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City of Alachua holds Local Government Day
Published: Jun. 16, 2022 at 7:26 AM EDT|Updated: 53 minutes ago
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ALACHUA, Fla. (WCJB) - City of Alachua residents will be able to access multiple government services.
The Alachua County Supervisor of Elections, tax collector, property appraiser, and Florida Fish and Wildlife services will be at city hall.
This event will start at 11 am and will end at 3 pm.
This is a one-day event.
This event is open to the public.
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- GIST is a pioneering impact data and analytics company that provides investors and companies with science-based, comparable and verifiable measures of corporate impact and performance.
- FNZ's investment follows the launch of its market-leading sustainable investment solution, FNZ Impact, which enables financial institutions to provide their clients with hyper-personalized, transparent information around the environmental and social impacts of investments, offering the ability to optimise portfolios quickly and easily.
- The investment is part of a wider partnership which sees GIST's data integrated within FNZ Impact, adding to the world leading ESG data currently available within the solution.
- The partnership builds on the companies' shared ambition to open-up wealth by making sustainability data more accessible and transparent so that investors can invest in the things they care about, on their own terms.
BOSTON and LONDON, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FNZ, the leading global wealth management platform, today announced that it has made a strategic investment in GIST, the pioneering impact data and analytics company that provides investors and companies with quantitative, comparable, and verifiable measures of corporate impact and performance across all four capitals: natural, human, social, and produced.
As well as supporting GIST's rapid growth and mission, FNZ's investment will build on the existing collaboration between the two companies and forms part of a wider partnership which sees GIST's sustainability data integrated into its market-leading sustainable investment solution, FNZ Impact. The integration builds on the world leading ESG data currently available within FNZ Impact and accelerates the companies shared ambition to open-up wealth by making sustainability data more accessible and transparent so that investors can invest in the things they care about, on their own terms.
FNZ Impact, a solution integrated into the wider FNZ wealth management platform, which supports over 650 of the world's leading financial institutions and 8,000 wealth management firms in 21 countries, helps financial institutions to provide their clients with hyper-personalized, transparent information around the environmental and social impacts of investment portfolios, and offers the ability to optimise portfolios based not just on risk appetite, goals and tax but also by personal preferences and values.
This means retail investors, their advisers and wealth managers can better understand the issues that matter most to them and address these by allocating capital accordingly, making investment part of the solution to global challenges.
There is growing awareness and scrutiny of corporate ESG credentials from investors. However, current ESG ratings and rankings can pose challenges due to biases and a lack of standardisation, transparency, independence and credible information.
GIST addresses this challenge by using a science-based approach to measure and value corporate impacts in monetary terms based on the 'Four Capitals' framework (natural capital, human capital, social capital and produced capital). This consistent and universal framework is used by the United Nations and a growing number of investors and corporates to evaluate performance and report on impact. GIST's monetized impact values can also be mapped to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), providing clarity and insight on the extent to which a company's activities have contributed to each of the SDGs.
In doing so, GIST (founded in 2011, and employing over 100 people across its offices in Geneva, London, Mumbai and Singapore) provides a complete and consistent picture of materiality, highlights hidden risks, allows meaningful comparisons between companies and across sectors, and supports evidence-based decision making.
Dr Vian Sharif, Head of Sustainability at FNZ, said: "The imperative for robust, science-based impact data has never been stronger, particularly ahead of a number of global regulatory changes, which require investment firms and advisers to incorporate clients' ESG preferences into their suitability assessments.
"The allocation of capital is critical to driving the change required to transition to net-zero and building a more sustainable economy and society. By democratising information on the impact of portfolios, FNZ Impact empowers investors, their advisers and wealth managers to contribute to a sustainable future for the next generation through their investment decisions.
"In GIST, we believe we've found not only one of the most rigorous and transparent methodologies in the market, but a company and team with a mission aligned strongly to our own and whose growth we are excited to support."
Pavan Sukhdev, Founder & CEO of GIST, said: "We are delighted to have FNZ as a strategic investor and a partner in our mission. FNZ and GIST have shared goals and we believe that, together, we can drive real, measurable change in the investment landscape by empowering investors with the impact data they need to make better informed decisions at all stages of investment life cycles, from asset selection to risk management to exits.
"Our shared mission is to embed GIST impact methodology and algorithms into every responsible investor's toolkit. There has never been greater urgency for investors and corporations to recognise and quantify all dimensions of investment impacts, and in doing so, to redefine corporate performance.
"FNZ's support will boost GIST's objective to mainstream our solutions, enabling more and more investors and corporations to measure performance across all value dimensions, manage material risks, and make better decisions in the interest of shareholders as well as other significant stakeholders."
Notes to editors
FNZ is a diamond sponsor of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Annual Operations Conference & Exhibition, taking place in Phoenix, Arizona from 16 until 19 May. FNZ's North America CEO, Tom Chard, will be one of the speakers on a breakout panel session on sustainable finance. To register, please click here.
About FNZ
FNZ is the global platform provider in the wealth management sector, partnering with over 650 of the world's leading financial institutions and over 8,000 wealth management firms. With over 4,500 employees in 21 countries, FNZ's mission is to open-up wealth, empowering all people to create wealth through personal investment, aligned with things they care about the most, on their own terms.
FNZ combines technology, infrastructure, and investment operations in a single state-of-the-art platform that frees its institutional customers to create hyper-personalised and innovative products and services, that are seamlessly aligned with the needs of their clients.
To date, FNZ has enabled over 20 million people, from all wealth segments, to invest in an effective, simple, and transparent way, making wealth management accessible to everyone.
About GIST
GIST is a pioneering data and analytics company that brings together world-renowned sustainability expertise with technology and big data to help investors and companies measure, value, and benchmark business impacts across all four capitals: Natural, Human, Social, and Produced. GIST's data and software solutions provide analytics and insights that make it easy for investors and companies to measure performance across all value dimensions, manage material risks, and make informed decisions.
Founded by Pavan Sukhdev (UN Goodwill Ambassador, and winner of the 2020 Tyler Prize for the Environment), GIST is at the cutting edge of measuring impacts using a scientifically sound and economically rigorous methodology that provides unique and unparalleled insight into how companies impact society and the environment. GIST has been measuring and quantifying impact for over 16 years, and the GIST team brings a depth and breadth of experience in sustainability, science and economics that is unmatched in the market. To learn more, please visit www.gistimpact.com.
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Upscale Brand Debuts Near State Capital as Expansion Continues in Top Destinations Around Country
ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cambria Hotels--an upscale brand franchised by Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH)--continues to rapidly expand around the country by welcoming the Cambria Hotel Manchester South Windsor. The four-story, 108-room hotel is the second property in Connecticut this year, joining the Cambria Hotel New Haven University Area.
Situated at 1000 Long Leaf Lane in South Windsor, Connecticut, the hotel is located less than 10-miles outside of Hartford--where guests can enjoy popular attractions like the Front Street District and Bushnell Park, the oldest public park in the United States. Close by to the Promenade Shops at Evergreen Walk, the property provides guests with easy access to numerous upscale retail stores and prominent restaurants as well as top area corporations, including Broadridge Financial Solutions, Pratt & Whitney, United Technologies, Coca Cola Beverages Northeast, Oxford Performance Materials, TicketNetwork, and Electro-Methods, Inc.
"We're pleased to add another exciting option to our upscale hotel repertoire, so we can help guests stay at their best on the road--whether looking to escape for an outdoor adventure, soak in the sun by the beach or experience all the action in the heart of downtown," said Janis Cannon, senior vice president, upscale brands, Choice Hotels. "The Cambria Hotel Manchester South Windsor is the second hotel in Connecticut to open in less than a month, with properties coming soon to Austin, Texas, Portland, Maine, and Orlando, Florida. We look forward to continuing our growth around the country in the top-tier locations our guests desire."
The Cambria Hotel Manchester South Windsor features upscale amenities and approachable indulgences that appeal to modern travelers, including:
- Multi-purpose indoor and outdoor spaces for productive work or relaxation, including an indoor heated pool as well as outdoor patio with firepits.
- Locally inspired design and décor, reflecting the unique personality of the surrounding community.
- Contemporary and sophisticated guest rooms, complete with design forward fixtures, abundant lighting, and plush bedding.
- Immersive, spa-style bathrooms with Bluetooth mirrors.
- Onsite dining with freshly made food, local craft beer, wine and specialty cocktails, as well as to-go options.
- Multi-function meeting and event spaces.
- State-of-the-art fitness center.
The Cambria Hotel Manchester South Windsor was developed by Radius Hospitality Development, a full-service hotel management company with decades of experience. There are currently more than 60 Cambria hotels open across the U.S. in popular cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, New Orleans, and Phoenix, with more than 70 hotels in the pipeline.
For more information on Cambria Hotels development opportunities, visit www.choicehotelsdevelopment.com/cambriahotels.
About Cambria® Hotels
The Cambria Hotels brand is designed for the modern traveler, offering guests a distinct experience with simple, guilt-free indulgences allowing them to treat themselves while on the road. Properties feature compelling design inspired by the location, spacious and comfortable rooms, flexible meeting space, and local, freshly prepared food and craft beer. Cambria Hotels is rapidly expanding in major U.S. cities, with hotels open in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C. There are over 130 Cambria properties open or in the pipeline across the United States, with more than 60 currently open. To learn more, visit www.choicehotels.com/cambria.
About Choice Hotels®
Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. Choice recently acquired Radisson Hotels Americas, adding nine brands and approximately 67,000 rooms in the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean to its portfolio. With 22 brands, Choice Hotels has more than 7,500 hotels, and nearly 650,000 rooms, in 46 countries and territories as of August 11, 2022. The Choice® family of hotel brands provide business and leisure travelers with a broad range of high-quality lodging options from limited service to full-service hotels in the upper upscale, upper mid-scale, midscale, extended-stay and economy segments. The award-winning Choice Privileges® loyalty program offers members a faster way to rewards, with personalized benefits starting on day one. For more information, visit www.choicehotels.com.
Forward-Looking Statement
This communication includes "forward-looking statements" about future events, including anticipated hotel openings. Such statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including construction delays, availability and cost of financing and the other "Risk Factors" described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, any of which could cause actual results to be materially different from our expectations.
Addendum
This is not an offering. No offer or sale of a franchise will be made except by a Franchise Disclosure Document first filed and registered with applicable state authorities. A copy of the Franchise Disclosure Document can be obtained through contacting Choice Hotels International at 1 Choice Hotels Circle, Suite 400, Rockville, MD 20850, development@choicehotels.com.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
3-4-9-4
(three, four, nine, four)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
3-4-9-4
(three, four, nine, four) | 2022-08-04T03:36:18+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Evening-game-17350176.php |
Thistle Security Platform enables software update and other security capabilities lacking in IoT devices today
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Thistle Technologies, a provider of security infrastructure for embedded devices, today announced Thistle Security Platform, a set of tools and services that bring software updates and other security functionality to the world of embedded devices.
The Thistle Security Platform allows device manufacturers to develop a modern security architecture quickly and easily. While deploying software updates on general purpose operating systems is easy and often automatic, embedded devices often require manual updating, if they can be updated at all. These devices are getting more complex and are essentially robust computers attached to critical infrastructure throughout industries, including transportation, telecommunications, financial, and many others. They lack the same security resilience seen in computers in the data center and the desktop, yet face the same threats and have a big attack surface that leaves organizations' sensitive systems exposed.
With Thistle, device manufacturers and development teams responsible for maintaining embedded devices can incorporate advanced security functionality into their existing environments with ease. This approach allows for reliable and hassle-free software updates. Devices can be updated automatically, remotely from a data center and, for on-prem equipment, via a network instead of USB cable. This means fewer IT headaches, and sensitive environments that can't risk down time can have secure devices without inconvenient and costly business interruptions.
"We want to democratize security, to make it easy for engineers to build sophisticated security into their devices," said Window Snyder, founder of Thistle Technologies. "Organizations with small teams may have just a few developers working on devices for high-stakes environments, like power, water or telecom companies. These embedded devices are fully functional computers but they may lack the same security infrastructure that general purpose operating systems have. We're making it easy for developers to quickly incorporate this level of security functionality into their devices."
Specifically, the Thistle Security Platform includes:
- Update — which enables end-to-end signed updates, fail-over protection to return to the last known good state without having to reboot, vulnerability monitoring and access control, and can be easily integrated into any device running Windows or Linux
- Memory Allocator — which offers improved default memory allocation to mitigate buffer overflows, the most common source of security vulnerabilities
- Secure Communications — which includes an integrated memory-safe TLS stack written in Rust
Thistle Security Platform integrates seamlessly with build environments. Thistle Platform Manager is integrated with Yocto, a versatile build system for embedded Linux devices, and allows developers to speed up development time by adding features with the click of a button. Thistle integrates with OpenWrt, a router operating system used by many universities and small businesses, and U-Boot, a popular open source boot loader.
Developers who want to try Thistle can use it on 10 devices for free. Thistle enables software updates out to their devices on their workbench instead of having to use a USB cable or JTAG interface to manually update. The Thistle cloud allows for remote management of a large fleet of devices across many platforms. For example, a user can manage their embedded Linux devices and microcontroller unit-based Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) devices in a single portal.
About Thistle Technologies
Thistle Technologies is building tools that help IoT and embedded device manufacturers build security resiliency into devices. The company was founded by Window Snyder, who has been building security technologies into platforms and operating systems for more than 20 years, at Microsoft, Apple, Intel, Fastly, Square and Mozilla. Thistle is backed by True Ventures. https://thistle.tech/
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AUSTIN, Texas, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SparkCognition, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) software solutions, today announced the selection of its Oil & Gas Maintenance Advisor at National Grid Grain Liquefied Natural Gas (Grain LNG) Terminal following a successful proof of concept (POC). Integrated with Grain LNG's system, Maintenance Advisor has demonstrated an ability to successfully identify over 90 percent of production-impacting issues an average of 8 days in advance. As a result, Grain LNG can avert unplanned downtime, reduce costs and potentially increase the useful life of its LNG Terminal assets.
National Grid Grain LNG Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Grid, an energy company operating in the United Kingdom and the United States. It owns Grain LNG Terminal, located on the Isle of Grain in the United Kingdom. It is currently the largest terminal in Europe and eighth largest in the world by tank capacity with a site that spans over 600 acres in total.
Grain LNG Terminal currently has an LNG storage capacity of one million cubic meters and a throughput capability of 15 million tons annually, equivalent to 20% of UK gas demand.
"As energy demand rises, it's become increasingly important that our LNG Terminals continue to operate in a predictable, safe, and highly-efficient fashion," said Simon Culkin, Importation Manager of Grain LNG. "Using SparkCognition's industry-leading Maintenance Advisor, we can detect and address equipment problems early, avoid unplanned downtime, minimize customer interruption and costs, and potentially extend the operating life of our LNG Terminal assets."
SparkCognition's Oil & Gas Maintenance Advisor is a comprehensive AI-based predictive maintenance solution for asset optimization, capable of detecting anomalistic behavior well in advance of an issue arising. Based on a patented approach to data analysis, Maintenance Advisor learns what normal operations look like and provides prescriptive insights and steps required to mitigate downtime, optimize uptime, and improve bottom-line performance. Maintenance Advisor is highly scalable and seamlessly integrates with existing workflows.
"Our Oil and Gas Maintenance Advisor provides midstream operators, like Grain LNG, with the real-time insights they need to improve asset usefulness and effectiveness while quickly alerting stakeholders to potential issues," said Jason Chadee, Vice President for SparkCognition. "Our proprietary approach to delivering AI technology saves maintenance time and costs, maximizing an organization's ability to meet market demands while ensuring safe and efficient operations."
About SparkCognition
SparkCognition's award-winning AI solutions allow organizations to predict future outcomes, prescribe next best actions, and help ensure worker safety. We partner with the world's industry leaders to analyze, optimize, and learn from all types of data, augment human intelligence, drive profitable growth, and achieve operational excellence. Our patented AI technologies including machine learning, deep neural networks, natural language processing, and computer vision lead the industry in innovation and accelerate digital transformation. Our solutions allow organizations to solve critical problems—prevent unexpected downtime, maximize asset performance, deliver net-zero initiatives, and eliminate accidents, all while avoiding zero-day "cyberattacks. To learn more about how SparkCognition's AI solutions can unlock the power in your data, visit www.sparkcognition.com.
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Cody Sibulo
Communications Manager
csibulo@sparkcognition.com
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ATLANTA — A man is dead after getting shot several times near a convenience store in southeast Atlanta Sunday.
Atlanta Police Department officers are investigating after they were flagged down at 807 Conley Rd. SE just before 4 p.m. Police found a 48-year-old man who had been shot multiple times.
The man was rushed to the hospital with critical injuries and died, police said.
Investigators with APD's homicide unit are now looking into the shooting.
News happens fast. Download our 11Alive News app for all the latest breaking updates, and sign up for our Speed Feed newsletter to get a rundown of the latest headlines across north Georgia. | 2023-05-29T01:34:35+00:00 | 11alive.com | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/conley-road-se-atlanta-shooting/85-3b57375b-178c-48b5-9734-ca7dab4b2306 |
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Friday that he plans to sign a measure that would effectively ban abortion clinics from operating in the state, meaning hospitals will soon be the only places where they can be provided in the state.
After passing through the state Senate on Thursday with minor amendments, it returned to the Utah House of Representatives Friday morning, where it was approved and then sent to the governor for final approval. The move comes less than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision, returning the power to regulate abortions to states.
Cox told reporters that he will sign the legislation, which also clarifies the definition of abortion to address legal liability concerns providers voiced about the way exceptions are worded in state law — a provision that he and Republican lawmakers called a compromise.
“One of the concerns with the trigger bill that medical providers had across the state was there was a lack of clarity that would have made it hard for them to perform legal abortions,” Cox said.
The measure is one of several that members of Utah’s Republican-supermajority statehouse has passed this year while abortion restrictions approved in years past are on hold because of a state court injunction. It has faced fierce opposition from business, civil liberties and abortion rights groups, including Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, which operates three of the four abortion clinics in the state.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah sent Cox a letter on Friday demanding he veto the legislation, with its executive director writing it interferes with people’s rights and “pushes essential abortion care out of reach.”
Republican lawmakers’ push to shutter abortion clinics comes as red states throughout the country work to implement restrictions after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that enshrined a constitutional right to abortion for nearly 50 years.
In Utah, the ruling triggered two previously passed laws — a 2019 ban on abortion after 18 weeks and a 2020 ban on abortions regardless of trimester, with several exceptions including for instances of risk to maternal health as well as rape or incest reported to the police. The state Planned Parenthood affiliate sued over the 2020 ban, and in July, a state court delayed implementing it until legal challenges could be resolved. The 18-week ban has since been de facto law.
The clinic-centered push in Utah is unique among states with trigger laws, where many abortion clinics closed after last year’s Supreme Court decision including in West Virginia and Mississippi. The measure mirrors a raft of proposals passed in red states in the decade before Roe was overturned when anti-abortion lawmakers passed measures regulating clinics, including the size of procedure rooms and distances from hospitals.
In Utah, the proposal from Rep. Karianne Lisonbee would require all abortions — via medication or surgery — be provided in hospitals by not allowing new clinics to be licensed after May 2 and not allowing any to operate once their licenses expire. It would affect the operations of the four clinics that provide abortions in Utah — three run by Planned Parenthood and the other by Wasatch Women’s Center, an independent clinic in Salt Lake City.
In Utah last year, clinics provided most abortions. Of the total 2,818 administered, 61% were with medications like mifepristone rather than via surgery. Abortion access proponents argued abortions were no different than other kinds of specialty care that have increasingly moved to clinic settings where providers are more accustomed to recurring patient concerns and confronting complications that may arise. | 2023-03-05T02:39:33+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-abortion-clinic-ban-heads-to-utah-governor-for-signature/ |
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) – California’s coastline keeps getting sledgehammered by atmospheric rivers that have left residents wondering when January’s storms will end.
Santa Cruz County’s beautiful beaches look like disaster zones with destruction from flooding, monster ocean waves, tide surges and wind. Capitola was hit hard when its wharf split in half, homes flooded, and oceanfront restaurants were thrashed.
During a recent lull between storms, storm-weary Capitola residents wandered down to their beloved beach and discovered something unexpected. A man was bounding across the sand with a rake. For hours, he artistically carved the word “persevere” hundreds of times in a giant, geometric, Zen-inspiring design.
Stormy waves periodically washed away a section of sand he was working on. But Brighton Denevan, 30, of Santa Cruz, appeared unfazed and continued raking.
“I had my headphones in. I was very focused, going as fast as I could. The drawing is like a big dance,” Denevan told Nexstar’s KRON.
When Denevan finally finished at sunset, a crowd watching from the cliff broke into applause. One man said, “Anybody could have done that. But that guy went out there and did it.”
Denevan, as it turns out, is a professional sand artist who devotes his days to drawing public art displays on California beaches. Watching drone videos of Denevan’s creative process, it’s clear that he feels harmony with nature, even in the middle of a storm.
He was back out with his rake on January 5 by the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk despite wind and rain.
“It was crazy. There were still storm surges coming over the beach. The energy of the day pushed me to do a really big one. The drawing was erased several times while I was making it. A lot of people were watching me and my work getting destroyed over and over again,” he said
Creation and destruction are intertwined in sand art — Denevan’s designs are erased by high tides.
His design by the Boardwalk looked like a Japanese Zen garden combined with geometry.
“Ironically, I didn’t get very far in math. I think I failed geometry,” he laughed.
On Tuesday, he returned to the same beach with a fresh blank slate thanks to the tides. Denevan decided on writing “revival” as the next message of hope.
“A cold wind was blowing. The drawing conditions were not good with debris covering the beach (with) stuff that had washed out of the river and covered the beach. I had to spend extra time working my way through the debris, on a small strip of usable sand. The tide wasn’t even very low. Somehow I was still happy to be out there, enjoying this project despite the challenges, though certainly looking forward to easier days ahead,” he wrote.
On Monday the artist drew “eternal” hundreds of times between mountains of drift wood and storm debris next to Seacliff State Beach’s storm-battered pier. The majority of the pier collapsed during a storm generated by a “bomb cyclone” and atmospheric river last week.
The artist documents his work with a drone and shares the dazzling, calm-inducing footage on social media.
Denevan said he’s been drawing since he was a child. “Since I was five-years-old, I draw on paper for hours and hours.” In 2020, he picked up a rake instead of a pen, and completed his first artwork on a beach. “Sand is new, it’s a different medium (that’s) really exciting to me. I have all these ideas built up.”
Between November and December of 2022, he completed 28 drawings across 237 miles of beaches.
Denevan is walking in his father’s sandy footsteps. He and his father, a lifelong sand artist, have traveled to beaches as far away as Colombia and Saudi Arabia.
California is forecast to be walloped by three more atmospheric rivers this January. Denevan said he will continue spreading messages of hope and inspiration along the Golden State’s coast, rain or shine. | 2023-01-15T18:53:33+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/california-sand-artist-brings-moments-of-zen-to-storm-battered-coast/ |
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – Thirty dogs and cats arrived to Miami International Airport Wednesday morning from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Fiona tore through the island.
The animals -- 20 dogs and 10 cats -- were taken in by the Humane Society of Broward County from the Save-A-Sato rescue group in San Juan.
According to the Humane Society, the Puerto Rican shelter is without power, running water and the streets nearby are still flooded.
“By taking some of these animals, it’s helping to alleviate, you know, and make more room at the shelter. It’s our understanding that they’re already finding animals and bringing them to the facility, so this is just one of many flights that we anticipate helping in the next couple of weeks,” said Cherie Wachter, of the Humane Society of Broward County.
According to the Humane Society, the shelter is now cleaning up the damage left behind by the storm, helping other rescue groups and waiting for power to be restored.
The animals were flown in on an Amerijet and will rest Wednesday morning before undergoing medical exams.
The Humane Society is hoping to have the animals up for adoption by this weekend.
The Humane Society of Broward County is a nonprofit organization supported by donations from the community.
To learn more or to make a donation visit www.humanebroward.com. | 2022-09-21T11:34:49+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/09/21/30-dogs-from-puerto-rico-arrive-in-south-florida-need-loving-homes/ |
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NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: YQ) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with 17EdTech's December 2020 initial public offering (the "IPO"), of the important September 19, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline, in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased 17EdTech securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the 17EdTech class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7395 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 19, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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Robb Elementary School may be demolished. Here’s what happened to schools after other horrifying attacks
By Holly Yan and Zoe Sottile, CNN
Just months after the devastating mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, students are set to return to class on Tuesday. But survivors will never return to the building where 19 of their classmates and two teachers were massacred in May.
Robb Elementary School will be demolished, Uvalde’s mayor, Don McLaughlin, said during a July city council meeting, according to CNN affiliate KSAT-TV.
“We could never ask a child to go back, or a teacher to go back into that school ever,” said McLaughlin.
Demolishing schools after a mass shooting has become common enough that there is a federal grant process available, according to Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez.
That such a process even exists is depressing, Gutierrez told KSAT-TV in May.
“What kind of world are we living in that legislation was created for razing these schools?” he said.
Other schools have also taken the path of destroying buildings after a mass tragedy.
“In many cases, these schools are closed or entirely renovated in an attempt to decrease the traumatic reminders that they have become for community members,” said the Center for Violence Prevention at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
It’s not clear when Robb Elementary School will be razed and if it will be replaced with another school or whether a memorial or other building will take its place.
In the meantime, survivors of the attack will attend classes at other schools in the school district.
The district’s superintendent, Hal Harrell, has laid out plans to make schools safer.
But some families still don’t feel comfortable returning and are transferring to other districts or taking classes online. A total of 416 students have transferred out of the district, and 136 have enrolled in virtual education, according to KSAT-TV.
Here’s a look at what happened to other schools after horrifying attacks:
Sandy Hook Elementary School
Date of attack: December 14, 2012
Location: Newtown, Connecticut
Number of victims killed: 26 (including 20 children ages 6 and 7 and six adults)
What happened to the school: The entire school was razed and rebuilt.
Three weeks after the gruesome attack, Sandy Hook students traveled to the nearby city of Monroe and started attending classes at Chalk Hill Middle School, which was no longer being used as a middle school.
Four years after the massacre, a newly rebuilt Sandy Hook Elementary opened to students — including fourth graders who were kindergarteners during the bloodbath.
Columbine High School
Date of attack: April 20, 1999
Location: Littleton, Colorado
Number of victims killed: 13 (including 12 students and one teacher)
What happened to the school: Columbine High School closed for the rest of the school year. Officials said the attack damaged about 23,000 square feet of the school and left an estimated 900 to 1,000 bullet and shrapnel holes in the walls and ceilings.
Four months later, at the beginning of the new school year, most of the school reopened — except for the library, where most of the carnage took place. It was demolished and replaced with a newly built school library, called the Hope Library.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Date of attack: February 14, 2018
Location: Parkland, Florida
Number of victims killed: 17 (including 14 students and three staff members)
What happened to the school: Students returned to the campus two weeks after the massacre. But the school’s Building 12, where most of the victims were killed, was closed off behind emergency tape with its windows covered.
A new building later replaced the temporary classrooms students had been using in the wake of the slaughter.
Santa Fe High School
Date of attack: May 18, 2018
Location: Santa Fe, Texas
Number of victims killed: 10 (including eight students and two teachers)
What happened to the school: Students returned 11 days after the bloodshed.
Even though there were only two days left in the school year, senior Kaitlyn Richards said she didn’t want her high school career to end with the massacre.
“I don’t know if we’ll ever be ready to go back to school,” she told CNN affiliate KTRK the day school resumed.
“But I don’t want that last day to be my last memory of my senior year. I just want to know I can see all my classmates once again.”
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WINDHAM, N.H. – A celery stalk sighting and a little luck came together to help a New Hampshire man find his wife's wedding rings in a 20-ton trash trailer, the jewelry wrapped in a napkin he had accidentally thrown away.
Kevin Butler had taken the trash to a transfer station in Windham last Wednesday. Unwittingly, he had tossed the napkin into the white trash bag, not realizing his wife had cleaned the rings and wrapped them in the napkin to dry.
Several hours later, he returned and asked for help in finding the rings amid the piles of garbage.
