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TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Service Contract Industry Council – Every year, Labor Day marks the "official" end of the summer season and is a time when major retailers introduce significant discounts on a wide range of products. With car prices sky-high, this is the perfect opportunity for families to shop around for annually discounted prices on new or used vehicles, and to protect those investments with valuable service contracts.
It's no secret that vehicle prices have soared to new heights over the last year. According to data from Kelly Blue Book, the average cost for a new vehicle in the U.S. in May was $47,148. This is the second-highest on record, behind only last December. When considering such a hefty purchase, consumers would be wise to remember that an auto service contract can save them thousands of dollars down the road.
Car dealers still offer their best deals around Labor Day because major auto manufacturers unveil their new models for the upcoming year around this time. Car dealerships try to clear their lots of previous models in August and September to make room for newer models, so they are motivated to lower the cost of pricey vehicles as much as possible.
"Shopping for new or used vehicles during this time is an excellent opportunity to save, giving you the ability to simultaneously purchase an auto service contract to protect your new prized possession," said Tom Keepers, Executive Director of the Service Contract Industry Council. "You never know when a mechanical or electrical failure may occur – especially with today's highly sophisticated vehicles -- so it's essential to be prepared for the unknown ahead of time."
Keepers noted that auto service contracts provide comprehensive bumper-to-bumper coverage, access to professional auto technicians, protection against repeated pricey repairs, discounted maintenance costs, replacement vehicles during repair downtime, 24-hour technical assistance, roadside assistance, and more.
When Labor Day moves into the rear-view mirror, Keepers said, families can hop into their new vehicles to savor the last days of summer, secure in the peace of mind that comes from knowing that their investment is protected with an auto service contract.
Learn more about auto service contracts here.
The Service Contract Industry Council is a national trade association that works with lawmakers and regulators across the country to develop fair and uniform regulation to protect consumers, while assuring a healthy, viable industry. Learn more at www.go-scic.com.
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Atlanta-Based DFS Leader to Join NCPG, Launch Internal
and External Efforts to Further Support Responsible Gaming
ATLANTA, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PrizePicks, the largest privately-held daily fantasy sports operator in North America, today announced a series of initiatives designed to expand and enhance the company's support of responsible gaming. As part of these efforts, the company has joined the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) as a Platinum Member.
In addition to joining the Council, PrizePicks will run a series of ads in support of the NCPG's helpline, text and chat programs. The company will also explore joining state chapters of the NCPG and support local volunteer markets where there are no formal problem gambling services.
"The PrizePicks member community is our greatest asset and responsible gaming leadership is critical to ensuring our members enjoy PrizePicks in a safe, responsible manner," said PrizePicks COO Chris Hackney. "We're proud to join the NCPG and we're investing in robust internal policies, procedures and safeguards that are as strong as possible. This includes comprehensive training developed and delivered by a third-party expert for every PrizePicks employee and enhanced training for those who regularly interact with our members."
As December nears, PrizePicks is closing a year in which it has been established as an unquestioned leader and innovator in DFS. Over the course of 2022, the company has been named Fantasy Sports Business of the Year Award by the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association, Fantasy/DFS Operator of the Year by EGR North America, the fastest-growing sports company in America according to the Inc. 5000 rankings, the top Betting/Fantasy Campaign or Initiative by the Tempest Esports Awards and, most recently, No. 48 on the 2022 Deloitte 500 rankings.
"We take our position in the DFS industry very seriously and have been a member-focused operator since day one," said PrizePicks CEO Adam Wexler. "Incumbent on those two distinctions is to make sure that those who play our game, particularly in at-risk communities or demographics, are protected and supported."
PrizePicks is the fastest-growing sports company in North America according to the 2022 Inc. 5000 rankings and the largest independent daily fantasy sports operator (DFS) in North America. The company was recently recognized as the Fantasy Sports Business of the Year Award by the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association and as the Fantasy/DFS Operator of the Year by EGR North America. Founded and headquartered in Atlanta, GA, PrizePicks is the most fun, fast and simple version of daily fantasy sports, covering a wide variety of sports leagues from the NFL and NBA to esports titles League of Legends & Counter-Strike. Centered around selecting a fantasy roster of athletes, PrizePicks allows sports fans to pit their skills against the numbers rather than against a pool of thousands of other players. PrizePicks is currently available in the majority of the United States including top 10 markets like California, Texas, Florida & Georgia. With an existing digital footprint covering more than two-thirds of the U.S. population, PrizePicks is the most accessible type of game for the masses and has proudly paid out over $500 million in winnings during its lifetime. PrizePicks is available in the App Store and Google Play or at prizepicks.com.
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The availability of kosher food is limited throughout Syracuse, with just one hard-to-find kosher restaurant, sparse grocery stores options and scarce Syracuse University’s choices are, residents say.
With Passover beginning Wednesday evening, access to kosher food is critical.
Rabbi Yaakov Rapoport, executive director of Chabad Lubavitch Central New York, said an important aspect of eating kosher is to use kosher meat.
“Eating out in Syracuse is very difficult because there are no kosher restaurants except for the bistro,” Rapoport said.
However, many people will eat vegetarian at a non-kosher restaurant, Rapoport said. Vegetarian food is considered more acceptable than non-kosher meat or pork.
The small population of Jewish people in the city could be a reason why there aren’t more kosher restaurants, Rapoport said.
“This is a problem for any community with less than 25,0000 Jews,” he said. “The lack of restaurants for some people is a major problem, but there are many people who keep kosher in their home but not outside which is better than not keeping kosher at all.”
Only 2% of the 459,214 people in Onondaga County identify as Jewish, according to data from the 2020 Census of American Religion.
Rapoport said there used to be a kosher butcher shop in the city, but now the big kosher food companies have taken over.
“They package it, and they Cryovac it so you can find it now in many major supermarkets and places like Costco,” he said.
During Passover, the status of kosher is different than other times of year, Rapoport explained.
“We can’t have anything leavened. So therefore, nothing made from wheat, barley, oats, spelt, except for matzah, which are made under very strict conditions,” Rapoport said.
The only kosher restaurant in Syracuse
The lone kosher restaurant is inside a Jewish long-term care center Menorah Park on the city’s east side.
Jim & Arlene Gerber Bistro, found at Menorah Park, has had outside patrons, but is designed to service the residents and employees of the center, said Dylan Freid, the food service manager.
“Upstairs, the whole kitchen is kosher. We have two sides, one for meat and one for dairy. We have different plates, different silverware and everything for those different meals,” Freid said. “We’re following all the kosher laws and Rabbi Evan Shore knows that we care a lot, but he will pop in and check on things.”
The bistro has only one kitchen, so they serve only non-dairy products. It is open to the public, but also serves as a place where residents can get a break from the typical meals they serve, Freid said.
“If we put enough love into the food, it’s always really good and we do because this is their escape from the menu.”
Freid said outside visitors are typically people visiting family members, college students or the occasional traveler passing through the city on a trip.
“I've had people call from Canada a couple of times and say, ‘Hey, we’re on our way down, can we stop and get something?’ And I wish we had more options for them because it's only just a small bistro,” he said.
In preparation for Passover, Freid said they have separate dishes, and ingredients they only use for the week. In addition, they go through a process to make the kitchen kosher.
“We start with koshering everything. So we take all the surfaces of the kitchen and pour boiling water over them, take all the tools and boil them for a certain amount of time then keep them set aside from everything that hasn’t been koshered yet,” Freid said.
When this is complete, they take a new inventory of all the ingredients they have but if it wasn’t purchased for Passover, they don’t use it during that time period.
“We have a whole storage room full of dishes and ingredients that we only use for Passover,” Freid said.
Kosher food on SU campus
The share of Jewish students at Syracuse University is more than the surrounding area. According to Hillel, an on-campus Jewish student organization, there are 3,000 Jewish students out of the more than 20,000 on campus.
But, access to kosher food is limited, students said.
“You have to call 45 minutes to an hour in advance to place an order,” sophomore Andrew Sender said. “It's hard to sometimes plan for that with things going on during the day.”
The meals are available at Shaw Dining Hall, which Sender says isn’t a central location on campus and can be hard to get to between classes.
“For kosher reasons, we got ourselves an [off-campus] apartment because the whole process was not meeting our needs,” Sender said. “It was very, very tough to keep kosher because we eat dairy out, but we only eat kosher meat, and it was tough to go a certain number of weeks without eating meat.”
Sender and three other students were able to get approval from the university for off-campus housing which they typically only allow for juniors, seniors, and graduate students.
“I think it would be nice if there was a little kosher section in a main campus [dining hall],” Sender said. “There is a gluten-free section or a vegetarian section, just a small place whether it was some pieces of chicken, cutlets, or cold cuts, anything like that would be phenomenal,” Sender said.
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Gas prices surge in New Jersey, around nation
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gas prices surged in New Jersey and around the nation at large, but analysts say the increase could be short-lived amid a recent drop in demand and the cost of crude oil. AAA Mid-Atlantic says the average price of a gallon of regular gas in New Jersey on Friday was $3.30, up 10 cents from last week. Drivers were paying $4.37 a gallon on average a year ago at this time. The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.47, up eight cents from last week. Drivers were paying $4.31 a gallon on average a year ago at this time.
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BEREA, Ohio — Cleveland Browns coach Kevin Stefanski expressed relief that two of his defensive players were not physically harmed while being robbed at gun point by six masked men outside a downtown night club.
According to Cleveland Police, the players had jewelry and a truck taken during the early morning stickup.
Police redacted the names of the players in a field case report. However, a person familiar with the situation identified the players as cornerback Greg Newsome II and tackle Perrion Winfrey. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
The Browns opened mandatory minicamp on Tuesday. After the workout, Stefanski said he has spoken to Chief Wayne Drummond.
“I’m glad our guys are OK,” he said. “I want all of our community to be safe. The Cleveland Police have been outstanding. We want everybody to be safe and we want to get violent people off of our streets.”
Stefanski did not reveal the players’ names.
According to the report, one of the players was returning to his truck in a parking lot at 3:30 a.m. Monday when the masked suspects jumped out of a car and robbed him of jewelry before fleeing in his vehicle. The player told police he was not injured.
Newsome, a starting cornerback drafted by the Browns in the first round in 2021 from Northwestern, posted Monday night, “It’s a cruel world we live in” on Twitter.
All-Pro defensive end Myles Garrett said he spoke to both Newsome and Winfrey, offering his support.
“I’m just glad to see they’re all right,” he said. “Just making sure they’re in the right head space, they feel like they’re surrounded by family and letting them know that anything that they need, we’re the perfect resource for them and we have their back with whatever happens.
“We’re just going to try to make sure that none of our guys are ever in that situation again and how we can help, we’re going to do that. But I’m just glad to see them safe and sound with us and still walking around. Still blessed to this day no matter what happens, still able to wake up in the morning and just glad to that we still have them here.”
Newsome was on the field as the Browns opened their three-day minicamp, while there was no sign of Winfrey, a former Oklahoma defensive tackle arrested in April on a misdemeanor assault charge in Texas.
In a separate incident, Browns running back Demetric Felton had his vehicle stolen from a downtown parking garage on Sunday.
Garrett has been outspoken about his fondness for Cleveland and said the incidents have not changed his feelings about the city.
“It shows that me, my team, all of us here at the Browns have more work to do in the community,” he said. “There’s more that we can do here. There’s still more lessons that we need to give each other, because it’s not just one side or another side. Things like this happen because of so many different actions that led up to that.”
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Zelenskyy says UN, Red Cross order Russia to take its 'mountains of corpses'
Zelensky says Ukrainian forces have 'broken' Russia's troops 'psychologically'
The United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross have directed Russian President Vladimir Putin to remove his "mountain of corpses," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday.
"They abandoned their military," Zelenskyy said in an interview with a Ukrainian news outlet. "They were dying, but they didn't care. Recently I was told that they are only now thinking about taking the corpses.
"When the war started…they used to pretend that there were no corpses," he continued. "The UN and the Red Cross said – take these bags away. Mountains of corpses of their military."
UKRAINE'S ZELENSKYY PUSHES FOR NEW SECURITY AGREEMENTS WITHOUT RUSSIA, APART FROM PEACE TALKS
Moscow has long relied on its propaganda machine to fuel support for its conflict in Ukraine and Putin has refused to declare open war on Kyiv, instead calling it a "special military operation."
Reports surfaced early in the invasion that Russia was potentially relying on a "mobile crematorium" to dispose of dead soldiers to help cover the evidence of mounting causalities.
The Pentagon has assessed that Russia is behind schedule in eastern Ukraine, where it intends to gain "full control."
But press secretary John Kirby said Friday that the U.S. has assessed that Russian forces are still making "incremental gains" in the Donbas and a senior U.S. defense official told reporters this week the U.S. believes Moscow is making some headway in the Black Sea as well.
"The Russians are still well behind where we believe they wanted to be when they started this revitalized effort in the eastern part of the country," Kirby said from the Pentagon. "And while they have made, and we have been very honest about this, they have made some incremental progress in the Donbas. It is incremental, it is slow, it's uneven, and the Ukrainians continue to push back."
UKRAINE MORALE IS 'HUGE' BOOST IN WAR WITH RUSSIA, NATO MILITARY CHIEFS SAY
Zelenskyy said Ukrainians are fighting to protect their independence and championed that 700,000 Ukrainians are fighting against Russian forces across the war-torn nation.
The Ukrainian president said he signed a decree in early 2022 to add 100,000 additional troops to its fighting force by next year, but warned he is not sure that this will be enough to take on the entire might of Russia.
Western defense officials have argued Russia does not appear to have properly planned for its major offensive against Ukraine, and Zelenskyy said Saturday his nation had been bracing for an attack since September 2021 as Russia started to amass troops along its southern border.
But Zelenskyy said that Ukraine is fighting more than just Russia and has Belarus to contend with as it has backed Putin's deadly campaign.
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Zelenskyy said he could not predict when the war with Russia would end, but said Ukrainians have already psychologically "broken" Russia’s forces by prolonging a fight Putin apparently believed would last a matter of weeks.
"We have to look at the cost of this war," he said. "We broke the back of one of the world's strongest armies. We have already done it. Psychologically we have done it.
"They will not stand on their feet for the next few years," he added.
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San Diego State vs. Florida Atlantic: Betting Trends, Record ATS, Home/Road Splits - Final Four
The San Diego State Aztecs (31-6) and Florida Atlantic Owls (35-3) will square off on Saturday for a spot in the NCAA Tournament National Championship game. San Diego State is a 1.5-point favorite to win this Final Four matchup, which tips off at 6:09 PM at NRG Stadium (airing on CBS). The matchup has an over/under of 131.5 points.
San Diego State vs. Florida Atlantic Odds & Info
- Date: Saturday, April 1, 2023
- Time: 6:09 PM ET
- TV: CBS
- Where: Houston, Texas
- Venue: NRG Stadium
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San Diego State vs Florida Atlantic Betting Records & Stats
- The Aztecs' ATS record is 19-15-0 this season.
- This season, San Diego State has won 24 of its 28 games, or 85.7%, when favored by at least -125 on the moneyline.
- Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Aztecs have a 55.6% chance to win.
- Florida Atlantic has gone 22-11-0 ATS this season.
- This season, the Owls have come away with a win five times in six chances when named as an underdog of at least +105 or longer on the moneyline.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies Florida Atlantic has a 48.8% chance of walking away with the win.
San Diego State vs. Florida Atlantic Over/Under Stats
Additional San Diego State vs Florida Atlantic Insights & Trends
- San Diego State has gone 9-1 over its last 10 contests, with a 7-3 record against the spread in that span.
- In their past 10 games, the Aztecs have not gone over the total.
- Florida Atlantic is 8-2 against the spread and 10-0 overall over its last 10 contests.
- In their past 10 contests, the Owls have hit the over four times.
- The Aztecs average 6.4 more points per game (71.5) than the Owls give up (65.1).
- When San Diego State scores more than 65.1 points, it is 12-10 against the spread and 20-4 overall.
- The Owls score an average of 78 points per game, 15.1 more points than the 62.9 the Aztecs allow to opponents.
- When it scores more than 62.9 points, Florida Atlantic is 16-10 against the spread and 27-3 overall.
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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Life Business Group Inc: The year 2022 has proven to be a difficult year for many markets and industries all over the world. One of the industries that took a toll and is considered to be in a depressed state is the California Cannabis Industry. As the year continued to progress and heads towards the closing of the year, evaluations on cannabis businesses continued to constantly shift. In previous years in the industry, cannabis business evaluations shifted on a quarterly basis. Evaluations in 2022 have progressively shifted on a monthly basis.
Although the constant drop in cannabis business evaluations and prices has been seen as discouraging for many operators in the industry it has proven to be advantageous to many larger companies and Multi-State Operators (MSO's). The plummet of prices for cannabis businesses has opened the doors for MSO's to begin moving in and acquiring distressed assets all across the state in order to expand the footprint and establish a presence in various markets all across California.
An example is Riverside County in the city of Palm Springs where a cannabis retail dispensary hit the market and continues to bring interest to strategic operators not only in the state of California but also Multi State Operators. This storefront business is located strategically in the heart of Downtown Palm Springs and is known for its state of the art buildout that had an approximate cost of $2 Million Dollars. The state of the art facility has brought the LA Style Luxury to the Desert with top level aesthetics, displays and buildout. These types of businesses are what MSO's and large operators look to target in a distressed market such as the one in 2022.
These types of acquisitions can be considered calculated and strategic as many experts in the industry have claimed that once Federal legalization takes place and Federal banks have the ability to fund these businesses and acquisitions it will open the flood gates and many operators from different industries will begin to take action and enter the cannabis industry. Experts in the industry also predict a skyrocket and spike in cannabis business evaluations and prices within the first 6 months of legalization where these businesses will have their all time highest perceived value. The current state of the market and industry continues to be a great opportunity for operators who are looking to expand their footprint into large markets. Although 2022 proved to be a difficult year, 2023 has already begun showing signs of improvement in the industry.
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Tony Vitello was right. Tennessee baseball is playing its best after Mississippi State sweep.
Tony Vitello opened April declaring that Tennessee baseball's best was yet to come.
The Vols proved their coach correct in the back half of the month, crushing Mississippi State for a decisive sweep after controlling Vanderbilt in a tide-turning sweep a week prior.
"There’s challenges ahead of us, but I do think we have a picture of what it looks like when we show up to the park with our right approach or best attitude, where guys need to be is getting closer but not a finished product," Vitello said.
No. 16 Tennessee (30-14, 11-10 SEC) mashed Mississippi State 13-2 to close the series Saturday at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. UT has won seven games in a row, flipping its rough start to SEC play into a winning record in the past two weekends.
"Marching towards May, I think we got good ball ahead of us, we just need to keep playing baseball and not complicate things," Vitello said.
The Vols beat up Mississippi State pitching, scoring 33 runs in three games against the Bulldogs (24-20, 6-15). They have scored 10 or more runs in four of their past five SEC games and five of six overall.
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Blake Burke, Christian Moore got it going
Christian Moore had a conversation to "vent and just talk" with hitting coach Josh Elander recently, Vitello said Friday. The results were phenomenal. Moore had his first two-hit game in SEC play since March 25 and snapped out of a recent funk.
The UT second baseman hit a two-run homer and a double Friday, then hit two homers Saturday.
"Whatever that conversation started or ended with, I don’t know, but he came to the park expecting to have success, and that’s usually what you get," Vitello said.
Blake Burke similarly settled in for a big series after a chat with Vitello prior to Friday's game. He preached to Burke to stay in his swing. Burke said he has been too hard on himself at the plate. He broke out with a 3-for-4 game Friday, including a go-ahead three-run shot to center.
Burke and Moore were the returners middle of the lineup entering the season and produced as they've been expected to against the Bulldogs.
"That is big-time," outfielder Jared Dickey said. "That is what those guys are supposed to do. We know those guys are the ones capable of doing it."
Tennessee broke out the bats to bludgeon the Bulldogs
Griffin Merritt hit his second walk-off homer in the past two weekends when he clobbered a solo homer to center to win Thursday's opener 8-7. That was the first of many home runs for Tennessee in the three-game series.
The Vols abused the Bulldogs' mediocre pitching staff, hitting nine homers. UT hit four Friday and four Saturday. It hit three three-run homers Saturday.
Camden Sewell's importance to the Tennessee bullpen cannot be overstated
Camden Sewell was one out away from closing Friday's win when Vitello and trainer Jeff Wood visited the mound. The fifth-year senior wasn't coming out of the game.
"We’ve been around each other a lot of days so he basically said go back to whence you came," Vitello said.
Sewell struck out seven in 3⅓ scoreless innings. He walked two and did not allow a hit, settling the bullpen after rocky middle innings following a short start for a sick Chase Dollander. Tennessee has a deep bullpen, which Vitello expected to be an asset this season. Chase Burns moving to the bullpen has added a different dynamic with his elite pitches. But Sewell is the veteran of the group and proved his importance in how he steadied UT and gave the offense time to come back from a five-run deficit.
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MLB Probable Starting Pitchers Tonight: Monday, May 8
Who are the probable pitchers lined up to start on Monday? Below, we list every starting pitching matchup for the day, which includes Shane McClanahan toeing the rubber for the Rays, and Kyle Gibson getting the nod for the Orioles.
Keep reading to find the probable pitchers for every game on the docket for May 8.
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Today's Probable Starting Pitchers
Tigers at Guardians Probable Pitchers
The Detroit Tigers will send Joey Wentz (0-3) to the hill as they take on the Guardians, who will hand the ball to Tanner Bibee (1-0) when the clubs meet on Monday.
Vegas Odds for Tigers at Guardians
- CLE Odds to Win: -190
- DET Odds to Win: +155
- Total: 7.5 runs
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Rockies at Pirates Probable Pitchers
The Colorado Rockies will send Kyle Freeland (3-3) to the bump as they face the Pirates, who will give the start to Mitch Keller (3-1) when the teams face off on Monday.
Vegas Odds for Rockies at Pirates
- PIT Odds to Win: -175
- COL Odds to Win: +145
- Total: 8 runs
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Rays at Orioles Probable Pitchers
The Tampa Bay Rays will send McClanahan (6-0) to the mound as they take on the Orioles, who will give the start to Gibson (4-1) for the matchup between the clubs Monday.
Vegas Odds for Rays at Orioles
- TB Odds to Win: -175
- BAL Odds to Win: +145
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Athletics at Yankees Probable Pitchers
The Oakland Athletics will send JP Sears (0-2) to the mound as they take on the Yankees, who will hand the ball to Nestor Cortes Jr. (3-2) for the game between the teams Monday.
Vegas Odds for Athletics at Yankees
- NYY Odds to Win: -190
- OAK Odds to Win: +155
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Cardinals at Cubs Probable Pitchers
The St. Louis Cardinals will send Miles Mikolas (1-1) to the mound as they take on the Cubs, who will hand the ball to Marcus Stroman (2-2) when the teams face off Monday.
Vegas Odds for Cardinals at Cubs
- CHC Odds to Win: -135
- STL Odds to Win: +110
- Total: 7 runs
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Dodgers at Brewers Probable Pitchers
The Los Angeles Dodgers will send Tony Gonsolin (0-0) to the bump as they play the Brewers, who will counter with Freddy Peralta (3-2) for the matchup between the clubs on Monday.
Vegas Odds for Dodgers at Brewers
- MIL Odds to Win: -110
- LAD Odds to Win: -110
- Total: 8.5 runs
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White Sox at Royals Probable Pitchers
The Chicago White Sox will send Dylan Cease (2-1) to the mound as they play the Royals, who will counter with Zack Greinke (1-4) for the matchup between the teams Monday.
Vegas Odds for White Sox at Royals
- CHW Odds to Win: -125
- KC Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Astros at Angels Probable Pitchers
The Houston Astros will send Hunter Brown (3-1) to the hill as they play the Angels, who will hand the ball to Patrick Sandoval (3-1) when the clubs meet Monday.
Vegas Odds for Astros at Angels
- HOU Odds to Win: -125
- LAA Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 9 runs
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Marlins at Diamondbacks Probable Pitchers
The Miami Marlins will send Braxton Garrett (1-1) to the mound as they face the Diamondbacks, who will counter with Zac Gallen (4-1) for the game between the clubs Monday.
Vegas Odds for Marlins at Diamondbacks
- ARI Odds to Win: -190
- MIA Odds to Win: +155
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Rangers at Mariners Probable Pitchers
The Texas Rangers will send Jon Gray (1-1) to the mound as they face the Mariners, who will hand the ball to Logan Gilbert (1-1) for the game between the teams on Monday.
Vegas Odds for Rangers at Mariners
- SEA Odds to Win: -165
- TEX Odds to Win: +135
- Total: 7.5 runs
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Nationals at Giants Probable Pitchers
The Washington Nationals will send Jake Irvin (0-0) to the mound as they face the Giants, who will look to Anthony DeSclafani (3-1) for the matchup between the clubs on Monday.
Vegas Odds for Nationals at Giants
- SF Odds to Win: -225
- WSH Odds to Win: +180
- Total: 8.5 runs
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with J.C. Hallman, author of "Say Anarcha," a book about enslaved women forced to undergo experimental gynecological surgeries in 19th century Alabama.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with J.C. Hallman, author of "Say Anarcha," a book about enslaved women forced to undergo experimental gynecological surgeries in 19th century Alabama.
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Former Alabama U.S. Attorney reacts to President Biden’s new gun reform laws
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Former U.S. Attorney Jay Town said President Biden’s new gun laws are overall positive and could help make a difference in violent crime statewide, but adds it could be a while before data shows the drop.
“There is a lot of things in this bill that we can walk away from and say ‘hey. we can feel safer’,” Town said. “There’s not going to be any big swing that is going to knock out 95% of the violent crime in this country. That’s just not how criminality works, but little by little, we can make a dent in it.”
One big takeaway for Town is the changes to background checks for 18 to 21 year old gun buyers.
“If this law had been in place, it’s very possible that Salvador Ramos in Uvalde, Texas would not have been able to purchase two AR-15s,” Town said.
That’s because the new law expands background checks for 18 to 21 year old gun buyers. Before, it was only checking history from 18 and up, but now it checks back to age 16.
“I think that any record after the age of 18 was not enough, not extensive enough for background checks,” he said. “The fact that we have the ability to run background checks on individuals that we previously were not able to run background checks on, I think is very important.”
Federal law now says domestic violence charges against two dating partners is enough to stop gun buyers for legally getting a weapon. Before the new changes, someone only qualified if they had DV charges against their spouse, or had lived together or shared a child. Now, federal law also prohibits charges against just dating couples.
“Taking firearms out of the hands of violent individuals is always going to be a good thing,” Town said.
The new federal legislation includes incentives for states to pass red flag criteria. It would allow groups to petition the court to remove guns from people who are considered a harm to themselves or others.
“That is a very typical approach from the federal government to incentivize states to participate in their grant program,” Town said. “But, if you want the money, you have to do XYZ, and in this case to do XYZ, it is to pass certain criteria for red flag laws.”
Town said time will tell if the new laws have an impact in Alabama.
“This bill does make us safer,” he said. “We will see how much safer in the coming months and years.”
Town said another element in the reform laws is it enhances the penalties for one of Alabama’s biggest problems; straw purchasing and firearm trafficking. Town said it will now qualify federally as organized criminal activity.
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Biden: Objects shot down over North America appear to not be part of China's spy balloon operation
President Joe Biden on Thursday addressed the objects recently shot down over North America.
Biden said that the U.S. has no indication that the three objects shot down in North American air space are tied to China's spy balloon program and are likely from private entities.
Here's the latest:
- There is no indication the objects shot down are connected to China's spy balloon program
- The balloons are most likely tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions.
- New protocols on how the U.S. will handle similar objects are expected this week.
"We don't yet know exactly what these three objects were but nothing right now suggests they were related to China's spy balloon program or that they were surveillance vehicles from any other country," Biden said from the White House. "The intelligence community's current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research."
First formal remarks
The remarks were Biden's first formal remarks on the objects shot from the sky last weekend over Canada and the U.S.
Federal officials have said an initial Chinese surveillance balloon downed off the coast of South Carolina earlier this month was capable of conducting signals intelligence collection operations and had a payload around the size of three buses. By comparison, the subsequent objects, which haven't been attributed to a specific country or entity, are believed to be much smaller.
The U.S. is now also increasingly confident that the three objects that were downed between Friday and Sunday were "benign" balloons.
Video: Chinese spy balloon shot down at Surfside Beach in South Carolina
New protocols anticipated
It's anticipated that new protocols on how the U.S. will handle similar unidentified objects going forward will be released this week.
Administration officials from the Pentagon, State Department and intelligence community have briefed lawmakers on Capitol Hill on the initial Chinese spy balloon in recent days.
Republicans on Capitol Hill have criticized Biden for not approving the military to down the first balloon quickly enough, letting it sail eastward for days. They've also called on him to speak on the matter.
Video: Biden on new rules on unidentified objects
But administration officials argued that the U.S. didn't move earlier to shoot down the balloon in part over fears it could provoke an escalation of military tensions with China. They also told lawmakers the balloon was not first shot down when it entered Alaskan airspace because the waters there are cold and deep, making it less likely they could have recovered the balloon.
And officials had been wary of having the president speak publicly about the objects until more information was gathered about the three unidentified objects that were downed last weekend.
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Use these medical supplies to manage and treat sunburns
IN THIS ARTICLE:
- Sun Bum Cool Down Aloe Vera Gel
- Maui Island Secret Burn to Brown Formula
- Seven Minerals Organic Aloe Vera Gel
Whether you spend a few minutes or several hours in the sun, you can get a sunburn if you don’t have ultraviolet (UV) radiation protection, such as sunscreen lotion or a sun hat. Sunburns are a type of skin burn from prolonged exposure to sunlight or sunlamps. If you get a sunburn, you can experience red, painful skin that’s itchy and tender to the touch.
Once you realize you’ve been sunburned, starting treatment is essential. Treatments, such as pain relievers and creams, can soothe pain and relieve itching.
How to treat sunburns
Finding the right sunburn relief treatments can provide quick relief. Depending on the severity of your sunburn, you can purchase over-the-counter medications and other treatments to soothe the affected skin. In addition, bandages and creams help you tend to your sunburn.
Features to look for in sunburn relief treatments
- Avoid topical creams containing benzocaine or lidocaine if you have allergies. These medications can cause allergic reactions and worsen sunburns.
- Don’t use petroleum jelly, butter or other oiled-based treatments. They can block your pores, preventing heat and sweat from leaving your wound.
- Wear loose, breathable clothing as your sunburn heals. Tight clothing doesn’t let your sunburn breathe and heal properly.
- Try creams that contain ingredients such as vitamins C and E. These minerals may help prevent or limit skin cell damage.
- Take over-the-counter medications for pain relief. Medications such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen ease painful sunburn symptoms.
Best sunburn relief supplies
Sun Bum Cool Down Aloe Vera Gel
This after-sun gel soothes your sunburn and prevents peeling skin. It’s dermatologist- and sonny-approved. It’s oxybenzone-, octinoxate-, gluten-, cruelty- and paraben-free. It includes scents such as tea tree, aloe vera and cocoa butter and contains ingredients such as carbomer, glycerin, polysorbate 20, tea tree, triethanolamine and vitamin E.
