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Toyota on Wednesday unveiled the bZ Compact SUV concept, a fully electric compact crossover that looks like it might be the replacement for the C-HR, or at least an electric alternative.
Toyota stopped short of confirming the concept for production, stating only that the vehicle shows a possible vision of the very near future. However, the concept was among the dozen EV designs shown by Toyota in late 2021 as a preview of its upcoming electric vehicles.
The “bZ” in the name points to the concept previewing a future member of Toyota’s bZ (beyond zero) family of EVs. The first was the 2023 bZ4X, a slightly bigger compact crossover about the size of a Toyota Corolla. A bZ3 compact sedan has also been revealed for the Chinese market.
A production version of the bZ Compact SUV concept will likely be called something along the lines of bZ3X. Toyota on Wednesday said it plans five bZ models, down from a previous plan for seven.
The exterior of the concept features an aerodynamic shape that makes the vehicle appear sleek and sporty, while also helping improve efficiency. A key element is a narrowed-down cabin that helps reduce drag.
Inside is a clean, uncluttered design that’s meant to signify the simplicity of electric powertrains. The dash is fitted with only a pair of screens plus a thin strip integrating vents for the climate control, while the steering wheel has taken on the yoke design that Toyota’s bZ4X offers in the Chinese market. Tesla’s Model S also features a yoke.
A voice assistant called Yui provides feedback with various audio and visual cues, and can also be used to control vehicle functions.
The bZ Compact SUV concept is on display at this week’s 2022 Los Angeles auto show, where Toyota also has a redesigned 2023 Prius.
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- 2023 Ford Bronco Sport adds Black Diamond Off-Road Package | 2022-11-18T01:44:44+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/automotive/internet-brands/toyota-bz-compact-suv-concept-hints-at-electric-c-hr-successor/ |
Russian officer: Missile to carry several hypersonic weapons
MOSCOW (AP) — A new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile is capable of carrying several hypersonic weapons, a senior Russian military officer said Sunday.
Col. Gen. Sergei Karakayev, the commander of the Russian military’s Strategic Missile Forces, said in televised remarks that the new Sarmat ICBM is designed to carry several Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said the Sarmat was test-fired for the first time Wednesday from the Plesetsk launch facility in northern Russia and its practice warheads have successfully reached mock targets on the Kura firing range on the far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula.
The test launch came amid soaring tensions between Moscow and the West over the Russian military action in Ukraine and underlines the Kremlin’s emphasis on the country’s nuclear forces.
Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed the Sarmat launch as a major achievement, claiming that the new missile has no foreign equivalent and is capable of penetrating any prospective missile defense.
“This really unique weapon will strengthen the combat potential of our armed forces, reliably ensure Russia’s security from external threats and make those, who in the heat of frantic aggressive rhetoric try to threaten our country, think twice,” Putin said Wednesday.
The Sarmat is a heavy missile that has been under development for several years to replace the Soviet-made Voyevoda, which was code-named Satan by the West and forms the core of Russia’s nuclear deterrent.
The military has said that the Avangard is capable of flying 27 times faster than the speed of sound and making sharp maneuvers on its way to target to dodge the enemy’s missile shield.
In anticipation of the deployment of the Sarmat, the new hypersonic vehicle has been fitted to the existing Soviet-built ICBMs, and the first unit armed with the Avangard entered duty in December 2019.
The director and the designer-in-chief of the Makeyev missile-maker that developed the Sarmat, Vladimir Degtyar, said in televised remarks that its range allows it to fly along any trajectory across north or south poles to hit any target around the world.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-04-24T14:27:56+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/2022/04/24/russian-officer-missile-carry-several-hypersonic-weapons/ |
Phoenix is clearing the encampment known as The Zone to comply with a court order. Another ruling orders the city to provide somewhere for unsheltered people to go. The question is where will they go?
Copyright 2023 KJZZ
Phoenix is clearing the encampment known as The Zone to comply with a court order. Another ruling orders the city to provide somewhere for unsheltered people to go. The question is where will they go?
Copyright 2023 KJZZ | 2023-05-11T13:16:02+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/national-world-news/2023-05-11/phoenix-is-clearing-people-out-of-the-citys-biggest-homeless-encampment |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
7-0-6-2, SB: 1
(seven, zero, six, two; SB: one)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
7-0-6-2, SB: 1
(seven, zero, six, two; SB: one) | 2022-09-08T03:38:45+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Four-Evening-game-17426479.php |
Biden meets with Arab Gulf countries to counter Iran threat
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday will lay out his strategy for the Middle East as he closes out of the final leg of a four-day trip meant to bolster U.S. positioning and knit the region together against Iran.
In the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, Biden will meet with heads of state from six Arab Gulf countries, plus Egypt, Jordan and Iraq for a regional summit. It comes a day after he championed steps toward normalizing ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and sought to rebuild cooperation with the Saudi king and crown prince after once promising to make the kingdom a “pariah” for its human rights abuses.
When he speaks to the Gulf Cooperation Council and its Arab allies, the White House said, Biden will offer his most fulsome vision yet for the region and how the U.S. can cooperate with it.
His first Middle East trip comes 11 months after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and as Biden aims to reprioritize the U.S. away from the Middle East’s ruinous wars and ongoing conflicts stretching from Libya to Syria.
“It’s a strategy fit for purpose for 2022 as opposed to the two decades of major land wars that the U.S. fought in this region over the course of the 2000s,” Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters in a preview of the speech.
Energy prices — elevated since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — were expected to be high on the agenda. But Biden aides tempered expectations that he would leave with a deal for regional producers to immediately boost supply.
“I suspect you won’t see that for another couple of weeks,” Biden told reporters late Friday.
At the summit, Biden was set to hear a chorus of concern about the region’s stability and security, as well as concerns about food security, climate change and the continued threat of terrorism.
Overall, there’s little that the nine Mideast heads of state agree on when it comes to foreign policy. For example, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates are trying to isolate and squeeze Iran over its regional reach and proxies. Oman and Qatar, on the other hand, have solid diplomatic ties with Iran and have acted as intermediaries for talks between Washington and Tehran.
Qatar recently hosted talks between U.S. and Iranian officials as they try to revive Iran’s nuclear accord. Iran not only shares a huge underwater gas field with Qatar in the Persian Gulf, it rushed to Qatar’s aid when Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt cut off ties and imposed a years-long embargo on Qatar that ended only shortly before Biden took office.
Biden’s actions have frustrated some of the leaders. While the U.S. has played an important role in encouraging a months-long ceasefire in Yemen, Biden’s decision to reverse a Trump-era move that had listed Yemen’s rebel Houthis as a terrorist group has outraged the Emirati and Saudi leadership.
On Friday, Biden fist-bumped Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto leader, as he arrived at the royal palace in Jeddah. But he rejected the notion that he was ignoring the kingdom’s human rights abuses as he tries to reset a fraught diplomatic relationship.
“I said, very straightforwardly, for an American president to be silent on an issue of human rights is inconsistent with who we are and who I am,” Biden said. “I’ll always stand up for our values.”
U.S. intelligence believes that the crown prince likely approved the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S.-based writer, four years ago. Biden said Prince Mohammed claimed that he was “not personally responsible” for the death. “I indicated I thought he was,” the president said he replied.
None of the countries represented at the summit have moved in lockstep with the U.S. to sanction Russia, a key foreign policy priority for the Biden administration. If anything, the UAE has emerged as a sort of financial haven for Russian billionaires and their multimillion-dollar yachts. Egypt remains open to Russian tourists.
As for U.S. concerns over China’s expanding reach, China appears willing to provide Saudi Arabia with missile and nuclear technologies that the U.S. is much more hesitant to do. China is also the kingdom’s biggest buyer of Saudi oil.
For Iraq, which has the deepest and strongest links to Iran of all the Arab countries, its presence at the meeting reflects Saudi efforts — supported by the U.S. — to bring Iraq closer to Arab positions and the so-called Arab fold. Iraq has hosted around five rounds of direct talks between Saudi and Iranian officials since Biden took office, though the talks have produced little results.
Ahead of the summit, Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Khadhimi, who survived an assassination attempt with armed drones in November, wrote in Foreign Policy that Iraq faces many problems, but is working “to solve Iraqi problems with Iraqi solutions”.
“When U.S. President Joe Biden comes to the Middle East this week, he will be arriving in a region facing numerous challenges, from terrorism to food insecurity and climate change,” he wrote. “But the Middle East is also a region that is increasingly facing those challenges together under a group of leaders pursuing positive change.”
Mara Rudman, executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress, said Biden’s trip is important to defend American interests in the region.
“When we are not there, others are going to claim that ground, claim those lines of communication,” specifically China and Russia.
“You have to keep your eyes on multiple fronts at the same time,” she said. “That can almost feel like resisting a force of gravity.”
Martin Indyk, distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the increased cooperation between Israel and Arab countries, driven in large part by threats from Iran, is the most important storyline in the Middle East right now.
“Now there’s a much more clear-eyed perception in Washington of the way in which Iran’s ambitions to dominate the region threaten our interests and our allies and partners,” he said.
Under Biden, Indyk said, the U.S. role in the region has been shifting “from being the dominant power in the region that supposedly took care of all the threats. . . to the role of supporting partners and allies in the region.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-16T05:46:40+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2022/07/16/biden-meets-with-arab-gulf-countries-counter-iran-threat/ |
KCRA Today: Latest on deadly SoCal shooting, Turlock police increase patrols downtown, fiery crash closes SB Interstate 5
KCRA 3 is rounding up all the information you need to know to get a head start on your day.
Here you'll find what you missed overnight, what's happening throughout the day, the forecast and how your commute is shaping up.
You can also watch our morning newscasts live from 4-10 a.m. here.
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN NORCAL
Sacramento community reacts after deadly Southern California shooting during Lunar New Year | Lunar New Year celebrations in Northern California took on a somber tone on Sunday following a deadly shooting Saturday night in Southern California. Many kept the 10 people killed amid a Lunar New Year event in Monterey Park in their thoughts. "When I heard of that, it's pretty nerve-racking, to say the least," said Linda Lui, president of the Sacramento Chinese of Indochina Friendship Association. The shooter's motive is still unclear. Read more here.
All lanes closed on SB I-5 after fiery big rig crash in Sacramento County | A fiery crash early Monday morning on southbound Interstate 5 in Sacramento County has closed all lanes and significantly slowed traffic. The crash happened on I-5 near Airport Boulevard around 3:30 a.m., according to KCRA 3 crews on scene. Read more here.
Citrus Heights Police confirm 2 people dead, 1 injured in crash | Two people are dead following a traffic collision Sunday night in Citrus Heights, according to police. Citrus Heights Police said the crash happened on Auburn Boulevard near Cobalt Way around 7:45 p.m. Police said a pedestrian was in the middle lane of Auburn Boulevard when the driver of a speeding vehicle hit the pedestrian. That driver swerved into the traffic lane, and then they hit a second vehicle head-on. The driver of the second car then crashed their vehicle into the brick barrier of a neighborhood facing Auburn Boulevard. Read more here.
Fair Oaks man surrenders peacefully after barricading himself inside home, Sacramento County Sheriff confirms | A man who had barricaded himself inside his home in Fair Oaks has now peacefully surrendered, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff's office. Deputies confirm that a 39-year-old male subject was in his home on the 7600 block of Southcliff Drive in Fair Oaks. The man was wanted for an assault with a deadly weapon warrant. He may have been armed with a machete, officials say. Read more here.
Turlock police increase patrols downtown following 2 deadly shootings | The Turlock Police Department is increasing its patrols downtown following two deadly shootings the weekend prior, the department announced. The increased patrols were scheduled to take place Saturday and Sunday. "It definitely makes you feel safer," said Deanna Millentree, of Turlock. "It's just really sad." Read more here.
WHAT'S HAPPENING ELSEWHERE
Monterey Park mass shooter found dead in Torrance; police say there are no other suspects | The hunt for a gunman who killed 10 people at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club ended Sunday when authorities found him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the van he used to flee after people thwarted his attempt at a second shooting. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna identified the man as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran and said no other suspects were at large. Speaking at an evening news conference, he added that the motive remained unclear for the attack, which wounded 10 more. Read more here.
Poland to ask Germany for go-ahead to send tanks to Ukraine | Poland will ask Germany for permission to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Monday. Morawiecki didn't specify when the request will be made. He said that Poland is building a coalition of nations ready to send Leopards. Read more here.
Women's marches draw thousands on 50th anniversary of Roe | Women's marches demanding abortion rights drew thousands of people across the country on Sunday, the 50th anniversary of the now-overturned Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that established federal protections for the procedure. Organizers focused on states after the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe in June unleashed abortion restrictions and near-total bans in more than a dozen states. Read more here.
Dems: Biden should be 'embarrassed' by classified docs case | Senior Democrats, dismayed by a steady stream of startling disclosures, expressed criticism Sunday of how President Joe Biden handled classified material after leaving office as vice president and disappointment that the White House has not been more forthcoming with the public. Read more here.
WHAT'S COMING UP TODAY
- Family of missing 16-year-old Nykari Johnson is holding a press conference and community search party today for the teen that was last seen in Carmichael on Dec. 27.
- White House officials and Nancy Pelosi are speaking in San Francisco today to celebrate a major federal grant for the Golden Gate Bridge at 10 a.m.
- Anthony Gray, the man accused of stabbing and killing a 15-year-old girl in Stockton, is set to appear in court today at 9 a.m.
TODAY'S WEATHER OUTLOOK
Meteorologist Eileen Javora says there are still some gusts Monday morning in spots of Northern California. The gusts are expected to linger, especially on the west side of the Valley. Valley gusts could get to 35 mph, while Sierra gusts could range from 40 to 50 mph.
REAL-TIME TRAFFIC MAP
(App users, click here to see our interactive traffic map.) | 2023-01-23T16:47:43+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/northern-california-news-traffic-weather-morning-update-jan-23-2023/42618590 |
Damaged traffic lights in Florida may take over a year to replace, officials say
APOPKA, Fla. - You may have seen videos before of traffic lights shaking wildly from the wind during storms.
The Florida Department of Transportation changed its regulations a while back to mandate sturdier masts to prevent that from happening, but they turn out to be a real hassle to replace these days.
That’s why people online have been asking about why the temporary light at State Road 414 East and Keene Road hasn’t been replaced yet with a permanent one.
FOX 35 News reached out to the Central Florida Expressway Authority, as well as the planning departments with Orange County and the City of Apopka. We learned that a temporary light on Keene Rd. was installed after the recent hurricanes damaged the old traffic light.
"We can wheel these out in replacement of a damaged or disabled intersection and have things back up and running without needing to be flaggers or police officers in harm’s way," explained Scott Heydt, sales director for Marketing for Horizon Signal, a company that makes portable traffic lights.
They are called "portable" or "temporary" lights, though those terms are relative. Right now, traffic lights can take over a year to replace, officials said.
Travelers with whom we spoke, such as Mark Davideit, were astonished when we told them that timeline. "That seems like an awful long time," Davideit told FOX 35. "I don’t understand it. Doesn’t make a lot of sense. They should be able to find it somewhere."
The City of Apopka’s Planning and Zoning Division explained hat there are only three companies in the entire country that make the new lights. Because demand so heavily outpaces supply, they are on a back-order of up to 18 months.
The good news, accordant to Heydt, is that the portable lights will still operate even if another storm knocks out the power. "They are battery powered and solar charged, so they don’t need to be connected to the power grid at all, so they’re almost completely self-sufficient."
The Central Florida Expressway said it will take a couple more months to rebuild the traffic light’s base and install a new permanent signal on Keene Rd. | 2023-01-31T07:19:37+00:00 | wogx.com | https://www.wogx.com/news/why-damaged-traffic-lights-can-take-over-a-year-to-replace |
MCBAIN — Northern Michigan farmers are optimistic that stable milk prices and a decent corn harvest later this year will make up for higher commodity, fuel and equipment costs.
Marion dairy farmer Bob Lee said inflation has caused the price of diesel fuel to go up substantially; and for farms that have tractors and other equipment that run solely on diesel, it doesn’t take long for even moderately increased costs to add up.
“It makes your head spin,” Lee said. “Everything we do runs with diesel.”
In addition, Lee said supply chain issues are causing months-long delays in obtaining necessary equipment. He said he ordered a replacement part for a machine that broke down in May and still hasn’t received it.
Like other businesses, farms also are dealing with labor shortages.
Around Memorial Day, Lee installed a robotic milking machine to replace the worn out milk parlor he had been using for 50 years. Not only is the machine a technological improvement over the old-fashioned parlor, it also alleviates ongoing challenges they’ve faced finding help on the farm.
“We either had to quit or do something,” Lee said. “It’s getting so hard to keep good people.”
Terry Veddler, one of the operators of Veddler Dairy Farm — a 2,900-cattle operation on the border of Missaukee and Osceola counties — said that “everything is very expensive” right now. That includes one of the biggest expenses on a dairy farm — the grain and other commodities that are mixed together in a feed ration for the livestock.
During good harvest years, they can shave off a big portion of this cost by using their own corn kernels in the ration mix. During bad years, they have to purchase kernels from elsewhere to supplement the mix.
So far this year, while it’s been pretty hot and dry, corn has held up well in Northern Michigan.
“We’ve had some timely rains,” Veddler said. “I would say we’re about average (for corn growth). Not as good as last year. That was the best year that I can ever remember ... Having the excess feed definitely helps. It can carry you through a bad year.”
“It looks really nice right now,” Lee agreed. “Rains were timely enough. There were a few weeks of brown grass but everything is coming back now. I think Michigan has been pretty fortunate by that standpoint.”
Jodi DeHate, Missaukee Conservation District MAEAP technician for Missaukee, Wexford, Kalkaska and Crawford counties, said the growing season got off to a slow start because there wasn’t much moisture in the ground following the mild, relatively snow-less winter.
Conditions were hot and dry through much of June, which caused some to worry that corn growth would be stunted, but just as it was getting to the point of seriously affecting the crop, the rains came — not in heavy amounts, but enough to make a difference.
“We’ve gotten rain right when we needed it,” DeHate said. “It could have been so much worse.”
DeHate said she thinks corn held up as well as it did because of improved genetics in the corn strains. If this year had happened in the 1980s, DeHate predicted that it would have been a lot more harmful to the crop.
“The corn is able to flex with the weather better,” DeHate. “I’ve not seen it die as quickly as it did when I was a kid.”
The alfalfa crop also is looking to be about average this year, although the first couple of cuttings had slightly lower yields than usual, likely as a result of dry conditions early in the season, DeHate said.
While the promising corn harvest may help to take the edge off higher costs caused by inflation, the factor perhaps most responsible for putting farmers in the black this year is the improved dairy market.
Veddler said the price of milk rose with inflation during the first two quarters of the year, although it’s moderated slightly this quarter.
“Milk prices have been good this summer,” Lee concurred. “There was a good 2-3 months there. It lets you get caught up a little bit. Every year has different things you have to deal with. I think it will be a fairly decent year, overall.” | 2022-08-11T08:51:16+00:00 | cadillacnews.com | https://www.cadillacnews.com/news/with-inflation-taking-its-toll-farmers-grateful-for-higher-milk-prices-and-promising-harvest-ahead/article_c929ca80-18dd-11ed-9d67-5fc2d4cabc32.html |
Cape, Fredrick T.
Fredrick T. Cape, 70, of Turtlecreek Township, passed away on Monday, July 10, 2023 at Ohio's Hospice of Butler & Warren Counties. He was born in Middletown on January 28, 1953 to parents, Robert and Betty Jane (Pitcher) Cape. Fred worked in the Hot Strip at AK Steel for 30 years. Fred is survived by his loving wife, Brenda A. (Bond) Cape; sons, Fredrick Timothy Cape Jr. & Ian Matthew (Kelly) Cape; four grandchildren, Lila, Harrison, Timothy III & Mallory; brother, Joseph (JiJi) Cape; and several nieces & nephews. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his sister, Susan Williams; and brothers, Jeffrey Cape & John Cape. Memorial Service will be Friday, July 21, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. at Wilson-Schramm-Spaulding Funeral Home, 3805 Roosevelt Blvd (at Bonita Dr.), Middletown, with Dr. Dan Flory officiating. The family will receive friends prior to the service from 3:00 - 4:00 pm at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Ohio's Hospice of Butler & Warren Counties, 5940 Long Meadow Dr., Franklin, Ohio 45005. Please sign the guestbook at WilsonSchrammSpaulding.com
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45044 | 2023-07-18T05:31:47+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/cape-fredrick/OTG42AZDG5B5BPFIS42JN65OGU/ |
The National Christmas Tree comes alive Thursday in Washington, all lit up for the holidays in a ceremony presided over by the president and the first lady. The very first public lighting of a public Christmas tree in America was presided over by the mayor of Boston — John Fitzgerald.
He was the grandfather of another president, John F. Kennedy, and the great-grandfather of Caroline Kennedy. She's compiled a new Christmas anthology, A Family Christmas. It's a collection of poetry, prose, lyrics and scripture about the season.
Kennedy opens the book with her own letter to Santa in 1962, when she was 5 years old. The president's daughter requests a pair of silver skates, dolls, "a real pet reindeer and a clock to tell time." She also asks for "interesting planes or (a) bumpy thing he can ride in or some noisy thing or something he can push or pull" for her little brother John.
A Kennedy family tradition was to give oranges and walnuts for Christmas. It's one that children longing for toys didn't quite appreciate, Caroline Kennedy tells Renee Montagne. But it's a tradition she has continued with her own kids.
"I think the continuity ... of the traditions is really what makes Christmas so special," Kennedy says. "And for me, seeing my children do the same kinds of thing that I did when I was young and even that my mother did for her mother — all that is just so powerful when you have kids and when you see that continuing forward."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-08-27T16:44:16+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/arts-and-entertainment/2007-12-05/caroline-kennedys-family-christmas |
Which winter wreath is best?
There are a lot of ways to decorate the house during the winter, but the right wreath can go far in creating a festive environment both inside and out.
Whether you’re decorating for the holidays, or looking to give your house a different look to go with the changing season, a wreath can set the tone. The best one is the Northlight Long Needle Pine With Winter Foliage and Stars Wreath.
What to know before you buy a winter wreath
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Where you want to put your wreath can help you narrow down your choices. The most popular locations are outside on the front door, on a window, or over the mantel or fireplace. Just keep in mind that if you place your wreath outside, it will be subjected to the elements, especially if you live in a cold climate. You’ll want to find a quality one that will last.
If you want an indoor wreath, you can get creative with your placement by hanging it on a wall, or even suspending it from the ceiling.
Artificial vs. live wreath
There are benefits of both, but it really comes down to preference. The look, smell and overall feel of a live wreath has charm that can rarely be duplicated in an artificial wreath. However, live wreaths can be costly and are temporary, so they won’t last season after season like an artificial wreath. They are also more delicate than artificial wreaths. That can involve cleaning up the branches and vacuuming, but artificial wreaths are built to last.
Size
Wreaths vary in size, and the right size for you depends on where you plan to hang it. Ideally, you want a wreath to cover 50%-75% of the width of the space behind it. Standard wreaths are 24 inches, and those fit well if you plan to hang one outside on the front door. So do 36-inch wreaths. Smaller 14- to 20-inch wreaths are a better fit for windows.
What to look for in quality winter wreaths
Battery operated
Many winter wreaths, especially holiday wreaths, feature lights, which means the wreath needs to be battery operated. LED lights tend to be the most efficient, and some models have a timer, so you don’t have to worry about leaving them on.
Decoration
In addition to lights, common winter wreath decorations include flowers, berries, pinecones, assorted greenery and even faux snow.
How to hang
If you’re looking to hang your wreath on a wooden door, and don’t want to hammer a nail into it, there are an assortment of over-the-door hangers you can purchase. If you have a steel door, you might want to invest in a magnetic wreath hanger to avoid damaging the door. Suction cups are an excellent way to hang wreaths on windows or doors as well.
How much you can expect to spend on a winter wreath
Some of the highest quality winter wreaths cost well over $100, but good quality wreaths can still be found for $10-$50. Size plays a major factor in price, as does whether it’s an artificial or live wreath, or whether it’s standard or custom-made.
Winter wreath FAQ
How long will my fresh winter wreath last?
A. If you take good care of your wreath, and it doesn’t fall victim to the elements, you should expect it to last up to three weeks.
How can I protect my winter wreath so it doesn’t die?
A. Store it in a cool, dry place. When you are ready to hang it, submerge it in water overnight. The next day, use an anti-desiccant spray to lock in the moisture. When you hang your wreath, try to keep it out of direct sunlight or heat vents if possible. It doesn’t hurt to give it a small spritz of water on the back every couple of days. This will keep it fragrant and prevent it from drying out.
What’s the best winter wreath to buy?
Top winter wreath
Northlight Long Needle Pine with Winter Foliage and Stars Wreath
What you need to know: Make the season festive and create holiday cheer with this live long-needle pine winter wreath.
What you’ll love: It comes loaded with gorgeous decorative details, such as berries, sprigs, holly leaves, ornate gold stars and ornaments. At 20 inches wide, it’s perfect for doorways, entryways, or to make any home or office stand out. The heavy-duty backing makes it easy to hang wherever you choose.
What you should consider: Keep in mind that the maximum lifespan of this live wreath is three weeks.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot and Amazon
Top winter wreath for the money
Best Aimanni Handmade Winter Holiday Wreath
What you need to know: This budget-friendly winter wreath can be hung by itself or paired with other festive winter decorations to create a full holiday masterpiece.
What you’ll love: It’s adorned with artificial pine, pine cones and red berries to create a festive feel. It can hang as is, or be unwound to create other shapes and designs that might better fit your decorative needs.
What you should consider: It’s for indoor use or covered outdoor use only.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Laurel Foundry Modern Farmhouse Twig Wreath
What you need to know: This winter wonderland wreath will turn any front door into a snowy oasis year after year.
What you’ll love: You will love this all-white wreath that features a minimalistic design of woven twigs adorned with white berries. Welcome your friends and family into your home with this artificial wreath year after year. No assembly is required.
What you should consider: This wreath may need some fluffing before hanging as it can get misshapen during shipping.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
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Of all the food trucks in the area, there’s one that I’ve been chasing for the longest time.
The pursuit came to an end this week.
I finally caught up with Nom Nom Ninja.
I was first introduced to Nom Nom Ninja several months ago when a co-worker brought in one of their wraps for a late lunch. She offered me a taste and my mind was blown. I decided then and there to track down the food truck and have a meal of my own.
If the food truck’s alliterative name doesn’t put a smile on your face whenever you speak it aloud, its food will do the trick.
Nom Nom Ninja’s menu is extremely simple, with just about half a dozen featured dishes, most of them being hibachi wraps. This makes it quite simple when an indecisive customer – like yours truly – stops by.
As it happened, I was passing through Freeland this past weekend as part of a personal shopping day when I saw the colorful Nom Nom Ninja food truck parked by the Freeland Antique Mall. As I wasn’t quite hungry yet, I first perused stalls upon stalls of old antiques before heading over to the food truck for lunch. The antique shop was larger than I anticipated, and I stopped a few times to admire typewriters, old books and other assorted collectibles – my close friends and family will confirm that I prefer to shop, not buy. By the time I emerged, I was hungry.
Just like Bad Wolf BBQ, Nom Nom Ninja’s food truck makes an impression even before you step up to order food. The sides were decorated with bright colors; imagine a comic book meets street art. On top, “Nom Nom” was spelled out in lighted letters; one of these days I need to catch the truck in the evening to get the full effect.
With the window well above my head, I felt a little like Oliver Twist asking for more food.
Thankfully, the woman inside was very sweet and was happy to take my order of a hibachi wrap with chicken.
So, you might be asking, what in the world is a hibachi wrap?
Imagine Japanese and Mexican cuisines coming together to lovingly create a soft, chubby burrito chock full of fried rice, meat, crispy noodles and yum yum sauce. It's a unique combination that will leave your tastebuds clamoring for more.
The rice was fluffy and studded with pearls of chopped carrots, peas and corn. I don’t know how Nom Nom Ninja cooks its chicken, but it was some of the best hibachi chicken I’ve ever had. It was so savory and juicy that I rejoiced every time I took a bite. The crispy noodles, found near the tail end of my wrap, gave a nice surprise crunch. The yum yum sauce brought it all together with a creamy consistency that paired well with the chicken, rice and veggies. There’s also the option to have veggies or steak in a wrap, but my personal recommendation is the chicken.
Nom Nom Ninja is based out of Mount Pleasant but traverses the Great Lakes Bay Region. Thankfully, it doesn’t keep its whereabouts secret. Staff members regularly update the Nom Nom Ninja Facebook page with upcoming locations. Midlanders are in luck this week as the food truck will be in town in two locations this Friday: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. at MyMichigan Hospital and 12-2 p.m. at Living Word Church.
Nom Nom Ninja’s wraps are food fusion at its finest. I look forward to channeling my own ninja and caching it when it next comes to the Midland area this summer. Cheers!
Editor's note: Out to Lunch with Tori will appear each Thursday in the Midland Daily News. Victoria (Tori) Ritter can be reached at vritter@mdn.net | 2022-06-02T10:53:56+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/opinion/voices/article/Out-to-Lunch-with-Tori-Nom-Nom-Ninja-17212116.php |
Colorado pays tens of millions to cover health insurance of undocumented immigrants in inaugural year of operation
COLORADO (KRDO) -- Currently, undocumented immigrants can get healthcare insurance in Colorado. And in its inaugural year of operation, the state has paid insurance companies $73 million under the OmniSalud state-run marketplace option, according to the Colorado Division of Insurance.
According to OmniSalud, every company that sells health insurance in Colorado "has to offer plans with a specific set of lower, fixed costs and make them available to everyone – no matter their documentation status."
Non-citizens who make less than $20,385 per year can also qualify for free health insurance, called the SilverEnhanced Savings Plan; in exchange, they get the full spectrum of care: doctors visits, maternal care, diabetes medication, and generic drugs. If an undocumented immigrant makes more than that threshold, they can qualify for deeply-discounted premiums to also access the full range of medical coverage.
According to Connect for Health Colorado, 9,603 of the 10,416 undocumented immigrants who signed up for OmniSalud qualified for zero-dollar premiums. That data also showed 10,416 is the cap that Colorado funded for the 2023 coverage year.
Because emergency visits come with an astronomical price tag, it's the state's solution to a growing demand for care among those who don't have health insurance: all who show up with a medical emergency must be treated -- regardless of ability to pay -- per Federal law.
Citizens are underwriting the goal of "health equity" through the state's newly-formed Health Insurance Affordability Enterprise, which is funded by a cocktail of insurance premium taxes, hospital special fees, health insurance affordability fees, 1332 pass-through funds, and reinsurance general funds.
But it's that funding mechanism that has a trio of Republican Congress members blowing the whistle, saying the state-run marketplace plan for non-citizens violates the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," which states:
Congressman Ken Buck, Doug Lamborn, and Congresswoman Lauren Boebert authored this letter in 2022 stating that
"Colorado is manipulating this process in order to violate Federal law and relegate Coloradans to second tier status with respect to health care accessibility."
Letter authored by Congressman Buck, Congressman Lamborn, and Congresswoman Boebert
The letter goes on to state:
"In a country of approximately 330 million people, it is indefensible for the federal government to proceed down a path that could lead to a policy that forces tens of millions of federal taxpayers to subsidize lawbreakers against their will."
But, leaders with Connect for Health Colorado, see it differently.
Monica Caballeros, who is the spokeswoman for the agency, says the provision brings down the costs for everyone.
"Net-net I think it is financially makes a lot of sense. It's good for the whole healthcare ecosystem and keeping costs down for everyone, and making sure that they're not using the emergency room as a place to get routine care."
Shoring up that thought, Colorado has allocated $3.5 Million to construct "Colorado Connect," a yet-to-launch online platform, geared specifically for undocumented immigrants and DACA recipients who don't want their identification information or immigration status sent to Federal entities.
"We're here to help people, regardless of who they are or where they end up," said Caballeros.
According to a spokesman for Congressman Buck, there has been no response from Health and Human Services, the Treasury Department, or the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid since sending the letter last year. The trio, however, does plan to introduce legislation this summer that would mimic one last session, preventing undocumented immigrants from tapping into marketplace plans. | 2023-07-27T21:37:53+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/local-news/top-stories/2023/07/27/colorado-pays-tens-of-millions-to-cover-health-insurance-of-undocumented-immigrants-in-inaugural-year-of-operation/ |
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. – Two West Virginia high school students are the finalists in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Think Scholars Program and will soon be flown out to MIT to develop their project.
The MIT THINK Scholars Program, led by TechX, a team of undergraduate students in MIT’s largest technology club, takes in research project proposals from high school students across the nation every year with the hopes of providing a select few with greater mentorship and funding.
As part of this program, Morgantown natives and Mountaineer Area RoboticS members Emily Stanton (University High School) and Anna Brusoe (home-schooled) will engage with the other five finalists and work with MIT professors to better develop their own project, a wall-climbing robot meant to provide aid in disaster zones.
According to their project bio, which can be found on the Think Scholars Program website, “the wall-climbing robot can climb up buildings, taking 3D visuals of the damaged area and providing necessary materials to people stuck inside, such as air masks and water.”
The robot accomplishes this through the use of a modified suction system and pneumatic powered limbs for attaching to a variety of wall types and a Lidar sensor for 3D mapping.
