon fresh dill, minced
1/2 tablespoon fresh parsley, minced
1 tablespoon fresh chives, minced
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon paprika
Add the ingredients to a food processor and process on low for about a minute to combine. Adjust the seasonings to suit your taste.
(You can also add the ingredients to a bowl and whisk them together or add them to a lidded container and shake to mix.)
Dairy-Free Toasted Coconut Banana Cream Pie
1 (9-inch) piecrust
4 bananas
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 (9 ounce) containers Cocowhip whipped topping
5.1 ounce package instant banana pudding mix
2 cups unsweetened shredded coconut
1 cup toasted almond slices
6 ounces can coconut whipped cream
Stretch the piecrust into a 9-inch pie dish. To prevent the crust from shrinking while it bakes, use pie weights or set a piece of cheese cloth over the crust and pour in a package of dried beans.
Set the piecrust in a preheated 375-degree oven and bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until the crust is light golden brown. Remove from oven and cool to room temperature. (You can also substitute a regular crust for a graham cracker crust.)
Lower the oven to 300 degrees.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Spread the shredded coconut on the parchment paper and set in the oven for about 5 minutes or until it begins to brown slightly. Remove from oven and cool.
Peel the bananas. Add 2 of the bananas to a food processor and process until smooth, then set aside.
Slice the remaining bananas and set them in a bowl, then drizzle with lemon juice.
Line the bottom of the pie crust with banana slices (any leftover slices can be used for garnish).
Add the whipped coconut topping and banana pudding mix to a large bowl, along with the banana from the food processor. Stir well to combine.
Spoon the banana mixture into the piecrust and spread in an even layer. Sprinkle the top of the pie with the toasted coconut and almond slices. Garnish the top with dollops of coconut whipped cream and any leftover banana slices, if desired.
Chill the pie in a refrigerator for about an hour before serving.
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SEATTLE — Looking for a place to grab dinner and a view?
Here are seven unique spots around western Washington to enjoy food and scenery.
For a seafood feast with a bird's-eye view, head to Pier 57 in Seattle where you can enjoy a preset menu aboard the Great Wheel. The four-course dinner, which includes wine, is prepared by The Fisherman's Restaurant. It costs $152.50/person and spots must be reserved online for this once-in-a-lifetime kind of experience. 1301 Alaskan Way, Seattle.
Ascend Prime Steak and Sushi in Bellevue
You can "dine in the sky" 31 floors above the city at this upscale restaurant. The menu features steak grilled over alder and fruit wood flames, a raw bar and celebratory desserts. But no one would blame you if you came strictly for the 360-degree sweeping views of the Eastside and beyond. Open daily from 3-11 p.m. 10400 NE 4th Street, Suite 3100, Bellevue.
The Summit House at Crystal Mountain Resort
For a more adventurous dining experience, head to Crystal Mountain Resort. On a nice summer day, you can take a gondola ride to The Summit House – Washington's highest elevation restaurant at nearly 7,000 feet. Outdoor seating is ample and the executive chef focuses on “fresh, vibrant seasonal dishes” with a side of Mount Rainier. Hours and days vary during the summer months based on weather. 33914 Crystal Mountain Blvd, Enumclaw.
Hama Hama Oyster Saloon in Union
Hood Canal on the Olympic Peninsula is known for oysters, and Hama Hama Oyster Co. has long been the place to buy them fresh. A few years ago, the family-owned company opened Hama Hama Oyster Saloon – an open-air eatery that serves oysters raw and roasted, along with other shellfish and non-seafood dishes, at the water's edge. It’s a true northwest experience. Open Friday-Monday from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Reservations during the summer are strongly recommended. 35846 Hwy-101, Lilliwaup.
Narrows Marina in Tacoma
The marina is home to food and beverage options with a picture-perfect view across the water of the Narrows Bridge. Grab a pint from Narrows Brewing and something to eat from neighboring restaurant Boathouse 19, then claim a table on the outdoor patio or inside the brewery near the windows, and drink it all in. 9007 S. 19th Street, Tacoma.
Agua Verde Café in Seattle
Diners can enjoy the view of Portage Bay, then actually go out on the water at this two-for-one location. Agua Verde Café is a casual New Mexican restaurant that’s perched above the water. Just down the stairs, Agua Verde Paddle Club rents kayaks and paddle boards for exploring the nearby Montlake Cut and waterways. Open daily from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. No reservations. 1301 NE Boat Street, Seattle.
Little Coney in Seattle
The small eatery set between Shilshole Bay Marina and Golden Gardens features soup, sandwiches, burgers, hot dogs and soft-serve ice cream. There are a few indoor seats looking out at the boats, or you can grab your food to-go and sit on a nearby bench for a beach picnic with views of the Puget Sound and Olympic Mountains. Open daily, except on Wednesdays, from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 8003 Seaview Ave NW, Seattle.
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An agency within the Department of Transportation (DOT) sent a notice to railroads Friday to urge them to review how they share information about transporting hazardous materials in the aftermath of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment.
The DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) said it sent a safety advisory notice in light of the derailment to emphasize to railroads that they need to appropriately plan for emergencies and share information about the available resources for an emergency response.
It also said those engaged in rail transportation of hazmat should take further actions to ensure emergency responders have the equipment they need to respond to these types of situations.
“PHMSA may take additional action on this issue in the future if investigations reveal that improvements in the emergency response planning process are necessary to reduce the impacts of hazmat transportation accidents,” the notice reads.
The agency said it is concerned emergency responders did not have access to the AskRail system, which was created by the freight industry to give emergency responders information they need about railcars moving hazardous materials, when addressing the East Palestine derailment.
A Norfolk Southern train derailment early last month allowed for many toxic chemicals to escape into the air and required the nearby community to evacuate for about five days. One of the chemicals was vinyl chloride, an explosive, cancer-causing substance that needed to be burned as part of a “controlled release” to avoid a potential explosion.
Officials said later last month that the air and water in the local community was safe, but some residents have reported experiencing rashes and difficulty breathing, among other symptoms.
Residents and officials at the local, state and federal levels have called for holding Norfolk Southern accountable for the crash, and the Environmental Protection Agency has ordered it to clean up and pay for the effects of the crash.
The PHMSA said in the notice that responders receiving accurate information in a timely manner is necessary for them to understand what risk is posed by the materials.
The agency also pointed to grant programs that are available to assist with emergency preparedness and response training and encouraged railroads to take advantage of them.
It noted that the DOT has urged all railroads to maintain emergency response plans for hazardous materials since 1993 and said properly maintaining and executing these plans can protect lives, property, health and the environment.
The agency said railroads should determine if they should expand their plans to cover additional hazmat. They should also share those plans and the types of materials being transported with community emergency planners and proactively engage in exercises with communities to be prepared for any incident that may happen.
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Russian authorities demonstrated again Thursday that they are widening their crackdown on dissent by investigating and detaining artists involved in a play staged in Moscow.
Her mother reported that her apartment was being searched in St. Petersburg. Playwright Svetlana Petriychuk was also detained and interrogated as a suspect in the case, according to OVD-Info. The director of the theater that staged the play was also reported to have been questioned.
Justifying terrorism is a criminal offense in Russia, punishable by up to seven years in prison.
The Latvia-based news outlet Meduza says the play is about women who “decided to virtually marry representatives of radical Islam and go to live with them in Syria.”
Since invading Ukraine in February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin has increased punishments and widened the scope of a years-old crackdown on criticism of government policies, other forms of dissent and actions that his government considers to be supporting terrorism. Hundreds, if not thousands, of Russians have been fined, jailed or fled the country because of the crackdown.
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KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GeoBlue announced its 25th anniversary as the leader in high-tech, high-touch health insurance solutions for the globally mobile.
Incorporated in February 1997, the company, then known as Highway to Health, began with a mission to help U.S.-based travelers access high-quality health care while abroad. The company's original founders had strong roots in healthcare and technology and leveraged that to build a hand-picked network of Western-trained, English-speaking doctors around the world, which they put online and made available to travelers. The company then pivoted from solely providing digital services to offering insurance products through its acquisition of Worldwide Insurance Services in 1999. As the new millennium began, the company continued to maintain its place as a technology leader in the international healthcare industry, licensing its web and mobile tools to major consumer and travel websites as well as a number of international health insurers, launching its first mobile site in 2007, and being among the first insurance companies to launch a mobile app in 2009.
The company was recognized among the Deloitte Fast 50 in Philadelphia in 2007 and the Deloitte Fast 500 globally in 2008, and its mPassport® mobile app continued to garner awards and media recognition. During this time the company expanded its capabilities and products, building its own in-house medical assistance team and developing international health insurance products for the corporate expatriate, university and consumer markets. In 2009, a consortium of Blue Cross® Blue Shield® plans invested in the company, which then became an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, trading as GeoBlue.
In recent years, highlights include the strategic investment by Bupa; becoming the administrator of Blue Cross Blue Shield Global Core, the program that enables over 80 million BCBS plan holders to use their U.S. benefits overseas; becoming the assistance provider for CanAssistance, a subsidiary of Canassurance Hospital Service Association, allowing eligible travelers of Canadian Blue Cross Plans to access the BlueCard PPO network in the U.S. and extending its assistance services to Bupa's individual and SME members – all of which solidified the company's position as the global solution for the Blue Cross Blue Shield system.
Alan Krigstein, Chairman of the Board of Directors of GeoBlue said: "The board and I are very proud of the company's achievements over the past 25 years. There are a number of market dynamics that make this an exciting time for GeoBlue, including the post-pandemic return to international travel and the increased awareness of the need for their products as well as the increase in remote/hybrid work arrangements which are paving the way for more location independent workers and international workcations. This, combined with GeoBlue's culture of innovation and customer-centricity, gives us confidence their next 25 years will be even more successful."
The recent launch of Global TeleMD™, a global telehealth solution available on all GeoBlue insured products, and having the industry's highest rated mobile app on the Apple app store are further hallmarks of the company's continued focus on using technology to simplify the international healthcare experience.
"25 years ago, GeoBlue was built on innovation and the courage to try new things. We grew and evolved because of resolve, adaptability and putting service at the heart of what we do," said Diego Fernández, GeoBlue President and CEO. "We have a rich and innovative legacy to be proud of and are grateful for the trust and support of our clients, especially the nearly 30% who have been with us for more than 10 years. Now as we look forward to the future, we will continue to push for what's possible with one purpose in mind – to simplify the international healthcare experience for our globally mobile customers."
In commemoration of this milestone anniversary, GeoBlue has been and will be hosting a series of internal and external events to mark the occasion including a spirit week celebration held virtually and onsite at its King of Prussia headquarters in early February. For more information about GeoBlue and the company's evolution, please visit https://about.geo-blue.com/25th-anniversary-story.
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About GeoBlue
Owned and backed by 15 Blue Cross Blue Shield companies and Bupa, GeoBlue is the trade name for the international health insurance programs of Worldwide Insurance Services, an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, GeoBlue's purpose is to simplify the international healthcare experience for the globally mobile. GeoBlue members have access to one of the largest care networks in the world, coupled with high-tech, high-touch services that enable them to fulfill their international aspirations. Whether it's executives doing business in Tokyo, students studying in Spain, or tourists traveling the world, the power of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield brand is always within reach. To learn more, visit about.geo-blue.com.
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LEHI, Utah, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PCF Insurance Services (PCF), a top 20 U.S. insurance brokerage firm, has acquired Infuse Insurance, an independent, community-based agency offering a comprehensive suite of home, auto, business, and life insurance solutions.
"We're thrilled to welcome Infuse Insurance, a young, high-growth agency that now anchors our footprint in West Virginia," said Peter C. Foy, Chairman, Founder, and CEO of PCF Insurance Services. "At PCF, our goal is to support and provide resources to allow our partners to singularly focus on growing their books of business. The team at Infuse Insurance is poised for explosive growth and will benefit greatly from PCF's supporting network and back-office support."
The PCF business model supports and expands on the agency's continued success, finding strategic growth opportunities through a people-centric approach to selling insurance. This agency-centric operating model and entrepreneurial environment support PCF Insurance's tremendous organic growth profile and aligns its national Partner Network through equity ownership, long-term investment plans, and resources.
"Partnering with PCF Insurance will boost our ability to excel beyond our performance high-watermark," said Danny Gill, Principal of Infuse Insurance. "PCF Insurance's network of stellar Agency Partners and their commitment to taking care of employees with compensation and benefits is unrivaled."
The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Infuse Insurance is a local insurance agency offering clients a comprehensive suite of home, auto, business, and commercial umbrella insurance solutions in Beckley, Belle, Princeton, Bluewell, Welch, Mullens, Chapmanville, and Logan, West Virginia. Learn more at infuseinsurance.com.
A top 20 U.S. broker headquartered in Lehi, Utah, PCF Insurance Services is a leading full-service consultant and insurance brokerage firm offering a broad array of commercial, life, health, employee benefits, and workers' compensation solutions. Propelled by its people, PCF Insurance's agency-centric operating model and entrepreneurial environment support its tremendous growth profile, offering partners alignment through equity ownership, significant leadership incentives, and resources to over 3,100 employees throughout the U.S. Ranked #20 on Business Insurance's 2022 Top 100 Brokers and #13 on Insurance Journal's 2022 Top Property/Casualty Agencies, PCF Insurance is a notable leader in the insurance space. Learn more at pcfins.com.
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Agency offers 10 travel tips for a seamless security checkpoint screening process
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As the Independence Day holiday approaches, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is prepared for sustained higher summertime passenger volumes at airport security checkpoints nationwide.
TSA anticipates the busiest travel days will occur from June 29 through July 5. The peak travel day of the holiday weekend is expected to be Friday, with TSA screening an estimated 2.82 million individuals and approximately 17.7 million during the seven-day travel period. Friday's travel figure would surpass our current single day travel record since Friday, June 16, where TSA screened nearly 2.8 million passengers. The peak Independence Day holiday travel day in 2019 was Sunday, July 7, where TSA screened 2.79 million passengers.
"TSA is staffed and ready for the increasing travel volumes during this holiday travel period with the technologies and resources for improved security effectiveness, efficiency and passenger experience at security checkpoints," said TSA Administrator David Pekoske. "This is largely due to the funding we received in FY23 Omnibus Appropriations Act, which places all TSA employees on the same pay scale as most other federal employees. With the new pay implementation plan for all TSA employees starting in July, attrition levels at TSA have dropped to historic lows, which means our increased employee retention has resulted in sufficient staffing levels to meet the increased passenger demand throughout the country. We expect that passenger volumes will continue to grow, and we will continue to work with our industry partners in the transportation network to meet our passenger throughput standards of 30 minutes or less in standard lanes and 10 minutes or less in TSA PreCheck® lanes. We met these standards over 98% of the time so far this year."
Based on some of the most recent trends at the nation's airports, TSA recommends the following Top 10 travel tips to get through the TSA security checkpoint faster:
Tip 1: TSA PreCheck members: Make sure the TSA PreCheck mark is on your boarding pass. Passengers must ensure that their Known Traveler Number (KTN) along with correct date of birth is in their airline reservation. Teenagers age 17 and under may now accompany TSA PreCheck enrolled parents or guardians through TSA PreCheck screening when traveling on the same reservation and when the TSA PreCheck indicator appears on the teen's boarding pass. Children 12 and under may still accompany an enrolled parent or guardian when traveling through the TSA PreCheck lanes anytime without restriction.
Those enrolled in TSA PreCheck enjoy the benefits of faster checkpoint screening. The five-year membership costs $78. After submitting an online application, which takes just five minutes, applicants must schedule an appointment at any of the 500+ enrollment centers. After a successful enrollment center visit, most new enrollees will receive their KTN within three to five days. Members may renew membership online up to six months prior to expiration for another five-year term for $70. Most TSA PreCheck members wait less than five minutes at the checkpoint.
Tip 2: Firearms and ammunition are not permitted in carry–on bags, but are permitted in checked bags when properly packed and declared. If passengers choose to travel with a firearm, they are permitted only when properly packed and declared at the airline ticket counter for checked baggage. Airlines may have additional requirements for traveling with firearms and ammunition, so travelers must also contact their airline regarding firearm and ammunition carriage policies prior to arriving at the airport.
Passengers with firearms found in a carry-on bag at a TSA security checkpoint will lose TSA PreCheck eligibility for five years, which includes current TSA PreCheck members. Additionally, TSA may conduct additional screening for those passengers to ensure no other threats are present. Late last year, TSA increased the maximum civil penalty for a firearms violation to $14,950. Passengers with firearms found in a carry-on bag at a TSA checkpoint are also subject to applicable city or state laws at that airport that may include citation or arrest.
Tip 3: Pack an empty bag and know before you go. When airline passengers begin packing for travel with an empty bag, they are less likely to be stopped at the security checkpoint for having prohibited items. Prior to packing that empty bag, check TSA's "What Can I Bring?" tool to know what is prohibited. The most common prohibited items at the TSA checkpoint are drinks and foods that are prohibited according to the liquids, gels and aerosols rule.
Tip 4: Give yourself plenty of time. Summer travel is busy, so plan ahead! Passengers should give themselves plenty of time to park, return a rental car, take a shuttle to the airport if needed, check-in with the airline, check bags with the airline and prepare for the security checkpoint. Passengers may save time by removing items from pockets and placing them in their carry-on bag, instead of putting items directly into bins at the conveyor belt.
Tip 5: Be aware of new checkpoint screening technology. TSA uses a variety of security methods and technologies to secure our transportation systems. Screening protocols can be unpredictable and may vary from airport to airport depending on available technology and the current threat environment.
- Computed Tomography (CT) Scanners: Some airports have installed new state-of-the-art CT scanners which significantly improves threat detection capabilities for carry-on bags and reduces physical searches of bag contents for prohibited items. CT units give Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) the ability to review a 3D image of passengers' bags and reduce physical searches of bag contents for prohibited items. Passengers screened in security lanes with CT units do not need to remove their 3-1-1 liquids or laptops, but they must place every carry-on item, including bags, into a bin for screening. Light items should be placed at the bottom of the bin to avoid anything falling out into the tunnel and causing an unnecessary bag jam. TSA advises travelers not to force larger items into the tunnel but to ask a TSO for assistance, as the opening to the X-ray tunnel on a CT unit is slightly smaller than on a traditional X-ray unit. Passengers are also reminded to bring a maximum of one carry-on bag and one personal item through security screening. If a passenger uses more than one bin, their bins may not come out of the tunnel together, so TSA encourages passengers to make sure they are not leaving anything behind at the checkpoint. As with any new technology, it will take some time for passengers to get used to this new screening technology. Some airports have construction underway to install these new CT scanners, and TSA asks passengers to be patient during the screening process.
- Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT): Before passengers go through the AIT, all items such as wallets, cell phones and all light outerwear must be removed. Light outerwear is defined as an outer layer of clothing with a full front zipper or buttons used to fasten the outer garment, excluding button up shirts. Examples include, but are not limited to, windbreakers and vests, suit/sport coats, blazers and light jackets. This includes all standard and TSA PreCheck passengers.
Tip 6: Make sure you have an acceptable ID. Adult passengers 18 years and older must show valid identification at the airport checkpoint in order to travel. Below are some technologies TSA may use to validate your identity.
- Credential Authentication Technology (CAT): To strengthen identity verification, TSA is deploying CAT units to confirm the authenticity of a passenger's identification credential, flight details and screening status – without having to scan a boarding pass. With CAT, passengers only need to provide their acceptable photo identification to the TSO.
The second generation of CAT, called CAT-2, is currently deployed to 25 airports and adds a camera and smart phone reader to the other CAT features. The camera captures a real-time photo of the traveler at the Travel Document Checker podium and compares the traveler's photo on the identification credential against the in-person, real-time photo. Once the CAT-2 confirms the match, the TSO verifies and directs the traveler for appropriate security screening without ever exchanging a boarding pass. TSOs may perform additional passenger verification if needed. Photos captured by CAT units are never stored or used for any other purpose than immediate identity verification. Travelers who do not wish to participate in the facial matching process may opt out in favor of an alternative identity verification process without losing their place in line. TSA is committed to protecting passenger privacy, civil rights, civil liberties and ensuring the public's trust as it seeks to improve the passenger experience through its exploration of identity verification technologies.
- Mobile IDs: Checkpoints at 25 airports currently accept mobile driver's licenses (mDLs) and digital IDs in the participating TSA PreCheck lanes from:
All passengers presenting mDLs or digital IDs must continue to carry and have readily available their physical driver's license or identification card, or other acceptable ID listed on the TSA website. This physical ID may be required by the TSO to complete ID verification.
Tip 7: Follow TSO guidance. Some people may not have traveled recently, so it is important to listen to the direction provided by our TSOs at the security checkpoint. There may be information on new technologies that helps reduce touchpoints or a TSO may redirect passengers to ensure we keep people moving through the screening process. If flying internationally, upon return to the United States, passengers will encounter a Customs and Border Protection officer to clear customs. Listen for their directions as well. Passengers may also need to have their baggage re-screened by a TSO to continue on to their final domestic destination. Airport and airline employees may also give guidance to help throughout the travel process. Keep in mind that we all work together to ensure a streamlined and convenient passenger experience, so please follow their directions.