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Maui Island Secret Burn to Brown Formula
This gel treats sunburns, kitchen burns, skin rashes, insect bites and other types of skin irritation. It includes ingredients such as pure aloe extract, allantoin, aloe barbadensis gel, menthol, tea tree oil, green tea extract and Maui coffee extract. It also contains medicinal properties and is an astringent.
Seven Minerals Organic Aloe Vera Gel
The Seven Minerals Organic Aloe Vera Gel includes aloe grown in the United States that’s NSF Organic and IASC-certified. It includes 100% natural-thickening agar that won’t leave a sticky residue on your skin. This vegan gel is great for daily use to moisturize skin and hair.
Burnshield Sterile First Aid Burn Dressing
These dressings contain sterile trauma hydrogel to treat sunburns. The hydrogel has antimicrobial properties, such as tea tree oil, to soothe and protect the wound. All dressings are non-adhesive and easily removable. They are strong, durable dressings that withstand pulling and shaping.
This cream treats sunburns, scrapes, cuts and insect bites. It’s designed for use on dry or chafed skin. It contains the calendula officinalis plant as an active ingredient and is paraben- and perfume-free. The cream does not contain artificial colors or fragrances.
Tylenol Extra Strength Acetaminophen Rapid Release Gels
This 100-count bottle of gelcaps provides pain relief for sunburns. Each gelcap contains 500 milligrams of acetaminophen, which helps temporarily relieve pain. Adults and children 12 years and older can take this medication.
Burt’s Bees Aloe and Coconut Oil After Sun Soother
This non-greasy, fast-absorbing lotion has a formula with ingredients such as aloe and coconut oil. It’s paraben-, phthalate-, petrolatum and SLS-free. It can be applied to your face and body to soothe sunburns. The lotion comes in recyclable packaging and is Carbon Neutral-certified.
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Sunburnt Advanced Sun Recovery After Sun Gel
The gel has ingredients including calendula, echinacea and hyaluronic acid to treat sunburns. It contains pure, organic aloe vera gel that won’t leave your skin sticky. It doesn’t contain lidocaine, so it’s safe to use if you have allergies. It is paraben-, glycol-, PEG-, phthalate-, dye- and fragrance-free.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — William Carrier scored his third goal in two games and the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Ottawa Senators 4-1 on Wednesday night.
Mark Stone, William Karlsson and Jack Eichel also scored for the Golden Knights. Logan Thompson stopped 38 shots to earn his 11th win, most in the NHL.
Jake Sanderson got his first career goal for Ottawa, and Cam Talbot made 32 saves.
Carrier scored his seventh of the season — his career high is nine — when he skated through the neutral zone, dangled his way past two Senators in the offensive zone and fired an off-balance wrist shot far side to give Vegas a 2-1 lead at 16:23 of the second period.
Karlsson made it 3-1 when he lasered a backhand with his back to Talbot off a spin move from the left dot for his fifth of the season at 2:39 of the third.
Playing in his 900th career game, defenseman Alex Pietrangelo got his team-high 18th assist of the season.
Eichel’s backhand from the red line into an empty net with 1:41 left provided the final margin.
Vegas appeared to take the lead in the second period before Carrier put the Golden Knights ahead for good, but Brett Howden’s goal was disallowed after he slid headfirst into the crease and bumped the puck into the net with his hand.
The Golden Knights solidified their place atop the Western Conference standings with 33 points heading into Thanksgiving, generally a benchmark for NHL teams. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, 76% of teams in playoff position on Thanksgiving went on to reach the postseason from the 2005-06 season through 2018-19, the last season not affected by the pandemic.
Vegas is looking to return to the playoffs after missing out for the first time last season.
Stone opened the scoring on a power play when he took Eichel’s no-look pass at the hash marks and fired a shot into the net. It was his ninth goal of the season and Eichel’s 15th assist.
Eichel has at least one point in 16 of Vegas’ first 21 games.
Ottawa also got on the board with a man advantage, when Sanderson’s drive from the blue line deflected slightly off Vegas defenseman Alec Martinez’s stick and past Thompson to tie it.
NOTES: After playing his first 758 games with St. Louis, Pietrangelo has played his last 142 with the Golden Knights. ... Sanderson became the first Montana-born skater in NHL history to score a goal. ... With his assist on Sanderson’s goal, Tim Stützle became Ottawa’s franchise leader in points before the age of 21 with 106.
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Senators: Visit the Anaheim Ducks on Friday.
Golden Knights: Host the Seattle Kraken on Friday.
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America’s religious leaders sharply divided over abortion, a year after Roe v Wade’s reversal
BY DAVID CRARY
AP National Writer
In the year since the Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion, America’s religious leaders and denominations have responded in strikingly diverse ways — some celebrating the state-level bans that have ensued, others angered that a conservative Christian cause has changed the law of the land in ways they consider oppressive.
The divisions are epitomized in the country’s largest denomination — the Catholic Church. National polls repeatedly show that a majority of U.S. Catholics believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases, yet the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops supports sweeping bans.
Among Protestants, a solid majority of white evangelicals favor outlawing abortion. But most mainline Protestants support the right to abortion, and several of their top leaders have decried the year-old Supreme Court ruling that undermined that right by reversing the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973.
For example, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Michael Curry, said he was “deeply grieved” by that ruling.
The decision “institutionalizes inequality because women with access to resources will be able to exercise their moral judgment in ways that women without the same resources will not,” Curry said.
Some religious Americans have gone beyond expressions of dismay, filing lawsuits contending that new abortion bans infringed on their own religious beliefs. Jewish women played roles in such lawsuits in Indiana and Kentucky; in Florida, a synagogue in Boynton Beach — Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor — contended in a lawsuit that a state abortion ban violated Jewish teachings.
Dr. Sara Imershein, who performs first-trimester abortions in northern Virginia, said her Reform Judaism beliefs informed her decision to choose that path.
“I looked more at the liturgy of Judaism and found that it really supported my work,” she said. “I studied with my local rabbi.”
Imershein was in college when abortion was legalized nationwide. Now, at 69, she has seen Roe’s demise.
“Laws that restrict abortion … ignore our Jewish teachings that are very old, and they stomp on our religious freedom,” she said.
In Buddhism, Islam and Sikhism, there also is widespread acceptance of abortion in some circumstances. Most U.S. Hindus are “very much in support of choice,” said Dheepa Sundaram, assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Denver; she cited the concept of karma which holds that each person has the liberty to act and face the consequences of their actions — good or bad.
Randall Balmer, a professor of American religious history at Dartmouth College, says the abortion debate is so intractable in part because believers in the opposing camps view the Bible — which doesn’t include the word “abortion” — as supporting their side.
“It shows the pliability of Scripture — the way that each group tries to marshal arguments on its behalf,” he said. “The Bible can be manipulated.”
“What strikes me about both sides is there’s no humility in their position,” Balmer added. “They stake out what they believe is God’s will, and everybody else is a heretic.”
Even within individual churches, divisions over abortion can flare. Bishop Timothy Clarke, pastor of First Church of God in Columbus, Ohio, frequently exhorts his predominantly African American congregation to respect those with opposing views.
Clarke describes himself as “biblically pro-life,” yet he criticizes the stringent abortion bans enacted in numerous Republican-led states as “excessive and extreme.”
Referring to laws that would criminalize abortion-providing doctors and deny abortion to victims of rape, he said many people in his church “are saying this is going too far. It’s beyond the pale.”
There is similar sentiment among some U.S. Catholics, says Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a professor of American studies and history at the University of Notre Dame and director of its Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.
“There are some horrific stories coming out of pregnant women with severe issues who are being denied health care,” she said, referring to the consequences of some state abortion bans.
“We have to have a more human approach,” she said. “I think we’ll see more Catholics saying, ‘I’m not pro-abortion. But I want mercy. I want health care.’”
As a group, Catholic bishops are unwavering, as conveyed in a statement earlier this year from their conference’s president, Archbishop Timothy Broglio.
“The Catholic bishops of the United States are united in our commitment to life and will continue to work as one body in Christ to make abortion unthinkable,” he said.
A poll last year from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research showed a clear gap between the prevalent views of U.S. Catholics, and the anti-abortion positions of the bishops. According to the poll, 63% of Catholic adults said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and 68% opposed Roe v. Wade’s reversal.
“On every issue having to do with sexuality or reproductive health, there’s a huge gap between the way lay Catholics think and what the hierarchy is teaching,” said Jamie Manson, president of Catholics for Choice.
“What’s challenging,” she said, “is that even though most Catholics believe abortion should be legal, they don’t speak about it publicly because of the taboo … the fear of being ostracized by their community.”
Manson noted that a 2014 survey by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights, found that nearly one-fourth of U.S. abortion patients identify as Catholic.
“There’s an all-male hierarchy telling them they’re complicit in murder,” Manson said. “I wish what bishops and priests would do is listen to these women, listen to their stories of why they choose abortion.”
Among mainline Protestant denominations, there have been official statements acknowledging that abortion is a complex issue, but prevailing sentiment is that last year’s Supreme Court ruling was an injustice to women, particularly those already facing economic hardships and racial discrimination.
“This decision further complicates the struggle and creates division, anger, and chaos in an already divided and conflicted country,” wrote Bishop Thomas Bickerton, president of the United Methodist Church’s Council of Bishops.
Some Protestant pastors have emerged as outspoken advocates of abortion rights; among them is Jacqui Lewis, the first African American and first woman to serve as a senior minister in New York City’s historic Middle Collegiate Church.
She evoked the fear and heartache felt by many of the women affected by the new abortion bans.
“These are the poorest of us, the most disenfranchised and they’re struggling more because some portion of Christianity feels they have the right to decide for other people what is moral,” Lewis said. “It breaks my soul to see religion weaponized this way … it’s the opposite of what religion should be.”
Among the leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, by far the largest evangelical denomination, there’s unified opposition to abortion. However, there has been sharp disagreement over whether to impose criminal penalties on women who get abortions.
The SBC’s president, Bart Barber, opposes criminalization of women in such cases and has sparred verbally with Baptist pastors who argue that such women. in some instances, should be considered murderers.
“I think it is unjust, unnecessary, and unwise to include in abortion laws the prosecution of women who seek or obtain an abortion,” Barber writes in a lengthy article. “The abortionist is the murderer, and any law banning abortion should identify the abortionist uniquely as such.”
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AP reporters Tiffany Stanley in Washington and Deepa Bharath in Southern California contributed.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas bill banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports was vetoed by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly for the third year in a row Friday, setting up a hotly contested fight in the Republican-controlled Legislature to override her.
Kelly’s action was expected because of her two previous vetoes. Kansas Republicans made Kelly’s vetoes a major issue in multiple television attack ads when she ran for reelection last year, winning narrowly.
The governor said in her veto message that the bill would harm students’ mental health and hurt the state’s efforts to recruit businesses. Kelly also said lawmakers should leave the issue to the state association set up decades ago to run student activities in middle and high schools.
“Let’s be clear what this bill is all about — politics,” Kelly wrote. “It won’t increase any test scores. It won’t help any kids read or write. It won’t help any teachers prepare our kids for the real world.”
Kelly’s arguments Friday were similar to those she made in past veto messages and during her reelection campaign. Taryn Jones, lobbyist for the LGBTQ-rights group Equality Kansas, called the bill “really just unnecessary.”
“They’re OK discriminating against a marginalized community,” Jones said after the veto.
Republicans have more than the two-thirds majorities in both chambers needed to override a veto, but in 2021 and 2022, a few GOP moderates voted against overriding Kelly. The House and Senate votes on this year’s bill suggest supporters could have just enough votes to prevail.
“Despite her repeated pledges to meet us in the middle, the governor has decided to side yet again with the most radical elements of her party,” Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson, a Wichita-area Republican, said in a statement Friday.
The measure would apply to girls’ and women’s K-12, club and college sports. If supporters can override Kelly’s veto, Kansas would join 18 other states with such a law, including Iowa, Oklahoma and Texas.
The measure is among dozens of Republican proposals pushing back against transgender rights in statehouses across the U.S. Kansas has bills aimed at banning gender-affirming care for minors and preventing transgender men and women from using bathrooms, locker rooms and other facilities associated with their gender identities.
Kelly’s veto came a day after Kentucky’s Republican-dominated legislature approved a ban on gender-affirming care for minors and Iowa’s GOP-controlled Legislature approved a bill on school bathrooms.
In defending the legislation, Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins, a Wichita Republican, recently posted tweets endorsing a theory debunked by multiple studies that a “social contagion” has led to more people identifying as transgender.
He and other Republicans also have argued that banning transgender athletes will preserve fair competition and opportunities for girls and young women.
“This is common sense,” Hawkins said in a statement Friday.
Kansas officials and LGBTQ-rights advocates say only a handful of young transgender people participate in high school activities — and possibly only one transgender Kansas girl is on a sports team. Backers of the bill argue that the state should act before transgender athletes become more prevalent.
During her reelection campaign, Kelly aired a television ad that featured her looking into the camera and saying, “Of course, men should not play girls’ sports. OK, we all agree there.”
LGBTQ-rights advocates understood the ad as saying men aren’t playing women’s sports because transgender women are women. But Republicans said she was lying about her record, and they’ve repeatedly mentioned her statement since.
“Now that she no longer has to face the voters, the governor has done another about face,” Hawkins said.
The vote last week in the Senate was 28-11, giving backers one more than the two-thirds needed in the 40-member chamber to override a veto.
However, the House would vote first, and the vote there last month was 82-40. While supporters need 84 of 125 votes to override a veto, two Republicans who backed the bill were absent.
Last year, supporters were short of a two-thirds House majority, but in last year’s elections, three Republicans who supported a ban replaced GOP lawmakers who’d voted against overriding Kelly’s veto. Also, while no Democrats voted last year to override Kelly, freshman Democratic Rep. Ford Carr, of Wichita, voted for this year’s bill.
Republican lawmakers in Kansas also have pursued a bill to revoke the state medical licenses of doctors providing puberty-blocking drugs, hormone therapy or surgery for transgender minors. It passed the Senate last month, but the House hasn’t had a committee hearing.
Another Senate-passed bill would define male and female in Kansas law based on a person’s anatomy at birth and declare that cisgender women and girls have a right to private spaces separate from men, such as bathrooms and locker rooms.
LGBTQ-rights advocates have said the measure not only bars transgender people from facilities associated with their gender identities but also erases them legally, along with gender-nonconforming and nonbinary people.
The bill’s language also would prevent transgender people from changing birth certificates and driver’s licenses to reflect their gender identities, though Kansas is under a 2019 federal court order to allow birth certificate changes.
The measure is before the House after one of its committees rewrote it this week to prevent it from applying to intersex people. Intersex describes people born with genitalia, chromosomes or reproductive organs not associated with typical definitions for males or females.
“We don’t want to marginalize them anymore,” said Republican state Rep. Ron Bryce, a southeast Kansas doctor.
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A bear market may be on the horizon. Here’s what that means
NEW YORK (AP) — Investors on Wall Street need a place to hide.
The stock market’s skid this year has pulled the S&P 500 close to what’s known as a bear market. Rising interest rates, high inflation, the war in Ukraine and a slowdown in China’s economy have caused investors to reconsider the prices they’re willing to pay for a wide range of stocks, from high-flying tech companies to traditional automakers.
The last bear market happened just two years ago, but this would still be a first for those investors that got their start trading on their phones during the pandemic. For years, thanks in large part to extraordinary actions by the Federal Reserve, stocks often seemed to go in only one direction: up. Now, the familiar rallying cry to “buy the dip” after every market wobble is giving way to fear that the dip is turning into a crater.
Here are some common questions asked about bear markets:
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WHY IS IT CALLED A BEAR MARKET?
A bear market is a term used by Wall Street when an index like the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, or even an individual stock, has fallen 20% or more from a recent high for a sustained period of time.
Why use a bear to represent a market slump? Bears hibernate, so bears represent a market that’s retreating, said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA. In contrast, Wall Street’s nickname for a surging stock market is a bull market, because bulls charge, Stovall said.
The S&P 500 index slipped 24 points as of 11 a.m. Thursday to 3,900.06. It’s now down 18.7% from its high of 4,796.56 on Jan. 3. The Nasdaq is already in a bear market, down almost 29% from its peak of 16,057.44 on Nov. 19. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is more than 15% below its most recent peak.
The most recent bear market for the S&P 500 ran from February 19, 2020 through March 23, 2020. The index fell 34% in that one-month period. It’s the shortest bear market ever.
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WHAT’S BOTHERING INVESTORS?
Market enemy No. 1 is interest rates, which are rising quickly as a result of the high inflation battering the economy. Low rates act like steroids for stocks and other investments, and Wall Street is now going through withdrawal.
The Federal Reserve has made an aggressive pivot away from propping up financial markets and the economy with record-low rates and is focused on fighting inflation. The central bank has already raised its key short-term interest rate from its record low near zero, which had encouraged investors to move their money into riskier assets like stocks or cryptocurrencies to get better returns.
Last week, the Fed signaled additional rate increases of double the usual amount are likely in upcoming months. Consumer prices are at the highest level in four decades, and rose 8.3% in April compared with a year ago.
The moves by design will slow the economy by making it more expensive to borrow. The risk is the Fed could cause a recession if it raises rates too high or too quickly.
Russia’s war in Ukraine has also put upward pressure on inflation by pushing up commodities prices. And worries about China’s economy, the world’s second largest, have added to the gloom.
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SO, WE JUST NEED TO AVOID A RECESSION?
Even if the Fed can pull off the delicate task of tamping down inflation without triggering a downturn, higher interest rates still put downward pressure on stocks.
If customers are paying more to borrow money, they can’t buy as much stuff, so less revenue flows to a company’s bottom line. Stocks tend to track profits over time. Higher rates also make investors less willing to pay elevated prices for stocks, which are riskier than bonds, when bonds are suddenly paying more in interest thanks to the Fed.
Critics said the overall stock market came into the year looking pricey versus history. Big technology stocks and other winners of the pandemic were seen as the most expensive, and those stocks have been the most punished as rates have risen.
Stocks have declined almost 35% on average when a bear market coincides with a recession, compared with a nearly 24% drop when the economy avoids a recession, according to Ryan Detrick, chief market strategist at LPL Financial.
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SO I SHOULD SELL EVERYTHING NOW, RIGHT?
If you need the money now or want to lock in the losses, yes. Otherwise, many advisers suggest riding through the ups and downs while remembering the swings are the price of admission for the stronger returns that stocks have provided over the long term.
While dumping stocks would stop the bleeding, it would also prevent any potential gains. Many of the best days for Wall Street have occurred either during a bear market or just after the end of one. That includes two separate days in the middle of the 2007-2009 bear market where the S&P 500 surged roughly 11%, as well as leaps of better than 9% during and shortly after the roughly monthlong 2020 bear market.
Advisers suggest putting money into stocks only if it won’t be needed for several years. The S&P 500 has come back from every one of its prior bear markets to eventually rise to another all-time high. The down decade for the stock market following the 2000 bursting of the dot-com bubble was a notoriously brutal stretch, but stocks have often been able to regain their highs within a few years.
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HOW LONG DO BEAR MARKETS LAST AND HOW DEEP DO THEY GO?
On average, bear markets have taken 13 months to go from peak to trough and 27 months to get back to breakeven since World War II. The S&P 500 index has fallen an average of 33% during bear markets in that time. The biggest decline since 1945 occurred in the 2007-2009 bear market when the S&P 500 fell 57%.
History shows that the faster an index enters into a bear market, the shallower they tend to be. Historically, stocks have taken 251 days (8.3 months) to fall into a bear market. When the S&P 500 has fallen 20% at a faster clip, the index has averaged a loss of 28%.
The longest bear market lasted 61 months and ended in March 1942 and cut the index by 60%.
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HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN A BEAR MARKET HAS ENDED?
Generally, investors look for a 20% gain from a low point as well as sustained gains over at least a six-month period. It took less than three weeks for stocks to rise 20% from their low in March 2020.
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Veiga reported from Los Angeles.
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The Supreme Court is set to release its next opinions on Tuesday morning, with several landmark cases still to be handed down with just days left until the summer recess.
The court did not indicate Tuesday will be the final decision day, meaning that at least one additional day is likely later in the week.
Here are five decisions to watch for at the Supreme Court:
Affirmative Action
The Supreme Court is weighing the future of race-conscious admissions policies in two separate lawsuits against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).
Colleges nationwide are watching closely for how the decision may require changes to their admissions practices.
The decision could upend affirmative action programs nationwide by overturning the court’s 2003 landmark decision, Grutter v. Bollinger, that allowed the narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body.
Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), led by anti-affirmative action advocate Edward Blum, has been challenging the two schools’ policies for nearly a decade.
In the UNC case, a public university, SFFA argued race-conscious admissions policies didn’t comply with the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
But since Harvard is not bound by the 14th Amendment, because it is a private university, SFFA challenges the policy as a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Title VI prohibits programs that receive federal funds from engaging in racial discrimination, and SFFA contends Harvard’s admissions practices discriminate against Asian Americans.
Student Debt
Millions of student loan borrowers eligible for the Biden administration’s debt relief program are bracing for the court’s decision on whether the plan can move ahead.
Six GOP-led states and two individual borrowers are challenging the relief as exceeding the administration’s authority. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has attempted to justify the plan by tying it to emergency authority during the pandemic.
The administration cites the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act, which Congress passed after the September 11th, 2001, terror attacks. The law gives the education secretary authority to “waive or modify” federal student financial assistance programs “as the Secretary deems necessary in connection with a war or other military operation or national emergency.”
The conservative majority appeared skeptical at oral argument that the HEROES Act authorized the hundreds of billions of dollars in debt relief.
But beyond the merits of the case, the justices are first weighing whether any of the challengers had legal standing. At least one of the challengers must have standing for the court to strike down the plan.
Same-sex wedding websites
The justices are weighing a challenge to Colorado’s public accommodation law, which prevents businesses that serve the public from discriminating based on sexual orientation and other protected characteristics.
Evangelical Christian Lorie Smith, who runs a web design company, filed a lawsuit against the state arguing the law would amount to a violation of her First Amendment rights.
Smith is opposed to gay marriage, but she wants to expand her business to offer wedding websites. Colorado’s law would mandate she do so for both same-sex and opposite-sex couples.
The justices are weighing whether Colorado’s public accommodation law, as applied to Smith and other artists, compel their speech in violation of the First Amendment.
It marks the second time the high court has considered a challenge to Colorado’s law. The justices previously resolved a cake baker’s challenge to the law on narrower grounds.
Employee religious accomodations
Gerald Groff, a former postal worker, sued the U.S. Postal Service after being disciplined for missing scheduled Sunday shifts to deliver Amazon packages.
A Christian, Groff says working on Sundays would violate his religious beliefs to rest during the Sabbath. Groff ultimately opted to resign from his job rather than face termination.
He contends that the postal service was required to accommodate his religious views under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers from discriminating against an employee because of their religion unless it would cause an “undue hardship.”
The court is now poised to clarify what exactly constitutes an “undue hardship.”
For decades, lower courts have looked to the Supreme Court’s 1977 Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison decision, which defines the standard as “more than a de minimis burden.”
Both Groff and the Justice Department, representing the postal service, agree that the language shouldn’t be taken literally. But they sparred on the new verbiage the court should replace it with and whether Hardison should be outright overturned.
Groff has argued that Hardison should be overruled and replaced with a “significant difficulty or expense” standard.
U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar cautioned the court against completely disavowing the 45-year-old precedent, saying it would disrupt decades of case law that has relied upon the Hardison decision.
Whatever the standard, also at issue is whether the burdens that the religious accommodation would pose on other employees can factor into the analysis.
The Justice Department has advocated for those to be included as courts weigh religious accommodation disputes. But Groff pushed back, saying businesses should only be able to cite burdens that the accommodation imposes on the conduct of the business itself.
Election law
A dispute over North Carolina’s congressional maps could change the game for partisan gerrymandering fights and other federal election court battles.
Known as the “independent state legislature” theory, North Carolina Republican lawmakers are asking the justices to rule that state legislatures have exclusive authority to set federal election rules under the Constitution.
A state court had struck down North Carolina’s GOP-drawn congressional map, but the Republican lawmakers argue that the court had no constitutional authority to issue its decision.
That maximalist argument would give near-total authority to state legislatures in drawing congressional maps and setting rules surrounding federal elections.
Court watchers are awaiting to see if the justices sidestep the dispute by ruling that they have no jurisdiction to resolve the case.
The state court ruling that underlies the Republican lawmakers’ appeal has since been overturned, and the justices have twice questioned whether they still have authority to move ahead.
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Summary: CBH's partnership with Cigna will pave the way for more comprehensive treatment for people with mental health issues in Hollywood, Florida.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Compassion Behavioral Health (CBH) is pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with the health insurance carrier Cigna (managed by Evernorth Behavioral Health, Inc), allowing CBH to extend its mental health services to more individuals and families. CBH hopes that the new arrangement will enable more patients and their families to benefit from its mental health and addiction services at its facility in Hollywood, Florida.
"We are excited to be able to extend our mental health and addiction services to more individuals in need throughout our community with this in-network partnership," says Ryan Needle, CEO. "This means Compassion Behavioral Health has a negotiated price for services set with Cigna, allowing for more affordable care and the acceptance of more plan types".
Residents and local businesses in South Florida want to see health insurance policies include more mental health services and rehabilitation as standard. CBH's Cigna partnership is a promising move in that direction.
CBH is a holistic and evidence-based care provider. While it offers traditional addiction treatment services, it also provides mental health treatment and interventions designed to address the root cause of poor well-being.
"We offer various levels of care to ensure personalized attention for each client," says Kristel Valdelamar, Clinical Director.
To facilitate this, CBH aims to provide patients with skills to approach their mental health in more productive ways. The mission at CBH stems from the concept "stories change here", giving every patient the tools and guidance to set them on a new path where they can discover their true selves.
CBH offers a wide array of mental health treatments in-house. Depending on the intensity and level of care (Residential, PHP, IOP), patients can get bespoke assistance with anxiety disorder, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), bipolar, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at the same time as receiving treatment for addiction. Programs heal patients in an immersive treatment environment, combining talk therapy with a multidisciplinary psychiatric and clinical approach.
"We've got a blank page ready," Needle says rhetorically. "You've got the pen. Let's write your next chapter together."
For more details on the mental health services CBH offers, please visit compassionbehavioralhealth.com. To contact the facility directly, call (844) 999-0874.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden continues to “improve significantly” despite a lingering sore throat from his coronavirus infection, according to an update Sunday from his doctor.
“The president is responding to therapy as expected,” wrote Dr. Kevin O’Connor in his latest note. Biden has been taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug that helps reduce the chance of severe illness.
O’Connor wrote that Biden still has a sore throat, though other symptoms, including a cough, runny nose and body aches, “have diminished considerably.”
Biden tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday morning. O’Connor said Saturday that the president likely became infected with a highly contagious variant, known as BA.5, that is spreading throughout the country, and Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, said Sunday, “It is the BA.5 variant.”
“Thank goodness our vaccines and therapeutics work well against it, which is why I think the president’s doing well,” Jha told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Jha also gave a positive update on the president’s health.
“I checked in with his team late last night. He was feeling well. He had a good day yesterday,” Jha said.
That variant is an offshoot of the omicron strain that emerged late last year. It is believed responsible for the vast majority of coronavirus cases in the country. He has been isolating in the White House residence since then.
Administration officials have emphasized that his symptoms are mild because he has received four vaccine doses, and he started taking the antiviral drug Paxlovid after becoming infected.
The White House has not released any photos or video of Biden since Friday, when the media watched him participate in a virtual meeting with economic advisers.
Jha pledged that the White House would keep giving updates on the president’s condition and whether he might have long-term symptoms.
“We think it’s really important for the American people to know how well their president is doing,” he said.
“Obviously if he has persistent symptoms, obviously if any of them interfere with his ability to carry out his duties, we will disclose that early and often with the American people. But I suspect that this is going to be a course of COVID that we’ve seen in many Americans who have ben fully vaccinated, double boosted, getting treated with those tools in hand,” Jha said. “The president’s been doing well and we’re going to expect that he’s going to continue to do so.’’
Biden’s press secretary has said 17 people, including members of the president’s senior staff and at least one member of Congress, were determined to have been in close contact with Biden when he might have been contagious. None has tested positive so far, Jha said on “Fox News Sunday.”
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The following obituaries have been provided by local funeral homes. Read our complete obituaries in The Herald-Dispatch on Thursday and at www.herald-dispatch.com.
SHIRLEY MAE ADKINS, 70, of Huntington, mother of Teresa Gill, died Jan. 4 at home. Her previous employer was Montrosos concession. A celebration of life will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Aug. 6 at Chapman’s Mortuary, Huntington. www.chapmans-mortuary.com.
LOREN GAIL “MIKE” BATES, 84, of Branchland, W.Va., died July 30. Funeral service will be at noon Aug. 5 at McGhee-Handley Funeral Home, West Hamlin, W.Va. Burial will be in Green Valley Cemetery, Branchland, W.Va. Visitation will be one hour prior to the funeral. www.handleyfh.com
DEREK JEROME BUCKNER, 43, of Huntington died July 28. There will be a memorial service at 11 a.m. on Aug. 6 at Glorious Church of God in Christ, 1665 10th Ave., Huntington. Hall Funeral Home and Crematory, Proctorville, Ohio, is assisting the family. www.ehallfuneralhome.com.
JOANN BURTON, 78 of Matewan, W.Va., formerly of Delbarton, W.Va., wife of Billy Burton, died Aug. 1. She was the former owner of Joann’s Thrift Store in Matewan. Funeral service at 1 p.m. Aug. 4 at Chafin Funeral Home, Delbarton; burial in Thacker (W.Va.) Cemetery. Visitation from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 3 at the funeral home.
VERLIN BUTLER, 91, of Glenwood, widower of Yvonne Butler, died Aug. 1 in St. Mary’s Medical Center, Huntington. He was an agriculturalist. Funeral service will be private. Donations may be made to the Cabell Wayne Animal Shelter. Chapman’s Mortuary, Huntington, is assisting the family. www.chapmans-mortuary.com.
WILLIAM TIMOTHY CAINES of Ashland, husband of Lenora Caines, died July 28. He opened Pawn Shop Express and later Music Box Express, both in Ashland. There will be a casual gathering to celebrate his life from 3 to 6 p.m. Aug. 7 at The Union on Carter. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Destin Caines Education Fund at Peoples Bank. www.steenfuneralhome.com.
SHELBY JEAN GODWIN CALHOUN, 83, of Huntington, widow of Thamer Leonard Calhoun, died July 25 in the Emogene Dolin Jones Hospice House. She was a homemaker. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Aug. 6 at the Reger Funeral Chapel, Huntington. Burial will follow in Spring Valley Memory Gardens. Visitation will be two hours before service at the funeral home www.regerfh.com.
JERRY BRUCE COLLIER, 68, of Chesapeake, Ohio, husband of Helen Ellis Collier, died July 31 in St. Mary’s Medical Center. Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Aug. 5 at Schneider-Hall Funeral Home, Chesapeake, Ohio. Burial following in Highland Memorial Gardens, South Point, Ohio. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 4 at the funeral home. www.schneiderhallfuneralhome.com.