“He said, ‘I'm pretty sure I threw the rings out,'" Dennis Senibaldi, the transfer station supervisor, said Tuesday.
Senibaldi and his crew reviewed surveillance video to see what time Butler first showed up at the transfer station and where he threw it out. They used an excavator to start scooping up trash from the trailer.
After about five or six scoops, they saw a white bag with a telltale clue.
“One of the things he said was (inside) was celery stalks, and I could see a celery stalk sticking out the side of the bag," Senibaldi said.
They started going through the bag, but there was no sign of the rings.
But at the very bottom, underneath some carrot or sweet potato peelings, there was a napkin. “Literally, I opened up the napkin, there were the two rings," Senibaldi said.
Butler jumped up and hugged Senibaldi.
“I wouldn't recommend doing that," Butler told WMUR-TV of searching through the trash, “but to get the rings back, I would do it a thousand times over." | 2022-11-30T16:52:57+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/news/weird-news/2022/11/30/celery-stalk-in-trash-luck-lead-to-lost-wedding-rings/ |
New mortgage arm further integrates offerings for Radius agents and clients across California, with plans to enter additional markets as brokerage expands.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Radius, the tech-enabled brokerage, today announced it has launched a mortgage brokerage in California. The mortgage launch comes on the heels of the company's $14 million Series A fundraise and recent expansion to Texas, Florida and Washington.
Radius is a full service, modern brokerage that provides real estate professionals and their teams with the support and tools needed to grow their business — with a simplified and modest flat fee commission structure. The brokerage empowers entrepreneurial real estate professionals with integrated technology, mentorship, recruiting, financial services and marketing resources to build and amplify their own brand.
With the addition of a mortgage brokerage, Radius agents and their clients in California will have access to a more seamless and transparent lending experience. With access to real-time status updates and critical documents in their client dashboards, Radius agents will be able to provide quality information about the lending process to their clients — while being supported by a dedicated team. Radius' mortgage arm will be led by Director of Mortgage Michael Bardales, a 20-year veteran of California lending and Senior Lending Manager Grace Davis, a 17-year real estate veteran and top lending officer in the state.
"We're building Radius Mortgage from the ground up to be a premier lender in California," said Sam Kasle, Radius' Chief Revenue Officer. "For far too long, the lending process has been frustrating and burdensome for agents and their clients alike. By keeping cost structures low and bringing transparency to the entire lending process, we hope to help real estate professionals deliver a better client experience and grow their businesses."
Dedicated to developing the whole agent, Radius helped real estate professionals and their teams close more than $400 million in sales in the first quarter of 2022, while the referral network has generated $25 billion in referral commissions in the last three years. The company has doubled revenue in the last five months, and seen 300 percent revenue growth year-over-year.
Radius now operates in California, Colorado, Georgia, Oregon, Texas, Florida, and Washington. Building on its real estate social network of more than 85,000 agents nationwide, Radius plans to further expand across the U.S. by the end of the year.
Radius is the premier tech-driven brokerage firm for real estate professionals eager to grow their brands and profits. From networking opportunities, branding/marketing resources, to white-glove services for buyers and sellers, Radius is poised to help real estate professionals grow their businesses while saving them time and money. Founded in 2015, Radius is backed by the founders of Trulia, Zillow and Roofstock. Visit https://www.radiusagent.com/ to learn more.
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Mexico's original luxury tequila will have a starring role at the 95th Academy Awards with a collection of signature cocktails fit for the star-studded evening
NEW YORK, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tequila Don Julio is honored to announce its sixth consecutive year partnering with the Governors Ball, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' official party following the 95th Oscars® ceremony on March 12, 2023. The invite-only soiree will present an exclusive specialty bar experience curated by globally acclaimed mixologist Charles Joly, who will feature an ensemble of cocktails, each worthy of a leading role for the evening. For the first time this year, Governors Ball guests will also be able to enjoy an exclusive pairing by legendary chef Wolfgang Puck and the team at Wolfgang Puck Catering, who will be serving up a robust lineup of signature and creatively crafted dishes for the 29th iteration of the celebration. One of the dessert offerings, the Smoking Chocolate Cigars, features Edible Liquid Nitrogen Cigars and Chocolate Smoked Tequila Don Julio Añejo.
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The Oscars® is regarded as the ultimate Hollywood milestone as nominees, presenters and guests alike gather to honor the film industry's most distinguished moments. For Tequila Don Julio, curating a luxury drinks experience fitting for Hollywood's most iconic stars is no small task! In anticipation of Hollywood's biggest night, Joly and his team of experts have spent countless hours preparing the cocktail experience that pairs perfectly with the tantalizing culinary offerings served during the star-studded evening. The esteemed cocktails – including Showtime Margarita, Best Picture Paloma, Director's Martini and The Curtain Call – will require nearly two football fields length of fresh rosemary, 400lbs of ginger, 5,000 combined leaves of sage and mint, more than 1,000 mini gold paper clips for garnishing and over 3,500 citrus fruits squeezed. Guests of the Academy will also be able to toast to the occasion with Tequila Don Julio mini cocktails before reaching their seats.
If you're tuning into the Oscars® from home and would like to sip like the stars, try your hand at mixing up a signature Tequila Don Julio cocktail for the guests of your viewing party. The Showtime Margarita, starring Tequila Don Julio Blanco, is the suggested protagonist of the evening as the essence of the tequila lays the perfect foundation for bright citrus and herbal botanicals that results in a complex yet elegant libation. For a plot twist on a classic cocktail, the Director's Martini featuring Tequila Don Julio 70 Cristalino is an elevated choice that offers an unexpected yet delightful balance of flavors.
SHOWTIME MARGARITA
Ingredients
- 1 ½ oz Tequila Don Julio Blanco
- ½ oz Sage & Mint Syrup
- ⅛ oz Juiced Galangal (Ginger)
- ¾ oz Fresh Lime Juice
Preparation
- Add all ingredients in a shaker with ice.
- Shake vigorously and strain into a coupe glass.
- Garnish with sage & mint bunch gold-clipped to the rim of the glass.
Note
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DIRECTOR'S MARTINI
Ingredients
- 1 ½ oz Tequila Don Julio 70 Cristalino
- ½ oz Fortified Aperitif Wine
- ¼ oz Gin
- 3 dashes Moroccan Bitters
- Hand-Stuffed Nopalito & Cotija Cheese Olives (Garnish)
Preparation
- Add all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice.
- Stir thoroughly. Strain into chilled martini glass.
- Garnish with hand-stuffed nopalito & cotija cheese olives.
Note
- Dry vermouth is a suitable alternative for aperitif wine, and Moroccan bitters can be substituted with orange bitters.
For the sixth consecutive year, Tequila Don Julio is proud to donate in support of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Ball. Handcrafted in the Highlands of Jalisco, Tequila Don Julio is Mexico's original luxury tequila. Late Founder Don Julio González followed his heart and spent decades perfecting his craft to create one of the world's highest quality tequilas meant to be enjoyed during true moments of luxury celebration. More than 80 years later, Tequila Don Julio is still made using the unconventional methods and processes that González implemented when he first embarked on his tequila-making journey. Whether walking down the red carpet or tuning in from a personal screen, Tequila Don Julio encourages genuine and responsible celebrations this award season.
ABOUT TEQUILA DON JULIO
Founded on the pioneering agricultural principles of Don Julio González and his personal pursuit of perfection, Tequila Don Julio revolutionized the tequila industry and set the standard for ultra-premium tequila. The original luxury tequila of choice in Mexico, Tequila Don Julio uses only the highest caliber, fully matured and ripened Blue Agave that has been hand-selected from the rich, clay soils of the Los Altos region of the state of Jalisco. The Tequila Don Julio portfolio includes Tequila Don Julio Blanco, Tequila Don Julio Reposado, Tequila Don Julio Añejo, Tequila Don Julio 70 Cristalino, Tequila Don Julio 1942, and Tequila Don Julio Ultima Reserva. For more information on Tequila Don Julio, please visit www.DonJulio.com.
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Brooklyn Nets stars Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving “know” a trade is unlikely and have accepted the reality that they may not be dealt anytime soon.
“They know behind the scenes that it’s difficult, that it’s unlikely to happen,” a league source said, adding that “the Nets also knew that they’re going to make it so hard in the sense of the demands they’re looking for in return, no one’s going to meet that.
“That’s why there’s nobody commenting on it. [Durant and Irving] are never shy for words.”
“I think initially they plotted [to leave],” the source added, “and then they realized very quickly that it wasn’t going to work.”
This is consistent with what many league insiders are saying: namely that nearly three weeks after Durant requested a trade, there’s no traction for one, and that nothing is likely to happen with Irving until the Durant matter is settled. Durant signed a 4-year, $198-million extension last summer, and the Nets would be looking for a boatload of assets in any trade.
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“The Nets are still trying to find a deal for Kevin Durant. I think if Kevin Durant came to Brooklyn and said: ‘Hey, I’ve changed my mind. I want to be here, I’m committed to this,’ of course they would want him to stay,” ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski said Monday on Get Up.
“But, if Kevin Durant’s not doing that, you’re still trying to trade him. You want players who want to be there. You don’t want the environment to be filled with players who are unhappy, who don’t want to be a part of it. But they’ve gotta get value for him, and they’ve got to get significant value for him.”
After Durant initially asked for a trade June 30, there has been no momentum. The Phoenix Suns and Miami Heat were reportedly his top two destinations, but the Durant-to-Phoenix option took a major hit when the Suns matched the offer sheet for center Deandre Ayton.
“The real bottom line is this: the Suns have been nowhere, they’ve gotten no traction on a Durant trade with the Nets, which is why they matched this within minutes of getting the offer sheet because they know a safe bet -- getting back their center from a 64-win team -- is better than a gambit, which is right now what the Durant trade talks are,” ESPN’s Brian Windhorst said on air Friday.
While the Lakers have reportedly been Irving’s top destination, Woj said Monday that the Lakers were considering other options, including Eric Gordon and Buddy Hield, to improve their team alongside LeBron James and Anthony Davis.
“I think the Lakers will make a deal, maybe more than one deal,” he said. “It may not be for Kyrie Irving, it may not be for an All-NBA player, an All-Star... players like Eric Gordon in Houston, Buddy Hield in Indiana, players like Patrick Beverly who came to the Jazz in a trade from Minnesota who are role players on winning teams. What is the price for those kinds of moves? They’re going to continue to be active on those things.
“It’s not completely dead with Brooklyn, but I think so much depends on what happens with Kevin Durant. The Nets are more focused ... they are focused on trying to find a deal for KD before they make any move on Kyrie Irving. And I think there is a good chance Kyrie Irving is back in Brooklyn to start the season if Kevin Durant is back in Brooklyn. I don’t think the Lakers are done.”
On June 27, Irving opted in to his $36.9 million option for next season, meaning he will be playing for his next contract during the 2022-23 season. During his tenure in Brooklyn, he has played in 103 games and missed 123 for various reasons including his decision not to get vaccinated.
Wherever he plays next season, he will need to play well -- and play often -- to earn his next big contract.
“Especially Kyrie,” the source said. “He’s in a contract year like [Aaron] Judge. The Yankees are going to have to pay a boatload full of money at the end of the year.”
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s Dawn Staley has called out ESPN and its ESPY awards show for not inviting national player of the year Aliyah Boston to its ceremonies on Wednesday night.
Staley mused publicly on social media how the people who planning the ceremonies decided “it was a great idea not to invite” the woman who won several national awards as one of the best players in women’s college basketball last season.
“Not one person was able to see the uproar this would cause? There’s definitely something wrong with the make up of the room,” she said on Twitter.
Boston, a 6-foot-5 rising senior, captured the Wooden Award and AP honors as player of the year. She was also named Most Outstanding Player at the Final Four after the Gamecocks defeated Louisville and UConn on the way to the title.
Boston is nominated for “Best College Athlete, Women’s Sports,” with Florida State soccer player Jaelin Howell, Oklahoma softball player Jocelyn Alo and Boston College lacrosse star Charlotte North. The award is being given out on the ESPY’s Preview Show before the main broadcast.
ESPN and the ESPYs have “the utmost respect” for Boston, Staley, and the Gamecocks, according to a statement provided by ESPN Senior Director of Communications Jay Jay Nesheim. However, due to COVID-19 restrictions and a new venue with less seating capacity, organizers “prioritized athlete invitations to focus on specific awards that will be handed out during the broadcast.”
South Carolina women’s basketball spokeswoman Diana Koval said that as of Monday, Boston had not been invited. Staley had not planned to attend the ceremonies.
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More AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 2022-07-19T14:33:59+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/sports/staley-upset-gamecocks-aliyah-boston-not-invited-to-espys/ |
This week's show was recorded at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, with host Peter Sagal, official judge and scorekeeper Bill Kurtis, Not My Job guests Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda and panelists Peter Grosz, Helen Hong and Adam Burke. Click the audio link above to hear the whole show.
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A winter storm Thursday night and Friday morning brought snow and high winds that have made travel treacherous.
Under Ohio law, sheriffs have the responsibility to monitor conditions and declare snow emergencies when it is determined that roads and highway conditions within the county are impaired due to snow and/or ice.
BUTLER COUNTY: Level 1, as of 10:59 p.m.
CLARK COUNTY: Level 1, as of 12:30 a.m.
DARKE COUNTY: Level 2, as of 4:15 a.m.
GREENE COUNTY: Level 2, as of 3 a.m.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY: Level 2, as of 6:30 a.m.
PREBLE COUNTY: Level 2, as of 5:30 a.m.
There are three levels of snow emergency in Ohio:
LEVEL 1: Roadways are hazardous with blowing and drifting snow. Roads are also icy. Drive very cautiously.
LEVEL 2: Roadways are hazardous with blowing and drifting snow. Only those who feel it is necessary to drive should be out on the roadways. Contact your employer to see if you should report to work.
LEVEL 3: All roadways are closed to non-emergency personnel. No one should be out during these conditions unless it is absolutely necessary to travel. All employees should contact their employer to see if they should report to work. However, those traveling on the roadways may subject themselves to prosecution.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office has a phone line people can call to find out whether a snow emergency has been issued. That number is 937-496-7669. The office is urging residents to not call the regional dispatch center to check on road conditions.
“Residents are encouraged to avoid unnecessary trips during the storm to give road crews room to work,” the sheriff’s office stated in a release.
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New investment adds to recent $5 million venture funding to speed development of lung cancer detection product using advanced metasurface technology
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LEADOPTIK Inc., a Silicon Valley-based medical imaging company today announced that it has secured venture capital funding from Applied Ventures, LLC. This new injection of capital augments a recently announced $5 million over-subscribed seed venture funding round led by MetaVC Partners with participation from SOSV, Sony Innovation Fund, TSVC, ENEA, and others. This will allow LEADOPTIK to move to the next stage of product development, including FDA approval, on the path to commercialization.
"We are excited to be an investor in LEADOPTIK," said Yuan-Ping (YP) Huang, Principal of Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc. "We see metamaterials, particularly optical metasurfaces and flat optics based on materials engineering capabilities, enabling a new wave of innovative products that can be smaller, faster, and less costly than traditional optics."
LEADOPTIK is developing a miniaturized imaging system that aims to herald a completely new level of real-time imaging deep inside the human lung, enabling early diagnoses of cancer. Combining novel nanofabrication of metasurface technology, the company's product is designed to empower surgeons to view objects that are fifty times smaller than what is possible with current imaging systems, leading to earlier and better detection.
By using proprietary optics made from dielectric metasurfaces, LEADOPTIK has shrunk the optical elements to a size comparable with that of human hair. Due to its unprecedented small size, driven by advanced imaging software, the probe can travel through even the narrowest airways, allowing for real-time imaging and detection of tiny tumors. In addition, the small form factor of LEADOPTIK's probe allows its integration with biopsy needles, providing real-time guidance during biopsy procedures. This integration is critical for increasing the accuracy of biopsies, which are often performed blindly.
"Applied Ventures is an outstanding deep-tech investor and technology advisor for us," stated Reza Khorasaninejad, Founder and CEO of LEADOPTIK. "We are thrilled with this additional investment and the wealth of expertise that accompanies our collaboration with one of the global leaders in nanofabrication," he further emphasized.
About LEADOPTIK
LEADOPTIK Inc. is a deep-tech startup based in San Jose, California. This company is building a miniature imaging platform that will deliver an Image-Guided Biopsy for Early Lung Cancer Diagnosis. For more information about LEADOPTIK and its technology, please visit www.leadoptik.com.
About Applied Ventures
For more than a decade, Applied Ventures, LLC—the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc.—has been turning possibilities into reality by investing in startups with disruptive technologies. Among the innovations we have helped to pioneer are smartphones, high-performance computing, augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR), driverless cars, big data, life sciences, robotics, cleantech, and advanced materials. Applied Ventures is stage agnostic and invests up to $100M per year. To date, we have invested in more than 90 companies in 18 countries. More information on Applied Ventures can be found on our website.
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Justice Thomas wrote of ‘crushing weight’ of student loans
By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t have far to look if it wants a personal take on the “crushing weight” of student debt that underlies the Biden administration’s college loan forgiveness plan.
Justice Clarence Thomas was in his mid-40s and in his third year on the nation’s highest court when he paid off the last of his debt from his time at Yale Law School.
Thomas, the court’s longest-serving justice and staunchest conservative, has been skeptical of other Biden administration initiatives. And when the Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday involving President Joe Biden’s debt relief plan that would wipe away up to $20,000 in outstanding student loans, Thomas is not likely to be a vote in the administration’s favor.
But the justices’ own experiences can be relevant in how they approach a case, and alone among them, Thomas has written about the role student loans played in his financial struggles.
A fellow law school student even suggested Thomas declare bankruptcy after graduating “to get out from under the crushing weight of all my student loans,” the justice wrote in his best-selling 2007 memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son.” He rejected the idea.
It’s not clear that any of the other justices borrowed money to attend college or law school or have done so for their children’s educations. Some justices grew up in relative wealth. Others reported they had scholarships to pay their way to some of the country’s most expensive private institutions.
Of the seven justices on the court who are parents, four have signaled through their investments that they don’t want their own children to be saddled with onerous college debt, and have piled money into tax-free college savings accounts that might limit any need for loans.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Neil Gorsuch have the most on hand, at least $600,000 and at least $300,000, respectively, according to annual disclosure reports the justices filed in 2022. Each has two children.
Justices Amy Coney Barrett, who has seven children, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has two, also have invested money in college-savings accounts, in which any earnings or growth is tax free if spent on education.
None of the justices would comment for this story, a court spokeswoman said.
Thomas wrote vividly about his past money woes in his up-from-poverty story, recounting how a bank once foreclosed on one of his loans because repayment and delinquency notices were sent to his grandparents’ house in Savannah, Georgia, instead of Thomas’ home at the time in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Thomas was able to take out another loan to repay the bank only because his mentor, John Danforth, then-Missouri attorney general and later a U.S. senator, vouched for him.
Thomas noted that he signed up for a tuition postponement program at Yale in which a group of students jointly paid for their outstanding loans according to their financial ability, with those earning the most paying the most.
At the time, Thomas’ first wife, Kathy, was pregnant. “I didn’t know what else to do, so I signed on the dotted line, and spent the next two decades paying off the money I borrowed during my last two years at Yale,” Thomas wrote.
When he was first nominated to be a federal judge in 1989, Thomas reported $10,000 in outstanding student loans, according to a news report at the time. The Biden administration has picked the same number as the amount of debt relief most borrowers would get under its plan.
Personal experience can shape the justices’ questions in the courtroom and affect their private conversations about a case, even if it doesn’t figure in the outcome.
“It is helpful to have people with life experiences that are varied just because it enriches the conversation,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor has said. Sotomayor, like Thomas, also grew up poor. She got a full scholarship to Princeton as an undergraduate, she has said, and went on to Yale for law school, as Thomas did.
Keeping people from avoiding the kinds of difficult choices Thomas faced is a key part of the administration’s argument for loan forgiveness. The administration says that without additional help, many borrowers will fall behind on their payments once a hold in place since the start of the coronavirus pandemic three years ago is lifted, no later than this summer.
Under a plan announced in August but so far blocked by federal courts, $10,000 in federal loans would be canceled for people making less than $125,000 or for households with less than $250,000 in income. Recipients of Pell Grants, who tend to have fewer financial resources, would get an additional $10,000 in debt forgiven.
The White House says 26 million people already have applied and 16 million have been approved for relief. The program is estimated to cost $400 billion over the next three decades.
The legal fight could turn on any of several elements, including whether the Republican-led states and individuals suing over the plan have legal standing to go to court and whether Biden has the authority under federal law for so extensive a loan forgiveness program.
Nebraska and other states challenging the program argue that far from falling behind, 20 million borrowers would get a “windfall” because their entire student debt would be erased, Nebraska Attorney General Michael Hilgers wrote in the states’ main Supreme Court brief.
Which of those arguments resonate with the court may become clear on Tuesday.
When she was dean of Harvard Law School, Justice Elena Kagan showed her own concern about the high cost of law school, especially for students who were considering lower-paying jobs.
Kagan established a program that would allow students to attend their final year tuition-free if they agreed to a five-year commitment to work in the public sector. While that program no longer exists, Harvard offers grants to students for public service work.
At the time the program was created, Kagan said she wanted students to be able to go to work where they “can make the biggest difference, but that isn’t the case now.” Instead, she said: “They often go to work where they don’t want to work because of the debt burden.”
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Follow AP’s coverage of the Supreme Court at https://apnews.com/hub/us-supreme-court | 2023-02-25T15:04:11+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/2023/02/25/justice-thomas-wrote-of-crushing-weight-of-student-loans/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC on Monday solidified its prime-time lineup by appointing Alex Wagner to fill Rachel Maddow’s time slot four nights a week, Tuesday through Friday.
Wagner, who has worked at CBS News, as a co-host of Showtime’s “The Circus” and as an editor at The Atlantic, is on her second stint at MSNBC. She rejoined MSNBC in February after hosting a show on the network a decade ago.
Maddow will continue to work in her 9 p.m. Eastern time slot on Monday nights, MSNBC said.
“I’m honored to be anchoring a key hour of television in such a critical time for American democracy,” Wagner said.
It’s an important move for the liberal-leaning news network and its president, Rashida Jones. Maddow has been MSNBC’s most popular personality, and her decision earlier this year to step back from a weeknight show that was a linchpin of the network’s schedule was a blow.
Since she went to her Monday-only schedule, the hour has been filled with subs, but the nightly show retained her name. Occasionally, during big news weeks, Maddow has been on the air more often.
A first-generation Asian American whose mother emigrated to the U.S. from Myanmar, Wagner wrote a book about her experiences, “FutureFace: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest and the Secret to Belonging.”
Besides The Atlantic, she has also been an economics reporter for HuffPost and White House correspondent for AOL’s Politics Daily. She was editor-in-chief of The Fader, a culture-oriented magazine, and was executive director of an advocacy organization that aimed to stop mass atrocities.
“Her unique perspective, built on more than two decades in journalism, and tenacious reporting in the U.S. and abroad will help our audiences contextualize what matters,” Jones said.
Wagner’s new show will premiere Aug. 16. A continued rotation of anchors will fill in at the 9 p.m. hour until then.
Meanwhile, CNN is still looking to fill its 9 p.m. Eastern time slot on a regular basis following the firing of Chris Cuomo. | 2022-06-28T18:38:29+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/msnbc-appoints-alex-wagner-as-4-night-prime-time-anchor/ |
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — California men’s basketball coach Mark Fox was fired Thursday following the worst season in school history.
The Golden Bears finished 3-29 in Fox’s fourth season as coach following a 69-52 loss Wednesday in the first round of the Pac-12 tournament against Washington State. Cal set a school record for most losses and worst winning percentage in a season.
Cal went 38-87 in Fox’s tenure, ending his final season on a 16-game losing streak. Fox’s .304 winning percentage ranking second worst in school history to predecessor Wyking Jones’ 16-47 mark (.254) in the two seasons before Fox arrived.
“I want to thank Mark for his unwavering commitment to our men’s basketball program,” Cal Director of Athletics Jim Knowlton said in a news release. “He led the team through some challenging times, and always did so with the class and professionalism we have come to expect from him. … I wish him the best of luck in the future.
“This was a difficult decision and one that I do not take lightly. After deliberately and holistically evaluating all aspects of our program, I felt a change was needed at this time,” Knowlton said.
The Bears said they will immediately begin a search for a coach. That person will be tasked with reviving a program that hasn’t been to the NCAA Tournament since 2016 and hasn’t won a game in the tournament since 2013 under Mike Montgomery.
Fox couldn’t even get close, posting a losing record in all four seasons.
Adding to the issues for Fox was the complete lack of interest in the program. Cal’s home attendance averaged just 2,155 this season for the lowest mark among any team in the Power 5 or Big East. That’s down from an average of 9,307 per game in Cuonzo Martin’s last season in 2016-17 and from 5,627 the year before Fox arrived.
The Bears were coming off back-to-back eight-win seasons when Fox was hired in 2019 to replace Jones. Cal showed some progress in Fox’s first season by going 14-18 but quickly regressed as the program struggled following the impact of the pandemic.
The Bears went 9-20 in 2020-21, 12-20 the following season and bottomed out this season when they were tied with Green Bay for the worst winning percentage in all Division I and set a record for most losses in a season in conference history.
Cal had the worst winning percentage among any school in the six major conferences during Fox’s tenure. The Bears also were the lowest-scoring team (62.4 points per game) in all Division I under Fox and had the worst scoring margin of any major conference team under Fox.
Fox had gone to the tournament five times in his two previous head coaching stops, taking Nevada there in 2005-07 and then Georgia in 2011 and 2015. Fox had a winning record in 11 of 14 seasons before arriving at Cal, with a 286-176 overall mark. ___
AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 2023-03-10T17:39:43+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/sports/ap-sports/cal-fires-coach-mark-fox-after-schools-worst-ever-season/ |
CA Las Vegas NV Zone Forecast for Thursday, February 16, 2023
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Eastern Sierra Slopes-
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1241 AM PST Fri Feb 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 12 to 22. South winds 5 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 24 to 34. Southeast winds 5 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Near steady temperature in the lower 20s. West winds up
to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Not as cold. Highs 31 to 41. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 18 to 28. West winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 46. Lows
30 to 35.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Breezy.
Highs around 49. Lows 32 to 37.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Windy. Mostly cloudy
with a 50 percent chance of snow showers. Colder. Lows 18 to 23.
Highs 34 to 44.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Breezy. Chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs around 30. Chance of snow 40 percent.
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White Mountains of Inyo County-
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1241 AM PST Fri Feb 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 18 to 26. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 29 to 39. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 19 to 29. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to
the northwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Not as cool. Highs 35 to 45. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 24 to 32. West winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 49. Lows
31 to 36.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs
50 to 55. Lows around 36.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Breezy. A
40 percent chance of snow showers. Lows around 26. Highs 38 to
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 21.
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1241 AM PST Fri Feb 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 30. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 50. North winds up to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 30 to 33. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 52 to 55. North winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 33 to 36. West winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 62.
Lows around 40.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 64.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy. A 50 percent chance of rain showers and
snow showers. Lows around 32.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Colder. Highs around 44.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 27.
Highs around 45.
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Death Valley National Park-
Including Furnace Creek, Stovepipe Wells,
and Shoshone
1241 AM PST Fri Feb 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 30 in the
mountains...around 42 at Furnace Creek. Northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 41 to 44 in the mountains...around
67 at Furnace Creek. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 29 to 32 in the mountains...
around 45 at Furnace Creek. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 50 in the mountains...around
72 at Furnace Creek. North winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the
southeast in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 31 to 34 in the mountains...
around 46 at Furnace Creek. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 56 to 59 in
the mountains...around 77 at Furnace Creek. Lows 36 to 39 in the
mountains...around 50 at Furnace Creek.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Highs around
57 in the mountains...around 76 at Furnace Creek. Lows 34 to
37 in the mountains...around 50 at Furnace Creek.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cooler. Highs
around 42 in the mountains...around 64 at Furnace Creek. Lows
around 30 in the mountains...42 to 45 at Furnace Creek.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 42 in the mountains...
around 65 at Furnace Creek.