Tip 8: Respect TSA and other frontline airport and airline employees. Violence and unruly behavior in the nation's transportation systems are not acceptable and cause delays at traveler checkpoints. TSOs, along with all frontline airport and airline employees and local law enforcement are all working together to ensure safe and secure travel. Assaulting a TSO is a federal offense and will result in penalties and/or arrest. Always follow the directions of flight attendants aboard aircraft. They are there for your safety and security.
Tip 9: Contact TSA with questions, compliments, complaints or assistance. Travelers with questions have many options for contacting TSA. AskTSA is available for live assistance from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. ET via Twitter or Facebook by messaging @AskTSA or by sending a text to "272872" ("AskTSA"). For customer service issues, travelers may reach the TSA Contact Center (TCC) at (866) 289-9673. Individuals with disabilities, medical needs or other special circumstances may request passenger assistance at least 72 hours in advance by contacting our TSA Cares passenger support line at (855) 787-2227. Live assistance for both the TCC and TSA Cares is available weekdays, 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. ET, or weekends and holidays from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET.
Tip 10: School is out. Kids are welcome! We know traveling can be stressful. TSA offers a series of videos made specifically for kids to help them understand what they can and cannot bring through the checkpoint. Passengers should double-check the bag their child packed before arriving at the security checkpoint. Formula, breast milk, juice, baby food and even liquid medications in quantities greater than 3.4 ounces are exempt from the 3-1-1 liquids rule. That's right, when it comes to baby bottles and sippy cups, you are in the clear. Passengers must remove these items from their carry-on bag to be screened separately from the rest of their belongings. TSA does not require children under 18 to provide identification when traveling within the United States, but contact the airline regarding specific ID requirements as guidelines may differ.
Checkpoint-ready passengers are instrumental in helping with efficiency at the checkpoint. When passengers arrive with their identification credentials in hand and avoid the delays associated with bringing firearms, oversized liquids and other prohibited items into the checkpoint, it facilitates faster screening for everyone.
TSA encourages all passengers to remain vigilant. If You See Something. Say Something®. Those traveling abroad should check the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Know Before You Go page to learn about required documentation for your destination.
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The 2023 Wells Fargo Championship Odds & Preview: Sahith Theegala
Sahith Theegala is set to take part in the 2023 Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, taking place from May 4- 7.
Looking to bet on Theegala at the Wells Fargo Championship this week? Read on for all the stats and odds you need to know before you make your picks.
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Sahith Theegala Insights
- Over his last 20 rounds, Theegala has shot better than par on 12 occasions, while also carding two bogey-free rounds and 15 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has registered a top-five score three times and a top-10 score seven times in his last 20 rounds.
- Over his last 20 rounds, Theegala has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round five times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on 10 occasions.
- In his past five tournaments, Theegala has one top-five finish and three top-10 finishes.
- In his past five appearances, Theegala finished within three shots of the leader once and five or fewer strokes back twice. He carded a score better than average four times.
- Theegala will try to continue his streak of made cuts to 14 by qualifying for the weekend once again.
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Wells Fargo Championship Insights and Stats
- This course is set up to play at 7,538 yards, 243 more than the average course on the Tour in the past year.
- In the past year, PGA Tour stops have seen an average score of -5, while Quail Hollow Club has a recent scoring average of -1.
- The courses that Theegala has played in the past year have had an average distance of 7,328 yards, while Quail Hollow Club will be 7,538 yards this week.
- Events he has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -6. That's lower than this course, which has a scoring average of -1.
Theegala's Last Time Out
- Theegala was in the 73rd percentile on par 3s at the RBC Heritage, with an average of 2.94 strokes on the 16 par-3 holes.
- He averaged 3.84 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 44) at the RBC Heritage, which was good enough to land him in the 88th percentile of the field on par 4s (the tournament average was 3.96).
- Theegala was better than 70% of the golfers at the RBC Heritage on par-5 holes, averaging 4.5 strokes per hole, compared to the field average of 4.63.
- Theegala carded a birdie or better on two of 16 par-3s at the RBC Heritage (the other golfers averaged 1.5).
- On the 16 par-3s at the RBC Heritage, Theegala recorded one bogey or worse (the other golfers averaged two).
- Theegala's 11 birdies or better on par-4s at the RBC Heritage were more than the tournament average of 6.2.
- In that last competition, Theegala's performance on the 44 par-4s included a bogey or worse four times (the field's average was worse, at 5.1).
- Theegala finished the RBC Heritage with a birdie or better on six of the 12 par-5s, bettering the field average of 3.8.
- The field at the RBC Heritage averaged 0.7 bogeys or worse on the 12 par-5s, but Theegala finished without one.
Wells Fargo Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: May 4- 7, 2023
- Course: Quail Hollow Club
- Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
- Par: 71 / 7,538 yards
- Theegala Odds to Win: +4000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Josh Brancy went 3-for-3 with a double and two RBI to lead Sparta to a 5-4 win over West Morris in Sparta.
Liam Gallagher went 3-for-3 with a double for Sparta (7-4), which improved to 3-4 in the NJAC-National Division and handed West Morris its second divisional loss of the year. Matthew Maresca doubled and drove in two runs, while Jake Hand had a double and an RBI in the win. Evan Saulys gave up four runs (one earned) on two hits over 5 1/3 innings, before James Mudrick pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings in relief to close it out.
West Morris fell to 9-3 on the season.
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Rapper Master P revealed on Monday that his daughter died.
Tytyana Miller was reportedly 29 years old at the time of her death.
The hip-hop star didn't say how his daughter died, but he referenced substance abuse in a post on Instagram.
"Mental illness & substance abuse is a real issue that we can’t be afraid to talk about," Master P said.
He also posted a picture with Miller.
"Life is too short," Master P said. "Give your loved ones their flowers while they are alive."
Condolences poured in after Master P's announcement.
"I’m here for u and the family. Stay strong," Snoop Dogg wrote.
Miller was one of Master P's nine children.
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SEOUL, South Korea — (AP) — An American soldier facing military disciplinary actions fled across the heavily armed border from South Korea into North Korea, U.S. officials said Tuesday, becoming the first American detained in the North in nearly five years.
Two U.S. officials said the soldier detained was Pvt. 2nd Class Travis King, who had just been released from a South Korean prison where he'd been held on assault charges and was facing additional military disciplinary actions in the United States.
King, who's in his early 20s, was escorted to the airport to be returned to Fort Bliss, Texas, but instead of getting on the plane he left and joined a tour of the Korean border village of Panmunjom, where he ran across the border.
At a Pentagon press conference Tuesday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin did not name King, but confirmed that a U.S. service member was likely now in North Korean custody.
“We're closely monitoring and investigating the situation and working to notify the soldier's next of kin,” Austin said, noting he was foremost concerned about the troop's wellbeing. “This will develop in the next several days and hours, and we’ll keep you posted.”
Details about King, including his hometown and what additional charges he faced, were not immediately available. It was also unclear how he managed to leave the airport while he was being escorted.
The American-led U.N. Command said he is believed to be in North Korean custody and the command is working with its North Korean counterparts to resolve the incident. North Korea’s state media didn’t immediately report on the border crossing.
Cases of Americans or South Koreans defecting to North Korea are rare, though more than 30,000 North Koreans have fled to South Korea to avoid political oppression and economic difficulties since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.
Panmunjom, located inside the 248-kilometer-long (154-mile) Demilitarized Zone, has been jointly overseen by the U.N. Command and North Korea since its creation at the close of the Korean War. Bloodshed and gunfire have occasionally occurred there, but it has also been a venue for numerous talks and is a popular tourist spot.
Known for its blue huts straddling concrete slabs that form the demarcation line, Panmunjom draws visitors from both sides who want to see the Cold War's last frontier. No civilians live at Panmunjom. In the past, North and South Korean soldiers faced off within meters (yards) of each other.
Tours to the southern side of the village reportedly drew around 100,000 visitors a year before the coronavirus pandemic, when South Korea restricted gatherings to slow the spread of COVID-19. The tours resumed fully last year. During a short-lived period of inter-Korean engagement in 2018, Panmunjom was one of the border sites that underwent mine-clearing operations by North and South Korean army engineers as the Koreas vowed to turn the village into a “peace zone” where tourists from both sides could move around with more freedom.
In November 2017, North Korean soldiers fired 40 rounds as one of their colleagues raced toward the South. The soldier was hit five times before he was found beneath a pile of leaves on the southern side of Panmunjom. He survived and is now in South Korea.
The most famous incident at Panmunjom happened in August 1976, when two American army officers were killed by ax-wielding North Korean soldiers. The U.S. officers had been sent to trim a 40-foot (12-meter) tree that obstructed the view from a checkpoint. The attack prompted Washington to fly nuclear-capable B-52 bombers toward the DMZ to intimidate North Korea.
Panmunjom also is where the armistice that ended the Korean War was signed. That armistice has yet to be replaced with a peace treaty, leaving the Korean Peninsula technically in a state of war. The United States still stations about 28,000 troops in South Korea.
There have been a small number of U.S. soldiers who went to North Korea during the Cold War, including Charles Jenkins, who deserted his army post in South Korea in 1965 and fled across the DMZ. He appeared in North Korean propaganda films and married a Japanese nursing student who had been abducted from Japan by North Korean agents. He died in Japan in 2017.
But in recent years, some American civilians have been arrested in North Korea after allegedly entering the country from China. They were later convicted of espionage, subversion and other anti-state acts, but were often released after the U.S. sent high-profile missions to secure their freedom.
In May 2018, North Korea released three American detainees -– Kim Dong Chul, Tony Kim and Kim Hak Song -– who returned to the United States on a plane with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a short-lived period of warm relations between the longtime adversaries. Later in 2018, North Korea said it expelled American Bruce Byron Lowrance. Since his ouster, there have been no reports of other Americans detained in North Korea before Tuesday's incident.
The 2018 releases came as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was engaged in nuclear diplomacy with then-President Donald Trump. The high-stakes diplomacy collapsed in 2019 amid wrangling over U.S.-led sanctions on North Korea.
Their freedoms were a striking contrast to the fate of Otto Warmbier, an American university student who died in 2017 days after he was released by North Korea in a coma after 17 months in captivity. Warmbier and other previous American detainees in North Korea were imprisoned over a variety of alleged crimes, including subversion, anti-state activities and spying.
The United States, South Korea and others have accused North Korea of using foreign detainees to wrest diplomatic concessions. Some foreigners have said after their release that their declarations of guilt were coerced while in North Korean custody.
Tuesday's border crossing happened amid high tensions over North Korea's barrage of missile tests since the start of last year. A U.S. nuclear-armed submarine visited South Korea on Tuesday for the first time in four decades in deterrence against North Korea.
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Copp reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Matthew Lee and Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report.
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Rochester residents get creative with chalk
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – You might have noticed a bit more color around town Sunday.
Rochester residents are connecting with their artistic side this weekend as Chalk the Block Festival returns. It’s an opportunity for local artists, poets and community members to decorate the city in chalk, while at the same time connecting with neighbors. This year’s theme is “Creating Memorable Connections.”
Kit Jester is one of the featured artists in this year’s event. Kit shared about his drawing and poem selection and how it fits into the theme. Each artist is encouraged to draw, but also feature a Minnesota poet.
“I decided to do a giant puzzle heart because the theme this year is about creating memorable connections,” Kit said. “As part of the event, we also had to select a poem from a Minnesota poet. I decided to do part of the a last stanza of a poem by Ben Gorman.”
The expert from Gorman’s poem titled “Mind the Gap” reads: “And still we still we stand apart...hoping the right words can still unite us.”
Kit added his own words, too.
“And I thought this could fit very well. So I wrote, ‘our hearts fit together in beautiful ways across time.’ And then his poem actually talks about one of the gaps between people being time and using words as a bridge,” he said. “Obviously art can do that as well! I thought this was a really nice message.”
You can still check out the chalk murals, at least until it rains again.
Featured artists include:
• Kit Jester’s selection, Mind the Gap, was written by Ben Gorman. Location – 805 14th Avenue SW
• Sierra Garza’s selection, Floral Memories, was written by Jyothi Gubili – location Fiddlehead Coffee sidewalk, 412 3rd Ave SE
• Kait Glasswell’s selection, One, Two, Three was written by Bob Vogt – location Fagan Studios sidewalk, 324 Broadway Ave S
The city of Rochester, Southeast Minnesota Poets and Rneighbors put on the event every year.
RELATED STORY: Rochester chalk artwork inspires others (kttc.com)
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The road to Sunrise opens Saturday, depending on weather conditions.
It was closed for the winter season, according to the National Park Service, therefore restricting access to Mount Rainier.
Officials recommended that RVs and vehicles with trailers longer than 25 feet do not drive past beyond the White River Campground intersection because the road is steep, narrow and winding.
Currently, there are no restrictions for standard-sized cars.
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Ravens players honor breast cancer survivors through NFL's Crucial Catch
Ravens players honor breast cancer survivors through NFL's Crucial Catch
WE’LL SEE YOU AT SIX O’CLOCK OFF THE FIELD THE RAVENS HELP BRING SMILES TO FOUR BALTIMORE AREA CANCER SURVIVORS AS PART OF THE NFL’S CRUCIAL CATCH INITIATIVE THE WOMEN GOT A TOUR OF THE STADIUM AND THEIR HAIR AND MAKEUP DONE. THEY LOOK GREAT THE PAMPERING WASN’T THE ONLY SURPRISE THE TEAM HAD THE STORE. THEY ALSO GOT TO MEET SOME OF THE PLAYERS. I THINK FROM THE TEARS. I THINK IT MEANS EVERYTHING. SOME OF THEM HAVE SAID THEY’VE NEVER BEEN TO THE STADIUM BEFORE AND THEY’RE HUGE FANS AND JUST SO THAT THEY FEEL THE LOVE AND SUPPORT FROM THE BALTIMORE RAVENS THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY. I THINK THEY’VE REALLY BEEN TOUCHED TODAY. IT’S QUITE HERE. LOOK AT THOSE SMILES THERE CRUCIAL CATCHES A LEAGUE-WIDE PARTNERSHIP BETWE
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Ravens players honor breast cancer survivors through NFL's Crucial Catch
Off the field, the Ravens helped bring smiles to four Baltimore area cancer survivors.As part of the NFL's Crucial Catch initiative, the women got a tour of the stadium and their hair and makeup done.The pampering wasn't the only surprise the team had in store as the women also got to meet some players. "I think from the tears, I think it means everything. Some of them have said they never been to the stadium before, and they're huge fans and just so they feel the love and support from the Baltimore Ravens, the American Cancer Society, I think they really been touched today," American Cancer Society Executive Director Tswana Sewell said.Crucial Catch is a league wide partnership between the NFL and the American Cancer Society.
BALTIMORE —
Off the field, the Ravens helped bring smiles to four Baltimore area cancer survivors.
As part of the NFL's Crucial Catch initiative, the women got a tour of the stadium and their hair and makeup done.
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The pampering wasn't the only surprise the team had in store as the women also got to meet some players.
"I think from the tears, I think it means everything. Some of them have said they never been to the stadium before, and they're huge fans and just so they feel the love and support from the Baltimore Ravens, the American Cancer Society, I think they really been touched today," American Cancer Society Executive Director Tswana Sewell said.
Crucial Catch is a league wide partnership between the NFL and the American Cancer Society.
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E_Duffy (2), Grandal (1). DP_Los Angeles 1, Chicago 1. LOB_Los Angeles 8, Chicago 4. 2B_Rendon 2 (5), Fletcher 2 (2), Walsh (2), Ward (3), Anderson (5). HR_Ward (5), Ohtani (4). SB_Velazquez (3).
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T_3:19. A_23,709 (40,615).
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CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s legal team will get its chance to question the government’s star witness on Friday after she gave what jurors could see as damning testimony against Kelly at his federal trial in Chicago on charges that include the production of child pornography.
Jane, the pseudonym used for her during the trial, has been central to Kelly’s legal troubles for more than two decades. She testified for over four hours for the government Thursday, telling jurors it was her and Kelly in a videotape that was at the heart of his 2008 child pornography trial, at which he was acquitted.
Jane, now 37, paused, tugged at a necklace and dabbed her eyes with a tissue as she said publicly for the first time that the girl in the video was her and that the man was Kelly.
When a prosecutor asked Jane how old she was at the time the video was shot, she said quietly: “14.” Kelly, 55, would have been around 30 years old at the time.
In addition to charges of child pornography and enticement of minors, Kelly, who has denied any wrongdoing, faces charges of conspiring to rig that 2008 trial by intimidating and paying off the girl to ensure she didn’t testify then.
Some jurors for the 2008 trial, which was on state charges, said that they had no choice but to acquit the R&B star because the girl — by then an adult — didn’t testify. On the stand Thursday, Jane conceded that she lied to a state grand jury in 2002 when she said that it was not her in the video.
“I was afraid something bad would happen to Robert,” she told jurors about why she didn’t tell the truth then, referring to Kelly by his full first name. “I was protecting him.”
She added there was another reason she lied about the identity of the person in the video. “I also did not want that person to be me,” she told jurors. “I was ashamed.”
Kelly’s attorney was scheduled to get her chance to cross-examine Jane starting Friday morning.
A prosecutor asked Jane toward the end of the day Thursday why she decided in recent years to begin speaking honestly about what happened with Kelly, who Jane said she continued to care for and sometimes live with into her 20s.
“I became exhausted living with his lies,” she answered. She added that federal prosecutors assured her she would not be charged with lying to authorities if she testified truthfully at this trial.
Earlier, Jane also became emotional when she was asked to explain why Kelly can be seen handing money to her in the video. She said it was a precaution against anyone accusing him of abusing a child if the video ever fell into the hands of authorities.
“If anyone saw the tape … he wanted it to appear as if I was a prostitute,” Jane said.
She described her parents confronting Kelly in the early 2000s about whether he was having sex with their daughter. Kelly dropped to his knees and begged her parents to forgive him, Jane testified. She said she later implored her parents not to do anything to get Kelly in trouble, telling them she loved him.
As Jane spoke, Kelly mostly stared down at the defense table and rarely looked up at her. She, too, rarely looked in his direction.
Earlier, she testified that Kelly sexually abused her “hundreds” of times before she turned 18 years old, starting when she was 15. She said they were having oral sex in the video and that she was 14 at the time.
Jane told jurors that in the late 1990s when she was 13, she asked the Grammy award-winning singer to be her godfather because she saw him as an inspiration and mentor.
She said within weeks, Kelly would call her and say sexual things. She told jurors she was 15 when they first had intercourse.
Asked by a prosecutor how she would know what to do sexually, Jane answered, “He would tell me what to do.” Asked how many times they had sex before she turned 18, she answered quietly: “Uncountable times. … Hundreds.”
A federal judge in New York sentenced Kelly to a 30-year prison sentence this year for his 2021 conviction for using his fame to sexually abuse fans.
Speaking softly and tentatively when she first took the stand Thursday, Jane described her upbringing in a musical family in a Chicago suburb, including that she was home-schooled because she was in a touring musical group that she joined when she was about 12.
Jane first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had tagged along to Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer who worked with Kelly. Soon after that meeting, Jane told her parents that Kelly was going to be her godfather.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, knew a conviction in 2008 would effectively end his life as he knew it, and so prosecutors say he conspired to fix that trial.
Kelly has been trailed for decades by complaints and allegations about his sexual behavior. The scrutiny intensified after the #MeToo era and the 2019 six-part documentary “Surviving R. Kelly.”
Kelly also faces four counts of enticement of minors for sex at the Chicago trial — one each for four other accusers. They, too, are expected to testify.
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- Proactive actions will optimize Dow's cost structure in response to near-term macroeconomic uncertainty, while maintaining long-term value creation focus
- Company continues its Decarbonize and Grow strategy as well as its disciplined and balanced approach to capital allocation
MIDLAND, Mich., Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow Inc. (NYSE: DOW) today outlined a series of targeted actions aligned to its previously stated plan to achieve $1 billion in cost savings in 2023. The proactive actions will further optimize the Company's cost structure in response to near-term macroeconomic uncertainty, while maintaining its long-term competitiveness across the economic cycle.
Specifically, Dow expects to realize $1 billion in cost savings in 2023 through:
- Structural improvements of $500 million, maintaining a low cost-to-serve operating model:
- Operating expense reductions of $500 million, focused on near-term cash flow:
"We are taking these actions to further optimize our cost structure and prioritize business operations toward our most competitive, cost-advantaged and growth-oriented markets, while also navigating macro uncertainties and challenging energy markets, particularly in Europe," said Jim Fitterling, Dow chairman and CEO. "We remain committed to capitalizing on our long-term growth opportunities in a disciplined and balanced manner, and these actions further position us to advance our Decarbonize and Grow strategy and strengthen our competitive position."