OTIS COX, 61, of Pedro, Ohio, brother of Michael Cox of Pedro, died July 30 in St. Mary's Medical Center, Ironton. He had worked for Townsend's Tree Service. Funeral service will be 1 p.m. Aug. 5 at Tracy Brammer-Monroe Funeral Home, Ironton. Burial will follow in Centerpoint Cemetery, Perry Township, Gallia, Ohio. Visitation will be two hours before service at the funeral home. www.phillipsfuneralhome.net.
VIRGIL JOE CRADDOCK, 99, of Lake, W.Va., widower of Marjorie Ann Craddock, died Aug. 1 at home. He worked for Island Creek Coal Company and Northern Coal Company as a heavy equipment mechanic. Funeral service at 2 p.m. Aug. 4 at Evans Funeral Home Chapel, Chapmanville, W.Va. Burial in Highland Memory Gardens, Godby, W.Va. Visitation one hour before service at the funeral home.
CARL EDWARD DEMPSEY, 53, of Delbarton, W.Va., husband of Stephanie Nicole Dempsey, died July 31 in Ruby Memorial Hospital, Morgantown, W.Va. He was a Registered Nurse at Appalachian Regional Hospital in South Williamson, Ky. Funeral service at 11 a.m. Aug. 5 at Chafin Funeral Home, Delbarton, W.Va. Burial in the Dempsey Family Cemetery, Delbarton, W.Va. Visitation from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 4 at the funeral home. www.chafinfuneralhome.com.
BETTY LEE EDWARDS, 87, of Louisa, Ky., died July 31 in J.J. Jordan Center, Louisa. She retired from Rotary Gardens in Huntington as a maintenance worker. Funeral services will be conducted 2 p.m. Aug. 4 at Chapman's Mortuary. Visitation will be one hour before service at the funeral home. www.chapmans-mortuary.com.
LINDA SHIRLENE FOUGHTY, 78, of Huntington died Aug.2 in King’s Daughters Medical Center. There will be no services. Hall Funeral Home & Crematory in Proctorville, Ohio, is assisting the family. www.ehallfuneralhome.com.
ELIZABETH ANN BROWNING GENT, 63, of Henlawson, W.Va., formerly of the Man, W.Va., area, companion of Eddie Godfrey of Calhoun County, W.Va., died July 29 in Cabell Huntington Hospital. Honoring her wishes, cremation will take place and a memorial service held at a later time. www.krantzmcneelyfuneralhome.com. Arrangements are directed by Krantz-McNeely Funeral Home, Man, W.Va.
MARGARET EUGENIA HOLLAND, 69, of Huntington died Aug. 1 in Huntington Health and Rehab. She was a retired seamstress for City Linen and Towel. Arrangements are incomplete at Chapman’s Mortuary, Huntington.
JAMES EDWARD MESSINGER, 86, of Proctorville, Ohio, husband of Judith Marcum Messinger, died July 31 at home. He was a retired Yard Master for CSX. Graveside service will be 12:30 p.m. Aug. 5 at Rome Cemetery, Proctorville Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to noon Aug. 5 at Chapman’s Mortuary, Huntington. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Shriners Children’s Hospital, 110 Conn Terrace, Lexington, KY 40508. A procession will leave the funeral home at 12:15 p.m. www.chapmans-mortuary.com.
KATHY ANN MILLER, 65, of Portsmouth, Ohio, died Aug. 2 at home. Graveside service at 11 a.m. Aug. 6 at Puckett Cemetery, Pedro, Ohio. Phillips Funeral Home, Ironton, Ohio is directing arrangements. www.phillipsfuneralhome.net
BERL BRUCE PACK, 85, of Ceredo, husband of Judy Pack, died Aug. 2 in St. Mary's Medical Center. Funeral service will be conducted 1 p.m. Aug. 6 at Rollins Funeral Home, Kenova. Visitation will be two hours before service. www.rollinsfh.com.
RANDALL KYLE SARGENT, 83, of Huntington died July 10 in Grayson’s Assisted Living. He was the General Chairman of the United Transportation Union. Reger Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements, which are incomplete. www.regerfh.com.
JONATHAN LUKE SPURLOCK, 30, of Huntington, son of Mark Spurlock and Lisa Flora, died July 31 at home. He worked at Taylor Iron and Metal. Chapman’s Mortuary is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete.
JOY LEE DOWNS THIELEN, 68, of Ashland, widow of Bruce E. Thielen, died Aug. 2 in King’s Daughters Medical Center. She was a Registered Nurse at KDMC and Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital. There will be a memorial service at 6 p.m. Aug. 6 at Steen Funeral Home Central Avenue Chapel. Private burial in Ashland Cemetery. www.steenfuneralhome.com.
DANNY RAY WALLER, 59, of Huntington, father of Danny and Danielle Waller, died July 31 in St. Mary’s Medical Center. He was a fixture installer for Menard’s. There will be a celebration of life service at a later date. www.chapmans-mortuary.com.
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KULPMONT, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — State police are searching for a man they say fired shots at a Northumberland County home Monday evening.
According to Pennsylvania State Police, around 7:00 p.m. troopers were called for an assault in the 1000 block of Spruce Street in Kulpmont Borough.
Troopers say they learned 42-year-old Brian Eugene Leyba, entered the front porch of the victim’s home when the two began to argue. Leybra pushed the victim into the door causing injury and entered the house where the argument continued, police said.
PSP stated a witness told Leybra that they called 911 and Leyba was seen exiting out of the front door, fired a shot into the porch floor, and threatened he would shoot the victim.
Dozens of law enforcement agencies including a K-9 unit and state police SERT units established a perimeter outside a home in the 1000 block of Chestnut Street as they investigated.
Residents nearby were evacuated and others were told to safely take shelter in their homes.
Eyewitness News had a crew at the scene throughout the night who heard loud bangs and law enforcement calling out to Leyba over a loudspeaker asking him repeatedly to come outside of the home.
At some point, Leyba was able to escape and has not been located at this time. A warrant is currently active for his arrest. The scene was cleared just after 5:30 Tuesday morning.
We spoke to Leyba’s neighbor who says the entire evacuation and standoff was surreal.
“The cops knocked on his door, but he wouldn’t answer the door, they knocked on our door and this was at 7:30 last night, and told us we had to leave. I thought he was a nice guy, he asked us for cigarettes twice so I didn’t think he was a bad guy,” explained Betty Libby.
This is a developing story Eyewitness remains on the scene at this time as the search continues.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
548 AM CDT Mon Aug 29 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Armstrong, southwestern Carson and southeastern Potter Counties
through 615 AM CDT...
At 547 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles north of Washburn, or 12 miles west of Panhandle, moving
southeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Amarillo, Panhandle, Washburn and Pantex.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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ByHeart is positioned to reliably and safely meet the needs of families across the country and fully reopen to customers in Q2 of 2023 with an eye toward retail expansion this year
The acquisition and pending FDA registration of this manufacturing facility, together with ByHeart's existing facilities, will provide the company with sufficient manufacturing capacity to achieve its goal of feeding 500,000 babies annually
With ownership of three manufacturing facilities across the U.S., ByHeart will further expand the company's full control and oversight of its production process
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, ByHeart announces the acquisition of an additional manufacturing facility that will enable the next-generation baby nutrition company to scale production capacity of its breakthrough infant formula and increase domestic infant formula supply. Recognizing that the formula industry, which historically has been dominated by three players who control 90% of the market, was in need of change, ByHeart founders Ron Belldegrun and Mia Funt began working with DairiConcepts' FDA-registered facility in Allerton, Iowa, in 2018 to proactively build redundancy into their production ecosystem.
ByHeart is acquiring the Allerton facility from DairiConcepts, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), the nation's largest dairy cooperative. ByHeart will be maintaining the facility's workforce and extending its best-in-class benefits to all existing employees. This announcement follows ByHeart's recent acquisition of Cascadia Nutrition, an FDA-registered packaging and blending facility in Portland, OR. Together, these facilities and the company's manufacturing plant in Reading, PA, will provide ByHeart with sufficient manufacturing capacity to achieve its goal of feeding an estimated 500,000 infants each year.
"Infant formula is a fundamental category and often the sole source of nutrition for babies. Since our launch, we've seen incredible demand for our product; the outpouring of positive feedback from ByHeart customers strengthened our conviction to double down on our supply chain in order to provide families with safe and reliable nourishment for their babies," says ByHeart CEO and Co-Founder Ron Belldegrun. "When we started ByHeart seven years ago, we committed to taking the longer path and building from the ground up to serve as an example for how this industry can and should evolve. By acquiring these additional facilities, we are not only providing critical product to more families, but also further strengthening the vulnerable infant formula supply chain in this country."
"Infant formula is one of the most value added dairy products in the world. We at Dairy Farmers of America are committed to producing high-quality milk and dairy ingredients in a sustainable way while building relationships that leverage the value of dairy nutrition for infant formula," says Martin Bates, president of DFA Ingredient Solutions. "We look forward to continuing to work with ByHeart, which we believe has the potential to unlock significant opportunity for our 11,500 family farmers across the country."
ByHeart's acquisition of an additional production facility dedicated to infant formula will yield a crucial incremental supply of infant formula in the US and ultimately contribute to safeguarding the country from future shortages. As the only infant formula newcomer able to use its clinical trials and manufacturing expertise to enhance the capabilities of existing facilities in the US, ByHeart is continuing to advance 21st-century nutrition to ensure access to a higher quality formula for more families.
When Belldegrun and Funt founded ByHeart in 2016, they set out to develop an infant formula that incorporated the advancements in modern nutrition science and breast milk research that had previously outpaced product innovation in this space. Building the company from scratch allowed ByHeart to personally source each ingredient, acquire their manufacturing and R&D, and apply rigorous quality standards to every touchpoint in the production process. This revolutionary approach yielded the first clinically proven, easy-to-digest infant formula with no corn syrup, maltodextrin, soy, or palm oil. ByHeart's patented protein blend gets closest to breast milk to drive "all in one" functional benefits for a baby. Results from ByHeart's breakthrough national clinical study have been published in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. Investing in end-to-end US manufacturing and owning three domestic facilities should allow ByHeart to provide formula to more families and strengthen the supply of this vital first food.
Founded in 2016 and based in New York City with manufacturing facilities across three states, ByHeart is a next-generation baby nutrition company dedicated to empowering parents with choices for a better feeding future. ByHeart is the first new infant formula manufacturer to be registered with the FDA in over 15 years, and its next-generation, easy-to-digest infant formula is defined by nutritional excellence and a farm-to-formula verified™ quality program. For more information on ByHeart, visit https://byheart.com.
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) is a national, farmer-owned dairy cooperative focusing on quality, innovation and the future of family dairies. While supporting and serving more than 11,500 family farm-owners, DFA manufactures nearly every form, function and flavor of nutritional dairy products, including fluid milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, dairy ingredients and more that connect our Cooperative's family farms to family tables with regional brands such as Alta Dena® Dairy, Meadow Gold® Dairy, Friendly®'s, Borden® Cheese, Plugrá® Premium Butter and Kemps® to name a few. On a global scale, we work with some of the world's leading food companies to develop ingredients that deliver the greatest source of nutrition to consumers around the world, while staying committed to social responsibility and ethical farming. For more information, please visit dfamilk.com.
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DAVENPORT, Fla., June 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- First National Realty Partners ("FNRP") a premier commercial real estate private equity firm, today announced the addition of Champion Townhomes in Davenport, FL to its necessity-based portfolio. The acquisition of Champion Townhomes is a part of the firm's continuous strategic expansion in the necessity-based commercial real estate sector.
Champion Townhomes, a newly built multi-family property located near Orlando, FL, offers 132 units designed for comfortable living. These spacious units primarily consist of two and three bedrooms, boasting exceptional finishes such as granite countertops, stylish wood/tile flooring, top-quality chef-inspired kitchens with modern cabinets, double sink vanities, and energy-saving double-pane windows. The property also provides a range of amenities for residents to enjoy, including a refreshing pool, a convenient dog park, in-unit washer/dryer facilities, and personal garage space.
"We believe that multi-family has remained a durable investment in periods of economic uncertainty," said Eduardo Viesca. "Due to an increase in home prices and interest rates, home ownership is not an option for many, leaving them searching for affordable housing options like Champion Townhomes. This along with the area's strong market and affluent demographics make it an attractive investment."
Located just 40 miles from Orlando and 16 miles from Winter Haven, the asset benefits from a growing population. From 2010 to 2020, the area's average population growth increased by 13.5%. It is strategically located near top employers and attractions such as Walt Disney World and other Florida theme parks, AdventHealth, Publix, and more. Within a five-mile radius of the property, the average household income is $51,000. The deal was co-sponsored by Southport Financial.
FNRP provides accredited investors with access to what we believe are institutional quality commercial real estate assets in the necessity-based real estate sector: grocery-anchored retail, multi-family, and industrial by sourcing opportunities both on and off-market nationwide. From acquisition to disposition, FNRP oversees the entire investment lifecycle 100% in-house, leveraging top talent in legal, acquisitions, leasing, and other key areas. For more information, visit www.fnrpusa.com.
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An investment in commercial real estate is subject to risk, including the risk that all of your investment may be lost. Any representations concerning investing in commercial real estate; to include representations as to stability, diversification, security, resistance to inflation and any other representations as to the merits of investing in commercial real estate reflect our belief concerning the representations and may or may not come to be realized. Cash distributions are not guaranteed.
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Election season is upon us, and one item on the ballot will determine how (or if) our region funds transportation for the next twenty years.
Orange County voters will have the chance to support a significant mobility investment in the form of a one-penny sales tax. These public investments are about transportation — but you should know that they’re about housing, too.
We won’t solve the long-term housing affordability crisis until we build more housing. Every economist, every housing expert, and Orange County government themselves will tell you this.
The Orlando Economic Partnership forecasts that our region will see 1,500 new residents every week for the next decade. Every week!
We will never get out of a housing shortage through sprawling single-unit homes on the periphery of the county.
The most effective, efficient, and sustainable way to deliver housing at scale is through density in our inner core. But for density to work, we can’t continue on our current path of complete car-dependency; we need robust public transportation.
Livable density is challenged by car-dependency in two key ways.
First is a matter of just raw space. Cars take up a lot of space. Parking takes up even more.
The mayor of Oviedo shared an analysis in a February 15 guest column that 75% more land in Oviedo is dedicated to roads and parking than to buildings. Oviedo isn’t Orange County, but you just need to pull up a satellite view on Google Maps to realize how much of our land is dedicated to the storage of big (and increasingly bigger) private vehicles.
The second way that car-dependency undercuts density is that even if you can solve for the space, the fact remains that cars lower the quality of life in dense environments. I’ve never been in a neighborhood that was too crowded with people; I’ve certainly been in some neighborhoods that were too crowded with cars.
Cars are loud. They pollute. They’re dangerous. The mayor of Paris recently challenged her neighbors to imagine a city where you can let go of your child’s hand. On the car-dominated streets of Orlando, that’s just not possible today.
When we can build neighborhoods that aren’t oriented around private vehicles — neighborhoods that are walkable, bikeable, and beautiful — then we can build for housing abundance. But to do that, we need a strong and reliable public transit system.
Orange County does have rail and bus, but they are not robust enough to support the sort of transit-integrated development that will deliver housing at scale. There are some things that you cannot do halfway — transit is one of them.
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45% of all revenue from the penny tax will go directly to Lynx and SunRail. It will nearly double the agencies’ combined budgets. This would be nothing short of incredible in a car-dominated region like ours.
It will help make sure that our rail system connects more people to more things, including new stations that serve residents in and near College Park, Rosemont, Apopka, and more in the northwest part of the county. It will connect the entire rail system to the airport, and if all goes to plan with the “Sunshine Corridor,” everything will connect to our tourism district.
The penny tax will support daily SunRail service and 15-minute frequencies at peak hours. It will halve wait times on most Lynx bus routes and expand the free LYMMO bus service to include additional in-town neighborhoods, like Ivanhoe and Health Village.
Now we’re talking about a situation where city-dwellers could give up their cars for many trips, or perhaps altogether.
For readers who wouldn’t use the transit and don’t live anywhere close to downtown Orlando, you have an even better reason to support transit: If you don’t want 200 more single-unit homes to pop up near you, the best thing you can hope for is that the next downtown high-rise has two hundred additional units in it. For that to happen, we need the transit.
If we want housing abundance (which we must) and if we want it where it belongs (which we should), then we need a transit system that supports it. We have a chance to make a transformational step in that direction this November.
Austin Valle is an Orange County Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor, and a leader with Orlando YIMBY, a non-profit that advocates for housing abundance.
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MERCED, Calif. (AP) — A man suspected of kidnapping a Sikh family, including an 8-month-old baby, in central California tried to kill himself Tuesday and is hospitalized in critical condition, authorities said. The family is still missing.
The Merced County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that investigators identified Jesus Salgado, 48, after he used a victims’ ATM card. The family was kidnapped Monday at gunpoint from a business in Merced, the office said, without providing further details.
Detectives obtained a surveillance photo from the ATM in Atwater, a city about 9 miles (14 kilometers) north of Merced, and “the person is similar in appearance to the surveillance photo from the original kidnapping scene,” the office said in a statement. The sheriff’s office had released two still images of a possible suspect seen in surveillance footage, and asked for the public’s help in identifying him.
Detectives received information that identified Salgado as a person of interest and that he attempted to take his own life before police arrived, the statement said, without specifying where he was taken into custody. The sheriff’s office will hold a news conference Wednesday to give more details.
The kidnapper took the baby, Aroohi Dheri; the child’s mother, Jasleen Kaur, 27; father Jasdeep Singh, 36; and uncle Amandeep Singh, 39, said Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke in a video published Monday on Facebook.
Warnke said the kidnapper made no ransom demands or contact of any kind.
Family members told KXTV-TV that the family, which has a trucking company, was taken from an office that they had only opened about a week earlier.
“My husband is very peaceful and calm person. We don’t have any clue why they kidnapped them,” said Jaspreet Caur, wife of the kidnapped uncle.
The sheriff said detectives believe the kidnapper destroyed unspecified evidence in an attempt to cover his tracks.
The sheriff’s office said in a statement Tuesday that firefighters on Monday found a pickup truck belonging to Amandeep Singh that was on fire. Merced Police Department officers went to Amandeep Singh’s home where a family member tried to reach him and the couple. When they were not able to reach their family members, they called the Merced County Sheriff’s Office to report them missing, the office said.
The sheriff’s office said the FBI, the California Department of Justice, and other local law enforcement agencies are helping with the investigation.
Merced is a city of 86,000 people about 125 miles (200 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco in the San Joaquin Valley.
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This story has been corrected to show Jasleen Kaur is 27, not 36, and Merced is southeast of San Francisco, not southwest. A previous version of this story incorrectly said the family was kidnapped from a business in Madera, not Merced.
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LAVAL, QC, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Neptune Wellness Solutions Inc. ("Neptune" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NEPT) (TSX: NEPT), a diversified and fully integrated health and wellness company focused on plant-based, sustainable and purpose-driven lifestyle brands, today announced that it has closed on the previously announced registered direct offering with several institutional investors for the purchase and sale of an aggregate of 1,945,526 common shares (or common share equivalents) of the Company, and accompanying two series of warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 3,891,052 common shares per series of warrants, at an offering price of $2.57 per share and accompanying warrants. Each series of warrants have an exercise price of $2.32 per share and are immediately exercisable upon issuance. One series of warrants will expire two years following the date of issuance and one series of warrants will expire five years following the date of issuance.
H.C. Wainwright & Co. acted as the exclusive placement agent for the offering.
The gross proceeds from the offering were $5 million, prior to deducting placement agent's fees and other offering expenses payable by Neptune and assuming none of the warrants issued in the offering are exercised for cash. Neptune intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for working capital and other general corporate purposes.
A registration statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-262411) relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, and was declared effective by the SEC on February 9, 2022. The offering of the securities was made only by means of a prospectus supplement filed with the SEC that forms a part of the registration statement. The offering was made in the United States only and no securities were offered in any jurisdiction of Canada or to, or for the benefit of, residents in any jurisdiction of Canada. Electronic copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus may be obtained by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or by contacting H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, 430 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10022, by email at placements@hcwco.com or by telephone at (212) 856-5711.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
For the purposes of TSX approval, the Company relied on the exemption set forth in Section 602.1 of the TSX Company Manual available to "Eligible Interlisted Issuers", since the common shares are also listed on the Nasdaq and had less than 25% of the overall trading volume of its listed securities occurring on all Canadian marketplaces in the twelve months immediately preceding the date on which the application was made to the TSX to approve the offering.
Headquartered in Laval, Quebec, Neptune is a diversified health and wellness company with a mission to redefine health and wellness.
Statements in this press release that are not statements of historical or current fact constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. securities laws and Canadian securities laws. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other unknown factors that could cause the actual results of Neptune to be materially different from historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In addition to statements which explicitly describe such risks and uncertainties, readers are urged to consider statements labeled with the terms "believes", "belief", "expects", "intends", "projects", "anticipates", "will", "should" or "plans" to be uncertain and forward-looking. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement and the "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information" section contained in Neptune's latest Annual Information Form (the "AIF"), which also forms part of Neptune's latest annual report on Form 40-F, and which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml. All forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date of this press release. Neptune does not undertake to update any such forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. The forward-looking statements contained herein include, without limitation, statements about the expected closing of the offering; anticipated use of proceeds of the offering; the Company's ability to obtain the requisite approvals and confirmations noted herein; and other risks and uncertainties that are described from time to time in Neptune's public securities filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Canadian securities commissions. Additional information about these assumptions and risks and uncertainties is contained in the AIF under "Risk Factors".
Neither Nasdaq nor the TSX accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Tuesday morning the city of Fort Worth and firefighters honored Jaziyah Parker, 12, for her quick thinking to call 911 back in March when she noticed her family became ill. Firefighters said they all were experiencing symptoms from carbon monoxide poisoning.
"What made me call 911, I saw my mama and siblings acting weird," said Parker during Tuesday morning's city council meeting.
Her mom, brothers and sister all sat in the front row as they watched their oldest sibling receive honors from Fort Worth City Council Member Chris Nettles and from Fort Worth Fire Chief Jim Davis.
"We’re here celebrating life today and the reason we’re celebrating life today is because of a 12-year-old," said Davis who gave Parker a plaque for her quick thinking and calmness in a life or death situation.
He also took the moment to stress the importance of having a carbon monoxide detector inside a home or apartment since it's an odorless and colorless gas that can be fatal.
The girl's mother said she was getting ready to put her then 5-month-old son to bed when she started feeling ill.
"I started throwing up, anytime I feel sick, I get in the tub or the shower always," said Ariel Mitchell, mother of the 5 siblings. "So I was running water so I could feel good, I started throwing up, started feeling more sick and woke up to an ambulance in my face, I had no idea what was going on."
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The mother, baby and other siblings began to pass out. 911 tapes released by Fort Worth Police detail the conversation Parker had with dispatch.
"Something is wrong with my mama," said Parker in the beginning as 911 dispatch took down her information.
"My baby brother, he’s only 5 months, and something wrong with him too, he’s acting different," she said to the dispatcher. "All of them keep on passing out now."
During the call, you could hear the screaming of other kids and Parker relaying the actions of those who were becoming more ill.
"Now my sister says she’s dizzy and shaking and all that," said Parker in the 911 call.
“I’m going to close the door, I’m scared," she said to the dispatcher.
One of the first responders to arrive at her door was Lt. Robby Leonguerrero with the Fort Worth Fire Department.
"Two of us went to investigate and brought the carbon monoxide detector just in case and once the little girl opened the door, the detector went off at 150 ppm which is quite a bit," said Leonguerrero.
He said he was greeted at the door by Parker. He could be heard at the end of the call asking who was inside the home, then his detector was beeping non-stop. Leonguerrero told Parker to get out of the house.
“I had ran downstairs and I had opened the door and they came in and told us to step outside. Then they took my siblings and mom out, I was texting my granny and telling her what was happening," said Parker.
"All she said was, 'Mom is upstairs in the bathtub,' and then collapsed. When you opened the door and you looked, saw her sister on the stairwell collapsed, vomiting, saw her brother upstairs vomiting and I knew they only had minutes so we didn't have time to go back to the truck and put our gear back on, they wouldn’t have lasted that long," explained Leonguerrero about his interaction with Parker.
He and several other firefighters were also honored for their courageous efforts to save the family without protective gear.
"Unfortunately we do see a lot of tragedy throughout our career and to see people that we save actually see them in person afterwards, makes the job all worth it," he said while meeting with Parker and her family.
“I’m proud of her, and I guess I’m doing a good job. I’m grateful to be here, I’m grateful for her, I’m grateful for the firefighters, and I thank everyone for y’alls concern," said Ariel Mitchell, Parker's mother who also said it's important to call 911 if you feel like anything is wrong.
Leonguerrero also applauded Parker for her quick actions and for calling 911.
"She was feeling the effects, you could tell, she had just enough to say ‘Mom is in the tub,' all she cared about was her family which was amazing," he said.
As for the 12-year-old who is looking forward to spending summertime with her family, she too acknowledged her actions and is glad that she did what she did.
“I know I did a good job," said Parker.
Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include vomiting, dizziness, headache, passing out, confusion and flu-like symptoms. To learn more on how to keep you and your family safe, click here.
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DOHA, Qatar — The U.S. soccer federation is displaying Iran's national flag on social media without the emblem of the Islamic Republic, saying it supports protesters in Iran ahead of the two nations' World Cup match Tuesday.
The federation said in a statement Sunday that it decided to forego the official flag on social media accounts to show "support for the women in Iran fighting for basic human rights."
The move comes as nationwide protests challenging Tehran's theocratic government continue in Iran.
The Twitter account of the U.S. men's team displayed a banner with the squad's matches in the group stage, with the Iranian flag only bearing its green, white and red colors. The same could be seen in a post on its Facebook and Instagram accounts laying out the point totals so far in its group.
The U.S. soccer federation displayed the official Iranian flag in a graphic showing Group B standings on its website.
The absence of the emblem comes as monthslong demonstrations have challenged Iran's government since the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been detained by the country's morality police.
The protests have seen at least 450 people killed since they started, as well as over 18,000 arrested, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, an advocacy group following the demonstrations.
Iran has not released casualty or arrest figures for months and alleges without providing evidence that the protests have been fomented by its enemies abroad, including the U.S.
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Tehran also restricts press access and has detained over 63 reporters and photographers since the demonstrations began, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, making covering the unrest that much more difficult.
Iran's mission to the United Nations and its soccer federation did not immediately respond to a request for comment. As comments raged online, Iran's semiofficial Tasnim news agency described the U.S. federation as "removing the symbol of Allah" from the Iranian flag.
The Islamic Republic emblem, designed in 1980, is four curves with a sword between them. It represents the Islamic saying: "There is no god but God." It also resembles a tulip or lotus.
At the top and the bottom of the flag, there are 22 inscriptions of "God is Great" as well, which honors the date on the Persian calendar when the Islamic Revolution took hold.
The flag has become a point of contention at the World Cup. Apparent pro-government supporters have waved it, shouting at those demonstrating over Amini's death. Others at matches have waved Iran's lion and sun flag, an emblem of its former ruler, the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
More security forces could be seen at Iran's last match against Wales. In the capital Tehran, anti-riot police — the same ones cracking down on protests — waved the Iranian flag after the Wales win, angering demonstrators.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority announced Tuesday it officially launched TD Tampa Bay.
TD Tampa Bay is a regional transportation disadvantaged service in partnership with Pinellas, Hillsborough and Pasco counties.
Just like the popular TD-Tampa Bay service that was discontinued in June 2021 because of a lack of funding, the service includes curb-to-curb regional trips to the three counties.
Back in June, the public transit provider received $1 million from the Florida Commission for Transportation Disadvantaged to relaunch the service.
“We are so excited to be re-launching this very popular service” Brad Miller, Chief Executive Officer of PSTA, said in a statement. “When the state funding was canceled last year, I know a lot of residents who relied on the service to get from Pinellas to Tampa or Pasco to Clearwater were left stranded.
"Now, they can get their lives back and travel where they please.”
The service is provided by companies like Uber, Lyft, Wheelchair Transport and taxi services for all qualified residents in the three counties.
While people in Hillsborough and Pasco counties have to wait until later this month, Pinellas County residents can use the TS Tampa Bay program now.
To qualify, call your local Transportation Disadvantaged Service provider in the County you live in:
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Nutrishop aims to help you end the year strong while creating new nutrition habits for a healthy 2023
HENDERSON, Nev., Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of the traditional 12 Days of Christmas, which officially begins Dec. 25 and ends Jan. 5, Nutrishop is sharing nutrition tips – one for each of the 12 days. Founded in 2003, Nutrishop is a national retail nutrition franchise specializing in dietary and nutritional supplements, vitamins, and wellness. Our goal is to help you navigate the rest of the holiday season while forming new and lasting nutrition habits for a healthy and strong 2023!
Here are 12 tips collected from Nutrishop franchisees Amy Jo Palmquest, Jay Vicino, Rick Rodriguez, Madison Garcia, and Shaun Freeman, and Nutrishop Brand Ambassador Brittinie Wick – all of whom have years of experience helping individuals improve their nutrition habits and get in the best shape of their lives.
Day 1: Get creative in finding "healthier" alternatives to your favorite holiday treats.
If your go-to treat is a Venti Starbucks Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha (which yields 91g of sugar), try mixing a scoop of White Chocolate Peppermint PRO7EIN Synthesis™ in your coffee at home. Satiates the sweet tooth while providing 34g of complete protein from seven high-quality protein sources.
Day 2: Think improvement rather than perfection.
Don't get into the mindset of "all or nothing." Your eating doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be better than what it used to be.
Day 3: Focus on moderation.
Moderation works like this: 80% of the time, eat nutritious whole foods, like vegetables, fruits, whole grains, healthy fats, and lean proteins. The other 20% can be "treat" eating. Just make sure it's truly 20% because those portions can easily creep up in size.
Day 4: Increase your fiber intake.
Fiber helps maintain digestive health, control blood sugar, lower cholesterol, and helps you feel fuller longer. Some ways to increase fiber intake include the following:
- Eat whole-grain cereal or oatmeal.
- Add half a cup of beans or lentils to your salad.
- Enjoy whole fruit like pears, apples, melons, or passion fruit.
- Toss a scoop of Fiber 4 by Trailhead Nutrition® in your morning smoothie to start your day.
Day 5: Avoid processed foods.
Processed foods are made in a factory and often have unhealthy chemical additives. The more processed a food is, the fewer calories your body uses to partition the nutrients out of the food. That's because those nutrients have been destroyed or altered. Lean proteins, fruits, veggies, and superfoods are incredibly beneficial because they leave all the work to your body. You will actually burn more calories daily by switching from processed to whole foods.
Day 6: Take Magnesium
Magnesium is an essential mineral the body needs for optimal wellness, exercise performance, brain function, heart and bone health, and much more. If you aren't getting enough magnesium in your daily diet, you should. Whole foods are best, but when you need to fill in the gaps of your nutrition, check out Magnesium Complex by Elemental Health. Keep in mind, not all magnesium supplements are created equal. Magnesium Complex uses highly absorbable chelated forms of magnesium to yield the desirable amount of usable magnesium per serving and deliver the daily amount your body needs.