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Western Mojave Desert-
Including Barstow, Daggett, and Fort Irwin
1241 AM PST Fri Feb 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 33 to 36. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 53 to 56. Northeast winds 5 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 35 to 38. North winds up to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 59 to 62. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 39. Northeast winds up
to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Windy. Highs around 70.
Lows 41 to 44.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Windy. Lows around
38. Highs 60 to 63.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows around 33.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 54.
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Eastern Mojave Desert-
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1241 AM PST Fri Feb 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 33 to 36. Northeast winds
5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 53 to 56. Northeast winds 5 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 40. Northeast winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 60 to 63. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the east in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs around 70.
Lows 42 to 45.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Windy. Lows around
41. Highs 61 to 64.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 35.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 55.
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Morongo Basin-Cadiz Basin-
Including Morongo Valley, Yucca Valley,
Twentynine Palms, and Vidal Junction
1241 AM PST Fri Feb 17 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 36 to 39 in Twentynine
Palms and around Yucca Valley...around 34 near Joshua Tree. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 59 to 62 in Twentynine Palms...
51 to 54 around Yucca Valley...around 55 near Joshua Tree.
Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 41 to 44 in Twentynine
Palms...36 to 39 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 65 to 68 in Twentynine Palms...around
60 around Yucca Valley...around 62 near Joshua Tree. North winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the east in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 41 to 44 in Twentynine Palms
and around Yucca Valley...around 40 near Joshua Tree. East winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 71 in Twentynine Palms...around
64 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 48 in Twentynine
Palms...around 43 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 71 to
74 in Twentynine Palms...around 67 around Yucca Valley and near
Joshua Tree. Lows around 49 in Twentynine Palms...around
43 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Windy. Lows around
47 in Twentynine Palms...around 39 around Yucca Valley and near
Joshua Tree. Highs 65 to 68 in Twentynine Palms...around
60 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 38 in
Twentynine Palms...around 33 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua
Tree. Highs around 60 in Twentynine Palms...around 52 around
Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
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WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. (AP)Myles Foster scored 16 points as Monmouth beat Delaware 70-62 on Thursday night.
Foster added five rebounds and five steals for the Hawks (3-20, 2-8 Colonial Athletic Association). Tahron Allen added 12 points while shooting 6 of 11 from the field, and they also had five rebounds. Myles Ruth was 3 of 8 shooting and 5 of 6 from the free throw line to finish with 11 points.
Jameer Nelson Jr. led the way for the Fightin’ Blue Hens (12-12, 4-7) with 20 points, four assists and five steals. Jyare Davis added 15 points for Delaware. Cavan Reilly also put up nine points.
NEXT UP
Both teams play again on Saturday. Monmouth hosts Drexel and Delaware hosts Charleston (SC).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2023-02-03T13:38:02+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/sports/ncaa-basketball/monmouth-defeats-delaware-70-62/ |
BISMARCK, N.D. (KXNET) — For our February 13th KX Conversation, Lauren Davis spoke with Celeste Thingvold, the superintendent and high school principal at Bowbells Schools. During the conversation, Thingvold discussed why rural schools are important to the community, what some challenges are for a rural school system, what some recent changes have been, what they plan to do in the future, how small schools compete with bigger schools, and if small classroom sizes help at all.
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For nearly 20 years, local investors have laid the foundation for an economic development in Springfield and surrounding areas, working to attract High-Tech companies and a strong workforce.
But a key component to the city’s economic resurgence is to ensure that there’s enough quality housing for families, many of whom officials are hoping will live and work in the city. So as part of the housing development plan, Springfield officials are reviewing proposals that will bring more than 2,000 housing units to the area, the most in decades.
In addition, multiple townhomes and apartments have been built in Springfield within the past five years. The majority of the residential growth is currently concentrated in Springfield’s east side, said City Manager Bryan Heck.
Residents are currently moving into the Bridgewater development near the Tuttle Road Wal-Mart, and the housing unit community became the first major housing development in the Springfield area since the 1990s. The development’s final phase is slated to end this year, bringing the total number of housing lots in the Bridgewater community to 226.
The same developer of Bridgewater, DDC Management, is looking to create another housing development in the area, separate from the Bridgewater Project. The planned development, known as Sycamore Ridge, will be located along East Leffel Lane and South Burnett Road. The goal of the developers is to bring more than 250 new homes to the area, with the first phase of the project slated to begin this year.
A Columbus-area developer – Borror property management – is gearing up to build more than 1,200 housing units in Springfield on a tract of land that includes the former Melody drive-in theater, located east of the city. The proposed homes will be a mixture of single-family, multi-family and patio-style, and the units will be built over five phases that span multiple years.
Credit: Springfield News Sun
Stabilizing the population
Greater Springfield Partnership Vice President of Economic Development Horton Hobbs said the partnership used to focus mostly on encouraging people to both live and work within the city, but has since adopted a “dual strategy.” With the city’s proximity to Interstate 70, people can easily live in Springfield and commute to work in Columbus or the Dayton area, and vice versa. And they do: roughly 56% of people who live in Springfield are leaving the city each day to commute to work, according to the partnership.
“We know much more about how much of our population is going somewhere else than we ever have before,” said Hobbs. “We are now working with our partners to tell a different story about the opportunities that exist today.”
A 2019 housing market analysis of the Springfield area by the Greater Ohio Policy Center in collaboration with the city’s housing consortium found that since 1970, the city’s population had been in decline. Since 2013, the number of residents living in poverty has also declined.
However, in 2017, nearly one in four residents were still living in poverty.
After the decades of population decline in Springfield, the city has seen a “stabilization” in the population over the past five years, Heck said. The city’s population has bounced back to roughly 59,500 residents, and that number isn’t expected to decline.
“I believe over the next 10 years, we have the ability to see an increase in our population that we have not seen in decades,” Heck said.
Renter population in Springfield growing
The study also found that the population of homeowners in the city — mirroring the national trends — has also declined since 2013.
The ratio of renters to homeowners has changed since the Great Recession. As of 2017, more than half of the city’s residents are renters, according to the housing study.
The collection of current proposed housing communities are designed to cater to the needs of a diversity of potential buyers and renters, said Hobbs.
The development proposed for the former Melody drive-in, for instance, is expected to include a mix of single family and multi-family units to appeal to hopeful homeowners and renters alike. The mix of housing units also appeal to multiple age groups: young professionals, families and seniors who are looking to downsize their living spaces.
A portion of current city and county residents are expected to move into the housing developments, Hobbs said, leaving certain houses in the city available for renters to move into.
“There’s going to certainly be some inward mobility of people in the community,” he said. “And there will be a backfill of folks who are currently renting to fill the houses that are vacated.”
Much work has been completed, too, to address blighted properties throughout the county, said Clark County Landbank Executive Director Ethan Harris.
The Clark County Landbank has demolished 50 properties from 2018 to 2021, with an additional 20 properties rehabilitated from 2019 to 2021.
Catching up with housing, but energy builds
But overall, the city is “behind” on housing but is “catching up very quickly” to meet the needs of residents, said Greater Springfield Partnership President and CEO Mike McDorman. More than 2,000 housing units are proposed for the Springfield area in the next 10 years.
Housing options and livable wages drive the economic ecosystem of a city, said Hobbs, and members of the partnership and city leaders have also been working to create amenities that encourage adults and families alike to call Springfield home.
“People want a good quality of life,” McDorman said. “You really need a vibrant downtown with a lot of entertainment, retail, restaurant opportunities to drive housing downtown as well as people wanting to come here downtown.”
And that momentum is building. There’s an energy in town that the city hasn’t felt for quite some time, said Springfield Development Director Tom Franzen.
New shops are moving into the downtown stretch on Fountain Avenue: pretzel shops, dinner spots, bakeries, coffee stops and retail locations are drawing customers to the area, as well as developing jobs in Springfield’s core.
“You feel there’s a difference downtown,” he said.
About the Author | 2022-07-18T08:31:16+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-resurgence-building-momentum-sees-more-people-calling-the-city-home/W3EL42CMHRAG7L4665VNQL44HU/ |
DELAWARE – Parents of children ages 6 months through 5 years old, will be able to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19 starting this week, June 20th, according to the Division of Public Health (DPH). Vaccines for this youngest age group received final sign off for Emergency Use Authorization, from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Friday and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today.
Both Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines were authorized for this age group, with slight differences between the two. Moderna’s is a two-dose series of vaccine, which is one-quarter the adult dosage, for children ages 6 months through 5 years old. Estimated effectiveness varies based on age. The Pfizer vaccine is a three-dose primary series that is one-tenth the adult dosage and is authorized for children 6 months through 4 years old, as their vaccine for 5-year-olds is already approved. It has an estimated effectiveness of 80% after the third dose.
Side effects were generally mild, and no serious side effects were identified. For Moderna, the most commonly reported side effects across all ages included pain, redness and swelling at the injection site, fever and underarm swelling/tenderness at the injection site. For Pfizer side effects included irritability, decreased appetite, fever, headache, chills and pain, tenderness, redness and swelling at the injection site.
DPH has included a convenient chart on de.gov/youthvaccine explaining the differences between the two vaccines.
Initial shipments of Pfizer and Moderna are set to arrive in Delaware on Monday June 20th, and are going to medical providers who pre-ordered either one, or both of them. Not all providers pre-ordered vaccine initially. While some providers may be ready to start administering as soon as June 21, others have indicated they will begin later. DPH strongly recommends that parents contact their pediatric health care provider for specifics on scheduling and timing. Parents are encouraged to visit de.gov/youthvaccine for a list of providers offering vaccines. Supply and access will increase as the week goes on.
“We are incredibly happy and relieved that a COVID-19 vaccine will now be available to our youngest population starting at 6 months old,” said DPH Director Dr. Karyl Rattay. “We recognize the concern that parents with young children have faced waiting for the vaccine to become available as they look for ways to protect their youngest from this virus. It is our hope that parents will consult with their child’s provider or the appropriate medical facility to determine the best option for them.”
Vaccines will be available from pediatricians/primary care providers, DPH clinics, and Federally Qualified Health Centers. In addition to DPH clinics, a few additional providers have agreed to vaccinate non-patients. That information will be added to de.gov/youthvaccine as it becomes available.
Pharmacies will also vaccinate infants and children in this age group. However, it is important for families to know that not all will vaccinate children under age 3. Locate participating pharmacies at vaccines.gov. The database has added a feature which allows pharmacies to enter the lowest age they are willing to vaccinate and should show up when parents search for a vaccine for this youngest age group.
Both Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines were authorized for this age group, with slight differences between the two. Moderna’s is a two-dose series of vaccine, which is one-quarter the adult dosage, for children ages 6 months through 5 years old. Estimated effectiveness varies based on age. The Pfizer vaccine is a three-dose primary series that is one-tenth the adult dosage and is authorized for children 6 months through 4 years old, as their vaccine for 5-year-olds is already approved. It has an estimated effectiveness of 80% after the third dose. | 2022-06-19T03:36:20+00:00 | wrde.com | https://www.wrde.com/news/delaware-to-begin-covid-19-vaccinations-for-children-6-months-to-5-years/article_de72cc80-ef56-11ec-8936-e3a641092a4a.html |
FARMVILLE, Va., Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- YakAttack LLC, a Virginia-based manufacturer of paddlesports and fishing accessories, announced today the hiring of Joe Butler as Vice President of Sales. Butler was previously the owner of Black Creek Outfitters of Jacksonville, FL, and brings 30-plus years of business development and watersports retail experience.
"Deep in YakAttack's DNA is an attention to detail in the design and manufacturing process that is a true differentiator. Their authenticity and brand awareness in kayak fishing accessories is second to none. I am excited to be in a position to tell the story of YakAttack and collaborate with our retail network and OEM manufacturing partners to drive growth, innovation, and profitability across all channels," said Butler.
While at Black Creek Outfitters, Butler created a retail organization centered around the customer experience and data-driven decision-making. In 2015 Black Creek was named Most Innovative Retailer by the Grassroots Outdoor Alliance.
YakAttack has made significant investments in its organization and operations over the last year, preparing the company to grow substantially in the years to come.
"We're really excited to have Joe on board," said YakAttack's CEO Luther Cifers. "In a rapidly changing retail environment, Joe's experience will be critical in helping us continue to develop and strengthen our distribution network. We see significant opportunities in Specialty Retail and big box distribution as well as the OEM manufacturing arm of our business, and bringing on an executive of Joe's caliber to develop those opportunities was an important strategic step for our team. Joe's experience, paired with his entrepreneurial spirit and customer-centric philosophy, makes him uniquely suited for this opportunity."
Having spent most of his life in Florida, Butler is a lifelong waterman and enjoys spending time with his family kayaking, standup paddle boarding, sailing, windsurfing, fishing, and other outdoor sports such as biking, hiking, and camping.
Butler's responsibilities include developing and overseeing all sales channels for YakAttack LLC, including the retail network, OEM relations, and e-commerce outlets.
About YakAttack LLC
Founded in a garage in 2009, YakAttack LLC operates in the paddlesports and fishing industry. Their market leading product line consists of a wide range of mounts, attachments, and accessories for kayaks, standup paddle boards, and other small watercrafts. Designed, manufactured, and distributed in Farmville, VA, their products are sold nationwide through their network of kayak shops, tackle stores, and other specialty retailers and e-commerce outlets.
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Tennessee quarterback Hendon Hooker is the Southeastern Conference offensive player of the year and Alabama linebacker Will Anderson Jr. was named the top defensive player for the second straight year.
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Tennessee coach Josh Heupel was picked as coach of the year by the Associated Press Monday after keeping his team in playoff contention for much of the season. The sixth-ranked Volunteers are 10-2 and face No. 10 Clemson in the Orange Bowl.
Mississippi freshman running back Quinshon Judkins was named newcomer of the year, edging LSU linebacker Harold Perkins Jr. Judkins led the SEC with 1,476 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns.
Hooker was picked as first-team quarterback and offensive player of the year on all but one ballot, with that nod going to Alabama's Bryce Young in both cases. He suffered a season-ending left knee injury in a loss to South Carolina, finishing with 3,135 yards passing and 27 touchdown passes against just two interceptions.
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Anderson was the unanimous pick as defensive player of the year. He has 51 tackles, 10 sacks and 17 tackles for loss along with a pick-six.
Other unanimous picks were Tennessee wide receiver Jalin Hyatt, Georgia tight end Brock Bowers and running backs Judkins and Raheim Sanders (Arkansas).
Heupel received six coach of the year votes to edge LSU's Brian Kelly (five), who led the Tigers into the SEC championship game in his first season. Georgia's Kirby Smart (three) and South Carolina's Shane Beamer (one) also received votes.
The voting was conducted among a panel of 15 sports writers and broadcasters covering the league.
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FIRST TEAM
Offense
WR — u-Jalin Hyatt, Tennessee, 6-0, 185, Jr., Irmo, South Carolina
WR — Dominic Lovett, Missouri, 5-10, 185, So., East St. Louis, Illinois
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T — Broderick Jones, Georgia, 6-4, 310, So., Lithonia, Georgia
T — Darnell Wright, Tennessee, 6-6, 335, Sr., Huntington, West Virginia
G — O’Cyrus Torrence, Florida, 6-5, 347, Jr., Greensburg, Louisiana
G — Emil Ekiyor Jr., Alabama, 6-3, 307, Sr., Indianapolis
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C — Ricky Stromberg, Arkansas, 6-4, 313, Sr., Tulsa, Oklahoma
TE — u-Brock Bowers, Georgia, 6-4, 230, So., Napa, California
QB — Hendon Hooker, Tennessee, 6-4, 218, Sr., Greensboro, North Carolina
RB — u-Quinshon Judkins, Mississippi, 5-11, 210, Fr., Pike Road, Alabama
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RB — u-Raheim Sanders, Arkansas, 6-2, 227, So., Rockledge, Florida
PK — Jack Podlesny, Georgia, 6-1, 180, Jr., St. Simons Island, Georgia
AP — Lideatrick Griffin, Mississippi State, 5-10, 185, Jr., Philadelphia, Mississippi
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DE — BJ Ojulari, LSU, 6-3, 250, Jr., Marietta, Georgia
DE — Isaiah McGuire, Missouri, 6-4, 274, Jr., Tulsa, Oklahoma
DT — Jalen Carter, Georgia, 6-3, 300, Jr., Apopka, Florida
DT — Byron Young, Alabama, 6-3, 292, Sr., Laurel, Mississippi
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LB — u-Will Anderson, Jr., 6-4, 243, Jr., Hampton, Georgia
LB — Drew Sanders, Arkansas, 6-5, 233, Jr., Denton, Texas
LB — Harold Perkins Jr., LSU, 6-2, 220, Fr., New Orleans
CB — Emmanuel Forbes, Mississippi State, 6-0, 180, Jr., Grenada, Mississippi
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CB — Kool-Aid McKinstry, Alabama, 6-1, 188, So., Birmingham, Alabama
S — Christopher Smith, Georgia, 5-11, 195, Sr., Atlanta
S — Antonio Johnson, Texas A&M, 6-3, 195, Jr., East St. Louis, Illinois
P — Kai Kroeger, South Carolina, 6-4, 207, Jr., Lake Forest, Illinois
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Offensive player of the year: Hendon Hooker, QB, Tennessee
Defensive player of the year: u-Will Anderson Jr., LB, Alabama
Coach of the year: Josh Heupel, Tennessee
Newcomer of the year: Quinshon Judkins, RB, Ole Miss
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Offense
WR — Antwane Wells Jr., South Carolina, 6-1, 207, Jr., Richmond, Virginia
WR — Will Sheppard, Vanderbilt, 6-3, 200, Jr., Mandeville, Louisiana
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T — Dalton Wagner, Arkansas, 6-9, 331, Sr., Spring Grove, Illinois
T — Javon Foster, Missouri, 6-5, 319, Sr., Detroit, Michigan
G — Beaux Limmer, Arkansas, 6-5, 302, Jr., Tyler, Texas
G — Ethan White, Florida, 6-4, 331, Jr., Clearwater, Florida
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C — Sedrick Van Pran, Georgia, 6-4, 310, So., New Orleans
TE — Darnell Washington, Georgia, 6-7, 270, Jr., Las Vegas, Nevada
QB — Bryce Young, Alabama, 6-0, 194, Jr., Pasadena, California
RB — Devon Achane, Texas A&M, 5-9, 185, Jr., Missouri City, Texas
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RB — Jahmyr Gibbs, Alabama, 5-11, 200, Jr., Dalton, Georgia
PK — Will Reichard, Alabama, 6-1, 190, Sr., Hoover, Alabama
AP — Jahmyr Gibbs, Alabama, 5-11, 200, Jr., Dalton, Georgia
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DE — Derick Hall, Auburn, 6-3, 256, Sr., Gulfport, Mississippi
DE — Byron Young, Tennessee, 6-3, 245, Sr., Georgetown, South Carolina
DT — Mekhi Wingo, LSU, 6-0, 295, So., St. Louis, Missouri
DT — Deone Walker, Kentucky, 6-6, 330, Kentucky, Fr., Detroit, Michigan
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LB — Jamon Dumas-Johnson, Georgia, 6-1, 245, So., Hyattsville, Maryland
LB — Nathaniel Watson, Mississippi State, 6-2, 240, Sr., Maplesville, Alabama
LB — Ty’Ron Hopper, Missouri, 6-2, 221, Jr., Shelby, North Carolina
CB — Kelee Ringo, Georgia, 6-2, 210, So., Tacoma, Washington
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CB — D.J. James, Auburn, 6-1, 174, Jr., Mobile, Alabama
S — Jordan Battle, Alabama, 6-1, 206, Sr., Fort Lauderdale, Florida
S — Brian Branch, Alabama, 6-0, 193, Jr., Fayetteville, Georgia
P — Nik Constantinou, Texas A&M, 6-3, 225, Jr., Melbourne, Australia
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AP All-SEC Voting Panel: Kayla Anderson, WKRN-TV, Nashville, Tennessee; John Clay, Lexington Herald Leader; David Cloninger, Post and Courier; Adam Cole, Opelika-Auburn News; Robbie Faulk, 247Sports/Starkville Daily News; Garland Gillen, Fox 8 (WVUE-TV), New Orleans; Stephen Hargis, Chattanooga Times Free Press; Michael Katz, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal; Nick Kelly, The Tuscaloosa News; Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star; David Matter, St. Louis Post Dispatch; Tom Murphy, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Ben Portnoy, The State, Columbia, S.C.; Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel; Marc Weiszer, Athens Banner-Herald. | 2022-12-05T18:23:19+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/AP-All-SEC-Hooker-Anderson-Heupel-win-17632583.php |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended himself Thursday against accusations that he traffics in racist and hateful online conspiracy theories, testifying at a House hearing on government censorship despite requests from outside groups to disinvite the Democratic presidential candidate after his recent antisemitic remarks.
The Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government is amplifying GOP claims that conservatives and others are being unfairly targeted by technology companies that routinely work with the government to try to stem the spread of disinformation online.
In opening remarks, Kennedy invoked his famous family’s legacy in decrying the complaints of racism and antisemitism against him.
“This is an attempt to censor a censorship hearing,” said Kennedy, the son of Roberts F. Kennedy and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy defended his social media posts, which have delved into race, vaccine safety and other issues, as neither “racist or antisemitic.” He said his family has long believed in the First Amendment right to free speech.
“The First Amendment was not written for easy speech,” Kennedy said. “It was a speech that nobody likes you for.”
Republicans are eager to elevate Kennedy after he announced in April he was mounting a long-shot Democratic primary challenge to President Joe Biden. Kennedy’s presidential campaign chairman, Dennis Kucinich, the former congressman and past presidential contender, sat in the front row behind him.
The Big Tech companies have adamantly denied the GOP assertions and say they enforce their rules impartially for everyone regardless of ideology or political affiliation. And researchers have not found widespread evidence that social media companies are biased against conservative news, posts or materials.
The top Democrat on the House panel, Del. Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands, said the Republican majority was giving a platform to Kennedy and others to promote conspiracy theories and a rallying cry for “bigotry and hate.”
“This is not the kind of free speech I know,” Plaskett said.
The hearing comes after a federal judge recently sought to halt the Biden administration from working with the social media companies to monitor misinformation and other online postings. An appellate court temporarily paused the order.
The panel’s chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, stood by the decision to have Kennedy testify. In his own opening remarks, Jordan portrayed what he claimed were examples of censorship, including a White House request to Twitter to remove a race-based post from Kennedy about COVID-19 vaccines.
“It’s why Mr. Kennedy is running for president — to help us expose and stop what’s going on,” Jordan said.
A watchdog group asked Jordan to drop the invitation to Kennedy after he suggested COVID-19 could have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.
In those filmed remarks first published by The New York Post, Kennedy said “there is an argument” that COVID-19 “is ethnically targeted” and that it “attacks certain races disproportionately.”
After the video was made public, Kennedy posted on Twitter that his words were twisted and denied ever suggesting that COVID-19 was deliberately engineered to spare Jewish people. He called for the Post’s article to be retracted.
But Kennedy has a history of comparing vaccines — widely credited with saving millions of lives — with the genocide of the Holocaust during Nazi Germany, comments for which he has sometimes apologized.
An organization that Kennedy founded, Children’s Health Defense, currently has a lawsuit pending against a number of news organizations, among them The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines.
Jordan said that while he disagreed with Kennedy's remarks, he was not about to drop him from the panel. Speaker Kevin McCarthy took a similar view, saying he did not want to censor Kennedy.
Ahead of the hearing, Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia said Kennedy holds “vile” beliefs. “By promoting Mr. Kennedy, Republicans are deliberately providing a platform to amplify hate speech,” he said.
The panel wants to probe the way the federal government works with technology companies to flag postings that contain false information or downright lies. Hanging over the debate is part of federal communications law, Section 230, which shields technology companies like Twitter and Facebook from liability over what's said on their platforms.
Lawmakers on the panel wereare also hearing testimony from Emma-Jo Morris, journalist at Breitbart News, who has reported extensively on Biden's son, Hunter Biden; and D. John Sauer, a former Solicitor General in Missouri who is now a special Assistant Attorney General at the Louisiana Department of Justice involved in the lawsuit against the Biden administration.
Morris tweeted part of her opening remarks in which she described an “elaborate censorship conspiracy" that she claimed sought to halt her reporting of Hunter Biden.
Another witness, Maya Wiley, the president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, strayed from her prepared remarks to implore the lawmakers to consider how important it is to have platforms where Americans can share views — but also “how deeply vital that they be based in fact, not fiction.”
The U.S. has been hesitant to regulate the social media giants, even as outside groups warn of the rise of hate speech and misinformation that can be erosive to civil society.
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Biden has decided to keep Space Command in Colorado, rejecting move to Alabama, officials tell AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has decided to keep U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, overturning a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama and ending months of politically fueled debate, according to senior U.S. officials.
The officials said Biden was convinced by the head of Space Command, Gen. James Dickinson, who argued that moving his headquarters now would jeopardize military readiness. Dickinson’s view, however, was in contrast to Air Force leadership, who studied the issue at length and determined that relocating to Huntsville, Alabama, was the right move.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the decision ahead of the announcement.
The president, they said, believes that keeping the command in Colorado Springs would avoid a disruption in readiness that the move would cause, particularly as the U.S. races to compete with China in space. And they said Biden firmly believes that maintaining stability will help the military be better able to respond in space over the next decade.
Biden’s decision is sure to enrage Alabama lawmakers and fuel accusations that abortion politics played a role in the choice. The location debate has become entangled in the ongoing battle between Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville and the Defense Department over the move to provide travel for troops seeking reproductive health care. Tuberville opposed the policy is blocking hundreds of military promotions in protest.
Formally created in August 2019, the command was temporarily based in Colorado, and Air Force and Space Force leaders initially recommended it stay there. In the final days of his presidency Donald Trump decided it should be based in Huntsville.
The change triggered a number of reviews.
Proponents of keeping the command in Colorado have argued that moving it to Huntsville and creating a new headquarters would set back its progress at a time it needs to move quickly to be positioned to match China’s military space rise. And Colorado Springs is also home to the Air Force Academy, which now graduates Space Force guardians, and more than 24 military space missions, including three Space Force bases.
Huntsville, however, scored higher than Colorado Springs in a Government Accountability Office assessment of potential locations and has long been a home to some of earliest missiles used in the nation’s space programs, including the Saturn V rocket. It is home to the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command.
According to officials, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, who ordered his own review of the matter, leaned toward Huntsville, while Dickinson was staunchly in favor of staying put. The officials said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin presented both options to Biden.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court blocked a lower court order late Friday night that said clinics could continue performing abortions, just days after some doctors had resumed seeing patients after the fall of Roe v. Wade.
It was not immediately clear whether Texas clinics that had resumed seeing patients this week would halt services again. A hearing is scheduled for later this month.
The whiplash of Texas clinics turning away patients, rescheduling them, and now potentially canceling appointments again — all in the span of a week — illustrated the confusion and scrambling taking place across the country since Roe was overturned.
An order by a Houston judge earlier this week had reassured some clinics they could temporarily resume abortions up to six weeks into pregnancy. That was quickly followed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asking the state’s highest court, which is stocked with nine Republican justices, to temporarily put the order on hold.
“These laws are confusing, unnecessary, and cruel,” said Marc Hearron, attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, after the order was issued Friday night.
Clinics in Texas had stopped performing abortions in the state of nearly 30 million people after the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to abortion. Texas had technically left an abortion ban on the books for the past 50 years while Roe was in place.
A copy of Friday's order was provided by attorneys for Texas clinics. It could not immediately be found on the court’s website.
Abortion providers and patients across the country have been struggling to navigate the evolving legal landscape around abortion laws and access.
In Florida, a law banning abortions after 15 weeks went into effect Friday, the day after a judge called it a violation of the state constitution and said he would sign an order temporarily blocking the law next week. The ban could have broader implications in the South, where Florida has wider access to the procedure than its neighbors.
Abortion rights have been lost and regained in the span of a few days in Kentucky. A so-called trigger law imposing a near-total ban on the procedure took effect last Friday, but a judge blocked the law Thursday, meaning the state’s only two abortion providers can resume seeing patients — for now.