According to THINK program guidelines, finalists receive:
- All expenses paid trip to MIT that includes:
– Meetings with MIT professors in the finalists’ area of interest
– Personalized tours of MIT research laboratories
– Attending MIT classes and experiencing MIT student life
– One-time budget of of up to $1000 to implement project
– Weekly mentorship meetings with MIT student mentors
During their trip, finalists will be provided with continued support while they implement their proposed projects during the spring of 2023. After completing their projects, finalists will be designated as MIT THINK Scholars the following May. | 2023-02-11T20:29:57+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/monongalia/2-west-virginia-high-school-students-become-finalists-in-mit-program/ |
Former President Trump on Wednesday called on Republicans to boot Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) from his post as Senate minority leader, accusing the senator of being a “pawn for the Democrats.”
In a statement, Trump cited a Wednesday story from The Federalist about McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao’s alleged ties to China in calling for the senator’s ouster from his longtime leadership post.
“Mitch McConnell is not an Opposition Leader, he is a pawn for the Democrats to get whatever they want,” Trump said in his statement. “He is afraid of them, and will not do what has to be done. A new Republican Leader in the Senate should be picked immediately!”
Trump has feuded with McConnell, who he has dubbed “Old Crow,” since the Senate leader denounced the former president in Congress for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Over the weekend, the former president slammed McConnell for making remarks last week about “candidate quality,” in a reference to Republicans running for Senate, a number of which were hand-picked by Trump. McConnell has said the race for Senate control in November will be close.
Trump also took a dig at Chao, his former Transportation secretary who resigned from office one day after the Jan. 6 attack, calling her McConnell’s “crazy wife.” In Wednesday’s message he called her “Coco.”
Last year, Trump also called for Republicans to select a new Senate leader to boost the GOP’s chances of retaking Congress in 2022.
“I think we’re going to do very well,” Trump said at the time. “We need good leadership. Mitch McConnell has not done a great job, I think they should change Mitch McConnell.”
In Wednesday’s statement, Trump accused McConnell of giving the “Radical Left the Trillions and Trillions of Dollars that they constantly DEMAND” and faulted him for failing to stop passage of the landmark tax, climate and healthcare law known as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
In fact, Democrats have had to find routes around staunch GOP opposition for their major spending programs, such as passed the IRA through the budget reconciliation process to avoid a filibuster, and President Biden using executive authority to forgive student debt this week. | 2022-08-25T11:19:10+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/trump-calls-for-mcconnell-to-be-ousted-as-gop-leader-immediately/ |
(The Hill) — The Supreme Court will release its final decisions of the term Friday morning, handing down rulings on student debt relief and a free speech case involving same-sex wedding websites.
The last decisions will cap a term that has already included the gutting of affirmative action in college admissions alongside a string of victories for the left on the Voting Rights Act, a Biden-era immigration policy and federal elections.
Here’s what to know with the court on the cusp of its summer recess:
When will the Supreme Court term end?
Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts arrives before President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)
After the affirmative action decision was handed down, Chief Justice John Roberts said in the courtroom that Friday will be the last day the Supreme Court hands down decisions, fitting the norm of the court finishing its work by the end of June.
The court’s term technically does not end, however.
It will continue until the first Monday in October. The justices in the summer months still act on emergency applications, including requests for intervention on executions and other time-pressing matters.
When will the Supreme Court rule on student loans?
The Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, June 29, 2023
The court will hand down its three remaining decisions on Friday: two challenges to Biden’s student debt relief plan and a free speech case that intersects with LGBTQ rights.
The fate of debt relief for more than 40 million borrowers rests with the justices’ consideration of two cases. The first is brought by a group of six GOP-led states, and the other is brought by two borrowers who did not qualify for the maximum relief under the plan.
The justices could hand down the ruling in one decision or release them separately. For the debt relief to go through, it must survive both lawsuits.
First, the justices will rule on whether any of the challengers have legal standing, meaning their authority to bring their challenges in the first place. At least one challenger must have standing for the justices to block the plan.
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The challengers promote various arguments, but Missouri — one of the six states suing Biden — received the closest attention among the justices at February’s oral argument.
Central to the state’s standing argument is MOHELA, a student loan servicer and quasi-state entity. MOHELA has not challenged the debt relief plan, but Missouri argues it can sue on the loan servicer’s behalf and that MOHELA would face revenue losses that would ultimately cause the state harm.
If the high court finds that any of the eight challengers have standing, it’ll move to the merits of whether Education Secretary Miguel Cardona can forgive the hundreds of billions of dollars in debt.
The administration cites the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act, a post-9/11 law that Congress passed as the country headed to war. 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.”
Cardona has tied the relief to the national emergency established during the pandemic, contending borrowers will be in a worse financial position once student loan payments resume in the coming months if the administration does not provide the relief.
The conservative majority appeared skeptical at oral argument that the HEROES Act authorized the plan, leading to a sense of worry among borrowers and debt relief advocates that the plan will be blocked.
Such an outcome would mark a defeat for one of the president’s major campaign promises.
Ruling expected on free speech case
Lorie Smith, a Christian graphic artist and website designer in Colorado, right, accompanied by her lawyer, Kristen Waggoner of the Alliance Defending Freedom, second from left, speaks outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, after her case was heard before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is hearing the case of Smith, who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples, that’s the latest clash of religion and gay rights to land at the highest court. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
The justices have one remaining case other than student debt relief: evangelical Christian Lorie Smith’s challenge to Colorado’s public accommodation law on free speech grounds.
Colorado’s law for more than a decade has prevented businesses that serve the public from discriminating against customers based on their sexual orientation.
Smith, who owns website design company 303 Creative LLC, wants to expand her business to design wedding websites. But she is opposed to gay marriage and says Colorado’s law would require her to design websites for same-sex couples if she wants to do so for opposite-sex marriages. So Smith filed a pre-enforcement lawsuit against Colorado state officials, seeking to block the law under the First Amendment.
The court is now set to decide how public accommodation laws in Colorado and other states apply to artists and whether they unconstitutionally compel their speech.
The case, which is being closely watched by LGBTQ advocacy groups, is the second time Colorado’s law has come before the Supreme Court. The justices previously disposed of a cake baker’s challenge to the law on narrower grounds.
What time of day do Supreme Court decisions come out?
Associated Justice Clarence Thomas (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
The justices will convene in the courtroom at 10 a.m., where they will immediately proceed to read aloud summaries of the majority opinions from the bench.
Other justices who write dissents or concurring opinions on rare occasions also read from the bench, as justices Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor did for the affirmative action decision.
The exact speed depends on how long the justices read the opinions — Sotomayor read aloud her blistering affirmative action dissent for about 20 minutes on Thursday — though the announcement is likely to take less than an hour in total.
Where are Supreme Court rulings posted?
The written opinions are distributed to the press as they are being read in the courtroom, and they become available online here shortly afterward. | 2023-06-30T14:22:30+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/supreme-court-will-rule-on-student-debt-relief-friday/ |
WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 15, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in Corpus Christi has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Western Duval County in south central Texas...
Southwestern La Salle County in south central Texas...
Eastern Webb County in south central Texas...
* Until 645 PM CDT.
* At 336 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 4 and 8 inches of rain
have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 0.5 to 2 inches in 1
hour. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Encinal, Ranchitos Las Lomas, Aguilares, Botines, Oilton,
Callaghan, Mirando City and Bruni.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-08-15T22:03:07+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-CORPUS-CHRISTI-Warnings-Watches-and-17375161.php |
Two arrested after passing out with drugs in car and kids in back seat, police say
BUTLER COUNTY, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) - Authorities in Ohio are investigating a man and a woman after officers said they found two children in the back seat of their car in deplorable conditions.
The Monroe Police Department reports Justin Simpson and Stephanie Sandlin have been arrested after officers found the two passed out in a car with Sandlin’s kids in the back seat on Monday.
According to court documents, WXIX reports Simpson was slumped over the steering wheel of the car, and Sandlin was passed out in the passenger seat.
Sandlin’s twins, an 18-month-old boy and girl, were extremely hot and very sweaty in the back seat, according to police. They were also thirsty and filthy.
Police said the children were found sitting in old fast-food scraps with diapers that had not been changed.
Simpson allegedly had a small rock-like substance wrapped in plastic in his lap, which police said he later admitted was crack.
Sandlin, who had extremely dilated pupils and was very lethargic, had a crack pipe next to her, according to police.
Monroe police said Simpson faces a drug possession charge in addition to a child endangerment charge. The two were booked in Butler County.
Copyright 2022 WXIX via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-08T00:24:28+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/2022/06/07/father-woman-arrested-after-passing-out-with-drugs-car-kids-back-seat-police-say/ |
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Ben Krikke scored 23 points and Nick Edwards scored with 1.9 seconds remaining in overtime as Valparaiso defeated James Madison 81-79 on Sunday.
Krikke also contributed seven rebounds for the Beacons (3-4). Quinton Green was 5 of 10 shooting, including 5 for 9 from distance, and went 3 for 4 from the line to add 18 points. Kobe King finished 8 of 13 from the field to finish with 16 points.
Terrence Edwards led the Dukes (6-2) in scoring, finishing with 21 points and six rebounds. James Madison also got 18 points from Takal Molson, who forced the overtime with a basket with three seconds left in regulation. Mezie Offurum also had 12 points.
Krikke put up 13 points in the first half for Valparaiso, who trailed 37-36 at halftime. Valparaiso outscored James Madison by one point in the second half as the teams ended regulation tied 74-74. King finished 2 of 3 from the floor on the way to his four points in the overtime.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2022-11-27T21:26:07+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Krikke-leads-Valparaiso-to-81-79-OT-win-over-17614052.php |
The entrepreneur who bought the formerly Madison-based music streaming company Murfie and took custody of its customers’ 800,000 CDs is now suing the Arkansas city where he’s been trying for more than two years to restart the business.
In January 2020, John Fenley of Provo, Utah, read that the company, which invited customers to mail in their CDs and record collections to be stored, digitized and uploaded for online listening, had abruptly gone offline. Days later, he was flying to Madison to buy the company and take custody of all the CDs that customers had not already claimed.
Fenley had founded a similar company more than a decade earlier that never got off the ground, and he thought he could make Murfie’s business model work where its founders had failed.
A few months later, he was shipping 2,500 boxes of CDs to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where he’d bought what he said was at the time “the largest cheapest building in the country.” The 17-acre industrial property was once home to steel manufacturer Varco Pruden but had stood vacant for more than a decade and “fallen into disrepair,” according to the city’s Planning Commission.
Today, the CDs remain in shipping containers outside the warehouse as Fenley continues to battle with the city over building codes and inspection requirements.
“I’m still struggling with red tape with the city. It’s truly bizarre,” Fenley said, saying he was stuck in this “weird limbo” and believes he “can't trust what the city says.”
City inspectors concluded in May that the building would require more extensive repairs than Fenley had proposed, due to damage caused by vandalism, roof leaks and the years it stood empty. They also said that Fenley and his representatives had stated conflicting purposes for the building.
On his most recent permit applications, Fenley stated that he planned to use the building to store CDs and data, but city inspectors said the person who was present at the time of a prior inspection stated that the building would be an “incubator and museum,” likely a reference to Fenley’s previously stated aspirations to build, among other things, a science museum, makerspace and business incubator on the site.
In June 2020, the city approved those uses and six others that Fenley proposed for the site, but the city’s Code Enforcement and Appeals Commission said in 2022 that the city can’t approve the permit request until the purpose is clear and the appropriate construction documents are submitted. The commission instructed Fenley to resubmit the application.
In response, Fenley filed a lawsuit in August alleging in part that the city had wrongfully taken his property interest. He asked the Jefferson County Circuit Court to review the evidence presented to the appeals board and issue a new decision. On each of three separate counts, he’s seeking $75,000 in damages, chiefly for the loss of use of the building.
“It’s a 220,000-square-foot warehouse … (that’s) been idle for two years because of problems with the city,” Fenley said in an interview. “It’s not a lack on my part of wanting to fix it … I literally can't get the permits. So that delay is their fault.”
The city has asked the court to deny Fenley’s complaint. City attorney Althea Hadden-Scott said the city would not comment on pending litigation.
‘Like a frog in boiling water’
Not being able to use the warehouse has left Fenley’s belongings vulnerable, he said. In June, someone broke into the shipping containers, stealing drones, telescopes, the site’s security system, and a pair of vacuum pumps that Fenley had purchased in hopes of creating a “new type of fusion reactor.” He estimates that replacing the two pumps would cost around $14,000. Fortunately, he said, the thieves didn't seem interested in CDs.
Previously, Fenley tried to serve as a “24-hour armed guard” for the shipping containers, camping in a tent nearby, a gun by his side. When the city ordered him to stop living on the property, he moved to a house elsewhere in town.
At his lawyer’s encouragement, Fenley has begun looking for an alternative home for his business. Earlier this month, he met with a contractor to discuss the possibility of constructing a building to house the CDs in the yard outside his home in Provo, Utah.
“The red tape and the crime (in Pine Bluff) is just too much,” Fenley said, though he estimates that moving the CDs to a new location would cost about $10,000, and building a new warehouse would cost tens of thousands too.
But, he said, that might be better than sticking with the current plan. “It's like a frog in boiling water … If you raise the temperature slowly, when does the frog jump out? It never does. It gets boiled alive. And I feel like that's what's been happening with me.”
Though Fenley is eyeing other options, he has no plans to cut ties with Pine Bluff. Last year, after selling $890,000 in stock in the Utah-based video streaming company VidAngel — stock he’d acquired in exchange for a patent — Fenley paid off the mortgage on the warehouse and bought about 75 more Pine Bluff properties at a tax auction. His purchases included a move-in ready duplex, various residential rental properties in need of a repair, a 30-acre forest and collection of empty lots.
Asked why he’s investing further in a town where he’s experienced so much frustration, Fenley said he comes from a family of realtors and real estate investors who taught him what they knew. “What's the best way to buy expensive real estate? Buy cheap real estate and wait,” Fenley recited.
“I was able to buy like three times as much real estate as we have in Utah, that they acquired over their entire lifetimes … in one afternoon,” he said. “It doesn't feel like the wrong choice to make. It just feels like maybe I might have to wait a long time for that real estate investment to pay off."
‘Not a doubt in my mind’
Fenley isn’t the only out-of-state entrepreneur to hit roadblocks after trying to set up shop in Pine Bluff. Last November, Joe Delmendo, owner of Commonwealth Real Estate in El Segundo, California, bought the former home of the Pine Bluff Commercial newspaper and announced he planned to turn it into a cryptocurrency mining facility, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported in April. Such facilities, which house fleets of high-powered computers that verify cryptocurrency transactions, notoriously use massive amounts of energy.
In August, the city’s Planning Commission unanimously denied Delmendo’s request, citing concerns about the noise caused by the fans needed to cool the computers, as well as demand on the electrical grid. Delmendo told the Arkansas Democrat Gazette in August that he was considering taking the city to court over the denial.
Meanwhile, Fenley is waiting for his own lawsuit to move ahead, and still wondering what he should have done differently.
“Maybe there's something that I'm not doing right, but my lawyer I can't figure out what it is,” Fenley said. “I'm not a contractor. This is the first time I've really tried to go into another town in another state that I’m not from and renovate a large commercial warehouse. It’s not my expertise … I wish somebody would tell me what it is I'm doing wrong because then I would change it.
“I can't say that I don't share any of the blame for what’s going on, but the city sure hasn’t made it easy for me,” Fenley said. “I have to admit, I was maybe overly optimistic in what I was trying to do, but I sure didn't expect as much opposition as I've had.”
In 2020, Fenley regularly posted videos updating customers on his progress. This year, he’s only posted two. The first was a January video recorded in Utah, snowy mountains visible behind him.
“I’m still fighting Pine Bluff city,” Fenley told the camera, explaining that his lawyer had advised him to stay away from the city and “not to cause any more waves.”
“There’s not a doubt in my mind that this situation will be resolved,” Fenley said. “My only hope is that you will all be happy with the result.”
In the second 2022 video, entitled “Murfie Update June 12 2022 Bad News,” Fenley breathlessly showed customers the damage done in the June break-in. “I’m done with Pine Bluff,” he said.
Fenley still answers customers’ calls and emails, so he knows plenty are still waiting for him to mail their CDs back, a task he says he can’t complete until he can unpack the shipping containers and catalog the CDs. Others are eager for him to resume adding their CDs to the streaming service so they can listen to them online, another step that he says requires unpacking.
“It's been a string of disappointments,” Fenley said, letting out a long sigh. “I don't ever want to be a broken record, giving people bad news every time (they) hear from me. I keep thinking good news is around the corner, and I want to give people good news.” | 2022-09-30T18:45:15+00:00 | captimes.com | https://captimes.com/news/business/owner-of-music-company-murfie-sues-arkansas-city-over-warehouse-woes/article_8ee9b7b2-964c-582f-8a45-c86b1834ecaf.html |
This award spotlights female leaders, professionals and contractors who are currently setting the foundation for the landscaping industry.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Industry Pros, the management resource for landscape contractors and equipment dealers, selected Kersten Dupree, General Manager for Aggieland Green as a recipient of the Women in the Green Industry Award for 2022.
The Women in the Green Industry Award spotlights female leaders, professionals and contractors who are currently setting the foundation for the landscaping industry.
"The green industry has made significant progress in its promotion and inclusion of female employees and leaders over the past several years, but there's still more work to be done," says Sarah Webb, Editor of Green Industry Pros. "It's high time we recognize those women, which is why we're proud to present our inaugural Women in the Green Industry Award. Our hope is that these women who have been selected will inspire even more women to choose careers in the green industry."
Go to www.greenindustrypros.com/awards to learn more about upcoming Green Industry Pros awards.
Green Industry Pros is a leading voice that keeps landscape contractors and equipment dealers on top of the latest products, trends, technologies and business strategies that help with growth, productivity and profitability for their operations. Go to www.greenindustrypros.com to learn more.
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SOURCE Green Group | 2022-06-17T18:48:56+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/06/17/green-industry-pros-reveals-winners-women-green-industry-award/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A year ago, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, TikTok started labeling accounts operated by Russian state propaganda agencies as a way to tell users they were being exposed to Kremlin disinformation.
An analysis a year later shows the policy has been applied inconsistently. It ignores dozens of accounts with millions of followers. Even when used, labels have little impact on Russia's ability to exploit TikTok's powerful algorithms as part of its effort to shape public opinion about the war.
Researchers at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan, transatlantic nonprofit operated by the German Marshall Fund that studies authoritarian disinformation, identified nearly 80 TikTok accounts operated by Russian state outlets like RT or Sputnik, or by individuals linked to them, including RT's editor-in-chief.
More than a third of the accounts were unlabeled, despite a labeling policy announced by TikTok a year ago. The labels, which appear in bold immediately below an account's name, read “Russia state-controlled media.” Clicking on the label brings up more information, including a description that “the government has control over the account's editorial content.”
The accounts have spread pro-Russian propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine as well as false and misleading claims about the U.S. and the international coalition that stands against Russia's war.
“US to hold biggest satanic gathering in history,” claims one of the videos on Sputnik.Brasil, a Russian media account currently unlabeled on TikTok. Other videos posted by the account blame the U.S. for the war in Ukraine, claim the U.S. will start a nuclear war, and suggest the U.S. is working to make Brazil invade Iran.
RT Mexico, one of the most popular unlabeled accounts, has posted multiple videos playing up tension between the U.S. and Mexico over immigration and drugs.
“This is a huge win for Russian propaganda that they’re able to reach such large audiences on TikTok,” said Joe Bodnar, a research analyst at Alliance for Securing Democracy. “TikTok is not taking it as seriously as other platforms.”
That charge comes as the video sharing platform, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, faces questions in Washington about its ties to the government as well as concerns about privacy, surveillance and harmful content.
Britain, Canada, the U.S. federal government and a growing number of American states are among the governments that have already banned TikTok on government-issued devices. Some lawmakers in the U.S. have floated the idea of a complete ban on the app unless ByteDance agreed to sell its U.S. assets to another company.
TikTok has labeled more than 120 accounts, a spokesperson for the platform told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The platform's policy covers outlets and organizations, not individuals, a loophole that allows RT's editor-in-chief to remain unlabeled.
The platform said it would label many of the other accounts identified by researchers after being contacted by the AP.
“This is an ongoing process and we’ll continue to review new accounts and add labels as and when they join the platform,” the company said in an emailed statement.
Other tech companies have taken a more aggressive approach to Russian disinformation. Last year, Google blocked YouTube channels operated by Russian state media within Europe. The company also has initiated “pre-bunking” programs designed to blunt the effect of disinformation. Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, also labels foreign state media and has exposed and eliminated sprawling disinformation networks tied to Russia.
Once known largely for its popularity among teens, TikTok has emerged as a leading source of information — and misinformation. More than two-thirds of American teens are on the platform, which is among the world's most popular websites.
Labels have become a common way for social media platforms to designate content from state-controlled media and alert users without removing the content. TikTok announced its labeling effort in March 2022, saying that “in response to the war in Ukraine, we’re expediting the rollout of our state media policy to bring viewers context to evaluate the content they consume on our platform.”
While the labels may provide more information about an account, they aren't doing much to reduce overall engagement with Russian propaganda on TikTok, suggesting users either don't see or don't care about the labels.
RT, one of Russia’s top state-controlled outlets, has more followers on TikTok than The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal, despite a label classifying RT as "Russia state-controlled media.”
Another labeled TikTok account, RT en Espanol, has received more likes than other Spanish-language news outlets including Telemundo, Univision or El Pais.
TikTok's use of labeling came up during a recent congressional hearing in which TikTok's CEO was questioned about the platform's ties to China and its record on safety and privacy. In his testimony, Shou Zi Chew said TikTok's labeling policy would also extend to Chinese state media outlets.
Lawmakers were skeptical of his explanations.
“I worry that TikTok is the world’s most powerful and extensive propaganda machine,” U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas, said during last week's hearing. | 2023-03-30T10:44:16+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/tiktok-propaganda-labels-fall-flat-in-huge-win-17868336.php |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
8-2-5, FIREBALL: 2
(eight, two, five; FIREBALL: two)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
8-2-5, FIREBALL: 2
(eight, two, five; FIREBALL: two) | 2022-11-24T19:51:46+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Day-game-17609011.php |
ATLANTA — GeorgiaForward has announced that Columbus will be the 2023 host community for its Young Gamechangers program.
Young Gamechangers is a leadership action program that brings together 45 professionals ages 25-40 to help solve the persistent challenges of one Georgia community. The Columbus Host Committee will present Young Gamechangers with four “challenge questions” addressing significant challenges or possibilities facing the community. Each class does extensive research to generate big idea recommendations based on the host community’s specific needs. The Gamechangers present their recommendations, along with a comprehensive report, at the end of their project.
“We can’t be more excited to host the Young Gamechangers program in the beautiful city of Columbus during a time when Columbus is experiencing the greatest momentum this city has ever seen,” City Manager Isaiah Hugley said. “We look forward to highlighting the many projects that are underway and in the pipeline over the next few years, and young people will play a huge role in what the future of Columbus will look like.”
One-third of the Young Gamechangers class will hail from the Columbus area, one-third from the Atlanta metro region, and one-third from greater Georgia. Columbus will benefit from perspectives across the state while also building up its own pipeline of civic leaders.
“The professionals who participate in the Young Gamechangers program in Columbus will bring fresh eyes and an openness to big new ideas,” GMA CEO and Executive Director Larry Hanson said. “Many of the innovative recommendations provided by past groups have shown that this fresh perspective can be a catalyst for positive, creative and thoughtful development for the host city. I am confident our next group will find great benefit from the program and leave a lasting impact on Columbus.”
The application window for the 2023 Young Gamechangers program is open through Nov. 30. The selected class participants will be notified in December. The program begins in April and will conclude in October with a public presentation of the Young Gamechangers’ final recommendations. Visit www.georgiaforward.org for more details and to apply.
“We are delighted to bring the Young Gamechanger program to Columbus after a very successful run in Dalton,” A.J. Robinson, chair of GeorgiaForward’s board of directors, said. “This program has proven beneficial to every locale in which it has taken place, bringing new and fresh ideas to cities and counties across the state. It is a premier leadership development opportunity that produces results on many levels.”
Young Gamechangers’ met much success in Dalton in 2022. The final recommendations from their work can be found online. Communities interested in hosting a Young Gamechangers program should contact Sadie Krawczyk at skrawczyk@gacities.com.
GeorgiaForward is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that brings together thought-leaders, decision-makers and stakeholders to address some of Georgia’s biggest challenges. The organization seeks to stimulate big-picture, statewide thinking that embraces collaborative, innovative and pragmatic solutions while creating a leadership pipeline for the future. For more information, visit the www.georgiaforward.org website.
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Apple says the autocorrect feature on the iPhone will soon be able to use AI to know when you don't mean to say "duck." General release for the autocorrect is set for September.
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Apple says the autocorrect feature on the iPhone will soon be able to use AI to know when you don't mean to say "duck." General release for the autocorrect is set for September.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-06-07T11:15:56+00:00 | upr.org | https://www.upr.org/2023-06-07/when-it-comes-to-curse-words-artificial-intelligence-could-help-you-text |
‘Riverdale’ actor KJ Apa becomes Samoan chief: ‘My goal is to serve’
Actor KJ Apa — star of "Riverdale"— was recently bestowed the Samoan chiefly title Savae, according to Talamua Online News.
The actor also posted a picture of the traditional ceremony on his Instagram page.
"O la’u fautuaga - o le a ou tautua i le tatou aiga ma le tatou nu’u. Fa’afetai i le Atua," he posted. "My goal is to serve my family and my village (Moata’a) Thank you God."
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According to the news outlet, the ceremony was held at Laoa o Tamapua in Moataa village.
The 25-year-old grew up in Samoa before moving to New Zealand to pursue an acting career, eventually landing the lead role on CW’s "Riverdale."
Apa is also a musician. His acting credits also include "A Dog’s Purpose," "The Hate U Give," and "I Still Believe."
This story was reported from Los Angeles. | 2022-09-07T19:29:00+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/riverdale-actor-kj-apa-becomes-samoan-chief-my-goal-is-to-serve |
SAVANNAH, Ga., June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hargray Fiber announced it has begun expansion of the company's ultra-fast, state-of-the-art, all-fiber Internet network into residential neighborhoods in Rincon, GA. The company began serving businesses in Georgia in 2010, and the expansion into residential areas is part of Hargray Fiber's long-term goal to bring the most advanced and fastest Internet available anywhere in the world to more than 500,000 homes and businesses across the United States by 2027.
Hargray Fiber's Southeast President, Ashley Phillips, stressed the importance of the company's investment in consumers and the broader local community. "We are headquartered nearby, in Savannah, so expanding our high-speed internet to families in the outlying neighborhoods is extra special. We are committed to providing previously underserved communities with the high-speed connectivity that is essential for families, businesses, and local economies so we can see them continue to thrive," said Phillips.
Featuring gigabit download and upload speeds, Hargray Fiber will bring ten times more speed to consumer doorsteps at a time when fast, reliable Internet is becoming increasingly critical to modern households. "More and more, we see households where multiple bandwidth-intensive activities occur simultaneously and many consumers' Internet connections just aren't up to the task," added John Robertson, Savannah Region General Manager. "The Hargray Fiber network solves that problem."
For many consumers, the Internet touches every facet of daily life. Remote work, telehealth, and virtual learning all require robust, reliable connections. A 2021 study by Deloitte indicated that 55% of U.S. households include one or more remote workers, and 43% include at least one household member attending virtual classes.
Hargray Fiber has begun construction in Rincon. For more information, visit https://residential.hargray.com/hargrayfiberexpansion.
Hargray Fiber is an Internet service provider based in Savannah, GA that operates a more than 2,000 route mile fiber network serving business, enterprise, and residential customers in a wide range of communities throughout the Midwest and Southeastern United States, including Savannah, Pooler, Macon, and Valdosta. Hargray Fiber belongs to the Clearwave Fiber family of brands, serving cities across the Midwest and Southeast regions of the United States.
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LOS ANGELES — Ke Huy Quan had mostly disappeared from Hollywood for over two decades, dispirited by the lack of on-camera work for Asian Americans. He returned in a big way, winning the supporting actor Oscar to cap an inspiring comeback story.
Quan accepted the trophy Sunday night for his role in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” becoming just the second Asian winner ever in the supporting actor category, joining Haing S. Ngor for “The Killing Fields” in 1984.
He kissed the trophy's head and got a standing ovation. “Mom, I just won an Oscar!” he said, adding he started in a refugee camp and ended up in Hollywood. “This is the American dream.”
Quan rode a huge wave of momentum into the Oscars, having won every major award except the BAFTA. Quan endeared himself during acceptance speeches as much as he did in his winning performance. He used his position to encourage other struggling actors that one day they also will find success.
Along the awards show trail, the enormously likeable Quan compiled a photo album for the ages as he posed for selfies with everyone from Tom Cruise to directors James Cameron and Steven Spielberg. It seemed anyone famous was happy to smile or make funny faces alongside Quan.
The Vietnam-born actor whose family immigrated to California in the late 1970s first gained attention as a pre-teen in the hugely popular 1980s movies "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and “The Goonies.” He went on to roles in the TV show “Head of the Class” and the movie “Encino Man” (starring fellow Oscar nominee Brendan Fraser ) in the early 1990s before work dried up.
Finding few on-camera opportunities, Quan turned elsewhere. He earned a film degree from the University of Southern California and worked behind the scenes as a stunt coordinator and assistant director.
Inspired by the success of the 2018 movie “Crazy Rich Asians,” Quan returned to acting and landed an audition for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which earned a leading 11 Oscar nominations. His former “Goonies” co-star, Jeff Cohen, serves as his lawyer who drew up the contract for his Oscar-winning role.
Now, people stop him to talk about a movie he made as a grown-up, “Everything Everywhere All at Once."
As Waymond Wang, Quan appears in three different incarnations in the critically acclaimed film. He won a Golden Globe and became the first Asian man to win an individual category at the SAG Awards.
The 51-year-old Quan is busy juggling new roles, including joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe series “Loki” on Disney+.
Quan won the Oscar over fellow nominees Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan of “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Brian Tyree Henry of “Causeway” and Judd Hirsch of “The Fabelmans." | 2023-03-13T01:05:24+00:00 | 5newsonline.com | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/entertainment/events/oscars/ke-huy-quan-wins-supporting-actor-oscar-hollywood-comeback/507-69b3aea7-afef-4af2-9d89-09022c149cc6 |
This is one of those OMFG-it’s-finally-happening concerts. While Gorillaz have been a global phenomenon since their high-profile inception as a star-powered concept band, they’re only now making their Orlando debut. It’s sure to be especially triumphant as the near-finale of a North American run that’s their first since a 2018 tour that skipped the Southeast altogether.
Besides Damon Albarn and the 14-piece Gorillaz live band, expect some surprise guests from a roster that changes from night to night. Speaking of that, also expect peeks from their upcoming new album, Cracker Island (due out in Feb. 24), which will feature an illustrious list of studio guests that includes Thundercat, Tame Impala, Bad Bunny, Stevie Nicks, Beck, Bootie Brown and Adeleye Omotayo.
It took over 20 years, but one of the most innovative and iconic acts in music will now finally be landing here like manna from indie-rock heaven. This one will be historical. | 2022-10-19T15:07:10+00:00 | orlandoweekly.com | https://www.orlandoweekly.com/music/animated-supergroup-gorillaz-to-play-orlando-in-the-flesh-this-week-32711923 |
NEW YORK (AP) — Revlon, the 90-year-old multinational beauty company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, weighed down by debt load, disruptions to its supply chain network and surging costs.
The New York-based company said that upon court approval, it expects to receive $575 million in financing from its existing lenders, which will allow it to keep its day-to-day operations running.
“Today’s filing will allow Revlon to offer our consumers the iconic products we have delivered for decades while providing a clearer path for our future growth,” said Debra Perelman, who was named Revlon president and CEO in 2018.
Her father, billionaire Ron Perelman, backs the company through MacAndrews & Forbes, which acquired the business through a hostile takeover in the late 1980s. Revlon went public in 1996.
Perelman said that demand for its products remains strong, but its “challenging capital structure” offered limited ability to navigate macro-economic issues.
With brands from Almay to Elizabeth Arden, Revlon had been a mainstay on store shelves for decades. But in recent years it struggled not only with heavy debt but also with stiffer competition and failure to keep pace with changing beauty tastes.
The company was slow to adapt to women’s shift away from bright color cosmetics like red lipstick to more muted tones starting in the 1990s. Revlon also faced increasing competition not only from the likes of Procter & Gamble but most recently from celebrity lines like Kylie Jenner-backed Kylie, which don’t have to invest a lot in marketing because of their massive social media following.
Revlon’s problems only intensified with the pandemic, which hurt sales of lipsticks as people masked up. Sales fell 21% to $1.9 billion in 2020 but rebounded 9.2% to $2.08 billion in 2022 as shoppers went back to pre-pandemic routines. In the latest quarter that ended in March, sales rose nearly 8%. The company avoided bankruptcy in late 2020 by persuading enough bondholders to extend its maturing debt.
In recent months, Revlon, like many other companies, experienced industry-wide supply chain challenges and higher costs. The beauty company said in March that logistical issues hurt its ability to meet customer orders. It also said it was stymied by rising prices on key ingredients and persistent labor shortages.
It’s a big change from Revlon’s heyday throughout much of the 20th century when it was the second-largest cosmetics company by sales, behind only Avon. Now it’s No. 22, according to a recent ranking by fashion trade journal WWD.
The company hit many milestones in its heyday. In 1970, Revlon became the first beauty company to feature a Black model, Naomi Sims, in its advertising. In the 1980s, Revlon made a big splash with its supermodel campaign featuring diverse, famous and new models including Iman, Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington, shot by Richard Avedon. Its iconic tagline promised to make women “unforgettable.”