Day 7: Monitor alcohol consumption.
While tossing back several spirited beverages on New Year's Eve may be what you usually do, this year, try to limit your alcohol consumption and start the new year without a hangover. Besides, alcohol is full of empty calories and can be very dehydrating.
Day 8: Stay hydrated.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends women consume about 11-12 cups of water per day and men consume 15-16 cups of water per day. Water is vital for many reasons, including carrying nutrients to your cells and promoting weight loss. Drink up!
Day 9: Track and measure your nutrition habits.
If you haven't noticed any changes or results yet, start tracking and measuring your nutrition habits using an app like MyFitnessPal or LoseIt. Put some effort into the details if you want the best results. For example, what are you putting in your coffee? What condiments are you using? Where are you eating out, and how often? The little things often become big things over enough time.
Day 10: Decide if you are hungry or bored.
More often than not, you'll most likely find it's the latter. If so, drop what you're doing right when you think you're hungry and drink a tall glass of water or a flavored beverage. Sometimes your body is simply thirsty, not hungry.
Day 11: Consider increasing your protein intake.
Protein is essential for muscle growth, satiety, new cell growth, hormone production, and metabolism. The recommended dietary allowance for protein is 0.8g of protein per kg of body weight. However, this recommendation is for a normal, average person. To build muscle, you should aim for 1.2g - 1.7g of protein per kg of body weight per day.
Day 12: Join a transformation challenge near you.
Nutrishop locations throughout the United States will host transformation challenges starting in January to encourage customers to shed unwanted pounds and get in the best shape of their lives. A weeks-long challenge often makes setting goals and staying on track easier. Plus, it will help you create sustainable habits, and it's a great way to meet new people and learn new workouts and nutrition tips.
Want more help? Stop by any Nutrishop location nationwide and speak to a caring nutrition professional about your nutrition goals today!
Since 2003, NUTRISHOP® has helped countless individuals live a fit, healthy, happy lifestyle. Nutrishop stores offer customers a low-price guarantee on a wide array of cutting-edge dietary supplements along with exceptional, individualized customer service, easy-to-follow meal plans, body composition assessment tools, and sound nutritional guidance. The Nutrishop business model focuses primarily on franchisee-owned and operated stores that provide consumers with the tools required to achieve their health and fitness goals. For more information, visit NutrishopUSA.com and follow on Instagram @NutrishopUSA. To learn more about becoming a Nutrishop franchisee, visit NutrishopFranchise.com.
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A rare three-hour edition of WTMJ Nights and Scott Warras kicks it off with some self-reflection, literally and figuratively! Why is it that we view ourselves differently in a mirror than we do when seeing a photograph or a video of us? Call Scott crazy, but there is something to this, right?!
Then, with graduation season upon us, it’s time to offer up some advice for the young men and women walking across stages and receiving diplomas this time of year. No matter how old you are or how long ago you graduated, there is some pearl of wisdom that you can share with the graduates of 2022. Scott takes your calls and texts.
Plus, it’s time to put a bow on the Milwaukee Bucks season. Scott is joined by Bucks Radio Network Studio Host Justin Garcia to offer a postmortem on the recently completed season and look ahead too. What possible changes might come to the team this offseason? Justin explains how some tweaking on the fringes might solve some of the team’s postseason issues that were exposed against Boston.
Finally, as is customary, Scott caps off the show with “Great Scott!”. Tonight, it includes the reason why we never see a TV character utter the word “good-bye” when speaking on a telephone, the reason why Texans need to check their pool noodles this summer, and how one fast-food customer plans to take McDonald’s and Wendy’s to court over claims of false advertising.
Sit back, relax, and listen to the full show — commercial free — right here!
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BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Phish will play two special shows next month to benefit flood recovery efforts in Vermont and upstate New York.
The band, which was formed in Vermont in 1983, says on its website that it will play at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in New York on Aug. 25 and Aug. 26.
The band said 100% of net proceeds from all concert and merchandise sales will be directed to a 2023 Flood Recovery Fund that’s part of a foundation it created in 1997. Phish “will support the many victims and their families, area businesses and nonprofits.”
The band has been on tour.
“As soon as we realized the scope of the devastation, we all together said, ‘Is there anything we can do?’” Phish member Page McConnell told WCAX-TV. “The wheels started turning within the first few days of all the rain and flooding that was happening up there.”
Storms dumped up to two months’ worth of rain over a couple of days in parts of the region earlier this month.
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GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — A weekend shooting inside a northern Indiana home that killed two people and wounded three others was followed by a young girl crying out for help, a neighbor said.
Police released few details after Saturday's shooting in a home along a cul-de-sac in Goshen, saying only that two males died and three other people were wounded in the city about 20 miles southeast of South Bend.
The names and ages of the victims and the circumstances of the shooting have not been disclosed, but Goshen's mayor scheduled a Monday evening news conference with city police and the Elkhart County Prosecutor’s Office to discuss the deadly shooting.
Neighbor Nicteloy Diaz told The Goshen News that around the time of the shooting she saw a girl in the window of the home who cried out that someone inside had been shot in the back and the leg.
“Within five minutes there were cops all over the place,” she said. “After that the police told us to go inside.”
Another neighbor, Julia Blyly, said she “heard four really loud booms” Saturday afternoon come from the house, which is two homes down from hers. But until police arrived she assumed the noises were just someone working on a car nearby.
Blyly said that in the past she had brought Christmas candy to the children who lived at the home.
“They always seemed so friendly,” she said, calling the shooting “awful.”
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The rollicking, interactive choir brings its harmonies to Noordam during the 14-day Australia and New Zealand Voyage on January 27
SEATTLE, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- International music phenomenon Pub Choir will join Holland America Line's award-winning live entertainment offerings with lively and participatory performances on Noordam's January 27 Australia and New Zealand cruise sailing Auckland to Sydney.
Hailing from Australia, the interactive choir will unite Holland America Line guests for several memorable evenings of fun and song in Noordam's Rolling Stone Lounge. Pub Choir leader Astrid Jorgensen, a former music teacher turned world-renowned music director, will divide the crowd into three groups to harmonize performances of popular tunes. Prior music experience is not a prerequisite as Pub Choir, described as the world's funniest, easiest music lesson, transforms a regular audience into an incredible choir during their three performances during the 14-Day Australia and New Zealand voyage.
"Pub Choir is a massive hit in Australia and gaining fans around the globe. Guests who are new to Pub Choir will quickly see why this dynamic show is popular Down Under and a highlight for Holland America Line's award-wining live music performances on Noordam," said Kacy Cole, vice president of marketing for Holland America Line.
In addition to three Pub Choir performances, the cruise will feature Step One Dance Company on World Stage, talented piano players at Billboard Onboard and live rock and popular dance music in Rolling Stone Lounge.
About Pub Choir
A recent recipient of a Medal of the Order from Australia, Jorgensen founded Pub Choir in Brisbane, Australia in 2017. In 2020, Pub Choir transformed into Couch Choir which helped connect people during pandemic lockdowns. Pub Choir has since returned to in-person performances and has been applauded by musical celebrities Kate Bush, Mariah Carey and Sir Barry Gibb. Pub Choir's upcoming international tour visits the U.S. and UK through September 2023.
"I can't wait to hit the high seas with some 'High Cs' on Holland America Line," said Jorgensen. "It's ok if your singing voice is rusty, just bring your mouth to the show and I'll help with the rest!"
Join the Sailing
Noordam's 14-day voyage embarks in Auckland, calling at six ports in New Zealand where guests can visit the idyllic beaches of Tauranga, explore the vibrant communities of Christchurch and Napier, relax in Timaru, and discover historic Dunedin before sailing through Fiordland National Park. The ship then sails to three Australian ports including Hobart, the creative capital of Tasmania, cosmopolitan Melbourne and metropolis Sydney, where guests disembark.
Cruise fares begin at US $1,159 per person, double occupancy. Guests can book and save with the Have It All promotion and receive a Signature Beverage package, Shore Excursion Credit, Specialty Dining and a Wi-Fi Surf Package.
For more information about Holland America Line, consult a travel advisor, call 1-300-987-322 or visit hollandamerica.com.
Find Holland America Line on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and the Holland America Blog. You can also access all social media outlets via the home page at hollandamerica.com.
About Holland America Line [a division of Carnival Corporation and plc (NYSE: CCL and CUK)]
Holland America Line has been exploring the world for 150 years with expertly crafted itineraries, extraordinary service and genuine connections to the destinations. Offering an ideal mid-sized ship experience, its fleet visits nearly 400 ports in 114 countries around the world and has shared the thrill of Alaska for 75 years — longer than any other cruise line. Holland America Line's 11 vessels feature a diverse range of enriching activities and amenities focused on destination immersion and personalized travel. The best live music at sea fills each evening at Music Walk, and dining venues feature exclusive selections from a Culinary Council of world-famous chefs.
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Nick Knight debuts his first NFT drop, " ikon-1," featuring UglyWorldWide,
in SHOWstudio's first step into Web3, harnessing the language of Knight's
editorials to bring style and beauty to the metaverse.
LONDON, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Nick Knight, one of the world's most celebrated fashion photographers, and founder and director of SHOWstudio, is finally bringing his long-standing digital fashion editorial process to the blockchain this fall with an innovative NFT drop. Knight is pushing the boundaries of image-making with genre-defining, photorealistic avatars in collaboration with model and Instagram star Jazzelle Zanaughtti, better known by their social media moniker @Uglyworldwide.
These collectable artworks feature digital fashion, make-up, hair, and nails by a cohort of over 40 innovators, degens, and mavericks at the forefront of fashion's digital future, personally curated by Knight and Zanaughitti. The collection features over 200 unique traits that have been produced to create 8,000 one-of-a-kind artworks styled by Zanaughtti, further allowing them authorship over their image and personal style while preparing each avatar for its editorial debut in the metaverse.
Nick Knight is one of the earliest adopters of 3D scanning, bringing subjects and fashion into the virtual realm as early as 1998, just before he launched SHOWstudio. With 3D collaborations with icons like Kanye, Bjork, and Lady Gaga, and fashion brands including Burberry and Margiela, Knight is, unsurprisingly, leading the way in bringing fashion imagery to the blockchain.
Over 40 exceptional creatives have contributed to this radical new form of fashion image-making. From digital native fashion designers such as Tribute Brand and Scarlett Yang to rising star Nusi Quero. In addition to make-up looks created by Zanaughitti, the project features collaborations with legendary hairstylist Eugene Souleiman, world-renowned nail artist Marian Newman, and long-time SHOWstudio collaborator digital artist Tom Wandrag.
Once minted, each ikon-1 will also have its own personal homepage with expanded views of your NFTs. This page will act as your gateway to SHOWstudio's future Web3 fashion programming, providing early access to upcoming projects and drops. Holding an ikon-1 is the only way to secure access to fashion's digital future.
"My aim is to make SHOWstudio into a virtual space where you can come interact in a meaningful and entertaining way. And this project is the first step towards that."
- Nick Knight
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Sticky and stormy have been the two common weather themes ever since summer began, and that doesn't look to change anytime soon, right through next week. Granted there will be a couple days thrown in there where not much is going on other than hazy and humid conditions. Most of Saturday looks to stay mainly dry, especially the first half of the day. So, chances for showers and thunderstorms will go back up Saturday night into Sunday, and pop up again on Tuesday. Saturday, Monday, and Wednesday look to be our best bets at staying thunderstorm-free. Highs will be mostly in the 80s with continued high humidity in general, though we might see a return to slightly more comfortable humidity values on Monday and Wednesday.
DETAILED FORECAST
SATURDAY
Saturday will be the better weekend day, with a mix of clouds and hazy sunshine. It will still be very warm and humid, with highs in the upper 80s to near 90 degreees, and while an isolated thunderstorm can't be ruled out, most locations likely stay dry, at least during the day. Shower and thunderstorm chances then look to steadily rise Saturday night into Sunday, likely the wetter half of the weekend.
SUNDAY
First off, this Sunday will not be a repeat of last Sunday's flash flooding. However, for the second straight week, Sunday will bring the highest chances for some scattered showers and storms, with a round or two moving through Saturday night and another round or two possible during the day on Sunday. It won't rain all day, but some heavy downpours remain possible given the continued high humidity with a possibility for flooding. Thanks to the wet weather and more cloud cover, temperatures will ease a bit, dialing back to the middle 80s in the afternoon and middle 60s overnight.
MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY
We can likely sneak in a dry Monday and rule out any thunderstorms, which means more sunshine and likely our best chance of hitting 90 degrees for this forecast. Expect mostly sunny skies and likely an entirely dry day, all-be-it, a hot start to the week too. But there is a brief glimmer of hope in that some model guidance as of late is suggesting dew points drop into the lower 60s, or even high 50s, for Monday, which would feel better compared to what it's been like. A cold front should bring another increased chance of a few showers and storms during the PM hours Tuesday as high temperatures remain very warm in the upper 80s. Another brief return to more comfortable humidity values looks to settle in for Wednesday with mostly sunny skies and actually fairly pleasant high temperatures in the mid to upper 80s.
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The Biden administration on Friday announced that Ethiopian nationals in the United States will become eligible to apply for work permits and deferral from deportation in light of the East African nation’s ongoing civil war.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas designated Ethiopia for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a program that allows nationals of a country undergoing man-made or natural disasters to stay and work in the United States.
Ethiopia’s civil war is the largest ongoing conflict in the world, with more than a million Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
“The United States recognizes the ongoing armed conflict and the extraordinary and temporary conditions engulfing Ethiopia, and DHS [the Department of Homeland Security] is committed to providing temporary protection to those in need,” Mayorkas said in a statement.
Although Ethiopia has been host to ethnic strife, famine and other humanitarian disasters, it is the first time the country has been designated for TPS.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.) celebrated the designation, saying, “Ethiopia’s spiraling armed conflict is the exact reason why we created the TPS program.”
“President Biden is absolutely right in granting Ethiopian nationals long-overdue temporary deportation protections as their country faces wave after wave of unprecedented violence and upheaval that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity,” said Menéndez.
With the designation, Ethiopian nationals in the United States as of Thursday will be allowed to apply for TPS protections. Ethiopian nationals who travel to the United States as of Friday are still subject to deportation.
With the designation, Ethiopia joins 15 other countries with TPS, including Afghanistan, Ukraine, Syria, Nepal and Yemen.
The Ethiopian immigrant population in the United States grew from around 10,000 people in 1980 to around 180,000 in 2014, according to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI).
MPI says immigration from Ethiopia particularly accelerated after the year 2000, primarily through refugee and family reunification channels.
Ethiopians will be allowed to apply for protections under the 18-month TPS designation regardless of their current immigration status.
“Ethiopian nationals currently residing in the U.S. who cannot safely return due to conflict-related violence and a humanitarian crisis involving severe food shortages, flooding, drought, and displacement, will be able to remain and work in the United States until conditions in their home country improve,” Mayorkas said.
While some TPS designations are almost automatically renewed by DHS, 12 countries, or parts of those countries, have previously been designated for TPS and later removed from the program.
TPS beneficiaries are mostly barred from applying for any other immigration status, so longtime TPS holders depend on continuous redesignation to continue to work and avoid deportation, regardless of how long they’ve lived in the United States.
“Beyond this critical designation, we also encourage Members of Congress to use the numerous bills before them to provide lasting stability for other TPS holders who have no clear path to lawful permanent residency and remain in revolving legal limbo,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
The current Ethiopian civil war is an extension of a longstanding ethnic conflict in Ethiopia and Eritrea, which has put more than 10 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.
“Ethiopia has been plunged into a devastating civil war, making return for Ethiopian nationals a potentially fatal prospect, particularly for those of the Tigrayan minority. Armed conflict has ushered in brutal attacks, killings, rape, other forms of gender-based violence, as well as flagrant human rights violations,” Vignarajah said
“The Biden administration’s designation is an important recognition that no Ethiopian on the safety of U.S. soil should be returned to such dire circumstances. The move is a potentially lifesaving reprieve for tens of thousands of Ethiopians who have already contributed so much to U.S. communities,” she added.
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Like thousands of high school juniors across Nebraska, Nola Rhea will make a big decision about her future in the coming months.
The 17-year-old is enrolled in the academically rigorous International Baccalaureate program at Lincoln High School. She participated in debate and played the part of Israel in the Model United Nations. This spring, she scored a 33 on the ACT, putting her in the 99th percentile nationally on the college entrance exam.
A resume like that would likely qualify Rhea for a Regents Scholarship at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, allowing her to attend what she described as her long-time dream school tuition-free to pursue an education in political science.
But Rhea, who is transgender, plans to give all that up.
With the passage of LB574 last week, the puberty blockers and hormone therapy Rhea has been taking since she began her transition more than two years ago could soon become illegal in Nebraska.
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The controversial measure from Omaha Sen. Kathleen Kauth, which was part of a wave of similar legislation introduced in statehouses across the country, banned all gender-affirming medications and surgeries for anyone under the age of 19 in Nebraska.
An amendment to the bill from Sen. Ben Hansen of Blair, added during an intense and emotional third and final round of debate earlier this month, removed the prohibition on medications from the bill and instead put regulating those treatments under the purview of the state’s chief medical officer.
Opponents of the bill raised concerns that the rules put in place by a gubernatorial appointee will likely put those medications out of reach for transgender youths like Rhea after Oct. 1, when the bill goes into effect.
The uncertainty has led Rhea and her mother, Heather, who have tracked the bill's progress from its introduction in January to a marathon committee hearing in February to the final floor debate on Day 81 of the Legislature last week, to reassess their lives.
Should they make arrangements to leave the state together? Could Nola live for a year with family in Colorado or friends in Minnesota while she finishes high school? Or would it be possible to stock up on enough medications that would last until Nola turned 19?
Even then, with conservative lawmakers promising to continue pushing for more restrictions for transgender-related health care, would Nebraska even be an option?
Rhea said the fact that her family has had to have those discussions illustrates the bill's immediate impact since its introduction.
“It’s not about the medication, it’s about the message,” Rhea said. “The message is, ‘You are not welcome here.’ I think that’s the thrust of it, and I think that’s the thing that gets me so worried about the future here.”
For Heather Rhea, who watched tearfully from the balcony on several occasions as the Legislature debated LB574, the fear of what comes next is just as palpable.
She dreads her child backsliding into the deep depression she was experiencing before beginning her transition, when she learned Nola had been making — and hiding — suicidal gestures.
“As a parent, I feel like I’m in a place where I can’t protect my child,” she said.
Abbi Swatsworth, executive director for OutNebraska, said the advocacy group for LGBTQ communities in Nebraska has fielded more questions from parents about what states might be more welcoming for trans teens as the debate over LB574 continued.
Currently, OutNebraska is encouraging parents to consult with their health care providers and watch as the rules and regulations for hormone replacement therapy are developed, Swatsworth said.
No one has advised anyone to move, but it is something several families have been exploring, she added.
"I think parents always want to do what's best for their kids and their family," Swatsworth said.
"They want a safe environment, an environment where their family is affirmed and not compared to the devil," she added, referring to a comment made by Gov. Jim Pillen at the signing ceremony for LB574 on Monday.
Pillen said the bill will prevent parents from getting "duped into the silliness" that, if they help their teens transition, they will become happier.
"That is absolutely Lucifer at its finest," the governor added.
"I am appalled he would characterize parents using that language," Swatsworth said. "I wish I could demand an apology, but I don't think we're going to get one."
Heather Rhea said comments like Pillen's misunderstand what trans youth and their families experience by having access to care and only serve to increase hostility to people like Nola.
Before LB574's introduction, Nola had never had any issues at school after coming out as transgender. There was no bullying. Nobody in the broader community of Lincoln ever approached her with a nasty comment.
"Her life hasn't been harder because of it until now," Heather said.
The transition
Before she hit puberty, Nola Rhea said she would often go to bed wishing she would wake up as a girl.
"I had no clue there was anything wrong with me," she said. "It didn't seem unusual at all."
But once her body began to grow and change, hair growing on her arms and legs, her voice deepening, Nola said her desire to wake up as someone else turned into an intense self-loathing.
She hated her appearance, tucking her arms all the way inside the sleeves of her sweatshirt and pulling the hood as far over her face as it would go so no one could see her at school.
When Nola spoke, she put on an affectation to hide the changes to her voice from her family and friends.
“I was horrified at what was happening to me, I was not happy at all and became depressed,” she said. “I didn’t want to be perceived at all because I didn’t like who I was.”
Nola would later determine she was likely suffering from gender dysphoria, the feeling that her biological sex and gender identity did not match, but the self-diagnosis only focused her depression further.
As she descended into depression, Nola began to harm herself, which she was able to hide from her mother until friends told school officials that Nola, then in sixth grade, was expressing thoughts about suicide.
It was a terrifying revelation, Heather Rhea said. Her child was so smart, so kind, and so loved. Heather and her family refused to leave her alone or to quit on her.
Gradually, Nola began to emerge from the darkness. After seventh grade, she floated the idea that she was a girl to her mother — and found acceptance.
“I was like, ‘OK, what’s your name?’” Heather recalled asking.
Nola and Heather began attending therapy in the fall of 2019 at a clinic in Lincoln, where they each filled out a lengthy questionnaire and watched informational videos about gender transitions and the effects of hormone therapy.
As she grew in confidence and understanding of who she was, Nola told a friend, testing the waters ahead of a full social transition, when she would tell her family and teachers and peers at school in the spring of 2020.
Everyone Nola told was supportive, including family members and long-time friends. To a person, they just wanted Nola to be happy.
“I would say she did a pretty good job of advocating for herself,” Heather said.
Once she came out as trans, and before she started gender-affirming care, both Nola and Heather noticed an incredible difference. No longer did she feel the need to hide, she said, feeling more comfortable in her own skin.
Months of therapy and counseling always ended with the two being sent home to think through the options and consider how they wanted to proceed as doctors and multiple clinics reviewed Nola's case file, Heather explained.
Once she was deemed a good candidate for gender transition, Nola finally began hormone therapy in October 2020, just weeks before her 15th birthday.
Nola was given a regimen that included spironolactone, a testosterone blocker that was long used by medical professionals as a blood pressure medication.
She was also given estradiol — the hormone estrogen — and once doctors were satisfied that the two were well-balanced in her system through a series of monthly blood draws, she was also prescribed progesterone a year later, to help further her transition.
For the Rheas, the information and care provided by medical professionals through a slow, deliberative process saved Nola's life.
Nola's personality hasn't changed, nor has her wry sense of humor or her kindness, her mother said: "Now she's who she was supposed to be."
Instead of putting in so much effort to be something she's not, Heather said Nola has been able to channel her energy into school and extracurricular activities and friends.
Nola said she hasn't considered suicide since.
'I don't think it will stop there'
Included in the final version of LB574 was a "grandfather clause," a provision allowing transgender youth who began using "puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, or both" before the law goes into effect to continue doing so.
That likely means Nola would be able to continue obtaining her medications for the next year or so when she turns 19 and would no longer be subject to the language of LB574.
But both Nola and Heather say the uncertainty around how the law will be interpreted by doctors and clinics that specialize in gender-affirming care is cause for worry.
They also empathize with the transgender youth who are in the same situation they found themselves in nearly four years ago, before she was able to get help from doctors and therapists.
"If it's illegal to get that medication for people who are under the age of 19, people who really want it and really need it are going to get it extra-legally (illegally)," Nola said. "And there's not going to be doctors prescribing it, there's not going to be people testing your blood to make sure your potassium levels are OK.
"The medical oversight that is there is going to disappear. People already do this in a lot of places; they get them online and self-medicate, and that's not good," she added. "That's dangerous."
Nola also said Kauth's "Let Them Grow" act included what she referred to as "a less-intuitive flaw" that many lawmakers didn't consider before pushing their green button to advance the bill.
Yes, it's true that young people make mistakes and their brains don't fully develop until the age of 25, she said, as was repeated dozens of times during floor debate.
Puberty blockers might slow down the changes to the body, resulting in a lower bone density or stunt an individual's height somewhat, but they also don't stop a person from going through puberty if and when they decide to do so, she said.
"Why can't we, at a minimum, delay puberty until they are old enough that they actually want to make that decision (to go through puberty)," Nola said. "Really, it is forcing people to go through normal puberty that may, for people like me who are trans, be a painful experience."
Heather said while she and Nola will likely be fine when the new law takes effect, she added her heart breaks for the parents who don't yet know their kids are transgender.
"Their options will be so limited and so much harder," Heather said. "It's already not easy."
Like the Rheas, when that day comes, they may also take a serious look at their options, both in Nebraska and elsewhere.
Nola says she would prefer not to leave Nebraska, where she once envisioned a career working on public policy and hoped to one day run for public office — "I think politics is the best avenue for making the world a better place for people like me" — but the changing climate for transgender individuals and youth in particular has changed her perspective.
At the signing ceremony for LB574 earlier this week, Pillen and Kauth both suggested further legislation targeting transgender youth could come before lawmakers next year.
In a tweet on Tuesday, Pillen said "LB574 is just the start."
Nola agrees with the governor and senator's assessment, and said it has led to her decision to pursue higher education, and potentially a life beyond, in a different state.
"I don't think it will stop there," she said, "so I don't want to wait around here and see how bad it gets."
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An 18-year-old student named Harvey Kesselman arrived for Stockton College’s opening day at an Atlantic City Boardwalk hotel in 1971, knowing he was attending a new, experimental school.
That didn’t stop him from being amazed by the non-traditional atmosphere.
“We went walking up one of the Boardwalk ramps ... to the then-condemned Mayflower Hotel,” Kesselman said in a recent interview as he is about to step down as Stockton University’s president.
The hotel, now demolished, was the interim location for much of the initial semester while the Galloway Township campus was being finished, Kesselman said.
The first faculty member he met was chemistry professor Shelby Broughton, whom he still sees from time to time.
“He had a long, long ponytail. He was wearing a leather vest, leather pants and no shirt. That is who my original preceptor or adviser was. I thought I was in La La Land, quite frankly,” Kesselman said. “He turned out to be one of the most brilliant people I ever met.”
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The second faculty member he ran into was political science professor Bill Daly, whom he calls a Stockton legend. Daly died Jan. 31 at 83.
“He was a Midwestern conservative looking guy … in a short-sleeve shirt with a tie. It was two different worlds yet in the same place. It turned out to be an extraordinary experience.”
Kesselman, 72, graduated from Stockton with a political science degree and lots of math credits, and has worked at Stockton for more than 40 years, the last eight as president.
His last day will be Friday, after which new president Joe Bertolino takes over. Bertolino, named the sixth president of Stockton in March, leaves his post as the president of Southern Connecticut State University to come to Stockton.
Inheriting the Showboat issue
In 2015, Kesselman was named the president of the University of Southern Maine, but then-Stockton President Herman Saatkamp resigned after a botched attempt to open an Atlantic City campus at the former Showboat casino hotel.
Under Saatkamp, Stockton had purchased the Showboat for $18 million and sank another $8 million into it, even though it was under restrictive covenants that made it impossible to put a campus there.
When he was offered the Stockton presidency, Kesselman took it and then led the effort to sell the Showboat to Bart Blatstein, who now operates it as a hotel, and to build the city campus in the Chelsea neighborhood instead.
“I really don’t like to talk about Showboat,” Kesselman said. “I think he (Saatkamp) made a calculated risk. ... We all take risks and some of them work out and some of them don’t. It’s that simple.”
Kesselman credits Stockton with transforming his life. He was the first in his family to complete college — his mother graduated from high school but his father didn’t. And he eventually got his doctorate in higher education administration from Widener University.
He also met his wife, Lynne, at Stockton; they have three adult children.
But his K-12 educational experience was a lot more mixed, he said in a recent interview.
‘I was the class clown’
“I was the class clown,” he said of his days in elementary school in the Philadelphia suburbs. “My fourth grade teacher made me sit up in front of the class with my back to everyone else for almost a whole year. It was only when I won the (Delaware County) spelling bee she let me go sit back with my classmates.”
He didn’t like the regimentation of high school, going from class to class every 42 minutes with little choice in the matter.
“That’s not the way I think,” Kesselman said. “I always tested well, but I didn’t enjoy it.”
Kesselman realized he was a self-directed learner who read newspapers voraciously and read deeply on subjects in which he had an interest.
“That’s why Stockton was so appealing to me,” he said of the idea of an experimental college in which students carved their own paths of study. “In the early days, it was almost exclusively self-directed.”
The lack of structure was good for him, but not for many other students. The early graduation rate was only about 25%, he said.
Back then, young people rebelled against authority and the older generation, but today the divide is different, he said, and focused on identity.
“It’s ideological warfare happening right now. Facts become meaningless. It’s almost all emotional,” Kesselman said.
At Stockton, those ideological divides aren’t as overt, he said.
“Our students here get along really well. I was stunned — happily — that students crossing the political spectrum all waited four hours to get in to see (former GOP California Gov. Arnold) Schwarzenegger. That surprised me.”
Schwarzenegger spoke at Stockton in March.
Over the years, Kesselman has held almost every high level job at the school, helped it morph into a more traditional one, and eventually into the university it is now.
If he were staying longer, his next big project would be to start a law school at the city campus, Kesselman said.
“If I had five more years, it would happen,” he said.
He’d also love to see the completion of Phase 3 of the city campus, a potential mixed-use building on an empty beach lot near the campus, and the building of a coastal resiliency center at Gardner’s Basin, he said.
But to look ahead much further is difficult because artificial intelligence is evolving so rapidly that it’s almost impossible to predict how it will affect all fields, including education, he said.
‘I’m a blue collar kid at best’
Kesselman grew up in Media, Pennsylvania, with a father who worked in gas stations and later had his own, and a mother who worked in a shop that sold chickens.
A brother went into the military and a sister married out of high school. He was the baby of the family and the first to go to college.
One of his first jobs at Stockton was tutoring math.
“I always loved working with first generation and less-advantaged kids,” he said. “I’m a blue collar kid at best.”
When he sees his last name up on the Atlantic City campus’s first residence hall and on a city street — both recently named for him — he thinks of the years he vacationed there with his family.
“We would save up for two years to do four or five days in Atlantic City. We’d stay in these motels, not high-end hotels,” Kesselman said. “Just one generation later as a result of education, a few blocks away a road and a building are named after me. That really speaks to the value of education.”
The four Stockton presidents who preceded him mentored him, Kesselman said, helping prepare him to eventually take over.
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear,” Kesselman said. “I would seek out their advice. That’s something I’d encourage all young people to do.”
Relationships are important, he said, and admits that his extraversion helped him develop those relationships.
“It’s much more difficult for introverted people. I try to encourage them to get out of that mode and don’t worry about it,” he said. “It’s hard to be a university president — or a senior administrator — and introverted ... even though many times they are the most thoughtful.”
When he’s not working, however, he can be a bit of a loner he said. He’ll sit down and read a book — he’s often in the middle of several at one time.
Right now, he’s reading Malcolm Gladwell’s “Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know” and Thomas Sowell’s “Economic Facts and Fallacies.”
Getting an early start
It has also helped his career to need just four to six hours of sleep each night.
“My day starts no later than 4 a.m. every day, seven days a week. I have never needed an alarm clock in my life,” he said.
That has given him about four more waking hours a day than most people, which may be the single most significant factor in his career trajectory, Kesselman said.
By 8 a.m. he has already read several newspapers and higher education periodicals, written emails and prepared himself for whatever is coming.