The legal wrangling is almost certain to continue to cause chaos for Americans seeking abortions in the near future, with court rulings able to upend access at a moment's notice and an influx of new patients from out of state overwhelming providers.
Even when women travel outside states with abortion bans in place, they may have fewer options to end their pregnancies as the prospect of prosecution follows them.
Planned Parenthood of Montana this week stopped providing medication abortions to patients who live in states with bans “to minimize potential risk for providers, health center staff, and patients in the face of a rapidly changing landscape.”
Planned Parenthood North Central States, which offers the procedure in Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, is telling its patients that they must take both pills in the regimen in a state that allows abortions.
The use of abortion pills has been the most common method to end a pregnancy since 2000, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone — the main drug used in medication abortions. Taken with misoprostol, a drug that causes cramping that empties the womb, it constitutes the abortion pill.
“There’s a lot of confusion and concern that the providers may be at risk, and they are trying to limit their liability so they can provide care to people who need it," said Dr. Daniel Grossman, who directs the research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California San Francisco.
Emily Bisek, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood North Central States, said that in an “unknown and murky” legal environment, they decided to tell patients they must be in a state where it is legal to complete the medication abortion -- which requires taking two drugs 24 to 48 hours apart. She said most patients from states with bans are expected to opt for surgical abortions.
Access to the pills has become a key battle in abortion rights, with the Biden administration preparing to argue states can’t ban a medication that has received FDA approval.
Kim Floren, who operates an abortion fund in South Dakota called Justice Empowerment Network, said the development would further limit women's choices.
“The purpose of these laws anyways is to scare people,” Floren said of states’ bans on abortions and telemedicine consultations for medication abortions. “The logistics to actually enforcing these is a nightmare, but they rely on the fact that people are going to be scared.”
A South Dakota law took effect Friday that threatens a felony punishment for anyone who prescribes medication for an abortion without a license from the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners.
In Alabama, Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office said it is reviewing whether people or groups could face prosecution for helping women fund and travel to out-of-state abortion appointments.
Yellowhammer Fund, an Alabama-based group that helps low-income women cover abortion and travel costs, said it is pausing operation for two weeks because of the lack of clarity under state law.
“This is a temporary pause, and we’re going to figure out how we can legally get you money and resources and what that looks like,” said Kelsea McLain, Yellowhammer’s health care access director.
Laura Goodhue, executive director of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, said staff members at its clinics have seen women driving from as far as Texas without stopping — or making an appointment. Women who are past 15 weeks were being asked to leave their information and promised a call back if a judge signs the order temporarily blocking the restriction, she said.
Still, there is concern that the order may be only temporary and the law may again go into effect later, creating additional confusion.
“It’s terrible for patients,” she said. “We are really nervous about what is going to happen.”
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Izaguirre reported from Tallahassee, Florida, and Groves reported from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. AP writers Dylan Lovan contributed from Louisville, Kentucky; Adriana Gomez Licon from Miami; and Kim Chandler from Montgomery, Alabama. | 2022-07-02T07:11:28+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Texas-Supreme-Court-blocks-order-that-resumed-17280800.php |
- Paradiso, Barcelona is The World's Best Bar – the first time it has been won by a bar outside New York or London
- The 2022 list features bars from 26 cities with 14 new entries
- Florence, Lisbon and Naples feature in the list for the first time
- Italian Agostino Perrone is voted Roku Industry Icon
- Stockholm's Röda Huset is Campari One To Watch
- Juliana (Guayaquil) wins the Siete Misterios Best Cocktail Menu
- Little Red Door, Paris receives the Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award
- New York's Double Chicken Please is Disaronno Highest New Entry, placing at No.6
- Sips, Barcelona secures the Nikka Highest Climber Award, rising 34 places to No.3
- Mexico City's Licorería Limantour is Rémy Martin Legend of The List and The Best Bar in North America
- BKK Social Club, Bangkok is London Essence Best New Opening
- The inaugural 50 Best The Blend Scholar is Drew Fleming of Kiki Lounge, Isle of Man
BARCELONA, Spain , Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The World's 50 Best Bars 2022, sponsored by Perrier, were unveiled in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain on Tuesday 4th October. In its 14th year, the awards unite the global bar community in recognition of the achievements of the international cocktail scene. This year marked the first time the ceremony was held outside London.
Hidden behind a refrigerator in the back of a Barcelona pastrami shop, Paradiso offers a masterful take on the speakeasy, combining technique, precision and creativity with an unwavering sense of fun. Owners Giacomo Giannotti and Margarita Sader and their team serve up meticulously crafted cocktails with an unwavering commitment to sustainability.
Other bars in the top-five are London's Tayēr + Elementary (No.2), Barcelona's Sips (No.3), Mexico City's Licorería Limantour (No.4) and Little Red Door in Paris (No.5). The full list can be viewed here.
Mark Sansom, Content Director of The World's 50 Best Bars, says: "This is the first time we have crowned a bar outside New York or London as The World's Best Bar, a testament to the achievements of Giacomo, Margarita and their team. Named One To Watch in 2017, Paradiso has been a firm fixture of the list since opening. Our congratulations go out to every bar on the list and we are delighted to once again be able to showcase the incredible diversity of the global industry."
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A quick shot of snowfall tracked through Kansas overnight and early Thursday with a low pressure system pushing through southern Kansas. Total snowfall amounts were generally light, on the order of a half inch to an inch and a half.
Snowfall continued to push east into Missouri this morning with some strong and gusty winds immediately behind the system but are gradually easing across Kansas as the storm system pushes well to our east. We have already see clearing skies in western Kansas and there should be some sun in central Kansas as we head through the afternoon.
It has been warmer-than-average across Kansas for several days but temperatures in the wake of last night’s system will be near January averages this afternoon as highs reach the low 40s. Those in far Southwest Kansas will be a touch warmer in the upper 40s.
Near average chilly temperatures will continue on Friday but will climb quickly during the upcoming weekend as winds pick up from a southerly direction. We should recover into the 50s Saturday with many topping the 60 degree mark on Sunday! We will indeed have some pleasant January weather just in time for the upcoming weekend.
This above-average trend will lead us through the start of the workweek. A few showers arrive late Sunday night into Monday morning.
This will push temperatures back into the 50s for Monday, and we will stay dry through the middle of the week.
Better rain chances arrive on Wednesday as a cold front tracks through the Plains, bringing showers and a few flurries as we head to the middle of the week.
1/12/23 KSN Storm Track 3 Forecast from Meteorologist Jack Boston:
Wichita:
This afternoon: Mostly to partly cloudy, breezy. Hi: 40 Wind: NW 12-20
Tonight: Partly cloudy to mostly clear. Lo: 20 Wind: N 5-15
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, breezy. Hi: 43 Wind: N/S 5-15
Tomorrow Night: Mostly clear. Lo: 27 Wind: S 5-15
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Sat: Hi: 54 Lo: 41 Partly cloudy, windy.
Sun: Hi: 60 Lo: 40 Partly cloudy, windy.
Mon: Hi: 56 Lo: 32 Partly to mostly cloudy, breezy. 10% chance of rain.
Tue: Hi: 52 Lo: 34 Partly cloudy, breezy.
Wed: Hi: 52 Lo: 30 Mostly cloudy, windy. 20% chance of rain.
Thu: Hi: 50 Lo: 29 Partly cloudy.
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(CNN) — Schools and parks in Doral, Florida, will reopen Tuesday after a fire at a waste-to-energy facility that has been burning over a week raised air quality concerns.
Firefighters are still battling the flames, but smoke conditions in the area have improved, Miami-Dade County officials said in an update Monday.
On Friday, Doral Glades Park and Doral Legacy Park were closed, all outdoor activities in Doral were rescheduled and two Miami-Dade County Public Schools were dismissed early as firefighters worked to reach the center of the fire.
“Based on the latest air quality readings, residents in the area can enjoy outdoor activities; we encourage you to be mindful that conditions may vary throughout the day as the wind changes and to head indoors if you experience smoky conditions,” the update from the county said. “We recommend running your air conditioning at home to re-circulate air in your house, and changing your air filter more frequently than usual.”
The fire at the Covanta Energy Plant has been burning since February 12 and its cause is under investigation. Flames were impacting two structures at the facility, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said during a news briefing Friday.
The plant, operated by waste management company Covanta, diverts “waste from landfills to generate energy from the combustion of municipal solid waste,” its website says.
The Environmental Protection Agency worked with teams in Miami-Dade County to monitor air quality in the area from Monday through Saturday, the county update said.
“Per EPA protocol, monitoring has now shifted from the EPA to an independent environmental response contractor obtained by Covanta, CTEH, and air monitoring data will be provided and distributed by CTEH moving forward,” the update said.
Initial results from testing conducted Wednesday through Thursday last week found elevated levels of Particular Matter 2.5, Volatile Organic Compounds (Total VOC) and Chlorine at various times during the testing period, the county said.
“VOCs include a variety of chemicals, some of which may have short- and long-term adverse health effects depending on the level that a person is exposed to and how long they may be exposed. Total VOC measurements do not give an indication of individual chemicals that may cause health effects; more information would need to be collected,” the update said.
County officials recommend all residents experiencing smoky conditions stay indoors, particularly at night when the wind slows down. “Anyone with preexisting respiratory and cardiac conditions, as well as older adults, young children, and expectant mothers, should take extra precautions, such as wearing a mask if you need to be outdoors,” the officials added.
No impacts on groundwater, officials say
The Miami-Dade County Division of Environmental Resources Management is also managing runoff water from firefighting efforts into the stormwater management system.
“The portion of the on-site storm water management system that is being utilized is self-contained and has no connection to surface waters or groundwater. As such, no groundwater or surface water impacts have been observed,” officials said.
Fire officials said last week about 100 firefighters were working to extinguish the flames at the facility.
There were four separate ongoing operations attempting to battle it, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Chief Ray Jadallah said Thursday, including efforts to extinguish the trash currently on fire and the two buildings ablaze; a partial demolition of a building on the southeast side of the property to gain better access; shuttling trash near the fire to another area to prevent the blaze from worsening; and an investigation to determine the cause of the fire.
“I know this question comes up quite often is how long is the fire going to burn?” Jadallah said. “Until we actually remove the remainder of the walls, and actually get the apparatuses in there, the heavy machinery to remove the trash, we won’t have an exact idea.”
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- National mortgage lending group Lower Local today announces the addition of Austin Clarkson to its team with the position of Branch Manager. As a ten-year industry veteran and top producer, Clarkson joins as part of the team's goal to open 25 locations over the next 18 months.
"Joining Lower Local is the easiest decision I've made," said Clarkson. "This team is growing immensely and offers a truly differentiated suite of products for our agents and their clients. The team's nationwide growth is exciting, and I can't wait to get rolling with Lower Local."
Lower.com Co-Founder and CEO, Dan Snyder shares in the excitement of adding Clarkson to the team. "Austin joining the Lower Local team is a game-changer. This comes just three months after launching Lower Local, where we're already seeing immense growth with the additions of leaders Jeff Wilks, Reily Kiser, and their teams."
By fusing online and offline mortgage experiences, Lower Local is creating the future of retail mortgage—a uniquely personalized experience for both its agents and borrowers. The success of the Lower Local strategy is proven by a 3X increase in production over its first three months in a notably tough market.
"Lower Local is built for top producers to grow their business exponentially," said Branch Manager Reily Kiser. "Our proprietary combination of online and offline, with digital leads, coaching, and a national brand is great for top producers in Columbus, in Ohio, and across the country looking to 10x their business."
Launched in April 2023, Lower Local is a subsidiary of Lower Holding Company headquartered in New Albany, Ohio.
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A coalition of abortion providers in Texas filed a lawsuit Monday against the state over a decades-old ban on the procedure.
The lawsuit seeks to block state officials from enforcing the complete abortion prohibition that predates the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade.
“Abortion services stopped immediately in Texas last week after the Supreme Court’s crushing decision, but we will fight to maintain access for as long as we can,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, one of the organizations suing.
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned abortion rights.
Currently, Texas bans the procedure after six weeks of gestation. But a so-called trigger law passed last year is poised to eliminate nearly all abortions. This latest law will go into effect 30 days after the court issues its judgment, which Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said could happen in about a month.
But in a memo Paxton issued after the ruling, he said “some prosecutors may choose to immediately pursue criminal prosecutions based on violations of Texas abortion prohibitions predating Roe that were never repealed by the Texas Legislature.”
Paxton made reference to a state law that, until the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade, made performing an abortion punishable with up to five years in prison.
“Although these statutes were unenforceable while Roe was on the books, they are still Texas law,” Paxton said. “Under these pre-Roe statutes, abortion providers could be criminally liable for providing abortions starting today."
At least one district attorney, Travis County's Jose Garza, has said he will not use his office to prosecute people who seek or provide an abortion.
Paxton's memo has caused confusion among abortion providers, which have halted their services in Texas in response.
“There is enough legal uncertainty that abortion providers and abortion funds in Texas do not want to take the legal risk, which is going to be litigated if they take that legal risk,” Seema Mohapatra, a law professor at Southern Methodist University, told Texas Standard Monday.
However, she said that in 2004, a U.S. Court of Appeals said the pre-Roe laws had been impliedly repealed after the Roe decision.
In their lawsuit filed in district court in Harris County, the coalition of abortion providers asked the court to give them and patients assurance that, for now, performing the procedure is not illegal.
“Mr. Paxton’s and the Texas Legislature’s attempts to greenlight the immediate prosecution of abortion providers based on violations of the Pre-Roe Ban must not stand,” the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit said that these are enough reasons to not enforce the pre-Roe ban.
Paxton’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The plaintiffs — which include Houston Women’s Reproductive Services and Whole Woman’s Health — have also asked the court to declare that the pre-Roe ban has been repealed “expressly or by implication.”
“Pregnant people deserve better. Families deserve better. That is exactly why we’re digging in,” said Amy Hagstrom Miller, the president & CEO of Whole Woman’s Health and Whole Woman’s Health Alliance. “That is why we will never stop fighting back. It is why we will persist unrelentingly in our mission to deliver the compassion, empathy, support, and care that the politicians responsible for this nightmarish situation have made clear they will not.” | 2022-06-28T00:01:20+00:00 | kut.org | https://www.kut.org/health/2022-06-27/health-care-providers-sue-texas-over-pre-roe-abortion-ban |
VIDALIA, La. (KTVE/KARD) — The Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office is searching for 30-year-old Jonathan R. Naron for Computer-Aided Solicitation of a Minor and Indecent Behavior with Juveniles. On May 23, 2022, the sheriff’s office Cyber Unit began an investigation into an adult male initiating sexual conversations with a minor online.
According to detectives, the suspect sent sexually explicit photos and videos to the minor over a course of two weeks. Authorities were able to identify Naron as the suspect and have issued an arrest warrant.
If you know the whereabouts of Naron, contact Concordia Parish Sheriff’s deputies at 318-336-5231 or submit an anonymous tip using the Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office mobile app. | 2022-06-07T20:02:42+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/deputies-searching-for-rayville-man-who-had-sexual-conversations-with-minors-online/ |
By HARM VENHUIZEN
Associated Press/Report for America
MILWAUKEE (AP) — In Wisconsin’s tight U.S. Senate race, Democrat Mandela Barnes’ chances to unseat two-term Sen. Ron Johnson may rest with how well he turns out Black voters who don’t always show up in big numbers. Barnes, who would be Wisconsin’s first Black senator, is doubling down on breaking through with younger members of that bloc who community organizers say are often disinterested or feel their votes don’t make a difference. He plans events at Black student unions and elsewhere in the community in the campaign’s closing stretch, and he’s investing millions in reaching young voters of color on streaming platforms like YouTube and Spotify. And Barack Obama will be in Milwaukee on Saturday to lend his star power to a rally for Barnes.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition, released the following piece on the importance of electrifying school bus fleets:
A child rides a bus to school every day—the traditionally big yellow one that runs on diesel gas. Day in and day out, children are exposed to the fumes emitted by the bus, breathing carbon dioxide like its fresh air on what should be an otherwise safe journey to school. After several years of this toxic exposure, the child develops asthma; they can no longer play sports, face a heightened risk to infections like Covid-19, and lose three years to their average life expectancy. The worst part of this tragedy is that it all could've been avoided. Had the school bus been electric instead of diesel, its passengers would have faced no toxic emissions and been spared of irreparable lung damage.
Shared by countless others across the nation, especially those in underserved communities, this story highlights the urgent need for school districts to convert their fleets to electric school buses and protect the health of students and surrounding communities. Furthermore, thanks to President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which designates $5 billion in federal funding for clean school buses, it has never been easier for school districts to take a step towards the future and transition from diesel-powered school buses to fully electric ones.
By electrifying their bus fleets, school districts will be prioritizing the health of both their students and the community at large, contributing to environmental justice, and saving money down the road. According to the Healthy Schools Campaign, the exhaust from diesel buses contains "40+ toxic air contaminants, carcinogens, ozone smog-forming compounds, and fine particulate matter," all of which can have devastating impacts on the health of students as well as the surrounding environment. Diesel buses not only pollute the lungs of their passengers, but they also affect air quality through their emissions, especially considering that large portions of the day are spent driving and waiting idly. Ross Cities estimates that full electrification of the national school bus fleet would lower greenhouse gas emissions by eight megatons per year, which is significant as transportation is the largest contributor to total U.S. emissions.
Additionally, the impacts of electrification would be felt most in low-income and minority communities, who have been exposed to toxic contaminants disproportionately more than any other group. Aside from the humanitarian impact, electric school buses also offer direct benefits to school districts. Based on data from the Modesto Unified School District, they can save $10,000 a year on gas per bus. Electric school buses can even be plugged into as an excess power source in the event of a grid failure. Because of electric school buses' undeniable advantages, districts must utilize this immense opportunity to electrify their fleets created by the Infrastructure Bill.
At the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition, we host a series of events and projects to showcase electric school buses, assist with project planning and grant writing, as well as education and training for school district staff, board members and other stakeholders. Our multilayered approach helps to achieve the goal to not only connect schools with dealers and manufacturers, electric vehicle supply equipment providers but also to increase familiarity between school districts and the electric school bus industry.
The best example is our Mid-Atlantic Electric School Bus Experience Project (MEEP), which provides school fleets with free electric buses to test over a six-to-eight-week demo period. Through practical experience, technical training, and proper planning with electric buses, school districts can better acquaint themselves with the processes of electrification and upkeep of their fleets. MEEP bridges the gap of understanding between districts and electrification, often giving the necessary information on questions such as how to acquire charging stations and how to retrofit or repower existing diesel buses to make them electric. As the need for electric school buses becomes more and more pressing, the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition is dedicated to facilitating and advocating for the electrification of electric school buses locally, regionally, and nationally.
Antoine M. Thompson is the Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition (GWRCCC) and a former NYS Senator and the former chair of the NYS Senate Committee of Environmental Conservation.
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Buying diapers and feminine hygiene products is about to get just a little bit easier for Coloradans.
HB22-1055, also known as the Sales Tax Exemption Essential Hygiene Products Act, went into effect on Wednesday.
Buying diapers and feminine hygiene products is about to get just a little bit easier for Coloradans.
HB22-1055, also known as the Sales Tax Exemption Essential Hygiene Products Act, went into effect on Wednesday.
"From now on in Colorado, there will no longer be state sales tax on diapers and feminine hygiene products," said Gov. Jared Polis in a news release. "This new bi-partisan law finally ends the sales tax on diapers and feminine hygiene products permanently and starts saving people money on these necessary products."
Lauren Casteel, CEO of the Women's Foundation of Colorado, praised the legislation in the release.
"Every Coloradan deserves to live with dignity," said Casteel. "For far too many essential products like diapers, incontinence products, and period products are out of reach."
"The passage of HB22-1055," she said, "which exempts sales tax for these essential products will allow for Colorado women and their families to go to work, child care, and school while saving their family money."
The law comes as part of a bundle of measures meant to save Colorado residents money. In June, Polis announced plans for 100 different measures, including the elimination of the sales tax on hygiene products and the reduction of vehicle registration fees and business registration fees.
The Centennial State's legislation also follows several states that have reduced or eliminated taxes on menstrual products to make them more accessible and combat period poverty. The so-called "pink tax" on menstrual products has been nixed by at least 10 states as of 2019: Minnesota, Illinois, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Nevada.
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The resurgent Boston Red Sox will try to extend their weeks-long hot stretch when they host the Detroit Tigers on Monday.
The Red Sox have gone 13-4 in June while outscoring their opponents 82-51. They have won five consecutive series and they are 9-1-2 in their last 12.
After starting the season 10-19, Boston has gone 27-12 climb into the middle of the American League wild card race.
“We got to keep rolling,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. “We got to keep going. Every series for us is a challenge and it’s because we started the way we started.”
Meanwhile, the Tigers snapped a six-game losing streak by winning their last two games against the Texas Rangers, 14-7 and 7-4.
“Any time you hit, it brings a lot of energy to the team,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. “We’ve pitched well, we played pretty good defense, we’ve hit the ball, we’ve responded to (the Rangers) taking the lead both days and then even, coming back and tying the game, we responded. It’s an exceptional brand of baseball that everybody has expected for a while.”
Each team will use a rookie starting pitcher in the opener of this three-game series at Fenway Park. Alex Faedo (1-3, 4.28 ERA) will go for the Tigers, and the Red Sox will counter with Josh Winckowski (1-1, 4.50).
In his big league debut, Winckowski suffered a 4-2 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on May 28. He allowed four runs on six hits and three walks in three innings.
Then Winckowkski earned his first big league victory, 10-1 over the Oakland A’s on June 15. He threw five scoreless innings while allowing just four hits and one walk.
“It definitely feels good to help the team win,” Winckowski said after that victory. “That first game, the runs I gave up were the only ones Baltimore scored, so I felt directly like I lost us that game. It honestly feels good to go the other way tonight and feel like I helped the team win.
“It’s a surreal moment. It’s obviously something you think about for a very, very long time, especially to be for this team. It’s a pretty big moment.”
Faedo will be looking to rebound from his only poor performance of the season. He allowed seven runs on nine hits, including two homers, in three innings during a 13-0 loss to the Chicago White Sox on June 15.
Hinch ended up using three position players to pitch in that game, and the team held a 30-minute meeting afterward to refocus.
Faedo allowed two runs or one run in each of his first seven starts while working five or more innings. But his outing against the White Sox started badly when he hit AJ Pollock with a pitch, and it stayed bad.
“He just couldn’t throw strikes,” Hinch said. “He hit someone on the first pitch of the game, and that was supposed to be middle-out.”
The Tigers’ offense got a lift from top outfield prospect Riley Greene, who went 2-for-5 with four walks and two runs in his first two big league games.
Detroit also expects to add third baseman Jeimer Candelario to its roster for this series. After recovering from a left shoulder subluxation, Candelario was 6-for-16 with two doubles, a homer and three RBIs in four games in a rehabilitation assignment with Triple-A Toledo.
–Field Level Media | 2022-06-21T03:58:27+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/sports/baseball-championship/red-sox-look-to-keep-rolling-at-home-vs-tigers/ |
Broadway's longest-running show, Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera," will play its final five months before closing its doors for good, a spokesperson for the show told CNN Friday.
The final performance will take place on Saturday, February, 18, 2023, at Broadway's Majestic Theatre, Michael Borowski of The Publicity Office said in an email.
Prior to the Broadway show's conclusion, "Phantom" will celebrate its 35th anniversary on January 26 with director Seth Sklar-Heyn at the helm, Borowski said.
Ticket sales had slowed for Broadway shows during the pandemic and "Phantom" was no exception, recently dropping from 255,000 weekly attendees in May to about 180,000 attendees in September, according to The Broadway League.
International productions of the show will continue, Borowski added. The show's flagship London production will celebrate its 36th year on October 9 and the recently premiered Melbourne version will likewise continue.
Phantom's Mandarin-language version is slated to debut in China in 2023 and a Spanish-language venture with Antonio Banderas has been announced.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Halloween is almost here, and to prevent the holiday from becoming a scary one for you and your pets, Best Friends Animal Society listed some helpful tips to follow.
According to Best Friends, there are some basic precautions pet owners can take to keep their furry friends safe:
- Pets should be kept inside during Halloween, if trick-or-treating is happening in your community. Use caution when answering the door so your cat or dog doesn’t dart outside. If the extra door knocking or doorbell ringing stresses out your pets, put them in a quiet room away from the noise.
- Make sure your pets have current ID tags and that microchip info is up to date, just in case they do escape.
- Candy is for kids, not dogs and cats. Chocolate can be very toxic to our furry friends. Candy containing xylitol (artificial sweetener) can also be dangerous. Keep any stashes of candy out of pets’ reach.
- Wires and cords that light up your holiday decorations can be deadly if chewed on. Please make sure pets don’t have access to them.
- Jack-o-lanterns with lit candles should be kept away from pets who might accidentally knock them over and potentially start a fire.
- If you do decide to dress up your pet, make sure the costume is not annoying and is safe for your pet. Costumes should not constrict movement, breathing, or vision. Small dangling pieces can be choking hazards. Ill-fitting costumes can get twisted and caught on external objects and hurt your pet.
- Most dogs would prefer not to go trick or treating, or participate in Halloween parades or scavenger hunts. The chaos and costumes and excited kids can be frightening to even the friendliest of dogs and cause them to act differently than normal.
- You can make the holiday fun and special for your pets by buying or making them treats or toys that are healthy and safe and just for them!
If you don’t yet have furry friend to keep you calm on the frightful night, Best Friends in Bentonville has several pets available for adoption. | 2022-10-18T18:00:51+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/local-news/tips-to-keep-your-pets-safe-not-scared-this-halloween/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michelle Yeoh has won the Academy Award for best actress and made history all at once.
The Malaysian-born actor became the first Asian woman to win the Academy Award for best actress on Sunday night for her multifaceted performance in the multiversal “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
“For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibility. This is proof that dreams dream big and dreams do come true,” she said. “And ladies, don’t let anyone ever tell you you’re past your prime.”
Yeoh’s victory comes almost 90 years after Luise Rainer, a white actor, won the same category for donning “yellowface” to play a Chinese villager in “The Good Earth.”
As a nominee, Yeoh was the first in the category who identified as Asian. Merle Oberon, who was nominated in 1935 for “The Dark Angel” but didn’t win, hid her South Asian heritage, according to birth records.
She joyously acknowledged the historical moment in front of reporters in the press room.
“I think this is something we have been working so hard towards for a very long time and tonight, we freaking broke that glass ceiling! I kung fu-ed it out and shattered it,” Yeoh said.
Yeoh beat out past Oscar winner Cate Blanchett (“Tár”), as well as Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”), Ana de Armas (“Blonde”) and Andrea Riseborough (“To Leslie”).
The category also received notice for who wasn’t nominated: In a year of strong performances from Black women like Viola Davis (“The Woman King”) and Danielle Deadwyler (“Till”), they were shut out. Meanwhile some criticized the grassroots campaigning by A-listers on social media for Riseborough.
Yeoh also used her speech to honor her 84-year-old mother.
“I have to dedicate this to my mom and all the moms in the world because they are really the superheroes and without them none of us would be here tonight,” she said.
Janet Yeoh got to watch her daughter’s win at a live Oscar watch party in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Yeoh added her mother has “has always instilled in me confidence, taught me about love, taught me about kindness and compassion.” She also heeded her mother’s last piece of advice.
“The recent thing she asked me to do is, ‘Don’t wear pants to the Oscars.’”
Yeoh appeared a lock after winning seemingly every award everywhere, including the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award, for her nuanced portrayal of Evelyn, an immigrant Chinese wife, mother and laundromat operator bracing for a tax audit.
Her win was one of seven Oscars for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” including best picture and editing. Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan also won best supporting actor Oscars. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won for best directors and original screenplay.
Yeoh got her start in the kung fu cinema world but rose to stardom in 1992 as Jackie Chan’s co-star in “Supercop.” American audiences got to know her even better over the next decade with hits like “Tomorrow Never Dies” and Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.”
When she first read the script for “Everything Everywhere,” Yeoh thought it was “an independent film on steroids.” She was ultimately swayed by the opportunity to give voice to immigrant mothers and grandmothers who go unnoticed. The multiverse movie was also a showcase across a bevy of genres — drama, comedy, sci-fi and fantasy.
