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GMA Network
17-05-2025
- Sport
- GMA Network
Carl Tamayo, Changwon LG Sakers outlast Seoul to rule KBL
Carl Tamayo secured a prized addition to his expanding trophy cabinet after helping the Changwon LG Sakers rule the 2025 Korean Basketball League (KBL) on Saturday at the Jamsil Student Gymnasium. Changwon, who had a commanding 3-0 series lead before being dragged to a decider, made sure there was no collapse this time, pulling off a narrow 62-58 escape in Game 7 to capture the club's first-ever KBL title. Tamayo posted a double-double outing of 12 points and 10 rebounds laced with two steals and two assists on the way to his second professional title in as many teams. He previously had a title run with Ryukyu Golden Kings in the Japan B. League last year. Heo Il-Young led the offense for Changwon after scattering 14 points behind an impressive 4-of-5 shooting from downtown while also grabbing five rebounds. Yu Ki-Sang and Yang Jun Seok chipped in 12 and 11 markers apiece. Meanwhile, fellow Filipino import Juan Gomez de Liaño found himself on the opposite side of history as Seoul failed to complete the reverse sweep. The former UP standout, however, didn't see action in Game 7. —JKC, GMA Integrated News
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Community Heroes: Tamayo finds balance between success and satisfied employees
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Jenna Tamayo is celebrating after her business, Appalachian Maid Services, was recognized as the Small Business Administration's Best in State Woman-Owned Small Business. It's not just her success, but how she works with her employees that makes her stand out. 'It was just supposed to be a career stop until I could figure out what I was going to do,' Tamayo said. But she figured out that she had a recipe for success when her business grew quickly and solidly. 'We have grown so much, I think because of the culture that we really try to instill,' she said. 'We try to keep our family culture as much as possible. Our average tech has been here about two and a half years.' Tamayo also cares about the community. She started the 'AMS Cares' program that sponsors non-profit organizations. 'So I diverted the advertising over to our nonprofits, and they each get a $1,000 check. They get sponsored on our Facebook, our social media, every month there's a new one. So that way, they each have their turn. We also put their logos on the backs of our shirt. So as we're cleaning through our homes and we're traveling throughout the city, we see the look that our clients can see the logos on their backs, and then they know who they're supporting, helping to support in the community.' 'And that's something that I think it's just exponential, the amount of goodwill that we've gotten back just by doing that, and hopefully other small businesses will be like, 'Yeah, you know, maybe we can diversify, our advertising doesn't always have to be with the big businesses. It can be within our community.'' Officer Manager Barbara Hendren said she has felt the impact of Tamayo's philosophy. 'I have never had an employer care so much about me and my family,' she told News Channel 11. It's a successful business model that keeps employees happy in their positions. A philosophy that benefits people, not just the bottom line. 'We try to take care of our people as much as we can. So I think providing these really good, stable jobs in the community, that would be amazing if we could do that.' And Tamayo said stability is only possible through comfort in one's job. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Hamilton Spectator
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
Upstage Productions bringing We Will Rock You to Rawlinson stage
Upstage Productions at Ecole St Mary High School is bringing the music of Queen to life in this year's musical production of We Will Rock You. The play has taken two years to finally reach the stage after it was canceled due to teacher extracurricular sanctions in 2024. Leigha Dunn, who plays Galileo, is in Grade 11 and Mia Bisson, who plays Scaramouche, is in Grade 10. Lukas Tamayo, who plays Chuggy, is in Grade 12. All three said it was great to do a musical production after 'We Will Rock You' was supposed to run in 2024. 'It sucked.' Dunn said when asked about the cancellation. 'I was so sad. I was so ready for that,' Bisson added. 'That was really rough. Losing it last year,' Tamayo said. The play, written by Ben Elton along with Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen, was one of the longest running plays in London's West End. 'There are a lot of lot of songs, a lot of a lot of songs that everyone will know,' Bisson said. 'I'm excited for crowd to join in,' Dunn added. Work on the play began in January and production has been ramping up. 'I think it's been pretty smooth,' Dunn said. 'We've been have all been keeping up on music on scenes.' 'Compared to last year it's perfect because last year everything was cancelled for teacher strike,' she added. Tamayo said that everyone in the play has been locked in. 'I feel like everyone has been on top of their stuff,' he said. The production also includes a live band which rehearses with the cast in the band room at St. Mary. 'I love live band,' Dunn said. 'A live band sounds so much better than our little computer tech thing that we had playing.' 'I think live band brings the story and the music more alive,' Bisson said. 'I agree cause then it's not just us providing soul, it's top to bottom of the entire song, soul and heart. It's wonderful,' Tamayo added. According to Wikipedia, the story is set exactly 300 years in the future in a vaguely Orwellianworld. Earth has been renamed as the 'iPlanet' (sometimes called 'Planet Mall' in older productions) and is controlled by the Globalsoft Corporation. On the iPlanet, mainstream commercial conformity reigns, in which Ga Ga Kids watch the same movies, listen to computer-generated music, wear the same clothes and hold the same thoughts and opinions. Musical instruments are forbidden, and rock music is unknown. The students described it as a place with music, but the music has no soul. 