It’s difficult to predict what Stockton will be like in 18 years for a child born today. But there will always be a need to help transform teenagers into adults, he said. So he doesn’t see the campus experience going away.
“It does take social interactions, basketball games, concerts, dance recitals,” Kesselman said.
For those above age 22 or 23, he can see off-campus learning predominating, through the internet and/or artificial intelligence.
“Most people above that age are looking to get a credential,” he said. “If they do it that way, they eliminate travel.”
Artificial intelligence will be a major disruptor, he said, “at a level we have never experienced before.”
New leaders will figure out how to negotiate that change, he said, but he will be helping as long as he can.
“I’m not going anywhere,” he said of his decision to stay in the region and likely teach at Stockton for a time.
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OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners commemorated the 78th anniversary Friday of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp, some expressing horror that war has again shattered peace in Europe and the lesson of Never Again is being forgotten.
The former concentration and extermination camp is located in the town of Oświęcim in southern Poland, which was under the occupation of German forces during World War II and became a place of systematic murder of Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma and others targeted for elimination by Adolf Hitler and his henchmen.
In all, some 1.1 million people were killed at the vast complex before it was liberated by Soviet troops on Jan. 27, 1945.
Today the site, with its barracks and barbed wire and the ruins of gas chambers, stands as one of the world’s most recognized symbols of evil and a site of pilgrimage for millions from around the world.
Yet it lies only 300 kilometers (185 miles) from Ukraine, where Russian aggression is creating unthinkable death and destruction — a conflict on the minds of many this year.
One survivor, Zdzisława Włodarczyk, said during observances Friday that the war has created a “feeling of horror” in her.
Piotr Cywinski, Auschwitz state museum director, compared Nazi crimes to those the Russians have committed in Ukrainian towns like Bucha and Mariupol. He said they were inspired by a “similar sick megalomania” and that free people must not remain indifferent.
“Being silent means giving voice to the perpetrators,” Cywinski said. “Remaining indifferent is tantamount to condoning murder.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin attended observances marking the 60th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in 2005. This year, no Russian official at all was invited due to Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the event, alluding to his own country’s situation.
“We know and remember that indifference kills along with hatred,” he said in a social media post.
“Indifference and hatred are always capable of creating evil together only. That is why it is so important that everyone who values life should show determination when it comes to saving those whom hatred seeks to destroy.”
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, whose Brothers of Italy party has its roots in the post-Word War II neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, called the Holocaust “the abyss of humanity. An evil that touched also our country with the infamy of the racial laws of 1938.”
Bogdan Bartnikowski, a Pole who was 12 years old when he was transported to Auschwitz, said the first images he saw on television last February of refugees fleeing Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine triggered traumatic memories.
He was stunned seeing a little girl in a large crowd of refugees holding her mother with one hand and grasping a teddy bear in the other.
“It was literally a blow to the head for me because I suddenly saw, after almost 80 years, what I had seen in a freight car when I was being transported to Auschwitz. A little girl was sitting next to me, hugging a dollto her chest,” Bartnikowski, now 91, said.
Bartnikowski was among several survivors of Auschwitz who spoke about their experiences to journalists Thursday.
Another, Stefania Wernik, who was born at Auschwitz in November 1944, less than three months before its liberation, spoke of Auschwitz being a “hell on earth.”
She said when she was born she was so tiny that the Nazis tattooed her number — 89136 — on her thigh. She was washed in cold water, wrapped in rags and subjected to medical experiments.
And yet her mother had abundant milk, and they both survived. After the war, her mother returned home and reunited with her husband, and “the whole village came to look at us and said it’s a miracle.”
She appealed for “no more fascism, which brings death, genocide, crimes, slaughter and loss of human dignity.”
Among those who attended Friday’s commemorations was Doug Emhoff, the husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. Emhoff, the first Jewish person to be married to one of the top two nationally elected U.S. officials, bowed his head an execution wall at Auschwitz, where he left a wreath of flowers in the U.S. flag’s colors and the words: “From the people of the United States of America.”
The Germans established Auschwitz in 1940 for Polish prisoners; later they expanded the complex, building death chambers and crematoria where Jews from across Europe were brought by train to be murdered.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said “the suffering of 6 million innocently murdered Jews remains unforgotten — as does the suffering of the survivors.”
“We recall our historic responsibility on Holocaust Memorial Day so that our Never Again endures in future,” he wrote on Twitter.
The German parliament was holding a memorial event focused this year on those who were persecuted for their sexual orientation. Thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual people were incarcerated and killed by the Nazis. Their fate was only publicly recognized decades after the end of World War II.
Elsewhere in the world on Friday events were planned to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an annual commemoration established by a United Nations resolution in 2005.
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Frank Jordans in Berlin and Colleen Barry in Milan contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts was sworn in as the newest member of the U.S. Senate on Monday, replacing Republican Sen. Ben Sasse as the Senate returns from several weeks of recess to begin a new session of closely-divided government.
Ricketts is bringing the Senate back to its “full 100-person strength,” said Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who welcomed Ricketts on the Senate floor after he was sworn into office by Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Republican is joining the Senate as Democrats navigate a 51-49 majority, having gained one seat in last year’s election and with newly-Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema accepting committee assignments from Democrats. Ricketts replaces Sasse, who took a job as the president of the University of Florida two years into his second term.
Ricketts was appointed by his successor and political ally, Republican Gov. Jim Pillen, and will have to run in a special election in 2024 to fill out the rest of Sasse’s term. If he wins, he would then run again in 2026 for a full six-year term.
The former governor was congratulated by Republicans and Democrats on the Senate floor. As is tradition, he was accompanied by Republican Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska as he walked down the main aisle and stood at the Senate dais to take the oath of office.
Sasse was a fiercely independent Republican senator who often kept to himself and was a harsh critic of former President Donald Trump, especially after the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Sasse was one of seven Republicans who voted to impeach the president shortly afterward, and Trump frequently lashed out at him.
Even though he was easily re-elected in 2020, Sasse spoke of “ups and downs” of his Senate career in a December farewell speech, saying his tenure “felt like a noogie and a slap and a head butt and a hug all at once.”
Ricketts also has a complicated relationship with the former president, who has criticized him and his family for supporting Republican candidates who he opposed, including Pillen. Trump backed one of Pillen’s primary opponents, Charles W. Herbster.
Nominating Ricketts earlier this month, after Sasse’s departure, Pillen said that 111 people applied for the vacant seat and nine Republicans were interviewed. He said he chose Ricketts based on their shared conservatism and Ricketts’ promise that he would later run to be elected to the seat.
“I don’t believe in placeholders,” Pillen said. “Placeholders don’t have any accountability to the people.”
While the new GOP senator’s politics reflect his conservative constituents, some politicians in both parties raised questions about his appointment. Ricketts, who has put his own net worth at about $50 million, contributed more than $100,000 of his own money to Pillen’s campaign.
Ricketts and his family members have used their fortunes to both push their political agendas and to get allies elected to key political seats. Ricketts’ father, TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts, is worth an estimated $4 billion.
McConnell praised Ricketts’ service in Nebraska and said the wealthy investor has “applied private sector savvy to the work of public administration with great effect.”
“The people of Nebraska chose wisely in electing and re-electing Gov. Ricketts by huge margins, and their new governor chose wisely in sending his predecessor here to this chamber.”
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- Programming note: Kings fans can watch complete Game 3 coverage Thursday on NBC Sports California, NBCSportsCalifornia.com and the NBC Sports app. “Kings Pregame Live” starts at 6:30 p.m., followed by Mark Jones and Kayte Christensen on the game broadcast at 7, with “Kings Postgame Live” immediately after the game.
The Kings-Warriors first-round NBA playoff series has become highly contested as the matchup shifts to the Bay for Games 3 and 4.
Kings big man Domantas Sabonis is at the center of it all after being stomped on by Draymond Green, leading to a one-game suspension for the Warriors forward in Game 3. However, Golden State has a bigger gripe with Sabonis than just him grabbing Green’s leg.
“There is some anger within the organization toward the league,” ESPN NBA senior writer Zach Lowe said on the latest episode of “The Lowe Post” podcast. “There’s a sense in the organization that Sabonis is shoving people on offensive rebounds and playing with his elbows out and using the ball as a weapon on offense.”
While the Warriors' organization reportedly has an issue with how Sabonis plays, center Kevon Looney does not. In fact, the 27-year-old welcomes the physicality that some might perceive as dirty from Sabonis.
“I mean, as a big man, that’s what we do,” Looney told reporters Wednesday. “I think that’s pretty normal. The pushing, the shoving, the grabbing, that’s all part of protocol down there. And sometimes they call it, sometimes they don’t.
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“So, like I said, I enjoy it, and hopefully, I get the benefit of the doubt next time.”
ESPN NBA analyst JJ Redick spotlighted the officiating Wednesday on “First Take,” saying the refs' calls played a big role in the Kings having a two-games-to-none advantage.
“[The referees] have allowed too much,” Redick said. “I have no problem with physical play in the playoffs, but if Steph Curry is not allowed to move off the ball, if you’re preventing players from running down the court and you’re allowing that to happen. There’s a play late in Game 2 where Kevon Looney is right underneath the rim, ready for a rebound. [Domantas] Sabonis crashes in, pushes him in the back. They don’t call the foul. That’s a foul.
“The referees have dictated too much in the Kings’ favor in this series. I really believe that, and I don’t know if it’s the home crowd or whatever.”
When Game 3 tips off Thursday night at Chase Center, a microscope will be on the officials and whether or not they will call things differently.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Not all of his friends have abandoned him, but the harsh media reaction to former President Donald Trump's announcement that he's seeking the top office again illustrates that if he wants his old job back, he has a lot of convincing to do.
Just glance at some headlines: “Trump Shocks the World by Nearly Putting Us to Sleep,” said the RedState blog. “Old Mar-a-Lago Man Yells at Cloud,” said the American Conservative. “Donnie, Time to Go Away,” said Blue State Conservative. “Trump 3.0 is a Changed Man. He's a Loser,” said the Washington Examiner.
“No,” simply read the National Review headline.
And those are conservative organizations.
“I've been aggregating stories from right-wing media since 2017,” said Howard Polskin, founder of The Righting newsletter. “I've never seen Trump receive such negative coverage from these outlets. It's not only negative, some of the headlines are downright insulting to him.”
Consider Wednesday's epic troll from the New York Post, the newspaper owned by conservative media magnate Rupert Murdoch that has turned sharply against Trump since last week's midterm elections.
“Florida Man Makes Announcement,” was the headline running across the bottom of the front page, directing readers to an article on Page 26.
“There is nobody who knows better than Rupert Murdoch that the way to upset Donald Trump is not to say his name,” Maggie Haberman, reporter for The New York Times and author of “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America,” said on CNN.
The FoxNews.com website midday Wednesday was dominated by a picture of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, showered in red, white and blue confetti. It illustrated an article about the “enthusiastic response” DeSantis received at a GOP event.
Readers needed to scroll down further for an article about Trump's announcement.
The Wall Street Journal, like Fox another Murdoch-controlled property, editorialized earlier in the week against another Trump run. But it played his announcement straight on Wednesday, giving it front-page play.
Trump's announcement coincided with Sean Hannity's prime-time program on Fox News Channel, far and away the most popular media outlet for conservative viewers — and proof that Trump still has friends in powerful places and that there’s a long way to go before the next election. Hannity interrupted Trump two-thirds of the way through the announcement speech — not to abandon him, but to praise him.
“This was an absolutely brilliant speech,” said Hannity guest Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor. “The best I've heard in a long time.”
“It sounded presidential,” agreed analyst Joe Concha.
Fox then returned to the speech.
The Newsmax network aired Trump's speech in full. Its website later wrote that in making the announcement, the former president was “turning a deaf ear to establishment calls to hold off or Democrat efforts to stop him.”
CNN aired about a third of Trump's speech live on Tuesday night before cutting it off. Analyst Tim Neftali said “this is TelePrompter Trump,” noting that he seemed to lack the energy he usually shows at rallies.
“I have a feeling that the midterm is depressing him terribly,” Neftali said.
MSNBC talked about Trump, but didn't air the speech. Broadcast networks stuck with their regular programming.
Mainstream news outlets pulled no punches. In the lead to its announcement story, The Washington Post described Trump as “the twice-impeached former president who refused to concede defeat and inspired a failed attempt to overthrow the 2020 election culminating in a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.”
Similarly, the top to a story on NPR's website said Trump “tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power.”
A lengthy lead to The New York Times story said Trump's “historically divisive presidency shook the pillars of the country's Democratic institutions” and said he ignored the appeals of Republicans who blame him for the party's poor showing in the midterms.
In a news analysis, the Los Angeles Times said Trump “has reverted to a familiar tactic — meeting weakness with hubris.”
Away from the coasts, the Houston Chronicle led the paper with an account of Trump's announcement by The Associated Press. Neither the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina and Las Vegas Sun in Nevada mentioned Trump on their front pages, and the Chicago Tribune teased an article inside the paper.
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Ford recalls some vehicles for air bag inflator installation
(AP) - Ford Motor Co. is recalling certain 2004 to 2006 Ranger vehicles because replacement front passenger air bag inflators may have been installed incorrectly.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a letter that the recall includes 231,942 vehicles.
The vehicles had received replacement front passenger air bag inflators under a previous recall. The NHTSA said that an incorrectly installed inflator may not properly inflate the passenger air bag, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
Dealers will inspect and reinstall the front passenger air bag inflator, if needed, for free.
Notification letters are expected to be mailed to owners of the impacted vehicles on May 22.
Vehicle owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332 or the NHTSA at vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153).
A day earlier, BMW warned the owners of about 90,000 older vehicles in the U.S. not to drive them due to an increasing threat that the air bags might explode in a crash.
The warning covers vehicles from the 2000 through 2006 model years that previously had been recalled to replace faulty and dangerous air bag inflators made by Takata.
The company used volatile ammonium nitrate to inflate the air bags in a crash. But the chemical can deteriorate over time when exposed to heat and humidity and blow apart a metal canister, hurling shrapnel that can injure or kill drivers and passengers.
Since 2009, the exploding air bags made by Takata have killed at least 33 people worldwide, including 24 in the United States. Most of the deaths and about 400 injuries have happened in U.S., but they also have occurred in Australia and Malaysia.
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A roundabout in a busy part of Mexico City became a place for families to honor missing loved ones. Authorities resisted the occupation, which has become symbolic of a larger struggle.
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A roundabout in a busy part of Mexico City became a place for families to honor missing loved ones. Authorities resisted the occupation, which has become symbolic of a larger struggle.
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Washington Trust Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2022 Earnings
Published: Jan. 25, 2023 at 3:05 PM CST|Updated: 3 hours ago
WESTERLY, R.I., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: WASH), parent company of The Washington Trust Company, today announced fourth quarter 2022 net income of $16.6 million, or $0.95 per diluted share, compared to net income of $18.7 million, or $1.08 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2022. Net income for the year ended December 31, 2022 totaled $71.7 million, or $4.11 per diluted share, compared to $76.9 million, or $4.39 per diluted share, reported for the prior year.
"Washington Trust's fourth quarter and full-year 2022 results were solid, yet reflect the challenges of operating in an inflationary environment. Total loans reached a record high and asset quality remained strong," stated Edward O. Handy III, Washington Trust Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "We enter 2023 poised to face continued economic headwinds with our time-tested business model, disciplined credit approach and strong capital position."
Selected financial highlights for the fourth quarter and full-year 2022 include:
Returns on average equity and average assets for the fourth quarter were 14.96% and 1.01%, respectively, compared to 15.16% and 1.19%, respectively, for the preceding quarter. Full-year returns on average equity and average assets for 2022 were 14.49% and 1.17%, respectively, compared to 14.03% and 1.32%, respectively, for the prior year.
In the fourth quarter, a provision for credit losses of $800 thousand was recognized, consistent with the provision recognized in the preceding quarter. For the full-year 2022, a negative provision for credit losses (or a benefit) of $1.3 million was recognized, compared to a negative provision (or a benefit) of $4.8 million in 2021.
Total loans amounted to an all-time high of $5.1 billion, up by $261 million, or 5%, from the end of the preceding quarter, reflecting strong loan growth in both the residential real estate loan and commercial loan portfolios. Total loans were up by $837 million, or 20%, from the balance at December 31, 2021.
In-market deposits (total deposits less wholesale brokered deposits) amounted to $4.7 billion at December 31, 2022, up by $34 million, or 1%, from the end of the preceding quarter and up by $196 million, or 4%, from the balance at December 31, 2021.
A quarterly dividend of 56 cents per share was declared for the fourth quarter, representing an increase of 2 cents per share over the most recent quarterly dividend rate. 2022 was the twelfth consecutive year with an annual dividend increase.
Net Interest Income
Net interest income was $41.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2022, down by $700 thousand, or 2%, from the third quarter of 2022. The net interest margin was 2.65% for the fourth quarter, down by 17 basis points from the preceding quarter. The declines in net interest income and the net interest margin were largely driven by increases in funding costs outpacing increases in asset yields. Linked quarter changes included:
Average interest-earning assets increased by $294 million, reflecting an increase of $274 million in average loans. The yield on interest-earning assets for the fourth quarter was 3.94%, up by 45 basis points from the preceding quarter, reflecting the impact of higher market interest rates.
Average interest-bearing liabilities increased by $304 million, due to increases in average wholesale funding balances and average in-market deposits of $220 million and $84 million, respectively. The cost of interest-bearing liabilities for the fourth quarter of 2022 was 1.64%, up by 78 basis points from the preceding quarter, reflecting higher rates paid on wholesale funding sources and money market accounts.
Noninterest Income
Noninterest income totaled $13.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2022, down by $2.0 million, or 12.8%, from the third quarter of 2022. Linked quarter changes included:
Wealth management revenues amounted to $8.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, down by $901 thousand, or 9%, on a linked quarter basis, concentrated in asset-based revenues. The change in asset-based revenues correlated with the change in the average balance of wealth management assets under administration ("AUA"). The average balance of AUA for the fourth quarter of 2022 decreased by approximately $527 million, or 8%, from the average balance for the preceding quarter.
The end of period AUA balance at December 31, 2022 amounted to $6.0 billion, down by $361 million, or 6%, from September 30, 2022. This decline reflected net client asset outflows of $673 million, partially offset by net investment appreciation of $312 million.
AUA was adversely impacted by $604 million of client asset withdrawals that occurred throughout the fourth quarter and were associated with the departure of four client-facing advisors at the end of the preceding quarter. The withdrawals resulted in a reduction of revenues of approximately $525 thousand in the fourth quarter of 2022. Washington Trust could experience additional client asset withdrawals in upcoming months associated with the departure of the former advisors.
Mortgage banking revenues totaled $1.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2022, down by $944 thousand, or 46%, from the third quarter of 2022, largely reflecting both a lower volume of loans sold and a decline in the sales yield on loans sold to the secondary market. Mortgage loans sold to the secondary market amounted to $54.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, down by $20.8 million, or 28%, from the preceding quarter.
Loan related derivative income was $745 thousand in the fourth quarter of 2022, down by $296 thousand, or 28%, from the preceding quarter, reflecting a decrease in commercial borrower interest rate derivative transactions.
Noninterest Expense
Noninterest expense totaled $33.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2022, up by $292 thousand, or 1%, from the third quarter of 2022. During the fourth quarter of 2022, Washington Trust made a contribution to its charitable foundation totaling $600 thousand, which was included in other expenses. Excluding the charitable contribution expense, noninterest expense was down by $308 thousand, or 1%, from the preceding quarter. The remaining linked quarter changes included:
Salaries and employee benefits expense, the largest component of noninterest expense, amounted to $20.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2022, down by $797 thousand, or 4%, from the preceding quarter, reflecting adjustments to performance-based compensation accruals, lower wealth management compensation expense and volume-related decreases in mortgage originator compensation expense.
Legal, audit and professional fees totaled $987 thousand, up by $294 thousand, or 42%, from the third quarter of 2022, reflecting higher legal expenses.
Income Tax
Income tax expense totaled $4.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2022, down by $912 thousand from the preceding quarter. The effective tax rate for the fourth quarter of 2022 was 21.0%, compared to 22.1% in the preceding quarter. Based on current federal and applicable state income statutes, the Corporation currently expects its full-year 2023 effective tax rate to be approximately 21.1%.
Investment Securities
The securities portfolio totaled $994 million at December 31, 2022, up by $11 million, or 1%, from September 30, 2022, largely reflecting an increase in the fair value of available for sale securities due to changes in interest rates. Purchases of U.S. government-sponsored mortgage-backed securities were offset by routine pay-downs. The securities portfolio represented 15% of total assets at both December 31, 2022 and September 30, 2022.
Loans
Total loans amounted to $5.1 billion at December 31, 2022, up by $261 million, or 5%, from the end of the preceding quarter. Linked quarter changes included:
Commercial loans increased by $70 million, or 3%, from September 30, 2022, reflecting originations and advances of approximately $194 million, partially offset by principal payments of approximately $124 million. Commercial loans were up by 9% from the end of 2021 and were up by 11% when excluding the change in Paycheck Protection Program loan balances.
Residential real estate loans increased by $179 million, or 8%, from September 30, 2022 and by $596 million, or 35%, from the end of 2021. Residential real estate loans originated for portfolio amounted to $229 million and $882 million, respectively, for the fourth quarter and full-year 2022. Full-year 2022 residential real estate loan originations for portfolio were up by 17% from the preceding year.
The consumer loan portfolio increased by $12 million, or 4%, from September 30, 2022 and by $36 million, or 14%, from the end of 2021, due to growth in home equity lines and loans.
Deposits and Borrowings
At December 31, 2022, in-market deposits, which exclude wholesale brokered deposits, amounted to $4.7 billion. In-market deposits were up by $34 million, or 1%, from the end of the preceding quarter and up by $196 million, or 4%, from the end of 2021. Wholesale brokered deposits amounted to $358 million, down by $85 million, or 19%, from September 30, 2022 and down by $157 million, or 30%, from the end of 2021. Total deposits amounted to $5.0 billion at December 31, 2022, down by $51 million, or 1%, from the end of the preceding quarter, and up by $39 million, or 1%, from the end of 2021.
FHLB advances totaled $980 million at December 31, 2022, up by $280 million, or 40%, from September 30, 2022, and up by $835 million, or 576%, from the end of 2021. Higher levels of wholesale funding were utilized to fund balance sheet growth.
Asset Quality
Nonaccrual loans were $12.8 million, or 0.25% of total loans, at December 31, 2022, compared to $12.1 million, or 0.25% of total loans, at September 30, 2022. Past due loans were $11.6 million, or 0.23% of total loans, at December 31, 2022, up from $7.5 million, or 0.16% of total loans, at September 30, 2022.
The allowance for credit losses ("ACL") on loans amounted to $38.0 million, or 0.74% of total loans, at December 31, 2022, compared to $36.9 million, or 0.76% of total loans, at September 30, 2022. The ACL on unfunded commitments, included in other liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets, was $2.3 million at December 31, 2022, compared to $2.4 million at September 30, 2022.
The provision for credit losses totaled $800 thousand in the fourth quarter of 2022 and was consistent with the amount recognized in the preceding quarter. The provision for credit losses in the fourth quarter of 2022 provided for net growth in residential real estate loans and commercial real estate loans and also reflected continued negative trends in macroeconomic forecasts. Actual losses remain low, as asset and credit quality metrics remain strong. In the fourth quarter of 2022, net recoveries of $264 thousand were recognized, compared to net charge-offs of $54 thousand in the preceding quarter. For the full-year 2022, net recoveries of $368 thousand were recognized, compared to net charge-offs of $417 thousand in 2021.
Capital and Dividends
Total shareholders' equity was $453.7 million at December 31, 2022, up by $21.4 million, or 5%, from September 30, 2022. The increase included net income of $16.6 million and an increase of $14.0 million in the accumulated other comprehensive income ("AOCI") component of shareholders' equity, partially offset by $9.7 million in dividend declarations. The increase in AOCI included an increase in the fair value of available for sale securities, as well as a $3.8 million increase associated with the annual remeasurement of pension liabilities. The increase from the annual remeasurement of pension liabilities was largely due to an increase in the discount rates used to measure the present value of the pension plan liabilities, resulting from higher market interest rates.
Capital levels at December 31, 2022 exceeded the regulatory minimum levels to be considered well capitalized, with a total risk-based capital ratio of 12.37% at December 31, 2022, compared to 12.65% at September 30, 2022. Book value per share was $26.40 at December 31, 2022, compared to $25.17 at September 30, 2022.
The Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of 56 cents per share for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, representing an increase of 2 cents per share, or 4%, from the preceding quarter. The dividend was paid on January 6, 2023 to shareholders of record on January 3, 2023. Full-year dividends declared totaled $2.18 per share in 2022, an increase of 8 cents per share, or 4%, from 2021.
Conference Call
Washington Trust will host a conference call to discuss its fourth quarter results, business highlights and outlook on Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 8:30 a.m. (Eastern Time). Individuals may dial in to the call at 1-844-200-6205 and enter Access Code 302754. An audio replay of the call will be available, shortly after the conclusion of the call, by dialing 1-866-813-9403 and entering the Replay Access Code 489603. The audio replay will be available through February 9, 2023. Also, a webcast of the call will be posted in the Investor Relations section of Washington Trust's website, https://ir.washtrust.com, and will be available through March 31, 2023.
Background
Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc. is the parent of The Washington Trust Company. Founded in 1800, Washington Trust is the oldest community bank in the nation, the largest state-chartered bank headquartered in Rhode Island and one of the Northeast's premier financial services companies. Washington Trust offers a full range of financial services, including commercial banking, mortgage banking, personal banking and wealth management and trust services through its offices located in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Corporation's common stock trades on NASDAQ under the symbol WASH. Investor information is available on the Corporation's website at https://ir.washtrust.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements that are "forward-looking statements." We may also make forward-looking statements in other documents we file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), in our annual reports to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials, and in oral statements made by our officers, directors or employees. You can identify forward-looking statements by the use of the words "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "assume," "outlook," "will," "should," and other expressions that predict or indicate future events and trends and which do not relate to historical matters. You should not rely on forward-looking statements, because they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond our control. These risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the anticipated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.
Some of the factors that might cause these differences include the following:
changes in political, business and economic conditions, including inflation;
interest rate changes or volatility, as well as changes in the balance and mix of loans and deposits;
changes in loan demand and collectability;
the possibility that future credit losses are higher than currently expected due to changes in economic assumptions or adverse economic developments;
ongoing volatility in national and international financial markets;
reductions in the market value or outflows of wealth management AUA;
decreases in the value of securities and other assets;
increases in defaults and charge-off rates;
changes in the size and nature of our competition;
changes in legislation or regulation and accounting principles, policies and guidelines;
operational risks including, but not limited to, changes in information technology, cybersecurity incidents, fraud, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and future pandemics;
reputational risks; and
changes in the assumptions used in making such forward-looking statements.
In addition, the factors described under "Risk Factors" in Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, as updated by our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings submitted to the SEC, may result in these differences. You should carefully review all of these factors and you should be aware that there may be other factors that could cause these differences. These forward-looking statements were based on information, plans and estimates at the date of this report, and we assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect changes in underlying assumptions or factors, new information, future events or other changes.
Supplemental Information - Explanation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to results presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), this press release contains certain non-GAAP financial measures. Washington Trust's management believes that the supplemental non-GAAP information, which consists of measurements and ratios based on tangible equity and tangible assets, is utilized by regulators and market analysts to evaluate a company's financial condition and therefore, such information is useful to investors. These disclosures should not be viewed as a substitute for financial results determined in accordance with GAAP, nor are they necessarily comparable to non-GAAP performance measures which may be presented by other companies. Because non-GAAP financial measures are not standardized, it may not be possible to compare these financial measures with other companies' non-GAAP financial measures having the same or similar names.
The following table presents average balance and interest rate information. Tax-exempt income is converted to a fully taxable equivalent ("FTE") basis using the statutory federal income tax rate adjusted for applicable state income taxes net of the related federal tax benefit. Unrealized gains (losses) on available for sale securities and changes in fair value on mortgage loans held for sale are excluded from the average balance and yield calculations. Nonaccrual loans, as well as interest recognized on these loans, are included in amounts presented for loans.
Interest income amounts presented in the preceding table include the following adjustments for taxable equivalency:
Interest income amounts presented in the preceding table include the following adjustments for taxable equivalency:
The above press release was provided courtesy of PRNewswire. The views, opinions and statements in the press release are not endorsed by Gray Media Group nor do they necessarily state or reflect those of Gray Media Group, Inc.
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Donoho's girls won the Red Wilder tennis tournament for the eighth straight year, and the Falcons’ Claire Hillman won No. 1 singles, marking the fifth straight year in which she has won.
The tournament typically is a two-day event, but because of weather Friday, the event was shortened to one day, with eight-game pro sets instead of 10-game pro sets.
In the boys tournament, Faith Christian repeated as champions.
Due to random drawing, the two top boys, Faith Christian's Eli Mitchell and Oxford's Kye McEwen met in the semifinals of the boys’ No. 1 singles. Mitchell, a senior, won in 2021. McEwen, a sophomore, won last year. Mitchell regained the title this year in a dramatic tiebreak over McEwen, followed by a win in the finals.
In the last match of the evening, the boys No. 2 singles, went well past sundown. Oxford’s Jackson Randall collapsed in exhaustion towards the end of the match. After a five-minute injury timeout, during which he consumed food and fluids, he resumed play and pulled out the victory over Faith Christian's Josh Goode. After the final point he collapsed again and was taken by ambulance to RMC.
Girls' results
Team standings: 1, Donoho, 54; 2, Faith Christian, 26; 3, Oxford, 23; 4, Jacksonville, 0; 4, Pleasant Valley, 0.
Girls No. 1 singles: Claire Maniscalco (O) d. Mac Hulsey (PV), 8-0; Claire Hillman (D) d. Maniscalco (O), 8-0; Alley Folsom (F) d. Miniya Vann (J), 8-5; Finals: Hillman (D) d. Folsom (F), 8-0.
Girls No. 2 singles: Jasmine Brown (O) d. Braylee Humphrey (PV), 8-2; Brown (O) d. Lauren Holder (F), 8-5; Lily Grace Draper (D) d. Mikaela Watkins (J), 8-0; Finals: Draper (D) d. Brown (O), 8-0.
Girls No. 3 singles: Isabella Diaz (F) d. Victoria Robinson (O), 9-7; Diaz (F) d. Kate Yocum (PV), 8-1; Mary Marshall Perry (D) d. Emily Cathey (J), 8-0; Finals: Perry (D) d. Diaz (F), 8-2.
Girls No. 4 singles: Harper Pumroy (D) d. Nyla Reyes (J), 8-0; Pumroy (D) d. Renea Robinson (O), 8-2; Annie Minish (F) d. Julianna Jones (PV), 8-2; Finals: Pumroy (D) d. Minish (F), 8-1.
Girls No. 5 singles: Charlie Lambert (O) d. Taraji Carter (PV), 8-0; Blair Kitchen (D) d. Lambert (O), 8-2; Chloe Belcher (F) d. Penelope Fourquet (J), 8-1; Finals: Kitchen (D) d. Belcher (F), 8-0.