At 60, Yeoh has been heavily in demand since her standout turn as a controlling matriarch in “Crazy Rich Asians.” From there, she has done everything from a “Star Trek” spinoff to Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.”
Yeoh will be seen later this year in the Disney+ series “American Born Chinese.” She is also preparing to reunite with “Crazy Rich Asians” director Jon M. Chu for the screen adaptation of the musical “Wicked.”
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For more coverage of this year’s Academy Awards, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/academy-awards | 2023-03-14T01:54:45+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/entertainment-news/michelle-yeoh-wins-best-actress-award-making-oscar-history/ |
FGP acquires minority stake in CCI, signs Portfolio Management Service Agreement to accelerate growth across investment strategies
SOLANA BEACH, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clear Creek Investments ("CCI"), an emerging investment manager focused on sustainably oriented investments across the food, water, and energy sectors; and Falco Global Partners ("FGP"), a private equity operations management company; today announced a strategic partnership and investment, with FGP acquiring a minority stake in CCI and entering into a Portfolio Management Services Agreement to benefit current and future CCI portfolio companies and investors.
With FGP's long standing operational support in European and trans-Atlantic investments, the partnership will broaden CCI's global reach, deepen its operational expertise, and increase its prospective limited partner base. Current CCI investments will also benefit from FGP's deep knowledge in private and public capital markets – including commercial and industrial due diligence, acquisition strategy, structuring, program management and integration – to drive growth and enhance value across the CCI investment strategies.
"As a young and rapidly growing firm, CCI's strategic partnership with Falco Global Partners gives us the additional tools we need to punch above our weight class, further accelerate our investing activities, and ensure that we continue creating value for our clients," said Todd Crescenzo, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, CCI. "FGP is recognized globally as a best-in-class private equity operations management team and its minority stake in CCI validates our leadership and ability to execute our investment strategies across public and private markets."
"With over 150 years of combined operating experience among the senior executive team at FGP, sustainability and innovation are always top of mind," said Mike Allan, Partner, FGP. "We believe in the vision that Clear Creek Investments has laid out and together we can strengthen our value, expanding our work with companies in the U.S. and Europe, and applying our expertise to both private and public companies across CCI's investment strategies."
This strategic partnership follows CCI's hiring in January of Paul Ang and David Smith, CFA, as Managing Directors at the firm. Ang and Smith focus on a broad range of growth initiatives including the firm's committed efforts to public equity market investing across the food, water, and energy sectors. CCI launched its public market strategies – the CCI Global Water Fund, LP, and the CCI Sustainable Innovations Fund, LP – in January with initial funding from CCI's investment team and shareholders.
For more information, visit www.clearcreekinv.com.
Clear Creek Investments ("CCI") is an emerging investment manager, based in Solana Beach, Calif., with a focus on investing in companies across the Energy, Food and Water sectors. Specifically, CCI looks to invest in companies across these critical but resource constrained sectors that are stewards of catalytic capital – "doing more with less" in the spirit of global innovation and betterment. The firm was founded in January 2021 and currently manages four investment vehicles across the private and public markets. CCI is a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI).
Falco Global Partners ("FGP") is a private equity operations management company based in Zurich, Switzerland. FGP combines financial and operational excellence to create long-term and sustainable value with each portfolio partner. As former senior executives from various industries and located around the globe, FGP knows what it takes to deliver results within businesses and adopt an investment model which spans far beyond injections of capital. With years of operational expertise at global industry heavyweights and more than 30 years of combined experience in private equity, FGP has a strong track record of leading transformations of large global industrial portfolios and the ability to scale and grow new technology portfolios. Leveraging this experience, we reduce risk with hands-on involvement in the day-to-day operations and strategic conversations of our investees.
Except for the historical information and discussions contained herein, statements contained in this news release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including the performance of financial markets, the investment performance of CCI's sponsored investment products and separately managed accounts, general economic conditions, future acquisitions, competitive conditions and government regulations, including changes in tax laws. Readers should carefully consider such factors. Further, such forward-looking statements speak only on the date at which such statements are made. CCI undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements.
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SOURCE Clear Creek Investments | 2022-08-30T14:45:21+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/08/30/clear-creek-investments-announces-strategic-partnership-with-falco-global-partners/ |
A girl from the U.K. who was born with a rare genetic disorder may be cured.
Nineteen-month-old Teddi Shaw was diagnosed with metachromatic leukodystrophy, also known as MLD, nearly a year ago, according to the BBC.
The National Institutes of Health says most children with metachromatic leukodystrophy, which attacks the nervous system, die by age 5. The NIH says there is no cure for the disease, however, Teddi was given a treatment called Libmeldy. At a cost of more than $3 million, it's reportedly the most expensive medicine ever approved by the U.K. National Health Service.
Libmeldy is a multi-faceted process. First, a patient's stem cells are removed and taken to a lab to be modified. The faulty gene is corrected to prevent it from attacking the nervous stem. The patient is then given Libmeldy, which is made up of the modified cells. In Teddi's case, her body is responding to the treatment and she is hitting milestones similar to that of other toddlers her age, according to the BBC.
Teddi has an older sister, Nala, who also has MLD. The BBC reports that Nala's case is fatal because it wasn't caught in time.
Libmeldy says its treatment is effective on children who have not yet developed any symptoms or the symptoms are not worsening rapidly.
According to the BBC, Libmeldy took nearly two decades to develop and got EU approval in late 2020. It's not yet approved in the U.S. | 2023-02-20T17:56:35+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/girl-believed-to-be-cured-of-rare-genetic-disorder-thanks-to-gene-therapy |
The finish facilitates cleaning and maintenance while retaining the shine, and without cracking, for longer
SÃO PAULO, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JBS Couros is introducing to the global market the EVO, an evolution in technology that affords greater resistance and durability to leather products with this finish. Following the advent of covid-19, many people adopted new habits to prevent the propagation of the virus. As a result, frequent sanitation of objects and surfaces became an essential habit that has led the industry to deliver longer-lasting products.
"The EVO range has double the resistance in relation to regular leather. Moreover, it does not exhibit the hard, plasticized aspect of similar products on the market. This is a unique solution based on a highly complex international technical standard (AATCC130:1995), testing having been carried out using capillary products, food, beverages and even urine. We believe the material will be a highly successful differential and widely accepted on the market", points out Guilherme Motta, president of JBS Couros.
EVO technology functions with a high-performance concept, a product range designed to better resist the day-to-day stress of upholstery when compared to other products offered. The finish can be applied to sofas, chairs, armchairs and all types of upholstery in the aniline, semi-aniline and pigmented categories. In addition, the aim of the new collection is to combine the advantages and benefits of kind leather in terms of innovation, sustainability, traceability while making sure that the resources do not go to waste.
The new EVO range is available to attendees at the Showtime Market (Interwoven), which takes place between May 22nd and 25th in North Carolina (USA). During the event, participants will be able to check out items with the same pleasant-to-touch, smooth and natural characteristics of traditional leather, with double the performance in terms of resistance, cleaning and abrasion, primarily in coverings for furniture in locations with intense movement of people. The products on display at the tradeshow are:
TITANO – made from carefully selected raw materials, it comes in thicknesses of 10-12 mm. Its main characteristic is the rounded body and a natural appearance. It also has an effect that adds depth and a natural appearance, pleasant to touch and with a semi-opaque shine. Ideal for objects that seek to emphasize movement and highlighting.
URANO –12-14 mm thick, it has a semi-matt shine and solid color. Its key feature is the uniformity of the flower of the leather and the natural silky touch. A hide with high-yielding cuts, indicated for products of personality and robustness.
ATLANTA – a product of extremely high quality and the best selection of hides. Its key features are the fine, delicate and uniform aspect of the flower, pleasant to touch and thickness of 10-12 mm. This results in an elegant and natural covering.
CHRONO – Nappa-type leather whose main characteristics are uniformity, silky touch and smooth flower. It comes in thicknesses of 10-12 mm. That is why it is ideal for modern furniture with straight lines, affording it elegance and sophistication.
About JBS Couros
JBS created its leather business unit in 2009 as an important part of its strategy for adding value to the production chain. JBS Couros is the world's largest leather processing industry, with 20 production units, three cutting units, five distribution centers, three showrooms and four sales offices on four continents. Currently, the company employs around nine thousand workers worldwide and produces wet blue, semi-finished and finished leather for the automotive, furniture, footwear and artifacts sectors. On the leather processing lines, clear, standardized procedures, combined with constant investments in technology and training, make JBS Couros one of the world's most modern companies, transforming organic materials into upmarket, quality products extensively used in global industries.
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SOURCE JBS | 2022-05-25T17:50:32+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/05/25/jbs-couros-rolls-out-new-evo-high-performance-technology/ |
WAUKOMIS — Pioneer freshman Austin Mari proudly claimed a 1.000 batting average after the Mustangs’ 15-2 run-rule victory over Oklahoma Bible Academy Monday at John D. Riesen Field.
Mari drove in a run with a single during Pioneer’s seven-run outburst in the bottom of the third in his first varsity at-bat.
“It felt really good,” Mari said. “Switching schools from Chisholm to Pioneer, I really wanted to help the team out. I was a little nervous, but I got the hit.”
Mari’s hit was the highlight of a day where the Mustangs raised their record to 22-0. His teammates were his biggest cheerleaders.
“Everybody was excited for him,” said Pioneer coach Dave Riesen. “It’s really neat seeing him get that first hit. He will always remember that first high school hit, especially the way he hit the ball. He really smoked it.”
Mari had been used exclusively as a courtesy runner this season.
“He’s got a chance to make a nice little player for us if he keeps working like he has been,” Riesen said. “At this point of the season, we’re pretty set, but you never know if injuries are going to happen. It’s nice to have some guys who you can have step in and do the job if needed.”
Brayden Drewke was three-for-three with four RBI. Ty Parker was two-for-two with three runs scored, two doubles and two RBI. Jacob Munholland had two RBI. Leyton Parker and Dakota Wingo scored twice. Wing, Dayton Thrower and Cole Koontz had RBI.
PHS scored seven runs in the first and third and one in the second.
Starting pitcher Hunter Koontz allowed seven hits and two runs over his three innings. The game was stopped after 3½ innings because of the run-rule.
“I thought we swung the bats really well,” Riesen said. “I’m really pleased with that.”
OBA did all of its damage in the third when Bodie Boydstun slammed a pitch over the left field fence to score Jud Cheatham, who had doubled. Cole Davis followed Boydstun with a double and Harry Nunez singled an out later, but Koontz struck out Erza Reese to end the inning.
The Trojans, who will visit Dover Tuesday, dropped to 4-10.
“I think it’s the best team Pioneer has had since I’ve been here,” said fifth-year OBA coach James Cheatham. “They swing the bats well from one to nine. When you don’t have any gaps, you’re going to be very, very competitive.”
Pioneer is scheduled to host Cimarron Tuesday, but Riesen said that would depend on the availability of umpires. He won’t know that until Tuesday morning. | 2022-04-05T10:18:44+00:00 | enidnews.com | https://www.enidnews.com/sports/mari-sparks-mustangs-in-pioneers-run-rule-win/article_12b00ace-b480-11ec-9346-076d4f98f82b.html |
One of our favorite guests, comedian Ms. Pat joins us in the studio and talks about her TV show, her husband’s retirement, and what she wants to do to Tom.
One of our favorite guests, comedian Ms. Pat joins us in the studio and talks about her TV show, her husband’s retirement, and what she wants to do to Tom.
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There is no custom code to display. | 2022-09-24T13:29:51+00:00 | bobandtom.com | https://www.bobandtom.com/2022/09/23/ms-pat-joins-us-in-studio-complete-interview/ |
President Biden met Monday with his counterparts from Australia and the United Kingdom to discuss a deal to sell U.S. submarines — an arrangement aimed at countering the military might of China.
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President Biden met Monday with his counterparts from Australia and the United Kingdom to discuss a deal to sell U.S. submarines — an arrangement aimed at countering the military might of China.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-03-14T10:12:08+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/2023-03-14/u-s-u-k-and-australia-aim-to-counter-china-with-an-exchange-of-submarine-tech |
"Good Night Oppy" is a charming documentary that tells the story of Opportunity, the Mars rover that was supposed to last just 90 days, but instead kept going, sending back data for almost 15 years.
Copyright 2022 NPR
"Good Night Oppy" is a charming documentary that tells the story of Opportunity, the Mars rover that was supposed to last just 90 days, but instead kept going, sending back data for almost 15 years.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-11-04T11:58:14+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/movies-tv/movies-tv/2022-11-04/good-night-oppy-is-the-feel-good-space-film-you-need |
—Capital Will Help Enhance The Startup's Offering And Grow A Market-
Facing Team As It Expands Its Reach Within The Real Estate Industry—
NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tongo—a FinTech company realigning income and expenses for the commission economy—announced it has raised $7 million in seed funding. The company will use these proceeds to expand product and team in its initial market of real estate, where Tongo empowers brokerages to offer agents on-demand access to pending commissions, which they can use like a line of credit to grow their business & stabilize cash flows. The round was led by MetaProp, with participation from New Valley Ventures, Good Friends, Launchpad, Elizabeth Street, Red Bike, Lab Ventures and Entrepreneur's Roundtable Accelerator. Tongo's fundraising to-date is $11 million.
"Traditional credit products are not built for today's commission economy. Their underwriting models prioritize steady, salaried incomes that work well with their monthly billing cycles. The combination of lower credit availability and strict monthly repayment generates an immense problem for tens of millions of self-employed people where income is more free flowing, such as in real estate and other commission-driven professions. It presents a huge opportunity for Tongo to create financial products that realign income and expenses," said Tongo's CEO Brandon Wright. "By effectively building a debit card for future income, Tongo gives agents an alternative to the credit ecosystem that reduces the volatile, cyclical nature of their income, and at the same time gives them a cost-effective source of capital to grow their business."
Tongo partners with real estate brokerages to offer their agents flexible, real-time and low-cost access to future commission income long before closing via a card-based product. The Tongo Smart Card can be utilized wherever debit cards are taken, and funds can be pushed directly into one's checking account. Once a commission is received, the borrower simply pays down the balance on their card. If a contract falls through, Tongo provides the borrower with the flexibility to pay down the balance the next time a commission is received. Tongo only gets repaid when an agent collects — whenever that happens next. Brokers no longer have to advance money to agents.
"The lumpy, irregular and uncertain nature of commission revenue defines the income patterns of many of the 3 million licensed real estate agents in the U.S., complicating their ability to invest in their businesses and manage personal expenses," stated MetaProp's General Partner Zak Schwarzman. "Tongo has developed a modern, elegant solution that eases this challenge, enabling agents to easily access future commission revenue on friendly, flexible terms with the swipe of a card. Tongo addresses a glaring gap in the consumer credit market for agents and is resonating equally strongly with brokerage firms, who are partnering with Tongo to offer a powerful and differentiated financial management solution that impacts their agents' lives and wallets."
"The commission economy is something real estate agents are intimately familiar with, and thousands of agents rely on transaction closings to provide commission income," shared New Valley Ventures' Managing Director Dan Sachar. "We know first-hand this growing part of the labor force needs better liquidity solutions to manage their budgets and lives. Tongo's next-generation platform provides a modern and easy-to-use approach for real estate agents."
ABOUT TONGO: Tongo works like a debit card on future income. Founded in 2021 by Brandon Wright, Luis Scull, John Macris and Patrick Waltinger, Tongo enables today's real estate professionals to invest in their businesses—and themselves—all year long, privately, while commissions are still locked up. Tongo gets paid back when agents get paid. Tongo's investors include leading names such as MetaProp, Good Friends, Launchpad, Elizabeth Street, Douglas Elliman via New Valley Ventures, Red Bike, Lab Ventures & Remarkable Ventures. To learn more, visit https://gettongo.com/
ABOUT METAPROP: MetaProp is a New York-based venture capital (VC) firm focused on the real estate technology ("PropTech") industry. Founded in 2015, MetaProp's investment team has invested in 150+ technology companies across the real estate value chain. The firm manages multiple funds for both financial and strategic real estate investors that represent a pilot- and test-ready sandbox of 20+ billion square feet across every real estate asset type and global market. The firm's investment activities are complemented by pioneering community leadership including the PropTech Place innovation hub, MetaProp Accelerator at Columbia University programs, global events NYC Real Estate Tech Week and Propel by MIPIM NYC, and publications Global PropTech Confidence Index and PropTech 101.
ABOUT DOUGLAS ELLIMAN INC.: Douglas Elliman Inc. (NYSE: DOUG) ("Douglas Elliman") owns Douglas Elliman Realty, LLC, which is one of the largest residential brokerage companies in the United States with operations in New York City, Long Island, Westchester, Connecticut, New Jersey, the Hamptons, Massachusetts, Florida, California, Colorado, Texas and Nevada. In addition, Douglas Elliman sources, uses and invests in early-stage, disruptive property technology ("PropTech") solutions and companies and provides other real estate services, including development marketing, property management and settlement and escrow services in select markets. Additional information concerning Douglas Elliman is available on its website, www.elliman.com.
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SOURCE Tongo | 2022-09-29T14:42:40+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2022/09/29/tongo-raises-7m-seed-funding/ |
BILLINGS — We can expect variable cloudiness on Sunday and maybe a few flurries out ahead of a big shot of snow next week.
We're keeping an eye on an upper level low with a lot of moisture associated with it coming in from the southwest. This has the potential to dump a good amount of snow on the area Monday through Thursday.
Winter storm conditions are possible for Billings and especially eastern Montana, northeastern Wyoming and into the Dakotas. Billings and areas north and south will have a chance at over 6” of snowfall with areas east eyeballing 10”+. Areas west could receive up to 4”.
Needless to say, traveling conditions next week will not be the best. Heavy snowfall with blowing snow and visibility below a quarter of a mile will all be possible especially in the eastern part of the state and down into northeast Wyoming. Use caution when you're commuting and stay off the roads as much as possible.
Daytime highs will be in the 20s/30s on Sunday then mainly in the 10/20s next week.
Nighttime lows will be mainly in the single digits/10s through the end of next week.
-Miller Robson
Q2 Morning Meteorologist
miller.robson@ktvq.com | 2022-12-10T23:51:39+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/weather/todays-forecast/q2-billings-area-weather-lots-of-snow-next-week |
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Don’t forget to wear your costume if you’re going to see the Syracuse Crunch take on the Cleveland Monsters.
On Saturday, October 29 at 7 p.m., the Syracuse Crunch is bringing back their annual Halloween Spooktacular. The Crunch is encouraging people to dress up and take part in the event.
Kids in attendance will receive a drawstring bag, courtesy of NY529, and during the first intermission, all fans dressed up are invited to participate in a costume contest on the ice for a Crunch prize pack.
Any fan dressed in costume may purchase a discounted $19 ticket at the box office on the day of the game.
Once the game is over, kids are able to trick-or-treat on the ice with Crunch players. They can enter the ice through the Section 107 corner immediately after the game.
Families are encouraged to make a donation to Change for Change to participate in trick-or-treating.
According to the Syracuse Crunch, Change for Change presented by Upstate University Hospital is a fundraising initiative created by Crunch players that were inspired by a boy named Griffin Engle during the 2014-15 season. It aims to raise money for pediatric cancer research at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital and Upstate Cancer Center to help improve the odds for children with cancer. For more information about Change for Change, on the Syracuse Crunch’s website.
Single-game tickets and ticket packages for the 2022-23 season are on sale now and can be purchased in person at the Crunch office located inside the Upstate Medical University Arena at Onondaga County War Memorial at 800 S. State St. in Syracuse, by calling the office at (315)-473-4444 or online through Ticketmaster.
To catch up on the latest Crunch news, you can find them on their website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. | 2022-10-26T18:10:45+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/halloween-spooktacular-hosted-by-syracuse-crunch/ |
CHERRY HILL, N.J., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Real Good Food Company, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGF) ("Real Good Foods" or the "Company"), an innovative, high-growth, branded, health- and wellness-focused frozen food company, today announced the expansion of its Breakfast platform with new Breakfast Bowls and Breakfast Bites. This builds off Real Good Foods' Breakfast Sandwiches, which are the #1 selling better-for-you sandwiches in the Frozen HWI Breakfast category as measured by SPINS.
Real Good Foods' Breakfast Bowls are made from nutritious ingredients, including Real Good Foods' Crispy Tots, along with whole eggs, cheese, and traditional breakfast proteins. Real Good Foods' Breakfast Bites are made with an innovative, grain-free shell, using clean, real food ingredients such as Lupin bean and cauliflower, and stuffed with eggs, cheese and traditional breakfast proteins.
Real Good Foods' new Breakfast Bites and Breakfast Bowls are now available in select grocery stores across the U.S., including, Kroger, Publix, Safeway, and more. They can also be purchased directly from www.realgoodfoods.com.
"These breakfast offerings are the result of our mission to make our favorite comfort foods more nutritious and improve human health. Our community continues to push us to provide nutritious and convenient options at breakfast, and I am proud of our talented and dedicated team that worked hard to make these innovative items possible," said Bryan Freeman, Executive Chairman of The Real Good Food Company. "Unlike other breakfast options on shelves today that are made with processed grains and are loaded with carbohydrates, our new, nutritious breakfast items have a limited amount of carbs, made 100% grain-free, and are loaded with protein."
To learn more about Real Good Foods and to find a store near you, please visit www.realgoodfoods.com.
Founded in 2016, Real Good Foods believes there is a better way to enjoy our favorite foods. Its brand commitment, "Real Food You Feel Good About Eating," represents the Company's strong belief that, by eating its food, consumers can enjoy more of their favorite foods and, by doing so, live better lives as part of a healthier lifestyle. Its mission is to make nutritious comfort foods that are low in carbohydrates, high in protein, and made from gluten and grain free real ingredients more accessible to everyone, improve human health, and, in turn, improve the lives of millions of people. Real Good Foods offers delicious options across breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacking occasions available, in over 16,000 stores nationwide, including Walmart, Costco, Kroger, and Target, and directly from its website at www.realgoodfoods.com. Learn more about Real Good Foods by visiting its website or on Instagram at @realgoodfoods, where it has one of the largest social media followings of any brand within the frozen food industry today with nearly 420,000 followers. For interviews with Bryan Freeman, Executive Chairman, email realgoodfoods@powerdigital.com.
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Summer has officially arrived.
Tuesday marked the beginning of the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
It's also called the longest day of the year.
The Associated Press reported that it coincides with the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, which is considered the shortest day of the year.
Thousands gathered at Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice, the AP reported.
According to CNN, the summer solstice ends with the start of the autumn equinox on Sept. 22. | 2022-06-21T20:10:31+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/tuesday-marks-beginning-of-summer-solstice-in-northern-hemisphere |
The TV show "Reservation Dogs" held its second season premiere Friday night in Tulsa.
The River Spirit Casino Resort rolled out the red carpet for the occasion.
The show was filmed in Okmulgee and other parts of Green Country. The series is set in rural Oklahoma.
One of the writers told News On 6 that the show is a celebration of Indigenous heritage.
Season two premieres on Hulu Wednesday. | 2022-07-31T22:32:38+00:00 | newson6.com | https://www.newson6.com/story/62e5531e3e67910725ae9c73/reservation-dogs-holds-season-two-red-carpet-premiere-in-tulsa |
When inflation rises, child care expenses do, too. If you’re a parent, you may be hoping to get a little financial relief during the upcoming tax season through deductions or credits. But since there have been recent reductions to both of the child tax credits, you may not get as much back as you anticipated.
If you’re like me, you could end up paying the IRS instead of getting a refund from Uncle Sam. To help your money go further in 2023, you may want to reevaluate some of your recurring child-related expenses. Here are a few strategies for reducing costs, according to finance professionals.
CHILD CARE
Many of the increased tax credits and deductions parents enjoyed during the height of the pandemic are reverting to their original limits. As a result, parents should be prepared to get less back this year, says Alton Bell II, principal accountant and founder at Bell Tax Accountants & Advisors in Chicago.
“I would prepare for a tax refund reduction shock because the credit around the dependent care has significantly changed,” he says.
In 2021, the child and dependent care credit increased to make child care more affordable for working parents. It was raised to a maximum of $4,000 for one qualifying person and $8,000 for two or more qualifying persons, and potentially refundable. For 2022, the amount has gone back down to a maximum of $1,050 for one qualifying person and $2,100 for two or more. Additionally, the child tax credit is reverting to $2,000 for children of all ages for the 2022 tax year. For 2021, it increased to $3,600 for children under six and $3,000 for kids ages 6 to 17.
With these cuts in mind, I thought it might be a good idea to ditch aftercare for my 5-year-old son this year. My living room may look like the scene of a volcanic eruption more often, but I’ll save $200 a month. If you work remotely and can handle having your child home a few extra hours during the day, consider giving this a test run.
Additionally, you could contribute to a dependent care flexible savings account, which allows you to use pre-tax dollars to pay for child care. Bell suggests maxing out that account for the year and also utilizing an employer FSA match if your company offers one.
You can contribute $ 5,000 per household to a dependent care FSA in 2023, or $2,500 if you’re married filing separately.
GROCERIES
If your snack cupboard is empty within three to five business days because your kids have bottomless bellies, then you may be looking for ways to reduce your grocery bill. This may especially be the case if you’re feeling the effects of higher food costs due to inflation.
One cost-saving strategy is to plan your shopping ahead of time to avoid buying items you don’t need. Dominique Broadway, a personal finance expert and founder of Finances Demystified in Miami, Florida, switched from going to the store to using grocery delivery services so she knows exactly how much she’ll spend.
Broadway also recommends putting the same groceries in different delivery service provider carts so you can do a side-by-side comparison of the price difference.
“You’ll be surprised, the difference can be pretty large — sometimes 40, 50 bucks difference just because of delivery fees and the inflated prices. Over time that actually does add up,” she says.
HEALTH CARE
Premiums can become a noticeable expense when you pay them monthly. Adding copays every time you visit the doctor increases your out-of-pocket costs even more.
If you have a relatively healthy child and can say the same for yourself, think about whether a health savings account could save you money. HSAs can be used to pay health care expenses. The limit for HSAs in 2023 is $3,850 for individuals and $7,750 for families. The contributions are made with pre-tax dollars and are also tax-deductible. You must have a high-deductible health insurance plan to contribute to an HSA. High-deductible health plans sometimes have lower premiums, which leads to some people saving money. Keep in mind that with these plans, you may end up paying a higher deductible before your insurance starts sharing health care costs with you.
I decided to give it a test run in 2022. Since my son and I went to the doctor a handful of times that year, my out-of-pocket costs came to just about $700. The cherry on top is I had $1,500 left over thanks to my employer’s contributions to my HSA account. I can now roll that money over into the new year.
ENTERTAINMENT
There were so many toys in my house by the end of 2022 that my son and I gave half away. This year, I’m cutting costs by making better use of free activities.
Oftentimes, parents buy children items, only to realize what they really value is experiences, Broadway says.
“I’ve purchased a $3 activity kit from Target and gotten hours of fun and play with my children out of something like that versus just buying them a bunch of toys,” she says. “I think that alone is a great way to cut costs and build a better relationship with your children and make more memories with them, as well.”
Speaking of experiences, there is a trampoline park near our house that offers a $20 monthly subscription for endless play. It seems more cost-effective to take my son there than to buy more trucks and excavators I’ll end up tripping over.
If any of these strategies lead to savings this year, Broadway suggests investing the money in a custodial account for child-related future expenses and to help your kids build wealth.
“Take that money and invest it for your children — have it working for you and for them.
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This column was provided to The Associated Press by the personal finance website NerdWallet. The content is for educational and informational purposes and does not constitute investment advice. Elizabeth Ayoola is a writer at NerdWallet. Email: eayoola@nerdwallet.com.
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Wade Goodwyn had a voice big as a Brahman bull, and sweeter than Texas pecan pie. He subbed for me now and then, and I'd return to a slew of emails asking, "Why did you have to come back?" I told Wade once, and he said just what you'd expect of a cowboy star. "Shucks, Scooter, no tellin' what some folks will write, now is there?"