During an interview with The Associated Press last fall, Perelman said she was optimistic about the future. As women venture out, Revlon’s makeup sales are rebounding. She said the company also used the health crisis as an opportunity to double-down on investments online. During the pandemic, Elizabeth Arden launched one-on-one virtual consultations, for example.
Perelman also said that the company was learning from celebrity launches like Kylie to be more nimble. For example, it cut months off of developing new products. Perelman said she was also seeing Revlon regaining market share.
None of Revlon’s international operating subsidiaries are included in the proceedings, except for Canada and the United Kingdom. The filing was made in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York,
The company listed assets and liabilities between $1 billion and $10 billion, according to the filing. | 2022-06-16T15:16:32+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/debt-laden-revlon-files-for-bankruptcy-protection/ |
OMMEREN, Netherlands (AP) — A hand-drawn map with a red letter X purportedly showing the location of a buried stash of precious jewelry looted by Nazis from a blown-up bank vault has sparked a modern-day treasure hunt in a tiny Dutch village more than three quarters of a century later.
Wielding metal detectors, shovels and copies of the map on cellphones, prospectors have descended on Ommeren — population 715 — about 80 kilometers (50 miles) southeast of Amsterdam to try to dig up a potential World War II trove based on the drawing first published on Jan. 3.
“Yes, it is of course spectacular news that has enthralled the whole village,” local resident Marco Roodveldt said. “But not only our village, also people who do not come from here.”
He said that “all kinds of people have been spontaneously digging in places where they think that treasure is buried — with a metal detector.”
It wasn’t immediately clear if authorities could claim the loot if it was found, or if a prospector could keep it.
So far, nobody has reported finding anything. The treasure hunt began this year when the Dutch National Archive published — as it does every January — thousands of documents for historians to pore over.
Most of them went largely unnoticed. But the map, which includes a sketch of a cross section of a country road and another with a red X at the base of one of three trees, was an unexpected viral hit that briefly shattered the mid-winter calm of Ommeren.
“We’re quite astonished about the story itself. But the attention it’s getting is as well,” National Archive researcher Annet Waalkens said as she carefully showed off the map.
Photos on social media in early January showed people digging holes more than a meter (three feet) deep, sometimes on private property, in the hope of unearthing a fortune.
Buren, the municipality Ommeren falls under, published a statement on its website pointing out that a ban on metal detection is in place for the municipality and warned that the area was a World War II front line.
“Searching there is dangerous because of possible unexploded bombs, land mines and shells,” the municipality said in a statement. “We advise against going to look for the Nazi treasure.”
The latest treasure hunters aren’t the first to leave the village empty handed.
The story starts, Waalkens said, in the summer of 1944 in the Nazi-occupied city of Arnhem — made famous by the star-studded movie “A Bridge Too Far” — when a bomb hit a bank, pierced its vault and scattered its contents — including gold jewelry and cash — across the street.
German soldiers stationed nearby “pocket what they can get and they keep it in ammunition boxes,” Waalkens said. As World War II nears its end in 1945, the Netherlands’ German occupiers were pushed back by Allied advances. The soldiers who had been in Arnhem found themselves in Ommeren and decided to bury the loot.
“Four ammunition boxes and then just some jewelry that was kept in handkerchiefs or even cash money folded in. And they buried it right there,” she said, citing an account by a German soldier who was interviewed after the war by Dutch military authorities in Berlin and who was responsible for the map. The archive doesn’t know if the soldier is still alive and hasn’t released his name, citing European Union privacy regulations.
Dutch authorities using the map and the soldier’s account went hunting for the loot in 1947. The first time, the ground was frozen solid and they made no headway. When they went back after the thaw, they found nothing, Waalkens said.
After the unsuccesful attempts, the German soldier said “he believed that someone else has already excavated the treasure,” she added.
That detail was largely overlooked by treasure hunters who descended on Ommeren in the days after the map’s publication. On a recent visit to the village, there were no diggers to be seen as peace and quiet has returned to Ommeren.
But the village’s brief brush with fame left a sour taste for some residents. Ria van Tuil van Neerbos said she didn’t believe in the treasure story, but understood why some did.
“If they hear something, they’ll head toward it,” she said. “But I don’t think it’s good that they just dug into the ground and things like that.” | 2023-01-24T16:09:58+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/world-war-ii-era-map-sparks-hunt-for-nazi-treasure-in-tiny-dutch-village/ |
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has won reelection, defeating Donald Trump-endorsed GOP rival Kelly Tshibaka.
Murkowski beat Tshibaka in the Nov. 8 ranked choice election. The results were announced Wednesday, when elections officials tabulated the ranked choice results after neither candidate won more than 50% of first-choice votes.
The race also included Democrat Pat Chesbro and Republican Buzz Kelley, who suspended his campaign after the August primary and endorsed Tshibaka.
Murkowski was the only Senate Republican who voted to convict Trump at his impeachment trial last year who was on the ballot this year. Trump was not convicted. But her vote was a sore point for the former president, who vowed to campaign against her.
In 2020, before that year's election and far before Tshibaka jumped into the Senate race, Trump announced plans to campaign against Murkowski after she criticized him: "Get any candidate ready, good or bad, I don’t care, I’m endorsing. If you have a pulse, I’m with you!”
He appeared at a rally in Anchorage in July for Tshibaka and Sarah Palin, whose run for Alaska's lone U.S. House seat he endorsed. He more recently participated in a telerally for Tshibaka in late October. Tshibaka, who worked in federal inspectors general offices before leading the Alaska Department of Administration for two years, credited Trump with helping to raise her name recognition and give her candidacy a boost.
Murkowski, who was censured by state Republican party leaders last year for offenses that included her impeachment vote, paid little attention to Trump during a campaign in which she emphasized a willingness to work across party lines and focused on her record and seniority. Murkowski, a moderate who has been in the Senate since 2002, is the most senior member of Alaska’s congressional delegation following the death in March of Republican Rep. Don Young, who held Alaska's House seat for 49 years.
Murkowski is no stranger to tough reelection fights. She won a general election write-in campaign in 2010 after losing her party primary that year to a tea party Republican. Coming into this race, she had never won a general election with more than 50% of the vote.
This year’s elections were held under a new system approved by voters in 2020 that replaced party primaries with open primaries and instituted ranked voting in general elections. Under the open primary system, the top four vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, advance to the general election.
Tshibaka criticized a super PAC aligned with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for running ads against her when she said those resources could have been used to help Republicans in other states.
She said she “ranked the red,” or the Republican candidates, on her ballot — but not in the Senate race. She said she did not consider Murkowski a “red" candidate.
“I didn't vote her either,” Murkowski said on Election Day. | 2022-11-24T01:37:58+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Murkowski-wins-reelection-in-Alaska-Senate-race-17607774.php |
A dish of living brain cells has learned to play the 1970s arcade game Pong.
About 800,000 cells linked to a computer gradually learned to sense the position of the game's electronic ball and control a virtual paddle, a team reports in the journal Neuron.
The novel achievement is part of an effort to understand how the brain learns, and how to make computers more intelligent.
"We've made huge strides with silicon computing, but they're still rigid and inflexible," says Brett Kagan, an author of the study and chief scientific officer at Cortical Labs in Melbourne, Australia. "That's something we don't see with biology."
For example, both computers and people can learn to make a cup of tea, Kagan says. But people are able to generalize what they've learned in a way a computer can't.
"You might have never been to someone else's house, but with a bit of rummaging and searching you can probably make a decent cup of tea as long as I've got the ingredients," he says. But even a very powerful computer would struggle to carry out that task in an unfamiliar environment.
So Cortical Labs has been trying to understand how living brain cells acquire this sort of intelligence. And Kagan says the Pong experiment was a way for the company to answer a key question about how a network of brain cells learns to change its behavior:
"If we allow these cells to know the outcome of their actions, will they actually be able to change in some sort of goal-directed way," Kagan says.
To find out, the scientists used a system they've developed called DishBrain.
A layer of living neurons is grown on a special silicon chip at the bottom of a thumb-size dish filled with nutrients. The chip, which is linked to a computer, can both detect electrical signals produced by the neurons, and deliver electrical signals to them.
To test the learning ability of the cells, the computer generated a game of Pong, a two-dimensional version of table tennis that gained a cult following as one of the first and most basic video games.
Pong is played on a video screen. A black rectangle defines the table, and a white cursor represents each player's paddle, which can be moved up or down to intercept a white ball.
In the simplified version used in the experiment, there was a single paddle on the left side of the virtual table, and the ball would carom off the other sides until it evaded the paddle.
To allow the brain cells to play the game, the computer sent signals to them indicating where the bouncing ball was. At the same time, it began monitoring information coming from the cells in the form of electrical pulses.
"We took that information and we allowed it to influence this Pong game that they were playing," Kagan says. "So they could move the paddle around."
At first, the cells didn't understand the signals coming from the computer, or know what signals to send the other direction. They also had no reason to play the game.
So the scientists tried to motivate the cells using electrical stimulation: a nicely organized burst of electrical activity if they got it right. When they got it wrong, the result was a chaotic stream of white noise.
"If they hit the ball, we gave them something predictable," Kagan says. "When they missed it, they got something that was totally unpredictable."
The strategy was based on the Free Energy Principle, which states that brain cells want to be able to predict what's going on in their environment. So they would choose predictable stimulation over unpredictable stimulation.
The approach worked. Cells began to learn to generate patterns of electrical activity that would move the paddle in front of the ball, and gradually rallies got longer.
The brain cells never got that good at Pong. But interestingly, human brain cells seemed to achieve a slightly higher level of play than mouse brain cells, Kagan says.
And the level of play was remarkable, considering that each network contained fewer cells than the brain of a cockroach, Kagan says.
"If you could see a cockroach playing a game of Pong and it was able to hit the ball twice as often as it was missing it, you would be pretty impressed with that cockroach," he says.
The results hint at a future in which biology helps computers become more intelligent by changing the way that they learn, Kagan says.
But that future is probably still a long way off, says Steve M. Potter, an adjunct associate professor at Georgia Tech.
"The idea of a computer that has some living components is exciting and it's starting to become a reality," he says. "However, the kinds of learning that these things can accomplish is quite rudimentary right now."
Even so, Potter says the system that allowed cells to learn Pong could be a great tool for doing research.
"This is sort of a semi-living animal model that one can use to study all sorts of mechanisms in the nervous system, not just learning," he says.
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- Patent covers more than 100 novel compounds targeting neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -
MELBOURNE, Australia and SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alterity Therapeutics (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE) ("Alterity" or "the Company"), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing disease modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced that a new composition of matter patent has been allowed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent was allowed following expedited review by the USPTO.
The patent, entitled, "Compounds for and methods of treating diseases", provides Alterity with 20 years of exclusivity and expands its intellectual property estate for treating major neurodegenerative diseases. The patent is based on a new scaffold that is distinct from recent patents granted to Alterity and includes more than 100 novel compounds, at least one of which has demonstrated efficacy in an animal model of dementia.
Importantly, the patent covers iron chaperones which are small molecules capable of binding and redistributing excess iron in the central nervous system. Excess brain iron has been implicated in the pathology of many important neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases[1].
"This patent strengthens our portfolio of compounds for treating important neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's," said David Stamler, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, Alterity. "With this patent, our discovery team has created a new scaffold that extends our approach of targeting key proteins implicated in these diseases. As we advance our lead clinical asset ATH434 in Phase 2, we will continue to look to expand our pipeline with new, patentable compounds that may modify the course of disease."
About Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's disease (PD) belongs to a group of conditions called motor system disorders, which cause unintended or uncontrollable movements of the body. The precise cause of PD is unknown, but some cases are hereditary while others are thought to occur from a combination of genetics and environmental factors that trigger the disease. In PD, brain cells become damaged or die in the part of the brain that produces dopamine--a chemical needed to produce smooth, purposeful movement. The four primary symptoms of PD are tremors, rigidity, slowing of spontaneous and automatic movement, and impaired balance. Other symptoms may include difficulty swallowing, chewing, or speaking; emotional changes; urinary problems or constipation; dementia or other cognitive problems; fatigue; and problems sleeping.[2] Nearly one million people in the U.S. and more than 10 million people worldwide are living with PD. Approximately 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with PD each year.[3]
About Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurologic disorder that causes the brain to shrink (atrophy) and brain cells to die. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia — a continuous decline in thinking, behavioral, and social skills that affects a person's ability to function independently. Approximately 5.8 million people in the United States age 65 and older live with Alzheimer's disease. Of those, 80% are 75 years old and older. Out of the approximately 50 million people worldwide with dementia, between 60% and 70% are estimated to have Alzheimer's disease. Medications may temporarily improve or slow progression of symptoms, but there is no treatment that cures Alzheimer's disease or alters the disease process in the brain. In advanced stages of the disease, complications from severe loss of brain function, such as dehydration, malnutrition or infection, result in death.[4]
About Alterity Therapeutics Limited
Alterity Therapeutics is a clinical stage biotechnology company dedicated to creating an alternate future for people living with neurodegenerative diseases. The Company's lead asset, ATH434, has the potential to treat various Parkinsonian disorders. Alterity also has a broad drug discovery platform generating patentable chemical compounds to intercede in disease processes. The Company is based in Melbourne, Australia, and San Francisco, California, USA. For further information please visit the Company's web site at www.alteritytherapeutics.com.
[1]Hagemeier J, Geurts J, Zivadinov R. Brain iron accumulation in aging and neurodegenerative disorders. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 2012,12:12, 1467-1480, DOI: 10.1586/ern.12.128
[1]Ayton S, Fazlollahi A, Bourgeat P, Raniga P, Ng A, Lim YY, Diouf I, Farquharson S, Fripp J, Ames D, Doecke J, Desmond P, Ordidge R, Masters CL, Rowe CC, Maruff P, Villemagne VL; Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) Research Group, Salvado O, Bush AI. Cerebral quantitative susceptibility mapping predicts amyloid-β-related cognitive decline. Brain. 2017 Aug 1;140(8):2112-2119. doi: 10.1093/brain/awx137. PMID: 28899019.
[1]Zucca F, Segura-Aguilar J, Ferrari E, Muñoz P, Paris I, Sulzer D, Sarna T, Casella L, Zecca L. Interactions of iron, dopamine and neuromelanin pathways in brain aging and Parkinson's disease. Progress in Neurobiology, Volume 155, 2017, Pages 96-119, ISSN 0301-0082, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2015.09.012
[2]National Institute of Health: Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Parkinson's Disease Information Page;
[3]Parkinson's Foundation
[4]Mayo Clinic: Alzheimer's Disease
Authorisation & Additional information
This announcement was authorized by David Stamler, CEO of Alterity Therapeutics Limited.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Republicans on Monday advanced two key initiatives of Gov. Ron DeSantis as he prepares for an expected presidential run — banning gender affirming care for minors and eliminating diversity programs in colleges.
The proposals have cleared separate committees but must still win approval from the full House and Senate chambers.
DeSantis is pursing an aggressive conservative agenda on race, gender and education ahead of his expected candidacy, continuing a stance that has made him one of the most popular Republicans in the country.
The Republican supermajority in the statehouse is set to rubber stamp virtually all DeSantis' priorities during this year’s legislative session, giving the governor a platform of policy wins that could prove popular during a GOP primary.
The governor has been a leading critic of diversity, equity and inclusion programs in colleges, known as DEI, as well as Critical Race Theory, which is a way of thinking about American history through the lens of racism.
Ahead of Monday's committee vote, DeSantis held a roundtable discussion to criticize diversity programs as racially divisive and discriminatory. He has frequently targeted the programs in criticism of what he calls “woke” ideology in education.
“In Florida, we are not going to back down to the woke mob, and we will expose the scams they are trying to push onto students across the country,” DeSantis said. “Florida students will receive an education, not a political indoctrination.”
The proposal would bar colleges from using state or federal funding for diversity, equity and inclusion programs. It would prevent schools from having course curricula involving Critical Race Theory or so-called radical feminist theory, radical gender theory, queer theory, critical social justice or intersectionality.
In addition, universities would be able to conduct post-tenure reviews of faculty at any time for cause, in addition to a required review every five years.
Critics said the bill would disadvantage college students when they seek employment after graduation, could endanger accreditation of Florida courses and would stifle academic freedom on campuses.
“It’s not the responsibility of the state to define or dictate what we can or cannot learn. That is our choice, especially as adults within higher ed institutions,” said Rep. Anna Eskamani, a Democrat. “Why are we scared of these topics? Why do we not want adults like me in public universities who choose to learn about these theories to have an opportunity to learn about it, to question it, to debate it?”
Scholars developed Critical Race Theory during the 1970s and 1980s in response to what scholars viewed as a lack of racial progress following the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. The theory centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions, which function to maintain the dominance of white people in society.
Last year the governor signed legislation dubbed the Stop WOKE Act that restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in schools and businesses. The law bars instruction that says members of one race are inherently racist or should feel guilt for past actions committed by others of the same race, among other things.
Dozens of transgender people, parents with transgender children and their supporters gathered in a Senate committee room to speak against the bill banning gender-affirming care for minors.
Opponents said it would lead to higher suicide rates, depression and anxiety and would cause far more harm than good.
Democratic lawmakers said their Republican colleagues are backing government intervention in private conversations families have with their doctors and stripping those families of their rights to care for their children.
Democratic Sen. Tracie Davis addressed her remarks to the people who testified against the bill.
“What we've done today with this legislation is vilify who you are," Davis said. “There are children out there who believe they are better off dead because of the lack of support, and all you said today is say, 'Love me as I am.'”
Republican Sen. Clay Yarborough said his bill is about protecting children, and told opponents he respects them.
“Every person was created with extraordinary worth, incredible value and a unique purpose from the time they were created. You can't change that," Yarborough said. “We need to let kids be kids, and our laws need to set appropriate boundaries that respect the rights and responsibilities of parents while protecting children.” | 2023-03-14T01:05:54+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/desantis-bills-on-diversity-gender-pass-florida-17837456.php |
The Buffalo Bills blew a 17-point advantage before recovering to win Sunday. That narrow escape came less than 24 hours after the Jacksonville Jaguars overcame a 27-point deficit and pulled off one of the most stunning comeback victories in playoff history.
No lead is safe and the drama abounds so far in the NFL playoffs.
A loaded Sunday schedule saw the Bills escape with a 34-31 win over the Miami Dolphins, the New York Giants upset the Minnesota Vikings 31-24 and the Cincinnati Bengals hang on to beat the Baltimore Ravens 24-17 as wild-card weekend continued.
One more game in the round remains: Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers host Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys on Monday night.
All three of Sunday's games were decided in the final minutes. In the nightcap, Sam Hubbard returned Baltimore quarterback Tyler Huntley’s fumble 98 yards for a tiebreaking touchdown in the fourth quarter in a stunning turn of events that led the Bengals to their win.
Huntley tried to go over the top of the line for the go-ahead score. But he was stood up by Germaine Pratt and stripped by fellow linebacker Logan Wilson.
The ball went right to Hubbard at the 2, and the defensive end took off down the field for the longest fumble return for a touchdown in NFL postseason history. It also was the longest go-ahead TD in the fourth quarter in the postseason.
In Sunday's opener, Bills quarterback Josh Allen shrugged off a three-turnover outing by throwing two touchdown passes 3:11 apart in the third quarter. He finished 23 of 39 for 352 yards and three TDs, but also threw two interceptions and lost a fumble.
Cole Beasley scored the go-ahead touchdown with a 6-yard catch, and Gabe Davis extended the lead to 34-24 with a 23-yard TD reception after Buffalo squandered its early 17-0 advantage.
Giants quarterback Daniel Jones became one of the stars of wild-card weekend by leading sixth-seeded New York to its road win over No. 3 Minnesota. Jones — playing in his first playoff game — threw for 301 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 78 yards in a stellar all-around performance. Saquon Barkley rushed for two scores, including the tiebreaker midway through the fourth quarter.
On Saturday, rookie Brock Purdy and the San Francisco 49ers beat the Seattle Seahawks 41-23 while the Jaguars capped their comeback by beating the Los Angeles Chargers 31-30.
The No. 1 overall seed in the AFC was claimed by Kansas City with its 31-13 win over Las Vegas in Week 18. The NFC's top spot was taken by Philadelphia. Those teams got the weekend off before playing in the divisional round next weekend.
Here are some other things to know during the postseason:
WHAT'S THE UPCOMING SCHEDULE?
MONDAY
Dallas Cowboys at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 8:15 p.m. EST, ESPN/ABC
SATURDAY, JAN. 21
Jacksonville Jaguars at Kansas City Chiefs, 4:30 p.m. EST, NBC/Peacock/Universo
New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles, 8:15 p.m. EST, Fox/Fox Deportes
SUNDAY, JAN. 22
Cincinnati Bengals at Buffalo Bills, 3 p.m. EST, CBS/Paramount+
Dallas/Tampa Bay at San Francisco 49ers, 6:30 p.m. EST, Fox, Fox Deportes
WHAT'S THE FORMAT FOR PLAYOFFS?
This is the third straight year of the current playoff format, which includes the top seven teams from both the AFC and the NFC.
The four division winners in both conferences automatically get the top four seeds, regardless of record, and then the top three teams with the best record that didn't win their division are the wild-card selections. That's why it's fairly common for a wild-card selection to have a better record — but worse playoff seeding — than a team that finished as a division winner.
The No. 1-seeded team in each conference gets a bye into the second round — that's the Chiefs and Eagles — while No. 2 hosts No. 7, No. 3 hosts No. 6 and No. 4 hosts No. 5 during the wild-card weekend.
The NFL re-seeds teams after each playoff round. That means no matter how the bracket started, the lowest-seeded team will always travel to the highest-seeded team.
There are four rounds to the playoffs: The wild-card round is this weekend, the divisional round is Jan. 21-22, the conference championship games are on Jan. 29 and the Super Bowl is scheduled for Feb. 12 in Glendale, Arizona.
WHAT CHANGED WITH BILLS-BENGALS CANCELLATION?
Players and fans watched in horror on Jan. 2 as Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field at Cincinnati when his heart stopped and he received CPR before leaving the field in an ambulance. Over the next week, those same players and fans reacted with joy at news of Hamlin's recovery.
Even better news came Saturday: Hamlin visited with teammates at the Bills’ facility for the first time since being discharged from a Buffalo hospital.
A person with direct knowledge of Hamlin’s schedule confirmed to The Associated Press the player’s visit. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because Hamlin has kept his schedule and recovery private.
Hamlin's remarkable recovery has made it much easier to focus on the playoffs.
The cancellation of the Bills-Bengals game because of Hamlin's injury could lead to one big change to the AFC playoff format.
The AFC championship game would be played at a neutral site if the Chiefs and Bills reach that point under a rule adjustment approved by NFL owners last Friday. That's because Buffalo (13-3) played one fewer game than Kansas City (14-3) and missed out on a chance to earn the top seed. The Bills beat the Chiefs 24-20 on Oct. 16 and would have held the tiebreaker had the teams finished with the same record. Buffalo lost 42-36 at Kansas City in a divisional-round classic last season.
The Chiefs would host the AFC title game against any other team, including the third-seeded Bengals (12-4). | 2023-01-16T13:48:52+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/nfl-playoffs-no-lead-safe-drama-abounds-in-wild-weekend |
Pennington County Outdoor Warning Siren tests that occur on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month will be “paused” during the months of January and February in 2023.
Tests will not occur on January 7 and 21, or February 4 and 18, the Rapid City-Pennington County Emergnecy Management agency said in a press release Wednesday.
"The two months are typically the coldest months of the year, and our older mechanical sirens can suffer damage when activated in extreme cold weather temperatures. Saturday siren tests will resume on March 4," the release said.
The sirens are still active and can be utilized at a moment’s notice, along with four other warning capabilities, to alert the public, the agency added.
"During a rapidly evolving incident in Pennington County, we will use all available and appropriate warning tools to alert the community of any life-threatening, all-risk, all-hazard emergency from natural threats or human-caused threats," the release said. Other warning capabilities include Public Warning Messages, All-Hazards Weather Radio, Wireless Emergency Alerts, and the Emergency Alert System.
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Residents can learn more about the emergency warning methods used in Pennington County at www.pennco.org/messaging.
They can also visit www.rcpcem.com for safety tips and information to keep your family safe and learn how to plan for disasters and emergencies. | 2023-01-04T23:26:54+00:00 | rapidcityjournal.com | https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/rapid-city-to-pause-outdoor-warning-siren-testing-for-winter-months/article_6daf9ae8-cda1-5503-b5fa-ea4367baf37c.html |
-Follow Alana: Taiwan Is Available Now On AppleTV, Amazon and Google Play -
LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Following two successful seasons, which transported viewers to the picturesque country of Switzerland and the magnificent country of Australia, now in its 3rd season, the award-winning travel show Follow Alana, brings travel show host, speaker and producer Alana Nichols to the blissful country of Taiwan. During the new 13-episodes, 'Follow Alana: Taiwan' delves into the sweeping natural landscapes and traditional community practices across Taiwan's diverse islands, forests, villages, and more. In a refreshing departure from the Western world, Alana returns to the country she was born in with a curious heart and familiar appetite for adventure. From scaling dramatic mountain ranges in Nantou to canyoning waterfalls, caves, and underwater coves in Lisong, Alana learns a plethora of sustainable practices from local communities and enjoys the sights of a country that has historically embraced preservation. The new season is available now on AppleTV, Google Play, and Amazon. For a preview, check out the trailer, HERE.
Born in Taipei to an American mother and a Taiwanese father, Nichols entered the world with an extremely rare form of deafness. Doctors told her parents she would never be able to speak. In an ironic twist of fate, Alana is now the host of an international television show. In the program 'Follow Alana', she introduces the diverse sceneries, lifestyles, cultures and cuisines of various captivating environments all the while encouraging the audience to build a loving and sustainable relationship with the environment wherever they go. Through humor, positivity, and determination, Alana hopes to leave the audience with a healthy dose of inspiration and learning. Through her series, Alana aspires to use television as a vehicle to tell stories and be a catalyst for positive change. She is an internationally sought-after speaker, having spoken across the globe, most recently addressing the World Health Organization on issues relating to deafness and hearing care. The show is currently broadcasted on television in Taiwan, Singapore, and China and can also be found on various platforms online including 'mini-episodes' on YouTube.
Li, Kuo Hao who graduated from Taiwan University with a degree in drama and theatre, is the director of "Follow Alana." Kuo Hao is an experienced documentary, kids and cultural program director. His works, often contain the passion for environment and human, that had been nominated by several international awards including Golden Bell Awards of Taiwan, New York Festivals TV & Film Awards and won the 2019 Telly Awards, 2018 Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival and Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival Silver Drum Awards.
Recognizing Alana's desire to make a positive impact on communities, the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region honored her as a Champion of Hope, an accolade celebrating her acts of volunteerism, philanthropy, and good will.
Aurora Digital Media Co., Ltd produced the series originally and partnered with Wildwood Studios LLC to reversion and distribute for North America.
For more information check out the official FOLLOW ALANA website at www.followalana.com. Or on Facebook:@followalana and Instagram: @followalana
#FollowAlana
FILMMAKERS:
Director: Kuo Hao Li
Writer: Ya Chin Huang
Co-Producer: Wildwood Studios, Swing for Fun Studio Co., Ltd, JAN Media
Associate Producers: Ya Chin Huang, Lorelai Lin
Executive Producers: Katharine McKenny, Alana Nichols
Editors: Kasey Kirby, Swing for Fun Studios Co.
Production and Post-production Sound: Yixin Company, Baulai Company
ABOUT AURORA DIGITAL MEDIA CO. LTD
Aurora Digital Media is a company that invests, produces and distributes series of TV travel show, titled "Follow Alana." The show follows the journey of Alana Nichols, who was born profoundly deaf but now became a fluent English-speaking host, to explore the world through her unique point of views and meets interesting people along the way.
ABOUT JAN MEDIA
JAN Media is a U.S. production company specializing in unscripted content.
ABOUT WILDWOOD STUDIOS LLC
Wildwood is a creative agency and production company based in greater Washington, D.C. We use strategy & story to develop best-in-class digital content clients can use to reach their audience.
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- Expanded partnership to deliver a more comprehensive view of customer journeys, enhanced omnichannel experience across assisted and digital channels
- Comviva BlueMarble to enable unified sales experience across mobile, fixed, cable and TV services of Vodafone Germany
- Enabled new revenue opportunities by delivering bundled propositions through a centralized/converged unified platform
LONDON, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business re-engineering services and solutions, today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Vodafone Germany towards the transformation of its sales and customer experience processes.
As a part of this multi-year engagement, Comviva, a Tech Mahindra company, will deliver a unified sales solution across mobile, fixed, cable and TV services businesses of Vodafone Germany. The relationship began in 2019 and partnership focused on transforming assisted sales experience. The expanded partnership will target transforming non-assisted digital sales channels and elevating the entire integrated buying experience.
Manish Vyas, President, Communications, Media and Entertainment Business, and CEO, Network Services, Tech Mahindra, said, "At Tech Mahindra, we firmly believe in the power of innovation and investment in intellectual property development. Our product and platform strategy are a testament to our deep domain expertise in the Telecom industry. We are grateful for the support and guidance of Vodafone Group as we embark on a new chapter in our digital journey, building the groundwork for the next generation of technology solutions on BlueMarble foundation."
Comviva has deployed its BlueMarble platform with an expansive range of use cases that include digital commerce, catalog, order management and customer care. The first phase of the engagement was focused on creating a unified platform that provided a converged 360-degree view of the customer across telesales and retail operations. The second phase will further the convergence to digital channels and empower Vodafone Germany in extending on-demand, personalized solution bundles seamlessly to its customers across the channels of their choice.
Ulrich Irnich, CIO at Vodafone Germany, said, "We are a customer-obsessed organization. Our expanded partnership and choice of ODA-compliant cloud-native Comviva platform will enable us to enhance the customer experience even further, driving personalization at scale and further optimizing experience across online and in-store. The new solution shall help us align teams around a single view of the customer, with insights and activation capabilities that will make experiences even more seamless, connected and relevant."
Manoranjan (Mao) Mohapatra, Chief Executive Officer at Comviva, said, "Today, customers use a variety of touchpoints to engage both digitally and offline and a unified integrated customer experience across all channels is paramount. Our partnership shall deliver a more comprehensive view of customer journeys and enhanced omnichannel experiences. We are extremely excited about this partnership, and it shall serve as a great foundation for personalization efforts, while also empowering organizational efficiency."
Comviva's BlueMarble is a modular commerce, order management, customer care and partner management digital platform. It is a 5G ready, cloud-native, microservices based, open digital solution that delivers business agility by offering personalized customer experiences and journeys.
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FORT PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — Investigators in Fort Pierre are looking into what sparked a fire at a truck repair business.
The Assistant Chief for the Fort Pierre Fire Department says it happened around 2 a.m. Tuesday at Inland Truck Parts and Service.
Heavy smoke was coming from the building and some semis were inside. The fire did spread into the ceiling of the building.
The assistant chief adds that temperatures on scene were around freezing but no equipment froze up. | 2023-02-08T14:28:26+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/crews-respond-to-business-fire-in-fort-pierre/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Major U.S. stock indexes are drifting in early trading as Wall Street remains hesitant to make big moves amid questions about where the economy, interest rates and corporate profits are heading. The S&P 500 wavered between small gains and losses in the early going Monday after barely budging last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.1% while the Nasdaq composite was just barely lower. Coca-Cola was up 1% after reporting stronger profit and revenue for the first three months of the year. More than 170 other companies in the S&P 500 are on deck to follow this week.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
BEIJING (AP) — Global stocks and Wall Street futures declined Monday ahead of a U.S. economic update that is expected to show growth slowing.
London and Frankfurt opened lower. Shanghai and Hong Kong declined while Tokyo advanced. Oil prices fell.
Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index gained 0.1% on Friday but ended with a small loss for the week.
U.S. data this week are expected to show first-quarter economic growth weakened following interest rate hikes to cool business activity and inflation. That might encourage the Federal Reserve to postpone or scale down more possible rate hikes at its May meeting.
France and Germany also report economic growth this week following surveys that show European factory activity declining.
“There is no doubt that the global economy is weakening and vulnerable to further slowing,” Clifford Bennett of ACY Securities said in a report.
In early trading, the FTSE in London fell 0.2% to 7,901.22 and the DAX in Frankfurt opened 0.1% lower at 15,860.34. The CAC 40 in Paris shed 0.3% to 7,558.20.
On Wall Street, the future for the benchmark S&P 500 index was down 0.4%. That for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 0.3% lower.
On Friday, the S&P 500 and the Dow rose 0.1% as investors focused on the corporate earnings and forecasts.
Health care companies and consumer product makers gained ground, offsetting losses in banks, technology stocks and elsewhere. Truist Financial and KeyCorp, two of the larger regional banks, were among the biggest decliners in the S&P 500. Truist fell 6% and KeyCorp ended 3.7% lower.
In Asia, the Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.8% to 3,275.41 while the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo advanced 0.1% to 28,593.52. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong retreated 0.6% to 19,959.94.
The Kospi in Seoul sank 0.8% to 2,523.50 and Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 lost less than 0.1% to 7,322.00.
India’s Sensex advanced 0.5% to 59,965.24. New Zealand and Singapore advanced while Bangkok declined.
Forecasters expect Thursday’s data to show U.S. economic growth decelerated to 2% in the first three months of 2023 from 2.6% in last year’s final quarter.