The Company will record a charge of $550 million to $725 million in the first quarter of 2023 for costs associated with these activities, which primarily include severance and related benefit costs; costs associated with exit and disposal activities; and asset write-downs and write-offs.
Longer-term, Dow remains on track to grow its underlying EBITDA by greater than $3 billion by 2030 while reducing its carbon emissions by 30 percent versus its 2005 baseline as it progresses on its path to carbon neutrality by 2050.
As Dow implements the actions announced today, the Company will engage local stakeholders in each region and in compliance with local regulations and consultation processes.
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TODAY’s Al Roker is going to be a grandpa!
On March 14, the weatherman’s oldest daughter, Courtney Roker Laga, announced that she and her husband, Wesley Laga, are expecting their first child together.
Courtney shared a video to her Instagram set to a remix of Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby” to make her pregnancy announcement.
“A new adventure is about to begin ❤️🍼,” she captioned the post. She also confirmed the news to TODAY.com via text on March 14.
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“We are extremely excited to welcome a new member into our family and start this next chapter in our lives,” she tells TODAY.com. “We feel truly blessed and excited for our little miracle.”
Her dad hopped in the comments of his daughter’s post to express his excitement, writing, “Here we go!!! So very very happy!!!!! You guys.”
Later he followed up with a comment, plugging his preferred grandfather nickname:
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“Going for Pop-Pop,” he quipped.
While Courtney hasn't shared how far along she is in her pregnancy, she tells TODAY.com that she is “feeling great and baby is healthy.”
Courtney — who works as a recipe developer and chef — and Laga tied the knot back in 2021.
She shared photos on her Instagram account of the wedding day showing her and her husband's first dance as newlyweds. Later snapshots show them as they posed alongside family members. In a separate post, Courtney shared a photo of her smiling beside her new husband.
“My next chapter,” she captioned the post.
“A perfect magical evening being there for the marriage of my first princess @ouichefroker and @djweslaga with @debrobertsabc and #maidofhonor @cleilapatra and #groomsman @nick.roker155,” Al shared on Instagram at the time.
He shares Courtney with his ex-wife, Alice Bell. Al is also the father to a daughter, Leila, 24, and a son, Nick, 20, whom he shares with his wife, Deborah Roberts.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A strong earthquake rocked a large swathe of the northern Philippines, injuring at least 26 people and forcing the closure of an international airport and the evacuation of patients in a hospital, officials said Wednesday.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said Tuesday night’s magnitude 6.4 quake, which was set off by movement in a local fault, was centered 9 kilometers (5 miles) northwest of Lagayan town in Abra province at a depth of 11 kilometers (7 miles).
The U.S. Tsunami Warning System said no warning or advisory was issued.
The quake was felt across a wide area of the main northern Luzon region, including in some parts of metropolitan Manila, more than 400 kilometers (248 miles) south of Abra.
At least 26 people were injured in Ilocos Norte, the home province of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., where the international airport in the capital city of Laoag was ordered to close temporarily Wednesday due to damage from the quake, police and civil aviation officials said.
In Batac city also in Ilocos Norte, patients were moved out of the province’s largest hospital after parts of the ceiling in the intensive care unit fell as the building swayed. Medical consultation services were temporarily suspended as engineers assessed damage to the building, officials said.
Marcos Jr, who was in Manila, said authorities were inspecting roads and buildings, and welfare officials were providing help to affected residents in northern provinces. “Everyone is advised to keep out of tall structures,” the president said in a tweet.
In the town of La Paz in Abra, a century-old Christian church was damaged, with parts of its belfry collapsing and some walls cracked, littering the church’s grassy yard with debris, officials said.
At least two towns in Cagayan province temporarily lost electricity due to damaged power lines. A number of bridges and roads in outlying provinces were damaged.
In July, a magnitude 7 earthquake set off landslides and damaged buildings in Abra and other northern provinces, killing at least five people and injuring dozens.
In 1990, a magnitude 7.7 quake killed nearly 2,000 people in the northern Philippines and wrought extensive damage, including in the capital city of Manila.
The Philippine archipelago lies on the “Pacific Ring of Fire,” a region along most of the Pacific Ocean rim where many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur, making the Southeast Asian nation one of the world’s most disaster-prone.
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MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government on Friday approved a plan aimed at reining in soaring energy costs, signing off on a temporary cap on natural gas prices that it said would immediately reduce the amount paid by a third of consumers and 70% of industry.
As energy prices surge across Europe, exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine, Spain and Portugal joined forces earlier this year to ask the European Union’s executive arm to allow them to skirt the EU’s common-market rules.
Citing the large amounts of renewable energy used in both countries and their scant connections with the European power grid, the European Commission agreed to allow a price cap on gas used for power generation, averaging around 50 euros per megawatt-hour for the next 12 months.
Spanish Minister for Ecological Transition Teresa Ribera said the measure would protect both consumers and businesses as Europe grapples with volatile energy prices that are driving record inflation.
“For the first time, it’s not the usual people paying for this,” Ribera said. “The measures adopted are fundamentally aimed at reducing the extraordinary profits of energy companies so that this adjustment benefits all of us.”
She said the Portuguese government also would approve the same measures Friday.
The joint plan would now go to European Commission to get the final go-ahead, Ribera added, and was expected to take effect fully in the coming weeks.
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Model, beauty mogul, momager, lifestyle guru and now…chef? Yes, the Kardashian-Jenner family may be expanding their empire thanks to Dream Kardashian.
With help from mom Blac Chyna, the 5-year-old whipped together a tasty looking peach cobbler, which was documented in a May 30 Instagram video. After Dream listed off the ingredients, she helped pour them all into a dish and mix everything together. Although, Chyna did have to remind her and Rob Kardashian's daughter not to eat the cake mix. Hey, we've all been there.
Though the final dessert looked delicious, it was Dream's maturity that got fans talking. "BabyGirl is growing up so fast Chyna," one follower wrote. "Too gorgeous." Added another, "Awwww Dreamie Getting Sooo Big."
The mother-daughter moment shared online comes about a month after a verdict was reached in Chyna's defamation lawsuit against members of the Kardashian-Jenner family, including Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Kylie Jenner and Kris Jenner.
Filed in 2017, Chyna accused them of being behind the cancellation of her and Rob's show Rob & Chyna. Though the jury found that the family did not unjustly harm Chyna's career, her lawyer told reporters she plans to appeal the decision.
To see more adorable photos of Dream from over the years, keep reading.
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(The Hill) — Idaho’s Supreme Court put a temporary halt on the state’s newly passed six-week abortion ban on Friday.
The law, which was signed by Gov. Brad Little (R) last month, bans abortions after six weeks and allows family members to sue a person who performs an abortion after the legal timeframe.
The Idaho Supreme Court’s decision will block the law from going into effect pending further review. It was set to take effect April 22.
The court gave the state until April 28 to respond to the ruling.
Although Little said he supported the ban on abortions in the law, he expressed reservations about its civil enforcement mechanism.
“While I support the pro-life policy in this legislation, I fear the novel civil enforcement mechanism will in short order be proven both unconstitutional and unwise. Deputizing private citizens to levy hefty monetary fines on the exercise of a disfavored but judicially recognized constitutional right for the purpose of evading court review undermines our constitutional form of government and weakens our collective liberties,” Little wrote.
Planned Parenthood, which sued to block the abortion ban, celebrated the court’s decision on Friday.
“Patients across Idaho can breathe a sigh of relief tonight,” Rebecca Gibron, interim CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, said in a statement. “We are thrilled that abortion will remain accessible in the state for now, but our fight to ensure that Idahoans can fully access their constitutionally protected rights is far from over.”
“Anti-abortion lawmakers have made clear that they will stop at nothing to control our lives, our bodies, and our futures. Planned Parenthood will continue fighting for every person’s ability to access basic health care, no matter their race, zip code, or economic status. We look forward to our day in court,” she continued.
The decision comes as the Supreme Court is set to weigh on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban later this year.
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WASHINGTON — With several pandemic-era enhanced tax credits and deductions coming to an end, many parents could see much smaller tax refunds this year.
The child tax credit and the child and dependent care credit are both dropping back to previous levels, meaning parents could get several thousand dollars less than they expected. Here's what to know.
What is the child tax credit?
The child tax credit is a tax break for qualifying families with kids. It got a lot more generous in 2021, and many families received half of the credit in monthly advance payments instead of a lump sum. Under the American Rescue Plan passed by Congress in March 2021, the child tax credit was increased to $3,600 for children age 5 and under and $3,000 for those ages 6-17.
With Congress deciding not to extend the expansion, the child tax credit reverted back to $2,000 per eligible child for the 2022 tax year. Families can claim that full amount, but it isn't fully refundable, meaning it can only reduce your tax bill to zero — not show up on your refund.
So what if the child tax credit is more than what you owe? There's still a way to put some of that money in your pocket. According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, you may be able to claim up to $1,400 of the leftover child tax credit per dependent. This is called the Additional Child Tax Credit.
Who is eligible for the child tax credit?
According to Nerdwallet, there are seven "tests" you'll need to pass to claim the child tax credit when you file this year: Age, relationship, dependent status, residency, financial support, citizenship and income.
For example, the child needs to be your dependent and under the age of 17 when 2022 ended. They need to have a family relationship with you, including son or daughter, sibling, foster child, grandchild, niece or nephew, etc.
There are also income requirements. TurboTax says caregivers with a modified adjusted gross income of more than $400,000 (married) or $200,000 (other filing statuses) will have the credit reduced slightly for each $1,000 they earn over that limit. On the other end of the spectrum, families need an earned income of at least $2,500 to get the credit on their refund.
Other tax credit changes
Another credit relevant to families, the child and dependent care credit, will also return to 2019 levels.
This credit, meant to help working parents pay care expenses for children and other dependents, went up to a maximum of $8,000 in 2021. For 2022, the maximum is back down to $1,050 for one qualifying person and $2,100 for two or more.
Slipped into the American Rescue Plan, these changes to tax credits and eligibility were largely a reaction to COVID, explained Braden Williams, an associate professor of accounting at the University of Texas at Austin. The expanded tax credits and stimulus checks were ways to encourage economic activity after the pandemic wreaked havoc on Americans' finances.
"(With) those types of bills that are intended to stimulate the economy, to encourage investment growth, you have to give up revenue to do that," Williams said. "So those are often written into law as temporary tax provisions ... after a while, it phases out, or just disappears."
And as many tax credits revert to their pre-pandemic level, there's also sure to be increased attention in the coming months to the looming debt limit.
"The purpose of the tax system, first and foremost, is to raise revenue to fund the government," Williams said. "The cost of a very large child tax credit is [that] you're giving away tax revenue. We see right now with the debt ceiling conversations that there's some constraints on the revenue side."
Melissa Hernandez De La Cruz contributed to this report.
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Hundreds of people have been buried under rubble and many feared dead – after a powerful earthquake shook parts of eastern Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.
The Taliban's state-run news agency says more than 900 people have been killed and as many as 600 more injured. It was not possible to immediately confirm that number, because the earthquake hit remote areas.
The earthquake had a magnitude of 5.9.
The hardest hit areas were remote farming villages in the eastern Afghan province of Paktika. Authorities had to dispatch rescue workers by helicopter to dig people out.
A video shared by the news agency featured a man pointing at homes around him in the early light.
Another man in a neighboring province told NPR they were hearing reports that dozens of people had been buried under their homes – and were feared dead – in other remote villages near the Pakistani border.
The earthquake comes as a hunger crisis grips Afghanistan: around half the population of 40 million people need food aid to avert starvation, and the U.N. reports that nearly 95% of Afghans are not eating enough.
Another massive earthquake previously struck the country in 2015, where more than 300 people died and more than 2,000 were injured.
NPR's Ayana Archie contributed to this report.
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Card skimmers found at gas pumps in Kansas
Published: Oct. 19, 2022 at 9:29 PM CDT|Updated: 14 minutes ago
GRAY COUNTY, Kan. (KWCH) - The Gray County Sheriff’s Office issued a warning Wednesday following the discovery of fuel card skimmers in gasoline pumps at Pride Ag Resources, in Ingalls.
The sheriff’s office advised anyone who recently paid with a credit card or debit card to fill up at the stop in Ingalls to check their account for fraudulent activity. Anyone who discovers fraudulent activity connected with the card skimmer in Ingalls should contact their financial institution and the Gray County Sheriff’s Office at 620-855-3916.
“The pumps are safe to use since these items have been seized,” the sheriff’s office said of the card skimmers.
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CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — A Walmart manager opened fire on fellow employees gathered in the break room of a Virginia store, a witness said Wednesday. Six people were killed in the country’s second high-profile mass killing in a handful of days.
The gunman also killed himself, Chesapeake Police Chief Mark G. Solesky said. There was no clear motive for the shooting, which also left four people in the hospital.
The store was busy just before the shooting Tuesday night with people stocking up ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, a shopper told a local TV station.
Employee Briana Tyler told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that workers had gathered in the store’s break room as part of their regular routine ahead of their shifts.
“I looked up, and my manager just opened the door and he just opened fire,” she said, adding that “multiple people” dropped to the floor.
“He didn’t say a word, he didn’t say anything at all,” she said.
The gunman’s home was searched. Solesky confirmed he was a Walmart employee but did not give his name because his family had not been notified.
“I am devastated by the senseless act of violence that took place late last night in our city,” Mayor Rick W. West said in a statement posted on the city’s Twitter account Wednesday. “Chesapeake is a tightknit community and we are all shaken by this news.”
A database run by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University that tracks every mass killing in America going back to 2006 shows this year has been especially bad. The U.S. has now had 40 mass killings so far this year, second to the 45 that occurred for all of 2019. The database defines a mass killing as at least four people killed, not including the killer.
The attack at the Walmart came three days after a person opened fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado, killing five people and wounding 17. Earlier in the year, the country was shaken by the deaths of 21 when a gunman stormed an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Tuesday’s shooting also brought back memories of another at a Walmart in 2019, when a gunman police say was targeting Mexicans opened fire at a store in El Paso, Texas, and killed 22 people.
The shooting had apparently stopped when police arrived at the store in Chesapeake, said Officer Leo Kosinski. The city is Virginia’s second-largest and lies next to the seaside communities of Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
Joetta Jeffery told CNN that she received text messages from her mother who was inside the store when the shots were fired. Her mother, Betsy Umphlett, was not injured.
“I’m crying, I’m shaking,” Jeffery said. “I had just talked to her about buying turkeys for Thanksgiving, then this text came in.”
One man was seen wailing at a hospital after learning that his brother was dead, and others shrieked as they left a conference center set up as a family reunification center, The Virginian-Pilot reported.
Camille Buggs, a former Walmart employee, told the paper she went to the conference center seeking information about her former coworkers.
“You always say you don’t think it would happen in your town, in your neighborhood, in your store — in your favorite store and that’s the thing that has me shocked,” said Buggs, 58, of Chesapeake.
Walmart tweeted early Wednesday that it was “shocked at this tragic event.”
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner said in a tweet that he was “sickened by reports of yet another mass shooting, this time at a Walmart in Chesapeake.”
State Sen. Louise Lucas echoed Warner’s sentiment, tweeting that she was “absolutely heartbroken that America’s latest mass shooting took place in a Walmart in my district.”
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McDonald’s debuts ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ limited-edition Happy Meal
(Gray News) - Ahead of the “Black Panther” sequel, McDonald’s is offering a special Happy Meal to celebrate the film.
The fast-food chain announced that it is currently selling a Happy Meal inspired by Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
“The first ‘Black Panther’ movie inspired a new generation of Marvel lovers – and that’s because of the powerful story it told, brought to life by an incredibly talented cast,” said Jennifer Healan, VP of U.S. Marketing, Brand Content and Engagement at McDonald’s.
At participating restaurants, while supplies last, the meal will include one of 10 “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” superhero toys based on the characters from the movie.
McDonald’s has also changed the Happy Meal box design to match the Black Panther’s uniform.
“We’re excited to bring that experience to our restaurants and help fans see and celebrate their inner hero with this new Happy Meal – because seeing is believing,” Healan said.
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is set to debut in theaters on Nov. 11.
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany wants to buy mothballed Leopard 2 battle tanks from Switzerland to replace tanks that Berlin and its Western allies are sending to Ukraine, the Swiss government said Friday.
The Swiss Defense Ministry said that Germany’s defense and economy ministers wrote on Feb. 23 to Swiss Defense Minister Viola Amherd, setting out German manufacturer Rheinmetall’s interest in buying Leopard 2 tanks that the Swiss army doesn’t plan to put back into service.
They assured Amherd that the tanks, if bought, wouldn’t be sent to Ukraine and would be used by Germany or its NATO and European partners to fill the gaps in their own stocks created by their donations of tanks to Kyiv and to improve the availability of replacement parts.
That’s an issue because Switzerland has a long tradition of neutrality. Germany so far has been unable to persuade the Swiss to provide supplies from their stockpile of ammunition for Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns that Berlin provided to Ukraine.
The ministry, in an emailed response to a query after Swiss daily Blick reported on the request, didn’t specify how many tanks Germany would like to buy. Switzerland has 230 of the German-made Leopard 2 tanks, 96 of which aren’t in operation, according to German news agency dpa.
Amherd this week responded to the German government that any sale would require a decision by the Swiss parliament to declare the tanks officially removed from service, and that while there are discussions in parliament, no such decision has yet been made.
Her ministry said that the army has determined that in principle it would be possible to do without a “limited number” of battle tanks.
Germany is providing 18 of its own military’s Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, and they are expected to be delivered later this month. Together with tanks provided by Sweden and Portugal, they will make up a battalion. Poland and other countries also are providing Leopard 2 tanks.
Germany’s defense minister has pushed for the tanks to be replaced as quickly as possible.
German Defense Ministry spokesman Arne Collatz confirmed Germany’s interest in the tanks from Switzerland but said there had been no discussion yet of how many tanks might be involved.
Asked whether similar queries were made to other countries, Collatz replied that “we are in constant contact and good talks with many partners.” He didn’t elaborate.
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 13, 2022
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National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
153 PM PDT Wed Aug 10 2022
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY EVENING
THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Minor tidal overflow of beaches and exposed parking
lots around the time of the evening high tide.
* WHERE...Ventura County Beaches.
* WHEN...From Thursday evening through Friday evening.
* IMPACTS...Pooling of sea water is possible around the evening
high tide at beach and harbor areas that is uncommon with normal
tidal ranges. Enhanced beach erosion is also possible. No
significant damage is expected.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Expected high tides are 7.3 feet Thursday
evening around 930 PM PDT, and 7.0 feet Friday evening around
1020 PM PDT. In addition, a long-period southerly swell near 2
feet will enhance the tidal overflow risk.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Remain out of the water due to hazardous swimming conditions, or
stay near occupied lifeguard towers. Rock jetties can be deadly
in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
* WHERE...Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands, Malibu Coast and
Los Angeles County Beaches.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Expected high tides are 7.3 to 7.5 feet
Thursday evening around 925 PM PDT, and 7.0 to 7.2 feet Friday
evening around 1010 PM PDT. In addition, a long-period
southerly swell near 2 feet will enhance the tidal overflow
risk.
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KOOTENAI COUNTY, Idaho — It was standing room only at Thursday's town hall meeting with Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris, where he and his deputies discussed a wide range of issues they say the community wants answers to.
Those issues include how law enforcement an active shooter like the one in Uvalde, Texas.
"I would just like to assure you that your Sheriff's office is equipped and trained and prepared if that day ever comes here," said Patrol Lt. Zach Stifford. "We pray that it does not."
Families in Uvalde, Texas were outraged to learn that law enforcement waited more than an hour to confront the gunman. Kootenai County deputies say that wouldn't have been the case in North Idaho.
"Our primary focus and job as law enforcement responding is to stop the killing before we stop the dying. We are a direct to threat response meaning that we will step past any including our own to get to whoever is hurting our children and we will stop them from being able to hurt anyone else."
Another topic the sheriff wanted to discuss was the national media's coverage of the June 11 Pride event. Those reports mainly surrounded the arrest of 31 members of a hate group found in the back of a U-Haul.
But, Norris focused on an article in the Huffington Post, which covered the arrest and a Republican event Norris attended back in April, which featured some white nationalists.
"What they forgot to say at this supposed meeting of white nationalists and a far right bike gang was that the entertainer for that night was a black rapper," Norris said.
Norris faced scrutiny for his appearance last April. He said speakers were not publicized in advance.
"I do not support the speech that was used that evening on April the 16th, but I also do not support scantily clad individuals performing in a sexually suggestive manner to children," Norris said.
That comment outraged some LGBT members at the town hall, who called Norris transphobic. He asked one woman to leave.
Norris claims he wasn't singling out drag queens during his comments.
"I wouldn't want a prostitute to do that, a female prostitute," Norris said. "And so you made the assumption that I said drag queens. I never said drag queens. I said individual, adult individual."