And Wade could write with a grace to match that gorgeous voice. He opened a 2013 story on Texas Democrats by saying, "It's not easy being a Democrat in Texas. You're like an armadillo crossing a six-lane superhighway, running as fast as you can from the Republican 18-wheelers coming at 70 miles an hour."
Wade Goodwyn died this week of cancer at the age of 63. He worked for NPR since 1993, when he helped cover the standoff at David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound near Waco. Eighty-six people, including 28 children, died. Wade went on to cover lots of disasters, natural and human-made, but made even tragic stories shine with images and insight.
He reported on a tornado that tore through Dallas in October 2019. "The tornado spun through upscale neighborhoods," Wade said, "denuding trees ... leaving them forlorn skeletons in advance of Halloween. One man looking at a large tree laying on his lawn told a reporter in surprise, 'This is not my tree.' "
I found myself going through some of Wade's stories yesterday, and always found phrases to admire.
He took us to an Arkansas campground, devastated by a flash flood. "Pickup trucks and 25-foot campers are strewn about the campground," said Wade, "as if Mother Nature had turned into a spoiled child and thrown a tantrum. Next to the river, massive trees are rolled flat like stalks of wheat."
Remembering a man who trained Hollywood actors how to handle a prop gun, his opening line was, "Joe Bowman was so good with a single-action revolver, he could turn an aspirin into powder at 20 yards."
And he began a report from a small town music festival by saying, "In Goree, Texas — population about 300 — there are people who step into a stirrup with the same ease that you press your keyless remote and climb into the car."
Wade Goodwyn's church bell voice and artful words brought us the kind of sharp, human details that make stories live. And live on.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-06-10T13:47:10+00:00 | lakeshorepublicmedia.org | https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/2023-06-10/opinion-wade-goodwyn-brought-texas-spirit-to-npr |
GENEVA (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Wladimir Klitschko has joined Ukraine’s fight against IOC plans to let some Russians compete at the 2024 Paris Summer Games.
The former heavyweight champion suggested in a video message published Monday that sports leaders will be accomplices to the war if athletes from Russia and its military ally Belarus can compete at the next Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee set out its preferred path last week for Russians and Belarusians who have not openly supported the war to qualify for Paris and compete in 18 months’ time as neutral athletes with no flag or anthem. Qualifying events would likely be in Asia.
That softening of the IOC advice given last February — that sports bodies should exclude Russia and Belarus from international events — provoked anger in Ukraine, which warned it could boycott Paris.
Klitschko's one-minute statement filmed beside bomb-damaged buildings started “Dear Thomas Bach” in a direct challenge to the IOC president.
“The world is watching you, history will judge you. Good luck with your decision,” Klitschko said in the latest riposte from Ukraine trying to tie Bach closely to Olympic policy for Russia.
Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelenskyy directly invited Bach last week to visit Bakhmut, a wrecked city on the war’s current frontline, and his adviser Mykhaïlo Podolyak ended a stinging criticism of the IOC on Twitter with the words “Right, Mr. Bach?”
“You are the representative of the universal values of tolerance and peace,” Klitschko said on camera to Bach, who also won Olympic gold, in team fencing. “I tell you; the Russians are Olympic champions in crimes against civilians.”
“You cannot put your Olympic emblem on these crimes because you will be an accomplice with this abominable war,” said Klitschko, who won the superheavyweight title at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Klitschko’s elder brother, Vitali, is the mayor of Kviv and also a former heavyweight champion. They trained and fought for much of their professional careers in Germany, Bach’s home country.
Responding to criticism on Monday, the IOC said it “rejects in the strongest possible terms this and other defamatory statements.”
“They cannot serve as a basis for any constructive discussion,” said the Olympic body, which has cited a “unifying mission” to have all 206 national teams compete together peacefully.
The IOC also has pointed to human rights concerns at the United Nations that athletes must not face discrimination based solely on their passport.
The updated guidance must be weighed by governing bodies overseeing most of the 32 sports on the Paris program. Russian teams already cannot qualify for the Olympic soccer tournaments due to an international ban by FIFA, which cited security concerns and the probability some opponents would refuse to play.
While key Olympic sports like track and field and swimming excluded Russians and Belarusians soon after the war started, tennis and cycling have allowed the athletes to compete as neutrals.
Leaders of the umbrella group of Summer Games governing bodies will meet March 3 for talks on the Russian issues presented to them by the IOC.
The group, known by the acronym ASOIF, noted their members independence late Monday, stating “the importance of respecting the specificity of each federation and their particular qualification process” for the Paris Olympics.
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A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.” | 2023-07-30T19:47:25+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/a-boom-in-apartment-construction-is-helping-to-curb-rents-but-not-all-renters-will-benefit/ |
(iSeeCars) – Electric vehicles are the future of transportation. States like California and Massachusetts have announced that all new vehicles sold in both states will be electric by 2035. Automakers have also announced aggressive EV mandates, including Volkswagen and General Motors, which will stop selling internal-combustion-engined vehicles by 2035.
According to IHS Markit, electric vehicles accounted for 3.00 percent of all new car registrations in 2021, up from 1.8 percent in 2020. While that number is expected to increase in 2022 due to record gas prices and the emergence of many new electric vehicle models that entered the market.
So which states are ahead of the curve when it comes to electric vehicle adoption? Here is a ranking of states by their share of electric cars:
- California, which is a leader in the EV movement as the first state to announce a zero- emission vehicle mandate, has the highest share of EVs accounting for 23.2 percent of the country’s EVs.
- The top four states: California, Texas, Florida, and Arizona account for nearly half of the country’s EVs.
- Washington and Oregon, have a disproportionately high share of used EVs. Washington accounts for 1.6 percent of all used cars on the road, and accounts for 3.4 percent of the country’s used EV share. Oregon accounts for 1.5 percent of all used cars on the road and accounts for 2.7 percent of the country’s used EV share.
- North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, which are all mountainous states, have the lowest share of EVs.
There are currently 16 states that have followed California’s lead as a Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) state. ZEV states have regulations in place to achieve long-term emission reduction goals by requiring manufacturers to supply the cleanest cars possible. These states include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. ZEV states generally have more EVs than non-ZEV states since more EVs are generally available to consumers in ZEV states. However, more states are expected to adopt California’s emission standards to become ZEV states, which will likely spur EV adoption even further.
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(NEXSTAR) – A recall involving millions of baby bath toys modeled after the viral “Baby Shark” children’s song was launched Thursday after reports of multiple injuries.
Zuru, an El Segundo, California-based importer of the Chinese-made products, is recalling 7.5 million toys, which are sold at major retailers and online.
The brightly-colored yellow, blue and pink sharks have a hard plastic top fin which make them potentially hazardous, especially in a bathtub or wading pool, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
There are two types of toys under recall, 6.5 million of the full-sized Robo Alive Junior Baby Shark Sing & Swim Bath Toy, and 1 million of the Robo Alive Junior Mini Baby Shark Swimming Bath Toy.
The CPSC warned that “a child can slip and fall or sit onto the hard plastic top fin of the shark, posing risks of impalement, lacerations and punctures.”
As of Thursday, the government says Zuru is aware of a dozen reports of children falling or sitting on the full-sized Baby Shark, “resulting in impalement injuries, lacerations and puncture wounds, including to children’s genital, anorectal and facial areas.”
Nine of the 12 injuries needed stitches. All 12 injury reports involved the full-sized version of the toy.
The recalled Baby Shark toys were sold at Walmart, CVS, Dollar General, Family Dollar, HEB, Meijer, Target, TJX-owned stores, Ross and Walgreens nationwide. They were also sold online by Amazon and national retailers such as Target and Walmart.
The hard-finned full-size toys under recall bear the model number “#25282” and a date code beginning with the letters “DG” followed by “YYYY/MM/DD” in the date range DG20190501 through DG20220619.
The mini version was sold individually, in packs of two or three, and as part of a Baby Shark Music Water Park playset. The recalled Mini Baby Sharks have the following on the bottom of the toys: raised lettering that states model numbers “#7163,” “#7175,” “#7166,” or “#25291” and a date code beginning with the letters “DG” followed by “YYYY/MM/DD” in the date range DG2020615 through DG2023525.
Anyone who purchased the toy is urged to stop using it and contact Zuru for a full refund of $14 for each full-sized Baby Shark and $6 for each Mini Baby Shark. The refunds will be sent out as a prepaid virtual Mastercard.
According to the CPSC news release:
Consumers should disable the tail fin (by cutting it on the full-size bath toy or by bending it on the mini-size bath toy), mark the body of the shark bath toy with the word “recalled” and the unique code provided during registration for the recall, then upload a photo of the product, showing it is disabled and marked, at https://www.recallrtr.com/bathshark. Upon receipt of the photo, Zuru will issue a refund to purchasers.
Consumer Product Safety Commission | 2023-06-23T02:21:34+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/millions-of-baby-shark-toys-recalled-over-risk-of-impalement/ |
ROME — When Italy's new right-wing coalition government was sworn in last month, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vowed to continue her country's staunch support and military assistance for Ukraine.
Her stance hasn't changed but as Europe braces for its first winter without Russian gas supplies, and thermostats are turned down with households struggling to pay rising utility rates, there is concern that Italians are getting tired of the war, of sending ever-larger quantities of weapons to Ukraine, and would like Ukraine and Russia to settle their differences at the negotiation table rather than the battlefield.
Ukraine says it intends to keep fighting till it wins back all the territory Russia has seized since 2014.
Italian support remains critical to European and NATO support for Ukraine, and any wavering from Europe's third-largest economy could cause fractures in the consensus on helping Ukraine through this conflict, as the continent heads into a trying and difficult winter.
"Italy is by large, it's the most skeptical country in Europe in supporting Ukraine on a military basis," says Stefano Feltri, editor of the daily newspaper Domani. "We are open to Ukrainian migrants and refugees but the military option is very unpopular." He says that's true across the political spectrum, "from left and right."
Italy has taken in more than 171,000 Ukrainians since the Russian invasion this year, according to United Nations figures.
Polls show fewer than 40% of Italians approve of their country supplying weapons to Ukraine, a lower rate than other European Union countries surveyed.
Many Italian businesses, meanwhile, are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, and closure, due to rising energy costs and interest rates. And inflation is at an eye-popping 11.9%.
Nomisma, a research institute, reports that 62% of Italian households currently live on less than $2,000 a month — and many blame the war in Ukraine for their economic woes.
Italian author and journalist Michele Santoro has been one of the most outspoken critics of military aid to Ukraine. "The poorest and weakest here in Italy are paying for this war, those unable to defend themselves," he said on a popular TV talk show last week. "The issue," he added, "is no longer whether to provide military aid to Ukraine. It's now Europe's No. 1 priority to end this war."
Italians want the war to end
This past weekend in Rome, an estimated 100,000 people marched in the biggest peace rally since the war started. The demonstration was organized by trade unions, numerous Catholic associations and peace groups.
Banners carried the words "peace," "no to war" and "stop sending weapons." Many protesters said sending weapons to Ukraine further fuels the conflict.
Stefania Vaziolo came all the way from Venice to proclaim her opposition to assisting Ukraine.
"Europe is very weak now, and subject to American authority," said Vaziolo, who is convinced the United States has a vested interest in prolonging the war in Ukraine.
Another peace marcher, Pietro Vergano, offers his family's history during World War II as reason for why he is opposed to all wars. Born in Sicily, he says his mother was left homeless when the U.S. bombed Palermo in 1943, and a father who was a soldier in the Italian army before he was deported to Germany by the Nazis.
He also believes the only winners are global oil and gas giants. "They're getting richer and richer and they're destroying European and Italian economies," Vergano says. The sanctions on Russia, he adds, "are very harmful to us, the cost of living is rising, businesses are shutting down because they can't handle energy prices."
The majority of marchers who spoke to NPR acknowledged that Russia started the war, but said it's high time for peace talks. Yet most were vague on exactly how the warring parties can be brought to the negotiating table.
Also among the demonstrators, Laura Boldrini, a member of parliament with the left-of-center Democratic Party, says, "We have to get a cease-fire." She wants "an international conference with all the world leaders to impose peace" and pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin so that he has no choice.
A government under pressure
The government is set to approve Italy's sixth package of military aid for Ukraine. During the campaign, Prime Minister Meloni said that "Italy will never be the weak link of the West."
But some analysts are beginning to wonder.
"I think I have doubts that her pro-Ukrainian stance can be consistently maintained in the future," says Federico Fubini, editorialist at Corriere della Sera newspaper.
He believes Meloni faces opposition from within her own ranks.
"To say it bluntly, she's a populist and she perceives that large parts of the Italian public opinion," he says, "especially among, you know, center-right and rightist voters, are not so much for sanctions and not so much for Ukraine."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-11-10T20:03:33+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-11-10/italy-has-been-a-strong-supporter-of-ukraine-but-that-is-starting-to-change |
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By Robley Levy
Part 1 of 2.
An open letter:
Cabrillo College is, I believe, the most important institution in Santa Cruz County. It serves our wonderfully diverse community, of all ages, backgrounds, and beliefs directly and immediately. It provides fine educational opportunities that shape lives, careers and families.
The thousands of residents of Santa Cruz County whom Cabrillo benefits are students and their families, lovers of sports and the arts, as well as local business, the frail who use the Stroke Center, and the very young who attend Cabrillo’s Early Childhood Education classes. They are the core of our community. Their common bond is Cabrillo College. They hold Cabrillo in their minds and hearts. This bond is an enormous gift to Cabrillo because it is the source of the voters’ broad support for the college and is critical to Cabrillo’s future. Without broad citizen support, Cabrillo is at risk.
The recent clear demonstration of public concern about renaming the college is evidenced by the recent storm of letters and articles in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Your early decision to rename Cabrillo College was unfortunate. It seems to have been primarily based on the internal November 2022 report of the Cabrillo College Name Exploration Subcommittee. Your decision preempted any time for broad community discussion of the issue. COVID also played a part, as it prevented the college from having face-to-face discussions with stakeholders.
The subcommittee recommendation to rename the college flies in the face of the evidence in its own report. Public meetings on the issue in 2021 included 818 participants. The report divides them into 13 demographic groups. It identifies each demographic group’s percentage of the whole, but nowhere does it reveal the individual group’s positions on the issue, pro or con. (p.18/19) The report finds that of the total number of responses from those public meetings, 56.8% oppose renaming; 31.6% support renaming; 11.6% are neutral. (p.21) The report finds that of the 303 emails and letters on the issue, 204 participants opposed renaming, 74 supported renaming, with 27 neutral. The one demographic group that strongly supported renaming, Native Americans, understandably supports it overwhelmingly by 67.4%. (p. 23).
Neither a numbers game nor just an internal issue
Renaming Cabrillo College is important to the entire community and democratically, your action should reflect their concerns. The numbers from your report, as well as the opinions expressed by the public, both directly to you and through the press, can and should inform your judgment on renaming. They provide substantial evidence of the community’s concerns on renaming Cabrillo. Broader outreach and public engagement is necessary prior to any vote on a new name for the college.
Some citizens have called for a vote on the issue. You clearly have the sole authority to make a name change for the college. You also have the authority to call for an advisory vote on the issue, which could inform you fully as to the countywide public opinion on this matter, as well as the opinions within each of your districts.
You are responsible to the 267,792 citizens of the Cabrillo College Special District and of Santa Cruz County, as well as to the voters in each of your districts. Your charge is to protect and preserve Cabrillo’s ability to continue to deliver the fine education and public services to this community as it has done for more than 50 years. Cabrillo’s future rests in your hands. Your challenge as you face this difficult issue is to unite the community in support of the college, to renew its long and deep support for Cabrillo. This is the same challenge the founders faced in 1959, although the issues are different.
The college has declared that no public taxpayer dollars be spent on the renaming costs, estimated to be between $400,000 to $600,000. However, if those funds are not raised privately, the college will be on the hook for those bills. The current level of response of private funding is not encouraging.
Board approval of renaming costs without the necessary private funding would be fiscally irresponsible.
Next: Teaching history.
Robley Levy served as the Santa Cruz County Supervisor for the Second District, 1980-1992. | 2023-07-31T22:59:41+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2023/07/31/guest-commentary-an-open-letter-to-the-cabrillo-board-of-trustees-and-president-matthew-wetstein/ |
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The same wastewater surveillance techniques that have emerged as a critical tool in early detection of COVID-19 outbreaks are being adapted for use in monitoring the startling spread of monkeypox across the San Francisco Bay Area and some other U.S. communities.
Before the COVID pandemic, wastewater sludge was thought to hold promise as an early indicator of community health threats, in part because people can excrete genetic evidence of infectious diseases in their feces, often before they develop symptoms of illness. Israel has for decades monitored wastewater for polio. But before COVID, such risk monitoring in the U.S. was limited largely to academic pursuits.
With the onset of the pandemic, a research collaboration that involves scientists at Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and Emory University pioneered efforts to recalibrate the surveillance techniques for detection of the coronavirus, marking the first time that wastewater has been used to track a respiratory disease.
That same research team, the Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network, or SCAN, is now a leader in expanding wastewater monitoring to detect monkeypox, a once-obscure virus endemic to remote regions of Africa that in a matter of months has infected more than 26,000 people globally and more than 7,000 across the U.S. The Biden administration last week declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency, following similar decisions by health officials in California, Illinois and New York.
And SCAN's scientists envision a future in which wastewater sludge serves as a reservoir for tracking a slew of menacing public health concerns. "We're looking at a whole range of things that we might be able to test for," said Marlene Wolfe, an assistant professor of environmental health at Emory.
Since expanding its surveillance in mid-June, the SCAN team has detected monkeypox in several of the Northern California sewersheds it is monitoring, including Palo Alto, San Jose, Gilroy, Sacramento, and two locations in San Francisco. Funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the CDC Foundation, SCAN is doing similar monitoring in Colorado, Georgia, Michigan and four other states, and wants to scale up to 300 U.S. sites.
It is one of a growing number of sewage surveillance projects across the U.S. run jointly by universities, public health agencies, and utilities departments that are feeding COVID findings to state and federal agencies. How many of those networks have expanded their search to monkeypox is unclear. SCAN sites in California, Georgia, Michigan and Texas, and a research team in Nevada are among the few that have reported sludge samples that tested positive for the monkeypox virus.
Another public health tool
As with COVID, data on monkeypox can be used to compare trends across regions, but there are limits to what this kind of monitoring can accomplish. Wastewater monitoring doesn't pinpoint who is infected; it reveals only the presence of a virus in a given area. And it takes a specialist to analyze the samples. Researchers consider wastewater surveillance a complement to other public health tools, not a replacement.
"We're still really on the front end in terms of discovering the potential here," said Heather Bischel, an assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California Davis, which included wastewater monitoring as part of its Healthy Davis Together COVID testing program for the campus and surrounding community. "But what we've seen already shows that this type of monitoring is adaptable to other public health threats."
Some U.S. communities were sampling sewage before the pandemic to figure out what kinds of opioids residents were using. More recently, along with COVID and monkeypox, the technology has shown promise for monitoring flu and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning pilot studies to see whether sewage can reveal trends in antibiotic-resistant infections, foodborne illnesses and candida auris, a fungal infection.
Much of the wastewater testing that ramped up during the pandemic's first year was done in concert with universities or county offices and reliant on funding provided through federal COVID relief legislation. On Bischel's campus, those funds were combined with university donor money to put together a comprehensive testing and treatment program for the school and the city of Davis that included wastewater surveillance. The sewage testing is ongoing under a separate grant.
Currently, the CDC is reporting only COVID results on its national wastewater surveillance system, a reflection of the limited number of sewersheds that so far are testing for monkeypox.
The global spread of monkeypox was first detected in the United Kingdom in May and prompted conjecture that this virus, too, might shed into wastewater, either through feces or when an infected person with an open sore takes a shower. Sewersheds in areas with infected people might then "light up" with evidence of the disease — if the wastewater testing could pinpoint it.
"It did light up," said Brad Pollock, who chairs public health sciences at UC Davis Health. "It acts as a warning system, and you don't have to persuade people to take individual tests in order to use the information; it's collected passively, so you get a more broad community look."
A public health emergency
The virus is thought to be spreading primarily through intimate skin-to-skin contact and exposure to symptomatic lesions, although researchers are exploring other potential means of transmission. For now, the U.S. outbreak is concentrated largely in gay communities among men who have sex with men.
The discovery of monkeypox in San Francisco's wastewater system in June, the first such finding in the nation, set off alarms in a city with a thriving LGBTQ+ population. On July 28, San Francisco declared monkeypox a public health emergency, urging the federal government to step up its distribution of vaccines.
For its Northern California surveillance, SCAN partners with local health officials and universities to collect samples and then sends them to Verily Life Sciences — a health tech company owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet — for analysis. In the Atlanta area, SCAN is working with Emory and Fulton County health officials.
Not all public health agencies are moving as fast. A wastewater monitoring plan for the virus is only now being put together in Los Angeles County, which had confirmed more than 300 cases of monkeypox by the end of July.
And though California is collecting monkeypox data from its surveillance partners, it's not available for all regions, underscoring that wastewater monitoring for viruses is still an emerging methodology.
"With every new thing that we add to the testing platform, we are learning things," said SCAN's Wolfe. "The pandemic really cracked open our imagination for a tool that already existed but that hadn't been developed to its full capacity. That's changing now."
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DENVER — Police are investigating a shooting in east Denver that injured three people Saturday night.
The Denver Police Department (DPD) tweeted just before 10 p.m. that officers were investigating a shooting at two scenes: one near East 35th Avenue and Forest Street, and the other near East Thrill Place and Hudson Street.
Police initially said two victims were found and taken to the hospital. They later tweeted an update saying a third victim had gotten to a hospital on their own.
It's not clear how seriously the victims were hurt.
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Florida redshirt freshman Jack Miller III will make his first career start during the Dec. 17 Las Vegas Bowl for a Gators squad with few remaining quarterbacks.
Miller will replace Anthony Richardson against Oregon State (9-3). Richardson declared for the NFL Draft on Monday after starting every game for the Gators (6-6).
Backup Jalen Kitna’s arrest last week on child pornography charges and subsequent dismissal left Florida without a player who had thrown a pass this season.
“It’s a sad, tragic event for all the people involved here,” coach Billy Napier said of Kitna on Thursday after their first bowl practice.
Napier said he was unaware of the investigation until the morning of Kitna’s Nov. 30 arrest.
“Jalen is going to have to move forward,” Napier said.
Miller, a transfer from Ohio State in December, will step in despite not playing in 2022. He broke his thumb in August and was slow to recover. Miller was scheduled to return in late September, but doctors did not clear him until a few weeks ago.
“He’s been able to take reps, and certainly this week in particular he’s been able to take a bunch of reps,” Napier said.
Walk-on quarterback Kyle Engel and first-year signal caller Max Brown will back up Miller, 4-star prospect at Chaparral High in Scottsdale, Ariz., and the nation’s 13th-ranked pro-style quarterback in the 2020 class.
Napier signed Miller last December because of the uncertainty surrounding 2021 starter Emory Jones and the chance Richardson would leave after the 2022 season.
While Richardson was at times erratic, he finished the season accounting for 26 touchdowns (17 passing, 9 rushing) and 3,203 total yards (2,549 passing, 654 rushing). The 20-year-old, however, completed just 53.8% of his passes and was at times tentative running the ball.
Napier felt Richardson matured during their one season together.
“As a person, comfort with the role, the leadership aspect, and certainly made a lot of progress when it comes to football intelligence and defensive structure, protections,” Napier said. “The [NFL] feedback was really positive about maybe where he’s projected. Those are really tough decisions on the player, the family, obviously all involved.
“We tried to get Anthony as much information as possible. He was an absolute pro.”
Richardson’s decision gives Miller a chance to make an impression heading into the offseason.
The Gators’ quarterback room is sure to change dramatically.
Napier is likely to sign someone from the transfer portal. Meanwhile, California high schooler Jaden Rashada headlines the 2023 class as the nation’s No. 7 quarterback prospect, according to 247Sports. His committment can become official Dec. 21 during the early signing period. On Thursday, the Gators also received a non-binding verbal commitment of Texas high schooler Derek “DJ” Lagway, a dual-threat quarterback ranked No. 4 at his position and No. 24 overall in the 2024 class. He can’t sign until next year.
Miller committed to Ohio State, where he appeared during five games in 2021 as the backup to Heisman finalist C.J. Stroud. Miller completed 7-of-14 passes for 101 yards and rushed 7 times for 22 yards and a touchdown.
The 6-foot-3, 211-pound Miller earned Napier’s praise in March. The first-year coach called Miller’s signing “a good decision.” particularly in light of Jones’ sudden departure during the first week of spring practices.
Miller also impressed teammates in spring drills.
Redshirt senior offensive lineman Richard Gouraige said in March that Miller and veteran receiver Justin Shorter worked together frequently after practices.
“He’s a dog,” Gouraige said of Miller. “I love his work ethic. I love what I see from Jack Miller. Even though he’s a young player, he’s ready to play.
“If he gets a shot, I know he’ll do great things.”
During his only public performance with the Gators, Miller struggled during the April 14 spring game. He finished 13 of 23 for 123 yards and an interception while facing the first-team defense behind a struggling second-team offensive line and throwing to inexperienced receivers.
Napier would praise Miller’s improvement early in preseason practices prior to his thumb injury late in the second week of camp.
Miller has not throw a pass in game competition since going 2 of 3 for 35 yards during Ohio State’s 54-7 win Oct. 23, 2021, at Indiana. He and the Gators face surging Oregon State, ranked 13th of 131 teams nationally in passing efficiency defense (113.37) and tied for eighth in passing touchdowns allowed (11) with Georgia and Boise State.
But the Gators also will be in better shape at receiver after five sat out a Nov. 25 loss at Florida State.
Shorter, who had 29 catches for 577 yards and 2 scores, decided to skip the bowl game to get ready for next month’s Senior Bowl. The redshirt senior missed 3 of 4 games to end the season with a hamstring injury.
Otherwise, leading pass-catcher Xzavier Henderson returns after missing the final two games. Thai Chiaokhiao-Bowman also is back after sitting out against FSU while Ja’Quavion Fraziars returns after he injured a shoulder during a leaping touchdown catch Nov. 5 at Texas A&M.
“That group is a lot healthier than the last time we played,” Napier said. “It’s good to see those guys back and a smile on their face, moving around and participating.”
Etienne, James honored
Freshman tailback Trevor Etienne was named to the All-SEC Freshman team after he exploded onto the scene as one of Florida’s top playmakers.
Linebacker Shemar James joined him following a solid first college season.
Etienne rushed for 705 yards and averaged a team-leading 6.41 yards per carry (7th, SEC) while splitting time with sophomore Montrell Johnson. Etienne’s 45-yard touchdown run at FSU tied the score at 38 during a 45-38 loss and highlighted a career-high 129 rushing yards.
A Louisiana native and brother to Travis Etienne, a Jacksonville Jaguars starter, Trevor recorded 21 runs of at least 10 yards which is second to Johnson’s 25.
James recorded 40 tackles, including 2 sacks, had 3 quarterback hurries and a forced fumble.
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Edgar Thompson at egthompson@orlandosentinel.com or follow him on Twitter at @osgators.
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(WHNT) — Monday is Columbus Day, and while some businesses and services are paused for the day, it’s business as usual for others.
Columbus Day in the United States is meant to honor the legacy of the man credited with discovering the New World, though many are switching to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day, a holiday meant to honor the culture and history of Native Americans.
Both holidays are celebrated on the second Monday in October, and while some schools and businesses will operate as normal, some won’t.
Mail Delivery
Post offices will be closed on Oct. 10, meaning mail and packages won’t be delivered by the United States Postal Service.
Packages shipped through most FedEx services will still be delivered, along with UPS pickup and delivery services continuing through the holiday.
Banks
Because the Federal Reserve observes Columbus Day, most banks will be closed on Monday. Some may still choose to open certain locations, so call to check before heading to your local branch.
The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will be open.
Government Offices
All federal offices will be closed, but some may be open on the state government level. While some schools will be in session, your best bet would be to check with your local district.
Retail
Almost all restaurants, theaters and malls will be open normal business hours Monday unless a specific location has decided to observe Columbus Day. However, most libraries will be closed.