Traders are watching whether the Fed and other central banks can rein in inflation that was near multi-decade highs without tipping the global economy into recession. The Fed is expected to raise its key lending rate one more time at its May meeting and then take a break.
U.S. companies have been beating earnings forecasts. Analysts expected the sharpest drop in S&P 500 earnings per share since the pandemic stunned the economy in 2020. Analysts polled by FactSet expect profits to contract by 6.3% for companies in the S&P 500.
Coca-Cola reports results Monday, followed Tuesday by McDonald’s and Google’s parent, Alphabet.
Airplane maker Boeing and Meta Platforms, Facebook’s parent, report Wednesday. Investors get details on the health of the airline industry when American Airlines and Southwest Airlines report Thursday, along with internet retail giant Amazon.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude lost 13 cents to $77.74 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 50 cents on Friday to $77.87. Brent crude, the price basis for international oil trading, shed 20 cents to $81.26 per barrel in London. It gained 56 cents the previous session to $81.66.
The dollar gained to 134.33 yen from Friday’s 134.21 yen. The euro advanced to $1.0992 from $1.0977. | 2023-04-24T13:54:26+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/business/ap-business/stock-markets-today-asian-stocks-mixed-ahead-of-us-data/ |
One voter, one ballot. Sure. But in Alaska this year, that’s not the whole story.
Alaska voters face a sort of poll within a poll, where they’ll rank their choices as part of a new system that kicked off earlier this year.
The first ranked choice contest under the system was an August special election won by Democrat Mary Peltola, the first Alaska Native to serve in the Congress and first woman to hold Alaska’s only House seat. She emerged from a field that included Republican Sarah Palin to serve the remainder of the term of the late Republican Rep. Don Young, who died in March.
The general election includes a rematch in the House race, featuring Peltola, Palin and Republican Nick Begich, with the winner of that contest earning a two-year term. On the ballot as well are as contests for U.S. Senate, House and governor and Legislature.
Most Americans are used to casting their ballot for a single person for each office, but with a fierce contest for control of the Senate and House on the line this year, Alaska’s races will unfold in the overhauled ranked choice system.
So let’s take a closer look.
WHAT IS RANKED CHOICE VOTING AND WHY DO IT?
Instead of picking a single candidate for office, voters are given the choice to rank who they want to fill a particular seat.
This avoids scenarios in which multiple candidates seeking office could result in the winner failing to top 50% of the vote, backers say.
Supporters also say ranked voting could lead to more civil elections, with candidates competing not just for an outright victory but for second choice votes, too.
Critics argue it can be confusing.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Voters rank their choices by preference, with votes being counted in rounds. If a candidate wins over 50% in the first round, it’s over. If not, round two starts with the candidate who got the fewest votes in the first round being eliminated. If the eliminated candidate was your vote then your next choice gets your vote in this round.
In Alaska, rounds continue until two candidates are left and the one with the most votes wins.
This fall’s election is set for Nov. 8, but that’s just round one. Additional rounds of counting, if necessary, won’t happen until Nov. 23.
WHAT STATES USE THIS KIND OF VOTING?
Alaska voters in 2020 approved a system that includes open primaries and ranked voting in general elections and the state Supreme Court upheld the system in a legal challenge earlier this year.
Maine was the first state to go with ranked choice voting for certain races, but no others have followed. Massachusetts voters defeated a ballot question on ranked voting in 2020.
A handful of cities across the country have implemented ranked voting, notably New York. (It’s been a little confusing for them, too.)
Military and overseas voters in a number of Southern states have access to it as well, according to the nonpartisan, nonprofit Fair Vote.
Nevada voters are voting on a ballot question this year to have open primaries and ranked voting for the general election, but the question must go before voters again in 2024 and pass then in order to go into effect.
WHAT ARE THE STAKES?
Candidates for the state’s sole House seat include Peltola, Begich, Libertarian Chris Bye and Palin, who was the governor and the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2008.
Peltola’s victory this summer was a boon to Democrats. Young, a Republican, held the seat for 49 years. In a year when Democrats face headwinds because of inflation and President Joe Biden’s sagging approval ratings, a pickup in Alaska would buoy the party.
Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who has been in the Senate nearly 20 years, is seeking reelection in a contest that includes the Donald Trump-endorsed Republican Kelly Tshibaka as well as Democrat Pat Chesbro.
Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy is seeking a second term. His challengers are Democrat Les Gara, former Gov. Bill Walker, an independent, and Republican Charlie Pierce.
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Skillet Pork Chops With Horseradish Green Beans
This skillet supper gets a flavor boost from a chive-lemon butter and a dollop of horseradish. Make your favorite compound butter to vary this recipe and, if you want to, make extra to serve at the table. Keep in mind that if your pork chops are thinner or thicker than described in this recipe, the cooking time will vary.
NOTE: If you don't plan to eat all of the green beans right away, transfer leftover beans to a storage container to stop them from cooking.
Refrigerate leftovers for up to 3 days. Compound butter can be refrigerated for up 1 month or frozen for up to 3 months.
Adapted from “Five Ingredient Dinners” from America’s Test Kitchen (2021).
Ingredients
For the butter
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened but still cool to the touch
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh chives
- 1 lemon, finely zested (about 1 teaspoon zest) and cut into wedges
For the chops
- 4 (6 -ounce) boneless pork chops, about 3/4-inch thick
- 1/4 teaspoon fine salt, plus more to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus more to taste
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil or another neutral oil, plus more as needed
For the beans
- 1 pound fresh or frozen green beans, trimmed and halved crosswise if fresh
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 tablespoon prepared horseradish, drained, plus more to taste
Directions
Step 1
In a small bowl, stir together the butter, chives and lemon zest until combined.
Step 2
Pat the chops dry and cut two slits, about 2 inches apart, through the fat on the edges of each chop, then lightly sprinkle them with the salt and pepper.
Step 3
In a 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat, heat the oil until shimmering. Add the chops and cook until well-browned on both sides and the meat has an internal temperature of 140 to 145 degrees, about 8 to 10 minutes. (Thicker chops will need to cook longer.) Using tongs, stand the chops on their side in the pan, fat side down, to render some of the fat, about 1 minute. Transfer the chops to a platter and, using half of the butter, add a dollop to each chop. Cover the chops to keep them warm.
Step 4
In the same skillet over medium heat, add an additional 1 tablespoon of oil if the chops were lean and there’s not enough rendered fat from the chops. Add the green beans and lightly season with the pepper, if desired. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the beans begin to brown in spots, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the water, cover and cook until the beans are bright green, but still crisp-tender, about 2 minutes. Uncover and continue cooking until the water evaporates, about 1 minute.
Step 5
Stir in the horseradish and the remaining chive butter and cook for 1 more minute or until the beans have reached the desired tenderness. Taste, and season with more salt, pepper and/or horseradish, as needed. Remove from the heat.
Step 6
Divide the pork and green beans among plates and serve hot, with a lemon wedge on the side.
Nutritional Facts
Per serving (1 chop and 3/4 cup beans)
Calories
386
Carbohydrates
9 g
Cholesterol
142 mg
Fat
21 g
Fiber
4 g
Protein
40 g
Saturated Fat
9 g
Sodium
250 mg
Sugar
4 g
This analysis is an estimate based on available ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s or nutritionist’s advice.
Adapted from “Five Ingredient Dinners” from America’s Test Kitchen (2021).
Tested by Ann Maloney | 2023-04-27T21:05:17+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/recipes/skillet-pork-chops-horseradish-green-beans/ |
A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon red. Here's how to watch
May's full moon will have stargazers seeing red.
The moon will glow a scarlet color during this year's first total lunar eclipse on Sunday — a stark contrast to its ordinarily milky white sheen.
A partial eclipse will begin at 10:27 p.m. ET Sunday, with the total lunar eclipse starting at 11:29 p.m. ET, according to EarthSky. The total eclipse will end at 12:53 a.m. ET Monday, and the partial eclipse will end at 1:55 a.m. ET Monday, the site said.
A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon, Earth and sun fall into alignment, with the moon passing through Earth's shadow, according to NASA. When the moon passes through the darkest part of the Earth's shadow, called the umbra, it's known as a total lunar eclipse, the space agency said.
When the sun's rays reach the Earth, much of the blue and green light is scattered, while the orange and red colors remain visible, which is why the moon turns a reddish hue and is often referred to as the "blood moon," according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.
Not everyone will be able to catch a glimpse of the total lunar eclipse because it needs to be nighttime to see it, said Noah Petro, chief of NASA's Planetary Geology, Geophysics and Geochemistry Lab.
People in South America and in the eastern part of North America will have a great view of the lunar eclipse, he said. The total lunar eclipse will be visible in much of Africa, Europe and South America and most of North America.
About two lunar eclipses occur each year, and the next will be a total lunar eclipse in November, Petro said. Then there will not be another total lunar eclipse until March 2025, he added.
How to view the eclipse
It is perfectly safe to view a lunar eclipse with your naked eye, according to Petro.
"That's the great thing about lunar eclipses is that you require no other gear other than a passion and interest in being outside and a clear horizon," Petro said.
For optimal viewing conditions, avoid bright lights and tall buildings that could obstruct your view, he said.
While the eclipse's peak may only last for a short amount of time, the moon's coppery tones will change throughout the night, according to Petro. These changes make this celestial phenomenon interesting to watch throughout the eclipse rather than at a particular moment, he said.
If it's cloudy or the lunar eclipse is otherwise not available to view, you can watch a livestream of it from NASA.
There will be seven more full moons in 2022, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac:
- June 14: Strawberry moon
- July 13: Buck moon
- August 11: Sturgeon moon
- September 10: Harvest moon
- October 9: Hunter's moon
- November 8: Beaver moon
- December 7: Cold moon
These are the popularized names associated with the monthly full moons, originating with Native American tribes. The names vary from tribe to tribe because a full moon had different significance across the tribes month to month or season to season.
Lunar and solar eclipses
In addition to one more total lunar eclipse in 2022, there will also be a partial solar eclipse, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.
Partial solar eclipses occur when the moon passes in front of the sun but only blocks some of its light. Be sure to wear proper eclipse glasses to view solar eclipses safely as the sun's light can be damaging to your eyes.
A partial solar eclipse on Oct. 25 will be visible to those in Greenland, Iceland, Europe, northeastern Africa, the Middle East, western Asia, India and western China. It won't be visible from North America.
After this weekend, the next total lunar eclipse will also be on display for those in Asia, Australia, the Pacific and South and North America on Nov. 8 between 3:01 a.m. and 8:58 a.m. ET — but the moon will be setting for those in eastern regions of North America.
Meteor showers
Check out the remaining nine showers that will peak in 2022:
- Southern delta Aquariids: July 29-30
- Alpha Capricornids: July 30-31
- Perseids: August 11-12
- Orionids: October 20-21
- Southern Taurids: November 4-5
- Northern Taurids: November 11-12
- Leonids: November 17-18
- Geminids: December 13-14
- Ursids: December 21-22
If you live in an urban area, you may want to drive to a place that isn't littered with city lights to get the best view.
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Unparalleled production and tech capabilities are combined to create a new leader in livestreamed music experiences with Deezer as leading shareholder after additional £4M investment
PARIS, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Deezer (EURONEXT: DEEZR), the global music streaming service, today announced an exciting new chapter for Driift, a leading UK based livestreaming business. Driift is acquiring Dreamstage and will be further strengthened by an additional £4M investment from Deezer. The acquisition brings together Driift's award winning production capabilities with Dreamstage's best-in-class technology and commerce platform. The combined business will continue under the Driift name as an independent entity, run by CEO Ric Salmon and COO Claire Mas. With a total investment from Deezer of around $7M[1] this year, Driift has secured enough funds to execute on its business plan and accelerate growth.
Jeronimo Folgueira, CEO of Deezer said, "As the home of music, this is a milestone moment for Deezer. Connecting artists and fans through engaging experiences is an essential part of our growth strategy, and adding livestreaming capabilities to our portfolio is a key component to deliver on this ambition. Driift has already built an unparalleled reputation for bringing groundbreaking livestreams to music fans all over the world, and we consider that the addition of Dreamstage's tech and sales platform will take the business to the next level. We have full confidence in the Driift team to deliver fantastic results."
Investing in both businesses in 2021 and 2022, Deezer remained a minority shareholder in Driift, and became a majority shareholder in Dreamstage, before the transaction. As a result of the business combination and its additional investment, Deezer will become the largest shareholder of Driift.
Founded in August 2020 by Ric Salmon and Brian Message of ATC Management, Driift has delivered a succession of premium quality livestreamed events for some of the world's biggest artists and performers, collaborating with multiple creative and distribution partners, and winning major awards including a BAFTA for "Glastonbury Festival: Live at Worthy Farms" produced in cooperation with BBC Studios.
In May 2022, Dreamstage provided the platform for Driift's hugely successful global livestream for Little Mix from London's O2 Arena, facilitating sales of over 85,000 tickets worldwide, showcasing strong synergies between both businesses.
Ric Salmon, CEO Driift said, "This is an exciting new chapter for Driift. Over the past two years we have become genuine pioneers in the livestreaming space. We've collaborated with certain of the world's most talented artists, filmmakers and creators to deliver online events that have been part of the latest redefinition of the livestreaming format. Our team has shown a proven ability to innovate, selling hundreds of thousands of tickets and generating millions of dollars in revenues already".
"Through Deezer's investment, we are confident that our upward trajectory will accelerate. We are delighted to welcome Dreamstage's hugely talented team of developers, engineers and customer service personnel into the company. We can now offer a fully integrated livestreaming solution to our partners, with production, promotion and what we see as a market-leading technology and revenue generating platform under one roof. It is a major cultural shift, and we look forward to bringing an even greater range of live experiences to truly global audiences."
The transaction reinforces Deezer's commitment to the fast-growing music livestreaming market, which shows continued growth in audience numbers and a clear willingness to pay for quality content and add-ons such as merchandising and virtual meet-and-greets. The fact that virtual concerts ticket sales are expected to generate worldwide up to $2 billion in 2022, and up to around $5 billion annually by 2028 (Source: MIDiA – Jan-2022) strengthens Deezer's positioning.
Driift and Deezer would like to thank Dreamstage's founders Thomas Hesse, Scott Chasin and Jan Vogler for their work in building Dreamstage over the past years, and for contributing to the success of this transaction. Deezer would also like to thank Driift co-founders, and current co-owners ATC Management and Beggars Group, for their commitment and contribution in the merger. ATC and Beggars will remain significant shareholders in the newly merged entity, with ATC holding 2 of the 5 board seats.
Following the completion of the transaction, Deezer will fully consolidate Driift's results of operations and its balance sheet.
ABOUT DEEZER
Deezer is one of the largest independent music streaming platforms in the world, with more than 90 million tracks available in 180 countries, providing access to lossless HiFi audio, innovative recommendation technology and industry defining features. As the home of music, Deezer brings artists and fans together on a scalable and global platform, to unlock the full potential of music through technology. Founded in 2007 in Paris, Deezer is now a global company with a team of over 600 people based in France, Germany, UK, Brazil and the US, all brought together by their passion for music, technology and innovation. Deezer is listed on the Professional Segment of Euronext Paris (DEEZR) (ISIN: FR001400AYG6) and is also part of the newly-created Euronext Tech Leaders segment, dedicated to European high-growth tech companies, and its associated index.
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ABOUT DRIIFT
Driift is an award-winning producer, promoter and platform for the highest quality livestream events for the world's greatest artists and performers, including The Smile, Jack Johnson, HAIM, Coldplay, Jorja Smith, Michael Kiwanuka, Laura Marling, Nick Cave, Niall Horan, Andrea Bocelli, Kylie Minogue, Little Mix and Dita Von Teese. Working with globally-renowned directors and iconic venues, Driift builds and delivers full campaigns for these shows and partners with managers, agents, traditional promoters, labels and ticketing companies across the industry. Headquartered in the UK and with offices in North America and Australia, Driift has sold more than 700,000 tickets to audiences in more than 190 countries, while our productions have been recognised with major awards from BAFTA, the Royal Television Society and The Webbys. https://driift.live/
ABOUT DREAMSTAGE
Dreamstage is a live streaming technology and sales platform that has delivered over 70 live shows since its launch in 2020, including Polo G, Chief Keef, Yo-Yo Ma, Train, Sean Paul, Mastodon and, in partnership with Driift, Dita Von Tesse, Little Mix, and Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke's new band, The Smile. Its rich capabilities allow artists to engage their fanbase in highly interactive live streaming events and monetize these via ticket sales, brand sponsorship, merchandising, VIP experiences, and charity donations.
DISCLAIMER
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements relating to the business of Deezer, which shall not be considered per se as historical facts, including the ability to manufacture, market, commercialize and achieve market acceptance for specific projects developed by Deezer, estimates for future performance and estimates regarding anticipated operating losses, future revenues, capital requirements, needs for additional financing. In addition, even if the actual results or development of Deezer are consistent with the forward-looking statements contained in this press release, those results or developments of Deezer may not be indicative of their in the future.
In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by words such as "could," "should," "may," "expects," "anticipates," "believes," "intends," "estimates," "aims," "targets," or similar words. Although the management of Deezer believes that these forward-looking statements are reasonably made, they are based largely on the current expectations of Deezer as of the date of this press release and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievement expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. In particular, the expectations of Deezer could be affected by, among other things, risks and uncertainties developed or identified in any public documents filed by Deezer with the French financial market authority (the Autorité des marchés financiers – the "AMF"), included those listed in the prospectus approved by the AMF on June 15, 2022 under number 22-216. In light of these risks and uncertainties, there can be no assurance that the forward-looking statements made in this press release will in fact be realized. Notwithstanding the compliance with article 223-1 of the General Regulation of the AMF (the information disclosed must be "accurate, precise and fairly presented"), Deezer is providing the information in these materials as of this press release, and disclaims any intention or obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police investigating suspected doping by the Tour de France team Bahrain Victorious seized more than 450 capsules of unidentified substances at a house in Slovenia during raids across Europe, the European agency Eurojust said Friday.
Riders and staff had their homes raided and the team’s hotel in Denmark was searched this week ahead of the three-week race which started on Friday in Copenhagen.
In a statement, the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) said 14 properties in six countries were searched and three people were interrogated.
Eurojust said “412 capsules with undetermined brown content and 67 capsules with undetermined white content” were found at a property in Slovenia, where a mobile phone was also seized.
Substances were also seized in Belgium, Italy and Poland, plus computers, phones and other electronic devices. Police also searched properties in Spain and seized potential evidence.
The investigation was opened in May and led by prosecutors in Marseille, France, Eurojust said, adding the target was “suspected doping violations involving an international cycling team.”
The team sponsored by the government of Bahrain also was raided by French police during last year’s Tour.
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Climate change added at least 10% more rain to Hurricane Ian, a study prepared immediately after the storm shows.
Thursday’s research, which is not peer-reviewed, compared peak rainfall rates during the real storm to about 20 different computer scenarios of a model with Hurricane Ian’s characteristics slamming into the Sunshine State in a world with no human-caused climate change.
“The real storm was 10% wetter than the storm that might have been,’’ said Lawrence Berkeley National Lab climate scientist Michael Wehner, study co-author.
Forecasters predicted Ian will have dropped up to two feet (61 centimeters) of rain in parts of Florida by the time it stopped.
Wehner and Kevin Reed, an atmospheric scientist at Stony Brook University, published a study in Nature Communications earlier this year looking at the hurricanes of 2020 and found during their rainiest three-hour periods they were more than 10% wetter than in a world without greenhouse gases trapping heat. Wehner and Reed applied the same scientifically accepted attribution technique to Hurricane Ian.
A long-time rule of physics is that for every extra degree of warmth Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit), the air in the atmosphere can hold 7% more water. This week the Gulf of Mexico was 0.8 degrees warmer than normal, which should have meant about 5% more rain. Reality turned out to be even worse. The flash study found the hurricane dropped double that — 10% more rain.
Ten percent may not sound like a lot, but 10% of 20 inches is two inches, which is a lot of rain, especially on top of the 20 inches that already fell, Reed said.
Other studies have seen the same feedback mechanisms of stronger storms in warmer weather, said Princeton University atmospheric scientist Gabriel Vecchi, who wasn’t part of the study.
MIT hurricane researcher Kerry Emanuel said in general, a warmer world does make storms rainier. But he said he is uncomfortable drawing conclusions about individual storms.
“This business above very very heavy rain is something we’ve expected to see because of climate change,” he said. “We’ll see more storms like Ian.”
Princeton’s Vecchi said in an email that if the world is going to bounce back from disasters “we need to plan for wetter storms going forward, since global warming isn’t going to go away.”
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading physicians and researchers will present results from 21 clinical trials from Monday, October 31, to Wednesday, November 2, at the annual VIVA and The VEINS conferences at Wynn Las Vegas.
VIVA (Vascular InterVentional Advances) is a vascular education symposium that emphasizes innovation and multidisciplinary learning. The 2022 conference will mark VIVA's 20th anniversary as a premier educational event for endovascular specialists.
The VEINS (Venous Endovascular INterventional Strategies) is a comprehensive education symposium focused on the diagnosis, intervention, and management of venous disorders.
VIVA and The VEINS bring together a global, multispecialty faculty to present a variety of talks and live case presentations from clinical centers around the world. Attendees for both events include an audience of interventional cardiologists, interventional radiologists, vascular surgeons, and endovascular medicine specialists.
Media outlets are invited to attend the data presentations in person. The presentations will also be available to all VIVA attendees and invited press through the Virtual VIVA app. Any members of the press planning to attend should contact press@vivaphysicians.org.
To view the full schedule for both conferences, please visit https://viva-foundation.org/agenda
Clinical trial results to be released (in alphabetical order):
The VEINS
ABRE Study: Clinical Outcomes by Initial Clinical Presentation Through 36 Months
Stephen A. Black, MD
Decreased ICU Cost for Iliofemoral DVT Patients Treated With Thrombectomy
John Filtes, MD
First-in-Human Study Results With Amplifi™ Vein Dilation System Treatment
Surendra Shenoy, MD, PhD
Improvement in Clinical and Echo Parameters After Computer-Aided Mechanical Aspiration Thrombectomy for Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism
Elias Iliadis, MD
In-Hospital and 30-day Outcomes from the Fully-Enrolled, Multicenter, Prospective CLOUT Registry
David Dexter, MD
Propensity-Score Matched Analysis of Early Clinical Outcomes From the CLOUT and ATTRACT Studies
Steven Abramowitz, MD
VIVA
3-Year results of the GORE® VIABAHN® Stent-Graph in the Superficial Femoral Artery for In-Stent Restenosis
Peter Soukas, MD
12-Month Results from a Prospective Study of the Rotarex Atherectomy and Thrombectomy Catheter System
Michael Lichtenberg, MD
36-Month Outcomes for the BioMimics Stent in Longer Lesions: A Subgroup Analysis of the MIMICS-3D EU Registry
Michael Lichtenberg, MD
A Patient-Level, Propensity-Adjusted Comparison of Drug-Coated Balloons vs Bare Metal Stents in Femoropopliteal Lesions: 3-Year Results in Prospective, Multicenter Studies
Mehdi Shishehbor, DO, MPH, PhD
A Registry-Based Study of Paclitaxel Drug-Coated Balloon Angioplasty for the Treatment of In-Stent Restenosis of the Femoral-Popliteal Artery
Daniel Bertges, MD
Cross-Seal™ IDE Trial: Prospective, Multi-Center, Single Arm Study of the Cross-Seal™ Suture-Mediated Vascular Closure Device System
Prakash Krishnan, MD
ELEGANCE: Increasing Diversity in Peripheral Artery Disease Trials
Maureen Kohi, MD
Intermediate Term (24-Month) Results of the TRANSCEND Study Comparing a Next-Generation Paclitaxel Drug-Coated Balloon (SurVeil DCB) to IN.PACT Admiral DCB in the Treatment of Femoropopliteal Artery Disease
Kenneth Rosenfield, MD
Intravascular Lithotripsy for the Treatment of Peripheral Artery Calcification: Results from the Disrupt PAD III Observational Study
Ehrin Armstrong, MD
Percutaneous Bypass for Treatment of Femoropopliteal Disease: 1-Year Outcomes of the DETOUR-2 Study
Sean Lyden, MD
Periprocedural and Patient-Reported Quality of Life Outcomes After Computer-Aided Mechanical Aspiration Thrombectomy for the Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Interim Analysis of the STRIKE-PE Study
Ido Weinberg, MD
Revascularization Therapy for Femoropopliteal Disease With a Novel Intra-Arterial Stent Graft: 12-Month Results of the TORUS-2 Study
Ehrin Armstrong, MD
Safety and Performance of the Indigo Aspiration System for the Treatment of Lower Extremity Acute Limb Ischemia: Interim Analysis of the STRIDE Study
Thomas Maldonado, MD
The AFX2 Anatomically Fixated Endograft Has Similar Outcomes to Commercially Available Proximally Fixated Endografts: 5-Year Results of the LEOPARD Trial
Christopher Kwolek, MD, MBA
Utility of Sirolimus Drug Eluting Balloons in the Treatment of Complex Below-the-Knee Atherosclerotic Disease in Patients With Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia – 24-Month Results From the PRESTIGE Study
Tjun Tang, MD
The VIVA Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the field of vascular medicine and intervention through education and research, strives to be the premier educator in the field. Our team of specialists in vascular medicine, interventional cardiology, interventional radiology, and vascular surgery is driven by the passion to advance the field and improve patient outcomes. Educational events presented by the VIVA Foundation have a distinct spirit of collegiality attained by synergizing collective talents to promote awareness and innovative therapeutic options for vascular disease worldwide.
To learn more about the VIVA Foundation, visit https://viva-foundation.org/.
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Which Turtle Beach headset is best?
It can be tough to decide on a perfect headset. Not only do you have to compare all the manufacturers, but also different models from each. A good starting point is to look at Turtle Beach’s extensive range.
The American company was founded in 1975 and one of its first products was a graphical editing system. It wasn’t until 2005 that it started to produce gaming headsets, and it quickly grew a loyal following.
Gaming headsets are now its primary focus, and the Turtle Beach Elite Pro 2 + SuperAmp is an excellent choice for any video game player.
What to know before you buy a Turtle Beach headset
Compatibility with your system
Before looking at any other specifications of a Turtle Beach headset, you must ensure that it is compatible with your preferred platform. Headsets that use a 3.5-millimeter cable are usually compatible with computers and gaming consoles. However, Microsoft uses a unique wireless protocol for its Xbox One console. So, a wireless headset that is made for the Xbox won’t always work on Sony’s PlayStation.
Wired vs. wireless
You should also consider if you want a wired headset or a wireless one.
- Wired headsets don’t need recharging and are usually compatible with multiple systems.
- Wireless headsets let you move around without the restriction of wires, and their audio quality is excellent. But they tend to be a bit more expensive than their wired counterparts.
Driver size and audio quality
There is a large variety of Turtle Beach headsets, and not all the audio drivers or sound quality are the same. After you’ve decided on compatibility and connection method, consider the quality of the sounds you need.
If you’re only going to listen to music or watch streaming content, then you probably don’t need a headset with Dolby Atmos or 7.1 surround sound. However, your gaming can greatly benefit from that technology, as stereo audio simply won’t do.
What to look for in a quality Turtle Beach headset
Battery life for wireless headsets
Wired headsets have the advantage of not needing intermittent recharging. So, if you prefer to use a wireless headset, look for one that has good battery life. Most Turtle Beach wireless headsets should get you around 20 hours of playtime, and some even let you charge them while playing.
Detachable or retractable microphone
A microphone is essential when you want to communicate with your online team members. But there might be games that you want to play by yourself and don’t need the mic. A good-quality Turtle Beach headset has a detachable microphone that easily clips off or a retractable mic that stows away.
Comfortable headband and ear cups
When playing games for a few hours, you don’t want the top of your head or ears to hurt. This usually happens if the headband or ear cups are cheaply made. However, a good-quality headset has thick foam padding on the headband to minimize pressure. The ear cups are also foam, and often covered with a breathable fabric to reduce moisture inside your ears.
How much you can expect to spend on a Turtle Beach headset
The price largely depends on the quality of the speakers, the connection method and added functions. An affordable headset costs $40-$50, while a powerful one with a long-lasting battery costs $150-$250.
Turtle Beach headset FAQ
Can you connect a Turtle Beach headset to a TV?
A. Yes, as long as the TV and headset are Bluetooth compatible. It is also possible to connect them through a 3.5-millimeter cable or an optical audio transmitter.
Can you replace the rechargeable batteries in wireless headsets?
A. That depends on the model. If the headset has removable batteries, you can buy extra to replace them when they get old. But since rechargeable batteries have a limited lifespan, your headset will stop working when the built-in batteries malfunction.
What’s the best Turtle Beach headset to buy?
Top Turtle Beach headset
Turtle Beach Elite Pro 2 + SuperAmp
What you need to know: This wired over-ear headset has large 50-millimeter audio drivers with a padded headband.
What you’ll love: Turtle Beach’s Nanoclear speakers are tuned for esports audio quality, providing you with 7.1 surround sound. The headset has a TruSpeak gaming microphone with noise-canceling and the Audio Hub lets you connect your mobile phone.
What you should consider: It’s only compatible with Sony’s PlayStation 4 and 5 gaming consoles.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Turtle Beach headset for the money
Turtle Beach Recon 70 Gaming Headset
What you need to know: The Recon 70 is an affordable over-ear headset that packs a big punch with 40 millimeter audio drivers.
What you’ll love: The high-sensitivity microphone picks up your voice clearly, and it flips up when you need to mute it. The adjustable headband has a small padded section on the inside. It is compatible with Xbox One and PlayStation consoles and mobile devices through the 3.5 millimeter cable.
What you should consider: The ear cups are covered with synthetic leather, which will flake and peel after some time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 2 Wireless Gaming Headset
What you need to know: This headset is optimized for Windows Sonic, Dolby Atmos and DTS Headphone: X sounds on the Xbox One console.
What you’ll love: The generous 50 millimeter speakers rest over your ears through the thick padding on the cups. It has a high-sensitivity gaming microphone that flips up to mute, and the adjustable headband is metal. The headset connects directly to the Xbox One console and the built-in battery should give you about 20 hours of audio time.
What you should consider: While it is fully compatible with the Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, it doesn’t work on Sony’s PlayStation.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Ferrari on Thursday revealed the Roma Spider as the newest convertible in its lineup.
The car takes over from the Portofino M as the brand’s entry-level droptop, and sees the return of a soft-top roof.
Such a solution hasn’t been used on a front-engined Ferrari since the 365 GTS/4 Daytona dating back more than half a century, a car that arguably was the inspiration behind the Roma Spider’s design.
The five-layer fabric roof takes 13.5 seconds to deploy and can be activated at speeds of up to 37 mph. By eschewing the bulkier retractable hardtop used on the Portofino M, Ferrari said it was able to deliver more trunk space with the roof folded. When raised, there’s roughly nine cubic feet of storage. A hatch between the rear seats allows for longer items to be stored.
To accommodate the new roof, the designers modified the design of the Roma coupe by adding a band matching the body color along the base of the roof’s rear section and leading back to the carbon-fiber active spoiler. A deployable wind deflector was also installed behind the rear seats. Without this, wind would normally be drawn into the cabin.
Some chassis modifications were also required to compensate for the lack of a fixed roof. The key change is the addition of reinforced sills similar to those used on the Portofino M. Overall weight is up by about 185 pounds on the Roma coupe, bringing the car’s dry weight to 3,430 pounds.
That weight isn’t exactly light for a convertible sports car, and the quoted figure is with the car’s available lightweight options, but Ferrari makes up for it with a powerful twin-turbo 3.9-liter V-8 under the hood. The engine is the same as the Roma coupe, delivering a peak 612 hp and 561 lb-ft of torque. Drive is routed to the rear wheels via an 8-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission, and Ferrari estimates 0-62 mph acceleration can be achieved in 3.4 seconds. The top speed is claimed to be above 199 mph.
Standard features include 18-way-adjustable heated seats up front, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and digital screens for the instrument cluster and infotainment system. A third screen in front of the passenger can be added. Ferrari’s “manettino” drive mode selector is standard and features five settings including a Race mode.
Ferrari hasn’t mentioned pricing, but the Roma coupe starts at about $250,000 and the convertible will almost certainly sell at a premium.
Timing for the market launch in the U.S. also hasn’t been announced.
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‘Week of senseless shootings’: 16-year-old arrested after Monday night Georgetown shooting
GEORGETOWN, S.C. (WCSC) - Georgetown County Sheriff Carter Weaver is announcing an arrest following a Monday night shooting amid what they call “a week of senseless shootings.”
Deputies say a 16-year-old juvenile has been arrested and charged with shooting another juvenile.
The investigation started after the victim showed up at the hospital.
Sheriff’s office spokesman Jason Lesley said deputies responded to a report of a shooting victim arriving at Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital at approximately 7:30 p.m.
On Tuesday morning, Lesley provided an update on the investigation saying the shooting happened at a home on Savannah Street.
Lesley said the victim was shot in the head and is currently recovering from his wounds.
The 16-year-old charged in connection with this incident will be placed into custody at the Department of Juvenile Justice in Columbia.
The sheriff’s office also made an arrested in an overnight shooting that killed two people.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Paul George scored 40 points to help the Los Angeles Clippers hold off the Sacramento Kings 111-109 on Saturday night.
It marked George's 20th 40-point game of his career and fifth with Los Angeles.
“I know I'm able to be the No. 1 option,” George said. “I'm very aware and very confident in my abilities.”