'It's a dystopian AI government. Yes, all music is produced by AI,' Tamayo said. Dunn, whose character is one of the leads, holds the key. 'Except for the music that I find, which I see in my dreams,' she said. 'Which is the Queen songs—all of them—and all of the old, famous songs that everyone would know.' The play also talks about the history of music. 'All the music is Queen music, but there's a lot of references to music history all throughout the show,' Tamayo said. 'The references span from … Britney Spears to Kurt Cobain, right, and everything in between.' Dunn said that the live band has been excellent to work with. 'It's nice,' she said. 'I've done a live band before with Broadway North last summer. That was my first ever one. It's amazing.' 'It's actually magic,' Tamayo said.' The production is huge and the backstage crew started setting up for the show at the EA Rawlinson Centre a week ago. 'We have a bunch of people behind the scenes too,' Tamayo said. 'We couldn't do it without them. It's more than just the cast.' The cast is nearly 25 people, with 30 backstage crew members. 'It's all hands on deck,' Bisson said. 'A show can't be a show without everyone,' Dunn added. They all said that the costumes for the play were amazing. The show also includes large sets All three also appreciated the work of director Jason Van Otterloo. Bisson said that Van Otterloo was the one who keeps everyone sane in a production this size. 'We can't do it without him. Like, if we didn't have him, this wouldn't be going,' Bisson said. Everyone has enjoyed working on the production. 'It's just a pleasure every year to do it,' Bisson said. 'It's so much fun.' Tamayo is embracing his final production in his high school career. 'It's my last time doing it with the school and this was my high school experience. Upstage was high school for me,' Tamayo said. 'I met some of my best friends through Upstage and it's my last time doing it. I'm so glad to go out with this wonderful show. It's sad and it's happy. I'm excited to pass the torch on to these little guys.' Dunn agreed about the camaraderie. 'Everyone makes it feel like home,' she said. We Will Rock You is from May 7 to 10 at the EA Rawlinson Centre, show time is 7:30 p.m. each day.
Al Jazeera
25-04-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Venezuelans in ‘state of uncertainty' over US temporary protected status
Fort Worth, Texas – The toughest part of Ana Maria Fores Tamayo's job is seeing the trauma etched into the faces of the refugees she helps. That trauma was clear when she and her husband travelled to Aurora, Colorado, last year to meet with Venezuelans living in the United States. 'Everyone's afraid,' said Tamayo, 69, who leads the Refugee Support Network. Among other services, her organisation helps people fleeing their home country apply for temporary protected status (TPS) in the US. 'They were leaving because things were terrible there,' she said of the people she met in Colorado. 'Most of them did not talk too much about it except to say that this was the chance for them to live here legally.' TPS is a designation created by the US government in 1990 to shield foreign nationals already in the country from deportation to countries designated unsafe to return to. President Donald Trump announced in February that nearly 300,000 Venezuelans would be stripped of their TPS on Thursday. But a US federal judge blocked the move the following month, saying the Trump administration's characterisation of the migrants as criminals 'smacks of racism'. Tamayo's husband, Andres Pacheco, 64, told Al Jazeera that until now, TPS was a 'relatively easy process' compared with asylum claims, but he worries that the status could soon no longer be an option for some people. 'The only problem with TPS is that it only goes up to 18 months,' said Pacheco, who runs a legal aid nonprofit for immigrants in Texas. 'So these are people who live in a state of uncertainty.' In March, the Trump administration announced it would revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 people, including Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, according to a Federal Register notice. Despite studies consistently showing that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than US citizens, Trump cast migrant crime as a central point of his presidential campaign. Trump also echoed unproven claims about Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang during campaign rallies, including an October stop in Aurora, where such fears had emerged. He went on to call the city a 'warzone' and used the issue to attack Democrats and stoke voter fears, warning that 'migrant criminals' would 'rape, pillage, thieve, plunder and kill the people of the United States of America'. 'Do you see what they're doing in Colorado? They're taking over,' Trump said at a rally in Pennsylvania. He added, without providing evidence: 'They're taking over real estate. They become real estate developers from Venezuela. They have equipment that our military doesn't have.' In the months that followed, Tamayo and Pacheco watched as Trump repeatedly spoke out against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro while, at the same time, describing Venezuelan immigrants as criminals. That portrait didn't align with what Tamayo saw from the dozens of people they met in Aurora. 