National Parks will be open, along with grocery and department stores.
Garbage and recycling collection might be running on a different schedule, so it’s best to double-check with your provider.
The next federal holiday will be Veteran’s Day on Nov. 11. | 2022-10-10T15:19:54+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/columbus-day-2022-whats-closed/ |
Gov. Kemp, first lady meets with advocates to combat human trafficking
MARIETTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Governor Brian Kemp and First Lady meet with advocates to discuss combatting Human Trafficking.
Jason Bearden is the Georgia market president for CareSource, just one of the organizations that attended a roundtable discussion in Marietta on human trafficking.
“It, unfortunately, plagues all 159 counties the most vulnerable citizens across our state,” said Bearden.
Sex trafficking prevention organization Rescuing Hope, and the Georgia Sheriff’s Association also had a seat at the table. The group discussed strides already made in the fight, but also what needs to still be done.
“We are investing $100,000 in Rescuing Hope, and we are doubling down an additional $50,000 with the Georgia Sheriff’s Association to make sure our law enforcement officials are trained on the signs and risk factors,” said Bearden.
The First Lady, who is co-chairperson of the Grace Commission, led the discussion and highlighted Senate Bill 42, just signed into law by the governor.
“While businesses are required to post human trafficking hotline notices, the fine was only $1 so we changed the minimum fine will be $500,” said Marty Kemp, first lady.
“This is hard work, it is tough stories, tough work, but we are honored to be the voice to let people know the cold hard truth of what is happening out there,” said Gov. Brian Kemp.
Bearden hopes the new partnership with the governor and first lady, can make big changes that can lead to the end of human trafficking in Georgia because it is crime that does not discriminate.
“It affects all income levels, it affects all socioeconomic demographic segments of our society regardless of where you live,” said Bearden.
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NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Week six of high school football kicked off on Thursday. Here is a breakdown of some of the action.
Capital made the trip to the Duke City to take on Atrisco Heritage at Community Stadium. In the battle of Jaguars, it was the boys in blue and gold getting off to a hot start, as Dean Marquez connected with Manny Sedillo for a 51 yard touchdown on the second play from scrimmage. Atrisco went on to score two more touchdowns of 50+ yards courtesy of Latavious Morris and Marquise Renfro prior to a weather delay. Following a lengthy break, Atrisco went on to win 44-21.
Hope Christian and Highland matched up at Milne in another game that featured a weather delay. Both squads entered the game with 2-1 records, and the matchup was even for much of the first half, as Highland was leading 6-0 at at the break. In the second half, the Hornets applied the sting, as they went on to win 28-0.
Belen made the trip down to the Field of Dreams in Las Cruces to take on Mayfield. The Eagles got on the board first, courtesy of a Diego Avila touchdown run, but then the Trojans took over. Mayfield went on to win 49-7 to improve to 3-3. | 2022-09-23T23:28:56+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/community/high-school-football-thursday-night-highlights-week-6/ |
The official trailer for Disney's "Disenchanted" is here and it reminds us that even the happiest of endings may still leave you wanting more.
The movie — which is the sequel to 2007’s “Enchanted" — takes place after Giselle — played by Amy Adams — found love wuth Robert (Patrick Dempsey) in the most unconventional way.
The trailer — that premiered Friday, Sept. 9 — shows them buying a house and running into a bit of trouble as the place needs a little bit of fixing up. As they try their best to adjust to their new life together in the suburban community of Monroeville, Giselle makes a wish that might cause her more trouble than it's worth.
"I wished for a fairy tale life and it's all gone terribly wrong," she's seen telling her stepdaughter and Robert's child, Morgan, before sinisterly adding, "... or terribly right."
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Giselle's former love interest Edward, played by James Marsden, seems to encourage her to use magic to fix all her problems.
Having lived in the fairy tale kingdom of Andalasia with his wife and Robert's ex Nancy, played by Idina Menzel, Edward doesn't really seem to know how the real world works.
“In Andalasia, the hardest part of life is finding your happily ever after. This world’s very different,” Giselle told Nancy in one scene.
Edward later tells Giselle, “If this world is not to your liking, then you must change it."
Giselle's wish puts her on another crazy adventure that seemingly transforms her into an evil stepmother.
In one scene, she's seen pushing Morgan down a well and locking her in a room in another part.
Like "Enchanted," it looks like Giselle has to adjust to life in the real world all over again and find a new meaning of the term happily ever after.
"Disenchanted" invites some new members to the cast like Maya Rudolph, Yvette Nicole Brown and Jayma Mays.
In the trailer, Rudolph hilariously tells Giselle that she wouldn't be able to help her with her house because she "deals with slightly more upscale homes."
In a May 2021 tweet, Rudolph revealed that she was going to be the villain in "Disenchanted."
She wrote, "What’s a good fairy tale without a great villain? I’ll see you in Andalasia my pretties...."
"Disenchanted" will be available to stream on Disney+ on Nov. 24, 2022.
This story first appeared on TODAY.com. More from TODAY: | 2022-09-10T22:33:39+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/amy-adams-discovers-not-all-endings-are-happy-in-dazzling-new-disenchanted-trailer/2936558/ |
Flight attendant helps deliver baby midflight
Published: May. 19, 2022 at 7:03 AM CDT|Updated: 32 minutes ago
(CNN) - A flight attendant jumped into action to help a passenger deliver a baby midflight.
The baby’s mother went into an “early and unexpected” labor on a recent Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Orlando.
The airlines said flight attendant Diana Giraldo calmly led the mother to the back bathroom and helped deliver the baby girl.
The plan was diverted to Pensacola, Florida, where paramedics were standing by at the gate to help.
The captain said the team, especially Giraldo, did a wonderful, “heroic” job.
The mother decided to give her new baby the middle name Sky.
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It is a combination of natural ingredients, which has been formulated to provide the same or similar benefits as the synthetic steroid but without the negative side effects. Thus it is a legal steroid.
Dianabol is generally believed to be one of the most powerful anabolic steroids ever to be created, and many bodybuilders and other athletes continue to favor its use even though its detection during pre-competition testing can result in an instant ban.
The use of steroids is also illegal and can entail frightening side effects but, for some people, it would seem the desire to be the biggest, strongest, or fastest is so important the risks involved are simply shrugged aside.
What is Dianabol?
Dianabol (D-Bol) is a popular trade name used for the anabolic steroid methandrostenolone.
There are many more, but a few other trade names include:
- Anabol
- Danabol
- Dbolic
- Dianabolos
- Metandienone
- Metanabol
- Methan 50
- Naposim
- Naps
As we have revealed there are legal alternatives to Dianabol that exist that can be purchased that many experts believe to be a far more sensible option. D-Bal is a natural alternative and can mimic the effects of it's chemical cousin without presenting the risks associated with steroids.
D-Bal is a product that is produced by Crazy Bulk - a online supplier of bodybuilding supplements connected to fat burning, muscle building and strength
"By increasing nitrogen retention, D-Bal creates the ultimate anabolic state required for muscle growth, giving you rapid gains in size and strength."
A Short History of Dianabol
Methandrostenolone was developed in the late 1950 by the American physicist John Bosley Ziegler, while he was working at the Ciba chemical company in Switzerland, and the name "Dianabol" originates from this source.
Ciba has since been bought by a larger company and no longer produces the steroid, but the name Dianabol has become so linked with explosive muscle mass gains that many other manufacturers continue to distribute methandrostenolone as Dianabol.
During the early 1960s Ziegler administered Dianabol to some members of the American weightlifting team, but later regretted ever experimenting with steroids when he discovered some people were self-administering up to 20 times the recommended dose.
It was not long before the FDA imposed a ban on Dianabol and other anabolic steroids. The ban exists to this day and the FDA continues to work hard to prevent the use of illegal steroids.
A Powerful Anabolic Steroid
It is not unheard of for Dianabol using bodybuilders to gain up to 20lbs of lean muscle tissue in just a few weeks, so it is a very popular bulking steroid and the accompanying increase in strength can be significant.
Rapid results like that can be very enticing to anyone who wants to maximize their strength and muscle gains, but the risks involved are far too great to make steroids a viable option.
If you were to read an impartial D-Bal review you will find the results (muscle gains and increased testosterone production) are similar.
Potential Side Effects
Although some Dianabol users may escape with just a few minor side effects such as acne, greasy skin, or hair loss; some of the other side effects may not be so easy to live with.
- Shrunken testicles
- Loss of sex drive
- Aggressive tendencies
- Mood swings
- High Blood Pressure
- Elevated cholesterol levels
- Growth of man boobs
- Enlarged prostate gland
- Suppressed testosterone production
- Liver failure
Again, if you were to study a real D Bal review from a verified customer you would discover that issues with side effects are virtually non existant.
Dianabol and Muscle Growth
Dianabol is credited with mood-enhancing abilities and is often believed to be a metabolism booster, but most of its value as a bodybuilding aid is due to its ability to influence protein synthesis and nitrogen retention.
Proteins synthesis is the process the human body uses to repair damaged muscle tissues. The connection between protein and increased lean muscle mass has been well documented. That's why protein powders remain such an important bodybuilding supplement, but the amount of protein that will actually be put to effective use will depend on the body's protein synthesis abilities; so compounds like Dianabol that can improve the process can provide considerable gains.
A good nitrogen balance is also important for muscle gains, but intense exercise often causes nitrogen levels to drop and this can interfere with protein synthesis. Dianabol's ability to preserve nitrogen levels further enhances the muscle gain process and also allows for a longer, more intense workout, by providing vasodilation.
How to Take Dianabol
Dianabol can be injected or taken orally. Tablets and capsules are the most popular option - one of the reasons why the dbol alternative, D-Bal is so popular.
The amount of Dianabol taken appears to vary on the whim of the individual because some users are happy to take just 15mg per day, and claim good results, but other users take up to 100mg per day.
Dianabol & Pre-Competition Screening
Pre-competition screening continues to catch many steroid users and it seems likely the capabilities of the screening process will only improve. Some athletes have been banned for competing up to 30 days after their last dose of Dianabol.
There are no such problems or issues with D-Bal from Crazy Bulk. It is a natural supplement and perfectly legal to take and will not result in a competition ban.
Dianabol Conclusion
Dianabol has many benefits to offer, of that there can be no doubt, but the FDA has made its use illegal for a reason—it can severely damage the health.
Bodybuilding and sporting activities should go hand-in-hand with health and fitness, so any bodybuilding aid that has a negative effect on one's health is a very poor choice. It is also an unnecessary choice.
The days when steroids may have been seen as the best option are long gone. Many modern supplements can provide excellent results without any need to risk the health. In fact some supplement manufacturers produce supplements that have been developed especially to replace steroids; and some of the better ones are very good.
Unfortunately many people forget that time has moved on, continue to believe steroids are the only answer, and pay the price accordingly.
Other Anabolic Steroids and Legal Alternatives
Crazybulk manufacture an entire product line of these safe and legal or steroids (in brackets is the original commercial steroid / performance enhancing drug name):
Muscle Bulking and Strength
These are designed to increase muscle growth and strength so that the user can add muscle mass quickly. Ideal for bulking cycles and strength cycles alike. Testo-Max, D-Bal, Trenorol can even be used as part of a cutting cycle to help retain muscle mass while burning fat.
These dietary supplements can be stacked to form a bulking stack to boost muscle growth and rapidly help build muscle mass. If combined with healthy diet and intense workouts, results can be achieved quicker
- D-Bal (Dianabol aka DBol)
- Anadrole (Anadrol aka A50, ABombs)
- Trenorol (Trenbolone aka tren or fina)
- Testo-Max (Sustanon or testosterone variation)
- HGH-X2 (Human Growth Hormone)
- Decaduro (Deca-Durabolin aka deca)
Cutting and Fat Burning
Each natural supplement below is suited to people who want to lose excess fat, or shredded - i.e. well defined with as little fat as possible. They are primarily composed of fat burning ingredients but may also contain appetite suppressants, carb blockers, blood sugar regulators and so on.
- Clenbutrol (Clenbuterol aka clen or bute)
- Winsol (Winstrol aka winny)
- Anvarol (Anavar aka var)
The above dietary supplements can not only aid the muscle building process but also aid overall health. Some of the natural ingredients, such as Ashwagandha can raise erection and libido levels improve the immune system.
Availability of Legal Steroids
There are a number of manufacturers of legal steroid supplements, but almost zero that offer the same level of quality and authenticity that CrazyBulk does.
D-Bal is the leading product manufactured by CrazyBulk and is the one most people start with when they are looking to build muscle and strength.
When you purchase D-Bal from Crazybulk you have access to an online live chat window where you can ask any question you like to a real person on the other end.
You can also hit the company up on WhatsApp if that’s your preferred method of communication. In addition they have a physical address listed in the contact section, of two different business properties - the US included.
Why is any of this important?
The authenticity of the company, the brand and its products are very important because it’s a rare thing to see in the business of legal steroids.
D-Bal and the other Crazy Bulk products are only sold on the company’s website. This is to ensure that there is no grey or black market - basically, if you didn’t purchase D-Bal from the official site, you can’t trust it.
The link below takes you directly to that website. There you will see the deals, the online live chat window and everything else we have been discussing on this page.
How Does D-Bal Work?
Legal steroids are formulated to have the same or similar effects to anabolic androgenic steroids like Dianabol. That is to say that they trigger some of the same processes and provide the same benefits to muscle growth, strength etc.
They do this by stimulating endogenous hormone release (that is hormones produced within our bodies) often due to the combination of two or more rare natural compounds.
The fact that they encourage the body to increase its own testosterone production of these anabolic hormones is what makes them both safe, and legal.
Some bodybuilders use D-Bal purely to boost testosterone production.
By contrast, synthetic anabolic steroids flood the body with exogenous hormones (made outside the body), which are all essentially derivatives of testosterone.
The body interprets this influx of exogenous steroid hormones in a variety of ways. Some ways lead to rapid muscle gains and strength but others cause the notoriously negative side effects that synthetic steroids can have. This has also led to these substances being made illegal in many countries
Can Legal Steroids like D-Bal Work Well?
An anabolic steroids, whether they are the illegal steroid or legal steroid type, can have different effects on different people. The key to success with either is making sure other aspects of life are in line with the goal of building muscle, gaining strength and burning fat.
Diet is important, and while some people will say that it’s possible to do a “dirty bulk” and eat pretty much whatever junk food you want, this strategy doesn’t actually work too well on average. In fact, the money spent on steroids, supplements or gym memberships would be largely wasted if someone bulks up on junk food. Garbage in, garbage out, as they say.
Legal steroids work the same way. You need to eat well, of course in calorie surplus if you are bulking and calorie deficit if you are cutting.
And training is a no-brainer. You need to train often enough and in the right manner to achieve the physique and strength goals you are aiming for. A legal steroid like D-Bal from Crazybulk can only enhance the results, but it will not do all the work on its own. Nothing - not even anabolic androgenic steroids like Dianabol can do that.
Does D-Bal have Negative Side Effects?
One of the biggest advantages to a legal steroid like Crazy Bulk D-Bal is the lack of negative side effects that plague the reputation of synthetic anabolic steroids.
We mentioned earlier in this D-Bal review that the main difference in how legal steroids work compared with synthetic anabolic steroids is that legal steroids work by activating the body’s own endocrine (hormone) system. Whereas synthetic steroids introduce different versions of those hormones to the body in large quantities.
Ultimately, this is why legal steroids do not cause the same side effects, or in fact any at all worth mentioning.
Synthetic steroids on the other hand can shut down the natural production of testosterone, intoxicate the liver, increase the risk of heart disease, and all sorts of interruptions to the regular balance of chemicals that can result in baldness, man-boobs, acne and water retention to name a few.
In fact, during a cycle of synthetic anabolic steroids - oral or injectable - the user has to take additional testosterone to prevent low testosterone syndrome, along with other drugs like estrogen blockers to keep the estrogenic effects at bay. After the cycle, they have to take even more - known as PCT or Post Cycle Therapy - to rehabilitate their body back to some semblance of normality.
Legal steroids like D-Bal remove all of that headache and risk. They do not disrupt the natural endocrine system, and therefore do not cause the same health problems as synthetic anabolic steroids.
D-Bal Review Conclusion and Recommendations
In summary, there are bodybuilding supplement companies currently designing and manufacturing an alternative to illegal steroids like Dianabol.
The majority of these companies are as shady as the black market dealers themselves, and are just as likely to screw you over and take your money without skipping a beat.
Crazy Bulk is the only manufacturer we have found that has a real open presence online and whose manufacturing facilities have real searchable addresses, one of which is in America.
The legal steroids that Crazy Bulk makes are of the highest quality and the company offers all the customer support we would hope to see across the industry as a whole.
D-Bal is their legal, natural and safe alternative to the steroid Dianabol, and at the time of writing this D-Bal review, it is the most popular one in their natural dietary supplements range.
Crazy Bulk has a strong social media presence, and real user feedback and customer comments and reviews of D-Bal are overwhelmingly positive.
So, if you are looking for a natural alternative to Dbol to increase muscle mass, boost testosterone levels and physical strength - we recommend D Bal instead of Dianabol.
Buying D-Bal
If you want to order D-Bal the official website is the only place to buy.
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- Here East – Delancey's innovation and technology hub located in East London – has created a virtual twin to showcase its thriving campus at the heart of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
- The virtual twin provides a platform for remote viewing, leveraging the very latest game engine technology to allow people from across the globe to virtually visit Here East in real-time.
LONDON, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Here East, Delancey's innovation campus in East London, today announces its state-of-the-art virtual twin. Partnering with digital design specialists Squint Opera, Here East takes a pioneering step into the virtual world as one of the first to introduce this technology, paving the way for a new era of digital innovation.
The virtual twin is a replica of the Here East campus in the online world, harnessing the latest in real-time technology that will allow people from all over the globe to visit remotely. It will eventually allow visitors to explore the campus on their own terms, immersing them in a way that is fun and engaging as well as informative. Initially, the twin is being used as an R&D tool to test emergent use cases.
The virtual twin constitutes a revolutionary way to showcase the campus. Leveraging software including Epic's Unreal Engine 5, Squint Opera have created an immersive 3D replica of the Here East campus, which is experienced online, in real-time.
By integrating existing data with on-site captured elements – like photographs, recorded sounds, animated components and dynamic natural lighting - Squint Opera created a finely detailed replica of the campus, crafting an experience that is vibrant and deeply engaging.
The platform is powered by SpaceForm, which specialises in enterprise metaverse experiences for the built environment, allowing potential tenants, investors and communities to experience the campus without leaving their computers. The detailed insights it provides expedite decision-making processes far beyond what traditional architectural communication tools can offer.
Here East has always been at the forefront of technology and innovation, and now, with their virtual twin, they will inhabit a new unique space – expanding their one-million-square-foot site into a limitless and internationally accessible realm.
Here East is home to 6,000 people and 37 organisations in the technology, academic and creative sectors. With 94% of its one-million-square-foot site already leased, the virtual twin's unique communication capabilities offer a practical solution to promote the innovative campus globally, paving the way for future expansion.
Gavin Poole, CEO of Here East, commented: "We are delighted to have partnered with Squint Opera to take this transformative step and develop our virtual twin. The ability to replicate our vibrant campus in a virtual forum and show people from all over the world our site, whilst having real-time conversations with them, is really unique."
"This is an exciting step for us. We continue to experiment with the twin in this phase of research and development, and we look forward to being able to open up our East London home in due course. We will be able to showcase the collaborative environment we have cultivated and fostered over the last decade to new audiences globally."
Alice Britton, Founding Director, Squint/Opera commented:
"Squint Opera devised a true-to-life virtual facsimile of Here East to powerfully communicate this innovative space to a wide and varied audience. Our Virtual Twin uses Spaceform to connect and immerse people in this virtual twin, no matter where they are."
"The capability of our virtual twin to create a genuinely immersive environment for meetings enables our client to present every aspect of their project to potential tenants, investors, and communities in real-time. Here East has innovation at its heart, and together we've created a product that really reflects that."
About Here East
Here East is a catalyst for growth and London's fastest growing technology and innovation campus. Located on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, it is a launchpad for innovation and home to global technology companies, start-ups, academic institutions, content developers and creative businesses. It is now home to 6,000 people who work and study onsite.
The 1.2 million sq ft campus fosters a unique environment allowing tenants to collaborate, scale and grow at pace. Tenants say the collaborative environment has accelerated their ability to grow their employee base, increase their revenue and expand their offering.
Here East is home to three of the fastest growing clusters in the capital: esports, cybersecurity and the creative industries. There are 37 organisations based on the campus, these include: Plexal (Here East's innovation and consulting centre), Fiit, Sports Interactive, Esports Engine, Ford Smart Mobility, Studio Wayne McGregor, MATCHESFASHION and The Trampery on the Gantry, which provides 21 low-cost studios for creative businesses and artists.
Here East is owned by clients of Delancey, a specialist real estate investment advisory company.
About Squint
Squint/Opera are expert at blending digital media with physical reality. Using the power of narrative, we help our clients craft digital content that can communicate, enhance or immerse an audience.
We are a creative company specialising in crafting extraordinary and unforgettable experiences that communicate with impact and leave lasting impressions. With over 20 years of experience and studios in London, New York and Dubai, we have an international portfolio of clients and projects that span many sectors.
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Party City's parent company, Party City Holdco Inc. announced Wednesday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The company said the restructuring will allow it to reduce debt and optimize its "capital structure and liquidity."
Brad Weston, CEO of Party City Holdco Inc., noted that the company faced headwinds from the pandemic and the global supply chain crisis before filing for bankruptcy.
"Today's action to strengthen PCHI's balance sheet will bolster our ability to further advance our strategic priorities and continue to innovate and elevate the customer experience," he said.
Party City operates more than 800 stores. It's unclear how the bankruptcy proceedings will impact those stores or employees. The company says its first-day motions include requests to continue paying employees and providing benefits.
Party City claims customers can expect the same product selection and service as it goes through bankruptcy, which it expects to be completed in the second quarter of 2023. | 2023-01-18T18:32:34+00:00 | kjrh.com | https://www.kjrh.com/news/national/party-city-files-for-bankruptcy-protection |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Capitol riot trial for Proud Boys leaders promised to be a historic showcase for some of the most compelling evidence of an alleged plot by far-right extremists to halt the transfer of presidential power after the 2020 election.
One month into the trial, there have been plenty of fireworks, but mostly when the jury wasn’t in the courtroom.
Lawyers representing the five Proud Boys charged with seditious conspiracy have repeatedly sparred with U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly during breaks in testimony. At least 10 times, those lawyers have argued in vain for him to declare a mistrial.
The judge regularly admonishes lawyers for interrupting him and has threatened to hold them in contempt if it continues. Two defense lawyers at one point floated the idea of withdrawing from the case if Kelly did not rule in their favor on evidentiary matters.
The barrage of bickering has bogged down the proceedings in the federal courthouse, where the Capitol can be seen in the distance from some windows. One recent day in court, defense lawyer Norm Pattis compared the trial to visiting “Gilligan’s Island,” the title and setting of the 1960s-era sitcom about a shipwrecked boat’s crew and passengers.
“It was supposed to be a three-hour tour, and people were stranded together for an infinite period while they worked out their interpersonal difficulties,” Pattis quipped.
The tension in the courtroom reflects the high stakes for the Justice Department and the defendants. It’s one of the most serious cases to emerge from the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, and former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio is perhaps the highest profile person to be charged so far in the assault.
The Proud Boys face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of seditious conspiracy. Acquittals on the rarely used charge — which strikes at the heart of what prosecutors say happened that day — would be a setback in the government’s Jan. 6 investigation, which continues to grow two years later.
Tarrio and four lieutenants are accused of participating in a weekslong plot to keep Democrat Joe Biden out of the White House after he defeated then-President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. Prosecutors say it culminated with Proud Boys mounting a coordinated assault on the Capitol alongside hundreds of other Trump supporters.
Defense lawyers say there’s no evidence that the Proud Boys plotted to attack the Capitol and stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6. The lawyers claim prosecutors are mischaracterizing bellicose online banter as a violent plot. They tried unsuccessfully to move the trial out of Washington, arguing that there was no way their clients could get a fair trial in front of a District of Columbia jury.
The Proud Boys trial is on a pace to last several weeks longer than last year’s landmark trial for Oath Keepers group leaders and members, who were charged in a separate Jan. 6 case.
In November, a jury convicted Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and another leader of seditious conspiracy after three days of jury selection, 26 days of testimony and two days of closing arguments. A separate trial involving members of the Oath Keepers — who face a slew of charges, but not seditious conspiracy — also got underway this month.
Jury selection for the Proud Boys case lasted 12 days. After the trial’s opening statements on Jan. 12, jurors have heard 16 days of testimony through Friday. Prosecutors are expected to rest their case in late February or early March before the defense team begins presenting testimony.
A dozen of the first 14 prosecution witnesses in the Proud Boys trial have been FBI agents and other law enforcement officials. Jurors also have heard testimony from a former Proud Boys member who cut a plea deal with prosecutors and a British documentary filmmaker who was embedded with the Proud Boys on Jan. 6.
Jurors are often kept waiting in the wings while defense lawyers challenge the admissibility of evidence. In one such exchange, Pattis urged Kelly to reconsider a ruling allowing prosecutors to introduce posts from the social media platform Parler.
“We’re offering you a lifeline here because we think you erred,” Pattis told the judge.
“Well, I’m offering you the lifeline of obeying my order,” Kelly responded.
Kelly has frequently scolded defense lawyers for interrupting and talking over him, warning that he could find them in contempt. At one point, lawyer Nicholas Smith interrupted the judge while the judge was chastising him for an earlier interruption.
One of Tarrio’s lawyers asked for a mistrial after a witness said that Tarrio had burned a Black Lives Matter banner at a protest in Washington during a December 2020 demonstration by Trump supporters.
Tarrio was arrested two days before the Jan. 6 riot, charged with vandalizing the banner and ordered to leave the city. Kelly ruled that prosecutors could discuss the vandalism, but not specific details about the banner. Prosecutors allege Tarrio remained in command of the Proud Boys on the ground on Jan. 6 even though he wasn’t there.
Carmen Hernandez, a lawyer for Proud Boys chapter leader Zachary Rehl, has repeatedly moved for mistrials, including when she accused a prosecutor of using inflammatory and misleading allegations in his opening statement. Hernandez asked for a mistrial after jurors saw violent videos of Proud Boys street fighting at rallies before Jan. 6.
“It wouldn’t be a day in this trial without a mistrial motion,” said Kelly, who denied her request.
At least one juror may have sent a signal about the sluggish pace of the trial.
J. Daniel Hull, one of Biggs’ lawyers, told the judge on Jan. 19 that he saw a juror nodding off that morning. In response, the judge told lawyers that “focusing their presentations might help that issue.”
The rancor started before the jury was even sworn in.
A day before the trial started, Hernandez said she felt compelled to withdraw from the case if the judge allowed prosecutors to show a particular video as evidence. Smith, who represents Proud Boys chapter leader Ethan Nordean, followed up with a similar comment about withdrawing if the judge didn’t rule in his favor on an evidentiary matter.
Pattis, a Connecticut-based lawyer who represents Proud Boys organizer Joe Biggs, was briefly sidelined from the case after a judge in his home state suspended his license to practice law for six months. The decision stemmed from Pattis’ handling of confidential documents during his representation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a civil lawsuit. Kelly allowed Pattis to rejoin the trial after opening statements once an appeals court postponed his suspension.
The judge didn’t bring jurors into court on Feb. 6 so the lawyers could argue about the relevance of messages that Proud Boys posted on the Telegram platform. Pattis warned that the Telegram evidence alone could add two weeks to the trial “if we’re not careful.”
“I jokingly told my office I hope to be home by Easter today at the rate things are going,” Pattis added.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the Capitol riot at https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege | 2023-02-11T19:21:31+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/politics/ap-bickering-bogs-down-capitol-riot-trial-of-proud-boys-leaders/ |
Temperatures will be in the low to mid 50s as you head out the door on this Saturday morning. We are starting off mostly cloudy with a few spots seeing some isolated showers. Rain chances will stick with us and increase as we go throughout the day. The afternoon high for today is going to be around 62 degrees. Tonight will be very similar to last night in that the temperature will not decrease by much.