Girls No. 6 singles: Anne Marie Harris (D) d. Bennett Taylor (PV), 8-0; Harris (D) d. Mary Pugh (O), 8-0; Kelsey Brown (F) d. Cora Benoit (J), 8-0; Finals: Harris (D) d. Brown (F), 8-2.
Girls No. 1 doubles: Maniscalco/V. Robinson (O) d. Vann/Watkins (J), 8-4; Hillman/Draper (D) d. Maniscalco/V. Robinson (O), 8-0; Diaz/Folsom (F) d. Hulsey/Humphrey (PV), 8-1; Finals: Hillman/Draper (D) d. Diaz/Folsom (F), 8-1.
Girls No. 2 doubles: Brown/R. Robinson (O) d. Holder/Brown (F), 8-4; Brown/R. Robinson (O) d. Yocum/Jones (PV), 8-2; Perry/Avery Barnett (D) d.Cathey/Fourquet (J), 8-0; Finals: Perry/Barnett (D) d. Brown/R. Robinson (O), 8-0.
Girls No. 3 doubles: Pugh/Lambert (O) d. Reyes/Benoit (J), 8-3; Pugh/Lambert (O) d. Belcher/Minish (F), 9-8 (7-4); Kitchen/Harris (D) d. Taylor/Carter (PV), 8-0; Finals: Kitchen/Harris (D) d. Pugh/Lambert (O), 8-1.
Boys' results
Team standings: 1, Faith Christian, 41; 2, Oxford, 24; 3, Donoho, 21; 4, Jacksonville, 6; 5, Pleasant Valley, 0.
No. 1 singles: Kye McEwen (O) d. Andrew Johnson (O), 8-0; Eli Mitchell (F) d. McEwen (O), 9-8 (7-4); Zach Cater (D) d. Robert Trifas (J), 8-5; Finals: Mitchell (F) d. Cater (D), 8-4.
No. 2 singles: Jackson Randall (O) d. Knox Taylor (PV), 8-2; Randall (O) d. Cainan Stacks (D), 8-0; Josh Goode (F) d. Nate Smith (J), 8-2; Finals: Randall (O) d. Goode (F), 9-7.
No. 3 singles: Gavin Randall (F) d. Alec Vess (PV), 8-3; Parth Patel (O) d. Randall (F), 8-0; Rishi Reddy (D) d. Jack Dingler (J), 8-0; Finals: P. Patel (O) d. Reddy (D), 8-5.
No. 4 singles: Ryan Crawford (D) d. Charlie Wright (J), forfeit; Evan Smith (F) d. R. Crawford (D), 8-5; Om Patel (O) d. Undreah Watts (PV), 8-2; Finals: Smith (F) d. O. Patel (O), 8-4.
No. 5 singles: Ethan Crawford (D) d. Noah Brothers (O), 8-3; Finals: Joshua Muse (F) d. E. Crawford (D), 8-5.
No. 6 singles: Aidan Elliott (F) d. Walker Bodiford (D), 8-0; Finals: Elliott (F) d. Lucas Somers (O), 8-3.
No. 1 doubles: McEwen/P. Patel (O) d. Cater/Stacks (D), 8-2; McEwen/P. Patel (O) d. Trifas/Wright (J), forfeit; Goode/Mitchell (F) d. Johnson/Taylor (PV), 8-0; Finals: Goode/Mitchell (F) d. McEwen/P. Patel (O), 9-8 (7-5).
No. 2 doubles: Reddy/R. Crawford (D) d. Vess/Watts (PV) 8-0; Reddy/R. Crawford (D) d. Randall/O. Patel (O), 8-2; Smith/Dingler (J) d. Smith/Randall (F), 8-5; Finals: Reddy/R Crawford (D) d. Smith/Dingler (J), 8-4.
No. 3 doubles: Elliott/Muse (F) d. Brothers/Peyton Butterworth (O), 8-2; Finals: Elliott/Muse (F) d. E. Crawford/Foster Payton (D), 8-1.
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Cheeses from Paris Brothers were recalled across nine states on June 1 due to concerns over potential listeria monocytogenes contamination. Listeria infections can cause serious or fatal infections in young children, elderly people and others with weakened immune systems, including pregnant women, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA had found the presence of listeria in the cheeses during a routine sampling. No illnesses have been reported in connection with this.
The cheeses were produced on May 4, 5 and 6, 2022, and were sold in grocery stores across Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Dakota, Mississippi and Florida.
Recalled cheeses include:
- Cottonwood River Cheddar
- D'amir Brie Double Crème French Brie
- Milton Prairie Breeze White Cheddar Style
- Milton Tomato Garlic Cheddar
- Paris Brothers Mild Cheddar
- Paris Brothers Colby Jack
- Paris Brothers Pepper Jack
- Cervasi Pecorino Romano
The affected cheeses have the lot codes 05042022, 05052022 or 05062022. If you purchased one of those cheeses, you can return it to the store for a full refund.
Read also: Jif Peanut Butter Recall: Learn Which Snacks Are Included, and How to Get a Replacement
The information contained in this article is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as health or medical advice. Always consult a physician or other qualified health provider regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition or health objectives.
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TORONTO, May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Great Gulf Group (Great Gulf), together with its partners Westdale Properties and a large Canadian institutional investor, has acquired 787 residential lots across seven master-planned communities in San Antonio, Austin and Houston, TX, from Forestar Group, Inc. (Forestar) to build, own, and operate dedicated single-family rental homes.
"This acquisition provides an excellent entry point into the Houston and Austin markets while increasing Great Gulf's operational scale across our Texas portfolio. Based on demographic trends and customer preference, we believe the demand for professionally managed rental housing is undersupplied," said Aole Ansari, Chief Operating Officer, Great Gulf Build-to-Rent. "Land development and construction activities are underway, and we expect to begin home deliveries to residents in late 2023. We look forward to future investment opportunities and strengthening our relationship with Forestar."
Daniel Bartok, Chief Executive Officer of Forestar, said, "These sites provide an excellent opportunity to include purpose-built single-family rental housing for consumers interested in living in these communities. We are very pleased to bring Great Gulf into our builder program to fulfill the growing demand for this housing option and look forward to growing our relationship."
Great Gulf's investment strategy is primarily focused on US Sun Belt states, whose high population growth is driven by strong job growth, low tax and regulatory burdens, affordable housing, low unemployment, and warmer climates. Together with existing projects in Tampa, FL, Charleston, SC, San Antonio, TX and Dallas, TX, Great Gulf's build-to-rent portfolio is approaching 2,000 lots and homes within one year of operation.
The Great Gulf Group was established in 1975 and has become one of North America's leading real estate organizations with fully integrated activities that span the entire real estate spectrum. Through its various platforms including Ashton Woods and First Gulf, the Great Gulf Group develops, constructs and manages residential and commercial real estate across 18 cities and employs over 1,500 people in North America. The Great Gulf Group has developed over 80,000 residences and 30 million square feet of commercial real estate over its 45-year history. Please visit www.greatgulf.com.
Westdale has owned, managed and developed real estate across North America for over 60 years. Westdale's Canadian portfolio includes approximately 7000 residential units and over 2.5 million square feet of retail, commercial and industrial spaces. In the US, Westdale owns and manages approximately 35,000 residential units in 150 properties and 30 cities, as well as 3 million square feet of retail and commercial space. Please visit www.westdale.com.
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The fight we saw after the 2020 presidential election made it clear that crucial parts of the Electoral Count Act (ECA) are ambiguous and need to be modernized and clarified in advance of the 2024 presidential election. It’s time to take steps to protect future elections and ensure that the president is chosen by the people of the United States, and no one else.
The current law responsible for detailing how Congress tallies and certifies states’ electoral votes following a presidential election, the ECA, is full of confusing and unclear language that has led some to claim the vice president can choose to reject states’ electors, which is incorrect. It is the sole right of the American people, not Congress, to choose our president, and it is a right that lawmakers should defend.
That’s why I’m encouraged to see Sen. Roger Wicker involved in bipartisan work to clarify the language of the ECA and prevent a repeat of the mess we saw after the last election. This should be done, and as he and other Republican and Democratic lawmakers push to pass these reforms, I hope they also prioritize passing other measures that can preserve election integrity.
The work that Wicker and his fellow lawmakers in Washington are doing to reform the ECA and protect our elections will be a key part of preventing further confusion in future elections, and people across the nation are counting on lawmakers to reach across the aisle to pass these fixes.
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'Planet Money' breaks down the price of a gallon of gasoline By Sarah Gonzalez Published September 15, 2022 at 5:08 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:55 Planet Money investigates how exactly gas stations determine how much a gallon is going to cost us, and why those numbers are so volatile. Copyright 2022 NPR
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Mako Mining Corp. (TSXV: MKO) (OTCQX: MAKOF) ("Mako" or the "Company") is pleased to report additional results from its recent definition and expansion drilling program at the Las Conchitas area on its wholly-owned San Albino-Murra property. The Las Conchitas area is located immediately south of the San Albino Mine which is currently in commercial production, and north of the historical El Golfo Mine located within the Company's El Jicaro Concession.
Las Conchitas contains numerous mineralized structures over a 1,700m by 800m area, which has been subdivided into three primary areas: Las Conchitas north ("LC-North"), Las Conchitas central ("LC-Central") and Las Conchitas south ("LC-South").
- 85.10 g/t Au and 153.0 g/t Ag over 1.30m (0.8 m ETW)
- 16.40 g/t Au and 13.1 g/t Ag over 1.00m (0.9 ETW)
- 12.80 g/t Au and 8.2 g/t Ag over 1.10m (ETW) – additional zone
Akiba Leisman, CEO of Mako states, "Las Conchitas Central has thus far received the least amount of drilling since inception, but in this area, we are still finding similar high grade, shallow dipping, auriferous veins as we have throughout our 188 km2 land package. The importance of LC22-813 is that not only did it intersect 85.1 g/t Au over minable widths, but it was able to connect two zones previously interpreted as separate. Now we have nearly 300m of strike delineated at Mina Bonanza – Cruz Grande, and open along strike and down dip. Additionally, LC22-818 has confirmed an unusually thick part of this zone 68 meters from surface. Results from this hole will be received over the course of the next few weeks."
The Las Conchitas area covers approximately 3.75 km2 which hosts multiple subparallel, shallow, northeast-southwest striking and gently dipping mineralized veins, with stylolitic and/or brecciated textures which often contain visible gold. The Company is planning to continue drilling the area with five of the seven diamond drill rigs on site with the objective of further expansion of the mineralized structures in all three areas in preparation for a maiden resource by Q1 2023.
To date, the drilling program at Las Conchitas has focused on two high priority targets, Las Conchitas North and South; however, no systematic exploration had been conducted in the Central part of Las Conchitas area until recently. During the 2018 drilling campaign at the LC-Central area, 19 drill holes, totaling 824.5m were completed and confirmed two high grade gold bearing structures, Mina Bonanza and Cruz Grande, which were interpreted to be separate structures, located on opposite sides of a ridge. Until recently there had been no drill testing of the gap between the zones.
In May 2022, Mako initiated a drilling program to systematically test this gap. The Company has completed 18 drill holes totaling 2,227.5m confirming that these two zones have continuity within the previously interpreted gap. Drill hole LC22-813 intersected 85.10 g/t Au and 153.0 g/t Ag over 1.30m (0.8m ETW), at a vertical depth of 51.0m, connecting two zones that were previously separate and confirming continuity along strike over 295.0m (see attached longitudinal section). An additional hole, LC22-804 targeting the same gap, intersected 19.40 g/t Au and 64.2 g/t Ag over 0.90m (0.8m ETW) (see press release dated July 28, 2022 and table below).
Drill hole LC22-803 intersected 16.40 g/t Au and 13.1 g/t Ag over 1.00m (0.9m ETW), starting at vertical depth of 71.9m, confirming a 55.0m down dip extension of the high-grade mineralization previously intersected in hole CG18-25 which graded 11.31 g/t Au and 12.2 g/t Ag over 4.15m (see press release dated December 05, 2018). The same drill hole intersected three additional mineralized intervals (see table below), currently interpreted as quartz vein splays, including 13.00 g/t Au and 6.9 g/t Ag over 0.60m (0.5m ETW) indicating further untested potential within the area.
In addition, the Company has received results from drill hole LC22-804, which intersected 12.80 g/t Au and 8.2 g/t Ag over 1.10m (ETW) at a vertical depth of 6.3m from surface. This mineralized structure, which lies above the Cruz Grande zone (see attached drill plan and longitudinal section), was originally discovered in 2017, during sampling of surface exposures at the Cruz Grande area where a vertical sample in trench SAM17-TR17 returned 13.20 g/t Au and 8.5 g/t Ag over 1.20m. This drill hole confirmed a 21.0m down dip extension of a high grade, near surface mineralization warranting additional drilling to better define the continuity of the zone.
Drill hole LC22-818 (results pending), intersected a 7.5m wide mineralized interval, starting at a vertical depth of 68.0m. The interval contains two mineralized quartz veins with similar minerology as in a hole CG18-24, including the presence of visible gold, collared 82m up-dip (see attached drill plan), which intersected an interval of 23.63 g/t Au and 25.1 g/t Ag over 5.65m (see press release dated December 8, 2018). Results for LC22-818 are expected in early September.
Drill core was continuously sampled from inception to termination of the entire drill hole. Sample intervals were typically one meter with a minimum sample width of 50 cm. Drill core diameter was HQ (6.35 centimeters). Geologic and geotechnical data was captured into a digital database, core was photographed, then one-half split of the core was collected for analysis and one-half was retained in the core library.
Samples were kept in a secured logging and storage facility until such time that they were delivered to the Managua facilities of Bureau Veritas and pulps were sent to the Bureau Veritas laboratory in Vancouver for analysis. Gold was analyzed by standard fire assay fusion, 30-gram aliquot, AAS finish. Samples returning over 10.0 g/t gold are analyzed utilizing standard Fire Assay-Gravimetric method. The Company follows industry standards in its QA&QC procedures. Control samples consisting of duplicates, standards, and blanks were inserted into the sample stream at a ratio of 1 control sample per every 10 samples. Analytical results of control samples confirmed reliability of the assay data. No top cut has been applied to the reported assay results.
John M. Kowalchuk, P.Geo, a geologist and qualified person (as defined under NI 43-101) has read and approved the technical information contained in this press release. Mr. Kowalchuk is a senior geologist and a consultant to the Company.
On behalf of the Board,
Akiba Leisman
Chief Executive Officer
Mako Mining Corp. is a publicly listed gold mining, development and exploration company. The Company operates the high-grade San Albino gold mine in Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua, which ranks as one of the highest-grade open pit gold mines globally. Mako's primary objective is to operate San Albino profitably and fund exploration of prospective targets on its district-scale land package.
Statements contained herein that are not historical fact are considered "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking information is based on management's current expectations, beliefs and assumptions, and includes, without limitation: the objectives of the drilling campaign; the results from hole LC22-818 will be received over the course of the next few weeks; the plan to continue drilling the Las Conchitas area with five of the seven diamond drill rigs on site with the objective of further expansion of the mineralized structures in all three areas in preparation for a maiden resource by Q1 2023; results for LC22-818 are expected in early September; the expectation of additional discoveries; and that the Company meets its object of operating San Albino profitably while continuing to fund exploration of prospective targets. Such forward-looking information is subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking information, including, without limitation, the risks that additional satisfactory exploration results will not be obtained the risk that the Company will not release additional exploration results on the timeline expected; the risk that additional discoveries will not continue; that exploration results will not translate into the discovery of an economically viable deposit; risks and uncertainties relating to political risks involving the Company's exploration and development of mineral properties interests; the inherent uncertainty of cost estimates and the potential for unexpected costs and expense; commodity price fluctuations, the inability or failure to obtain adequate financing on a timely basis and other risks and uncertainties disclosed in the Company's public filings at www.sedar.com. Forward-looking information contained herein is based on management's best judgment as of the date hereof, based on information currently available and is included for the purposes of providing investors with the Company's plans and expectations at the Las Conchitas area, and may not be appropriate for other purposes.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release
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TSA officer faked burglary as excuse for being late for work, detectives say
POLK COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) – Detectives in Florida said they arrested a TSA employee for faking a police report in which she claimed she was late for work because she was robbed.
According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, 34-year-old Taleta Collier called into work on March 20 to say she was going to be late for her shift.
Once she arrived at work, Collier told her supervisor she was late because while she was at her parents’ home, a man with a knife tried to steal her parents’ vehicle. Collier told her supervisor she drew her agency-issued weapon and pointed it at the suspect, who ran off.
Collier told her supervisor she reported the incident to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Her supervisor asked for documentation of the report, which Collier couldn’t provide at the time.
According to detectives, two weeks later, Collier texted her supervisor a photo of a document that looked like a police report. But when the sheriff’s office reviewed the image, they determined it was a fake report.
Detectives said they could tell it was fake because it was not an official Polk County Sheriff’s Office form, and Collier used the name of a deputy who was on an international vacation at the date of the incident, so it was impossible that he responded to the supposed burglary.
The deputy confirmed he did not have any knowledge of the incident and did not know Collier.
Collier’s parents also told detectives they had no knowledge of the incident and that their vehicle had not been burglarized.
Prior to this incident, Collier was already on a TSA employee improvement plan for excessive tardiness, the sheriff’s office said.
Collier was arrested Monday for criminal use of a personal ID and uttering a false document.
“I don’t understand why anyone would go to the extent of creating a fake police report to avoid a reprimand at work for tardiness,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a news release. “Collier has violated the trust of her coworkers and the people she was supposed to keep safe.”
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A coastal Louisiana tribe is creating reefs from discarded oyster shells to help preserve their land and cultural sites, and address sea level rise and erosion caused by climate change.
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LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A Purdue University student charged with murder in the stabbing death of his dormitory roommate is incompetent to stand trial, a judge ruled Thursday.
Tippecanoe Circuit Judge Sean Persin appointed two doctors to treat Ji Min Sha until he is found competent to understand the charges against him and assist in his defense.
Sha, a 22-year-old cybersecurity major from Seoul, South Korea, faces one count of murder in the October slaying of Varun Manish Chhedad, 20, of Indianapolis. The two lived in McCutcheon Hall on Purdue’s West Lafayette campus, about 65 miles (104 kilometers) northwest of Indianapolis.
Prosecutors allege that Sha stabbed Chheda, a data science major, several times in the head and neck with a folding knife that officers found on the floor near the chair where Chheda’s body was discovered.
Persin ruled after reading a report prepared by defense-hired psychologist Dr. Sean Samuels, who interviewed Sha for five hours shortly after the slaying.
Court records indicate Sha told police he believes “he is extensively involved in international espionage and is a former CIA operative,” WLFI-TV reported.
Purdue Police Chief Lesley Wiete has said Sha called police early on Oct. 5 and told them his roommate was dead in their dorm room. Officers who arrested Sha found him wearing clothes with blood on them, prosecutors have said. An autopsy found that Chheda had died of “multiple sharp-force traumatic injuries.”
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Which snow cone machine is best?
Snow cones are frosty treats that are perfect for summertime. Many people have fond childhood memories of enjoying these sweet, colorful mounds of slushed ice from a neighborhood snow cone stand or ice cream truck. However, all it takes is a snow cone maker to create these icy concoctions at home. Once you find a model to match your needs, chances are you’ll reach for it time and again when the weather is hot and everyone wants a snack that’s cold and refreshing.
Shop this article: Cuisinart Snow Cone Maker, Great Northern Ice Cub Shaved Ice Machine and Nostalgia Countertop Snow Cone Machine
Features of snow cone makers
Do you need a snow cone maker to prepare a few treats for a couple of kids? Or do you want a powerful machine to keep numerous partygoers satisfied during summertime backyard gatherings? A machine with the right features will keep the gang happy, whether it’s a group of three or thirty.
Capacity
While some snow cone machines make just a few cones at a time, others have a bin that holds ice once it’s shaved for preparing multiple snow cones. What’s more, large party-sized machines can hold ice for 70-plus snow cones. They have powerful motors that quickly pulverize large amounts of ice.
Keep in mind that machines with large capacities take up a bit of space. If you only need a machine for occasional use or a few snow cones at a time, a compact model that makes a few cones at a time should suffice.
Speed
Some snow cone makers are faster than others. The speed at which a machine performs determines how much ice it can prepare per hour. Larger capacity machines are typically faster, preparing as much as 100 pounds of ice in 60 minutes.
Ice texture
Snow cone makers prepare ice with textures ranging from small, coarse pieces to a fluffy snow-like consistency. Additionally, some machines have settings to change the texture of the ice they produce. The choice between coarse and fluffy ice for snow cones is a matter of preference, as both forms are delicious once doused in sweet, flavorful syrup.
Keep in mind that shaved ice machines are slightly different from actual snow cone makers. They typically make ice that’s light, fluffy and ideal for beverages in addition to snow cone preparation. Although they make excellent snow cones, they don’t often include snow cone accessories.
Extras
Most snow cone machines come with accessories that are useful for making and indulging in snow cones. Paper cups, reusable plastic cups, straws, spoons, syrup bottles and ice scoops are some of the items you can expect to find with a quality snow cone maker. Some models even come with syrup or syrup mixes so you’ll be ready to prepare tasty, icy treats right out of the box.
Best snow cone makers
Made by a trusted brand, this snow cone maker prepares ice with a coarse texture that’s ideal for preparing classic snow cones. The machine is easy to use and backed by an impressive five-year warranty on the motor. It includes both paper and reusable snow cone cups.
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Great Northern Ice Cub Shaved Ice Machine
Because it can prepare up to 6 pounds of ice fast and efficiently, this model is ideal for making snow cones for gatherings such as parties, reunions and backyard barbecues. It boasts a ⅓ horsepower motor and stainless steel components that are made to last.
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Nostalgia Countertop Snow Cone Machine
The vintage design, easy-to-use functions and strong stainless steel blades make this machine the perfect addition to any countertop. It comes with reusable accessories for snow cone making, including syrup pump bottles, snow cone cups and an ice scoop.
Snowie Little Snowie Max Snow Cone Machine
This machine may be compact, but it’s powerful thanks to the patented design and strong motor. It produces fluffy ice that kids love. Syrup powders, mixing bottles and snow cone spoons are included with the purchase.
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Manba Ice Shaver and Snow Cone Machine
When it comes to making snow cones at the park, beach or campground, a manual model will do. This portable machine works with a hand crank and sharp stainless steel blades for shaving ice on the go. It comes with an ice cube tray.
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This snow cone maker is easy to use, compact and straightforward to clean. It produces finely crushed ice that’s appealing to snow cone lovers. It comes with four reusable snow cone cups.
Hawaiian Shaved Ice Electric Snow Cone Machine
We love that this machine has an adjustable setting for preparing ice of various textures. Not only is it compact, but it’s also available at an appealing price.
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A large capacity, ample snow cone-making accessories and a cart make this snow cone maker ideal for special occasions where multiple people want to indulge in snow cones. It offers the capacity for enough ice for up to 72 snow cones.
Courant Blizzy Snow Cone Maker
Fast and compact, this little low-priced machine is ideal for small spaces and limited budgets. It comes with paper snow cone cups and straws to get you started.
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BERLIN (AP) — A German court on Friday threw out a lawsuit against a guideline issued by automaker Audi that called for employees to use gender-sensitive language.
An employee of Audi's parent company, Volkswagen, objected to Audi colleagues using such language in their communications with him and went to the state court in Audi's home city of Ingolstadt to challenge the guideline. He alleged a violation of his personal rights.
But the court ruled the person who brought the lawsuit had no right to demand the non-application of the guidance, German news agency dpa reported. Judge Christoph Hellerbrand said it was directed only at Audi employees and the plaintiff. as a Volkswagen employee, was not required to follow it.
The court also found that being on the receiving end of gender-sensitive wording wasn't enough to justify a ruling in the Volkswagen employee's favor. He didn't have a right “to be left in peace,” the judge ruled.
Some other companies have introduced similar guidelines.
German nouns referring to people and their professions have different masculine and feminine forms.
The Audi guideline in question was introduced last year. It called for the use of a form of German words that includes an underscore to encompass both masculine and feminine forms and is meant to show broader gender inclusiveness — writing “employees” as “Mitarbeiter_innen,” for example.
That and another gender-sensitive form that uses an asterisk — in which “employees” would be written as “Mitarbeiter*innen" — annoy conservatives, some language experts and others.
They prefer more traditional forms such as the “generic masculine” — using the masculine plural, “Mitarbeiter," to refer to all genders, or in some cases referring genders separately as “Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter.”
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An Iowa man admitted to the gunpoint holdup of a bank in Hudson County, federal authorities said Wednesday.
Jose Luis Martinez, 32, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Newark federal court to armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during a bank robbery, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
Martinez went on Jan. 5, 2017 to an unnamed bank in Secaucus, where he pointed a gun at a bank employee and demanded cash, according to court documents. The robber told the employee he would shoot her and customers if she didn’t hand over the money.
He escaped with about $35,000, an indictment stated. Martinez faces a possible maximum potential penalty of 25 years behind bars for the armed bank robbery charge and a potential life term for the brandishing a firearm count.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Task Force 1 is deploying a team of more than 50 people as Hurricane Ian continues to move toward the U.S. coast.
The team was activated Tuesday morning and will deploy before noon to stage in Alabama, according to Commander Tom Neal.
Those deploying include 45 team members and six support personnel, according to a tweet from Indiana Task Force 1.
Hurricane Ian is expected to cause flooding and hurricane-force winds in parts of Cuba on Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane Center. It's expected to bring tropical storm conditions starting Tuesday to west-central Florida.
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Infosys' subsidiary continues to invest in Canada, providing Governments with local access to top tier talent and innovative solutions to modernize service delivery for Canadian citizens and businesses
OTTAWA, ON, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Infosys Public Services (IPS), a North America-based company of Infosys (NSE: INFY) (BSE: INFY) (NYSE: INFY), today announced the opening of its new subsidiary, Infosys Public Services Canada, Inc. (IPS Canada) headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario with local offices in Mississauga ON, Calgary AB, and Burnaby BC. IPS Canada accelerates digital transformation for public sector organizations across the country, including federal departments, provincial ministries, municipalities, and crown corporations, and provides access to top tier IT talent and innovative solutions to improve the delivery of government services to Canadians.
Infosys Public Services' Canadian expansion marks the next phase of its decade-plus presence in the country and is the logical next step for the company given its growth in Canada and the evolving government security standards and regulation. This IPS Canada announcement is the latest development in a series of investments made by Infosys which has expanded the employee count to over 7,000 with a commitment to increase to 8,000 employees by 2024. IPS Canada will also work with local universities and technical colleges to recruit talent.
Bhanu Prasad Narayan, Interim CEO, Infosys Public Services, said, "The Canadian incorporation of Infosys Public Services Canada, Inc. underscores our continued commitment to our public sector clients, as we help them modernize service delivery for Canadian citizens and businesses. Our offices will enable us to tap into strong local talent across the country to support continued business growth in the region."
Franco Chirichella, President and CEO, Innovapost, said, "As one of Innovapost's key strategic partners, Infosys Public Services Canada has helped us successfully deliver IT initiatives to meet the demands of the evolving mail, courier and logistics industry. IPS Canada does a great job of bringing the breadth and depth of their global and Canadian capabilities to Innovapost to support us in meeting our business and technical needs."
IPS Canada will help modernize public sector service delivery for new and existing Federal, Ontario, and Manitoba government and crown corporation clients, creating resiliency for their core business systems and processes with digital and cloud solutions. The IPS Canada headquarter in Ottawa is a 10,000 square feet digital center. The facility is designed to allow the delivery of managed services that can comply with the security requirements associated with delivering services to each level of government. It is located at 275 Slater Street, Suite 501 in downtown Ottawa.
To learn more about IPS Canada, please visit: www.infosyspublicservices.com/Canada.
About Infosys Public Services
Infosys Public Services is a leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. With benchmark processes, access to cross-industry insights and innovative public sector solutions, Infosys Public Services is helping public sector organizations to navigate their digital transformation, helping them renew existing systems into modern, agile, intelligent platforms, develop new capabilities and deliver better outcomes to all stakeholders at a lower cost with less risk.
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"When I was first listening to [your music]," Morning Edition host Leila Fadel tells singer-songwriter Tianna Esperanza, "I was more listening to just the music, before the lyrics really set into my head – this sort of sweet track, like a renaissance-style music. And then you hear what you're saying."
Sometimes, when I'm walking
and a man looks at me,
I think of all the ways
I could make him bleed.
I would dig my key
into his eye.
I'd crack his teeth,
liver and spleen.
Those lyrics comes from the song "Terror," which is at the conceptual heart of Esperanza's new album of the same name. The result is an eclectic mix of musical styles — folk and classical, jazz and swing, with hip-hop looming above throughout — that NPR Music's chief critic Ann Powers described as "masterful." That fluency didn't come easy.
"When I was 8 years old," Esperanza explains, "my brother passed away — and when I was 13, and many times in my life, I've experienced ranges of sexual assault and abuse. I'm bringing these stories out slowly, in my own comfort, to connect those dots ... to transcend my pain and connect with others."
Warning: The song/video below contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault that may not be appropriate for younger listeners/viewers.
Esperanza, who uses non-binary pronouns, explains that their upbringing — in a mixed-race family, amidst the otherwise homogenous community of Cape Cod, Mass. — was difficult, but ultimately instructive. Esperanza's family, mostly white, was "very good," they explain, "about trying to fill in some of those gaps, but there's only so much they could do and understand ... I was yearning for Black friends, and understanding how to do my Black hair, [but] not having products on Cape Cod and things like that."
"As I grow older, I love Cape Cod more and more — it's one of the most beautiful places in the world. While also having this political backdrop, of white flight from the '60s, the segregation. It's so apparent there." Esperanza's relative estrangement from Black life on the peninsula resulted, at around 13 or 14 years old, in a search for deeper connection to that history. That search, ultimately, led to the mentorship of Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Valerie June, who also turns in a guest appearance on Terror.
"We would speak almost every week for five months," they explain. "Valerie and I connected instantly and we talked about our love for folk music, especially how that is very misunderstood on many sides.
"That's not what's expected from a Black woman. I feel like there's still a mindset of, you know, what we are good for is: silky [vocal] runs, and R&B, and curvaceous dresses. And that's what sells. I think that there's so much more to our stories."
To hear the full conversation, use the audio player at the top of this page.
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Proponents of a measure on this fall’s ballot aimed at providing free meals to all public school students kicked off the Western Slope aspect of its campaign last Thursday.
The measure, known as Healthy School Meals for All, was placed on the ballot by the Colorado Legislature in the waning days of this year’s session.
It began as an effort to make permanent a temporary federal program started during the pandemic, but one that was due to expire this summer before President Joe Biden signed the Keep Kids Fed Act in June to extend the program through the 2022-23 school year.
If approved, the ballot measure would go into place starting with the 2023-24 school year.
Dan Sharp, director of food and nutrition services at Mesa County School District 51, said that pandemic program revealed the importance of all students getting a healthy meal every day.
“Prior to COVID, many students that were eligible for the free meals did not participate and went hungry to insure that they were not recognized by classmates as the poor kids,” Sharp said. “But during the period of COVID, what we got to see was that for all kids that stigma went away. No longer did they have to worry about being looked upon as the ‘free kid’ in need.”