Sacramento went on an 11-4 run to take a 109-106 lead before George missed a step-back 3-pointer and Nicolas Batum secured an offensive rebound. Norman Powell knocked down both free throws to extend the Kings' lead and De'Aaron Fox hit a 3 at the buzzer for the margin.
“I thought he took his time and got to his spots,” Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said of George. “Down the stretch he really carried us ... he has to be aggressive. (George and Kawhi Leonard) have to play at a high level and produce for us to win games.”
The Clippers (2-0) were missing Leonard and new acquisition John Wall, who were both out because of knee injury management. They traveled with the team to Sacramento and worked out pregame.
Leonard played 21 minutes on Thursday in his first game since he tore a ligament in his right knee in a playoff game in June 2021. Wall appeared in his first NBA game in 18 months after sitting out last season in Houston. Both are expected to play in the Clippers' home opener Sunday.
Reggie Jackson had 14 points for the Clippers, and Ivan Zubac had 10 points and eight rebounds.
Fox had 36 points to lead the Kings and rookie Keegan Murray added 19 in his first NBA game. Kevin Huerter had 18 points hitting five 3-pointers. Domantas Sabonis added 11 points, eight rebounds and six assists.
Mike Brown is still seeking his first win as Kings head coach.
“I thought tonight we completed a little closer to 48 minutes than we did the other night," Brown said. “There’s no moral victories but I thought we did trend this way (points up) tonight.”
KINGS HONOR BROWN
The Kings held a moment of silence before the game for longtime referee Tony Brown, who died Thursday at age 55 from pancreatic cancer. Brown officiated more than 1,100 regular-season games and 35 playoff games.
MURRAY SHINES IN DEBUT
Murray made his NBA debut after sitting out Sacramento’s season-opener on Wednesday.
Murray, the 22-year-old selected fourth overall out of Iowa, checked into the game with 7:28 left in the first quarter to a standing ovation from the home crowd. His 19 points was the third most by a Kings rookie in a season debut.
TIP-INS
Clippers: Los Angeles was called for two delay of game fouls after receiving a warning. Sacramento shot two technical free throws. ... Los Angeles has won 15 of the last 20 matchups against the Kings.
Kings: Sacramento shot 15 for 26 from the free throw line, which led to fans booing in the third… Sacramento is 0-2 for the first time since 2019, when they started the season 0-5. "“As a team, we have to be able to step up there and make free throws,” Fox said. “We know that can win and lose games.”
Fox also scored over 30 in the season opener. He's is just the fourth player in franchise history with 30 points or more in their first two contests of a season.
UP NEXT
Clippers: Host Phoenix on Sunday night in Los Angeles’ home opener.
Kings: At Golden State on Sunday night for Sacramento’s first road game of the season.
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'Heart' and unique promise lead Jay County boys soccer to first sectional title since 2014
MUNCIE, Ind. — In the middle of Jay County's celebratory post-match crowd, out came a pair of scissors.
Head coach Braulio Ruiz made a deal with his boys soccer team at the beginning of the season: the kids could cut his hair if they won a sectional championship.
He admitted he wasn't sure they could do it. The Patriots graduated eight seniors, including Ruiz's son, from last year's solid squad, and he and his players thought 2022 might be a rebuilding year.
Instead, Jay County (9-6-1) earned a triumphant 2-0 sectional final victory over Eastbrook at Delta High School on Saturday, and few have ever been as happy as Ruiz to get a free haircut.
"I made that promise when we started the season because we were so short on numbers ... I only have 11 varsity players. That's it. And then we lost a defender because of a knee injury, and we struggled after," Ruiz said. "They always make comments about my hair and how good it is and its spike ... (I told them), 'If we get a championship, the hair is yours," ... so I had to pay my promise."
Related:"Family" bond carries Muncie Burris girls soccer to historic sectional title season
It was the program's first sectional title in eight years and the sixth in its history. The group overcame self-doubt and four losses in mid-September to play its best soccer at the perfect time.
"(I wasn't sure) we were going to make it. They showed me from game to game that (had) the heart to do it. That's why we achieved," Ruiz said. "They play with all the heart, and I'm proud of them. Short numbers, short team, but with big heart."
Related:Burris boys soccer regroups to win 1st sectional title since 2016
Against Eastbrook, which was coming off a 3-2 semifinal victory over Delta, the Patriots were dominant. Jay County took a 1-0 lead before the crowd fully settled into their seats when sophomore Cayden Buckland scored in the match's first 30 seconds, and his teammates built on that momentum thereafter.
Sophomore Dylan Marentes added another goal about 11 minutes later, providing more than enough of a lead for the Patriots' physical defense to protect.
Leading the back line was senior Josh Dowlen. The defender flew around the pitch all evening, heading a ball seemingly every other minute and never allowing the Panthers a moment of breathing room.
His efforts clearly rattled the opposition as they rarely got into scoring position or put shots on goal. Junior goalkeeper Kaleb Coppock tallied just seven saves.
"The first few (headers hurt) because it was cold. That really was hurting a little bit, but then I started getting warm and I just I knew I had to get it up the field and I knew I could head it pretty far up there," Dowlen said. "I just put all my momentum into it and just kind of went with it."
He said Jay County knew it had to increase its physicality to have a chance to advance. The team didn't win six of its final eight regular season matches, the last of which a 4-0 loss to Oak Hill, but the Patriots decided to reset their mindset before postseason play.
A 5-0 first-round victory over New Castle reinvigorated their confidence, and a gutsy 2-1 win over the arguable sectional favorite, Mississinewa, showed their toughness.
"We knew we were going to have to put up a fight," Dowlen said. "When we were able to shut them out at 5-0, I think that really boosted us into thinking we can actually do this."
Jay County has just one regional title (2008) in its history and has a daunting matchup with Class 2A No. 4 Fort Wayne Canterbury (14-1-3) at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12.
The Patriots will continue trying to be the team that strikes first and brings superior energy. Still, this season is already a success, and Dowlen said this roster is "overjoyed" that they put the program back on top.
"It feels great to cut the drought on the sectional," Ruiz said. "It feels right. That's why I don't mind for them to cut (my hair)."
Gus Martin is a sports reporter at The Star Press. Follow him on Twitter @GusMartin_SP, and contact him at gmartin@gannett.com. | 2022-10-10T21:21:22+00:00 | thestarpress.com | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/10/10/indiana-high-school-soccer-ihsaa-boys-jay-county-wins-first-sectional-since-2014/69547972007/ |
LOS ANGELES, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The historic California law (SB 826) requiring all public companies headquartered in the state to have women members on their boards of directors has been held to be unconstitutional by a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge. After an extensive court trial, despite testimony from witnesses who presented compelling facts and evidence supporting its constitutionality, the judge ruled in favor of a challenge brought by Judicial Watch, a conservative, right-wing organization based in Washington, D.C.
"Supporters, including business and community leaders and women and men of all backgrounds will continue the fight to uphold this law," said former State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, author of SB 826. "The law recognizes that women have been significantly discriminated against for decades as potential candidates for corporate boards of directors. Government officials and agencies, including CalPERS and CalSTRS, the state's powerful institutional investors, have been urging companies for years to open their boardrooms to add women, with little success until SB 826 became law," added Jackson.
According to research by the nonprofit 50/50 Women on Boards™, the law has achieved impressive results. The number of board seats in California held by women has doubled since the law was enacted in 2018. At that point in time, women held only 16% of board seats among California's public companies in the Russell 3000. As a result of the law, as of year-end 2021, women now occupy 32% of those seats which is higher than the national average of 27%.
"Such progress would not have happened without SB 826. However, today among the 522 CA corporations in the Russell 3000, there are still 26% (135) that have failed to comply with the law." said Jackson.
Responding to the trial court judge's decision, Jackson said, "This decision is only a temporary setback for women on boards and represents just the first phase of a long fight ahead. It is a serious mistake to invalidate this historic law which not only corrects generations of discrimination against more than half the population of our state and nation, but also brings major benefits to businesses and the economy overall. We are confident this decision will be appealed by the State of California, and that SB 826 will ultimately prevail in the state's appellate courts."
Amber Wallace, statewide president of the National Association of Women Business Owners-California which sponsored SB 826, indicates that "Women business owners are experts at growing companies and building relationships for business development. We know from the first-hand experience of our members that companies led and managed by women are profitable and productive, which parallels research findings indicating corporate boards benefit from having women directors. We started this campaign ten years ago, and we will continue to educate the business community and the public about the value that women bring to the economy--as business owners and as directors on boards."
"Today, shareholders and consumers have more influence and play a more visible role in corporate board decisions, and there is growing recognition, supported by independent research, that companies with women directors are more profitable, more productive and the workforce more engaged," explains Heather Spilsbury, COO of 50/50 Women on Corporate Boards.
"We at 50/50 Women on Boards are extremely disappointed with this decision challenging SB 826," concludes Spilsbury. "We call upon the business community, along with all women and men, to continue this fight proactively, in the media, in courts and in boardrooms, to ultimately achieve gender-balance and diversity on corporate boards of directors."
About California State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (retired)
Hannah-Beth Jackson, author of SB 826, served in the California legislature for 14 years before leaving office as a member of the State Senate in December 2020, due to term limits.
To reach Sen. Jackson, www.hbjackson.com
About National Association of Women Business Owners-California
NAWBO-California represents the issues and interests of 1.55 Million women business owners in CA across 11 chapters, propelling women business owners into greater economic, social and political spheres of power worldwide. In 2018, NAWBO-CA made history with the passing of Senate Bill 826 that requires the addition of women directors to all publicly-held corporate boards headquartered in California. www.NAWBOCA.org
About 50/50 Women on Boards (50/50WOB)
50/50 Women on Boards™ (50/50WOB) is the leading nonprofit 501(c)3 education and advocacy campaign driving the movement toward gender balance and diversity on corporate boards. For more information, visit www.5050wob.com.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Public health officials are urging appropriate precautions before Thanksgiving to help slow the spread of coronavirus and respiratory viruses.
“COVID is still with us, albeit at a much lower level,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s chief medical adviser, reminded.
He said people should get vaccine booster shots and take a COVID-19 test before gathering for the holiday. He also advised strict adherence to standard hygiene practices amid an unusually aggressive sure in influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, more commonly known as RSV.
“Wash your hands frequently because that virus, RSV, can actually stick on surfaces for a while,” Fauci said.
He added that if you’re visiting someone who is especially vulnerable to infections, a mask remains a helpful tool to slow the spread of disease.
A large number of kids with RSV has pediatric hospitals stretched thin on resources and staff. It can be serious in adults, too.
“I know there’s a lot of talk about RSV in pediatric populations … but I’m attending in the ICU now (and) I have two adults with RSV infections,” Dr. David Hill, a pulmonary and critical care physician in Connecticut, said.
He said hospitals simply can’t afford rapid spikes in patient numbers.
“The combination of three really serious viruses in circulation at a time when people are traveling and gathering together in larger groups is really frightening,” he said. “Our ICUs, we are chronically understaff now. We’re still recovering from the pandemic.”
He said even if you’re nor concerned about yourself, you should think of health care workers and your loved ones.
“You don’t want to give a loved one RSV or the flu,” he said. “Either of those can be very serious.” | 2022-11-17T22:24:19+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/washington-dc/doctors-warn-of-covid-19-rsv-and-flu-ahead-of-thanksgiving/ |
WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, November 21, 2022
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LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
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324 AM EST Sun Nov 20 2022
...LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EST
MONDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy lake effect snow expected. Total snow accumulations
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of 12 to 18 inches with as much as 22 inches around and west of
Camden.
* WHERE...Northern Oneida county.
* WHEN...From 4 AM Sunday to 4 AM EST Monday.
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* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Heavy lake effect snow will begin this
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hours. Rates will decrease this evening as the snow lifts
northward. Snow will quickly accumulate on roadways, making
traveling difficult to impossible. Strong wind gusts will result
in blowing snow and whiteout conditions.
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PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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of 10 to 18 inches north of the NY Thruway...and 2 to 9 inches
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* WHERE...Southern Oneida county.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. Areas of blowing
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* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Heavy lake effect snow will begin early
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later this evening as the snow lifts northward. Snow will
quickly accumulate on roadways, making traveling difficult.
Strong wind gusts will result in blowing snow and whiteout
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...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EST MONDAY...
* WHAT...Lake effect snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 4
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* WHERE...Onondaga and Madison counties.
* WHEN...Until 4 AM EST Monday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult.
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Snow will quickly accumulate on roadways, making traveling
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...A BAND OF HEAVY SNOW WILL AFFECT THE EASTERN LAKE ONTARIO
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This band of heavy snow is producing extremely heavy snow at the rate
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Watertown and areas just to the south through 445 AM, including a
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RICHMOND, BC, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The innovative and world-leading audio brand Edifier has picked up three awards at the prestigious Visual Grand Prix (VGP) 2022 in Japan: the brand new STAX Spirit S3 headphones were both a Gold Award and Special Prize Winner, whilst the NeoBuds Pro earbuds received the Grand Prize.
Known as the "Oscar in the Audio Industry", the Japanese VGP Awards is the largest, most authoritative audio-visual awards in Asia. It is held on an annual-basis by Ongen Publishing Co., ltd., one of the most prominent publishing companies in Japan with an expertise in audio/visual related devices and state-of-art technologies. Launched in 1987, the awards bring together respected reviews from dozens of countries, all to offer an authoritative reference guide for ordinary consumers looking to make informed purchases. The VGPs are often recognized as the highest authority award in Asia's audiovisual industry and mark a significant recognition for Edifier's groundbreaking work in the industry.
"It's always an immense privilege to receive accolades for our products, but receiving awards such as these, from a panel as prestigious as that found at the VGP Awards, is truly rewarding. As a company, we work extremely hard to be at the forefront of the audio-visual industry and our designers, testers and staff are incredibly proud to be recognized for this; especially when it comes from one of the most well-respected awards around," said Stanley Wen, Edifier's CTO.
Amongst the winners was the brand new STAX Spirit S3, Edifier's first premium Hi-Fi headphone designed for audiophiles and the first product in their new STAX Spirit product line – which revives the legendary 'Stax' name whilst achieving absolute audio fidelity suitable for Hi-Fi enthusiasts, music lovers, musicians and producers alike. The NeoBuds Pro similarly marks a significant innovation for Edifier; the buds were one of the first Hi-Res certified earbuds in the world and have garnered a sea of overwhelmingly positive reviews from respected press outlets and influencers.
The VGP awards recognize products that make a difference to the industry through state of the art technology and design; Edifier strives for excellence, pushing the boundaries and leading by innovation to ensure people can enjoy the best premium quality audio for personal entertainment and professional use. After another successful year at the ceremony, Edifier will continue to produce an award-winning range of products.
About Edifier
Edifier specializes in premium sound systems that showcase technological innovation and design elegance, which deliver outstanding audio experiences through a wide range of headphones, speakers and music systems, for personal entertainment and professional excellence. Established in May 1996 in Beijing, China, Edifier is the brainchild of a small group of enterprising music lovers. Guided by the principle "a passion for sound" over the past two decades, Edifier has emerged as a world-class designer and manufacturer of award-winning sound systems. Today, Edifier serves music lovers worldwide through their distributors in over 70 countries, with operations in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions.
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Most of us do not think too much about how our cellphones work. That is, as long as they work.
But a bustling, beeping exhibi0tion that opened in June at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History teaches visitors all about the earth science that helps power our smartphones.
At Cellphone: Unseen Connections, kids dance in front of giant screens that turn them into child-sized emoticons and smash buttons on displays that explain how touchscreens respond. (Largely through a combination of electric charges inside our bodies and a mineral called iridium.)
"I just like electronics. I like mobile devices and PCs. I like learning about them," says 10-year-old Nimay Kallu. He's visiting from Virginia. Kallu was surprised to discover that some of what he thought he knew about cellphones was wrong. "We learned about how wireless networks aren't actually wireless," he says, still slightly taken aback.
"There's all these important wires that make a wireless network work," agrees exhibit writer and editor Laura Donnelly-Smith. Explaining infrastructure, spectrum, transmitters and frequencies to people of all ages seems daunting. But the secret, she says, is to marvel at how someone in Chicago can call someone in Madagascar.
"Light pulses!" she says. "Data travels in light pulses along fiber optic cables. It travels almost at the speed of light."
Immersed in the exhibit, Nimay Kallu immediately understands. "Light can travel seven and a half times around the world in one second!" he announces. "That's why you can't hear delays on your phone calls."
Cellphone: Unseen Connections is grounded, literally, in the earth, says curator and cultural anthropologist Joshua Bell.
"Here we have 55 mineral specimens, out of which are derived from the 65 elements that make your smartphone what they are," Bell says, gesturing towards a glass case filled with copper, potassium, quartz and tungsten.
Some of them may have been wrested from the earth by child laborers.
"We could not not talk about things like conflict minerals," Bell says. Still, the exhibit skates lightly over the violence and suffering that accompanies those extractions. Instead, it introduces visitors to a pair of artisan miners through photographs and stories. The point, Bell says, is to humanize the bottom of the supply chain. It's about bringing people in, not turning them off. It must be noted that Cellphone: Unseen Connections was funded in part by T-Mobile and by Qualcomm, a company that manufactures cellphone parts.
"Until we live in a country that funds science, this is what we have to do," Bell says. Smithsonian oversight, he says, determined that the show's corporate sponsors had little say in the final presentation.
Other metaphorical lightning rods in Cellphone: Unseen Connections? Try a (non-working) 5G tower in the middle of the exhibition. "We wanted to get into the Gs," Bell says. That might demystify the much-hyped technology for visitors wandering from the National Mall, including a reporter clueless about what the "G" in 5G stood for.
"I didn't even know that 'G' stood for 'generation,' I confessed to Laura Donnelly-Smith. "Most of our visitors don't," she responded. "It's important to talk about how this tech evolved."
And, she added, how it's evolving during grave environmental concerns.
"The exhibit explicitly says the most sustainable cellphone is the one you already own," Bell points out as he walks past a gleaming silver spiral made of obsolete cellphones. It's in a section of Cellphone: Unseen Connections dedicated to reusing and repairing. Exhibit writer Laura Donnelly-Smith reads from a wall text: "If everyone in America uses their phone a year longer on average, it would equal the emission reduction of taking 636,000 gasoline-powered cars off the road."
Ten-year-old visitor Nimay Kallu is on top of this already. "I use my dad's old phone," he says. "It's not technically mine."
One day, Kallu will have his own phone. And the way it will work — maybe using 10G or 30G towers? — is difficult to imagine.
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A federal affidavit unsealed earlier this week alleges that the executive director of the San Jose police union imported at least 61 shipments of illegal opioids into the U.S. over an eight-year period and used her status as a top police union official to help facilitate an international drug ring.
Authorities say that between 2015 and 2023, Joanne Marian Segovia, the 64-year-old director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association, used her home and office computers, as well as phone encrypted messaging system WhatsApp, to order thousands of pills, including Zolpidem, Tapentadol and Tramadol, to her Northern California home. The packages, imported from Canada, Spain, China, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Hungary, India and Singapore, were mailed to Segovia's home with labels that marked them as wedding gifts and food supplements, among other things.
Federal officials say they discovered Segovia's alleged involvement with illegally shipping drugs into the U.S. while investigating a network of people importing illicit drugs into the Bay Area. She has since been charged with attempting to unlawfully import valeryl fentanyl, a version of the drug that's considered less lethal than its more well-known counterpart, butyrfentanyl. If convicted, she could face multiple years in prison.
Authorities say they first interviewed Segovia about her alleged involvement in trafficking illegal drugs in February, after U.S. Customs and Border Protection records revealed that agents had seized thousands of opioid pills destined for her home. A review of older records showed that dozens of shipments had been sent to Segovia's address since 2015. In her interview with U.S. Homeland Security agents, Segovia claimed to "work for the police department" and said she had only ordered supplements over the internet. She allegedly said she didn't know why her name and address were found in the phone of a suspected drug trafficker and refused to let agents review her CashApp transactions.
Earlier this month, Segovia allegedly reached out to one of the agents who interviewed her in February and said she wanted to help with the department's investigation. In a second interview, on March 14, officials say Segovia insisted she had nothing to do with the shipments and blamed them on a woman she identified as a family friend and housekeeper. Segovia allegedly claimed the woman has a substance abuse disorder and said the idea that the housekeeper was responsible for the shipments went off "like a light bulb" after the February interview.
Segovia eventually consented to a search of her phone, officials say. The search revealed a string of messages between Segovia and a phone number with an Indian area code across a three-year period. The conversation, the affidavit shows, included hundreds of messages with repeated references to pills and details about payments and shipping. It also included hundreds of images depicting pills, shipping labels and payment receipts.
The affidavit contains a notable exchange in April 2021, in which Segovia was apparently directed to ship a package of pills to a woman in North Carolina. A picture of the shipping receipt on the package showed that the return address was listed as the building that houses the San Jose Police Officers’ Association. The messages also showed that Segovia often discussed her work with the person using the phone with the Indian area code, including one instance in which she apologized for her lateness in shipping a package because two police officers had been shot.
Federal officials also say that Segovia's activity appeared to continue even after she had been interviewed by agents in February. On March 15, an agent was notified that a package destined for Segovia's home was seized in Kentucky. The label on the package said it contained a clock, and inside, authorities found a disassembled clock kit containing adhesive patches covered in valeryl fentanyl.
Calls from SFGATE to the San Jose Police Officers’ Association went unanswered, but a spokesperson for the union sent a statement to The San Francisco Standard.
“No one at the POA is involved or had prior knowledge of the alleged acts,” the statement said. “The POA immediately placed the civilian employee on leave and as is standard procedure cut off all access to the POA. The board of directors is saddened and disappointed at hearing this news, and we have pledged to provide our full support to the investigative authorities.” | 2023-03-30T20:02:19+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/details-in-case-against-san-jose-police-union-exec-17869167.php |
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South Dakota residents are celebrating today after an independent panel voted to keep open a key military base. Ellsworth Air Force Base is home to half the nation's B-1 bombers and it's the second largest employer in South Dakota. The panel's decision is a major victory for the state's political leaders, including Republican Senator John Thune. He joins me now on the line.
Good morning.
Senator JOHN THUNE (Republican, South Dakota): Good morning, Renee.
MONTAGNE: This decision must be quite a relief for you.
Sen. THUNE: We--everybody in South Dakota was breathing a sigh of relief. For those of us that were in the room were especially just breathing a sigh of relief because it's been a very stressful three days or so since they started these deliberations. We've been waiting for our base to come up on their agenda and today it did. They had a very thoughtful discussion about it. In the end we got a very strong vote in favor of taking the base off the closure list, so we're thrilled with that outcome. And it was the result of a lot of good hard work and teamwork--the good people of South Dakota who stepped up on this, and I think, frankly, the merits of Ellsworth Air Force Base.
MONTAGNE: Well, what arguments, in fact, did seem to persuade the commission to reject the Pentagon's recommendation that Ellsworth be closed?
Sen. THUNE: Well, I think, that the commission took a very--what I appreciate--was independent, thoughtful, open-minded approach about this. Not just coming in and saying we're going to rubber stamp the Pentagon's recommendations, but listened to many of the arguments that were made. And, I think, ultimately there were a couple of issues that were pretty compelling; one was cost. They were looking at savings and it became clear that many of the savings that had been attributed to closure of Ellsworth Air Force Base were, in fact, dramatically overstated. And this morning in their presentation they even made it clear that it might cost money to consolidate to a single base rather than to continue to keep the two bases open. So I think that was a key argument and that was something that we really sharpened our pencils on in the last few weeks and tried to get that information in front of this commission, and I think they were listening to those arguments.
MONTAGNE: And then another argument you made--I just wonder kind of yes or no--if you think it persuaded them, the idea was not to put all the B-1 bombers in one place, which was going to be Dyess Air Force Base down in Texas.
Sen. THUNE: That was part of our strategy from the beginning. We made a decision that--making the argument against consolidation was perhaps our strongest argument, that, in fact, it presented an inherent security risk to have all of your assets in one place. And then we got some pretty compelling testimony from a retired four-star general, Mike Lowe, who also spoke about how that also creates operational inefficiencies. So, I think, the consolidation argument and the notion of putting your eggs in one basket really was somewhat persuasive with a number of these commissioners, as well.
MONTAGNE: Senator Thune, in last year's campaign--part of your appeal to voters was that you, as a Republican, would have the ear of the White House when it came to keeping Ellsworth off the closure list and then the base ended up on the Pentagon's list to be closed. In the end, what part did politics play in now keeping Ellsworth open?
Sen. THUNE: Well, the nice thing about this decision today, and this victory for South Dakota and for the country, is that it wasn't about politics. This was a decision that was based upon the merits of--and the military value of Ellsworth Air Force Base and its importance to our national security. And, so, at the end of the day, yes, there was a lot of discussion about how politics might play into this. But, clearly, we, as a delegation--Senator Johnson; myself; Congresswoman Herseth; our governor, Mike Rounds--put politics aside, worked very closely together over the past three months, and made, what I think, were very compelling arguments in front of this commission, and, ultimately, persuaded enough of them that this was a bad decision by the Pentagon.
MONTAGNE: Well, do you think--just for you, personally, does it help make your political future more bright?
Sen. THUNE: Well, you know, I've said all along, Renee, that this isn't about me, it's about--this has enormous consequence for South Dakota. I am happy that we got the outcome that we did. I think the politics always sort of takes care of itself but this really wasn't about that. This was about, I think, again, doing not only what is in the best interest of the people of South Dakota, but the people of the country. And I think what this commission accepted today, that South Dakota needs Ellsworth Air Force Base, obviously, but so does America.
MONTAGNE: Senator Thune, thanks very much.
Sen. THUNE: Thanks, Renee.
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Amazon is planning to sublease some of its warehouse space now that the pandemic-fueled surge in online shopping, which helped the e-commerce giant rake in soaring profits in the past two years, has eased.
Subleasing allows the company to “relieve the financial obligations associated with an existing building that no longer meets” its needs, Amazon spokesperson Alisa Carroll said.
Carroll didn’t disclose how much space the company plans to sublet. But citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that the retailer would sublease at least 10 million square feet of space and could end more of its leases in states including New York, New Jersey and California.
Seattle-based Amazon doubled the size of its operations during the pandemic, adding more warehouses and workers to keep up with demand from homebound consumers who felt more comfortable buying things online. But as the worst of the pandemic eased, it found itself with too much warehouse space and too many workers.
“Subleasing is something many established corporations do to help manage their real estate portfolio,” Carroll said.
Last month, the company reported its first quarterly loss since 2015, fueled by the e-commerce slowdown and a massive write-down of its investment in the electric-vehicle startup Rivian Automotive. In a statement released last month with its earnings results, CEO Andy Jassy said the company was now focused on improving productivity. | 2022-05-24T00:28:46+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/05/23/news/amazon-to-sublease-warehouses-as-online-shopping-slows/ |
A clown came to Marlene Warren's door on a May morning in 1990, handed her carnations and balloons and then shot her dead in front of her son. On Tuesday, her husband's alleged mistress and future wife finally pleaded guilty to being the killer — even though she still insists she is not — closing a case that is strange even by Florida standards.
Sheila Keen-Warren, 59, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a deal that will likely see her released from prison within a year. Long suspected of being the shooter, Keen-Warren has been jailed awaiting trial for first-degree murder since 2017, when Palm Beach County sheriff's investigators said improvements in DNA technology proved that a hair found in the clown's getaway car came from her.
Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg said in a statement that the plea deal “obtained a measure of justice” for Marlene Warren and her son. No public notice was given for Tuesday's plea hearing in West Palm Beach, which otherwise would have drawn a throng of reporters and spectators. Instead, it was handled quietly during Circuit Judge Scott Suskauer’s lunch break from another murder trial.
“Sheila Keen Warren has finally been forced to admit that she was the one who dressed as a clown and took the life of an innocent victim. She will be a convicted murderer for the rest of her days,” Aronberg said.
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Her attorney, Greg Rosenfeld, told The Associated Press in a phone interview that “this is an incredible win for Ms. Keen-Warren," still insisting she is not the killer.
The deal calls for a 12-year sentence, but Keen-Warren has already served six years awaiting trial. Also, Florida law in 1990 allowed significant time off for good behavior, so Rosenfeld expects her to be released early next year. Her trial was set to start next month, and if convicted she would have received a life sentence. Originally, prosecutors sought a death sentence but eventually dropped that.
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“The State of Florida originally wanted to execute her, but now she is going home in 10 months," Rosenfeld said. “While it was difficult to plead guilty to a crime she did not commit, it was kind of a no-brainer when there is a guarantee that you will be home with your family.”
Aronberg's office disputes Rosenfeld's claim, saying she will be in prison at least two more years.
Marlene Warren's son, Joseph Ahrens, watched the proceeding online. Only 21 when he saw his mother murdered and now in his 50s, his only message to the court and Keen-Warren was, may God be with her.
At the time of the shooting, Keen-Warren was an employee of Marlene Warren’s husband, Michael, at his used car lot. Since 2002, she has been his wife — they eventually moved to Abington, Virginia, where they ran a restaurant just across the Tennessee border.
Witnesses had told investigators in 1990 that then-Sheila Keen and Michael Warren were having an affair, though both denied it.
Over the years, detectives said, costume shop employees identified Sheila Warren as the woman who had bought a clown suit a few days before the killing.
And one of the two balloons — a silver one that read, “You’re the Greatest” — was sold at only one store, a Publix supermarket near her home. Employees told detectives a woman who looked like Keen-Warren had bought the balloons an hour before the shooting.
The presumed getaway car was found abandoned with orange, hair-like fibers inside. The white Chrysler convertible had been reported stolen from Michael Warren’s car lot a month before the shooting. Keen-Warren and her then-husband repossessed cars for him.
Relatives told The Palm Beach Post in 2000 that Marlene Warren, who was 40 when she died, suspected her husband was having an affair and wanted to leave him. But the car lot and other properties were in her name, and she feared what might happen if she did.
She allegedly told her mother, “If anything happens to me, Mike done it.” He has never been charged and has denied involvement.
But Rosenfeld said the state's case was falling apart. One DNA sample somehow showed both male and female genes, and the other could have come from one out of every 20 women — even Marlene Warren, he said.
And even if that hair did come from Keen-Warren, it could have been deposited before the car was reported stolen. He said Ahrens and another witness also told detectives that the car deputies found wasn't the killer's, though investigators insisted it was.
Aronberg, in his statement, conceded that there were holes in the case, saying they were caused by the three decades it took to get it to trial, including the death of key witnesses.
Michael Warren was convicted in 1994 of grand theft, racketeering and odometer tampering. He served almost four years in prison — a punishment his then-attorneys said was disproportionately long because of suspicions he was involved in his wife's death.
Michael Warren did not return a call Tuesday seeking comment. | 2023-04-25T21:09:38+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/south-florida-woman-pleads-guilty-in-1990-killer-clown-murder/3126883/ |
Talentcare and Energage Partner to Improve Client's Hiring Results
AUSTIN, Texas, and EXTON, Pa., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Talentcare, LLC, the leading platform of solutions to make hiring and retention easy, and Energage, a technology company that empowers workplace excellence and the organization behind the Top Workplaces awards, today announced partnership to improve hiring results for mutual clients by showcasing them as an employer of choice and protecting their reputation online.
"People don't buy a sweater without looking at reviews, so it comes as no surprise that 86% of job seekers read employer reviews and ratings before submitting an application," said Eric Smith, CEO of Talentcare. "A good and well-managed reputation is essential for converting job seekers into hires. Those employers with positive scores and ratings, and who demonstrate they are an engaged employer win more hires."
Top Workplaces nationwide recognition program from Energage starts with a free employer nomination and survey and is a powerful way for companies to stand out in this highly competitive job market. Used in concert with Talentcare's Reputation Management solution, clients not only become an employer of choice, but also build upon and protect their employer reputation on top job search sites.
"For well over a decade, the Top Workplaces award has helped organizations stand out among their competitors to attract talent," said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. "This differentiation is more important than ever in today's tight labor market. No longer is recognition simply a much-deserved cause for celebration, but it's fast becoming mission-critical for recruitment and retention."
Talentcare's Reputation Management solution improves employer reputation, and boosts recruiting results by proactively and professionally responding to reviews, turns employees into evangelists with review campaigns, and manages reputation at scale across all company locations on top job boards.
"Millennial and Gen Z workers want to know their input is valued – and your proactiveness (or lack thereof) on online employer reputation platforms is their crystal ball," commented Elle Aldridge, COO of Talentcare. "Like in consumer marketing, those most likely to leave online reviews are the dissatisfied. But, four out of five job seekers say their perception of a company improves when an employer responds to reviews (Glassdoor.com US Site Survey, Nov 2019). It's an essential piece of the puzzle in their decision as to whether your company is a right fit for them."
Employers seeking to create a competitive advantage in their recruiting and hiring efforts are invited to nominate their workplace for the Top Workplace Awards and connect with Talentcare to request a personalized demonstration of the reputation management solution.
Mid-market companies and entrepreneurs trust Talentcare to ensure their growth and profit are never constrained by talent. Thousands of companies use Talentcare's platform of solutions to make hiring and retention of their frontline workforce easy. As a result, clients attract more of the right job candidates, become the employer of choice, and hire loyal, high-performing employees.
Born in Austin, Texas, Talentcare has a habit of listening to its clients and enhances value through a curated partner ecosystem of talent solutions and integrations. Discover the Talentcare difference at Talentcare.com.
Energage is a purpose-driven company that helps organizations turn employee feedback into useful business intelligence and credible employer recognition through Top Workplaces. Built on 16 years of culture research and the results from 27 million employees surveyed across more than 70,000 organizations, Energage delivers the most accurate competitive benchmark available. With access to a unique combination of patented analytic tools and expert guidance, Energage customers lead the competition with an engaged workforce and an opportunity to gain recognition for their people-first approach to culture. For more information or to nominate your organization, visit energage.com or topworkplaces.com.