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The 2024 model year marks the end of the road for Jaguar’s F-Type. It’s also the end of the road for Jaguar sports cars powered by internal-combustion engines, as the automaker from 2025 will only launch electric vehicles.
To mark the milestone, Jaguar last October unveiled the special-edition F-Type 75, and on Wednesday the automaker confirmed the car’s availability in the U.S. as part of the final 2024 F-Type lineup.
The “75” in the name is a reference to the 75 years that have passed since Jaguar launched its first sports car, the XK120, and like that car the modern F-Type 75 is available as a coupe or convertible. It can also be ordered in standard or more potent R grades.
Both grades feature a supercharged 5.0-liter V-8 paired with an 8-speed automatic and all-wheel drive. The standard F-Type 75 produces 450 hp and the F-Type R 75 makes 575 hp. Rear-biased all-wheel drive is available for the F-Type 75 and standard for the F-Type R 75, and adjustable dampers and an electronic differential at the rear are standard on both.
Jaguar said it also gave the cars new rear knuckles and larger wheel bearings that, according to the automaker, improve steering feel. The F-Type R 75 also benefits from revised upper ball joints that are claimed by the automaker to increase camber and toe stiffness, along with extra-wide Pirelli P Zero tires measuring 265/35R20 up front and 305/30R20 at the rear.
Unique to the special editions are some design details found inside and out. These include badges on the front fender that depict the F-Type’s silhouette, 20-inch wheels with a five-spoke design for the F-Type 75 and a 10-spoke design for the F-Type R 75, and the option of a unique Giola Green metallic paint finish. There’s also a repeat of the F-Type’s silhouette on the center console and door sill plates.
Also available for the 2024 model year is an F-Type R-Dynamic. This one also comes with the supercharged 5.0-liter V-8, rated at 450 hp, but drive here is to the rear wheels only. It also features 20-inch wheels, with the wheel centers (plus the grille badge) now in black instead of red previously. The R-Dynamic badge’s accent colors are also now black and gray instead of the previous red and green combo.
As the range-topper, the F-Type R 75 is the quickest of the bunch. Jaguar quotes a 0-60 mph time of 3.5 seconds and a governed top speed of 186 mph.
Deliveries of the 2024 F-Type start in the spring. Pricing is listed below.
2024 Jaguar F-Type R Dynamic – $79,050
2024 Jaguar F-Type 75 – $91,050
2024 Jaguar F-Type R 75 – $114,150
All figures include a $1,150 destination charge, and adding the convertible option is a $2,000 premium for each.
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CARSON, Calif. — LA Galaxy forward Javier “Chicharito” Hernández has torn a ligament in his right knee.
Hernández, who turned 35 last week, is in his fourth season with the Galaxy. He has two goals in 12 appearances this season after missing the first month of play with a hamstring injury.
Chicharito has scored 35 goals in the past two seasons combined for the Galaxy, who are off to a miserable start to this season. The team sits last in the overall MLS table at 3-9-3 while scoring just 13 goals in 15 league matches.
Hernández began his career with Chivas in his native Guadalajara before playing for Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, West Ham and Sevilla. He became the highest-paid player in Major League Soccer when he joined the Galaxy in 2020.
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Lingaro Group is a global technology company with industry-leading capabilities in data, analytics, digital transformation, e-commerce, and digital marketing. Lingaro was recently recognized by Gartner as a Strong Performer in the data and analytics service providers category in its Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report in 2022.
WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mantle began his journey as Lingaro Group CEO on September 12, 2022, and brings more than 25 years of hands-on experience in the technology sector driving large programs, building partnerships, and leading large teams and business units as both a consumer and provider of complex IT services. Mantle said, "Lingaro has a strong brand, capabilities, team, and purpose. It is a great privilege to join such a team. Lingaro delivers innovative and award-winning solutions for major global enterprises. There is a wonderful foundation and spirit in place today and I look forward to working with my new colleagues to unleash the full potential for all clients and Lingarians in the months and years ahead."
Mantle joins from Luxoft where he spent over five years leading its Digital Engineering and Diversified Industries business unit. During his time with Luxoft, Mantle consistently grew the business across a broad portfolio of industry sectors, including retail and consumer, telecommunications and media, healthcare and life sciences, energy, manufacturing, travel, and hospitality.
Prior to Luxoft, Sam spent over a decade at Novartis in increasingly senior technology and chief information officer roles, during which he led numerous technology implementations, transformations, and organizations in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the US. Sam is a British national based in Basel, Switzerland, and holds a master's degree (MEng) in Aerospace Engineering at Bristol University, UK and Paul Sabatier University at Toulouse, France.
Mantle succeeds Sebastian Stygar and Tomasz Rogucki, Lingaro Group Co-Founders. Stygar said, "Sam is an exceptional leader. He's also a leader who understands the significance of diversity and inclusiveness, and he knows how to challenge, inspire, and empower people to go beyond their potential. As we pass the proverbial mantle to Sam, we believe that Lingaro Group will achieve even greater heights."
Rogucki said, "We have been realizing a strategy aimed at providing better value and more innovation to our clients while creating opportunities for the professional growth and personal development of our people. I know that Sam will improve the strategy and elevate the company to the next level. He actively listens to the ideas, insights, and inputs of clients and employees, and has a proven track record in running and scaling organizations. He is bringing the skills and experience that are needed to translate our vision and strategic plans into reality."
Learn more about Sam Mantle on Lingaro's website.
About Lingaro Group
Lingaro Group is a leading innovation partner to Fortune 500 enterprises and global brands, distinguished for agility and skill to reliably scale their services. Lingaro's strong service capabilities and execution performance are recognized by Gartner and in the industry, with strong references from a large cross section of diverse industries including consumer-packaged goods, logistics, financial services, and life sciences.
With a significant global presence and a strong European footprint, Lingaro Group empowers enterprises to digitally transform and succeed in today's data-driven world. Lingaro collaborates with organizations to enhance their business's performance, optimize processes, and improve outcomes through more effective decision-making.
Lingaro Group solutions combine comprehensive experience and specialized skills across different industries and domains such as advanced analytics, digital marketing, and e-commerce. Lingaro is powered by a diverse team of more than 1,400 professionals working together around the world, delivering on the potential of technology and human creativity. Lingaro Group embraces the power of data to create value and enact transformative change to organizations, people, our customers and partners, and global communities.
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FREDERICKSBURG, Texas, May 8, 2023 Fredericksburg Development, Inc. announces the launch of The Village at Frieden, a 240-acre master planned community being developed in the historic City of Fredericksburg. Located between Austin and San Antonio, Fredericksburg, with its 175-year history, is in the center of the Texas Hill and Wine Country which attracts over five million visitors per year who are drawn to the area by the bucolic scenery, quaint small towns and dozens of vineyards and wineries.
The vision Frieden's founders had for the Village concept was to create, across the gently rolling topography of the site, a destination resort community that celebrates the history and culture of the Hill Country with a focus upon the wines and the foods of the region and brings a new level of personalized experiences, amenities, and services to the market. The Village of Frieden includes Frieden, a luxury residential gated community, the Artisan, a destination four-star luxury resort hotel, and the Verandas at Frieden, a luxury rental community. Additionally, the Village will ultimately showcase numerous other top-quality restaurant and entertainment venues, signature lifestyle retail shops, and intimate community parks that are connected by an extensive bike and walking trail system.
Chris Wilde, Vice President of Fredericksburg Development, Inc., said, "Fredericksburg has always been one of the most special destinations in the State of Texas. It's rich history, the growth of Central Texas, the explosion of the wine country and attraction to the beauty of the Texas Hill Country have all combined to make it the perfect place to build a world-class destination for people to enjoy with family and friends for generations to come."
The crown jewel of The Village at Frieden will be The Artisan, an inspiring Hill Country style resort with a welcoming campus style design, featuring 108 luxury suites with lavish guest amenities. Serving guests at The Artisan resort will be a 12,000 square foot Wellness Center, over 30,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor private events areas, a wine and food center featuring interactive cooking and wine tasting studios, a destination farm to table restaurant, roof top lounge, scratch made bakery and butchery, and a lagoon pool with lazy river and swim up bar. Complementing the resort hotel will be 40 stylishly designed, hotel serviced Artisan Cottages that will be offered for sale for those who wish to have their own private getaway at The Artisan and still be pampered as a guest of the hotel. Michael Monceaux, Principal at Overland Partners, the Architect for the project, said, "The project was designed as an open, deconstructed resort to have a size and scale that is sympathetic to the area and to the historic architecture found on Main Street in Fredericksburg. To bring world class amenities to this Hill Country site in a creative way, that is sensitive to the requirements of the zoning guidelines of the City and able to take advantage of the incredible hilltop views, is an amazing opportunity."
Across from the Village will be a retail center that will feature over 85,000 square feet of lifestyle shops, restaurants and hospitality located in several buildings that surround open spaces for gathering and enjoying each other's company and the finest accoutrements the Texas Hill and Wine Country has to offer.
Just a short walk from The Artisan and surrounding retail, prospective residents can choose between available custom estate homesites within the gates of Frieden or live in a luxury apartment community with broad appeal to Boomers and Millennials in the Verandas at Frieden.
The custom home community saw its first residents move in during 2022 and has sold roughly half its 83 phase one homesites. Phase two construction kicked off in early 2023 and includes an additional 25 homesites as well as the community center, pool, and private trail system. With many homes currently under construction or complete, there are spec homes available for sale, or buyers can purchase their favorite lot and build the perfect farmhouse to suit.
With groundbreaking expected by the end of 2023, the 300+ units at the Verandas will enjoy a large outdoor venue with a pool, restaurants, gardens, pickle ball courts, green spaces, and luxury lounge areas all focused on a central pond with trails connected to the broader Village. Light retail will also be included so that residents and visitors can enjoy boutique vendors as they stroll the common areas.
The Village of Frieden and The Artisan resort look forward to serving the Hill Country residents and visitors alike. For those looking for that special place for a wedding, corporate retreat, or simply a personal retreat to reconnect and recharge we look forward to having you join us, and it will be our privilege to welcome you as our guest and new friend.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Mega Millions jackpot increased to $685 million ahead of Friday night’s drawing, giving lottery players a chance to ring in the New Year with an even larger bonus in their bank account.
There have been 21 straight drawings without a jackpot winner thanks to stiff odds of one in 302.6 million. That has allowed the top prize to grow steadily larger, week after week.
The estimated $685 million prize is for a winner who chooses to be paid through an annuity, with annual checks over 29 years. Nearly all winners opt for cash, which for Friday night’s drawing would be an estimated $347.8 million.
The jackpot is the largest since a $2.04 billion Powerball prize was won Nov. 8 in California. A winner hasn’t been announced for that record-setting payout.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Study finds that climate change added 10% to Ian’s rainfall
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
A quick study by two scientists calculates that climate change made Hurricane Ian 10% rainier than it would have been if there were no such thing as global warming. Thursday’s analysis, which was not peer reviewed, is based on 20 computer simulations of a world with no climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. Scientists then compared those scenarios to what was playing out in real time with Hurricane Ian. The authors compared the highest rainfall rates over three hours.
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BERLIN (AP) — A large mass of rock slid down a mountainside above a Swiss village that was evacuated last month, stopping just short of the settlement, authorities said Friday.
Brienz, in the southeastern Graubuenden region of Switzerland, was evacuated on May 12 after geology experts warned that the Alpine rock looming over the village could break loose. In recent days, local officials said rock movements on the slope were accelerating.
Much of the rock mass tumbled toward Brienz between 11 p.m. and midnight on Thursday night, the local council said. It added that there was no evidence of damage to the village and the rockslide stopped just short of it, leaving a “meters-high deposit” in front of the school building.
It wasn’t immediately clear how much of the 1.9 million cubic meters (67 million cubic feet) of rock that had been at risk of breaking away actually came loose, but the local council said it appeared to be a large part of the material.
Authorities stepped the alert level up another notch after the rockslide as a precaution, closing some local roads and a railway line and evacuating two houses in the neighboring village of Surava.
The rockslide came a bit over a week after residents of Brienz were allowed to make their first visits back to the village since the evacuation to retrieve essential items from their houses. Only two people per household were allowed in for 90-minute visits.
Officials said at the time of the evacuation that residents would be able to return from time to time, depending on the risk level, but not stay overnight.
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The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office issued a warning Monday regarding Orbeez gel ball blaster toy guns after a number of incidents in the past few weeks involving a group of juveniles shooting at people in San Carlos.
“Firing hydrated gel balls or ‘water bullets’(thawed or frozen) at people, cars and animals is against the law,” San Mateo Sheriff’s spokesperson Sgt. Scott Mueller said in the statement. “If you are a victim or see a gel ball blaster being fired maliciously, please call 911.”
The nonlethal toy guns went viral in 2022 on TikTok after various videos prompted challenges among teens to shoot the water-filled gel balls at people.
San Mateo County officials believe the incidents — which happened mainly in downtown San Carlos during evening hours — involve five juvenile suspects driving past the victims while discharging the toy guns.
“The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office strongly encourages parents to discuss these devices with their children. A toy gun stops being a toy when it victimizes others,” Mueller said, adding those found discharging gel ball blasters may be charged with a misdemeanor depending on the victim’s injuries.
Anyone who has information regarding the Orbeez toy gun incidents is encouraged to call the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office Anonymous Tip Line at 1-800-547-2700.
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SAN ANTONIO – San Antonians and citizens in surrounding spaces skilled an electrical and noisy night time on Friday. Thunderstorms from the west introduced sturdy wind gusts, which led to damaged bushes in lots of portions of the group. The aftermath of the storm additionally comprises the likelihood of scattered storms and showers with gusty winds and heavy rainfall for western counties on Saturday night time. To stay up to date in regards to the climate, click on right here.
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Marriage issue: Gisele Bündchen may think Tom Brady is 'inconsistent' as a partner — are you?
Marriage experts spill the secrets of achieving closeness, caring and connectedness
Gisele Bündchen may feel that star quarterback Tom Brady is "inconsistent" as a husband.
Bündchen seemingly broke her silence on social media for the first time ever since rumors began that both she and Brady had hired divorce attorneys, as Fox News Digital reported.
Bundchen "liked" a quote by author and life coach Jay Shetty and commented on it with the "praying hands" emoji — leading many to believe the quote in question resonated with her.
The quote Shetty posted on October 11 — which was taken from his book "8 Rules of Love" — reads, "You can't be in a committed relationship with someone who is inconsistent with you. Read that again."
Most couples are not in high-profile celebrity relationships, of course, but are navigating their everyday lives. And that means navigating the ins and outs of marriage, too.
So how does inconsistency from one partner in a marriage affect the other and the marriage as a whole?
"Keeping a marriage together for most couples involves being consistent within the marriage regarding communication and emotional connection," Haley Riddle, a licensed counselor who works in conjunction with a psychiatric practice in Houston, Texas, told Fox News Digital this week via email.
"It is important to have consistent communication, as this can promote trust, loyalty and resolve potential issues between partners," she added.
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"You want to feel like your partner is your rock in a world that is constantly changing," she also said. "Being inconsistent with communication can create conflict between partners and lead to feelings of invalidation or feeling unheard," she also said.
"While we can't know the specifics … we can surmise that this has to do with Tom's decision to return to the NFL, rather than retire."
"Being consistent with you and your partner's emotional connection is important, as this can strengthen the bond and relationship quality," she noted.
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A life transformation coach and author from Nevada also weighed in on Bundchen's and Brady's potential issue with inconsistency.
"It appears that Gisele feels Tom Brady is inconsistent with respect and admiration toward [her]," Chris Parsons, a life transformation coach in Las Vegas, told Fox News Digital in an email.
Parsons is also the author of, "It Starts with You: The Secret to a Passionate Marriage & Peaceful Home (Even if Your Spouse Doesn't Want to Change)."
"While we can't know the specifics of what they are going through, we can surmise that this has to do with Tom's decision to return to the NFL, rather than retire," he also said.
"In every marriage, not just those of celebrities, it's vital to appreciate each other's values," Parsons continued.
"It seems that Tom and Gisele do not appreciate each other's values, with Gisele valuing time together and Tom valuing his career," said Parsons, making clear that he is evaluating from afar.
"You want to feel like your partner is your rock in a world that is constantly changing."
"It's not necessary that you and your spouse have the same values," Parsons added.
"But if you and your spouse do not appreciate each other's values, you will have a ‘deal-breaker,’ where there is no path forward."
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One marriage and family therapist said that caretaking and creating a "baseline" helps with consistency in a marriage.
"Something that we can all do to keep a marriage together is to offer small acts of caretaking," May Han, a marriage and family therapist licensed in Oregon, Washington and Illinois, told Fox News Digital.
"Acts such as making your loved one a cup of coffee in the morning or filling up the car for someone show that you are keeping their wants and needs at heart, and it communicates the signal that you care about them and want to make sure they are OK."
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"Being inconsistent can hurt the marriage because it throws the idea of a baseline out of the window," Han added.
"Consistency in marriage helps both parties establish a baseline to work from."
"It's OK to get angry, cry, lose one's temper — but something must be learned from every fight. Sulking is what does harm, not fighting."
"For example, [a baseline establishes] how to spend time together and when to have individual time," she said.
"When we don't know where the baseline is, we will need to pay a lot of attention to test and check for things constantly," Han also said.
"It might also create unnecessary trust issues where one person might interpret an inconsistency as a sign of betrayal or lack of connection."
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"Inconsistency is a huge trigger for many people often because of attachment issues during childhood," psychologist David Helfand of Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, told Fox News Digital by email.
"If you grew up in a family where love felt conditional, then you are very likely to be triggered when your partner is on the fence about staying together," he noted.
"This can also happen with major life decisions."
"Imagine that your partner agrees to move across the country, retire from their work or have another baby — but then changes their mind," he continued.
"If you have experienced a weak foundation of love early in life, then it is very possible that you will have a strong emotional reaction to this kind of behavior from a loved one."
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A therapist from London, England, said sulking is harmful for relationships, too.
"Arguments and fights are inevitable because after the blindness of falling in love passes, we start to notice things that annoy us, irritate us and even infuriate us," Dr. Brian Kaplan, a doctor and therapist from London, England, told Fox News Digital in an email.
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"It's OK to get angry, cry, lose one's temper — but something must be learned from every fight. Sulking is what does harm, not fighting," he said.
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TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Argyle Real Estate Partners and Sembler Investments have partnered together to form a new multifamily focused investment venture. The Partnership plans to acquire over $1.5 billion of apartments in the Southeast and Texas during the next 2-3 years. Argyle Real Estate Partners, led by industry veteran Ryan Reyes, will target core-plus and value add opportunities in major Sunbelt markets.
Argyle's founder and CEO, Ryan Reyes, says, "The fundamentals for multifamily remain strong despite the recent macroeconomic and capital market trends. We believe this dichotomy between the underlying asset class and capital market conditions will present compelling investment opportunities in the months ahead." Reyes added "We are excited about our partnership with Sembler Investments. Our investment thesis and values pair perfectly together creating great synergies between our companies." With a focus on high quality, institutional assets, Argyle will target apartments built after the year 2000 in markets experiencing major population growth and corporate relocations but still offer a high quality of life for its residents.
Mark Sembler of Sembler investments adds, "We are very excited about our partnership with Ryan and the Argyle team. Ryan's proven track record demonstrates his capabilities and thoughtfulness in this space and we look forward to accomplishing much together. In addition to the opportunities we are currently seeing in this market, we think a focus on this space benefits our other efforts at the same time."
About Argyle Real Estate Partners: Argyle Real Estate Partners is a vertically integrated real estate investment firm headquartered in Tampa, FL. Formed in 2022, Argyle's team has collectively acquired over $3.5 billion of multifamily properties throughout the United States during their combined 25+ years of experience.
About Sembler Investments: Sembler Investments is a multidisciplinary investment firm with holdings in a variety of industries, including Real Estate, Health Care, Financial Services, Hospitality, and more. The firm was founded 30 years ago and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.
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Olive Oil isn't as slim as the win Solon chalked up in tripping Keokuk 63-54 in an Iowa boys basketball matchup on Feb. 20.
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WATFORD, England (AP) — Aaron Rodgers may need to have a little chat with Green Bay head coach Matt LaFleur about the game plan for the Packers’ first game in London.
After arriving in the British capital on an overnight flight, LaFleur was quick to tout the importance of the run game on Sunday against the New York Giants, who feature the best rushing attack in the NFL.
But the British fans have waited a long time to see Rodgers’ big arm in action, with the Packers the last of the NFL’s 32 teams to play in London.
So is the quarterback feeling any added incentive to put on a show by airing it out?
“Of course,” Rodgers said. “Matt’s kind of in a grumpy mood right now. When he gets a little bit of rest, he’ll be in a better mood. We’ll talk about airing it out a bit more.”
While that comment was clearly tongue-in-cheek, there’s no doubt that Rodgers and the Packers will be the main attraction at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Giants played in the very first NFL regular-season game in London at 2007 and also visited in 2016.