Under the pandemic program, the district saw a 40% increase in the number of students getting meals, going from serving about 9,000 meals a day to nearly 14,000, he said.
Sharp said there’s ample research that shows that students perform better academically when they are properly fed, and teachers have fewer troublesome students disrupting class time.
Additionally, he said that offering free meals to students will save teachers from having to put their own money into feeding their students, something he said many teachers often do.
In May, the Senate Appropriations Committee killed a similar measure calling for free school lunches because it didn’t have any way of funding its $100 million expected annual cost. Instead, it called for the program to be paid directly from the Legislature’s general fund.
In the last two weeks of this year’s session, however, Democrats in the Colorado House introduced HB1414, which added a way to pay for it.
Under that second bill, households that make more than $300,000 a year would see their state itemized deductions limited to no more than $16,000 for joint filers and $12,000 for individuals. Under current law, those who earn $400,000 or more a year are capped at deductions of up to $60,000.
While legislative Democrats who brought the bill did have limited support from a handful of Republicans, including Rep. Janice Rich of Grand Junction and Sen. Don Coram of Montrose, all other Republicans voted against it.
Their stated reasons for doing so was because they didn’t think it was fair that a relatively small number of Colorado taxpayers would have to foot the bill for meals for all public school students, or that it includes children in families that can afford to pay for their own meals.
“There’s aspects of this bill that make absolute sense for students who have a need but do not have the income level,” Sen. Paul Lundeen, R-Monument, said when the Senate approved the bill in May. “But this bill also provides meals to middle-income and higher-income students, and that is an absolute inappropriate use of general fund dollars.”
Speaking in Spanish, Judith Alvarez of the Glenwood Springs-based Safe and Abundant Nutrition Alliance said the program would be particularly helpful during a time of high inflation and increased food costs.
“The most basic need of low-income families is food, and one step to provide some relief for our families is for our children to have free healthy and nutritious food in school,” she said through an interpreter. “No child should be hungry while learning.”
The measure calls on the Colorado Department of Education to create the Healthy School Meals for All Program, under which school food authorities would be allowed to apply for reimbursement if they offer all of their students free meals.
Sharp said the campaign has already met with the D51 school board and received a favorable response, but is expecting to approach the board next month to ask it to formally endorse the ballot measure.
In addition to offering free meals to students, the measure also offers a way for schools to be reimbursed for raising wages or stipends to school cafeteria workers, some of whom are paid slightly more than minimum wage.
A nutrition services associate at District 51, for example, pays more than the state’s minimum wage of $12.56 an hour. The district’s website shows that the starting pay for such positions is $15.34 to $17.43 an hour.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — An overnight shooting in a downtown St. Louis building killed one juvenile and wounded nine others, according to a news report.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said the shooting happened around 1:45 a.m. Sunday, KMOV-TV reported.
Witnesses told the KMOV that the shooting took place inside a building.
The names of the victims and the conditions of those wounded in the shooting were not immediately available.
The St. Louis police did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking additional information.
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LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II will remain in Scotland, where she is taking her summer break, to receive Britain's outgoing Prime Minster Boris Johnson and his successor next week, Buckingham Palace officials said Wednesday.
The 96-year-old monarch traditionally holds audiences with outgoing and incoming prime ministers at Buckingham Palace, her official London residence.
Officials said that Johnson will travel to Balmoral, the queen's summer holiday home in the Scottish Highlands, to formally tender his resignation on Tuesday. His replacement — either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak, the two finalists in the Conservative Party leadership race — will also make the trip on the same day.
The queen has been having mobility problems and she cancelled some engagements in recent months. British media reported that the decision to have her remain in Scotland was taken to provide certainty to the political handover arrangements.
The queen has been served by 14 prime ministers during her reign.
Johnson announced his resignation in early July. His Conservative Party is set to announce his successor on Monday,
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The Western Balkans are an integral part of the European Union and Spain fully backs the region's integration into the 27-member bloc, Spain's prime minister said Monday.
Pedro Sanchez was in Albania's capital Tirana Monday in the first-ever trip by a Spanish prime minister to the country. The stop in Albania was the last leg of Sanchez's Western Balkan trip that earlier took him to Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and North Macedonia.
“The EU cannot be conceived without the Balkans,” Sanchez said at the news conference with Albanian counterpart Edi Rama. “Balkans’ incorporation will strengthen and add EU members.”
The 27-member bloc agreed to launch the accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia late last month, a long-delayed step in the Balkan nations’ paths toward EU membership that gained momentum amid the war in Ukraine.
Western Balkan countries are at different stages of EU integration. Serbia and Montenegro already have started the talks while Bosnia and Kosovo have only signed the Stabilization and Association Agreement, the first step in the long process.
EU officials have recently sought to encourage governments in the region to move on with reforms amid concerns over Russia’s efforts to boost its influence in the Balkans.
The Albanian prime minister Edi Rama said that because of Russia’s influence in the region, Western Balkan countries should be “determined to continue the road of strengthening ties that build peace."
Albania has fully aligned itself with with all EU sanctions on Russia. Sanchez said those sanctions aren't aimed against the Russian people, but intended to force their leaders “to return to reality and abandon the path of war.”
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Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom perpetuated his tease for a potential run for Congress on Sunday while giving an update to "Fox & Friends Weekend" viewers about his plans to make a difference for the country.
While speaking to hosts Rachel Campos-Duffy, Pete Hegseth and Will Cain, he indicated he could have his sights set on running in Florida.
"I am having a conversation with people. Obviously, it's a process," he said. "I am just trying to find the right place where it's warm, obviously… I really like Florida."
ENES KANTER FREEDOM TO BE PRESENTED WITH INAUGURAL ‘MAYOR’S FREEDOM AWARD' IN UTAH CITY
Freedom said he has had conversations with Gov. Ron DeSantis, R., who urged him to move to The Sunshine State, perhaps bringing his political ambitions with him.
The state, which has become a stronghold for Republican values in recent years, voted overwhelmingly for GOP lawmakers during the 2022 midterms, including Miami-Dade County, which made an astonishing flip in favor of DeSantis in November.
Freedom, as a human rights activist, has historically touted his belief in holding China accountable and defending the U.S. against foreign adversaries such as China who threaten national security interests and fundamental values of liberty.
ENES KANTER FREEDOM REVEALS TURKISH GOVERNMENT PUT $500K BOUNTY ON HIS HEAD, MAY SUE NBA
He has also called out the Biden administration for its alleged weakness toward entities like China and Turkey, particularly after the latter placed a bounty on his head for criticizing the Turkish government's disregard for basic human rights.
ENES KANTER FREEDOM SAYS NBA ‘RUN BY CHINESE DICTATORSHIP’ AFTER EXCLUSIVE RECORDINGS SURFACE
Freedom is also coming to Fox Nation Sunday night with "The Price and Splendor of Freedom," a special documentary dedicated to exploring his life and his love for America.
"I talk about how lucky and how blessed we have it in this country because I know that some of my teammates love to criticize America, but I talk a lot about what's happening on the other side and how blessed we are in this beautiful country," he told Campos-Duffy, Hegseth and Cain.
The ex-NBA star has yet to announce any further plans for a run for office, but said others are urging him to throw his hat into the ring at some point.
"Everybody [has] been like, ‘What are you waiting for?’'" he said, adding that his supporters argue his voice is needed to make a difference.
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Sen. Joe Manchin III blocking energy, tax provisions in big bill, Democrat says
Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W. Va.) has said he’ll oppose an economic measure he’s been negotiating with Democratic leaders if it includes climate or energy provisions or higher taxes on the rich and corporations, a Democrat briefed on the conversations said late Thursday, delivering a stunning blow to one of the party’s top election-year priorities.
The official said Manchin, who derailed his party’s bigger and wider-ranging social and environment package in December, told Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Thursday that he will support a new measure only if it is limited to curbing pharmaceutical prices and extending federal subsidies for buying healthcare coverage.
Manchin’s demands leave the measure’s future unclear, seemingly upending the hopes of President Biden and Democratic leaders for a more sweeping package they could push through Congress by August. That would have let them show Democratic voters that they were addressing various party priorities, including curbing climate change and taxing the rich, and draw a contrast with Republicans, who are expected to oppose the legislation unanimously.
Manchin spokesperson Sam Runyon issued a statement that reiterated the senator’s assertions that he did not want any measure that emerged to worsen the consumer cost of living. The government reported this week that inflation last month reached an annual level of 9.1%, the highest figure in four decades.
“Political headlines are of no value to the millions of Americans struggling to afford groceries and gas as inflation soars to 9.1%,” Runyon said. “Sen. Manchin believes it’s time for leaders to put political agendas aside, reevaluate and adjust to the economic realities the country faces to avoid taking steps that add fuel to the inflation fire.”
Manchin signaled unease with the negotiations Wednesday, saying the latest inflation figures left him feeling “more cautious than I’ve ever been” about agreeing to a package that could fuel further inflation increases.
The Biden administration is warning pharmacies not to discriminate against women who may seek reproductive health prescriptions, including some that might be involved in ending a pregnancy.
The official who described the talks was not authorized to discuss the negotiations publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
President Biden and congressional Democrats have been hoping to enact a roughly $1-trillion version of the $2-trillion bill that Manchin killed in December and tout it as an achievement before the November elections. Republicans, who hope to capture House and Senate in the fall voting, say the new measure would worsen inflation by boosting spending and raising taxes.
Manchin, one of Congress’ more centrist Democrats, has enormous leverage, much to the dismay of many in his party. Using special budget rules, Democrats can push a package through the 50-50 Senate if they are solidly united, along with Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote.
They also control the House, though narrowly. Recent grumbling from some moderates there about raising taxes — an easy campaign-season target for Republicans — has raised questions about the fate of tax boost proposals in that chamber.
Top Democrats have wanted to reach agreement and approve the measure before Congress begins its August recess. Progress on major legislation is much harder in the autumn of election years, when every vote can become the target of a barrage of attack ads in campaigns.
However, containing the costs of prescription drugs and extending subsidies for people buying health insurance under President Obama’s 2010 healthcare law are also top Democratic priorities. Manchin’s stance puts his party in the position of having to decide whether it should reluctantly declare victory by solely addressing some of its healthcare goals, as opposed to demanding more but potentially ending up with nothing.
A government watchdog has found that Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol after an inspector general requested them as part of the investigation into the insurrection.
White House spokesman Nick Conger declined to comment on Manchin’s position.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called Democrats’ legislation “our last chance to prevent the most catastrophic and costly effects of climate change.” But he said the party must “salvage as much of this package as possible. The expression that failure is not an option is overused, but failure really is not an option here.”
“It seems odd that Sen. Manchin would choose as his legacy to be the one man who single-handedly doomed humanity. But we can’t throw in the towel on the planet,” said John Podesta, founder of the liberal Center for American Progress, who said Biden should use his executive powers to take climate action.
“It’s outrageous that Manchin and the Republican Party have killed climate legislation this Congress,” said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity. He said Biden should instead use executive powers to block new fossil fuel projects and prevent new oil and gas drilling.
In talks with Schumer (D-N.Y.) that have lasted months, Manchin previously expressed support for energy and climate language and for raising levies on high earners and big companies.
Just this week, two Democratic aides said bargainers were planning to include a proposal to extend the solvency of Medicare for three more years by applying an existing 3.8% tax on high earners to many people who earn income from tax-advantaged business entities called “pass throughs.” Asked about that, Runyon said Manchin has always supported keeping Medicare solvent and reducing pharmaceutical costs.
At issue is whether federal regulations on safe drugs could override state laws, and if so, give women a legal option where abortion is banned.
According to the official, Schumer had told Manchin during their talks that he would support using half of the overall measure for deficit reduction, a Manchin demand.
Schumer also said he would back setting aside $375 billion for climate and energy provisions, the official said. He also told Manchin he would back provisions aimed at helping domestic energy drilling — the West Virginian is a strong supporter of coal and domestic oil production — and would not include tax credits for electric vehicles, which Manchin had largely opposed.
The official said that even so, the resulting measure would have included clean-energy tax credits and trimmed carbon emissions by almost 40% by 2030, according to Democratic estimates.
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Added 43,000 net subscribers and presents 7% growth in revenue & 13% growth in EBITDA
AZOUR, Israel , May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ituran Location and Control Ltd. (NASDAQ: ITRN), today announced its consolidated financial results for the first quarter of 2022.
Highlights of the first quarter of 2022
- 43,000 net subscriber growth: net increase in aftermarket of 59,000 and net decrease in OEM of 16,000 with total number of subscribers at 1,924,000 at quarter-end;
- Revenues of $72.1 million, an increase of 7% year-over-year;
- Net income was $8.7 million, an increase of 6% year-over-year;
- EBITDA of $19.3 million, up 13% year-over-year;
- Generated $7.0 million in quarterly operating cash flow;
- Declared dividend of $0.14 per share (approximately $3 million) and continued the share buy-back program starting on April 1, 2022.
Management Comment
Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO of Ituran said, "We are pleased with the financial results and the very solid start to 2022, demonstrating a real recovery in our aftermarket business across all our geographies as well as the contribution from some of our new growth engines: including UBI, finance customers and car rental companies. What I am most pleased about is the very solid growth in our subscriber base which strengthens our expectations of adding between 140 and 160 thousand net subscribers in 2022. Our subscriber base is expected to cross the two million customers mark during this year and I am very proud of soon reaching this milestone. I look forward to reaping the fruits of our continued growth in the upcoming quarters. "
First Quarter 2022 Results
Revenues for the first quarter of 2022 were $72.1 million, an increase of 7% compared with revenues of $67.4 million in the first quarter of 2021.
70% of revenues were from location-based service subscription fees and 30% were from product revenues.
Revenues from subscription fees were $50.2 million, an increase of 10% over first quarter 2021 revenues.
The subscriber base amounted to 1,924,000 as of March 31, 2022. This represents an increase of 43,000 net over that of the end of the prior quarter, and an increase of 136,000 year-over-year. During the quarter, there was an increase of 59,000 in the aftermarket subscriber base and a decrease of 16,000 in the OEM subscriber base.
Product revenues were $21.8 million, an increase of 0.5% compared with that of the first quarter of 2021.
Gross profit for the quarter was $33.3 million (46.2% of revenues), a 9% increase compared with gross profit of $30.7 million (45.5% of revenues) in the first quarter of 2021.
The gross margin in the quarter on subscription revenues was 55.9%, compared with 55.1% in the first quarter of 2021. The gross margin on products was 23.7% in the quarter, compared with 25.4% in the first quarter of 2021, and the product margin was somewhat impacted due to the product sales mix as well as increased spot prices of components due to the global shortage.
Operating income for the quarter was $14.4 million (19.9% of revenues), an increase of 12% compared with an operating income of $12.8 million (19.0% of revenues) in the first quarter of last year.
EBITDA for the quarter was $19.3 million (26.7% of revenues), an increase of 13% compared with an EBITDA of $17.1 million (25.4% of revenues) in the first quarter of last year.
Financial expense for the quarter was $2.6 million compared with a financial expense of $1.0 million in the first quarter of last year. The increase in financial expense in the quarter was primarily due to the fall in the public market value of Ituran's early-stage company holding, SaverOne, which amounted $2.4 million in the current quarter.
Net income for the first quarter of 2022 was $8.7 million (12.1% of revenues) or diluted earnings per share of $0.43, compared with $8.3 million (12.3% of revenues) or diluted earnings per share of $0.40.
Cash flow from operations for the first quarter of 2022 was $7.0 million.
As of March 31, 2022, the Company had cash, including marketable securities, of $45.2 million and short and long-term bank credit of of $26.5 million, amounting to a net cash of $18.7 million. This is compared with cash, including marketable securities, of $54.7 million and short and long-term bank credit of $31.4 million, amounting to a net cash of $23.3 million, as of December 31, 2021.
Dividend
For the first quarter of 2022, a dividend of $0.14 per diluted share (approximately $3.0 million) was declared. This is in line with the Board's current policy of issuing at least $3 million on a quarterly basis.
Buy Back
On August 4, 2021, Ituran announced that it Board of Directors made the decision to continue executing on the $19 million remainder of a $25 million share buy-back program that was first announced in 2019. Share repurchases, were funded by available cash and repurchases of Ituran's ordinary shares under SEC Rule10b-18 terms. In 2022, the share buyback was renewed on April 1.
The Company will also be hosting a conference call later today, May 24, 2022 at 10am Eastern Time.
On the call, management will review and discuss the results, and will be available to answer investor questions.
To participate, please call one of the following teleconferencing numbers. Please begin placing your calls a few minutes before the conference call commences. If you are unable to connect using the toll-free numbers, please try the international dial-in number.
US Dial-in Number: 1 866 860 9642
ISRAEL Dial-in Number: 03 918 0609
INTERNATIONAL Dial-in Number: +972 3 918 0609
at:
10:00am Eastern Time, 7:00am Pacific Time, 5:00pm Israel Time
For those unable to listen to the live call, a replay of the call will be available from the day after the call in the investor relations section of Ituran's website.
Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, our plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and other statements contained in this report that are not historical facts as well as statements identified by words such as "expects", "anticipates", "intends", "plans", "believes", "seeks", "estimates" or words of similar meaning. These statements are based on our current beliefs or expectations and are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and changes in circumstances, many of which are beyond our control. Actual results may differ materially from these expectations due to changes in global political, economic, business, competitive, market and regulatory factors, as well as factors related to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
About Ituran
Ituran is a leader in the emerging mobility technology field, providing value-added location-based services, including a full suite of services for the connected-car. Ituran offers Stolen Vehicle Recovery, fleet management as well as mobile asset location, management & control services for vehicles, cargo and personal security for the retail, insurance industry and car manufacturers. Ituran is the largest OEM telematics provider in Latin America. Its products and applications are used by customers in over 20 countries. Ituran is also the founder of the Tel-Aviv based DRIVE startup incubator to promote the development of smart mobility technology.
Ituran's subscriber base has been growing significantly since the Company's inception to approximately 2 million subscribers using its location based services with a market leading position in Israel and Latin America. Established in 1995, Ituran has approximately 3,000 employees worldwide, with offices in Israel, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, Columbia, India, Canada and the United States.
For more information, please visit Ituran's website, at: www.ituran.com
Supplementary information on financing and investing activities not involving cash flows:
In March 2022, the Company declared a dividend in the amount of US$ 3 million. The dividend was paid in April 2022
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A judge’s ruling that a new congressional map drawn by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ staff is unconstitutional has been appealed by the state.
Thursday's notice of appeal came hours after Circuit Judge Layne Smith issued an injunction to prevent the DeSantis map from being used in the November election.
“Because this Court has found a violation of the Florida Constitution and that there is time to remedy the violation, this Court must consider what remedy is appropriate,” Smith said in his order. “This Court finds that a narrow remedy — one that addresses only the diminishment discussed in this order — is the most appropriate.”
Smith ordered that a map drawn by a Harvard professor who testified for the plaintiffs should be used, but the state’s appeal keeps the DeSantis map in place. The case goes to the 1st District Court of Appeals.
Florida gained a 28th congressional district because of population growth over the past decade, meaning Smith couldn’t have ordered current maps to be used while the lawsuit continues.
The appeal comes as the state gets closer to the June 13 to 17 qualifying period for federal office, and regardless what the appellate court decides, the map will likely then be taken to the state Supreme Court. DeSantis appointed three of the seven current justices.
The map was challenged by several voting rights group, who argued it was unconstitutional because it broke up a north Florida district held by Democratic Rep. Al Lawson where Black residents make up nearly 50% of the population. Smith agreed, saying that the DeSantis map takes a district with 367,000 Black voters and distributes them among four districts that would be overwhelmingly white.
In an unprecedented move, DeSantis, who is a potential 2024 presidential candidate, interjected himself into the process by submitting his own map just before the Senate was set to approve its map.
During the 60-day legislative session that ended in March, the Senate did not take the governor’s map into consideration, and the House approved two maps, a primary map to try to appease DeSantis and a second in case the first map was found to be unconstitutional.
While the House was debating its proposal, DeSantis used Twitter to say it would be dead on arrival. The Senate later approved the House maps and DeSantis kept his promise and vetoed the bill.
DeSantis has said Lawson’s district is gerrymandered based on race and claimed that violates the U.S. Constitution. He has said his map is neutral on race. Lawson’s district extends 200 miles (320 kilometers) from Jacksonville to Gadsden in an effort to link Black communities.
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Which LG air conditioners are best?
Without a means to cool down, hot summer days can be miserable. Portable air conditioners are powerful and easy to set up in different parts of your home or office. One of the top manufacturers of portable air conditioners is South Korean electronics giant LG.
Deciding which LG air conditioner is right for you requires assessing your overall needs and the size of space to be cooled down. For a quiet yet powerful performance, the top-recommended unit is the LG Smart Dual Inverter 10,000 BTU Air Conditioner.
What to know before you buy an LG air conditioner
Size of your space
The size of your room or cooling space determines the power required from your LG air conditioner. These power units are measured as British thermal units (BTUs) and are related to the square footage that can be adequately cooled. For a space of 200 square feet, you’ll want 8,000 BTUs. For every additional 100 square feet, add another 2,000 BTUs in power. As a result, a 300-square-foot room would require 10,000 BTUs, a 400-square-foot area would need 12,000 BTUs, and so forth.
Will you need to move the air conditioner around?
LG portable conditioners are convenient in that they can be moved to different locations in a particular space or moved to an entirely different part of a home or office as needed. However, LG also makes window air conditioners that can be semi-permanently placed in the window space. These are ideal for rooms where air conditioning will always be desired. You may want to consider a window unit in those circumstances.
Do you want to be able to heat the space in the winter?
Some models of LG air conditioners also feature a separate heating function for colder months. Check the LG product information to determine what each model offers.
What to look for in a quality LG air conditioner
Operating mode
In addition to cooling and occasionally heating, some LG air conditioners also include a fan-only mode, as well as a drying mode that helps remove moisture from the room without affecting the overall cooling.
Auto-restart
If the power goes out unexpectedly while your LG air conditioner is running, the auto-restart function will retain the original settings once power is restored.
Noise reduction
On average, LG air conditioners run at 55 decibels. Some higher-end models run as low as 44 decibels, which is the sound of your local library.
Timer
Some LG air conditioners include a programmable timer that can turn the unit on and off based on the time of day and day of the week. This can help control costs and keep your electric bill in check as you use early morning and nighttime to help run the unit less.
Smart ThinQ app
Some higher-end models use the Smart ThinQ app, which allows users to operate their air conditioner while they are away via their smartphone. The app also is compatible with electronic personal assistants.
How much you can expect to spend on an LG air conditioner
The primary driver for LG air conditioner prices is the power, although some added features will increase the price too. For 8,000 to 10,000 BTU units, the price is $320-$400. The price of 12,000 to 14,000 BTU air conditioners is $460-$700.
LG air conditioner FAQ
What size of LG air conditioner do I need for vaulted ceilings?
A. If your room has ceilings higher than 8 feet, you will need to consider a more powerful BTU rating for your LG air conditioner. BTUs are calculated based on an 8-foot high ceiling, so look to increase your power output by 2,000 to 4,000 BTUs based on the overall height of your ceilings.
Can I plug my LG air conditioner into an extension cord?
A. Plug your LG air conditioner into a grounded wall outlet. This prevents any fire hazard due to overheating.
What’s the best LG air conditioner to buy?
Top LG air conditioner
LG Smart Dual Inverter 10,000 BTU Air Conditioner
Our take: This powerful model can cool large family and living room spaces while maintaining a low decibel level.
What we like: The dual inverter compressor is energy efficient to save you money. It features four cooling fan speeds and is controllable from anywhere with the LG ThinQ app. This air conditioner cools rooms up to 500 square feet.
What we dislike: The product contains R32 refrigerant so it can only be shipped via ground service.
Where to buy: Available at Wayfair
Top LG air conditioner for the money
LG 6,000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner
Our take: Ideal for cooling medium-sized rooms, this affordable air conditioner also has a dehumidifier.
What we like: This portable air conditioner features two cooling and fan speeds for personal preference. An oscillating auto-swing air vent keeps air circulating for evenly distributed cooling. A fan-only mode is also offered.
What we dislike: There were some concerns that it was not as quiet as advertised.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon and Wayfair
Worth checking out
LG 10,000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner Heat & Cool
Our take: This powerful portable air conditioner can cool or heat a medium-sized room.
What we like: There are four operational modes: cool, heat, dry and fan. Two fan speeds allow for customization. It has coverage up to 450 square feet and includes the ThinQ app to access the operations remotely.
What we dislike: There were some reports that the shipping boxes arrived partially damaged, which scuffs the inside product.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
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STOCKHOLM, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital magazine and newspaper app Readly is expanding its US portfolio and signs a total of 23 iconic US magazine titles. These magazines include People, All Recipes and Better Homes & Gardens. With these titles onboard, reaching 200 million people, Readly is well equipped for a ramp-up in the US.
Chris Couchman, Head of Content in the US remarks that the addition of these household titles is another step in being able to deliver American readers the perfect mix of niche titles and well established magazines that they are searching for.
Couchman states, "These magazines are some of the most known and trusted titles in the USA and we are proud to now be able to offer them on the Readly platform. With the addition, Readly will strengthen its US presence through ramped up PR and marketing efforts to capture growth opportunities. We are eager to explore the market potential and our focus now is to put Readly in the hands of more U.S.consumers. I hope to see a significant boost, not only in the US but also in the UK and Australia."
Readly is committed to continually improving its digital offering in the US and the addition of these 23 magazines speaks to its mission to make quality content more accessible than ever before.
Couchman adds, "For publishers, our growing datapool of over 40+ billion data points gives them a deeper understanding of reader behaviour which enables them to become more data driven in their approach to maximising global readership and developing their business. We are delighted to have more US publishers experience this unique dataset with an international lens."
Full list of new US magazines now available on the Readly app:
All Recipes
American Patchwork & Quilting
Better Homes & Gardens
Coastal Living
Cooking Light
Country Home
Do It Yourself
Food & Wine
LIFE
Magnolia Journal
Midwest Living
People
People Royals
Real Simple
Southern Living
Traditional Home
Travel + Leisure
Wood
EatingWell Special Collection
Entertainment Special Collection
Health Special Collection
InStyle Special Collection
Shape Special Collection
About Readly
Readly is the European category leader for digital magazines. The company offers a digital subscription service where customers have unlimited access to 7,500 magazines and newspapers including the catalogue of ePresse. Readly has subscribers in more than 50 countries and content available in 17 different languages. In collaboration with 1200 publishers worldwide, Readly is digitising the magazine and newspaper industry. In 2021, revenues amounted to SEK 466 million. Since September 2020, the Readly share is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm Midcap. For more information, please visit https://corporate.readly.com
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MOSCOW (AP) — A senior Russian diplomat sternly warned Washington Friday against supplying long-range weapons to Ukraine, noting that the U.S. is balancing on the edge of direct involvement in the conflict.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also pointed to the country’s military doctrine that envisages the use of nuclear weapons in case of a threat to the existence of the Russian state.
“We have repeatedly warned the U.S. about the consequences that may follow if the U.S. continues to flood Ukraine with weapons,” Ryabkov said. “It effectively puts itself in a state close to what can be described as a party to the conflict.”
Speaking on state television, Ryabkov warned that ”a very narrow margin that separates the U.S. from becoming a party to the conflict mustn’t create an illusion for rabid anti-Russian forces that everything will remain as it is if they cross it.”
He emphasized that Russia will push its offensive in Ukraine until it reaches its aims.
“Russia is capable of fully defending its interests, and the goals of the special military operation will be fully achieved,” Ryabkov said.
He pointed out that Russia’s military doctrine stipulates that it could use nuclear weapons in case of aggression against Russia and its allies involving mass destruction weapons, or an aggression involving conventional weapons that threatens the very existence of the Russian state.
Supplies of the U.S. HIMARS multiple rocket launchers strengthened the strike capability of the Ukrainian army, which has used them to hit key infrastructure facilities and other targets. The truck-mounted systems fire GPS-guided missiles capable of reaching targets up to 80 kilometers (50 miles) away.
U.S. authorities so far have refrained from providing Ukraine with longer range missiles for HIMARS launchers that can reach targets up to 300 kilometers (186 miles) and could potentially allow the Ukrainian military to hit areas deep inside Russia.
“We are warning the U.S. against making provocative steps, such as deliveries of longer-range and more devastating weapons,” Ryabkov said. “It’s a road to nowhere fraught with grave consequences, the responsibility for which will lie entirely with Washington.”
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Sky vs. Mystics: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - June 18
On Sunday, June 18, 2023 at St. Elizabeths East Entertainment and Sports Arena, the Chicago Sky (5-6) will be trying to end a three-game losing streak when hitting the road against the Washington Mystics (6-4). It airs at 3:00 PM ET on Twitter, NBCS-DC, and Monumental.
In this article, you can find odds and spreads for the Sky vs. Mystics matchup across multiple sportsbooks.
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Sky vs. Mystics Game Info
- Game Day: Sunday, June 18, 2023
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: Twitter, NBCS-DC, and Monumental
- Location: Washington D.C.
- Arena: St. Elizabeths East Entertainment and Sports Arena
Sky vs. Mystics Odds, Spread, Over/Under
See the odds, spread and over/under for this WNBA matchup at several sportsbooks.
Sky vs. Mystics Betting Trends
- The Mystics are 3-6-0 ATS this season.
- The Sky have covered six times in matchups with a spread this year.
- Washington has covered the spread once when favored by 5.5 points or more this season (in five opportunities).
- Chicago has an ATS record of 4-0 when playing as at least 5.5-point underdogs this season.
- Mystics games have gone over the point total once this season.
- In the Sky's chances this season, the combined scoring has gone over the point total five times.
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NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Pegasystems Inc. ("PEGA" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: PEGA) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of PEGA investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased PEGA common stock between May 29, 2020 and May 9, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
PEGA investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) PEGA had engaged in corporate espionage and misappropriation of trade secrets to better compete against Appian, a principal competitor; (2) defendants' product development and associated success was, in significant part, not the result of its own research and product testing but rather the result of such corporate espionage and trade secret theft; (3) defendants had engaged in a scheme to steal Appian trade secrets, which was not only known to, but carried out through, the personal involvement of the Company's CEO; (4) the Company's CEO and other officers and employees did not comply with the Company's written Code of Conduct, including its express prohibition on "stealing" confidential information from a competitor and "misrepresenting your identity in hopes of obtaining confidential information"; (5) the Company was "unable to reasonably estimate damages" in the lawsuit filed by Appian as a result of the foregoing misconduct (the "Appian Litigation"); and (6) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about PEGA's business, operations, prospects, legal compliance, and potential damages exposure in the Appian Litigation were materially false and/or misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis when made.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in PEGA during the relevant time frame, you have until July 18, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
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Mel B, also known as Scary Spice, verified the new film she’s starring in is full of girl power. A New Diva’s Christmas Carol also features McKenzie Small, Vivica A. Fox, Ashanti and Robin Givens. The movie premieres December 14 at 8 p.m. on VH1.
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(Green Car Reports) — Hertz is beginning the rollout of what the company claims is North America’s largest EV rental fleet in Denver, and showing how it plans to continue that rollout nationwide.