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General Daily Insight for July 9, 2023
A quick decision isn't always the right decision. While rash Mars struggles with transformative Pluto, we'll struggle with the desire to leap before we look. This can be a rocky start to any plans, but communicative Mercury later trines with dreamy Neptune at 7:57 pm EDT to smooth over all the harsh edges. Plus, the emotional Moon's disagreement with the self-focused Sun should allow us to rethink any risky ideas and mull over the other options. Let's think before we jump in with both feet.
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Aries
March 21-April 19
Rebellious instincts can take you down the wrong path today. You might be told to do something that you don't particularly want to do, even though it will ultimately benefit you, but it's probably tedious or outside of your comfort zone. You could be able to get through it with the help of a friend, or even just calling someone on the phone to pass the time while you trudge through any unpleasant tasks. Whistling while you work can smooth the toughest of paths.
Taurus
April 20-May 20
Emotional decision-making may drive you somewhere other than your ideal destination. You might have plans to go somewhere and have fun, but anxiety can make it seem like you shouldn't even try to make it to your destination. Don't let insecurity rule your life! No matter how many excuses the nervous parts of your brain generate, your worries shouldn't be deciding everything for you. Picture your plans having the best possible outcome -- with the planets on your side, you can make them come true.
Gemini
May 21-June 20
Thoughtfulness can encourage you to make the wisest decision. You might have someone in your life who is constantly asking you to make an investment or seize a business opportunity with them, one that you're not quite sure about. Their intense persistence can be hard to outlast, but deep down, you possibly sense that this connection isn't right for you in the long run. Stand your ground and insist on more time and space to make a decision, or the answer is no.
Cancer
June 21-July 22
Someone may currently be demanding for your commitment. You might not be sure if you're willing to volunteer your time and energy for someone else's cause, but their powers of persuasion will potentially have your stance wavering back and forth. It could be for a charity or a benefit, but you may have prior commitments that you would be leaving in the dust if you were to agree. Know what you have space for in your schedule -- and don't promise what you can't deliver.
Leo
July 23-August 22
Getting in over your head can happen before you know it. You might want to be everywhere for everyone, but you only have so many hours in a day. It's easy to get exhausted trying to be in everyone's corner at once. Know what you realistically can do, because you might be a multitasking superstar, but that doesn't mean that you have endless energy to juggle all the different people you care for. You don't have to be a superhero, just a friend.
Virgo
August 23-September 22
Instinctive reactions might presently be more dramatic than the situation requires. You could be rushed, confused, or more emotional than normal, and someone may inconvenience or offend you without meaning to. Be wary of lashing out at them without taking the time to think about the situation -- try not to assume that they have negative intentions, as it's unlikely that they really meant to hurt you. Understanding where they're coming from and being slow to anger can let you both avoid any misunderstandings.
Libra
September 23-October 22
Peer pressure could be pushing you in a direction you don't want to go. The people around you might all be recommending some high-tech gadget or a hot TV show that's not really for you, but it's hard to avoid the craze surrounding each trend. You may feel like you should partake just so that you're with the crowd, but it could be expensive or time-consuming -- especially for something you don't really want. It's okay not to follow every fad that comes along.
Scorpio
October 23-November 21
Speaking out of turn can have repercussions. No matter how difficult it is to control your response when you're incensed by a statement that someone in authority is making, be logical -- especially if they're in charge of you. Staying calm may feel like you're betraying yourself, but it probably is the wisest decision, regardless of how passionate you are about whatever they've said. Even though you might be heated inside, search for a way to express yourself without starting an all-out argument.
Sagittarius
November 22-December 21
Moving on isn't easy. You may need to release a person or a place in your life that was quite significant to you, and whether you're leaving or have already left, letting go is likely harder than you expected. You might want to do something impulsively so that these feelings have somewhere to go, but before you give yourself an emotional haircut, channel your heart into something less permanent. Consider writing things out in a journal or venting to a friend.
Capricorn
December 22-January 19
Sharing information may not be your best current option. It's possible that you're harboring a secret, your own or another's, and it could be burning inside of you, just begging to burst out. It might be that you are struggling to not tell someone because the content affects them, or you may just want to get this off of your chest so that you're not holding onto it any longer. Give it a day -- see if you still want to share with them tomorrow.
Aquarius
January 20-February 18
You may need to take back control today. A peer might be taking up a lot of your time and energy without you realizing -- perhaps they're encouraging or making decisions that aren't in your best interest. They could be encouraging you to ignore your positive habits or indulge in negative behaviors with them, which can lead you down a road that you'd really prefer not to follow in the long run. Let them know that you'll be making your own choices.
Pisces
February 19-March 20
Jealous friends or acquaintances might be trying to guide you off of your best path. Someone in your midst could be envious of you or unhappy with the advancements that you've made in your life, and they may then try to dissuade you from pursuing your happiness. They could give you advice that feels unnatural to you, or suggest that what you're doing isn't good or sustainable. Instead of letting them dictate your success, question why they aren't focused on their own happiness. | 2023-07-09T06:24:32+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/horoscopes/sns-daily-horoscopes-07092023-20230709-oa6ikymn3rgurgkxtitveqkyhy-story.html |
Homewood-Flossmoor’s Dillon Head tries not to think too much about this summer’s MLB draft and the big decision he will likely have to make between signing or going to Clemson.
But as the senior outfielder continues to skyrocket up various prospect rankings and sees himself mentioned as a first-round pick, it’s hard not to imagine what the future could be.
“It’s definitely exciting,” Head said. “From looking at the TV when I was a kid and dreaming I was a big leaguer, and now seeing me get closer to achieving that dream. I’m not too caught up in it, though.
“Whether I go to college or to pro ball out of high school, I see myself getting there to the big leagues one day either way. I’m not too stressed about it.”
For now, Head — who is ranked as the No. 1 player in Illinois for the 2023 class by Prep Baseball Report — is focused squarely on finishing his high school career in style.
After hitting a whopping .467 last season and breaking program records with 57 hits and 35 stolen bases, Head is confident he’s even better now.
“Even though it’s senior year, I feel the least amount of pressure this year,” Head said. “I feel like I’ve been able to slow the game down more with all the work I’ve put in.
“All the hard stuff was over the offseason. Now I can let loose and have fun.”
Head said he’s now having more fun playing baseball than ever before. Growing up, he sometimes enjoyed himself more on the football field.
But when he was a sophomore, the football season got moved to the spring because of the pandemic. Knowing baseball was his future, he made the tough choice to give up football for good.
“I really loved football — I’d probably say even more than baseball at one point,” Head said. “When I stopped playing and got to focus strictly on baseball, my love for baseball grew even more.
“I saw how much better I could get just focusing on baseball.”
Fellow senior Jason Ballard has spent many games playing in the outfield with Head, getting an up-close view of the show Head can put on.
“He does everything right on the field,” Ballard said. “There’s just nothing he can’t do. He’s amazing to watch in the field. He’s always coming through in big situations at the plate.
“In the dugout, he’s always a team guy and he’s cheering everyone on whether he’s 3-for-3 or 0-for-3.”
That team-first attitude feeds off on everyone else.
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“He’s a tremendous leader,” H-F coach John McCarthy said of Head. “He sets the tone with his hustle and attitude on a day-by-day basis. He’s a carefree, loose, hard-nosed player.
“He’s kept everything team-focused. When you make it about the team, you put less pressure on yourself.”
Head, who was originally committed to Michigan, switched his pledge to Clemson after coach Erik Bakich left the Wolverines to become the Tigers’ coach.
The last several months have been a whirlwind for Head. In addition to the change in college plans, he has traveled all over the country participating in various All-Star games and MLB-sponsored events.
Highlights included games at Dodger Stadium and Chase Field, the home of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Those are places Head plans to return to someday.
“I love the experience of being on the field, touching the dirt and the grass and telling myself that I’m going to be back there one day in a big league jersey,” he said. “It’s definitely motivating and inspiring.”
Steve Millar is a freelance reporter for the Daily Southtown. | 2023-03-15T16:35:07+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/sports/ct-sta-bas-hf-head-st-0316-20230315-qf3ohdpiafep7k5hypeakhjys4-story.html |
WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, October 4, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
756 PM CDT Tue Oct 4 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of western Texas, including the following
county, Ward.
* WHEN...Until 1100 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 756 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 0.5 and 1.5 inches of
rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Monahans, Thorntonville, Pyote, Wickett and Roy Hurd Memorial
Airport.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U-Haul sent a letter ("Data Breach Letter") to consumers stating, "We detected a compromise of two unique passwords that were used to access a customer contract search tool that allows access to rental contracts for U-Haul customers." U-Haul claims "The search tool cannot access payment card information; no credit card information was accessed or acquired." U-Haul states it "promptly changed the passwords," and "cybersecurity experts were retained."
U-Haul claims its investigation determined "an unauthorized person accessed the customer control search tool and some customer contracts." U-Haul did not say when it first "detected a compromise of the two unique passwords." It did claim that "On August 1, 2022, our investigation determined some rental contracts were accessed between November 5, 2021, and April 5, 2022." U-Haul completed its investigation on September 7, 2022, and determined the "accessed information" included "your name and driver's license or state identification number."
U-Haul's parent company, AMERCO, is publicly traded, and U-Haul generated around $4 billion in revenue in 2021. It is the 3rd largest self-storage operator in North America, and it has 19,500 employees, 128,000 trucks, and 46,000 towing devices.
The data of over 2.2 million individuals was compromised by this data breach. If you received a data breach letter from U-Haul, you were impacted by the data breach.
WHAT INFORMATION IS INVOLVED?
According to U-Haul, the following information was exposed:
- Name
- Driver's License Number
- State Identification Number
This information is called your Personally Identifiable Information ("PII"). It tells others about you and is considered part of your identity. Businesses are required to secure this information or risk facing statutory penalties, among other legal penalties. Stolen PII can be used by identity thieves to engage in fraudulent activity using your identity.
U-Haul is offering free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Equifax for one year. The best way to protect yourself after a data breach is to sign up for credit and identity protection services as soon as possible. California offers extra protections and legal rights to its residents through the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA").
NOTICE: If you received a NOTICE OF DATA BREACH letter from U-Haul, contact the Arnold Law Firm at (916) 777-7777 to discuss your legal options.
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I was in Medford when news broke that the EO Media Group was starting a new newspaper to replace the Mail Tribune that had recently gone out of business. I was there to attend an informal Medford High School class reunion that was organized more than two years after the original was canceled because of the pandemic. Most of the conversations naturally concerned the past. But while driving around my old stomping grounds for two days, several local stories of statewide and even national interest jumped out to me.
In fact, it had been hard to imagine the Medford area without the Mail Tribune. My parents subscribed and it was always the house when I was growing up. I graduated from reading the comics and TV listings to the news stories and editorials as the years went by. The paper’s politics were more moderate than Southern Oregon’s reputation. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for investigating corrupt Jackson County official. And it always endorsed my father, a Democrat, when he ram three successful campaigns for the Oregon House, helping him establish the base to help him become one of the few politicians outside the Willamette Valley to be elected to statewide office, State Treasurer and Attorney General.
The new owners have announced the new paper will be called The Tribune. It will launch soon as a website and then a print publication three times a week. They are already planning to cover the basics, including high school sports, community events, things like weddings and anniversaries. They are talking about partnering with the existing online nonprofit Ashland News as part of their regional coverage. And they plan on doing major stories that might otherwise be ignored.
Here are a few of my suggestions, based on my quick trip there. Some are informed by their contrast with they way things are in the Portland region:
Alameda Drive Fire recovery: The Alameda Drive Fire that erupted on Sept. 8, 2020, was the most destructive wildfire in Oregon history. Driven by winds of up to 45 miles per hour after a long, hot summer, it roared through nine miles between Medford and Ashland. The fire consumed 3,200 acres and destroyed approximately 2,800 homes, wiping out much of the small cities of Talent and Phoenix. Miraculously, only three people were killed.
The scars were still visible when I drove along Oregon Route 99. Most trees in the former greenway were blackened trunks. Two hotels were nothing but fire-tinged former neon signs. Rumble from demolished structures were piled up on empty lots.
But remarkably, signs of recovery were everywhere. All styles of housing are already in place or under construction on properties on both sides of the road. They include large lots with utilities for RVs and campers, blocks of manufactured homes, pockets of small starter homes, and developments with larger homes that would fit in at any of of Portland’s suburbs. The most affordable options probably can’t be built anywhere in the metro region because of the high costs of land, permit fees and system development charges. But they’re making them all work there.
Downtown Medford redevelopment: I’d visited Medford several time over the past 20 years and had always been struck by how the downtown seemed frozen in the past, and not in a good way. A series of new shopping centers built on the edges of town seemed to have lured all of the shoppers away.
But on this trip, downtown was coming back to life. A number of new multi-story apartment buildings had been built and at least one more was under construction. There were fewer empty storefront than I remembered. Even the original Medford Shopping Center a short walk away had been remodeled.
Lack of visible homeless: One of the last stories posted my the Mail Tribune was about a community needs assessment that said high housing costs were contributing to homelessness, just like in Portland. That may be true, but in two days of driving throughout the area, I only saw about a half dozen homeless people and four tents — fewer than a single block in Old Town. I don’t know if there are just that many fewer homeless people in the Medford area or if local social service agencies are doing something right, but it’s worth looking into.
Replica Victorian Jacksonville neighborhood: Jacksonville is a preserved Wild West town outside of Medford that is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. And since my last visit, someone has built an entire adjacent neighborhood of incredibly realistic faux Victorian-era houses. Dozens of them line several streets, looking for all the world like an ornate movie set. Maybe neighborhoods like this have been built in other places, but I’d like to know who developed this one, who lives there and why, and whether they wear Victorian-era clothes at home.
I’m sure there are many other stories to be covered in Medford and the surrounding area. And I’m glad they will be now, thanks to the EO Media Group and its new Tribune.
“I am a community journalist because that is where the greatest need is. There are many sources of information and opinion about international and national issues. But most people are more affected by what happens in their local communities. That is where they live, work and shop. That is where their children go to school. That is where their elected officials, business owners and labor leaders are most accessible. And that is why people need the most current information what is happening — or, more importantly, what is going to happen — in their communities.
Providing accurate and up-to-date information that people need to make well-informed decisions on the issues they care about is what community journalism is all about.” | 2023-01-24T05:07:50+00:00 | portlandtribune.com | https://www.portlandtribune.com/opinion/my-view-thanks-for-the-new-hometown-newspaper/article_d6c2550c-9b43-11ed-9bab-9f25be7c39e3.html |
DENVER, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewRay, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRAY) announced today that the Company will present at the Stifel 2022 Healthcare Conference. Scott Drake, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Zach Stassen, Chief Financial Officer, will participate in a fireside chat at 2:25 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, November 15, 2022.
An audio webcast of the Company's presentation will be available on the investor relations section of ViewRay's website at https://investors.viewray.com/events-and-webinars. A replay of the webcast will be available for 7 days after the date of the presentation.
ViewRay, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRAY), designs, manufactures, and markets the MRIdian® MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy System. MRIdian is built upon a proprietary high-definition MR imaging system designed from the ground up to address the unique challenges and clinical workflow for advanced radiation oncology. Unlike MR systems used in diagnostic radiology, MRIdian's high-definition MR was purpose-built to address specific challenges, including beam distortion, skin toxicity, and other concerns that potentially may arise when high magnetic fields interact with radiation beams. ViewRay and MRIdian are registered trademarks of ViewRay, Inc.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Explosions rattled Kyiv during daylight Monday as Russian ballistic missiles took aim at the Ukrainian capital, hours after a more common nighttime barrage of the city by drones and cruise missiles.
Russian forces fired 11 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv at about 11:30 a.m. (0830 GMT; 4:30 a.m. EDT), according to Ukraine’s chief of staff, Valerii Zaluzhnyi. All of them were shot down, he said, and puffs of white smoke could be seen in the blue sky over the city from street level.
Debris from the intercepted missiles fell in Kyiv’s central and northern districts during the morning, landing in the middle of traffic on a city road and also starting a fire on a building’s roof, the Kyiv military administration said. At least one civilian was reported hurt.
The blasts unnerved some locals, already under strain after being awakened by the night attack.
“After what happened last night, I react sharply to every siren now. I was terrified, and I’m still trembling,” shared Alina Ksenofontova, a 50-year-old woman who took refuge in the Kyiv subway with her dog Bublik.
The central station, Tetatralna, was crowded with sheltering locals.
Artem Zhyla, a 24-year-old who provides legal services abroad, took his laptop with him and kept working underground.
“I heard two or three explosions, went to the bathroom, and then I heard five or seven more explosions. That’s when I realized something terrible was happening,” he said.
Like many others in the capital, he feels exhausted and stressed. However, he has no intentions of giving up and plans to attend his yoga class to recharge.
“This is certainly not enough to break us,” he said.
Russia used Iskander short-range missiles in the morning attack, the spokesman for Ukraine’s air force said on local television.
The missiles were fired from north of Kyiv, Yurii Ihnat said without clarifying if he meant Russian territory. Kyiv lies around 380 kilometers (236 miles) from the Russian border.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that early Monday it launched a series of strikes targeting Ukrainian air bases with precision long-range air-launched missiles. The strikes destroyed command posts, radars, aircraft and ammunition stockpiles, it claimed. It didn’t say anything about hitting cities or other civilian areas.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned against indifference, saying the repeated strikes on civilian areas amounted to “war crimes.”
“Russia’s drone and missile attacks on peaceful Ukrainian cities cannot be seen as usual, no matter how frequent they grow,” he tweeted in English.
During the previous night, Ukraine air defenses brought down more than 40 targets as Russian forces bombarded Kyiv with a combination of drones and cruise missiles in their 15th nighttime attack on the capital so far this month, said Serhii Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration.
On Saturday night, Kyiv was subjected to the largest drone attack since the start of Russia’s war. At least one person was killed, local officials said.
Kremlin’s strategy of long-range bombardment has brought many sleepless nights for Ukrainians.
Over the winter, Russian forces aimed their missiles and drones at power plants and other infrastructure. The apparent goal was to weaken Ukraine’s resolve and compel the Ukrainian government to negotiate peace on Moscow’s terms, but Ukrainians swiftly and defiantly repaired the damage.
In recent months, Ukraine has been receiving advanced air defense systems from its Western allies, improving its ability to fend off bombardments by the Kremlin’s forces.
Across the country, the Ukrainian air force said that over Sunday night it shot down 37 out of 40 cruise missiles and 29 out of 35 drones launched by the Kremlin’s forces.
At least three civilians were wounded nationwide in the latest wave of attacks, the Ukrainian presidential office said.
Russian missiles slammed into a military airport In the western Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine, destroying five aircraft and damaging the runway, local Gov. Serhyi Hamaliy said on television.
The strike sparked fires at nearby warehouses storing fuel and military equipment, he added.
Russian shelling and airstrikes also targeted nine localities in the eastern Donetsk region, including the city of Kramatorsk which houses the local Ukrainian army headquarters, local Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Ukrainian TV.
Elsewhere, Russian cruise missiles struck a village in the northeastern Kharkiv region, wounding six people including two minors and a pregnant woman, local officials said.
Also, one person was killed and nine others, including an 11-year-old child, were wounded in strikes on the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, authorities said.
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Yuras Karmanau contributed to this report from Tallinn, Estonia.
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GLACIER NATIONAL PARK - A home being built on private land within Glacier National Park in the Apgar area has drawn quite a bit of attention, and now, it will be torn down.
The home was built directly on the stream bank of McDonald Creek. It's private property within the park boundary that has been grandfathered since before the park's creation.
The Flathead Conservation District received 17 complaints about the building's location and the possibility they did not file for a 310-law permit. The permit is required for any work with the potential to impact the bed or banks of perennial flowing streams in Montana.
"And so the intention of the law is to preserve the stream bed and banks in as close to their natural condition as possible. That's because the stream bed and banks provide such important services and habitat. The intent of the law is to preserve those really important natural functions," said Flathead Conservation District Resource Conservationist Samantha Tappenbeck.
At a Conservation District board meeting on March 13, 2023,, it was decided that no one applied for the free 310-law permit for the location.
“So you know, if they had applied, then I can't speculate on whether or not their application would have been approved or denied, but they did not apply prior to doing that work,” said Tappenbeck.
The building has been ordered to be removed and the area remediated after the creek recedes from the high-water point, but before Nov. 1, 2023. | 2023-03-17T16:22:40+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/news/private-home-being-built-in-glacier-national-park-failed-to-get-proper-permits-and-must-be-torn-down |
CA Las Vegas NV Zone Forecast for Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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147 FPUS55 KVEF 260741
ZFPVEF
Zone Forecast Product for Nevada
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
1141 PM PST Wed Jan 25 2023
This is an automatically generated product that provides average
values for large geographical areas and may not be representative
of the exact location that you are interested in. For a more site
specific forecast...please visit weather.gov/lasvegas and either
(1) Select a location from the dropdown menu above the map or
(2) Click a location on the map. You can refine your selection by
clicking on the map displayed on the resulting page.
CAZ527-261200-
San Bernardino County-Upper Colorado River Valley-
Including Needles
1141 PM PST Wed Jan 25 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PST THURSDAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear, breezy. Lows 39 to 42. North winds
15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. North winds 20 to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 60 to 63. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 40. Southeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 65.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows around
41. Highs around 65.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 41.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers.
Highs around 59. Lows around 41. Chance of showers 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 56.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 36.
Highs 56 to 59.
$$
CAZ519-261200-
Eastern Sierra Slopes-
Including Aspendell and Whitney Portal
1141 PM PST Wed Jan 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows 15 to 25. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 29 to 39. North winds 10 to 20 mph with
gusts to around 45 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the
upper 20s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 34 to 44. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder. Lows 16 to 26. West winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Windy. Highs around
44. Lows 25 to 30.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 37.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers. Lows
around 20. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers. Highs around
29. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 17.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 32. Lows
17 to 23.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 39.
$$
CAZ521-261200-
White Mountains of Inyo County-
Including Westgard Pass and Bristlecone Pine
1141 PM PST Wed Jan 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear, breezy. Lows 19 to 29. North winds
15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 33 to 43. North winds 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature around
30. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 37 to 47. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 22 to 30. West winds up to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 43.
Lows 27 to 32.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 39.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 23.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers. Highs around
30. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 19.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 33. Lows
19 to 24.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 39.
$$
CAZ520-261200-
Owens Valley-
Including Bishop, Independence, Lone Pine,
and Olancha
1141 PM PST Wed Jan 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Patchy blowing dust late
in the evening. Lows 30 to 33. North winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 49 to 52. North winds 10 to 20 mph with
gusts to around 35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to 35. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 56. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 31 to 34. West winds up to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 54.
Lows 32 to 35.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 50.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 29.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered snow showers in the morning.
Highs around 41. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 26.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 44. Lows
26 to 29.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 49.
$$
CAZ522-261200-
Death Valley National Park-
Including Furnace Creek, Stovepipe Wells,
and Shoshone
1141 PM PST Wed Jan 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear, breezy. Lows 29 to 32 in the
mountains...around 43 at Furnace Creek. North winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 43 to 46 in the mountains...around 69 at
Furnace Creek. North winds 15 to 25 mph decreasing to 5 to 15 mph
in the afternoon. Gusts up to 40 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 31 to 34 in the mountains...
around 42 at Furnace Creek. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 50 in the mountains...around 67 at
Furnace Creek. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the
southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 30 to 33 in the mountains...
around 42 at Furnace Creek. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the northwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 50 in
the mountains...around 68 at Furnace Creek. Lows 31 to 34 in the
mountains...around 42 at Furnace Creek.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 45 in the
mountains...around 64 at Furnace Creek. Lows 29 to 32 in the
mountains...around 42 at Furnace Creek.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 37 in the
mountains...around 58 at Furnace Creek. Lows 26 to 29 in the
mountains...around 40 at Furnace Creek.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 41 to 44 in the
mountains...60 to 63 at Furnace Creek. Lows around 27 in the
mountains...around 37 at Furnace Creek.
$$
CAZ523-261200-
Western Mojave Desert-
Including Barstow, Daggett, and Fort Irwin
1141 PM PST Wed Jan 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear, breezy. Lows 35 to 38. North winds
15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 54 to 57. Northeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 34 to 37. Northeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 37. Southwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 61.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 39.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Windy. Highs around 57.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Breezy. Lows
33 to 36. Highs 52 to 55.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 51 to 54. Lows
around 32.
$$
CAZ524-261200-
Eastern Mojave Desert-
Including Baker, Mountain Pass,
and Mitchell Caverns
1141 PM PST Wed Jan 25 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PST THURSDAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Patchy blowing dust after midnight.
Lows 34 to 37. North winds 10 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Patchy blowing dust in the morning. Highs
52 to 55. North winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 45 mph decreasing
to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 33 to 36. North winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 55 to 58. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 34 to 37. Southeast winds up to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 38.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 58.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows around 37.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers and snow showers
in the afternoon. Highs around 51. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 35.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 51 to 54. Lows
32 to 35.
$$
CAZ525-526-261200-
Morongo Basin-Cadiz Basin-
Including Morongo Valley, Yucca Valley,
Twentynine Palms, and Vidal Junction
1141 PM PST Wed Jan 25 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PST THURSDAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Patchy blowing dust after midnight.
Lows around 40 in Twentynine Palms and around Yucca Valley...
around 36 near Joshua Tree. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Patchy blowing dust in the morning. Highs
around 60 in Twentynine Palms...51 to 54 around Yucca Valley...
around 55 near Joshua Tree. North winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts
to around 45 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40 in Twentynine
Palms and around Yucca Valley...around 36 near Joshua Tree.
Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 59 to 62. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 39. South winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the north after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 64 in Twentynine Palms and around
Yucca Valley...around 60 near Joshua Tree.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 39. Highs
61 to 64 in Twentynine Palms...around 60 around Yucca Valley and
near Joshua Tree.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40 in Twentynine
Palms...around 36 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered rain showers and snow showers
in the morning, then scattered rain showers in the afternoon.
Highs around 56 in Twentynine Palms...around 49 around Yucca
Valley and near Joshua Tree. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 39 in Twentynine
Palms...around 33 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 54 in Twentynine Palms...
around 49 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 36 in
Twentynine Palms...around 32 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua
Tree. Highs 54 to 57 in Twentynine Palms...50 to 53 around Yucca
Valley and near Joshua Tree.
$$
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SCOTLAND (WNCT) — A dazzling display of the northern lights was captured over the Scottish Highlands on Sunday night, February 26.
Footage by John Gregory shows the glowing green lights dancing over Tain.
The Met Office said the aurora borealis may be visible as far south as central England on Sunday and Monday night, where skies remained clear.
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Johnson & Johnson is pulling baby powder containing talc worldwide next year after it did the same in the U.S. and Canada amid thousands of lawsuits claiming it caused cancer.
Talc will be replaced by cornstarch, the company said.
The company has faced litigation alleging its talcum powder caused users to develop ovarian cancer, through use for feminine hygiene, or mesothelioma, a cancer that strikes the lungs and other organs.
J&J insists, and the overwhelming majority of medical research on talc indicates, that the talc baby powder is safe and doesn’t cause cancer.
However, demand for the company’s baby powder fell off, and J&J removed the talc-based product in most of North America in 2020.
The company did so after it saw demand drop due to “misleading talc litigation advertising that caused global confusion and unfounded concern,” about product safety a company spokeswoman said.
J&J said the change announced late Thursday will simplify its product selection and meet evolving global trends.
Last October, J&J said a separate subsidiary it created to manage talc litigation claims had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
J&J said then that it funded the subsidiary, named LTL Management, and established a $2 billion trust to pay claims the bankruptcy court determines that it owes.
The health care giant also said last fall that it will turn its consumer health business — which sells the baby powder, Band-Aids and other products — into a separate publicly traded company. The part of the company selling prescription drugs and medical devices will keep the J&J name.
Shares of Johnson & Johnson, based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, rose slightly before the opening bell Friday. The stock has performed better than the Dow Jones Industrial Average, of which J&J is a member, for most of the year. | 2022-08-13T02:58:47+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/ap-top-headlines/jj-to-end-sales-of-baby-powder-with-talc-globally-next-year/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. David Valadao has defeated Democrat Rudy Salas in a Central Valley district, overcoming a strong Democratic registration advantage and fallout from his vote to impeach then-President Donald Trump.
With 98% of the ballots counted Monday night, Valadao had 52% of the votes to 48% for Salas, or a margin of about 4,500 votes.
Valadao was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. He is one of only two of those 10 to be reelected, along with Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington. Others retired or were defeated by Trump-endorsed primary challengers.
Democrats hold a staggering 17-point registration edge in the 22nd District in the state’s farm belt. But Valadao, who was never a Trump loyalist, has highlighted a bipartisan streak to win in left-leaning districts before. He held his seat from 2013 until January 2019, lost it for a term, then won it back in a 2020 rematch with Democrat T.J. Cox.
Salas, a state assemblyman who is considered a moderate, dueled with Valadao over gas taxes, the opioid overdose crisis and health care.
Earlier, Republicans regained control of the House. With Valadao’s victory, Republicans will hold 219 seats next year, Democrats 212. Counting is not yet finished in a handful of other undecided races.
Trump never significantly engaged in the race and Valadao, a dairy farmer and son of Portuguese immigrants, had the state GOP endorsement and the backing of House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who is close to the former president.
Valadao didn’t support then-candidate Trump in 2016, but then backed his reelection four years later.
However, Valadao would break with Trump’s White House at times, including criticizing the administration for family separations at the border. He ran in 2020 as “an independent problem solver” and in one ad highlighted his work with former President Barack Obama on water issues critical to the region.
He has called Trump a driving force in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Trump’s “inciting rhetoric was un-American, abhorrent, and absolutely an impeachable offense,” Valadao has said. | 2022-11-22T04:15:26+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Republican-Rep-Valadao-wins-California-Central-17602758.php |
Employees Cite Flexibility of Hybrid Work Model as Key Source of Happiness
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KeyPoint Credit Union, one of the largest Credit Unions in California, has been named as one of the San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Media Top Workplaces for 2022, ranking among the region's top midsize companies (150-499 employees).
"We are extremely honored to be named a top workplace," said Brad Canfield, KeyPoint's President & CEO. "Despite the challenges of the pandemic, KeyPoint's employees have rallied to bring out new products and services, while continuing to improve member service."
The Top Workplaces list is determined solely through employee feedback in a survey by Energage, LLC, a leading research firm on organizational health and employee engagement.
With 200 employees and seven California branches, KeyPoint serves over 60,000 Members in the Bay Area and beyond. The company promotes a collaborative work environment, offering high-quality training and support to help staff reach their full potential. KeyPoint also encourages a happy work-life balance, with comprehensive benefits that include paid holidays, educational reimbursement and staff discounts.
"Our employees love the flexibility of the hybrid work model," said LeeAnne Giblin, KeyPoint's Chief Administrative Officer. "Employees feel they are more efficient when they can choose when they need to be in the office. We strive for a workplace that empowers and inspires our staff to help Members thrive financially throughout all stages of life."
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An eight-month investigation into a deadly fire in a Fort Lauderdale condominium has resulted in an arrest for murder.
Keith Rush, 56, was taken into custody Thursday and faces a first-degree murder charge, Broward County jail records showed.
Rush is accused of setting a fire in a 9th-floor condo at 4010 Galt Ocean Drive about 1 a.m. on Dec. 3 that killed 93-year-old resident Howard Perkins.
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Rush, Perkins' roommate, told NBC 6 at the time that he believed a lamp fell over and a hot bulb started the fire.
Police and fire investigators initially thought it was an accidental fire but later determined it was suspicious and launched a homicide investigation.
According to a search warrant, investigators recovered a smoke alarm, clothing, lighters, butane fuel and an unknown liquid.
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A Broward grand jury indicted Rush for first-degree murder on Wednesday. At his first court appearance Friday morning, Rush started yelling.
“It’s a whole misunderstanding,” he shouted, as Broward Judge Phoebee Francois tried to interrupt. “I did not hurt a friend I’ve known for over 20 years and I sure as hell didn’t start a condo on fire.”
The grand jury ordered Rush be held without bond and the judge agreed as Rush continued to shout.
“I went through this back in January,” he yelled. “I was interviewed by the FBI and Fort Lauderdale Police [and] they had nothing to charge me with because they knew I wouldn’t hurt my friend.”
Rush remains in the Broward County Jail. | 2022-08-19T18:12:58+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/police-arrest-murder-suspect-in-deadly-fort-lauderdale-condo-fire/2839591/ |
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell insists he's backing House Speaker Kevin McCarthy when it comes to debt ceiling talks. He says it's up to the president to work out an agreement with McCarthy.
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Stars vs. Kraken: Betting Trends, Odds, Advanced Stats - NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 5
Published: May. 11, 2023 at 9:46 AM EDT|Updated: 41 minutes ago
Game 5 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round at American Airlines Center showcases the Dallas Stars and the Seattle Kraken facing off at 9:30 PM on Thursday, May 11 ET, airing on TNT, SportsNet, and TVAS. The series is tied 2-2. The Stars are favored (-190) against the Kraken (+160).
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Stars vs. Kraken Game Info
- When: Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 9:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: TNT, SportsNet, and TVAS
- Where: American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas
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Stars Betting Insights
- The Stars have been a moneyline favorite 66 times this season, and have gone 42-24 in those games.