But as LaFleur pointed out, this might be a run-heavy game on both sides. Saquon Barkley is leading the league in rushing yards, while the Packers’ offense has largely been built around running back duo Aaron Jones and A.J. Dillon this season.
“Our backs are two of our best players, so we’ve got to get those guys involved,” LaFleur said after arriving at the team’s luxury hotel, located in the countryside northwest of London. “If you look at New York’s defense situationally, they’re one of the best in ball. Both in the red zone and on third down. So the running game can alleviate just some of the stress that gets put on you in those situations if you’re not running the ball effectively.”
Rodgers has yet to score a rushing touchdown this season, but was asked whether he plans to replicate the Lambeau Leap with a “London Leap” on Sunday if he does manage to get into the end zone.
“I might have to tag somebody in for me. I’m getting a little old for that,” the 38-year-old Rodgers said. “But I’ve got to see the wall, I don’t know how high the wall is. If it’s above maybe five feet, I’ll probably let one of the linemen go.”
The Packers and Giants both arrived on Friday morning, meaning they only have two days to get used to the jet lag and time difference. Rodgers, whose habit of traveling to different countries in the offseason has been well documented, said he would have loved to come out earlier.
“A lot of us who love to travel were kind of hoping for a Monday takeoff so we could enjoy some food and some culture and maybe a Premier League game,” Rodgers said. “But either way, we’re excited to be here. And this is not just a normal road trip even though the coaches speak is always, ‘Hey, we’re here to win a game, yada yada yada.’ This is definitely more special. … This is one of those games I think at the end of your career when you think back on, it’s going to be a special moment to be able to play in front of the fans here.”
Rodgers was planning to take in the U.S. women’s soccer team’s game against England at Wembley Stadium on Friday but said he will probably opt to stay at the hotel and “just relax a little bit.”
Even a seasoned traveler like Rodgers, though, didn’t get all of his preparations right when it comes to getting some sleep on the overnight flight to England.
“I wore the wrong color socks,” Rodgers said. “I wore black socks. And in the dark, and in a bed made for probably a six-foot person — I’m slightly above that — I got my feet hit a couple of times.”
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Kirkland is the third-best place to live in the U.S., according to Money magazine’s most recent ranking.
The personal finance magazine ranks locations by nine factors including cost of living, economic opportunity, education, diversity, the local housing market and quality of life.
The cities that clinched the #1 and #2 spots? Atlanta, Georgia, and Tempe, Arizona. Raleigh in North Carolina, Rogers Park (Chicago), Illinois, and Columbia, Maryland, were just below Kirkland on the list of 50 cities.
“It’s an honor that Kirkland has been recognized nationally for something that we all know to be true: Kirkland is such an amazing place to live,” Deputy Mayor Jay Arnold said in a news release. “Thank you to our wonderful residents and businesses who together contribute to Kirkland’s vibrant and belonging community.”
This year, the magazine acknowledged its rankings have tended to feature “quaint, affordable — and unintentionally yet overwhelmingly white” cities in the past and said they tried to prioritize racial and religious diversity more highly in the ranking.
Money magazine described Kirkland as a beautiful Seattle suburb, with Evergreen Health in its backyard as well as other companies close by in Redmond.
Job openings in Kirkland are expected to grow by more than 10% in the next few years, according to Money. The city, on the eastern shore of Lake Washington, has attracted startups and Google in April opened the next phase of its Kirkland office space.
However, those looking to move to Kirkland can expect steep housing costs. According to the magazine, the average one-bedroom rental costs close to $2,000 and the median home sale price has hit $1 million. The median household income is $130,000, which is also above average.
Kirkland has a pedestrian-friendly downtown and a “vast collection of parks,” featuring paved lakefront paths and wooded forestlands, Money magazine writes.
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(Louisiana Statewide) – Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) brings the inspiring and courageous stories of seven Louisiana high school students to viewers in a new half-hour special, LOUISIANA YOUNG HEROES 2022. The program debuts Friday, May 27 at 8:00 PM on LPB’s statewide network and will encore on LPB Sunday, May 29 at 1:00 PM. New Orleans-based WLAE-TV will air it Monday, June 6 at 8:00 PM. Viewers can also stream the program on demand after the Friday broadcast premiere at www.lpb.org/heroes and on the LPB YouTube channel.
Since 1995, LPB’s Louisiana Young Heroes initiative has honored students from across the state in recognition of their service to communities, for their academic achievements, and for serving as an inspiration to those around them. The seven students being recognized in 2022 are:
- Reagan Angers of Baton Rouge (Senior at St. Joseph’s Academy) is a cancer survivor diagnosed with osteosarcoma at age nine. She spent a great amount of time at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital recovering from major limb-sparing surgery which removed the cancerous tumor and much of her femur. She returned to school after a year of chemotherapy and physical therapy and learned to walk again with an internal prosthetic.
- Allison Callender of Pleasant Hill (Junior at Natchitoches Central High School) is a cancer survivor who at four years old survived stage IV neuroblastoma. After 18 months of cancer treatment, Allison had no sign of disease, however, she lost part of her hearing and her ability to easily process some information from the radiation therapies. Allison has overcome these obstacles and is active in her school and community.
- Corynn Gray of Lafayette (Senior at Thrive Academy) is a remarkable young lady who persevered through a difficult upbringing with the added responsibility of raising her siblings. She will be the first in her family to attend college and collaborated with the Young Entrepreneurs Academy to turn one of her passions into purpose creating her own natural skin care line to help others.
- Gabe Hoosier of Deville (Senior at Buckeye High School) overcame a severe football injury his freshman year and plans to become a physical therapist. He enjoys working with special needs adults, being involved in competitive sports and weightlifting. He founded Cinderella’s Closet to provide formal dresses for students wanting to attend homecoming or prom. Gabe has worked with the Central Louisiana Homeless Coalition and volunteers with the ARC Center.
- Mason McCart of Natchitoches (Junior at St. Mary’s Catholic School) created Cooking for a Cause and raised thousands of dollars for local charities by baking and selling cookies. He is fast approaching his goal of raising $10,000. Recognizing that teens often struggle with emotional, psychological, and social well-being, Mason also started a blog to uplift his peers through words of encouragement and to help raise awareness for mental health.
- Olivia Stringham of Vivian (Senior at North Caddo Magnet High School) is a survivor who endured the death of her mother at an early age. Olivia became the matriarch of her family and continues to be involved daily in the lives of her younger siblings. Her experience has led her to advocate for mental health awareness, as well as champion social justice issues in her community and school.
- Victoria Williams of Baton Rouge (Senior at Baton Rouge Magnet High School) possesses academic curiosity, community spirit, and strong ethics. Even with years of instability in her life, she works toward a future of increased equity and remains committed to effecting positive change. Victoria co-founded the Black History Quiz Bowl at her school. She is enthusiastic about science and her community and plans to study Chemical Engineering with a goal of applying it to environmental relief.
Go to www.lpb.org/heroes for more information about the program.
The 2022 Louisiana Young Heroes Program is being presented with the generous support of AmeriHealth Caritas Louisiana, the U.S. Army, Baton Rouge Recruiting Battalion, Community Coffee, and East Baton Rouge Parish Library with additional support from Hotel Indigo and DEMCO. Special thanks to the Louisiana Young Heroes Advisory Committee.
For more information, contact Colleen Spillane, Public Information Officer, Louisiana Public Broadcasting at (225)-767-4453 or 1-800-272-8161 ext. 4453 or by email at cspillane@lpb.org.
About Louisiana Public Broadcasting
Since 1975, Louisiana Public Broadcasting has been the public television network for the state of Louisiana with stations in Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Monroe and Shreveport. LPB is also affiliated with WLAE-TV in New Orleans. In addition to its award-winning documentaries about the history and people of Louisiana, LPB is dedicated to helping children throughout the state develop their literacy, math and science skills through its numerous educational outreach programs.
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LUMBERTON, N.J. and TORONTO, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BLANCO, the premium kitchen solutions brand backed by industry-leading German engineering, announces the appointment of Diana Windsor as Senior Vice President, Sales for BLANCO North America.
In this role, Windsor will lead all strategic and operative market activities for BLANCO North America across the U.S. and Canada. Her primary focus will be on continued and sustainable market growth and promotion of the BLANCO UNIT, the seamless water place system for residential kitchens.
"We are thrilled to continue investing in the overall growth of our North American team, an important region for BLANCO," stated Garth Wallin, President and CEO of BLANCO North America. "With Diana's previous experience in building products, strategy development, customer service and e-commerce, along with her entrepreneurial spirit and proven track record of leading high-performance teams, we are confident she is a strong addition to our executive leadership team."
"I'm honored to be a part of the BLANCO North America team," notes Windsor. "I admire the company's commitment to offering award-winning designs and premium quality product solutions. I look forward to driving further awareness of the BLANCO UNIT to make everyday life easier in kitchens across North America."
Windsor boasts more than 13 years of sales and management experience in the plumbing industry. Prior to joining BLANCO, her experience includes general management for Waterworks, multiple senior leadership roles at Watts Water Technologies and plumbing sales experience at Kohler.
For more information on BLANCO, visit BLANCO.com.
With BLANCO, kitchen chores are transformed to be sources of joyful moments. BLANCO is the premium brand for well-thought-out kitchen water hubs in residential homes. At its core, the BLANCO UNIT is based on three founding pillars: "Drink, Prep, Clean" and is characterized by a wide array of seamless combinations of sinks, high-end faucets, water optimization solutions, complementary accessories and organization systems. This range of product and the design, color and material options, make it easy for every kitchen lover to find their perfectly customized UNIT at BLANCO.
Founded over 95 years ago, the company is now an internationally recognized premium brand for the kitchen water hub. With subsidiaries in Europe, North America and APAC, plus its trading partners, BLANCO has a presence in about 100 countries all over the world and offers its customers a portfolio that is perfectly tailored to consumer needs. The company headquarters and key production sites in support of North American demand are in Southwest Germany and Canada.
Established in 1925 by Heinrich Blanc, BLANCO is part of BLANC & FISCHER Family Holding. BLANCO America and BLANCO Canada have proudly served the North American market for over 30 years. BLANCO.com
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NEW YORK (AP) — The glitzy, fictional Broadway musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe that formed the heart of the TV show “Smash” will make the leap to an actual Broadway stage next season.
Producers said Wednesday that “Smash” is slated for Broadway in the 2024-25 season, welcome news to many of the show’s fans and the Broadway community who embraced its look at the inner workings of their industry.
“’Smash’ is near and dear to my heart, and it was always my hope that a musical inspired by the show would eventually come to the stage,” said lead producer Steven Spielberg in a statement.
The new book for “Smash” will be co-written Tony-nominated Rick Elice, who penned “Jersey Boys,” and Tony-winner Bob Martin, who won for “The Drowsy Chaperone.”
No casting for the Broadway version was revealed. The series on NBC lasted two seasons starting in 2012 and starred Megan Hilty, Jeremy Jordan, Katharine McPhee, Leslie Odom Jr., Krysta Rodriguez, Christian Borle and Debra Messing. The songs included ““History is Made at Night,” “Let Me Be Your Star” and “Hang the Moon.”
Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, who wrote many of the songs for the TV show and whose credits include the Tony-winning score for the 2007 musical “Hairspray,” will continue with the stage adaptation, as will original choreographer Joshua Bergasse, who has gone on to choreograph “On The Town” and “Gigi.”
In the series — created by playwright Theresa Rebeck, who left after the first season — viewers watched the long process of casting, composing, mounting and rehearsing a Broadway-bound musical, “Bombshell.”
In the second season, a gritty, low-tech off-Broadway show called “Hit List” competed with “Bombshell” for the Tony Award. Since “Hit List” songs included writing credits for Drew Gasparini, Joe Iconis, Andrew McMahon, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Lucie Silvas — in addition to Shaiman and Wittman — it seems that the “Hit List” part of the fictional tale will not make it to “Smash” on Broadway.
The new musical will be helmed by five-time Tony-winning director Susan Stroman. Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron join Spielberg as lead producers.
“Ever since the show ended in 2012, not a week goes by that someone doesn’t ask us when will they see Smash as a musical. We think we’ve come up with something the die-hard series fans will love but that will also be exciting for people who never saw an episode of the show,” Meron said in a statement.
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HIDA, Japan, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Aug 02, 2022, with the recent surge in raw material prices and the continued scarcity of quercetin in the market, Alps Pharmaceutical Ind. Co., Ltd. (Hida, Japan, President: Osamu Ushimaru) announced that it has confirmed through human pharmacokinetic studies of its new quercetin formulation, EubioQuercetin, that the amount of quercetin used can be reduced to one quarter of the original amount.
Taking conventional quercetin supplements as an example, it is expected to reduce the recommended daily intake of 500 mg ~ 1,000 mg to 125 mg ~ 250 mg. EubioQuercetin is a completely new formulation that reproduces the characteristics of natural quercetin found in fruits and vegetables and has high water solubility and a high absorption rate.
"Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all generations." Health occupies a central position in the SDG 3, and quercetin is a supplement that plays a significant role in achieving this global goal. To accomplish this, Alps Pharmaceutical has spent many years researching natural quercetin and has finally succeeded in developing EubioQuercetin, a new quercetin formulation made from only safe and natural food ingredients.
It is also 240,000 times more water soluble than conventional commercially available quercetin and has the advantage of being available in a wide range of oral forms as well as capsules and tablets, making it accessible to people of all ages.
Furthermore, as a pioneer of medical phytochemicals, Alps is one of the few global pharmaceutical companies that not only produces natural quercetin glycosides but also cultivates its own plants containing them, which enables a stable global supply of the material.
"Natural quercetin, found in fruits and vegetables, is fully absorbed by the body and contributes to good health. But it is necessary to take large daily doses of commercial quercetin because it is not the natural form, and its absorption rate in the body is very low. There are artificial quercetin products on the market that have been enzymatically treated to increase absorption," says Dr. Mitsunori Ono, former visiting professor at Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Hospital, Boston.
"Now we need to consider the true purpose of supplements. Supplements are meant to top up the nutrients that we do not get enough of in our daily diet. Therefore, the supplements we take must be safe, unprocessed, available in their natural state, and contained in fruits and vegetables. This is the new paradigm for supplements in the SDG age. EubioQuercetin, a natural quercetin formulation, embodies this paradigm," he adds.
- EubioQuercetin will be unveiled at the Alps Pharmaceutical Ind. Co., Ltd. exhibit booth (No. 5286) at SupplySide West 2022 (11/2–11/4) in Las Vegas.
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Since its founding in 1947, Alps Pharmaceutical has been engaged in not only the business of deriving active ingredients and extracts from natural sources but also the manufacturing of pharmaceutical drug substances. Today, the company's portfolio comprises flavonoids, glycyrrhizins, protamine, capsaicin, and various Kampo medicines, which are known for their ability to maintain and improve human health.
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Did you lose money on investments in Olaplex Holdings? If so, please visit Olaplex Holdings, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired the common stock of Olaplex Holdings, Inc. ("Olaplex" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: OLPX) pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's initial public offering conducted on or around September 30, 2021 (the "IPO" or "Offering"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California and alleges violations of the Securities Act of 1933.
Olaplex manufactures and sells hair care products. The Company offers hair care shampoos and conditioners for use in treatment, maintenance, and protection of hair. Olaplex purports to participate in the "prestige segment" of the haircare market, which the Company claims is "expected to be the fastest growing segment of the global haircare market from 2020 to 2025."
On August 27, 2021, Olaplex filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the SEC in connection with the IPO, which, after several amendments, was declared effective by the SEC on September 29, 2021 (the "Registration Statement"). On October 1, 2021, Olaplex filed a prospectus on Form 424B4 with the SEC in connection with the IPO, which incorporated and formed part of the Registration Statement (collectively, the "Offering Documents").
Pursuant to the IPO, Olaplex issued 73,700,000 shares of its common stock to the public at the Offering price of $21 per share for approximate proceeds of $1,466,445,750 to the Company, after applicable underwriting discounts and commissions.
The Offering Documents were negligently prepared and, as a result, contained untrue statements of material fact or omitted to state other facts necessary to make the statements made not misleading and was not prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations governing its preparation. Specifically, the Offering Documents made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) macroeconomic pressures and competition in the haircare market were more robust than the Company had represented to investors; (ii) accordingly, the Company was unlikely to maintain its sales and revenue momentum; (iii) as a result, it was unlikely that the Company would be able to achieve the financial and operational growth projected in the Offering Documents; and (iv) as a result, the Offering Documents were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
On September 29, 2022, a Piper Sandler analyst downgraded Olaplex to Neutral from Overweight, stating that her work revealed that "competition and misinformation pose growing risks to the company." In addition, the analyst indicated that she anticipated investments in marketing and education were needed to offset the headwinds and noted that there was "little room for valuation upside given the risks at play."
On this news, Olaplex's stock price fell $1.33 per share, or 12.15%, to close at $9.62 per share on September 29, 2022.
Then, on October 18, 2022, Olaplex issued a press release in which "the Company revised its guidance for the 2022 fiscal year". Olaplex said it now expects fiscal year 2022 revenue between $704 million and $711 million, significantly down from its prior guidance range of $796 million to $826M. Olaplex stated that "[t]he Company's updated guidance primarily reflects a slowdown in sales momentum that it attributes to macro-economic pressures, increased competitive activity including discounting, and a moderation in new customer acquisition, as well as inventory rebalancing across certain customers which the Company believes are in response to these same macro-economic pressures."
On this news, Olaplex's stock price fell $5.55 per share, or 56.69%, to close at $4.24 per share on October 19, 2022.
As of the time the complaint was filed, the price of Olaplex common stock continues to trade below the Offering price of $21 per share, damaging investors.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than January 17, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member.
If you purchased or otherwise acquired Olaplex common stock, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Olaplex Holdings, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
Since 1993, Bernstein Liebhard LLP has recovered over $3.5 billion for its clients. In addition to representing individual investors, the Firm has been retained by some of the largest public and private pension funds in the country to monitor their assets and pursue litigation on their behalf. As a result of its success litigating hundreds of lawsuits and class actions, the Firm has been named to The National Law Journal's "Plaintiffs' Hot List" thirteen times and listed in The Legal 500 for ten consecutive years.
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(iSeeCars) — Although the new car supply chain is steadily improving, new cars continue to be priced well above MSRP (Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price). A new iSeeCars study found that the average new car price is 8.8 percent over MSRP, and some vehicles are priced well above this average.
Here are the new cars that are priced the highest above MSRP in each state.
- The Genesis GV70 luxury compact SUV is the vehicle with the highest dealer markup in the most states with 22.
- The vehicle with the highest markup across all states is the Mercedes-Benz G-Class, which is priced 44.6 percent above MSRP in Georgia.
- Luxury SUVs are the most represented vehicle type, accounting for the highest marked-up vehicles in 29 states.
What Does This Mean for Consumers?
New car buyers can expect to pay higher-than-average prices for vehicles that are in high demand. The best way to avoid paying over sticker price is to broaden your search radius and consider similar vehicles that may not be as overpriced. Additionally, consumers in some cases can avoid markups by ordering directly from the manufacturer.
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Methodology
iSeeCars.com analyzed over 12 million new car sales from February 2022 through February 2023. The average list prices of new cars, as well as the average of their MSRPs, were aggregated by month, as well as by body style and model. Heavy-duty vehicles and low-volume models were excluded from further analysis. The differences between average prices and average MSRP were expressed as percentage differences.
About iSeeCars
iSeeCars.com is a data-driven car search and research company that helps shoppers find the best car deals by providing key insights and valuable resources, like the iSeeCars VIN check report and Best Cars rankings. iSeeCars.com has saved users over $372 million so far by applying big data analytics powered by over 25 billion (and growing) data points and using proprietary algorithms to objectively analyze, score and rank millions of new cars and used cars.
This article, The Cars With the Highest Dealer Markups by State, originally appeared on iSeeCars.com.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The City College of New York (CCNY") and Carver Federal Savings Bank ("Carver"), a certified Minority Depository Institution ("MDI"), celebrated the launch of the Bank's first campus ATM with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on October 18, 2022. The Carver ATM is located on the first floor of the North Academic Center and has been serving CCNY's students, staff, and faculty since July 2022.
CCNY President Vincent Boudreau and Michael T. Pugh, President and Chief Executive Officer of Carver Federal Savings Bank, said a few words at the event, followed by a Student Rush Event for CCNY students with games, giveaways, and a raffle for two $500 gift cards.
"Carver Federal Savings Bank is a historic institution and a contemporary force for community development in Harlem and beyond," said CCNY President Vincent Boudreau. "Like Carver, CCNY is in the business of securing stable and prosperous futures for a rising class of New Yorkers. As we assist our students—an important part of that rising class—with learning to manage their personal finances, Carver will be an essential partner for CCNY. The ATM that we inaugurated is a tangible symbol of that partnership, and an important contribution to our banking infrastructure on campus."
Given the alignment of these two historic Harlem-based institutions' missions, this ATM partnership is a natural fit for both organizations. Over time, CCNY and Carver hope to expand their relationship to reach more students through expanded banking access and financial education training.