'Their country had completely collapsed, and so they had no medicines, no food, no anything. And so they just had to leave.' Despite Trump's criticisms, many Venezuelans living in the US voted for the president. And despite a federal judge temporarily blocking the Trump administration from ending TPS for Venezuelans, this has not eased their fears as many now are grappling with the rising uncertainty of their futures. Presidential actions like those taken in March, when the US flew more than 200 immigrants – alleged members of Tren de Aragua – to be imprisoned in El Salvador after Trump controversially invoked wartime legislation to expel them, only compound those fears. Luis, a Venezuelan-American Trump voter living in Dallas, told Al Jazeera he 'never thought' Trump would target the relief programme that keeps more than half a million Venezuelans – including some of his loved ones – safe from deportation. He asked to use only his first name for fear of retribution against his family. '[Trump has] admitted Venezuela is not safe, and I understand he doesn't want criminals,' said the 34-year-old. 'But why does he want to get rid of honest, hardworking people? What does he want to send us back to?' This is not the first time Trump has tried to end the programme. During his first term, the president tried to strip TPS from people from El Salvador, Haiti and other nations he infamously dubbed 's***hole countries'. Advocacy groups blocked him with lawsuits, and Marco Rubio, then a US senator and now Trump's secretary of state, cosponsored the Venezuela TPS Act and personally lobbied for Venezuelans in a letter to then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. However, this year, Rubio took a new position on the matter. 'Designating Venezuela under TPS does not champion core American interests or put America and American citizens first,' he wrote. Few other Republicans have spoken up for Venezuelans. US Representative Maria Salazar from Miami, Florida, called on Trump not to 'punish' immigrants by revoking their humanitarian parole, a pathway to legal status arranged by the Biden administration. More than 70 percent of Salazar's constituents are Hispanic, and nearly one-fourth are not US citizens. 'They came here fleeing failed communist countries believing in Biden's empty promises,' Salazar wrote. Recently, Salazar celebrated the courts blocking Trump's manoeuvring, even going so far as to say she had 'led the fight' to protect TPS. In reality, the fight has been led by groups like the National TPS Alliance, which filed the lawsuit that led to the courts blocking Trump's moves. Jose Palma, a National TPS Alliance coordinator, said he's counselled hundreds of TPS recipients. 'We have stories of people from Honduras or El Salvador that have been in the United States for the last 25 years,' he said. 'They are at risk of losing their immigration status and getting deported, even though they have established their life in the United States.' Palma is particularly concerned about parents who are TPS beneficiaries and have started families in the US, which makes their children US citizens. If they are ultimately deported, he said, 'their kids will either need to stay in the United States without their parents, or they will be forced to go to another country'. Liz, a native of El Salvador who is now in her 50s, arrived in the US in 2001 after a devastating earthquake. Liz, who gave only her first name for fear of reprisals, said she has since reapplied for TPS roughly a dozen times, and she calls the programme 'a blessing for my life' that has allowed her to build a family and a life in a place she now considers her home. Some fees have increased, and some documents have become more complicated, but the process has been reliable: You turn in the necessary forms, and as long as your country is on the list, you receive the status. 'TPS is at least one piece of the many we need in order to exercise our rights,' Liz said. 'Even if it's temporary, it's created a lot of good for the American public,' Liz said of TPS. 'We have TPS holders who are faith leaders. We have TPS holders who are business owners providing employment to US citizens.' Carmen, a 27-year-old Venezuelan living in Fort Worth, Texas, echoed Liz's comments, calling TPS 'a godsend' that helped her 'start a life I didn't know I would have'. Sindy Mata, a 30-year-old community organiser in Fort Worth, has also counselled immigrants and recipients of either TPS or humanitarian parole, which is permission to enter and stay in the US temporarily for urgent reasons. She said that since early this year, many under temporary status received emails from the Department of Homeland Security that began: 'It is time for you to leave the United States.' Part of the administration's strategy is to encourage immigrants to start 'self-deporting'. But Mata said the Homeland Security Department's emails were not always having that intended effect. 'I know one person who, when they received the email, their first thought was, 'Who else got this? Who else in the community needs advice or needs some help?'' That's when she worked to connect people with legal representation and organisations like Palma's that are determined to keep TPS alive. 'It's a reminder,' she said, 'that we need to stand up for each other.'
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Appalachian Maid Services named SBA's Best in TN Woman-Owned Small Business
TRI-CITIES, Tenn. (WJHL) — A Tri-Cities business was named the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Best in State Woman-Owned Small Business. Appalachian Maid Services (AMS) is a cleaning service company that offers residential and commercial services around the Northeast Tennessee area. Owner Jenna Tamayo first opened AMS in May 2017 with a mission to help local non-profits. Since then, her business and services have grown and been awarded. Tamayo will receive her reward on May 8 during the SBA's Small Business Week in Nashville. 'I was floored,' she said. 'I could not believe it. I applied just to go through the application process, just to learn the process of what I should be looking for, to try to better the business. And I forgot about it. And then when they emailed over that we had won, I just, like, my jaw was dropped. We were really ecstatic, really excited for what this meant for the community, what it meant for our company.' AMS is looking for new clients and hiring new team members. For more information about the business, visit its website, Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