- Dallas has a record of 19-7 when it has played as a moneyline favorite with odds of -190 or shorter (73.1% win percentage).
- Based on this game's moneyline, the Stars' implied win probability is 65.5%.
Kraken Betting Insights
- This season the Kraken have been an underdog 53 times, and won 24, or 45.3%, of those games.
- Seattle has a record of 9-4, a 69.2% win rate, when it's been set as an underdog of +160 or more by sportsbooks this season.
- The moneyline set in this outing implies a 38.5% chance of victory for the Kraken.
Stars vs. Kraken Rankings
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Stars Advanced Stats
- Dallas has not gone over in its past 10 contests.
- In their past 10 games, the Stars are scoring 1.1 more goals per game than their season-long average.
- The Stars score the seventh-most goals in the league, averaging 3.4 per game for a total of 281 this season.
- The Stars are ranked third in league action for the fewest goals against this season, having allowed 215 total goals (2.6 per game).
- With a +66 goal differential, they're ranked fourth-best in the NHL.
Kraken Advanced Stats
- Seattle has gone over the total once over its last 10 contests.
- During their last 10 games, the Kraken and their opponents are scoring 1.3 fewer goals per game than their season-long game scoring average, 9.4.
- The Kraken have scored the fourth-most goals (289 goals, 3.5 per game) in the NHL.
- The Kraken's 252 total goals conceded (3.1 per game) rank 14th in the league.
- They have a +37 goal differential, which is 10th-best in the league.
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Each Dec. 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, the Nobel Prize award ceremony takes place in Stockholm. In 1993, my grandfather, Nelson Mandela, was awarded the Peace Prize for his battle to end Apartheid in South Africa.
It pains me to say that almost three decades later, my grandfather’s win remains an exception to the rule. The Nobel Prizes have a severe representation problem.
The first Nobel Prize was given in 1901. In well over a century, surely the winners would have become more diverse? Not even close: The vast majority of Nobel Prize winners in all categories come from Western nations, and only a small proportion of them represent minorities — or women for that matter.
Nearly 1,000 people have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Only 60 of them have been women. While the first Black recipient won in 1950, since then there have been mere 17 Black winners — and no Black person ever has won a Nobel Prize in medicine, physics or chemistry.
There are of course underlying issues. Systemic racism and sexism have long discouraged minorities and women — and especially women of color — from pursuing careers in these fields due to lack of role models. Following the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, the Nobel committee members must take a hard look in the mirror and question their own biases.
It makes me wonder whether my grandfather was awarded the Peace Prize simply to brush up the image of the Nobel Committee. After all, Western leaders were painfully slow to condemn Apartheid.
I wholeheartedly believe my grandfather deserved his Nobel Prize. Yet, I also believe that after almost three decades, the Nobel Committee can — and must — do better. His win cannot justify what the Nobel currently represents, a Western-centric award largely given to White men.
While Nobel Prizes are a part of a much wider societal issue, they hold a huge symbolic value. Not only are the recipients given over $900,000, winning the prize grants them invaluable prestige. They are given opportunities to speak at the most important global events and gain support for their causes — ultimately shaping the futures of their fields.
For too long, this prestige has largely elevated Western causes, deepening the widening gap between the global north and global south. International crises like climate change are disproportionately affecting poorer nations. But their leaders are sidelined on the world stage. One study found that a mere 1% of the most-cited climate research papers were authored by people from Africa, the continent most vulnerable to climate change.
The global south doesn’t lack talent. What we lack is funding and opportunities. The examples speak for themselves. Abdul Sattar Edhi, a humanitarian from Pakistan and head of a nationwide welfare organization, was nominated for the Nobel several times, yet never won before his death in 2016.
Nor has Edna Adan Ismail, Somaliland’s first trained nurse-midwife, and a lifelong campaigner against female genital mutilation in a region with one of the world’s highest maternal and infant mortality rates. And there is Mohammad Al-Issa from Saudi Arabia, who for years has advocated against antisemitism and Holocaust denial, and led the most prominent Islamic delegation to Auschwitz. The list goes on.
In recent years, the Nobel Committee has taken some steps in the right direction, such as calling on nominators to consider diversity in gender and geography, after being urged to acknowledge their selection biases. However, proposals to tackle the representation problem, including possible quotas, have been repeatedly criticized as not progressive enough.
Ultimately, Nobel diversity is crucial if leaders from long-overlooked nations are to be included at decision-making tables and connected with influential elites in the Western world. Without the involvement of the global south, efforts to solve most pressing world crises are doomed from the start.
Ndileka Mandela is a writer and head of the Thembekile Mandela Foundation, which focuses on education, health, youth and women’s development in rural villages.
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SHANGHAI, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its China for China strategy, world-famous German sports brand adidas has recently launched a series of localized digital marketing campaigns, including Yeezy Day and Tmall Super Brand Day. Perhaps, the nearly 100-year-old brand, which continues to be one of the most influential and trendy sports brands among young consumer groups, can serve as a good example to answer the above question.
In the world of math, there is a puzzle: Does NP=P? It is an NP-complete problem.
NP refers to a class of problems for which the accuracy of a solution can be effectively verified, while P represents a set of problems for which a solution can be effectively found. The NP-complete problem is all about whether NP problems can be transformed into P problems.
Every consumer brand faces the same NP-complete problem. On the left side of the equation is the question: Is it possible to capture, or, even more importantly, how does one capture the growing cohort of Gen Z consumers? And the problem on the right side seeking a solution is whether digitalization, which serves as the greatest common denominator between brands, is able to make this equation hold true?
To put it simply, what kind of digitalization can enable brands to attract Gen Zers?
Going Digital: Embracing Social Interactions That Appeal the Most to Gen Z
Today, Gen Z is emerging as a new consumer group that cannot go unnoticed. As digital natives, they have grown up in a world where digital technology is ubiquitous, and where their real and virtual lives have become one. On the consumption side, they expect a unique, personalized, customized digital shopping experience, especially in terms of social interactions and immersiveness.
To this end, more and more name brands are embracing the digitally-enabled models of social interaction that are most trendy and popular with younger generations, especially Gen Z, such as the metaverse.
adidas took the interactive route to its utmost extreme. On this year's Tmall Super Brand Day, the top sports brand created a virtual neighborhood based on the metaverse by creating an online queue digital game that provides a virtual queuing experience, coupled with new products to reproduce the sneaker culture.
To add to the experience, based on the 50th anniversary edition of adidas Originals, the sports brand tied up with Taobao Life, an immersive virtual world integrated with China's largest mobile shopping destination, to deploy the new "digital collectibles + physical items" marketing approach and launch the exclusive Gen-Blue Creator Tee, Gen-Blue Creator Classic Shorts and the 50th anniversary edition of Superstar. The three digital collectible set is Taobao Life's first wearable digital collection.
Taobao has also launched the adidas Super Brand Day series of 3D outfits, creating an exclusive meeting place for fans of the adidas brand. adiCLUB members can jump directly to the store to buy what they have just tried on in the virtual world after they are 100% satisfied with how the outfit fits and looks.
The view was expressed that being social, fun and interactive plays a vital role for brands that want to get up close and personal with their young audiences. For Gen Zers, just like the members of generations that preceded them, especially, those born in the 80s (known in China as members of "the Beats") and 90s (known in China as the "Decadent generation"), felt that their personalities were often misinterpreted due to stereotyping, while, in reality, each generation's members each have their own distinctive personalities due to their different upbringing. The metaverse provides them with a space where they have unlimited possibilities to express themselves. There, they have the freedom to create their own virtual selves, to express themselves as they see fit and gain recognition, to talk with peers of similar upbringing about the hobbies that they share in common and that are often difficult for their parents and other adults in their life to understand, and to freely immerse themselves in diverse digital social activities and shopping experiences.
This is exactly what sets adidas apart from many other brands. The company has been committed to incorporating creative play and innovative power into the sneaker culture, and, by doing so, helping Gen Z to better unleash their personalities and asserting themselves rather than just following the crowd.
Take this year's Tmall Super Brand Day as an example: in addition to digital collectibles, adidas also provided shoppers with free access to a lineup of Taobao Life props. They can clothe their avatars as they wish, choosing from a number of T-shirts and pants as well as from the vast lineup of footwear, capturing the essential spirit of adidas Originals through their virtual creations.
All of this is just the beginning of adidas' digital differentiation efforts to gain the attention of Gen Z.
Insights into Digitalization: Gen Z Redefines Consumer Culture
adidas' digital differentiation strategy was put together following intensive research and the development of deep cultural insights into what young consumers, especially members of Gen Z, are seeking. It goes far beyond simply keeping in shape and leading a healthy lifestyle to embrace the excitement and thrill that one derives from engagement in trendy sports. They are not only interested in what is popular when it comes to equipment for conventional sports, such as running, football, basketball and other traditional pursuits, but also the creation of brand recognition reflecting a more stylized modern culture.
From adidas Yeezy Day, which, this year, celebrated its seventh anniversary, to the new Confirmed App and this past May's OZ Future Concert hosted by adidas Originals, they all serve as highly representative interpretations of these cultural insights.
Yeezy, one of the biggest and most trendy names among adidas' product lines, is an enduring topic in the mouths of many sneakerheads who love sneakers and sneaker culture. The sense of belonging and self-identity engendered by the sport itself is what resonates with them, forming a cultural community that is unique to their community.
The Confirmed App, which was conceived as an exclusive limited edition shopping platform, is a place where the well-known Yeezy and Superstar series can be found. At variance with adidas' existing local app, adidas App, Confirmed App delivers a new digital experience to sneaker lovers with the launch of exclusive limited edition products alongside other creative content and a focus on community. At the same time, adidas will combine a new product release mechanism and digital security technologies to ensure that shoppers can purchase products in a fair, fast and secure way, maintaining to the highest degree possible the simplicity of the cultural community.
Just this past May, adidas Originals partnered with TMELAND, the first virtual music festival organized by Tencent Music Entertainment Group, as a prelude to the OZ Future Concert. The event is a huge party for sneakerheads where they can step into the TMELAND virtual music festival in the guise of their avatar and experience the online performances of OZWORLD's star lineup of Jay Park and Ouyang Jing.
The value of these cultural communities and circles lies in the fact that they are the result of self-generated cultural spaces among consumers rather than deliberate products with artificial interventions. adidas' involvement is more like a craftsman who ignites the passion of the crowd. People in the circle are acting as viewers and participants, while the attention of those outside the circle is drawn to the point that they also stop and watch the action.
Most notably, though, to embrace the hip sports culture of young consumers, adidas has gone even further than these rejuvenation and digitalization efforts.
In terms of new and trendy sports such as cycling, skateboarding and Frisbee throwing, which have grown in popularity among members of these generations, adidas has continued its efforts to vastly diversify the experience for young sports enthusiasts. The sports brand has rolled out indoor, urban commuting, road, gravel road and other lineups of professional cycling equipment for all occasions.
In June of this year, adidas launched a skateboarding video challenge.
adidas is sponsoring the 2022-2023 China Frisbee League, which kicked off on August 6, and will hold an Ultimate Tournament during the upcoming National Fitness Day on August 8...
Underlying Logic of Digitalization: the China for China Strategy Serves As an Anchor to Promote Localized Digital Transformation
In the view of adidas, going all digital is increasingly emerging as a key for brands who seek to communicate with Gen Z. As part of its latest five-year roadmap, the company's digital transformation, to which it has given the moniker Own the Game, has been listed as one of the brand's three key focus areas. For this reason, adidas is increasing its investment in digital technologies. adidas' financial report revealed that investment topped 667 million euros in 2021, distinctly higher than the 442 million euros spent in 2020. By 2025, adidas is expected to invest some billion euros to drive its going digital efforts, covering the entire value chain from production to final sales and significantly enhancing the strategic position of its technology division.
To better serve Chinese sports fans, adidas Greater China developed the China for China strategy. Based on this approach, adidas has put its stake in the ground in terms of investing and further expanding its footprint in China, developing and distributing localized products and services as well as creating and publishing localized digital games for Chinese consumers.
Adrian Siu, Managing Director of adidas Greater China, said in an earlier interview, "Greater China has become one of the most important strategic markets for adidas. Facing the evolving expectations of the Chinese market and Chinese consumers, we have built a more sophisticated team to take a closer look at and serve the market. adidas has been bullish on the market's huge potential, demonstrating our strong confidence in the region. Our company will continue to increase its investment and R&D activities in China, in response to the changes and challenges with a proactive, responsive and innovative approach in terms of product, marketing and channels. Looking ahead, we will strengthen our personalized services and focus more on our ongoing digital efforts to enhance the links with Gen Z, making Greater China an integral part of adidas' 2025 Own the Game Strategy."
To fully localize its in-China digitalization process and get closer to Chinese consumers, as early as 2019 adidas had already started making some substantial investments in the Digital Hub in Shanghai, making the sneaker producer a pioneer in the digital transformation of the sports industry through attracting outstanding talents and building a digital ecosystem. Worth noting is that adidas' localization is even more radical as its data centers are wholly located in China and all collected personal information is fully encrypted to protect consumer privacy in all respects.
As a key component of adidas' digitalization efforts, the Digital Hub currently houses the company's data analytics and digital platforms, as well as consumer digital touchpoints, with the aim of enhancing the digital transformation with tailored solutions. The Digital Hub allows the sports brand not only to make its R&D and production more efficient in the upstream of the whole value chain, but also to optimize the marketing and consumer experience in the downstream.
A unique and important feature of the Digital Hub is a creative insights platform dedicated specifically to the Chinese market, with the ability to provide powerful insights and to synchronize market intelligence in near real-time. By sharing insights into consumer expectations and in-depth analysis of market trends alongside product distribution data, the platform can serve adidas China's cross-functional teams as a strong contributor to business growth.
On the sales side, adidas reaches young shoppers via the Digital Hub's multiple data analysis and digital platforms, while its wide range of digital marketing touchpoints include the app, the WeChat ecosystem, and the official website. At the same time, the teams that support the Digital Hub are making every effort to gain visibility in front of young consumers through diverse approaches including membership benefits, content sharing and live streaming, in a move to drive their engagement and promote the cool street culture. As of the end of 2021, adidas China boasted 58 million members.
To date, adidas has completed the first phase of its 5-year digital strategic plan, with the establishment of its DTC business from the front-end digital matrix to the back-end big data middleware support. In the next phase, adidas will continue its efforts to customize personalized digital experiences for consumers across channels, chains, and lifecycles, and to create a variety of immersive, high-tech digital experiences as part of its mission of enriching what it means to engage in sports, whether as an amateur or as a professional.
Based on the consumer culture characteristics of these up-and-coming generations, a digital full value chain has been created that covers production to final sales, which not only makes adidas, a brand that has nearly 100 years of history, remains one of the most influential, relevant and trendy sports brands among younger sports enthusiasts, but also assists the company in easing the pressures on offline retail as a result of the pandemic. According to adidas' financial reports, e-commerce channel revenue has grown steadily in recent years, having risen from 1 billion euros in 2016 to 4 billion euros in 2021.
Half of the people who embark on a one hundred mile journey may fall by the way side. But going digital is undoubtedly one of the best solutions for brands like adidas who seek to become a part of the life of a Gen Z consumer and prove the NP=P equation.
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NEW YORK — Just as a trial was to begin, it was revealed Tuesday that Cuba Gooding Jr. has settled accusations that he raped a woman in a New York City hotel a decade ago, according to court records. The actor had insisted through lawyers that his encounter with the woman was consensual after the two met at a nearby restaurant.
The trial was to start with jury selection in New York federal court as the Oscar-winning “Jerry Maguire” star faced allegations that he met the woman in Manhattan, persuaded her to join him at a hotel, and convinced her to stop at his room so he could change clothing.
The woman had proceeded anonymously until last week, when Judge Paul A. Crotty ruled that she would have to reveal her name at trial. She said in her lawsuit that Gooding raped her in his room. His lawyers, though, insisted that it was consensual sex and that she bragged afterward to others that she had sex with a celebrity.
The lawsuit sought $6 million in damages. Attorney Gloria Allred, one of several representing the woman, declined comment. The lawsuit was filed against a man who authorities say has been accused of committing sexual misconduct against more than 30 other women, including groping, unwanted kissing and other inappropriate behavior.
Late last week, the judge seemed to strengthen the woman's hand at trial and in settlement negotiations by ruling that he would let three women testify that they also were subjected to sudden sexual assaults or attempted sexual assaults after meeting Gooding in social settings such as festivals, bars, nightclubs and restaurants.
One of the women who had planned to testify at the trial was Kelsey Harbert, who told police Gooding fondled her without her consent at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge near Times Square in 2019.
Harbert said last year after Gooding pleaded guilty in New York state court to a charge that spared him from jail or a criminal history that never getting her day in court was “more disappointing than words can say.”
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they grant permission, as Harbert has done.
Gooding, a star in films including “Boyz n the Hood” and “Radio,” was permitted to plead guilty in April 2022 to a misdemeanor, admitting that he forcibly kissed a worker at a New York nightclub in 2018.
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Ravens inside linebacker Patrick Queen suffered a thigh bruise in Sunday’s 10-9 win over the Denver Broncos at M&T Bank Stadium.
With 7:24 left in the fourth quarter, Queen attempted to tackle Broncos running back Latavius Murray when defensive lineman Justin Madubuike ran into him. The 2020 first-round draft pick immediately grabbed his thigh in pain before being looked at by team trainers. Surrounded by teammates, Queen was carted off the field before being ruled out.
After the game, coach John Harbaugh said Queen suffered a thigh bruise and that X-rays were negative.
“That was very good news for us,” Harbaugh said.
Queen has been playing at a high level this season, leading the Ravens in tackles while adding four sacks, an interception and a forced fumble. He recorded nine tackles, including one for loss, before exiting Sunday’s game.
Queen’s exit continued an injury-filled day for the Ravens (8-4), who needed a late touchdown drive to escape with a victory. Quarterback Lamar Jackson suffered a knee injury in the final seconds of the first quarter and was quickly ruled out, but Harbaugh said the 2019 NFL Most Valuable Player will not be sidelined for the rest of the season. Offensive lineman Patrick Mekari also suffered a toe injury in the first quarter, forcing the Ravens to rely on rookie offensive tackle Daniel Faalele, a fourth-round pick. Harbaugh said Mekari should be OK.
With 4:56 left in the fourth quarter, rookie tight end Isaiah Likely suffered a shoulder injury after making a 5-yard catch. The fourth-round pick was helped off the field by trainers and was listed as questionable to return, but he checked back into the game and picked up a crucial first down with a 12-yard catch on the Ravens’ go-ahead touchdown drive in the final minutes.
Ravens wide receiver Demarcus Robinson and rookie safety Kyle Hamilton also briefly left the game with injuries before returning. Hamilton missed last week’s win over the Jacksonville Jaguars with a knee injury and was limited in practice before being ruled questionable to play.
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Cox Mobile is expanding their device portfolio with Samsung's newest Galaxy foldables.
ATLANTA, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsung's new Galaxy Z Flip5 and Galaxy Z Fold5 are now available to Cox Mobile customers for pre-order online and in retail stores nationwide. Last week, Samsung unveiled the fifth generation of Galaxy foldables and showcased how the company is transforming what's possible with foldable smartphones.
With the new Samsung Galaxy Z series, Cox Mobile customers will experience enhanced device features like:
- New 'Flex Hinge,' technology that enables the foldable experience while offering an aesthetically balanced and solid design.
- Versatile camera experience with extraordinary camera capabilities such as FlexCam, allowing users to take beautiful hands-free photos and videos from new, creative angles.
- Optimized battery life powered by the latest processor.
- A wider variety of recycled materials1 than their previous generations, including pre-consumer recycled glass and aluminum and post-consumer recycled plastics, sourced from discarded fishing nets, water barrels and PET bottles.
From content creation on Galaxy Z Flip5's new Flex Window, now 3.78 times larger than the previous generation2 to seamless multitasking on Galaxy Z Fold5, this series of Galaxy foldables meets and exceeds the distinctive needs of today's users.
"Samsung's Galaxy Z series – the industry's newest foldables - are now available to Cox Mobile customers and enhance our already competitive device portfolio," said Tony Krueck, senior vice president of Cox Mobile. "We're committed to providing a wide variety of mobile device options that meet our customers' needs, budgets and lifestyles."
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The Galaxy Z Flip5 and Galaxy Z Fold5 are now available for Cox Mobile customers to pre-order, with general availability starting August 11. Customers interested in learning more about Cox Mobile or the newest Samsung devices can visit their nearest Cox retail store, go directly to www.cox.com/mobile, or give us a call at 1-800-234-3993.
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2 Measured diagonally, Galaxy Z Flip5's Cover Screen is 3.4-inch in the full rectangular form; actual viewable area is approximately 95% of the full rectangular area due to the rounded corners and lower cutout.
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TX Houston/Galveston TX Zone Forecast for Monday, October 17, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Southeast Texas
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
TXZ211-182100-
Austin-
Including the cities of Sealy and Bellville
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. East
winds around 5 mph, becoming south around 5 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ237-182100-
Inland Brazoria-
Including the cities of Pearland, Alvin, and Angleton
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers this afternoon. Highs in
the upper 60s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ196-182100-
Brazos-
Including the cities of College Station and Bryan
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds
around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ195-182100-
Burleson-
Including the cities of Caldwell and Somerville
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 40. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ214-182100-
Chambers-
Including the cities of Winnie, Mont Belvieu, Anahuac, Stowell,
and Old River-Winfree
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ210-182100-
Colorado-
Including the cities of Columbus, Eagle Lake, and Weimar
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds
around 5 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ227-182100-
Fort Bend-
Including the cities of Missouri City, Mission Bend, Sugar Land,
Rosenberg, First Colony, and Pecan Grove
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ238-182100-
Inland Galveston-
Including the cities of League City and Friendswood
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds
around 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds
around 5 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ198-182100-
Grimes-
Including the city of Navasota
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds
around 5 mph, becoming south around 5 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ213-182100-
Inland Harris-
Including the city of Houston
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds around
5 mph, becoming south around 5 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ163-182100-
Houston-
Including the city of Crockett
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 40. Northwest winds around
5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ235-182100-
Inland Jackson-
Including the cities of Edna and Ganado
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy after midnight, then becoming partly
sunny. Isolated showers this afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s.
North winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid
60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ200-182100-
Northern Liberty-
Including the cities of Liberty, Cleveland, and Dayton
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the upper 30s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ176-182100-
Madison-
Including the city of Madisonville
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. South
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ236-182100-
Inland Matagorda-
Including the city of Bay City
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy after midnight, then becoming partly
sunny. Isolated showers this afternoon. Cooler with highs in the
upper 60s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ199-182100-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Conroe and The Woodlands
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the upper 30s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ179-182100-
Polk-
Including the cities of Livingston and Corrigan
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 30s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds
around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ178-182100-
San Jacinto-
Including the cities of Shepherd and Coldspring
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds
around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ164-182100-
Trinity-
Including the cities of Trinity and Groveton
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds
around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ177-182100-
Walker-
Including the city of Huntsville
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds
around 5 mph, becoming south around 5 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ212-182100-
Waller-
Including the cities of Hempstead, Prairie View, Brookshire,
and Waller
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper 30s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. East
winds around 5 mph, becoming south around 5 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ197-182100-
Washington-
Including the city of Brenham
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 40. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds
around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ226-182100-
Wharton-
Including the cities of El Campo and Wharton
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers this afternoon. Highs in
the upper 60s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds around
5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ300-182100-
Southern Liberty-
Including the city of Devers
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the upper 30s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 40. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs around 80. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ313-182100-
Coastal Harris-
Including the cities of Pasadena and Baytown
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ338-182100-
Coastal Galveston-
Including the cities of Texas City, Dickinson, and La Marque
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds 15 to
20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows around 60.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ337-182100-
Coastal Brazoria-
Including the cities of Lake Jackson, Freeport, and Clute
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny after midnight, then becoming partly sunny.
Isolated showers this afternoon. Cooler with highs in the upper
60s. North winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the mid 40s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ336-182100-
Coastal Matagorda-
Including the city of Palacios
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny after midnight, then becoming partly sunny.
Isolated showers this afternoon. Cooler with highs in the upper
60s. North winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ335-182100-
Coastal Jackson-
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy after midnight, then becoming partly
sunny. Isolated showers this afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s.
North winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows in
the mid 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the upper
60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Breezy with
highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ436-182100-
Matagorda Islands-
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy after midnight, then becoming partly
sunny. Isolated showers this afternoon. Breezy, cooler with highs
in the upper 60s. North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to
35 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows in
the lower 50s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 15 to
20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the
upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Breezy with
highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ437-182100-
Brazoria Islands-
Including the city of Surfside Beach
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny after midnight, then becoming partly sunny.
Breezy, cooler with highs in the upper 60s. North winds 15 to
25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 15 to
20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 70s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the
mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Breezy with
highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ438-182100-
Galveston Island-
Including the city of Galveston
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the upper 60s. North
winds 20 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 70s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the
mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Near steady temperature
in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers. Breezy with
highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ439-182100-
Bolivar Peninsula-
212 AM CDT Tue Oct 18 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy and breezy. Highs in the upper 60s. North
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. North winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 70s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Breezy with highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-10-18T08:28:08+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/TX-Houston-Galveston-TX-Zone-Forecast-17516186.php |
A Missouri boarding school already under scrutiny amid physical and sexual abuse allegations may soon be shut down, following a judge’s ruling.
Cedar County Circuit Judge David Munton signed an order Wednesday night to close Agape Boarding School in Stockton after the Missouri attorney general’s office and the state Department of Social Services filed petitions citing evidence that someone on the state registry for child abuse and neglect was actively working there.
But early Thursday, Munton stated in a court document that before closing the school he wanted the sheriff to confirm that the employee is still working at Agape. Officials have not said whether that’s the case, and a hearing originally scheduled for Thursday to decide Agape’s fate was postponed until Monday.
“Agape’s employment of a staff member who is listed on the state’s Child Abuse/Neglect Central Registry presents an immediate health and safety concern for the children residing at Agape,” the petition from Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office stated. “This new development is sadly consistent with the dark pattern of behavior at Agape previously exposed by the Attorney General’s Office and DSS.”
Agape’s lawyer, John Schultz, said the school remains open. The judge noted in Missouri’s online court filing system that the state and Agape agreed that two Children’s Division workers will have access “to observe the children there” until the hearing occurs.
“My Office has continued to monitor and investigate this situation and when we learned that there was a clear violation of the law, we took swift and decisive action,” Schmitt said in a statement. “We have worked closely with DSS to put into place a Court ordered plan to allow constant on-site monitoring of the children at Agape by DSS to ensure their safety until the hearing is held.”
Munton’s order, if carried out, would require the removal of all 63 boys at Agape, and require assessments of their health, safety and well-being.
Allegations of physical and sexual abuse at Agape and nearby Christian boarding school Circle of Hope Girls’ Ranch prompted a state law last year requiring stricter oversight of such facilities. Among other things, the new law allows state or local authorities to petition the court for closure of a facility if there is believed to be an immediate health or safety threat to the children.
Last year, Agape’s longtime doctor, David Smock, was charged with child sex crimes and five employees were charged with low-level abuse counts. Schmitt’s office contended that 22 workers should have been charged, and with more serious crimes. But in Missouri, only the local prosecutor can file charges, and Cedar County Prosecuting Attorney Ty Gaither has said no additional employees would be charged.
Meanwhile, the husband-and-wife founders of Circle of Hope, Boyd and Stephanie Householder, face a combined 99 charges that include child abuse and neglect, sex crimes and other counts. The school was ordered shut down in 2020 amid the investigation.
Several lawsuits filed on behalf of former students also have named Agape and Circle of Hope. | 2022-09-09T06:24:26+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-hearing-to-determine-if-missouri-boarding-school-will-close/ |
Tusa supports National Automotive Styling Centers™ franchise's strong growth and online strategy in new position
BOCA RATON, Fla., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tint World® Automotive Styling Centers™, a leading window tinting and automotive accessory franchise, has hired Jack Tusa to support the fast-growing company's global marketing and franchise development efforts as its new social content and e-commerce manager.
In his new role, Tusa is responsible for managing content across Tint World®'s social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok. He also provides critical support for Tint World®'s public relations and e-commerce initiatives.
"We're committed to continuing to grow Tint World®, and our online strategy is a key part of that plan," said Charles J. Bonfiglio, CEO and president of Tint World®. "With his previous experience in digital marketing and his entrepreneurial spirit, Jack has shown that he has the insight and perspective to drive engagement with our customers and franchisees and build awareness of Tint World® as a leader in the automotive aftermarket franchise industry."
Tusa is a graduate of the University of Mississippi with a bachelor's degree in marketing and corporate relations. His responsibilities as Tint World®'s social content and e-commerce manager include developing and executing online strategies, coordinating the company's online brand messaging, and supporting Tint World®'s marketing and franchise development through social media and digital engagement.
"Tint World®'s success as a premier provider of automotive aftermarket accessories and services speaks for itself," Tusa said. "This team is focused on continuing to build the brand and supporting the hard-working franchisees driving the company's unprecedented growth."
Tint World® Automotive Styling Centers™ offer sales and installation of auto accessories, mobile electronics, audio video equipment, security systems, custom wheels and tire packages, window tinting, vehicle wraps, paint protection films, detailing services, nano ceramic coatings, maintenance, and repair services, and more. Tint World® is also the leading provider of residential, commercial, and marine computerized window tinting and security film services with locations throughout the U.S. and abroad, with franchise opportunities available worldwide.
About Tint World®
Founded in 1982, Tint World® Automotive Styling Centers™ is America's largest and fastest-growing automotive accessories and window tinting international franchise, specializing in window tinting, protective films, vehicle wraps, audio and electronics, security systems, car and truck accessories, wheels and tires, detailing and ceramic coating, and installation services.
Tint World® Mobile Services™ include marine, residential, and commercial window tinting films, solar films, decorative films, safety and security films, and protective ceramic coatings. Tint World® has locations in the United States, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, with master franchise opportunities available worldwide. To find out more, please visit www.TintWorld.com or www.TintWorldFranchise.com.
Tint World® Contact:
Charles J. Bonfiglio, CEO
(800) 767-8468
Charles.Bonfiglio@tintworld.com
MEDIA CONTACT:
Heather Ripley
Ripley PR
865-977-1973
hripley@ripleypr.com
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SOURCE Tint World | 2022-06-09T12:58:06+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/06/09/tint-world-names-jack-tusa-social-content-e-commerce-manager/ |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Carrying photographs of their children at their chests, relatives of the 43 students who disappeared in southern Mexico in 2014 marched Monday on the eighth anniversary of their abductions with conflicting sentiments.
On one hand, the government appeared to be advancing, but on the other they saw “internal wars” in an administration that “succumbs to military power,” the families said in a statement at the conclusion of the procession.
“There are a lot of contradictory things,” said Clemente Rodríguez, father of one of the students from the Ayotzinapa teachers’ college who were attacked by security forces and a drug gang in the southern state of Guerrero. “Sometimes they give us information, yes we’re going to act, but then we slip along the same way.”
That same way being the lack of answers about what really happened that night in Iguala, Guerrero and what ultimately happened to the students, because the previous administration hid the truth and the current has only offered “partial advances,” Hilda Legideño, the mother of another student, read in the statement.
“They talk about the death of our sons, but they don’t show us proof,” she said. Only small, burned bone fragments of three have been identified, including Rodríguez’s son Christian Alfonso.
In recent weeks, the Truth Commission created by the current administration, declared it a “state crime,” because authorities at all levels of government were involved in the disappearances and cover-up. It also provided new information confirming the involvement of the military.
There have also been important arrests of three members of the army, including the man who had been the army commander in the area when the abductions occurred — now a retired general — as well as the then-Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam, accused of inventing the government’s original account based on torture and manipulation of evidence.
But some charges against dozens of other suspects have been tossed out because of tainted evidence. Previously redacted details from the Truth Commission report were leaked to a Mexican newspaper that had not been shared with the families. Spain’s El Pais newspaper published documents showing 16 arrest orders against other members of the military that had been touted by the government were quietly cancelled without explanation.
All of which has outraged the families to the point that they called for the resignation of the current Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero.
The military’s alleged role has become sensitive. Alejandro Encinas, the head of the Truth Commission, said the former base commander in Iguala had given the order to kill six of the students days after they were abducted.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised earlier Monday that the investigation would continue. The president, who has invested more responsibility in the military than any in recent memory, also defended the institution saying that those arrested would be held accountable, but “that does not mean that the whole institution is responsible.”
Rodríguez, who has been a fixture in marches demanding justice in the case for the past eight years, said “we were always pointing to the military bases and we are going to see it through to the bitter end.” | 2022-09-27T12:35:48+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-families-of-mexicos-missing-students-march-on-anniversary/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion rights supporters won in the four states where access was on the ballot Tuesday, as voters enshrined it into the state constitution in battleground Michigan as well as blue California and Vermont and dealt a defeat to an anti-abortion measure in deep-red Kentucky.
In all, it was a dramatic illustration of how the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June to eliminate the nationwide right to abortion has galvanized voters who support women’s right to choose. The court’s June decision has led to near-total bans in a dozen Republican-governed states and animated races around the country up and down the ballot.
The Kentucky result spurned the state’s Republican-led Legislature, which has imposed a near-total ban on abortion and put the proposed state constitutional amendment on the ballot. The outcome echoed what happened in another red state, Kansas, where voters in August rejected changing that state’s constitution to let lawmakers tighten restrictions or ban abortions.