"The City College of New York is a mainstay in the community, uplifting students in Harlem and beyond for more than 150 years," said Michael T. Pugh, President and Chief Executive Officer of Carver Federal Savings Bank. "As a community bank reinvesting $0.80 of each deposited dollar into the diverse communities we serve, Carver is deeply committed to collaborating with higher education to increase student banking access and expand economic empowerment. Likewise, our institution has an existing initiative to assist Historically Black Colleges and Universities ("HBCUs") with financial education, and Carver has supported financial education to more than 16,000 individuals to help close the wealth gap in historically underserved communities over the past several years."
About the City College of New York
Since 1847, The City College of New York has provided a high-quality and affordable education to generations of New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. CCNY embraces its position at the forefront of social change. It is ranked #1 by the Harvard-based Opportunity Insights out of 369 selective public colleges in the United States on the overall mobility index. This measure reflects both access and outcomes, representing the likelihood that a student at CCNY can move up two or more income quintiles. Education research organization DegreeChoices ranks CCNY #3 nationally for social mobility. In addition, the Center for World University Rankings places CCNY in the top 1.8% of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence. Labor analytics firm Emsi puts at $1.9 billion CCNY's annual economic impact on the regional economy (5 boroughs and 5 adjacent counties) and quantifies the "for dollar" return on investment to students, taxpayers and society. At City College, more than 15,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in eight schools and divisions, driven by significant funded research, creativity and scholarship. This year, CCNY launched its most expansive fundraising campaign, ever. The campaign, titled "Doing Remarkable Things Together" seeks to bring the College's Foundation to more than $1 billion in total assets in support of the College mission. CCNY is as diverse, dynamic and visionary as New York City itself.
About Carver Bancorp, Inc.
Carver Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: CARV) is the holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank, a federally chartered stock savings bank. Headquartered in Harlem, NY, Carver was founded in 1948 to serve African-American communities whose residents, businesses, and institutions had limited access to mainstream financial services. The U.S. Treasury Department has designated Carver as a Community Development Financial Institution ("CDFI") because of its community-focused banking services and dedication to its local community's economic viability and revitalization. Carver is one of the largest African- and Caribbean-American managed banks in the United States. The Bank recently expanded its online presence to include consumer checking and savings accounts across nine states, from Massachusetts to Virginia, and Washington, D.C. For further information, please visit the Company's website at www.carverbank.com. Be sure to connect with Carver on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Keegan Records had 25 points in Colgate's 64-60 victory over Navy on Saturday night.
Records had nine rebounds for the Raiders (23-8, 17-1 Patriot League). Braeden Smith scored 11 points and added seven assists. Tucker Richardson finished 3 of 12 from the field to finish with seven points. It was the sixth victory in a row for the Raiders.
The Midshipmen (18-12, 11-7) were led in scoring by Patrick Dorsey, who finished with 18 points and two steals. Navy also got 15 points and 12 rebounds from Daniel Deaver. In addition, Tyler Nelson had 10 points, 13 rebounds and two blocks. The loss broke the Midshipmen's seven-game winning streak.
Colgate went into the half leading Navy 34-23. Records scored 13 points in the half. Records led Colgate with 12 points in the second half as his team was outscored by seven points over the final half but hung on for the victory.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FalconX, the most reliable digital assets prime brokerage for the world's leading institutions, today announced it has earned FinTech Breakthrough's 2023 DeFi Innovation Award for its innovative FalconX 360 platform. The award recognizes the most outstanding products, services and companies that are disrupting the crowded fintech market and shaping the future of global consumer and business finance.
FalconX 360 is the first and only unified investment and risk management platform for institutional investors providing streamlined access to spot and derivatives trading, credit, clearing, staking, reporting, and more, all in one solution. With FalconX 360, institutional investors can use one account to gain access to 94% of the global crypto market—more than is available through any other single provider in the market today.
"We are honored to be recognized among such an elite group of fintech innovators including past winners like Northwest Mutual, Experian, Charles Schwab and more," said Raghu Yarlagadda, Founder and CEO of FalconX. "This level of recognition proves that decentralized finance is the future of finance and validates FalconX's position at the forefront of the revolution."
FalconX 360's consolidated access saves time and maximizes capital efficiency for investors, and puts risk management, prime services and security controls all in one place. By streamlining access to the digital asset ecosystem, FalconX 360 also allows investors to be much more active and agile in their investments. Instead of splitting $1M across multiple platforms, investors can bring that $1M to FalconX and access diversified investments through a single account, scaling up returns by 3-5X.
FalconX 360 has become the homepage for the world's leading institutional asset managers. The centralized platform that consolidates access to the largest liquidity venues into one dashboard. The platform recently earned the platform a 2023 BIG Innovation Award from the Business Intelligence Group and Most Innovative Fintech Solution by the 2022 Tech Ascension Awards.
To learn more about the FalconX 360 platform for institutional crypto investors, visit www.falconx.io.
About FalconX
FalconX is the largest, most reliable digital assets prime brokerage for the world's leading institutions. We provide the most comprehensive access to the deepest global digital asset liquidity. Through our prime brokerage platform, FalconX 360, investors unlock and scale returns faster and more efficiently than any other platform. Our 24/7, dedicated team for account, operational and trading needs enables investors to navigate dynamic markets around the clock. The company is backed by investors including Accel, Adams Street Partners, Altimeter Capital, American Express Ventures, B Capital, GIC, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Thoma Bravo, Tiger Global Management and Wellington Management. FalconX has offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Chicago, Bengaluru, Singapore and Malta. For more information visit falconx.io or follow on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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- Figures for the first half of 2022: Sales revenue up 20.9 percent in constant currencies, underlying EBITDA up 25.6 percent, underlying EBITDA margin 33.9 percent
- 2022 outlook confirmed: Sales revenue expected to rise by 15 to 19 percent and underlying EBITDA margin projected to be about 34 percent
- Uncertainties due to the global political and economic situation remain high
GÖTTINGEN, Germany, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The life science group Sartorius increased sales revenue and earnings with double-digit growth rates in the first half of 2022 and confirmed its full-year outlook.
"Sartorius performed well during the first half of the year in an increasingly challenging environment. Both divisions achieved significant growth and could maintain high profit margins despite some headwinds from currencies. Since the beginning of the year, we increased our worldwide headcount by around 2,000, and the recent acquisitions are contributing to our business development as expected. Given the healthy underlying demand in our industry and good order situation, we confirm our full-year outlook as well as our ambitious investment program, despite higher inflation and lower corona-related demand. However, the global political and economic uncertainties, the resulting strained supply chains, and thus also the uncertainties of projections and outlooks remain high," said Executive Board Chairman and CEO Joachim Kreuzburg.
Business development of the Group1
In the first half of the year, Group sales revenue rose by 20.9 percent year-over-year in constant currencies (reported: +26.5 percent) to around 2,060 million euros. This good performance was mainly driven by organic growth in the Laboratory as well as in the Bioprocess division, while acquisitions2 contributed almost 2 percentage points to sales revenue growth. All three business regions – EMEA3, Americas, and Asia | Pacific – posted double-digit percentage growth in constant currencies. The restrictions in China caused by the pandemic had a relatively minor impact on growth.
Order intake also developed as expected, reaching 2,169 million euros (in constant currencies:
-4.8 percent, reported: -0.5 percent). In the Bioprocess Solutions Division, in particular, the first half of 2021 was influenced by extraordinarily high demand related to the coronavirus pandemic and changed ordering patterns by some customers, who placed their orders further in advance than usual.
Following the strong growth in sales revenue, underlying EBITDA rose by 25.6 percent to 697 million euros in the first half of the year. The corresponding margin, at 33.9 percent, was close to the high level of the prior-year period (34.1 percent). The development was influenced by positive economies of scale but also by negative currency effects and, as planned, higher costs due to new employees and an increase in the number of business trips. Effects from price trends and adjustments on the purchasing and customer sides largely compensated each other.
Relevant net profit reached 334 million euros, up 28.6 percent from the prior-year period. Underlying earnings were 4.88 euros (prior-year period: 3.79 euros) per ordinary share and 4.89 euros (prior-year period: 3.80 euros) per preference share.
Key financial indicators
The Sartorius Group continues to have a very sound balance sheet and financial base. As of June 30, 2022, its equity ratio stood at 35.9 percent (December 31, 2021: 30.2 percent). The ratio of net debt to underlying EBITDA was 1.4 as of the reporting date, compared with 1.5 at year-end 2021. Cash flow from investing activities stood at -229 million euros, compared with -160 million euros in the first half of 2021. The ratio of capital expenditures (CAPEX) to sales revenue reached 10.7 percent (prior-year period: 9.0 percent).
Increase in the number of employees
As of June 30, 2022, Sartorius employed a total of 15,795 people worldwide, representing a headcount increase of 1,963 from the end of December 2021.
Business development of the Bioprocess Solutions Division
The Bioprocess Solutions Division, which offers a wide array of innovative technologies for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines, recorded sales revenue of 1,637 million euros in the first six months of the year. This corresponds to an increase of 23.6 percent in constant currencies (reported: +29.3 percent) compared with the prior-year period, including a non-organic contribution from acquisitions of a good 2 percentage points. All business areas contributed to this positive development with clear double-digit growth rates, while the business with vaccine manufacturers normalized faster than expected.
Following the high growth rates due to the pandemic in the first half of 2021, order intake also continued to normalize and reached 1,716 million euros, which was, as expected, slightly below the prior-year figure of 1,803 million euros (in constant currencies: -8.9 percent; reported: -4.8 percent).
Underlying EBITDA of the Bioprocess Solutions division rose by 27.2 percent to 586 million euros. Despite negative currency effects and planned higher costs, the resulting margin of 35.8 percent was close to the high prior-year level of 36.3 percent.
Business development of the Lab Products & Services Division
Sales revenue of the Lab Products & Services Division, which specializes in equipment and technologies for life science research and pharmaceutical laboratories, grew by 11.2 percent (reported: +16.7 percent) to 423 million euros in the first half of the year. Close to 1 percentage point came from non-organic growth. Development was again especially dynamic in the bioanalytics product segment. Order intake developed even more strongly than sales revenue, surging by 15.0 percent in constant currencies (reported: +20.6 percent) to 453 million euros.
The division's underlying EBITDA rose by 17.7 percent to 112 million euros. The corresponding margin rose to 26.4 percent (prior-year period: 26.2 percent), with a positive product mix and economies of scale offsetting negative currency effects and planned higher costs.
Outlook for fiscal 2022 confirmed
The management confirms its outlook for the current fiscal year. Consolidated sales revenue is expected to increase by about 15 percent to 19 percent, with non-organic growth from acquisitions projected to contribute about 2 percentage points. Regarding profitability, Sartorius continues to expect its underlying EBITDA margin to reach about 34 percent.
For the Bioprocess Solutions Division, the company still forecasts sales revenue growth of about 17 percent to 21 percent. This includes a non-organic growth contribution from acquisitions of about 2 percentage points. The division's underlying EBITDA margin is projected to reach about 36 percent. Lab Products & Services should achieve revenue growth of about 6 percent to 10 percent in 2022, with about 1 percentage point of this coming from the non-organic growth contribution from acquisitions. The division's underlying EBITDA margin is expected to be about 26 percent.
The CAPEX ratio is anticipated to be about 14 percent and net debt to underlying EBITDA to be around 1.1 at year end. Possible further acquisitions are not included in this projection.
All forecasts are based on constant currencies, as in the past years. In addition, management points out that the dynamics and volatilities in the life science and biopharma sectors have increased over the past years and the coronavirus pandemic has further amplified these trends. Moreover, the forecasts are based on the assumption of no further deterioration in the geopolitical and global economic situation, supply chains, inflation and energy supply, and no new relevant restrictions in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. Accordingly, current forecasts show even higher uncertainties than usual.
1 Sartorius publishes alternative performance measures that are not defined by international accounting standards. These are determined with the aim of improving the comparability of business performance over time and within the industry.
- Order intake: all customer orders contractually concluded and booked during the respective reporting period
- Underlying EBITDA: earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and adjusted for extraordinary items
- Relevant net profit: profit for the period after non-controlling interest, adjusted for extraordinary items and non-cash amortization, as well as based on the normalized financial result and the normalized tax rate
- Ratio of net debt to underlying EBITDA: quotient of net debt and underlying EBITDA over the past 12 months, including the pro forma amount contributed by acquisitions for this period
2 Acquisition of CellGenix, Xell, the Novasep chromatography division, and ALS Automated Lab Solutions
3 EMEA = Europe, Middle East, Africa
This press release contains forward-looking statements about the future development of the Sartorius Group. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Sartorius assumes no liability for updating such statements in light of new information or future events.
Conference call
The Executive Board Chairman and CEO of Sartorius AG, Joachim Kreuzburg, and Executive Board member and CFO, Rainer Lehmann, will discuss the company's results with analysts and investors in a conference call at 3.30 p.m. CEST on Thursday, July 21, 2022. You may register by clicking on the following link: https://media.chorusScall.eu/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=PBMZ53Mz
Further information
Financial calendar
October 19, 2022 Publication of nine-month figures (January to September 2022)
1 The previous year's figures have been restated due to finalization of the purchase price allocations for the acquisition of BIA Separations
2 cc= in constant currencies
3 Acc. to customers' loaction
4 Adjusted for extraordinary items
5 After non-controlling interest, adjusted for extraordinary items and non-cash amortization, as well as based on the normalized financial result and the normalized tax rate
6 After non-controlling interest
A profile of Sartorius
The Sartorius Group is a leading international partner of life science research and the biopharmaceutical industry. With innovative laboratory instruments and consumables, the Group's Lab Products & Services Division concentrates on serving the needs of laboratories performing research and quality control at pharma and biopharma companies and those of academic research institutes. The Bioprocess Solutions Division with its broad product portfolio focusing on single-use solutions helps customers to manufacture biotech medications and vaccines safely and efficiently. The Group has been annually growing by double digits on average and has been regularly expanding its portfolio by acquisitions of complementary technologies. In fiscal 2021, the company earned sales revenue of some 3.45 billion euros. At the end of 2021, nearly 14,000 people were employed at the Group's approximately 60 manufacturing and sales sites, serving customers around the globe.
Contact
Petra Kirchhoff
Head of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
+49 (0)551 308 1686
petra.kirchhoff@sartorius.com
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Every Lunar New Year without fail, Kat Lieu's mother would make her steamed nian gao, which is a sweet rice — or mochi — cake. It was a tasty tradition of having dessert for breakfast.
The Seattle-based author of the “Modern Asian Baking at Home” cookbook and founder of the Subtle Asian Baking online group switches things up for her 9-year-old son. He gets mochi waffles made with bright green pandan the first morning of the new year.
“This year again I'm going to make the waffles," said Lieu, who is half Chinese and half Vietnamese. “I’m also going to make the steamed nian gao and things like that, and try to have him appreciate it more, too.”
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Unlike Thanksgiving, when pie is a given at many households, desserts and confections at Lunar New Year are as varied as the Asian diasporas around the world that celebrate it.
Families from China to the U.S. to Vietnam will mark the new year on Sunday with the usual customs such as elaborate dinners and red envelopes with money for children. There will be customary sweet snacks like nian gao. But in this age of social media, food savviness and cultural pride, younger generations of Asians also are getting more inspired to have dessert courses that are whimsical and creative — from black sesame financiers to peanut butter miso cookies.
In Beijing, residents have been flocking to the flagship store of Daoxiangcun, one of the city’s best-known bakeries, for new year-themed dessert gift boxes in which some of the pastries were shaped like a rabbit, the animal of the upcoming year’s Chinese zodiac.
On Saturday, people stood in line outside the store for hours for the chance to buy baked goods, according to a staffer. Even at a less popular branch half a block away, customers still had to wait 40 minutes.
For Lexi Li, it was about bringing a little something to loved ones even though it meant waiting in the line for seven hours in sub-freezing temperatures.
“I don’t really like desserts and pastries, but I just want to bring something home as a gift,” said the 30-year-old, who walked out with a stack of eight boxes for friends and family in her hometown Taiyuan, in central China's Shanxi province.
Known for its diverse food culture, China offers a variety of Lunar New Year desserts that are usually rice-based or flour-based. They include tang yuan, which are mochi-esque rice balls with black sesame or peanut paste in soup, as well as sesame balls, almond cookies, candied lotus seeds and fat goh — steamed cakes also known as prosperity cakes.
Nian gao remains one of the most popular options. Its key ingredient is glutinous rice flour, along with other things such as taro, dates, jujube and red bean paste, depending on the variety. Its name is a homonym for “higher year” in Chinese, meaning a more prosperous year ahead and expressing wishes for children to grow taller.
The well-preserved tradition plays a vital role in passing on Chinese culture because it keeps alive a food culture honoring grains and reminding people of how festivals are celebrated going back to the seventh century, according to Siu Yan Ho, a Hong Kong-based expert in Chinese food culture.
“Food is memory, and this memory is connected with festivals," Siu said.
In Vietnam, which is celebrating the Year of the Cat, sweets also differ by region. Vietnamese people eat nian gao, which they call banh to. They also eat che kho gao nep, a pudding made with sticky rice and a mixture of water, ginger and either sugar or molasses. Other delectables include che kho dau xanh — a mung bean pudding made with coconut milk and sugar — and banh tet chuoi, a glutinous rice cake with bananas.
"On Lunar New Year, for three days you go visit family, friends and teachers," said Linh Trinh, a Vietnamese food historian who is getting a PhD in the subject at the University of Michigan. “So everybody has to store a lot of snacks in their house for people to come visit and have tea. It becomes like the pride of the household to serve their traditional snacks.”
More U.S. companies are finding a sweet spot in incorporating Lunar New Year elements. Cupcake chain Sprinkles, in collaboration with the pan-Asian cultural support nonprofit Gold House, is selling red velvet cupcakes with an almond cookie crust and almond cream cheese frosting. At Disney California Adventure Park, guests can order milk tea cheesecake with taro mousse.
Judging by the 150,000-plus membership of the Subtle Asian Baking Facebook group, a lot of Asians are more about showing off something they made for the holiday rather than bought. The community has come a long way from when Lieu started it in 2020. For the third year, there has been a virtual Lunar New Year bake-off on Facebook and Instagram where members share photos of stunning macarons, chiffon cakes and other pastries.
“You’re innovating. You’re bringing appreciation to all these amazing ingredients,” Lieu said. “And then you’re you’re making it your own traditions, which is amazing.”
Kelson Herman, of San Francisco, crafted a sourdough boule with an illustration of Miffy, a girl bunny from a popular Dutch children's book series, for the Lunar New Year. Already an avid baker, the 44-year-old got inspired by seeing online what other people were doing.
“I see a lot of boundaries being pushed, people trying to not just one-up each other but be more creative,” Herman said. “I feel like it always comes down to flavors that bring back kind of familial memories. ... It could be things that just evoke conversation and family.”
In Queens, New York, Karen Chin made a two-tier cake frosted in coconut buttercream and topped with a white chocolate rabbit. One layer was vanilla with red bean paste. The other was spiced cake with cardamom and mango curd. It's a far cry from the fat goh her grandmother makes.
“I told my grandma that I was going to make a cake. And she’s like, ‘Don’t make it too complicated,’” Chin said, chuckling.
Yet, Chin's creativity yielded some special family moments.
"I was so touched because last time when she came and she ate something, she’s like ‘You make good food.’ I was like, ‘Wow, that’s the first time she complimented me,'" Chin said.
Sue Ng, who was born and raised in Canada but now lives in Hong Kong, loves to “cute-ify” pastries for special occasions. During the pandemic, she found a passion for combining baking and her love of Asian pop culture. Past Lunar New Year creations included a rolled cake that looked like a White Rabbit Creamy Candy, a Chinese brand as iconic as the Hershey bar.
Ng said that because her two school-age daughters have grown up in Hong Kong, they've learned the importance of the Lunar New Year, including the food. But she also likes to throw in something different, such as black sesame financiers and salted egg yolk cookies.
“A Lunar New Year dessert to me is something made using Asian elements with reference to traditionally-made goods during this time,” Ng said in an email. “Now we can be creative and make something like nian gao-filled cookies and the ideas are limitless! Sweet treats are a must during this time because it symbolizes a sweet life.”
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Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson apologized Friday “to all the women I have impacted" after being accused by two dozen women of sexual misconduct during massage therapy sessions.
Watson, who is facing a potential year-long NFL suspension, spoke before Cleveland's exhibition opener in Jacksonville — his first game since Jan. 3, 2021, with the Houston Texans.
Watson was suspended six games earlier this month by independent arbiter Sue L. Robinson, who concluded he violated the league's personal conduct policy with “egregious” and “predatory” behavior.
As part of her decision, the retired federal judge noted Watson's lack of remorse.
Watson was asked in a pregame interview with the team's in-house TV crew Friday for his response to Robinson's position that he hasn't been contrite.