The company on Thursday announced Hertz Electrifies, a public-private partnership model aimed at bringing EVs to rental customers and rideshare drivers in major cities, along with accompanying charging infrastructure.
Hertz plans to deploy up to 5,200 EVs in Denver while adding charging stations at Denver International Airport and its own rental locations. BP Pulse, a unit of the oil company, will also help install public charging stations in Denver neighborhoods as part of an existing partnership with Hertz.
The plan also includes community outreach. Hertz plans to share telematics data to aid charging infrastructure planning, offer summer jobs through the Denver Youth Enrollment Program, and provide EVs, tools, and training to the local Montebello Career and Technical High School’s automotive program.
This model will be replicated in other cities, with Hertz not only deploying EVs and charging stations, providing telematics data to help plan charging networks, and working to help underserved communities.
Hertz has already announced plans to buy 100,000 Tesla Model 3s, up to 65,000 Polestar EVs over five years, and up to 175,000 GM EVs through 2027—plus more from other automakers. With this announcement, it’s become clearer how the company plans to use that sizable fleet.
In addition to traditional rental customers looking for a way to get around while on vacation or a business trip, Hertz plans to offer EVs to rideshare drivers on what the company calls “flexible contracts.” In the U.S., the rental giant is already offering Tesla vehicles to Uber drivers under a special lease program.
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Hertz also earlier this week announced plans with Uber to expand the rollout of EVs to European capitals, starting with London and expanding to Paris and Amsterdam. Uber and Hertz aim to have 25,000 EVs available across Europe by 2025.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — As India’s economy grew, the hum of factories turned the sleepy, dusty village of Manesar into a booming industrial hub, cranking out everything from cars and sinks to smartphones and tablets. But jobs have run scarce over the years, prompting more and more workers to line up along the road for work, desperate to earn money.
Every day, Sugna, a young woman in her early twenties who goes by her first name, comes with her husband and two children to the city’s labor chowk – a bazaar at the junction of four roads where hundreds of workers gather daily at daybreak to plead for work. It’s been days since she or her husband got work and she has only five rupees (six cents) in hand.
Scenes like this are an everyday reality for millions of Indians, the most visible signs of economic distress in a country where raging unemployment is worsening insecurity and inequality between the rich and poor. It’s perhaps Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s biggest challenge as the country marks 75 years of independence from British rule on Aug. 15.
“We get work only once or twice a week,” said Sugna, who says she earned barely 2,000 rupees ($25) in the past five months. “What should I do with a life like this? If I live like this, how will my children live any better?”
Entire families leave their homes in India’s vast rural hinterlands to camp out at such bazaars, found in nearly every city. Out of the many gathered in Manesar recently, only a lucky few got work for the day — digging roads, laying bricks and sweeping up trash for meager pay — about 80% of Indian workers toil in informal jobs including many who are self-employed.
India’s phenomenal transformation from an impoverished nation in 1947 into an emerging global power whose $3 trillion economy is Asia’s third largest has turned it into a major exporter of things like software and vaccines. Millions have escaped poverty into a growing, aspirational middle class as its high-skilled sectors have soared.
“It’s extraordinary — a poor country like India wasn’t expected to succeed in such sectors,” said Nimish Adhia, an economics professor at Manhattanville College.
This year, the economy is forecast to expand at a 7.4% annual pace, according to the International Monetary Fund, making it one of world’s fastest growing.
But even as India’s economy swells, so has joblessness. The unemployment rate remains at 7% to 8% in recent months. Only 40% of working age Indians are employed, down from 46% five years ago, the Center for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE) says.
“If you look at a poor person in 1947 and a poor person now, they are far more privileged today. However if you look at it between the haves and the have nots, that chasm has grown,” said Gayathri Vasudevan, chairperson of LabourNet, a social enterprise.
“While India continues to grow well, that growth is not generating enough jobs – crucially, it is not creating enough good quality jobs,” said Mahesh Vyas, chief executive at CMIE. Only 20% of jobs in India are in the formal sector, with regular wages and security, while most others are precarious and low-quality with few to no benefits.
That’s partly because agriculture remains the mainstay, with about 40% of workers engaged in farming.
As workers lost jobs in cities during the pandemic, many flocked back to farms, pushing up the numbers. “This didn’t necessarily improve productivity – but you’re employed as a farmer. It’s disguised unemployment,” Vyas said.
With independence from Britain in 1947, the country’s leaders faced a formidable task: GDP was a mere 3% of the world’s total, literacy rates stood at 14% and the average life expectancy was 32 years, said Adhia.
By the most recent measures, literacy stands at 74% and life expectancy at 70 years. Dramatic progress came with historic reforms in the 1990s that swept away decades of socialist control over the economy and spurred remarkable growth.
The past few decades inspired comparisons to China as foreign investment poured in, exports thrived and new industries — like information technology – were born. But India, a latecomer to offshoring by Western multinationals, is struggling to create mass employment through manufacturing. And it faces new challenges in plotting a way forward.
Financing has tended to flow into profitable, capital intensive sectors like petrol, metal and chemicals. Industries employing large numbers of workers, like textiles and leather work, have faltered. This trend continued through the pandemic: despite Modi’s 2014 ‘Make in India’ pitch to turn the country into another factory floor for the world, manufacturing now employs around 30 million. In 2017, it employed 50 million, according to CMIE data.
As factory and private sector employment shrink, young jobseekers increasingly are targeting government jobs, coveted for their security, prestige and benefits.
Some, like 21-year-old Sahil Rajput, view such work as a way out of poverty. Rajput has been fervently preparing for a job in the army, working in a low-paid data-entry job to afford private coaching to become a soldier and support his unemployed parents.
But in June, the government overhauled military recruitment to cut costs and modernize, changing long-term postings into four-year contracts after which only 25% of recruits will be retained. That move triggered weeks of protests, with young people setting vehicles on fire.
Rajput knows he might not be able to get a permanent army job. “But I have no other options,” he said. “How can I dream of a future when my present is in tatters?”
The government is banking on technology, a rare bright spot, to create new jobs and opportunities. Two decades ago, India became an outsourcing powerhouse as companies and call centers boomed. An explosion of start-ups and digital innovation aims to recreate that success – “India is now home to 75,000 startups in the 75th year of independence and this is only the beginning,” Minister of Commerce, Piyush Goyal, tweeted recently. More than 740,000 jobs have been created via start-ups, a 110% jump over the last six years, his ministry said.
There’s still a long way to go, in educating and training a labor force qualified for such work. Another worry is the steady retreat of working women in India — from a high of nearly 27% in 2005 to just over 20% in 2021, according to World Bank data.
Meanwhile, the stopgap of farming appears increasingly precarious as climate change brings extreme temperatures, scorching crops.
Sajan Arora, a 28-year-old farmer in India’s breadbasket state of Punjab, can no longer depend on ancestral farmland his family has relied on to survive. He, his wife and seven-month old daughter, plan to join family in Britain and find work there after selling some land.
“Agriculture has no way forward,” said Arora, saying he will do whatever work he can get, driving a taxi, working in a store or on a construction site.
He’s sad to leave his parents and childhood home behind, but believes the uncertainty of change offers “better prospects” than his current reality.
“If everything was right and well, why would we go? If we want a better life, we will have to leave,” he said.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — Large-scale construction and renovations have begun on the Klondike schools campus.
Most noticeable for those driving by on US Route 231 is the new, soon-to-be 180,000 square-foot middle school building. While it is not set to be complete for students until the fall of 2024, the physical structure has taken shape quickly.
The changes don’t stop at the middle school level though. Grades six through eight moving into the new facility will free up the existing middle school building. That structure will house grades three through five.
Grades Kindergarten through two will remain in the current elementary school building.
These moves cannot happen without multiple renovations to each existing school building though. The elementary school will undergo renovations beginning this spring. The changes include demolition to multiple wings of the building, and a new two-story addition to the north end where mobile classrooms currently sit.
While there are multiple changes either in progress or set to take place, Tippecanoe School Corporation Superintendent Scott Hanback says that the projects are actually coming in under the initial bids.
“The middle school will be about $78 million,” Hanback said. “And then the two renovations combined will be about $75 million.
In regards to the elementary, the current plan is to have the K-2 building and the 3-5 building operate as one school under two different roofs. That means that current elementary school principal Scott Peters would remain as principal over all grades K-5. According to Hanback, the corporation is leaning towards adding a second assistant principal for the schools as well.
While Peters says that the move will be bittersweet, the anticipation of this change is exciting.
“It’s gonna be a phenomenal change,” said Peters. “It’s going to be wonderful for this community. I would say it ranks up there with when it went from being a K-12 building to a separate elementary.”
Middle schoolers are set to move into the new building in the fall of the 2024-2025 school year, but Hanback estimates that all grade levels will not be in their permanent place until the 2026-2027 school year.
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Community parades through downtown Jackson for veterans
JACKSON, Tenn. —The City of Jackson honors veterans with a parade.
I’m here at the Veterans Day Parade here in downtown Jackson, where despite the temperatures, everyone is here in attendance to support our veterans.
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
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West Tennessee Veterans Coalition hosts 2022 Veterans Day Parade
This is the annual Veterans Day Parade that has taken place in the City of Jackson with many veterans participating with the crowds support.
“The weather doesn’t matter, they’re gonna be out on the parade route cheering everybody on. All the forces are represented here. There’s Scout Troops and Jr. ROTC units, as well as military units. It’s just a good day today,” said Bryce West, Commandant of the Captain Jack Holland Marine Corps League.
Some of the veterans that participated were involved in World war II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Miss Jackson Volunteer, Marti Sullivan, talks about how she appreciates
our veterans.
“It’s truly such an honorable experience to be able to meet these men and women that have given so much for our country. No matter the weather, no matter how cold, I think it’s just an amazing experience to be able to come together as a city and celebrate these men and women,” Sullivan said.
There was a prize provided by the Doubletree Hotel for the best decorated veteran’s vehicle. The Commandant of the Captain Jack Holland Marine Corp League, Bryce West is also happy to be out here to celebrate the Marine Corps special day.
“We are here to celebrate Veterans Day and also the Marine Corps birthday which was yesterday. We’re out here, just to show our patriotism to the City of Jackson,” West said.
This is the 8th annual Veterans Day Parade in Jackson.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Transcript: Key Jan. 6 witness says Trump allies tried to influence her testimony to Congress, dangled job opportunities.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 18, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
516 AM EDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of eastern Wayne County
through 600 AM EDT...
At 516 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Chimney Bluffs State Park, or 14 miles southwest of Fair Haven Beach
State Park, moving southeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Lyons, Clyde, Chimney Bluffs State Park, Rose, Huron, Savannah,
Wolcott, Sodus Point, South Butler, Port Bay, North Rose and Alton.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
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MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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On the morning of this year's Boston marathon, some of the runners competing reflect upon the specific pleasures of training for the arduous 26-mile course while listening to audiobooks.
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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., was released from the hospital on Friday and is back in Braddock, Pa., his office said.
The senator had been receiving treatment for major depression at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center since he checked into the Washington, D.C., hospital last month, according to a news release from his office.
Fetterman's depression is now in remission, his doctor said.
He will return to the Senate on April 17, his office said. In the meantime, Sen. Fetterman will spend time with his family and constituents in Pennsylvania.
"I am so happy to be home. I'm excited to be the father and husband I want to be, and the senator Pennsylvania deserves. Pennsylvanians have always had my back, and I will always have theirs," Sen. Fetterman said in the statement released by his office.
"I am extremely grateful to the incredible team at Walter Reed. The care they provided changed my life. I will have more to say about this soon, but for now I want everyone to know that depression is treatable, and treatment works. This isn't about politics — right now there are people who are suffering with depression in red counties and blue counties. If you need help, please get help."
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Befitting their climb out of the Pac-12 cellar to an eighth-place tie in the regular-season standings, five Huskies received all-league recognition.
And in keeping with their stature with the Washington women’s basketball team, Dalayah Daniels, Haley Van Dyke and Lauren Schwartz were named All-Pac-12 honorable mention on Tuesday.
The trio started every game this season and were a major reason why UW (15-13, 7-11 Pac-12), which finished last in the league last season, made an eight-game improvement in its record.
Jayda Noble also nabbed Pac-12 All-Defensive team honorable mention while Elle Ladine received Pac-12 All-Freshman team honorable mention.
Last year, the Huskies had three players receive all-league recognition.
Daniels, a 6-foot-4 sophomore forward, led UW in scoring (11.1 points per game), rebounding (5.9) and blocks (1.3) while shooting 50.4% from the field.
Van Dyke, a preseason all-conference honorable mention choice, collected Pac-12 honorable mention honors for the third time. The 6-1 senior forward averaged 9.5 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.4 steals.
Schwartz, a 5-11 junior forward, averaged 8.8 points.
Noble, a 5-11 sophomore guard, ranked fifth in the Pac-12 in steals (1.8) and 18th in rebounds (5.6). Landine averaged 5.8 points and 2.5 rebounds.
All 12 of the league’s head coaches participate in the voting for the annual awards.
No. 8 seed Washington begins the Pac-12 women’s basketball tournament with a first-round matchup against No. 9 seed Oregon (16-13, 7-11) 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas. The winner advances to face No. 1 seed Stanford on Thursday.
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- Utah captured the top Pac-12 postseason prizes with junior forward Alissa Pili taking Player of the Year honors and Lynn Roberts receiving the Coach of the Year award.
- Stanford forward Cameron Brink was selected the Defensive Player of the Year and Oregon State forward Raegan Beers nabbed Freshman and Sixth Player of the Year awards. Arizona’s Shaina Pellington and Colorado’s Aaronette Vonleh are co-Most Improved Player of the Year winners.
- Pili highlights the Pac-12’s 15-player all-conference team that also includes Haley Jones, Hannah Jump, Gianna Kneepkens, Charlisse Ledger-Walker, Destiny Littleton, Rayah Marshall, Quay Miller, Charisma Osburne, Cate Reese, Endyia Rogers, Jayln Sherrod, Kadi Sissoko, Beers, Brink and Pellington.
- The Pac-12 All-Defensive team features Brink as well as Helena Pueyo, Marshall, Pellington and Sherrod.
- Beers leads the Pac-12 All-Freshman team that includes Chance Gray, Londynn Jones, Kiki Rice and Grace VonSlooten.
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TOKYO — Japan held a rare state funeral for its longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on Tuesday, despite widespread public opposition to the event.
Roads were closed around the Nippon Budokan Hall, where the event was held. Some 20,000 police were mobilized to prevent the sort of security lapses which allowed Abe's suspected killer to walk behind him at a July 8 campaign event and shoot him twice with a homemade shotgun.
Thousands lined up to lay flowers at tables in front of pictures of Abe outside the hall. In a sign of the divisions surrounding the commemoration, thousands of others took to the streets in protest. Just down the street from the Budokan, protesters opposed to the state funeral tussled with Abe supporters and police.
Critics objected to the use of $11.5 million worth of taxpayer funds used to pay for the event, as well as Abe's track record of cronyism and corruption scandals, his ties to the Unification Church, and the lack of legal basis for the state funeral.
Some 4,300 guests attended the event, including Vice President Harris, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Abe's widow, Akie, brought her late husband's ashes into the hall, where they were placed on an altar, and politicians spoke Abe's praises. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida applauded Abe's vision of a "free and open Indo-Pacific" and a strengthened alliance with the U.S.
As Japan's prime minister from 2006-2007 and 2012-2020, Abe's signature policies included reviving Japan's economy and loosening constitutional restrictions on its military. After stepping down, he continued to wield influence as the head of the ruling party's largest faction.
Abe's suspected assassin, Tetsuya Yamagami, says he targeted Abe because of Abe's ties to the Unification Church. His mother was a church member, and he claimes her donations to the group led to his family's bankruptcy.
Veteran journalist Hiroshi Izumi says that Abe and the ruling party's ties to the Unification Church go back decades and were no secret, and Izumi did not think it would sink Abe or his party.
"His death is a huge loss and a very sad thing. But it has opened a Pandora's box," Izumi says.
Japanese media have reported that most ruling party lawmakers had ties to the church. The church supplied votes and campaign volunteers, and the politicians gave the church messages of support. Abe himself reportedly decided which party candidates would receive the support.
Rev. Sun Myung Moon, a self-proclaimed messiah, founded the Unification Church in South Korea in 1954. It is viewed by some in Japan as a cult and it has faced numerous lawsuits from former adherents, who claimed it defrauded and tried to control them.
One poll shows Japanese who oppose the state funeral outnumber those who support it by a 60% to 30% margin. About a dozen city or town assemblies have passed resolutions calling on the government to call it off. Last week, a man in Tokyo set himself on fire in protest against the state funeral.
Critics argue that there is no legal basis for holding a state funeral for Abe, who was not head of state. Japan's emperor is the head of state, while the prime minister is head of the government.
Kishida argued that the funeral was an appropriate tribute to the nation's longest-serving prime minister and a way to stand firm against the attack on democracy that his killing represented. It was also a way, he argued, to receive the foreign dignitaries who wished to express their condolences.
But critics have not been convinced, and Kishida's approval ratings have plummeted to below 30%, according to one survey.
A further slump in support "could seriously jeopardize Kishida's staying in office," says Jeffrey Hall, an expert on Japanese politics at the Kanda University of International Studies, outside Tokyo. If his ratings decline further, "conceivably there would be pressure on Kishida to resign and have somebody else take over so that they can reset or reboot" the ruling party's agenda.
Then again, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party does not face a major challenge from Japan's weak and divided opposition parties. And Kishida does not have to face voters again until the next elections, in 2025.
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Tesla’s 1st electric pickup has rolled off the assembly line, company says
Tesla says its first production Cybertruck electric pickup has rolled off the assembly line, nearly two years behind the original schedule.
The company tweeted a photo on Saturday showing scores of workers in helmets and yellow vests surrounding the truck.
“First Cybertruck built at Giga Texas!” Tesla tweeted, including a cowboy hat-wearing emoji. Owner Elon Musk retweeted the post.
Musk unveiled the truck in late 2019, and Tesla had said production would start in late 2021, although the company has since cautioned that production would begin slowly and in smaller numbers than Tesla’s other vehicles.
With its wedge shape and stainless-steel body — which Tesla calls the exoskeleton — the Cybertruck looks nothing like a traditional pickup. Some analysts have panned it as a niche product that won’t have broad appeal.
Musk said in April that the company expected to deliver the first truck probably in the July-through-September quarter. He said that as with other new products, production would start slowly and then speed up.
“It takes time to get the manufacturing line going,” he said, “and this is really a very radical product. It’s not made in the way that other cars are made. So let’s see.”
The truck’s 2019 unveiling veered off course when a window that was touted as unbreakable was spider-cracked when hit by a big metal ball, which prompted an expletive from Musk.
Tesla originally said it would make three versions of the truck, ranging from about $40,000 to $70,000. Later the company removed prices from the page where customers can decide whether to plunk down $100 and place an order.
Competitors have rushed into the electric truck market, including the Ford F-150 Lightning and Rivian Automotive’s R1T. Both look like conventional pickups.
Tesla is scheduled to report second-quarter financial results on July 19.
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As the Republican Senate walkout continues in Oregon, some lawmakers and policy advocates worry the state might miss out on tens of millions of federal dollars available for climate action.
This week, Republican senators continued their standoff to avoid voting on bills they’ve deemed extreme, including one that would allow children of any age to receive an abortion without parental permission, among other provisions.
Last year, Oregonians voted to end walkouts by approving Measure 113, which impacts legislators’ ability to run for office again if they accumulate 10 or more unexcused absences. A number of Republican senators have hit that crucial mark.
The stakes of the stalled Legislature extend beyond House Bill 2002 and the Republicans’ reelection bids, however.
“There are probably hundreds of other bills at risk if we can’t get back to work,” said state Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Southern Jackson County. “Basically, our full climate agenda.”
Marsh, who is the chair of the House Committee on Climate, Energy and the Environment, said there is a tremendous amount at stake for climate action if bills are not passed during this session.
The Republican tactic of using walkouts to stall legislative debate on policies they don’t agree with has affected climate policy before, including in 2019 when similar actions in the state Senate killed a package to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The next year, a similar walkout directly targeted a revived cap-and-trade climate package.
This time around, Oregon could miss out on tens of millions of dollars as it scrambles to meet rapidly approaching climate goals.
Marsh and other lawmakers — including Sen. Kate Lieber, D-Beaverton, Sen. Lynn Findley, R-Vale, and Rep. Mark Owens, R-Crane — have been working together for months on a set of bills with a focus on building efficiency to help communities and state buildings adapt to climate change. The bills include incentives for energy efficient retrofits, creating building codes that would reduce energy consumption, and launching policies to retrofit all state and local government buildings by 2035.
Those House bills, Marsh said, are currently in the Senate and are “just sitting because nothing is happening.”
“The thing that people really need to understand is how much work is at risk if we can’t get back, if we can’t get bills through the Senate,” she said. “The important climate work that we’ve brought into this session, that’s on the cutting-room floor.”
Marsh’s biggest concern is failing to secure federal funds available through the Inflation Reduction Act. The law makes $369 billion available for clean energy and green infrastructure projects that would help low-income residents and communities of color adapt to climate change. Oregon, like all states, will receive some portion of that funding, but other portions are only available through a competitive application process.
Marsh said many of the Oregon House bills depend on those available funds to administer the planned programs and create incentives.
“A lot of our work in our climate package is setting up structures so that Oregon is in the best possible position to get as much of that federal money and to invest it wisely in our homes, in our communities,” she said.
Meredith Connolly, director for the West Coast policy advocacy group Climate Solutions, said Oregon needs the programs in place to be able to use any federal money the state will get.
“Most of that money is not just going to be written as a check to Oregon,” she said. “We actually have to have agencies put together plans, have the capacity, go out and create programs.”
Connolly said the walkout is particularly bracing for her coalition.
“I think it hits a little harder for climate folks because we know what it feels like to have your bill be the focal point [of a walkout],” she said. “I think once you give into those tactics, they become expected. Unfortunately, we’re seeing that continue, which is really deeply upsetting.”
Climate action bills in limbo because of the walkout are numerous. They include bills for wildfire protections, heat pumps and energy efficient retrofits, as well as sequestering carbon in forests, farms and other lands. There are also bills aimed at the clean energy transition, including tax rebates for purchasing medium and heavy-duty electric trucks.
For central and eastern Oregonians, one of the main focuses is water. The regions have been drought-stricken for years, exacerbating issues from polluted drinking water to farm irrigation. A proposed, $250 million drought relief package is one of the stalled efforts.
Jeremy Austin, water program manager at Central Oregon LandWatch, said the package helps address the impacts of the climate crisis by paying for efforts to assess water availability, support farmers and restore fish habitat.
“We need to be looking ahead for this year and beyond,” he said. “Low river flows across the [Deschutes River] Basin are harming ecosystems, endangering fish, and disrupting the ecological balance of our waterways. At the same time, we face a parallel problem of working farms not receiving the water they need to keep their livelihoods afloat.”
As some sections in Eastern Oregon struggle with arid conditions worsened by climate change, Ontario City Councilman Eddie Melendrez is watching a bill that would help pay for tree planting across the state.
He said the city experiences lots of heat and there is a lack of trees, especially in public parks. Shade from trees can be essential in helping people endure rising global temperatures.
“We’re in a high desert, high-heat area and I think that many of the communities that need that tree canopy or the green infrastructure can definitely benefit from that,” he said.
In Southern Oregon, Unite Oregon Rogue Valley community organizer Rene Braga said the building retrofit bills would not only ensure residents are living in safer and energy efficient homes, but they would help them save hundreds in energy costs. He’s talked to many families of color, primarily Latinos, who are paying more than $200 a month on energy bills for one-bedroom apartments.
“We need to have more insulation, sturdier windows and doors and efficient heat pumps for heating and cooling,” Braga said. “We have to lower the energy bills for these people that really are the backbone of our infrastructure, and we need to just provide them with a dignified life.”
Braga said he became involved in climate action after his mother lost her home in the devastating wildfires of 2020. He said he’s frustrated the Republican walkout could have a significant opportunity cost for climate action.
“We need to get these people back to work, they’re getting paid to work and they need to get this done,” he said.
OPB reached out to all senators participating in the walkout for comment on what it means for climate action. Only Sen. Cedric Hayden of Fall Creek responded.
He said the issues that are currently stalling lawmakers are holding up climate bills he supports too. Hayden is a chief sponsor of a bill that would fund recycling innovation and another bill that would reduce the state’s carbon footprint by requiring state agencies to buy goods and services within Oregon rather than importing them, when possible.
Hayden said his bill could move forward in the House even as the walkout continues, but is stuck in a Democrat-controlled committee. The chair of that committee, Rep. Dacia Grayber, D-Southwest Portland, told OPB that while the measure has some support, there are outstanding questions Hayden needs to answer regarding calculating carbon footprints and business impacts. She said there are currently not enough Democratic or Republican votes to move the bill without those answers.
More broadly, Hayden said if the lawmakers can get back to work, he’d want to consider climate bills “not just on their impacts but practicality.”
As the legislative session comes closer to its June 25 conclusion, the significant backlog of bills means some bills will be left behind.
On Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Tim Knopp of Bend issued a statement, committing to Oregonians that his party would return to the Capitol before the end of the legislative session.
He said his party was focused on the “real issues Oregonians care most about,” including homelessness, housing and public safety.
Climate change did not make Knopp’s list.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael Bostic said Friday that many of his financial trades and investments in the past five years inadvertently violated the central bank's ethics rules, and he has revised all his financial disclosures since becoming president in 2017.
Bostic said the trades were made by investment managers that he did not directly oversee and he was unaware of the transactions. He said he has since changed his investment approach to remain within the rules.
Bostic's disclosure comes just a year after a trading controversy engulfed the Federal Reserve. Last fall, two bank presidents resigned after their frequent stock trading at the outset of the pandemic attracted criticism because it occurred at the same time the Fed was taking steps to stabilize financial markets and the economy.
Since then, investments by Fed officials have come under tight scrutiny, given that policymakers like Bostic participate in interest rate decisions by the Fed that can cause wild swings in financial markets.
Bostic said the managers had made financial transactions during periods surrounding Fed meetings, when members of the Federal Reserve's policymaking committee are not supposed to trade. The advisers also purchased investments in amounts above limits set by the Fed's ethics rules.
The board of the Atlanta Fed said it has accepted Bostic's explanations for the oversights and announced no further actions.
“My board colleagues and I have confidence in President Bostic’s explanation that he did not seek to profit from any (Fed)-related knowledge,” said Elizabeth Smith, chair of the Atlanta Fed Bank's board.
Still, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has asked the Fed's Office of Inspector General to review Bostic’s financial disclosures.
“We look forward to the results of their work and will accept and take appropriate actions based on their findings,” a Fed spokesperson said.
The Fed revised its ethics rules last fall to put tougher limits on investing by Fed officials and senior staff. Those rules took effect May 1. Officials are now largely restricted to owning only diversified mutual funds and have to provide 45 days' notice before making any trade.
Bostic said he has altered his current investments to conform with the updated ethical guidelines.
“I recognize it is my responsibility to understand and abide by every obligation of this office,” Bostic said in a statement. “I want to be clear: At no time did I knowingly authorize or complete a financial transaction based on nonpublic information or with any intent to conceal or sidestep my obligations of transparent and accountable reporting.”
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GREENSBORO — Wednesday’s East-West All-Star football game will be the last played in the summer, at least for the foreseeable future.
The N.C. Coaches Association has decided to move its marquee game, which is played at Grimsley’s Jamieson Stadium, to the weekend after the NCHSAA state championship games in December. This year’s title games are Dec. 10.
The boys and girls basketball games at the Greensboro Coliseum and boys and girls soccer games at Macpherson Stadium will remain in July.
The football game's move from July to December has been in the making for at least 30 years, says Phil Weaver, executive director of the coaches’ association.
“Ever since I’ve been doing it the football coaches have wanted to,” Weaver said. “Splitting up the games is going to hurt a little bit. I guess basketball will become the premier summer event, and that should help soccer a little bit, too.”
The “overriding reason” to move the football game from summer to just after the season ends, Weaver said, is to attract more prominent players. Many college programs will not allow scholarship players to participate in the game because of summer school commitments and the risk of injury.
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“I’ll bet out of 72 football kids we replaced more than 30 from the original rosters,” Weaver said. “A lot of it was kids being found late in the (college) recruiting process. … They weren’t standing us up, they just had to go to college.”
Another reason for the move to December is that it will allow Division I football coaches to attend the coaches’ clinics that are held in conjunction with the East-West All-Star game. A NCAA rules interpretation had prevented coaches from attending or serving as clinicians in recent years.
The East-West football game will now be played on the same weekend as the annual Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas in Spartanburg, S.C., but Weaver said he believes there will still be plenty of outstanding North Carolina seniors available.
A coaches’ association football committee will meet to determine whether the next East-West game will be played on the afternoon of Saturday, Dec. 17, or Sunday, Dec. 18, Weaver said. The NCCA has to work through all of the logistical challenges of moving the game before setting the date.
“We have our 75th team being selected in the winter,” Weaver said, “so we’ve decided that for any changes we want to make this is a perfect time to make them.”
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KSNF/KODE — New online research finds “American’s guiltiest food pleasure” by analyzing the number of Google web searches for food coupons.
DoorDash has the most sought-after food delivery coupons in America, a new study has found. It is followed by Papa Johns, Uber Eats and Pizza Hut. Five of the top 10 food spots American residents seek discounts for have pizza as their specialty. The research was carried out by CommonCentsMom.com, a US-based money wellness magazine.
Their study analyzed the number of average monthly Google searches over the past year for coupons for food delivery services in the US. It has found that DoorDash leads among mixed food delivery services, with an average of 591,000 searches per month. Meanwhile, Papa John’s is the single most popular takeout brand that US residents seek coupons for, averaging 441,000 hits every month.
Discount hunters in America also look to strike a bargain at Subway, which receives 200,000 coupon and promo code-related searches each month, Grubhub averages 108,000 monthly searches, and Chuck E. Cheese averages 99,000 searches per month. Three more honorable mentions entering the top 10 most Googled food delivery coupons in the US include Burger King (76,000 average monthly searches), Little Caesars (68,000), and Domino’s (66,000).
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“Our research gives us an indication of America’s guiltiest pleasures in the realm of fast food. We all love some takeout every now and then and coupons shed some of that guilt off. Now that the results are in, we were surprised to find Papa John’s rank higher than collective food delivery services like Uber Eats and Grubhub. With half of the top 10 most Googled food coupons being a pizza specialist, our study reaffirms America’s favorite — the good old classic pizza slice,” said Katie Ren, founder of CommonCentsMom.
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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Middle Tennessee State University will be recruiting for an oral history project during Murfreesboro’s Juneteenth celebration on Saturday.
MTSU researcher Jason McGowan is collecting the stories of Middle Tennessee African American families for a yearlong project that began in February. The project is funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to MTSU's Albert Gore Research Center.
McGowan will be at the historic Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center during the Juneteenth celebration, where he will answer questions and arrange to record the stories of the area's Black families.
McGowan said the project is not just for MTSU or academia, but also for the people who tell their stories.
“Oral history just provides a medium to preserve family genealogy, record one’s relationship with their families, with their communities, and with the era in which they live,” he said in a news release. “You’re simply allowing us to share your experiences."
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