“As we saw in Kansas earlier this year, and in many other states last night, this is not a partisan issue,” said Nancy Northup, president the Center for Reproductive Rights, in a statement. “People are energized and they do not want politicians controlling their bodies and futures.”
Nationally, about two-thirds of voters say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of over 90,000 voters across the country. Only about 1 in 10 say abortion should be illegal in all cases.
About 6 in 10 also say the Supreme Court’s abortion decision made them dissatisfied or angry, compared with fewer who say they were happy or satisfied.
Still, the nationwide election results Tuesday reflected how voters’ views on abortion rights can play out in complicated ways. By narrow margins, Wisconsin voters re-elected their pro-choice Democratic governor and an anti-abortion GOP senator. Kansas re-elected a Democratic governor who supports abortion rights. Meanwhile, staunchly anti-abortion GOP governors in Georgia, Florida and Texas easily won their contests.
Stephen Billy of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America rejected any suggestion that the overall midterm outcome reflected a surge of support for abortion rights. He acknowledged that abortion opponents were outspent in the key ballot-measure campaigns and needed to review their strategies.
The Kentucky ballot measure was originally considered a conservative vote driver. But after the Roe decision, abortion-rights supporters raised nearly $1.5 million to fight it.
Thousands of voters who cast their ballots for Republican Sen. Rand Paul split with the party on the abortion ballot measure, returns showed.
At a elementary school in Simpsonville, a small town outside of Louisville, 71-year-old Republican voter Jim Stewart said he voted for Paul, but chose no on the amendment, even though he’s opposed to abortion.
“You got to have a little choice there,” he said.
In Michigan, supporters of the push to protect abortion rights collected more signatures than any other ballot initiative in state history to get it before the voters. It puts a definitive end to a 1931 ban on abortion that had been blocked in court but could have been revived.
On Michigan State University’s campus, junior Devin Roberts said students seemed “fired up” and that he had seen lines of voters spilling out of the school’s polling places throughout the day. The ballot measure was one of the main drivers of the high turnout, he said.
“I think students want to have the same rights that their parents had when they were younger,” Roberts said.
Democrats also won full control of the Michigan state government for the first time in 40 years. Democratic state Sen. Jeremy Moss said the outcome showed abortion’s resonance for voters, even in a year where issues like inflation and public safety loomed large. “I think that Republicans really discounted that … abortion is an economic agenda, a freedom agenda, and people really showed out to support choice,” he said.
Christen Pollo, spokeswoman for Citizens Supporting MI Women & Children, blamed the Michigan measure’s success on out-of-state donors and predicted an “inevitable flood of litigation” over issues of parental consent.
Kentucky’s election outcome doesn’t lift its ban, which does not include exceptions for rape and incest, but it means a legal battle over the law will keep playing out. The ban faces a legal challenge presently before the state Supreme Court, and the amendment’s rejection leaves open the possibility that the court could declare abortion a state right.
Anti-abortion groups in Kentucky said they were disappointed in the results but the executive director of the Family Foundation pointed out that abortion bans remain in place and voters again backed “pro-life legislative majorities” in state government.
The reproductive-rights question in Vermont came after Legislature passed a law in 2019 guaranteeing reproductive rights, including becoming pregnant and having access to birth control. Supporters with the Reproductive Liberty Ballot Committee said the overturning of Roe meant “state-level protections are vital to safeguarding access to reproductive health care.”
California already had passed several measures aimed at easing access to abortion and set aside millions of taxpayer dollars to help pay for some out-of-state abortion travel. On Tuesday, voters approved language that would explicitly guarantee access to abortion and contraception in the state constitution.
In Montana, meanwhile, it was too early to determine the result of a ballot measure to create criminal penalties for health care providers unless they do everything “medically appropriate and reasonable” to save the life of a baby after birth, including the rare possibility of birth after an attempted abortion.
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Associated Press writers Tammy Webber in Flint, Michigan, Joey Cappelletti in Lansing, Michigan, Rebecca Reynolds in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Dylan Lovan in Louisville, Kentucky, and David Crary in New York contributed to this report.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the 2022 midterm elections at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections. And learn more about the issues and factors at play in the midterms at https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-the-elections. | 2022-11-10T06:01:16+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-abortion-supporters-win-in-conservative-liberal-states/ |
MSU professor says gunman looked like a robot as he killed and wounded students
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By Miguel Marquez, Meridith Edwards and Rachel Clarke, CNN
The noise was so loud it didn’t sound like the gunfire from the movies to Marco Díaz-Muñoz — it was more like an electrical generator blowing up. “But then there was one, there was two, there was three,” the assistant Michigan State University professor told CNN of the sounds. And then a gunman stepped inside his classroom.
Díaz-Muñoz was about halfway through his Monday night class on Cuban literature when the world changed for him, his students and MSU as a whole. In minutes the welcoming, open campus community was shattered by another gunman’s rampage in another school, by another mass shooting in America that killed the innocent.
Díaz-Muñoz’s class was the first location targeted by the gunman, who also opened fire in the MSU student union before, authorities say, he was confronted by police and killed himself.
“I could see this figure, and it was so horrible because when you see someone who’s totally masked, you don’t see their face, you don’t see their hands — it was like seeing a robot,” Díaz-Muñoz said of the man who came in his classroom.
“It was like seeing something not human standing there.”
Díaz-Muñoz could see it all as the man stepped a few inches through the rear door of room 114 in Berkey Hall, the teaching room he always requested. The professor was across the classroom, teaching at the front.
“I don’t know how long he stood there,” the professor recalled. “He shot at least 15 shots, one after the other, one after the other. Bang, bang, bang.”
And then the gunman stepped back into the hallway, but Díaz-Muñoz did not know if the threat was over.
“My intuition told me he’s walking down the hall and he’s going to enter through the door I’m closest to” by the front of the room, he said.
“So, I threw myself at that door and I squatted and I held the door like this,” he said, holding his hands clenched tight in front of his face, “so that my weight would keep it and I was putting my foot on the wall.” All the time, he said, he was aware the gunman could shoot through the handle he was holding.
He told his students to kick out the windows of the ground-floor room so they could escape. The bottom panes would not break, but those above did, and some students were able to scramble out, he said.
Others did not go. “They were trying to cover the wounds (of the injured) with their hands so they didn’t bleed to death,” Díaz-Muñoz said. “They were heroic because they could have escaped through the windows. They stayed, helping their classmates.”
It was 10, maybe 12, minutes — each feeling like an eternity — before Díaz-Muñoz saw police officers at his door, moved his body from its position as a barricade and let them in, allowing himself to go check on his students.
“There was a horrendous scene. I’ve never seen so much blood,” he said.
Some students had tried to take cover under the fixed seats of the classroom. One man in the middle of a row was calling out for help, saying he had asthma and could not breathe.
Díaz-Muñoz says he cannot handle seeing blood, always turning away if any is drawn from him for a test. In other circumstances he imagined he would simply have fainted from the sight, but this time other reactions kicked in.
Díaz-Muñoz said he started to pull one of the students out, but then stopped in case he was hurting more than helping.
He was then cleared from the room by police officers or paramedics, he said.
He learned later that two of his students, Arielle Anderson and Alexandria Verner, died. Brian Fraser was shot and killed at the student union. Díaz-Muñoz believes most or all of the injured were in his class, too.
“These two kids that died were just nice kids, serious students, both of them.”
Seeing them fatally wounded in his class, in his favorite room of his favorite building on his beloved campus, haunts him. Díaz-Muñoz first arrived at MSU as a graduate student, then returned in 2008 to teach. Whenever schedules were drawn up, he always asked to be put back in room 114 of Berkey Hall. He knew how to work the tech there and loved the view through the windows towards the Broad Art Museum, he explained.
Now, the vision of young life slaughtered is top of his mind.
“This is the image I want to erase, that was just horrendous,” he said.
“I don’t know how to explain to you the guilt, the horror, the guilt, the pain that I felt, and I still feel,” he said.
Díaz-Muñoz said he got home at about 3 a.m. on Tuesday. His wife, who had been waiting for him in a different hallway to the one believed used by the gunman, was with him. A chronic insomniac, he took medication and slept, he said.
For the rest of Tuesday, he gave himself permission not to think of anything, he said.
“There is a part of me that feels like I want to go under the blankets and take more pills and not wake up for a while,” he said. “I want to not remember these scenes and not have to go teach that class.
“But there is another part of me that feels a great need, a strong need to see my students again … to see that they are alive, I need to see their faces.” He is trying to write them a letter, but is struggling with what to say.
And he has a broader urge, too.
“Something kicked in in me that if I can do anything to stop this madness, I need to. People need to know what happened.”
He adds his voice to those who want more to be done about the mental health crisis in the US, and to address gun control. And by telling his story, he hopes he can paint a picture of what happened.
“It’s very different to hear in the news a statistic — three more kids died or 12 more died — than to see what I saw,” he explained.
“I think if those senators or lawmakers saw what I saw, not just hear statistics, they would be shamed into action.”
As a professor, he says he knows how to rationalize — to argue one side and get you to believe it and then turn around and argue the other side and be just as convincing.
He said he believes that politicians and others are rationalizing the causes and impacts of shootings to meet their own agenda when he feels the most beneficial changes in history have come from people allowing themselves to listen to their humanity.
He said he has felt the weight of what happened. “I was crying in that classroom, seeing the damage done and the pain and the horrible scenes … especially those two girls,” he said.
For now, he does want to teach again. To again be the strict but fair professor who pushes students to get as much as they can from the courses they pay for. Especially for the students in his Monday night Cuban lit class, with whom he now shares even more of a bond.
“Those kids to me are like my family now, and I want to see them,” he said. “I want to help them, and I want to inspire them, and I want to teach them, and I want to help them finish the semester in as positive a note as it can be under the circumstances.
“I think I need to see them. I think they need to see me and be in a classroom and somehow build from the broken pieces something positive.”
But not in that room. Not where a man who looked more like a robot stole lives and a sense of peace.
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How to Watch the Iowa vs. LSU Game: Women's Basketball Streaming & TV Channel Info for the NCAA Tournament National Championship
Published: Apr. 2, 2023 at 10:12 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The national championship will be decided when the Iowa Hawkeyes (31-6) and LSU Lady Tigers (33-2) play in the final game of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday at American Airlines Center, tipping off at 3:30 PM.
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Iowa vs. LSU Scoring Comparison
- The Lady Tigers put up an average of 81.7 points per game, 10.8 more points than the 70.9 the Hawkeyes give up to opponents.
- LSU has put together a 23-0 record in games it scores more than 70.9 points.
- Iowa has a 19-0 record when its opponents score fewer than 81.7 points.
- The Hawkeyes put up 87.3 points per game, 30.1 more points than the 57.2 the Lady Tigers give up.
- Iowa is 23-6 when scoring more than 57.2 points.
- LSU is 27-0 when giving up fewer than 87.3 points.
- The Hawkeyes shoot 51.1% from the field, 15.5% higher than the Lady Tigers concede defensively.
- The Lady Tigers' 46.1 shooting percentage from the field is 6.4 higher than the Hawkeyes have given up.
Iowa Schedule
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LOS ANGELES — President Joe Biden and other Western Hemisphere leaders are set to announce on Friday what is being billed as a roadmap for countries to host large numbers of migrants and refugees.
“The Los Angeles Declaration” is perhaps the biggest achievement of the Summit of the Americas, which was undercut by differences over Biden’s invitation list. Leaders of Mexico and several Central American countries sent top diplomats instead after the U.S. excluded Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
A set of principles to be announced Friday on the summit's final day includes legal pathways to enter countries, aid to communities most affected by migration, humane border management and coordinated emergency responses, according to a senior U.S. official who briefed reporters ahead of an official announcement.
It is a blueprint already being followed to a large extent by Colombia and Ecuador, whose right-leaning leaders were warmly greeted at the summit for welcoming many of the 6 million people who have left Venezuela in recent years.
President Guillermo Lasso of Ecuador last week announced temporary status for Venezuelans in his country, estimated to be around 500,000. He said at a panel discussion Tuesday that his country was paying back the generosity of Spain and the United States for welcoming large numbers of Ecuadoreans who fled more than two decades ago.
President Ivan Duque of Colombia got standing ovations at an appearance Thursday for describing how his government has granted temporary status to 1 million Venezuelans in the last 14 months and is processing another 800,000 applications.
“We did it out of conviction,” Duque told The Associated Press, saying he couldn't be indifferent to Venezuelans who lost their homes and livelihoods and was prepared to suffer in approval ratings.
“They were invisible (in Colombia),” he said. "They couldn't open bank accounts, they couldn't work, they couldn't get health care. They were practically a community with no future."
While the measures are not universally popular, Venezuelans have assimilated without major backlash.
“The two most dangerous phenomena are xenophobia and indifference, and I believe we have managed to conquer both (in Colombia),” Duque said.
The United States has been the most popular destination for asylum-seekers since 2017, posing a challenge that has stumped Biden and his immediate predecessors, Donald Trump and Barack Obama.
But the U.S. is far from alone. Colombia and neighboring South American countries host millions of people who have fled Venezuela. Mexico fielded more than 130,000 asylum applications last year, many of them Haitians, which was triple from 2020. Many Nicaraguans escape to Costa Rica, while displaced Venezuelans account for about one-sixth the population of tiny Aruba.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday that the summit declaration acknowledged migration's regional dimensions.
“It’s a hemispheric challenge,” he said in an interview, singling out Colombia, Ecuador and Costa Rica for hosting large numbers of migrants.
The responses of Colombia and Ecuador cannot be replicated, said José Samaniego, the U.N. refugee agency's regional director for the Americas. Each country is different, and migration from Central America is more complicated than Venezuela.
“You don't want to copy and paste," he said, “but there are good practices.” | 2022-06-10T19:20:10+00:00 | kagstv.com | https://www.kagstv.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-leaders-migration-pact-despite-summit-attendance-flap/507-541cfb95-9e88-4cfe-bfee-62b8bf21a0af |
Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler headed directly to Los Angeles following Friday night’s loss to the Denver Nuggets in the hope of getting final clearance from doctors there not to have to miss additional time this season to manage his sore right knee.
The Heat previously had announced that Butler would be limited to only one game in back-to-back sets in December, with Friday night’s 37:50 in the 124-119 loss to the Nuggets at the start of the five-game trip precluding a Saturday appearance against the Utah Jazz at Vivint Arena.
The Heat do not play their next back-to-back set until Feb. 10 at home against the Houston Rockets and Feb. 11 at the Orlando Magic.
Butler, 33, previously sat out the second night of a back-to-back set this month on Dec. 6 against the Detroit Pistons and the first night of a back-to-back set Dec. 14 against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
In bypassing Saturday night’s game, Butler has now missed 14 of the season’s first 37 games: two in a row due to left-hip tightness in early November, seven in a row in late November due to right-knee soreness, and in December, one with a gastrointestinal illness, one with a sprained right ankle, and three due to injury management with the right knee.
Butler is earning $37.7 million this season, with three more seasons under contract to the Heat at $45.2 million, $48.8 million and then $52.4 million in 2025-26.
The team will meet Butler in Los Angeles, with a Monday night game against the Los Angeles Clippers and a Wednesday night game against the Los Angeles Lakers, before concluding the five-game trip Saturday against the Phoenix Suns.
Seeking more
Center Bam Adebayo made clear after the loss in Denver that he was not pleased with the 18-18 record the Heat took into Saturday night’s game.
“The thing about it, we don’t want to be mediocre. We don’t want to be in the middle of the pack,” he said, with the Heat entering Saturday in seventh place in the Eastern Conference, a playoff seed that would have them in the play-in round of the postseason.
The Nuggets shot a staggering .812 from the field in Friday’s fourth quarter to outscore the Heat 39-29 in the decisive final period.
“We pride ourselves in being able to find a way to win games with defensive stops going down the stretch and I can’t recall a stop in the last three or four minutes,” coach Erik Spoelstra said in the wake of the loss, with the Nuggets 13 of 15 from the field and 5 of 5 on 3-pointers in that fourth quarter, overcoming an eight-point deficit in the period. “I’m sure maybe there was one, but I just don’t remember it. It seemed like they were scoring or getting fouled on every single one of those possessions.”
Robinson’s record
With his third and final 3-pointer Friday, Duncan Robinson moved past Tim Hardaway’s Heat team career record of 806 3-pointers.
“I just feel very fortunate and blessed to get it,” he said. “A lot of people contributed to it, certainly not just myself. So I’m grateful for that. I’ll definitely take a second to just appreciate it.”
Spoelstra said it was a moment that deserved reflection.
“I mean, it’s not nothing,” he said. " It’s pretty remarkable what he’s been able to do and how much he’s had to overcome with the different path to get to this point. I’m happy for him. And I know Timmy was happy for him. I just wish it could have led to a win.”
Adebayo said it’s meaningful that Robinson will further set a new record with each 3-pointer he converts going forward.
“It’s one of those things I always thought he could do and he achieved it,” Adebayo said. “So now he’s breaking his record every time he makes one.” | 2022-12-31T18:12:42+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-heat/fl-sp-miami-heat-notebook-saturday-20221231-6352wolb2ne35dhoxtkg37t47i-story.html |
A report says instances of political violence were down slightly in 2021 from the year before. But militant groups were recruiting and shifting tactics to lay the groundwork for increased violence.
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A report says instances of political violence were down slightly in 2021 from the year before. But militant groups were recruiting and shifting tactics to lay the groundwork for increased violence.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-05-03T10:33:10+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/2022-05-03/far-right-militant-groups-align-with-issue-oriented-groups-ahead-of-midterms |
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)
Elisa M. Trucco, Florida International University and Julie Cristello, Florida International University
(THE CONVERSATION) Viral social media trends started innocently enough.
In the early 2010s there was planking, the “Harlem Shake” dance and lip syncing to Carly Rae Jepsen’s summer anthem “Call Me Maybe.”
Then came the ice bucket challenge, which raised an estimated US$115 million for ALS research.
In recent years, social media challenges have grown more popular – and more dangerous, leading to serious injuries and even deaths. It’s not hard to see why. The milk crate challenge dares people to walk or run across a loosely stacked pyramid of milk crates, the Tide pod challenge involves eating laundry detergent pods, and the Benadryl challenge encourages taking six or more doses of over-the-counter allergy medication all at once.
As clinical psychology researchers, we study why social media challengesare so appealing to teens despite the dangers they pose, and steps parents can take to protect their kids.
Appeal of viral stunts
Almost all American teens today have access to a smartphone and actively use multiple social media platforms – with YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat being the most popular among this age group.
Meanwhile, the teenage years are linked to an increase in risk-taking. The human brain isn’t fully developed until a person reaches their mid-20s, and the parts of the brain that relate to reward and doing what feels good develop more quickly than areas linked to decision-making. As a result, teens are more likely to act impulsively and risk physical injury to gain popularity.
Teens are also particularly vulnerable to social pressure.
A 2016 study found that teens were more likely to “like” a photo – even when it showed drug or alcohol use – if the photo had more “likes” from peers. The same study also showed that activity increased in the reward centers of teenage brains when viewing posts with more “likes.” Simply put, teens pay closer attention to social media content with a high number of “likes” and views.
In best-case scenarios, this vulnerability to social pressure may result in, say, buying a certain brand of sneakers. Yet in worst-case scenarios, this can lead teens to do dangerous stunts to impress or amuse their friends.
In our work, we found that celebrities, musicians, athletes and influencers can also increase risky teen behaviors, such as alcohol and drug use, especially because they earn many “likes” and attract huge followings on social media.
Teens today may find it more difficult to resist social pressure. They not only have unlimited access to their peers and other influencers, but online social networks are also much larger, with teens following hundreds – sometimes thousands – of online users.
What parents can do
Below are five ways parents can help their teen resist social pressure and avoid risks linked to social media trends.
1. Listen to your teen
Parents can learn more about social media by asking their teen open-ended questions about their experiences, such as, “Has anything you’ve seen on Instagram upset you lately?”
Share your own concerns about social media while listening to your teen’s thoughts and perspectives. This kind of open communication can improve kids’ mental health and social skills.
Research also shows that watching media content with your teens – and discussing issues that come up during and after media use – helps with children’s brain development and critical thinking. It can also help to resolve questions or clear up misinformation.
2. Talk about what is rewarding
Teens don’t always know why they engage in certain behaviors or are curious about dangerous activities. Having a conversation with them about what feels good about “likes” and comments online could help them identify similar rewarding experiences offline – such as joining a school sports team or extracurricular club. Research shows that sports participation is a helpful way to build one’s social identity, self-esteem and meaningful connections with others.
3. Talk about what is risky
Social media posts often glamorize risky behaviors. For example, alcohol use posts focus on the fun aspects and avoid depictions of blackouts or injury. Similarly, teens see “likes” and views from social media challenges, but not hospitalizations and deaths.
Parents can talk to teens about this gap. Since teens are often more knowledgeable about the latest social media challenges, ask them about the topic and help them think through possible risks.
4. Get informed
One of the best ways to connect with teens is to learn about topics that interest them. If they enjoy Instagram, consider creating your own account and ask them to show you the ropes on the platform, as teaching others can be rewarding for teens. Also, take the time to explore on your own and keep up to date on social media features, challenges and risky trends.
5. Make a plan
A family media plan can help you and your teen agree on screen-free times, media curfews and ways to choose good media habits. Social media can also help teens form friendships, stay connected with distant friends and family members, reduce stress and access medical providers, help lines or other tools that support physical and mental health.
Come up with a plan that all family members can follow to enjoy the benefits of social media. Your family can always revise the media plan as your child gets older.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/teenage-brains-are-drawn-to-popular-social-media-challenges-heres-how-parents-can-get-their-kids-to-think-twice-204686. | 2023-05-18T13:35:48+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/teenage-brains-are-drawn-to-popular-social-media-18106239.php |
Nonprofit health plan ranked 72 in national list with nearly 90% of employees reporting the company as a great place to work
OAKLAND, Calif., April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Great Place To Work® and Fortune magazine have honored Blue Shield of California as one of the 2023 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®. This is Blue Shield's second time being named to this prestigious list, this year coming year coming in at No. 72.
Earning a spot means that Blue Shield has surpassed rigorous benchmarks, establishing itself as one of the best places to work in the country. To determine the 100 Best Companies to Work For, Great Place To Work analyzed the anonymous survey responses of more than half a million employees from Great Place To Work Certified™ companies with at least 1,000 workers. Companies also submitted essays describing their efforts to offer generous and innovative support for workers, which were validated against employee survey responses.
"Creating a healthcare system that is worthy of our family and friends and sustainably affordable starts with our people who make this a great place to do meaningful work," said Paul Markovich, President and CEO, Blue Shield of California. "We believe that creating a great employee experience translates to a better member and customer experience, which is our top priority. We are honored that our efforts are once again recognized by Fortune and Great Place To Work."
Making the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list is highly competitive. Survey responses reflect a comprehensive picture of the workplace experience. Honorees were selected based on their ability to offer positive outcomes for employees regardless of job role, race, gender, sexual orientation, work status, or other demographic identifier.
"It's in times like these that the best workplaces separate themselves," said Michael C. Bush, CEO, Great Place To Work. "In a challenging economy, many companies reduce investments in their people and scale back goals for diversity, equity, and inclusion. But these companies, the 100 Best, relentlessly pursue a better work experience for every employee, and if anything, double down on the employee experience regardless of title, tenure, gender, or ethnicity. These companies know this is how you increase performance, productivity, and your innovation velocity when your firm needs it the most."
"Fortune is pleased to have collaborated once again with Great Place To Work to recognize the 100 Best Companies to Work For," said Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell. "We congratulate all the organizations included in this year's ranking for creating positive work environments and value for their employees, especially during this period of economic uncertainty."
The full list of Blue Shield of California's previous achievements is located here.
About Blue Shield of California
Blue Shield of California strives to create a healthcare system worthy of its family and friends that is sustainably affordable. Blue Shield of California is a tax paying, nonprofit, independent member of the Blue Shield Association with over 4.7 million members, over 7,800 employees and more than $22.9 billion in annual revenue. Founded in 1939 in San Francisco and now headquartered in Oakland, Blue Shield of California and its affiliates provide health, dental, vision, Medicaid and Medicare healthcare service plans in California. The company has contributed more than $192 million to Blue Shield of California Foundation in the last five years to have an impact on California communities.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Air National Guard this week traveled nearly 660 miles (1,062 kilometers) to rescue a pregnant woman on a small island 2 miles (3 kilometers) from Russia, reflecting the challenges patients face in the nation’s largest state where the most remote areas have no roads and hospitals can be hundreds of miles away.
There was no air strip for a fixed-wing aircraft, so the crews flew a twin-engine combat search and rescue helicopter from the Anchorage area to the island in the Bering Strait. A long-range search and rescue aircraft guided the helicopter through mountain passes and refueled it in the air several times during the 5-hour flight.
Russian aircraft routinely fly near the Bering Strait, but Alaska Air National Guard Maj. Sara Warren, who was the on-duty rescue officer, said they took every measure to avoid any conflict, including staying on the U.S. side of the international date line.
“There was absolutely no activity from them,” she said of the Russians.
These types of extreme rescues by both the guard and other agencies are common in a state that is almost 2 1/2 times the size of Texas and has more shoreline than the lower 48 states combined. The Alaska Air National Guard has conducted 14 such rescues already this year, the agency said.
“It’s very different here in Alaska because we don’t have the infrastructure that they have down in the lower 48,” said Alaska National Guard spokesperson Alan Brown. “You’re looking at the civilian agencies (that) have a more robust capability; there are more of them.”
Alaska, with a population of only about 730,000 people, is remote, spread out and often has extreme weather, forcing everyone to team up to conduct life-saving missions. A total of 41 people worked on the recent rescue mission on the small island.
“Our guys, fortunately, because of the nature of their federal mission for search and rescue, they have to be capable,” Brown said. “They have to train regularly in extreme weather conditions all across the region and that just makes them prime for this type of rescue.”
The rescue call came Monday morning, said Warren. They were informed of a pregnant woman with severe abdominal pains in Diomede, a village of 80 people on the western side of Little Diomede Island. It’s a traditional Ingalikmiut Eskimo village, whose residents live a subsistence lifestyle, hunting seal, polar bears and blue crab. There are no medical professionals living on the island.
It’s separated from Big Diomede Island, which is owned by Russia, by 2 miles (3 kilometers) of frozen Bering Sea ice this time of the year. The international date line runs between the two islands.
Compounding the rescue was not only lingering fog from sea ice, but also a power outage in Diomede, Warren said. Townspeople would call the nearest hospital in Nome, 130 miles (209 kilometers) away every hour providing updates and then shut the phones off to conserve power. A doctor in Nome would then relay the most current information back to those at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.
A medical crew was on standby in Nome to fly to Diomede when the fog lifted, but their window of opportunity passed, so the National Guard aircraft launched from Anchorage. The plane would fly ahead after fueling the helicopter to perform weather reconnaissance, leading the helicopter away from storms, through several passes of the Alaska Range and to Diomede. Warren and others at the base monitored all of it in real time.
“They eventually did get her out without causing any kind of incidents,” Warren said.
The woman was then flown to Nome and was doing fine, she said.
Such a complex mission is second hand to the Alaska Air National Guard as compared to other states, where guard crews might be involved in search and rescue missions. This incident involved the Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons.
In Alaska, guardsmen are accustomed to handling complex missions, factoring in bad weather, solving time-distance problems and dealing with harsh terrain, mainly because they train in these conditions as well.
The Guard considers — and even counts on — such missions part of their regular training and thus could not provide a cost estimate for the rescue. The missions provide “exceptional real-world training opportunities not otherwise available,” Brown said.
“Standing up and planning for these types of missions, flying through challenging conditions over varied terrain and saving lives keeps our skills sharp and perfectly translates into mission capability for our national defense,” he added.
The guard’s 176th Wing conducted 55 missions in 2022 and 57 in 2021.
Of the most recent rescue, Warren said, “That was just another Monday.” | 2023-04-06T23:19:00+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/660-mile-rescue-flight-highlights-alaskas-unique-challenges/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Horizon Capital's Ukraine-focused Fund IV exceeds target size, raising over $250m at its Interim Closing; becomes CEE's first 2X Flagship Fund and 1 of 10 globally
Published: Apr. 28, 2023 at 10:00 AM CDT|Updated: 30 minutes ago
LONDON, April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Horizon Capital Growth Fund IV (HCGF IV) exceeded its target size today, doubling commitments to $254 million and becoming the 1st fund in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to be awarded 2X Flagship Fund status, 1 of circa 10 funds globally who have achieved this distinction, and 1 of only 2 such funds who are women-founded and women-led. The Fund will provide growth capital to back visionary entrepreneurs in Ukraine and Moldova. HCGF IV is managed by Horizon Capital, a U.S. private-equity firm investing in fast-growing tech and export-oriented companies in Ukraine and the near region, and led by Founding Partner and CEO Lenna Koszarny.
Ukrainian tech continues to demonstrate improvement in gender diversity, accelerated by long-standing traditions of STEM education as well as demand for talent. Beyond the sharp increase in the share of women in tech, up from 7% in 2012 to 27% in 2021, the industry has already produced numerous global success stories of women founders, including Creatio and BetterMe among others. HCGF IV will apply a gender lens to its investment strategy with the intent of building a portfolio of over 30% of 2X eligible investments, further building on its current track record with the firm meeting 4 of 5 2X Challenge criteria.
International Finance Corporation ("IFC"), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ("EBRD"), US International Development Finance Corporation ("DFC"), the Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft ("DEG") and a subsidiary of KfW Group, the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank ("FMO"), Société de Promotion et de Participation pour la Coopération Économique ("Proparco"), the Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets ("SIFEM"), Swedfund International AB ("Swedfund"), Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation Ltd. ("Finnfund"), Western NIS Enterprise Fund ("WNISEF") and Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries ("IFU") have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Horizon Capital to award HCGFIV as the first 2X Flagship Fund in CEE, due to its commitment and intentionality on promoting women's economic empowerment at the fund manager level and the portfolio level.
Lenna Koszarny, Horizon Capital's Founding Partner and CEO, said: "Horizon Capital has been a trailblazer since its launch in 2006 with many firsts to be proud of. We look forward to expanding our leadership amongst our peers and inspiring others as the first Flagship Fund in the CEE region, further reaffirming our commitment to advancing women in private equity. Investing in companies with a strong commitment to gender diversity is good business, as this leads to improved financial performance, higher employee satisfaction and better outcomes. We firmly believe that companies with diverse leadership teams are more innovative, resilient, and ultimately, make better decisions and achieve greater results. This is more important now than ever in Ukraine, where agility, rapid decision-making and mobilizing the talents of diverse teams may make the difference between surviving and thriving. Adopting a gender lens investment approach both promotes gender equality and supports economic growth, while contributing social impact that is so important for Ukraine during these challenging times. For Horizon Capital, being recognized as a 2X Flagship Fund confirms our long-standing, demonstrated commitment to gender equity in doing business in Ukraine and Moldova."
Jessica Espinoza, CEO of 2X Global said: ""Raising a $250 million fund is a huge achievement – and unheard of in times of war. Lenna and her team have not only been navigating the full-scale invasion of Ukraine over the past year, supporting their 26,000 person extended Horizon Capital family through the portfolio companies that they back with growth capital in Ukraine, but has also raised tens of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid for the country. Her brave leadership and deep commitment to building a gender-smart financial and entrepreneurial ecosystem in the face of war and during a time when women and girls of Ukraine are facing severe impacts, is a huge contribution towards inclusive tech-enabled innovation, economic resilience, and freedom."
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The first appearance for Howard University in the NCAA Tournament since 1992 included a visit by one of the school’s most prominent alums.
Vice President Kamala Harris watched Howard’s 96-68 first-round loss to Kansas from a suite at Wells Fargo Arena on Thursday afternoon and met with the team afterward.
As supporters in the hallway chanted “H-U, you know!” players trickled into the locker room. Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, walked in a few minutes later.
“You played hard. You played to the very last second. You made all us Bisons proud,” Harris said, according to the press pool account of her address of the players. “You are smart. You are disciplined. You put everything you had into the game. You guys did not stop, and that is so inspiring. So you keep playing with chin up and shoulders back because you showed the world who Bison are.”
Harris, who graduated in 1986 from the historically Black university in the nation’s capital, said she has heard alumni all over the world talking about their pride in the team.
“So I know you may not be feeling great right now, OK, but know who you are,” Harris said. “You are excellence. You are hard work. You are powerful, and you are winners.”
The players were subdued after the end of their season but still able to recognize the significance of meeting Harris.
“It’s amazing to know we have people of such power that are affiliated with us and supporting us at the same time,” freshman forward Shy Odom said.
When Harris was shown on the video board during the game, the boos — Kansas and Iowa are Republican-leaning states, after all — outweighed the applause.
Wearing their Black History Month jerseys with green trim and a red script “The Mecca” on the front — in reference to Howard’s nickname as the country’s most prominent historically Black university — the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference champion Bison took the court with plenty of confidence.
“I just love how they have grown as people and have become better men over the course of this season,” coach Kenny Blakeney said. “That’s a victory no one can take away from us. I’m thrilled that we were able to represent Howard University in a classy way that honored so many people before us.”
This was just the third NCAA Tournament appearance in program history for Howard.
“We have had a lot of games on national TV,” Blakeney said, “but certainly being in the NCAA Tournament there are more eyes and visibility on you, which is amazing because we have a chance to talk about our university as one of the greatest on the face of this planet.”
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AP March Madness coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness and bracket: https://apnews.com/hub/ncaa-mens-bracket and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 2023-03-17T01:35:46+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/howard-paid-visit-by-vp-harris-in-1st-ncaa-tourney-since-92/ |
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