“Look, I want to say that I’m truly sorry to all of the women that I have impacted in this situation,” Watson said in the interview. "The decisions that I made in my life that put me in this position I would definitely like to have back, but I want to continue to move forward and grow and learn and show that I am a true person of character and I am going to keep pushing forward.”
This is the first time Watson has publicly apologized for his alleged behavior. In his two media interviews since joining the Browns in March, he had said only that he had “no regrets” while acknowledging his actions had negatively impacted “so many people.”
Watson had an uneventful debut, completing just 1 of 5 passes for 7 yards in three series before being replaced in Cleveland's 24-13 win. Jacoby Brissett, who is expected to start during Watson's suspension, didn't play.
Watson was accused of sexually harassing or assaulting the women during the therapy sessions in 2020 and 2021. He has always denied wrongdoing and grand juries in two Texas counties declined to indict him on criminal complaints.
The three-time Pro Bowler settled 23 of 24 civil lawsuits.
However, he's still facing discipline from the league, which appealed Robinson’s penalty and is seeking a full-season ban along with a significant fine over $5 million and for Watson to undergo evaluation and treatment before he could be reinstated.
The appeal is now with Peter C. Harvey, a former New Jersey attorney general appointed by Commissioner Roger Goodell.
There's no timetable on Harvey's decision. It's also possible the sides could work out a settlement. On Thursday, a person familiar with Watson's defense told AP that the 26-year-old would agree to an eight-game suspension and $5 million fine.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the high-profile case.
Watson has continued to practice and was excited about making his debut with Cleveland, which traded three-first-round picks to Houston for him in March and signed him to a five-year, $230 million contract.
Depending on Harvey's ruling, Watson could be away from the Browns for an extended period. He was asked what kind of personal growth he hoped to make.
“I know I have a lot of work to put in, especially on the field to be able to make sure I’m ready to play whenever that time comes whenever I can step back on the field," he said. "But also, the biggest thing is I want to continue counseling and I want to make sure that I’m growing as a person, as an individual for my decision-making on and off the field.
“I want to make sure that I’m just evolving in the community as much as possible, and that is for the Cleveland community, that is the NFL community and beyond.”
If Watson is suspended indefinitely, he would not be able to practice or play in the preseason so he was looking forward to facing the Jaguars.
“I’m super excited,” he said. “I’m excited to get out there with my new teammates and go out there and compete. Each and every snap, I want to make sure I cherish that because I’m not sure when the next time I’ll be able to get out there with those guys."
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Hall must pounce on opportunity to provide value
July 3, 2023 12:46 PM
Darick Hall is back with the Phillies, but he must contribute immediately to have a shot at being a viable fantasy candidate before Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber move to first base and DH, respectively.
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First Period_1, San Jose, Hertl 8 (Barabanov, Meier), 7:26 (pp). 2, Ottawa, Tkachuk 12 (Batherson, Stutzle), 10:25 (pp). 3, San Jose, Hertl 9 (Labanc, Karlsson), 11:03. Penalties_Tkachuk, OTT (High Sticking), 6:56; Lindblom, SJ (Holding), 8:39.
Second Period_4, Ottawa, Giroux 10, 5:22. 5, Ottawa, Stutzle 10 (Batherson, DeBrincat), 16:40 (pp). Penalties_Gadjovich, SJ (Fighting), 2:56; Kastelic, OTT (Fighting), 2:56; Batherson, OTT (Slashing), 12:28; Simek, SJ (Holding), 15:48; Labanc, SJ (Tripping), 19:45.
Third Period_6, Ottawa, Chabot 4 (Giroux, Joseph), 5:18 (pp). 7, Ottawa, Giroux 11 (Motte), 15:45. Penalties_Gadjovich, SJ (Slashing), 3:47; Labanc, SJ (Tripping), 6:13; Ottawa bench, served by Tkachuk (Too Many Men on the Ice), 9:14; DeBrincat, OTT (Roughing), 12:54; Hertl, SJ (Roughing), 12:54; Chabot, OTT (Tripping), 13:28.
Shots on Goal_San Jose 10-12-15_37. Ottawa 14-16-9_39.
Power-play opportunities_San Jose 1 of 4; Ottawa 3 of 5.
Goalies_San Jose, Kahkonen 3-6-2 (39 shots-34 saves). Ottawa, Forsberg 5-7-1 (37-35).
A_17,101 (18,572). T_2:24.
Referees_Peter MacDougall, Kendrick Nicholson. Linesmen_Bevan Mills, Derek Nansen.
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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Facial hair enthusiasts claimed to have set a new world record for longest beard chain during an event in Wyoming on Friday, the Casper Star-Tribune reports.
Participants gathered at Gaslight Social, a bar in Casper, where they stood side by side and clipped their beards together to create a hairy chain that was measured at 150 feet long, according to the newspaper. That’s more than double the Guinness World Record of 62 feet, 6 inches, set in Germany in 2007.
To participate, people needed to sport a beard at least 8 inches long, according to the Star-Tribune.
The event occurred on the sidelines of the National Beard and Moustache Championships, which took place Saturday at the city’s Ford Wyoming Center.
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Man dies after diving into shallow part of Texas lake
GLADEWATER, Texas (KLTV/Gray News) - Police say a man died after he dove headfirst from a 40-foot embankment into a part of a Texas lake that was only around 4 feet deep.
According to Gladewater Chief of Police Gordon Freeman, dispatch received a 911 call around 4:20 p.m. Saturday about an unresponsive man at Lake Gladewater. Emergency services responded and started lifesaving measures, KLTV reports.
About seven witnesses told first responders that the 34-year-old man dove from an embankment approximately 40 feet high into a pool of water that was about 4 feet deep. The incident took place off the main lake at an area where people go and swim that is surrounded by tall embankments, shallow water and a rocky bottom.
Police say witnesses that saw the victim dive into the water helped pull him out and began to render aid. First responders worked diligently to resuscitate the victim, but he succumbed due to the severity of his injuries.
The initial investigation revealed that alcohol may have been a contributing factor in the incident, Freeman said.
Upshur County Justice of the Peace Wyone Manes was notified, and she responded and held the inquest. Next of kin were also notified.
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Which Hot Wheels display cases are best?
For collectors and kids alike, Hot Wheels are a popular toy. With thousands of unique designs and replica models of classic cars, Hot Wheels are an affordable and fun collector’s item that also offers visual value. As a result, you might want high-quality display cases to show off your most important or visually pleasing Hot Wheels. However, choosing the right display case depends on several factors worth considering.
What to know before you buy a Hot Wheels display case
How many Hot Wheels will be displayed?
One of the most important factors you need to consider before buying a display case is how many Hot Wheels you want to put in the case. The sizes for the cases vary drastically, with many options holding well over 100 cars while others offer just 10 to 15. So, if you plan on showing off a larger portion of your collection, you will need to buy a larger case, but if you want just to display a few of your favorite cars, a smaller one will be perfect.
Are the Hot Wheels in their original box or opened?
Another major point to consider is whether you collect your Hot Wheels in the box or open them up. Most display cases require you to remove the cars from their boxes to fit properly inside each spot. However, specific options allow you to hang your Hot Wheels inside the box.
Wall-mounted or standing display
Depending on the available space in your home or your personal preference, a wall-mounted display case can be a more beneficial option. By taking up less space, you’ll have more room to walk around in the room and by being at eye level, you can more closely admire the Hot Wheels without bending down.
What to look for in a quality Hot Wheels display case
Glass exteriors and metal or wood finishes
Many display cases are made of clear plastic, which, while durable, do not offer the same design and aesthetics as other materials. High-quality display cases will often have glass display doors and frames made of metal or wood to provide a more aesthetically pleasing design beyond just the cars.
Officially licensed Hot Wheels display cases
In addition to the many third-party display cases being sold on the market, Hot Wheels has made officially licensed and branded cases. These cases come with a Hot Wheels logo and are specifically designed to fit cars made by the brand.
Exclusive cars and features
Certain cases from Hot Wheels come with unique cars that are exclusive to the display case and can only be collected by buying one. Other cases come with backlighting or a mirrored back wall to better display your Hot Wheels.
How much you can expect to spend on a Hot Wheels display case
The price range for a Hot Wheels display case is relatively large, with many smaller cases costing around $30, while more expensive options can cost over $100.
Hot Wheels display case FAQ
Can you use a Hot Wheels case for other brands of toy cars?
A. The brand of the toy car does not matter as much as the actual scale of the car. So, if the toy car is also a 1/64th scale model, it will fit just fine.
Do you have to choose between a wall-mounted or standing display case?
A. While some display cases only work as one or the other, most Hot Wheels cases are capable of both ground and wall-mounted display.
What are the best Hot Wheels display cases to buy?
Top Hot Wheels display case
Hot Wheels Premium Collector Vehicle Case
What you need to know: This is an officially licensed display case from Hot Wheels that can hold up to 50 cars at once.
What you’ll love: The case comes with a large background Hot Wheels logo as well as a small one molded into the outer frame. The display case also comes with a collectible Hot Wheels car exclusive to the case.
What you should consider: The case is one of the more expensive options costing and may be out of your price range.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Hot Wheels display case for the money
Ikee Design Mirror Back & 4 Shelves Display
What you need to know: This display case has a clean and simple design that can carry 12 cars.
What you’ll love: The display case has a mirror on the back wall to better show off each side of the Hot Wheel car. The case is also capable of standing on a desk or shelf and being mounted on the wheel.
What you should consider: The small capacity of the case may not be big enough if you are looking to show off a larger number of cars.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Mascar Pro Hotwheels Matchbox 1/64 Scale Display case
What you need to know: This display case is built specifically for Hot Wheels collectors that keep the cars inside of their boxes.
What you’ll love: The case has many hooks that allow you to stack the Hot Wheels boxes on top of one another or spread them out, depending on your aesthetic choice. The case can also hold up to 52 cars.
What you should consider: The display can only be mounted on the wall and cannot hold cars that have been taken out of the box.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
1:64 Scale Toy Cars Wheels Display Case
What you need to know: This is an extremely large display case that can hold up to 144 cars simultaneously.
What you’ll love: The case has a protective UV coating on the outside to prevent the cars from having sun damage. The display case also has hinged doors to keep dust out and a mirrored background to better show off the car.
What you should consider: The size and cost of the display case may be too much if you do not have a large collection or are working on a budget.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BioViva's Patent-Pending Gene Therapies Delivered with a CMV Vector Extended Lifespans Over 40% and Improved Multiple Markers of Health
SEATTLE, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Age-related diseases account for approximately 70% of all deaths and annually cost the global economy trillions of dollars. BioViva's patent pending CMV vector delivered genes that increased life spans over 41% in a mouse model. Results were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS).
Elizabeth Parrish, CEO of BioViva stated, "the proprietary delivery method we are working with is the vector the industry has been waiting for. Its large capacity lets us target complex aging associated non-communicable diseases, such as dementia, heart disease, cancer, chronic kidney disease, and COPD at the level of the cell."
Two gene therapies were evaluated: telomerase reverse transcriptase and follistatin. Telomerase lengthens telomeres, which are associated with lifespan and health span. Follistatin blocks myostatin, which inhibits muscle growth, making it a promising way to slow or reverse age-related muscle loss (sarcopenia), combat frailty, and improve metabolic health.
Median lifespans in the treated groups were respectively lengthened by 41.4% and 32.5%. Treatment did not begin until the mice were 18 months old, equivalent to 56 human years.
These therapies significantly increased longevity, mitigated age-related hair loss, improved blood glucose tolerance, improved physical coordination, reduced sarcopenia, and reversed signs of mitochondrial dysfunction. BioViva's core technology is now the subject of a patent pending application that includes aspects of the fundamental recombinant viral vectors, novel applications, disease targets, and treatment methods.
The subjects did not just live longer, they remained healthier than the control subjects for a longer period. Treated groups showed better glucose control and were more physically fit.
CMV has low immunogenicity and can be engineered to carry multiple genes. Telomerase and follistatin in separate applications were safely delivered to a number of organs without unwanted side-effects.
The telomerase group did not show an increased risk of cancer. Intranasal administration was just as effective as injection. The potential advantage of intranasal delivery is the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases in a less invasive manner.
"These health extending gene therapies could revolutionize the way we age," Parrish added, "based on this research, there is a mandate to take this to human studies and we hope that stakeholders come together to help us get there."
As future gene therapies for longevity will need to carry larger payloads, CMV is promising. It lacks the constraints seen in the early years of gene therapy development and can deliver the genes into the nucleus that current non-viral delivery systems lack.
BioViva's research has furthered the science in aging and supports the Company's contention that the aging process is within our control. Targeting the aging process at the cellular level can tackle many diseases at once. As nations age around the world, the demand for such treatments will only rise.
BioViva USA Inc. is a gene therapy company whose mission is to refine and expand the understanding of the complex but tractable problem of biological aging. BioViva is committed to extending healthy lifespans by developing and refining therapeutics through research and development and offers biostatistical analysis for regenerative medicine studies.
Elizabeth Parrish holds an MBA and is the Founder and CEO of BioViva USA, Inc, a biotechnology company that has been at the forefront of longevity research since 2015. Parrish is a humanitarian, entrepreneur, medical pioneer, author, innovator, and a leading voice for genetic cures.
As a proponent of progress and education for the advancement of gene therapy, she serves as a motivational speaker to the public at large for the life sciences. She is a strong proponent of early access to advanced therapeutics for people with untreatable or terminal diseases.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — It’s been a long time coming! Taylor Swift is making her way to Arrowhead Stadium for “The Eras Tour” on July 7-8.
For some fans, witnessing the Eras Tour wasn’t even a decision.
“Her first album came out, I think, like a month or two before I was born. So yeah, my whole life, she’s been my favorite,” 16-year-old Lily Dietrich said.
Lily said the day the tour was announced, she decided she’d be at Arrowhead.
Others like Ali Kagan, who saw the concert in New Jersey in May, have some advice.
“I recommend not getting in line to go in like two hours before because there was a ginormous line. I know a lot of people don’t want to miss the opening act,” Kagan warned.
Then there’s the bathroom situation with women attending the concert, by her estimation, 10-to-1 versus men.
“You kind of have to time it out from when you get there. Like if you get there earlier, you’ll have more time to wait in line. Or go during an album that you like the least, which is very difficult to decide if you’re a big fan like I am,” Kagan said.
Other fans are admittedly even more intense.
“People are like going and using the men’s bathroom because the women’s line is so long, and I’m like, props to you, but I’m just going to wear a diaper,” Deonnah Decker, another ticket-holder, said.
As of now, Chiefs representatives said there are no plans to make changes to restrooms at Arrowhead for the concert.
Whether you’re one of the lucky ones who already have tickets or are still searching for a seat, here’s what to know before you go to Arrowhead Stadium.
TICKETS
If you’re still trying to find tickets, you’ll have to snag some from someone who’s reselling on sites like Ticketmaster, StubHub or SeatGeek.
With about one week until the concerts, ticket prices are well over $1,400 for both nights.
Be careful when purchasing tickets from a private party or through sites that aren’t verified ticket resellers. Here’s some advice on how to avoid Taylor Swift ticket scams.
BAGS
- 12 x 6 x 12-inch clear plastic bags
- 1-gallon plastic freezer bags
- Clutches with wrist and/or shoulder straps; no larger than 4.5 x 6.5 inches
- Medically necessary items may also be brought after undergoing inspection
Prohibited bags:
- Backpacks
- Camera bags
- Clear backpacks
- Tinted plastic bags
- Any type of fanny pack/belt bag
- Tote bags
- Diaper bags
- Mesh bags
- Purses
PARKING AND RIDESHARE
Parking is only available through the Ticketmaster website. You must have a concert ticket to purchase parking. All parking must be purchased online in advance. Payments will not be accepted at the parking toll gates.
Bus/RV/Limo parking passes can also be purchased to enter through Gate 1, with onsite parking around the north side of Dubiner Circle.
Drop off and pick up for rideshares will take place in Lot J of the Truman Sports Complex, accessible via Gate 2 off Blue Ridge Cutoff.
‘TAYGATING’
Ticketless fans hoping to create a memorable moment outside of Arrowhead Stadium are out of luck.
Tailgating is permitted at the Truman Sports Complex before the show, but you must have a concert ticket. Those without tickets will not be able to enter the parking lot.
And yes, the Chiefs reserve the right to make fans show their concert tickets before allowing them through the parking gates.
Hundreds of frustrated fans who weren’t able to get tickets have shown up outside stadiums in other cities. They enjoyed Swift’s concerts from parking lots with other fans in the same situation.
The Chiefs’ policies mean crowds will not be allowed to gather outside of Arrowhead Stadium.
SEATING AND GATES
You’re asked to access mobile tickets and parking passes before you get to the gates. Your tickets will determine how you enter the stadium.
CONCESSIONS AND MERCHANDISE
As of now, Arrowhead Stadium has not released when merchandise vendors will open. Other Eras Tour locations have opened merchandise sales the day before Swift arrives.
FOX4 will update the times and days when they are available.
Cities that have previously hosted Taylor Swift concerts reported long lines, with some closing early due to overwhelming demand. Fans with tickets may find shorter lines inside the venue on concert day.
Cash is not accepted at any retail points inside Arrowhead Stadium.
SAFETY AND SECURITY
For guest safety, prior to entering Arrowhead Stadium gates, all guests will go through security screening which have you walk through metal detectors. You could also be patted down by same-gender security personnel. Your bags will also go through an inspection.
Any prohibited item must be returned to the guest’s vehicle. People that refuse to be patted down and/or refuse to have their belongings or vehicle inspected will not be admitted.
To ensure that guests are in their seats in time for the event to start, allow an extra 30 minutes at Arrowhead Stadium gate entrances.
SWIFTIES IN KANSAS CITY
Here are just a few Taylor Swift-themed events or novelties going on in the Kansas City area before the pop star takes the stage:
- Taylor Fest: Eras Tour pre-party — July 6 at RecordBar
- Taylor Swift Laser Show — July 6-8 at Union Station
- Taylor Swift Eras Pop Up — July 6 at J. Rieger & Co.
- Taylor Swift Bingo — July 8 at KC Wine bar
- Taylor Swift-themed cookies at Best Regards Bakery in Overland Park
- Taylor Swift-themed donuts at Donutology in Westport
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Fauci slammed for denying school lockdowns ‘irreparably damaged’ kids: ‘No remorse’
Multiple studies have shown COVID school closures have had devastating impacts on children's health and educational development
Dr. Anthony Fauci is being slammed for a Tuesday interview on Fox News' "Your World with Neil Cavuto" during which he downplayed the documented impact that the government's school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic had on children.
During one exchange, Cavuto asked, "In retrospect doctor, do you regret that it went too far? … Particularly for kids who couldn't go to school except remotely, that it's forever damaged them."
"Well, I don't think it's forever irreparably damaged anyone," Fauci responded before saying, "People selectively … pull things out about me."
Fauci's response went viral on Twitter and people had a lot to say.
FAUCI DENIES RETIREMENT DUE TO GOP PROMISE TO INVESTIGATE: 'I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE'
"Just no remorse for what they did to kids. None," Scott Jennings, a Republican CNN contributor and George W. Bush administration alumnus tweeted in response to the exchange.
Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., tweeted, "Fauci doesn’t live in the real world. He now wants everyone to forget about his malpractice so he can waltz off with a $350k annual pension!"
Josh Barnett, a Republican House candidate running in Arizona, tweeted, "All he does is lie and he should be prosecuted for gain of function research and lying to Congress!"
NEW YORK TIMES REPORT DETAILS BIG TECH'S ‘MISINFORMATION’ POLICIES AHEAD OF 2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS
"He doesn't think there's been a single lockdown death???" tweeted president of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity Phil Kerpen.
"Kids committed suicide," Ellen Carmichael, a conservative activist and entrepreneur, wrote in response to Fauci's claim that no irreparable harm was caused by the lockdowns.
Eduardo Neret, a former Campus Reform reporter who has also been published in the Washington Examiner, similarly tweeted, "Sure, except for the children who committed suicide because of Fauci’s policies."
Nicole Saphier, MD, tweeted, "Rather than acknowledging and apologizing for some of the most extreme recommendations, Dr. Fauci refuses to acknowledge the long-term damage done to children from cowering to the teachers union rather than putting kids first. Unbelievable."
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The COVID-19 school closures had horrific effects on the physical health, mental health, and educational outcomes of students, multiple studies show.
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TOKYO, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 3DOM Alliance Inc. ("3DOM Alliance") announces that samples of the X-SEPA, a revolutionary separator technology, have begun shipping. The X-SEPA, as first announced in December 2022, has a unique structure that helps to improve the performance of existing battery technologies and accelerate the speed of next-generation battery development, thereby promoting the transition to a more sustainable electric society.
Last year, 3DOM Alliance announced that preparations had been made for mass production following eight years of separator research and development. The company has now started providing X-SEPA samples to battery manufacturers around the world. 3DOM Alliance is already working to respond to requests for samples from more than ten companies and preparing to increase X-SEPA production volume by the end of the year.
The X-SEPA is comprised of multiple layers of highly heat-resistant polyimide membranes, within each a uniform three-dimensional array of pores. This unique structure allows for fine control over separator properties in each layer and overall optimization according to the application and desired battery performance. The X-SEPA thus transcends the conventional function of a separator to provide new added-value to batteries. The structure and material provide longer life, higher reliability, and high-rate discharge performance. This offers a solution to several challenges in the battery industry, including the need for adequate safety and technologies suitable for up-and-coming applications such as electric vehicles in high-temperature regions of the world or air mobility. Furthermore, the regularity of the structure allows for flexible design and optimization as well as simulation through high-precision modeling, which has the potential to drastically accelerate the battery development process.
noco-noco Pte. Ltd. ("noco-noco"), 3DOM Alliance's Singapore-based subsidiary, will buy long-life batteries equipped with the X-SEPA that have been manufactured by strategic allies and utilize those in services spanning battery first- and second-life use. The aim is to address environmental issues by reducing the required number of batteries in circulation by as much as 75% while maximizing the efficiency of their use. noco-noco intends to encourage this shift away from the unsustainable economic system of mass production and mass consumption through an innovative "Data & Profit Sharing" business model, in which companies that help to extend product life can gain access to battery-related information and continually receive a share of profits over the span of the product's service life.
By reimagining the role of the separator and repositioning batteries as social infrastructure, 3DOM Alliance and noco-noco are working to address shortcomings in today's battery industry and unlock the full potential of batteries to mitigate urgent environmental issues.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Ryan Mountcastle homered twice and tied a team record with nine RBIs, helping the Baltimore Orioles rally from a four-run deficit to a 12-8 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night.
Mountcastle hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning and added a grand slam in the seventh as the Orioles overcame a difficult home debut for right-hander Grayson Rodriguez. Austin Hays homered and had four hits for Baltimore, which handed the A’s their sixth straight loss.
Mountcastle tied the franchise’s single-game mark for RBIs set by Jim Gentile in 1961 and matched by Eddie Murray in 1985. He became the first player anywhere in the majors to drive in nine runs since Adam Duvall in 2020.
Rodriguez allowed six hits and four walks in 4 1/3 innings, although he also struck out six. The Baltimore right-hander — one of baseball’s top-ranked pitching prospects — allowed single runs in the first and third, and after he departed with the bases loaded in the fifth, all of those runners came in to score.
Shea Langeliers capped Oakland’s five-run fifth with a three-run homer off Austin Voth that gave the A’s a 7-3 lead, but Mountcastle answered with a three-run shot in the bottom of the inning and Hays tied it with a solo homer in the sixth.
Sam Moll (0-1) allowed a walk and a hit batter in the seventh, and Hays put the Orioles up 8-7 with a two-out RBI single off Dany Jiménez. Adley Rutschman — who reached base four times himself — was intentionally walked to load the bases, and then Mountcastle followed with a drive over the big wall in left field at Camden Yards.
Oakland had scored just one run over its previous three games, and its big offensive night Tuesday couldn’t overcome a pitching staff that allowed at least three home runs for a fifth straight game. That tied a team record set in 2021.
Bryan Baker (1-0) pitched a scoreless seventh to earn the win.
Mountcastle hit a sacrifice fly in the first and an RBI single in the third.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Athletics: OF Seth Brown, who went on the injured list Monday, has a grade two left oblique strain. Manager Mark Kotsay said the timeline on that generally runs four to six weeks.
UP NEXT
Orioles RHP Dean Kremer (0-0) takes the mound Wednesday night against Oakland LHP Ken Waldichuk (0-2).
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An expected meeting between Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen this week in California is a careful exercise in standing up to Beijing’s threats while holding back from triggering a war in the Pacific.
For Tsai, a Los Angeles run-in with Washington’s most powerful California representative, is a convenient and strategic cover story to defend against provoking a particularly dangerous military response from China.
Still, McCarthy is unlikely to use a California meeting in place of traveling to Taiwan personally.
Earlier this month, the Speaker told reporters that meeting the Taiwanese president in America “has nothing to do with my travel, if I would go to Taiwan or not.”
“China can’t tell me where or when to go, and none of that discussion ever happened. If the president happens to be in America, then I’m going to meet with her,” he said.
McCarthy has entered the Speakership having established a reputation as a savvy electoral strategist; now he is moving to make his mark on foreign policy, with an eye on China.
One of his first moves as Speaker was creating a House select committee on China, a panel that he said he tried to create with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in 2020 before Democrats backed out.
It is viewed as one of Congress’s best opportunities to find bipartisan agreement, with Taiwan being a major focus.
McCarthy said at the House GOP’s annual issues retreat earlier this month that it is of the upmost importance “that China does not think to go capture Taiwan,” and expressed concern about Chinese President Xi’s recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
‘Transiting’ through the US
The Speaker is expected to welcome Tsai this week in Los Angeles, in cautiously orchestrated travel where the Taiwanese president is “transiting” through the U.S. to Taiwan on the way back from official engagements in Central America.
Tsai reportedly met with the Democratic House Minority Leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), while she was “transiting” through New York.
“We know it’s a ruse, but it’s enough of a face saver for the Chinese to say, ‘yeah, we’re gonna rattle the sabers, but it’s not a red line for us,’” Patrick Cronin, Asia-Pacific security chair at Hudson Institute, said about the meetings between Tsai and lawmakers.
Beijing has warned of “counter measures” and “consequences” if Tsai meets with U.S. officials, in particular McCarthy, and could carry out military maneuvers around the island to intimidate and scare the people of Taiwan – moves that experts view as somewhat restrained provocations.
“Beijing has said it will respond in some fashion, but it remains to be seen how extreme its reaction will be,” said Patricia Kim, fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Center for East Asia Policy Studies.
She added that China has tied its own hands in lashing out at Taiwan, given that President Xi Jinping is trying to portray himself as a global peacemaker – offering to mediate between Russia and Ukraine and recently breaking through tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
“A harsh military reaction to President Tsai’s visit to the United States would essentially undermine Beijing’s efforts to paint itself as a peace advocate and the United States as the instigator of trouble,” she said.
How would China react to McCarthy in Taiwan?
China’s reaction to Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in August 2022 established, in a sense, one standard for how Beijing reacts to what it views as unacceptable interference by Washington in its affairs.
This included cutting off specific diplomatic cooperations with the U.S. and carrying out large-scale military exercises in six locations off Taiwan’s coast, complete with missile test launches over the island. And these types of military provocations from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have only increased in frequency since Pelosi’s visit.
A visit by McCarthy to the island would likely trigger a similar, if not more intense response from the PLA, but the benefits – for both the U.S. and Taiwan – likely outweigh the risks.
“Taiwan is a resilient society that believes in the power of democracy, but we cannot solve 21st century challenges or push back against authoritarianism alone,” Tsai said as part of remarks Thursday to the Hudson Institute in New York, where she was honored with a ‘Global Leadership Award’.
“We will continue to work with the United States and other like-minded democracies to demonstrate that democracy can deliver and that Taiwan is committed to safeguarding our way of life.”
A Taiwan trip for McCarthy, something he last year expressed interest in doing as Speaker, is also viewed as an important responsibility, given he is beginning his term as opposed to Pelosi closing out her tenure. Traveling to the island can be a significant signal of bipartisan solidarity while also allowing the Republican leader to gain insight into Taiwan’s political future as it heads to elections in January, Cronin said.
“My recommendation to the Speaker would be to try to get in before the election season is really serious in September,” he said, adding that McCarthy would get a chance to meet with potential presidential candidates and assess their views on Taiwan’s foreign policy, its relations with the U.S. and how it sees the future of relations with China.
Taiwan approaches an election
There are debates in Taiwan about the way forward in how Taipei interacts with Beijing.
While a key pillar of China’s ambitions is overtaking Taiwan, Beijing balances subsuming the island with economic, diplomatic and political coercion even as it builds up and prepares its military for a takeover.
While Tsai is at the end of her second, four-year term as president, her party, the DPP, is likely to put forth a candidate that shares her view of Taiwan operating on the global stage from a position of strength.
“The [People’s Republic of China’s] escalation of tension is evident, but Taiwan’s response has been measured and composed, demonstrating to the world that we are the responsible cross-strait stakeholder,” she said Thursday. “The Taiwanese people want peace, not conflict, and history tells us that the best way to avoid war is through building strength.”
But the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party, is signaling closer ties with Beijing.
Taiwan’s former president and KMT party member, Ma Ying-jeou, traveled to Shanghai ahead of Tsai’s departure for the U.S.
Ma’s nearly two-week trip through China is being described as private travel for the former politician but is loaded with political significance.
Cronin said that Tsai, in remarks in New York, said, “China wants victory without a fight.”
“They just want to intimidate and coerce or in this case, try to persuade and seduce, probably the KMT more than the DPP,” he said.
Emily Brooks contributed to this report.
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PEN America and two other free speech groups are drawing national attention to Florida county school officials' decision to cancel a play that is itself about censorship.
Last week, Duval County Public School officials canceled a production of Paula Vogel's Indecent at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. Officials said the play about a play about a love affair between two women is "inappropriate," as reported by WJCT.
PEN America, along with The National Coalition Against Censorship and the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund released a statement condemning the decision and "urged school officials to rescind their decision and work with students to stage the play as planned."
Indecent is about the controversy surrounding a 1923 Broadway production of God of Vengeance, a Yiddish play by Sholem Asch. In the story, the daughter of a Jewish brothel owner falls in love with one of her father's prostitutes. Asch's script includes a love scene between the two women. The play was a hit in Europe and New York's downtown theater scene. But once it was translated into English and performed on Broadway, the entire cast was arrested and charged with obscenity.
The free speech organizations wrote that Indecent explores "LGBTQ+ rights, immigration, censorship, and antisemitism in the early 20th Century — themes which have striking relevance to the issues facing society today." They pointed out that Douglas Anderson's recent productions include RENT and Chicago, shows with, "as much, if not more, 'sexual dialogue' as is conveyed in Indecent."
"If vaguely-defined adult sexual dialogue' is reason enough to ban plays from school productions," the statement continued, "these, and many other canonical productions would be banned from student theaters — Romeo and Juliet for depicting sexually active teens, Oedipus Rex for its incestual themes, and other works that have serious literary and artistic value for students and community members."
Paula Vogel herself has also taken up the cause of her play's cancelation. The Pulitzer Prize winner released a statement and, according to an interview with PEN America, offered to meet with the school board. She also recorded a podcast with the student actors.
"What does surprise me is the courage of this high school student for speaking out and the courage of the students in that cast," she told PEN America. "The faculty and the administration have principally been silenced. I am fearing for their jobs. ... censorship of the arts is always the first step towards totalitarianism, and ultimately, towards genocide."
She goes on to say that other high schools have performed Indecent without incident: "It's up to the director and the students. If they don't want to kiss on stage, then let them hug. I don't police stage directions. I don't police my script. And if a high school wants to produce one of my plays and change the F word to 'fudge,' I don't care."
In response to NPR's request for comment on the free speech groups' condemnation of the cancellation, Duval County Public School representative Sonya Duke-Bolden writes, "Indecent contains adult sexual dialog that is inappropriate for student cast members and student audiences. It's that simple. The decision has no relevance to any legislation but is rather a function of our responsibilities to ensure students engage in educational activities appropriate for their age."
According to WJCT's Brendan Rivers, Douglas Anderson Principal Tina Wilson informed cast members that Indecent would be replaced by the Chekhov play The Seagull.
In an email to students, she wrote, "Although students were required to provide parental consent to appear in the original selection, a closer review of the mature content of 'Indecent' led us to the conclusion that 'Seagull' is better suited for a school production."
Indecent is, "about the purity of love, the strength within a community and the shallowness of those who try to silence identity," said Madeline Scotti, a member of the Douglas Anderson cast in an Instagram post. She urged people to read Vogel's play and God of Vengeance, "and have conversations we are being banned from having."
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Eric Dooley spent four years building Prairie View into a Southwestern Athletic Conference division champion, but his departure wasn’t going to cause the program to suddenly unravel.
In fact, the Panthers have picked up where Dooley left off with some personal touches added by new coach Bubba McDowell.
Although there’s a stark difference offensively, McDowell has the Panthers (3-2, 3-0 SWAC) back at the top of the West Division as Dooley returns with his Southern team for a 4 p.m. clash Saturday at Panther Stadium.
Instead of Dooley’s up-tempo offense, the Panthers are winning with defense and a strong running game under McDowell, who pre-dated Dooley at PVU by six years as an assistant before getting his first head coaching shot.
Dooley led the SWAC’s oldest institution to its first division title in 13 years last season. McDowell, who never worked as a coordinator but was a staff assistant there since 2012, didn’t see a need for a wholesale change even in the era of the transfer portal.
“We changed some things, not a whole lot,” said McDowell, a former NFL safety with the Houston Oilers. “I’m always that guy when I see success. I’m going to pick up on it and try to use it, implement it on my terms, the way I want it done. We’re trying to put our own stamp on it as a coaching staff, and we’re doing a good job so far.”
McDowell, who served as assistant head coach the past three seasons, kept continuity on the coaching staff. He retained four assistants, including Mark Frederick and Todd Middleton, whom he promoted to offensive and defensive coordinator, respectively. He also recalled Marcus Bradley, who worked under Dooley his first three years before a one-year stint at Benedict.
The biggest reason McDowell avoided too much tinkering was the team had several returnees who had experienced the climb to become a winning program. That fact is not lost on Dooley as he looks for ways to beat his former team.
“They’ve got some guys who understand how to play football, and more importantly they have guys who know how to win,” Dooley said. “That’s a mindset. They’re playing great thus far.”
A large part of Dooley’s success last year was due to Louisville graduate transfer quarterback Jawon Pass, the triggerman in the offense. He has been replaced by Trazon Connley, who is still developing as a passer but is a dangerous runner with 232 yards and four touchdowns, while averaging 5 yards per carry.
Ahmad Antoine, who prepped at Edna Karr in New Orleans, leads the running game with 396 yards and four touchdowns on 75 carries. The Panthers are ranked third in the league with 191 yards rushing per game, and they have the highest total rushing yardage at 1,146.
Jaden Stewart and Chris Herron have combined for another 276 yards on the ground. The Panthers average 4.5 yards per rush.
“We’ve got some dudes in the backfield, a 1-2-3-4 punch back there,” McDowell said. “Connley can also run if need be. He’s a whole lot better this year throwing the ball. That’s a testament to him going home this summer and working on that skill set. He’s improved dramatically.”
That may be, but Connley is ranked No. 10 in the league among passers. He’s completed 45 of 79 for 485 yards and two TDs with three interceptions. PVU does not have a receiver among the top 25 in SWAC play.
“We’ve got to put more emphasis on offense, making plays,” McDowell said. “The call is there. We’ve got to make plays. We have penalties that shouldn’t happen when we have a chance to make the lead bigger. We’re not capitalizing.”
Fortunately for McDowell, the defense has bailed the Panthers out. They’re allowing a stingy 318 yards per game, with 188.8 passing. The pass rush is consistent with 18 sacks, second in the SWAC, spread among 13 players. PVU also had 17 quarterback hurries, 30 passes defended and eight interceptions.
“They get after the passer and shut down the run,” Dooley said. “They have a lot of experience up front. They’ve been doing what’s needed to be done to win games.”
Holdovers such as free safety Tariq Mulmore (34 tackles), linebacker Jessie Evans (six tackles for loss), and cornerbacks Jamais Presley (seven pass breakups) and Gerald Smith (two interceptions, six pass breakups) will make yards and points hard to come by for Southern.
“Defensively, this is the first time since I’ve been here, we’ve been three and four deep up front, guys that make things happen,” McDowell said. “That’s where it starts.”
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Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf is getting a chilly reception in Oregon, its first stop in the United States.
This coming week, the series, which is paying enormous signing fees for players like Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, descends on Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in tiny North Plains, nestled in the rolling hills west of Portland.
But the North Plains mayor, as well as officials from surrounding cities, have written the club’s owner, Escalante Golf, with concerns. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden is speaking out against the tournament, and some members of the pricy club also are uncomfortable with the situation.
Opponents point to Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses, including the murder of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi. But in Oregon, there also is anger over the hit-and-run death of 15-year-old Fallon Smart in 2016.
Saudi student Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah was facing a trial on first-degree murder charges when he removed a tracking device and vanished. U.S. authorities believe the Saudi government helped arrange for a fake passport and provided a private jet for travel back to Saudi Arabia. The case was featured on “60 Minutes.”
“It’s wrong to be silent when Saudi Arabia tries to cleanse blood-stained hands, in the fight for Oregonians to get justice — Fallon Smart was killed very close to our house in Southeast Portland, and the person charged with the crime, a hit-and-run death, was, based on all the evidence, whisked out of the country by the Saudis before he stood for trial,” Wyden said in an interview with The Associated Press.
There is also concern the event could bring protests to North Plains, a town of just 3,400 people. Tickets to the event prohibit fans from displaying any political signs.
“We oppose this event because it is being sponsored by a repressive government whose human rights abuses are documented. We refuse to support these abuses by complicitly allowing the Saudi-backed organization to play in our backyard,” said a letter signed by North Plains Mayor Teri Lenahan and 10 other mayors from surrounding cities.
Wyden accuses the Saudi government of sportswashing.
“It’s just a page out of the autocrats’ playbook covering up injustices by misusing athletics in hopes of normalizing their abuses,” he said.
The event also has put Pumpkin Ridge members in a difficult spot. Some decided to leave the club over the tournament, but it’s unclear how many departed.
“A lot of members are like stuck between a rock and a hard place right now where politically they don’t agree with it at all,” said member Kevin Palmer of Beaverton. “But I also joined last year and put down like $12,000, and if I leave I don’t get any of that money back.”
Greg Norman is CEO of LIV Golf Investments and the face of a circuit that aims to rival the PGA Tour. The 48-man field in Portland will compete for $20 million in prize money for individual play, and $5 million in team play, with 12 teams. Teams will be announced Tuesday after a draft.
Johnson, who had been No. 1 in the world longer than any player since Tiger Woods, and six-time major champion Mickelson were among the first big names to join. The Portland field since has added Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed, all major champions, though none among the current top 20 players in the world ranking.
The PGA Tour has suspended every member who competed in the first LIV event because they did not have conflicting event releases. Those in Portland also will be suspended when they tee it up.
The tour typically awards three such releases a year, only for tournaments overseas. It does not allow its members to compete in tournaments held in North America.
The Portland event is held the same week as the John Deere Classic in Illinois.
“The PGA Tour, an American institution, can’t compete with a foreign monarchy that is spending billions of dollars in attempt to buy the game of golf,” Commissioner Jay Monahan said last week. “We welcome good, healthy competition. The LIV Saudi golf league is not that. It’s an irrational threat, one not concerned with the return on investment or true growth of the game.”
The LIV tour consists of eight events this year, five in the United States. Following the stop in Portland, the tour moves to the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster.
Texas-based Escalante Golf, owner of Pumpkin Ridge and another course on the LIV series, did not respond to a request for comment.
“We believe that we have a moral obligation to take a stand and speak out against this event in order to protect the people we serve,” the mayors wrote in their letter to the company. “While our local jurisdictions may not be able to prevent this event, we stand together to voice our concerns about the unwelcomed potential risks, visitors and harm this event could have on our communities.”
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Federal district Judge Aileen Cannon did not immediately rule on the start date for the classified documents trial for former President Donald Trump.
Attorneys for the Justice Department, Trump and Trump's aide, Walt Nauta, argued in Cannon's courtroom in Fort Pierce, Fla., during a pre-trial hearing Tuesday afternoon. The timing of the federal trial is crucial as it could coincide with the 2024 presidential election.
Trump is accused of keeping classified documents after the former president left the White House and refusing to hand them over to the U.S. government. He and his valet, Nauta, are also accused of conspiring to obstruct the FBI investigation by moving boxes to evade government scrutiny.
Both men have pleaded not guilty.
Only Nauta was in court Tuesday.
Prosecutors want to proceed with a speedy trial to begin Dec. 11. But Trump's lawyers are seeking a delay, arguing that waiting until after the 2024 presidential election would be better as Trump, of course, is running for the GOP presidential nomination.
Special counsel Jack Smith has previously told Judge Aileen Cannon that there is "no basis in law or fact" for indefinitely postponing the trial and urged the court to proceed with jury selection in December.
Trump's attorneys have also argued they have a voluminous stack of documents to review for the trial and are dealing with a uniquely complex legal case as they are tasked with defending the first former president to face federal charges from a government he once led.
Cannon is a Trump appointee and has previously been criticized for a lack of experience and ties to the former president.
This hearing comes the same day Trump announced on his Truth Social social media account that he's a target of the federal grand jury investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. If he is indicted in this case, he could be heading into the 2024 election facing several criminal trials.
Jaclyn Diaz reported from Washington, D.C., and Greg Allen from Fort Pierce, Fla.
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