The low will be around 52 degrees as we wake up tomorrow morning. This is thanks to the fact that the dense cloud cover that we see today will stick around overnight preventing us from losing as much heat as we would if the sky was clear. Tomorrow afternoon will be a warm one with a high of 74 degrees. While Sunday will be mostly cloudy, we are not expecting it to be as rainy as today. Going forward into next week, we will continue to see a similar weather pattern with highs reaching into the mid 70s and rain coming and going. | 2023-02-25T23:13:46+00:00 | wtva.com | https://www.wtva.com/weather/forecast/cool-and-cloudy-start-to-our-saturday/article_7d554cea-b506-11ed-b9e9-b7e6c3fd8d62.html |
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a carpenter and I thought there could be a more efficient and consistent way to install fence and decking posts," said an inventor, from Union Beach, N.J., "so I invented the SMART POST LEVEL. My design saves time and it would eliminate the need for additional help and other tools."
The invention provides a new reusable tool for easy and quick deck/fence post installation applications. In doing so, it speeds up deck procedures that will precisely set posts without the tedious task of readjusting, replumbing, and bracing posts. It also increases efficiency and safety. The invention features a universal and durable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for contractors, fence installers, landscapers, do-it-yourselfers, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the New Jersey sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-NJD-2439, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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BOSTON – The Presidents’ Trophy curse was too strong — even for a team coming off the best regular season in NHL history.
After a record-setting year, the Boston Bruins failed to get out of the first round of the playoffs, losing to the Florida Panthers in overtime in seven games on Sunday night.
And suddenly, Boston fans who were eagerly planning for two parades – the Celtics are primed for a long playoff run, too – instead are wondering where this Bruins' collapse ranks among the city’s all-time worst.
“It’s not the outcome you want, and we’re extremely disappointed,” said Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron, who teased retirement after last season but returned for one more run at the Stanley Cup. “Especially with the team we had. It’s not where we want to be.”
The Bruins fired coach Bruce Cassidy after a first-round exit last year and replaced him with Jim Montgomery, then coaxed Bergeron and David Krejci away from possible retirement in the hopes of getting a second NHL title in a dozen years. They won 17 of their first 19 games and did not lose in regulation at home until mid-January.
General manager Don Sweeney added Dmitry Orlov and Garnet Hathaway at the trade deadline for toughness. Linus Ullmark developed into a Vezina Trophy runaway as the best goalie in the league, with Jeremy Swayman rotating in for one of the most productive tandems in history.
Put it all together and it added up to NHL records of 65 wins and 135 points.
But the same playoff disappointment.
“I’m proud of everything we’ve accomplished with this group,” Bergeron said. “It’s a special group on many levels. The individuals we have … Obviously, it’s far from the outcome that we wanted.”
Finishing with the best record in the regular season has become a dubious distinction: Only twice in 20 years has the Presidents’ Trophy winner gone on to win the Stanley Cup — most recently a decade ago when the Blackhawks beat Boston in the final. Since then, only one team has made it past the second round.
In other sports, too, regular-season records are no guarantee of playoff success: The 2001 Seattle Mariners won 116 games but didn’t even make the World Series, and the 2016 Golden State Warriors broke the NBA record with 73 wins but lost in the finals.
And then there’s the 2007 New England Patriots, who won all 18 games in the regular season and playoffs before losing in the Super Bowl — a loss that still stings for local sports fans.
“The regular season is very special, with what we were able to build together," Bruins forward Brad Marchand said. "At the end of the day, we play the regular season to get a spot in the Stanley Cup playoffs, to play for a Cup, and that’s the goal every year is to play for a Cup, not to dominate the regular season. Special, what we built and what were able to do together, but fell short of our goal.”
Next year could look quite different.
Bergeron, who missed the first four games of the series, said he was playing with a herniated disk but did not elaborate on whether the injury would affect his decision to return for another season, when he would turn 38. Krejci wasn't made available for comment.
Bergeron lingered on the ice long after the handshake line, giving the remaining fans a stick wave and ushering his teammates into the tunnel. After a long embrace with Marchand, Bergeron left the rink — perhaps for the last time.
“I’m going to take some time and talk with the family and go from there,” the five-time Selke Trophy winner said. "Right now, it’s hard to process anything. Obviously, we’re shocked and disappointed. So that’s it.”
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NEW YORK — (AP) — Google says it is in the early stages of developing artificial intelligence tools to help journalists write stories and headlines, and has discussed its ideas with leaders in the news industry.
The rapidly-evolving technology is already raising concerns about whether it can be trusted to provide accurate reports, and whether it would eventually lead to human journalists losing their jobs in an industry that is already suffering financially.
Leaders at The New York Times, The Washington Post and News Corp., owners of The Wall Street Journal, have been briefed on what Google is working on, the Times reported Thursday.
Google, in a prepared statement, said artificial intelligence-enhanced tools could help give journalists options for headlines or different writing styles when they are working on a story — characterizing it as a way to enhance work and productivity.
“These tools are not intended to, and cannot, replace the essential role journalists have in reporting, creating and fact-checking their articles,” Google said.
The Associated Press, which would not comment Thursday on what it knows about Google's technology, has been using a simpler form of artificial intelligence in some of its work for about a decade. For example, it uses automation to help create stories on routine sports results and corporate earnings.
A debate over how to apply the latest AI writing tools overlaps with concerns from news organizations and other professions about whether technology companies are fairly compensating them to use their published works to improve AI systems known as large language models.
To build AI systems that can produce human-like works of writing, tech companies have had to ingest large troves of written works, such as news articles and digitized books. Not all companies disclose the sources of that data, some of which is pulled off the internet.
Last week, AP and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced a deal for the artificial intelligence company to license AP's archive of news stories going back to 1985. The financial terms were not disclosed.
Chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google's own Bard are part of a class of so-called generative AI tools that are increasingly effective at mimicking different writing styles, as well as visual art and other media. Many people are already using them as a time-saver to compose emails and other routine documents or helping with homework.
However, the systems are also prone to spouting falsehoods that people unfamiliar with a subject might not notice, making them risky for applications such as gathering news or dispensing medical advice.
Google has historically shown some caution in applying its AI advances, including in its flagship search engine which users rely on to surface accurate information. But the public fascination with ChatGPT after its release late last year has put pressure on tech companies to show off new AI products and services.
In an ideal world, technology like Google is discussing can add important information to the world, said Kelly McBride, an expert in journalism ethics for the Poynter Institute. It could document public meetings where there are no longer human journalists to attend and create narratives about what is going on, she said.
But there's a likelihood that the technology will progress faster than a new business model can be discovered that supports local news — creating the temptation to replace human journalists with AI tools, she said.
Journalism organizations need to consider the possibility that the technology, particularly in its nascent stages, may be responsible for creating errors — and the reputational damage may be more than any financial advantages its use can bring.
“I don't think there will be a single ethical explosion that will ruin everything,” McBride said. “Instead, I think it's going to be more of an erosion of quality and a bunch of small things that erode confidence in the news media.”
News organizations are at a critical moment where they can use things that technology companies need — like access to archived information — and create a financial structure that doesn't tilt too far in the direction of companies like Google, she said. History isn't necessarily on their side.
“This is a whole new level of threat,” she said, “and it's not like we can turn back.”
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It's well-documented that Paxlovid — a 5-day course of antiviral pills from Pfizer — can reduce the risk of hospitalization in COVID-19 patients who are more likely to develop severe illness.
Now, researchers from the Veterans Health Administration find that taking the medication may also reduce the risks of later developing long COVID, according to a new study that was posted online this weekend and has not yet undergone peer review.
"We've already known for some time now that Paxlovid reduces the risk of acute problems," says Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, chief of research and development at the VA Saint Louis Healthcare System, and co-author of the study, "Now we are adding the observation that Paxlovid also reduces the risk of long COVID."
The drug, which has been available in the U.S. for almost a year, is provided for free by the federal government at pharmacies across the country. It requires a prescription, and patients with COVID-19 must start it within five days of symptom onset.
Less virus, less long COVID?
In the study, long COVID was defined as developing one or more symptoms — including heart issues, blood disorders, fatigue and trouble breathing — one to three months after testing positive. By these metrics, patients that took Paxlovid were 26% less likely to develop long COVID.
To get to this finding, the researchers combed through electronic health records from more than 56,000 patients in the VA health system who tested positive for COVID-19 between March and June 2022, and had at least one risk factor for severe disease. They compared health outcomes of 9,000 patients that had taken Paxlovid early in their course of illness, with 47,000 patients that had not.
The benefits of taking Paxlovid didn't just apply to those who were unvaccinated. Patients who were vaccinated or boosted, or had repeat COVID-19 infections, had a similar reduction in the risk of developing long COVID, the study found.
The study is a preprint, meaning it was shared publicly before being reviewed and vetted by outside researchers. But experts who were not involved in the study tell NPR the findings make sense, given how Paxlovid works.
The antiviral drug stops the virus from replicating in cells. "We know that one of the key factors that predict long COVID is detectable virus in the bloodstream at the time of infection," Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease physician at the University of California, San Francisco, wrote in an email. "So it stands to reason that interventions that prevent the virus from making more copies of itself would therefore lead to a lower risk of long COVID."
Past studies have shown that Paxlovid reduces the risks of hospitalization and death from COVID-19. "Since the trigger of long COVID is acute infection with SARS-CoV-2, it makes intuitive sense that anything that lowers the severity of this infection would reduce the risk of long COVID, whether it's Paxlovid or other antiviral treatments," Dr. Paul Sax, an infectious disease physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, wrote in an email.
A starting point
Still, experts view the study as only a starting point for exploring the potential uses of Paxlovid. The VA study was observational, based on data entered into patient health records – in Sax's view, "the imprecision of the [long COVID] diagnosis makes definitive conclusions from this study challenging, especially with a retrospective review."
But the value of the study is that it points researchers down promising pathways for more research, says Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease physician at UCSF. "It's hypothesis-generating," she says, "It's exciting and hopeful [to think] that if you reduce the viral load... down to undetectable [early in the illness], maybe you can prevent post-COVID symptoms" altogether – a theory she thinks researchers could pursue.
Both Sax and Gandhi say they would feel more confident in the results if they were replicated in additional studies, especially in experimental, randomized controlled trials that compare long COVID outcomes in patients who took either Paxlovid or a placebo. The VA study's findings are also limited by the fact that the participants were predominantly white men, raising the possibility that the benefits of Paxlovid could be different in other groups of patients.
Currently, Paxlovid is only authorized for use in patients who have risk factors – like being older or having underlying health conditions – that put them at high risk of developing severe disease. Al-Aly says the reduction in long COVID risk, raised in his study, suggests others might benefit from taking Paxlovid, too. But many patients who currently have long COVID were relatively young and healthy before they got COVID-19 and may not have qualified for Paxlovid when they tested positive, he says.
"Does Paxlovid use in a lower-risk population reduce the risk of acute problems and subsequently reduce the risk of long COVID?" Al-Aly wonders, "I think that's a question that we all need to solve over the next several months."
It's also an open question whether a higher dose or a longer treatment course could provide a greater benefit, Chin-Hong says.
Side effects that include nausea and an off-putting taste have given patients pause about using the product. Reports of COVID rebound in Paxlovid patients, where the illness flares up after a seeming respite, has made some prescribers ambivalent about the product. These are real considerations, Al-Aly says, but they should be weighed against the benefits of Paxlovid treatment, including reduced risks of hospitalization and death in the acute phase, and the potential for avoiding long COVID in the months after.
Gandhi says the study's findings may now factor into clinicians' decisions, even if the results are preliminary and have not yet been replicated.
"This study is pushing me to use [Paxlovid] in people who are over 65, vaccinated and boosted, because it's probably going to have other benefits beyond preventing hospitalization," she says.
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Q: I’ve been really stressed out at work lately and have noticed that my hair is thinning and clumping in the shower. Is it true that stress can make your hair fall out?
A: Healthy people shed around 50 to 100 strands of hair each day, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. But if you’re losing more than that, it could be a sign of a condition called telogen effluvium, or excessive hair shedding.
And telogen effluvium can certainly be induced by stress, said Dr. Antonella Tosti, a dermatologist who treats hair loss at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Experts don’t know exactly how common telogen effluvium is, in part because many people are not diagnosed with it. But women may be more likely to experience it than men, as it can be set off by pregnancy-related changes in the body, said Dr. Angela Lamb, a dermatologist at Mount Sinai in New York City.
This excess hair shedding can involve the loss of “up to a third of your hair volume,” she added. But the good news is it is usually temporary.
Unpacking the causes
People often develop telogen effluvium between six weeks and three months after a stressful event such as a major surgery, a chronic or short-term illness (especially if it involved a fever), a pregnancy or a death in the family — basically, “anything that causes a stress or shock to your system,” Lamb said.
That’s because stress increases levels of cortisol in the body, Lamb said, a hormone that has been shown to disrupt hair growth.
Research suggests this kind of hair loss can occur after people recover from COVID-19. In a 2022 study, for instance, researchers surveyed nearly 6,000 people in Brazil who had recovered from COVID within the past three months. Nearly half of those who responded reported experiencing hair loss.
“If your hair was fine, and then you had COVID, and then six to 10 or 12 weeks later you’re losing a ton of hair in the shower — that’s telogen effluvium,” Lamb said.
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Telogen effluvium can develop in response to chronic everyday stress, too, Tosti said, such as work or relationship stress.
What you can do
If you have been losing hair because of stress, Lamb recommended taking a daily multivitamin containing vitamin D, which is involved in hair growth, and vitamin B12, which has been shown to be deficient in some patients with telogen effluvium — though the data on this is limited. Vitamins may be especially important for people recovering from major surgery, she said, as deficiencies can be more common during this time.
Lamb doesn’t recommend over-the-counter supplements specifically marketed to treat hair loss that contain high doses of biotin, such as those sold by Vegamour, Nutrafol and Viviscal. Biotin supplements have been shown to interfere with the results of thyroid hormone tests, and they can sometimes cause acne flare-ups, she said.
If you want to try to accelerate hair growth, you could try an over-the-counter, topical minoxidil treatment such as Rogaine, Tosti said. Or you can ask your doctor for a prescription for oral minoxidil or oral finasteride, which are often covered by health insurance, Lamb said.
These treatments could “help kick-start the hair to grow in faster,” Lamb said. But most of the time, she added, stress-induced hair loss dissipates and hair regrows on its own.
“You’ll go through that shedding phase, usually for several weeks, maybe a few months, and then it will slow down,” she said.
That said, if shedding continues after three or four months, she added, you may want to see a doctor. | 2023-07-23T06:17:57+00:00 | thetimes-tribune.com | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/health-science/can-stress-cause-hair-loss/article_0f6ffda1-9cbe-5c53-bd1b-adc734ba2b2a.html |
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (WIAT) — An Orange Beach chef “reeled” in a win at this year’s annual Alabama Seafood Cook-Off.
Brody Olive, the executive chef at Perdido Beach Resort, claimed the top prize at the sponsored event, according to Outdoor Alabama. With his win, Olive received a $2,500 cash prize, the “Best Chef in the State” title and a trip to New Orleans to compete in the national Great American Seafood Cook-Off.
The event was hosted on June 12 and featured the top four chefs from across the state: Chef Olive, Chef Sam Adams of Small Batch from Birmingham, Chef Laurence Agnew of Jesse’s Restaurant from Magnolia Springs and Chef Nicholas Song of The Debot from Auburn.
The chefs were given an hour to create unique and delicious dishes from a selection of fresh Gulf seafood and ingredients.
Olive and sous chef Luis Silvestre created “Fishing on the Rocks, the Jetties at Perdido Pass,” a dish comprised of gafftop catfish smoked over scrub oak coal with flash-fried mole crabs, Gulf shrimp horseradish cream, pickled purslane and smoked paprika coral tuile.
Adams of Small Batch was the runner-up with her dish titled “Mediterranean Summer Meets Birmingham,” which featured seared Gulf red snapper over Gulf crab salad with boiled peanut hummus, cornmeal fried squash, fried capers, saffron beurre l’orange and herb salad.
“I’m kind of surprised,” Olive told Outdoor Alabama. “We just went outside the box and had a little fun with it, pushing the envelope a little bit. We decided whatever happens happens, and it came together.”
Olive was born in Birmingham and raised in Newnan, Georgia. He later returned to the Magic City to receive professional training from Chef George Reis at Ocean Restaurant, where began his culinary career.
The judges of the competition included Jim Smith, chairman of the Alabama Seafood Marketing Commission, and Jeffrey Compton, 2022 ASCO winner and executive chef of Armour House in Birmingham. | 2023-06-22T22:08:28+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/alabama-news/orange-beach-chef-wins-8th-annual-alabama-seafood-cook-off/ |
FBI got tip about Colorado LGBTQ nightclub shooting suspect a day before 2021 arrest
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Authorities said the person who would later kill five at a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub was on the FBI's radar a day before being arrested for threatening to kill family members, but agents closed out the case just weeks later.
The disclosure by the FBI to The Associated Press creates a new timeline for when law enforcement was first alerted to Anderson Lee Aldrich as a potential danger. Previously it was thought Aldrich only became known to authorities after making the threat on June 18, 2021.
Aldrich's grandparents ran from their Colorado Springs home last year and called 911 saying Aldrich was building a bomb in the basement and had threatened to kill them. Details of the case remain sealed, but an arrest affidavit verified by the AP detailed how Aldrich, who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, was upset the grandparents were moving to Florida because it would get in the way of Aldrich's plans to conduct a mass shooting and bombing.
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As part of the FBI's probe, the agency said it coordinated with the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, which had responded to the June 18, 2021, call from Aldrich's grandparents and arrested Aldrich on felony menacing and kidnapping charges. But the FBI closed its assessment of Aldrich about a month after getting the tip.
"With state charges pending, the FBI closed its assessment on July 15, 2021," the FBI said.
Those charges were later dropped for unknown reasons. Under Colorado law, cases that are dismissed by either prosecutors or a judge are automatically sealed to prevent people from having their lives ruined if they do not end up being prosecuted. Authorities have cited the law in refusing to answer questions about the case but a coalition of media organizations, including the AP, has asked the court to unseal the records.
A spokesperson for the sheriff's office, Sgt. Jason Garrett, declined to comment on the FBI's statement or on whether his agency had any tips about Aldrich before his 2021 arrest, citing the sealing law.
The information conveyed to the FBI, which has not been previously reported, marks the earliest known instance of law enforcement officials being warned about Aldrich, and the shooting is the latest attack to raise questions about whether people who once caught the attention of law enforcement should have remained on the FBI's radar.
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An FBI assessment is the lowest level, least intrusive and most elementary stage of an FBI inquiry. Such assessments are routinely opened after agents receive a tip and investigators routinely face the challenge of sifting through which of the tens of thousands of tips received every year could yield a viable threat.
There have been several high-profile examples of the FBI having received information about a gunman before a mass shooting. A month before Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people at a Florida high school, the bureau received a warning that he had been talking about committing a mass shooting. A man who massacred 49 people at an Orlando nightclub in 2016 and another who set off bombs in the streets of New York City the same year had each been looked at by federal agents but officials later determined they did not warrant continued law enforcement scrutiny.
FBI guidelines meant to balance national security with civil liberties protections impose restrictions on the steps agents may take during the assessment phase. Agents, for instance, may analyze information from government databases and open-source internet searches, and can conduct interviews during an assessment. But they cannot turn to more intrusive techniques, such as requesting a wiretap or internet communications, without higher levels of approval and a more solid basis to suspect a crime.
More than 10,000 assessments are opened each year. Many are closed within days or weeks when the FBI concludes there’s no criminal or national security threat, or basis for continued scrutiny. The system is meant to ensure that a person who has not broken the law does not remain under perpetual scrutiny on a mere hunch — and that the FBI can reserve its scarce resources for true threats.
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Associated Press writers Michael Balsamo and Lindsay Whitehurst contributed to this report from Washington. | 2022-12-07T21:29:43+00:00 | 4029tv.com | https://www.4029tv.com/article/colorado-lgbtq-nightclub-shooting-suspect-fbi-tip/42180522 |
FRANKLIN — The numbers for MIAA boys’ gymnastics teams statewide has been dwindling for years.
Just four teams (and 45 total athletes), including the Newton Newton North/Newton South co-op, competed for the 2021 state championship last February, with host Burlington marking its 50th appearance in the final with the title.
But at the moment, Burlington will not field a boys’ team this winter, athletic director Shaun Hart confirmed in a call to the gymnastics committee Wednesday morning. Lowell coach Jesse Raschak said he is waiting to hear the status of his team but AD Dave Lezinski said that if a boy wants to compete in gymnastics this winter for the school, all options will be pursued. That leaves just Braintree and Newton.
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That’s a bleak future, a fact that prompted committee members to consider options going forward, such as opportunities for boys competing on an individual level.
Several committee members championed a proposal for an individual championship meet for boys at the end of the winter season – not only for boys who competed on their own team, but also boys who were part of co-ed teams with girls.
“What if they compete not for schools, as individuals,” asked Ashley Paulson, the assistant girls’ coach at Framingham, which has one boy on her team. “That’s done in girls’ gymnastics; why not boys?”
Without an individual state meet for boys, those who are a member of co-ed teams have been competing as individuals in the girls’ meets — and in several cases, winning.
“Can it mirror cheer or swim, sports that have co-ed options, because we have boys that are going to girls’ individual meets and they’re winning,” said Paula Chausse, AD at Dracut High.
“We want to provide more opportunities. Not that the state meet isn’t a great event, it’s just very small [for boys]. It’s continuing to decline.”
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A subcommittee will form and gather to further identify the proposal of an individual meet at the end of the season for boys, along with tournament directors.
“We should embrace the individuals at this point,” said Braintree boys’ gymnastics coach Rich Ellis.
For many years, the MIAA has stressed recognizing gymnastics teams, instead of individual gymnasts. In response, the coaches association hosts a state girls’ individual meet, regardless of their team’s results. Gymnasts from both sectional-bound teams and eliminated teams participate, and invites are made to schools in Western Mass., which has a fall season. The event also often includes boys who compete on girls gymnastics squads.
Including the displaced boys’ gymnastics teams in the state individual meet would be an added burden to the coaches association.
Including a de facto boys’ state championship meet into the existing event might be the only way to keep boys’ gymnastics alive, but it will also max out an event that is already stretched thin.
▪ The issue arose of having gymnastics equipment available at individual schools, or at a school-sanctioned private gymnasium.
▪ Hudson AD Jessica Winders noted the issue of potentially needing to add another coach on staff whose focus would be coaching boys rather than both boys and girls.
▪ MIAA officials’ rep Kathy Ostberg was elected as committee chair, with Stephen Cudsworth, coach of the Bridgewater-Raynham/West Bridgewater co-op, vice chair and Chausse serving as secretary.
▪ A new NFHS uniform modification was also announced, which states that gymnasts are allowed to wear shorts during competition — provided there is no more than one manufacturer’s logo visible on the shorts, which must be no more than 2¼ inches in length. A violation would result in a deduction in the competitor’s score.
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▪ No change was made to gymnastics alignments, with Western Mass. continuing to host its own tournament in the fall season.
▪ The winter sectional and state championships will be held on Feb. 25 and March 4 at Algonquin Regional in Northborough.
Correspondent Kat Cornetta contributed to this story. | 2022-10-05T22:35:01+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/05/sports/is-future-high-school-boys-gymnastics-strictly-an-individual-pursuit/ |
A new education, sports and entertainment venue will replace Seattle Center’s outdated Memorial Stadium, school and city leaders announced Monday.
But first, they need to find someone to design and build it.
Seattle Public Schools and the city issued a request for proposals from a private partner to begin long-awaited upgrades to the stadium at Seattle Center, according to a news release. The nearly 80-year-old facility, where many students attend football games and celebrate graduations, has been unable to adequately accommodate a rapidly growing population in recent years.
The project, the release said, will focus on expanding the ways the stadium serves students from all backgrounds and will be integrated with the Seattle Center’s arts and cultural life.
“Our shared vision for this facility means more than an improved athletic field — it represents developing a state-of-the-art facility capable of hosting a wide array of events and creating countless more Memorial Stadium memories for our communities,” Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said in the release.
Potential private partners will invest in, design, build, operate, maintain and manage the new stadium. The school district will continue to own the property.
The design must have at least 8,000 seats; remove the current stadium’s concrete, view-obstructing walls; complete August Wilson Way with an east-west pedestrian and bike connection across the Center’s campus; create new public space linking the International Fountain with the stadium; and restore the Memorial Wall.
The stadium’s Memorial Wall pays tribute to nearly 800 Seattle school alums who died in World War II.
Once the city and SPS select a proposal in May, a community engagement process with students and parents will begin, the release said.
Public funds for the project include $66.5 million approved by Seattle voters from last year’s Seattle schools levy and $21 million from the city. The Seattle City Council also expressed its intent to identify an additional $19 million no later than 2026. And Gov. Jay Inslee proposed $4 million in the state’s capital budget, subject to the Legislature’s approval this session.
The capital levy voters approved last year included funding for new grandstands, LED lights and turf. The grandstands were built in the 1940s, and the district believes they are at the end of their life.
“An enhanced stadium would allow the District to provide students with a modern facility for cultural performances, athletic events, commencement ceremonies, and social and educational opportunities,” said SPS Superintendent Brent Jones. | 2023-03-21T04:15:16+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/seattle-seeks-private-group-to-rebuild-memorial-stadium/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
ATLANTA — July Fourth celebrations are rolling in, and what better way to celebrate America’s independence than by enjoying all of the events Georgia has to offer.
From lively parades to grand light shows, there is something for everyone. Take a look at this fun-filled list of affairs happening across metro Atlanta.
Celebrating with thrill-seekers
Theme park goers will be happy to learn that Coca-cola is hosting Fireworks Celebration at Six Flags Over Georgia. The company is encouraging people to enjoy the holiday on thrilling rides or splashing at Hurricane Harbor.
On June 30, July 1 and July 4, guests can purchase tickets depending on their adventure choice. That information can be found here.
AJC Peachtree Road Race
The annual AJC Peachtree Road Race is the perfect event for those that want to get active while celebrating the holiday. The world's largest 10k race will take place at Lenox Square with participants as young as 10 years old and as seasoned as 98.
There's fun in cheering these runners on, from the smallest racers to the trained athletes; it's a way to ring in Independence Day that's unique to Atlanta. If you make it to Piedmont Park, you could even snag a free peach milkshake. Here's how.
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The largest metropolitan fireworks show in America is back on July 1.
People can listen to the sounds of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Centennial Olympic Park. This year, the festivities will include an inaugural Georgia Talent Showcase. The festival boasts entertainment and talent, and tickets are still on sale.
Fourth of July at Lake Lanier Islands
Spend your Independence Day splashing away.
Lake Lanier Islands has a lineup of holiday weekend events that people can partake in from virtual sports and axe throwing to boating and dining events.
There's quite the list of activities - some family-friendly and others a bit more mature. Take a look at all of the options here.
Red, White & BOOM!
A day early but with a promise to sparkle, Norcross is inviting people to blast off to a firecracker of a celebration.
People can head to Lillian Webb Park from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Monday, July 3 and groove to live music, indulge in yummy eats and then watch a spectacular shot that will paint the sky red, white and blue.
People are encouraged to bring blankets and chairs for a comfortable evening under the fireworks. More information can be found here.
Fantastic Fourth Celebration
Taking the cake as a "must-see fireworks show," Stone Mountain is lighting up the night from July 1 through July 5.
People can enjoy family attractions and live entertainment during Summer at the Rock. People can also hike the one-mile trail to the top of Stone Mountain to catch a beautiful view and end their night with a drone and light show enhanced with fireworks at 9:30 p.m.
For ticket information, click here. An attractions schedule is also available.
Pied Piper Parade
Celebrate Independence Day hometown-style in Decatur.
The city is hosting the Pied Piper Parade, which will wind through downtown with floats, wagons and bicycles at 6 p.m. on July 4. People can also enjoy the community bandstand to listen to live music as the Summer Covers Concerts on the Square will be between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
More details can be found here.
Let Freedom Ring Parade
Put on your best red, white and blue outfit to grace the sidewalks of Marietta and get in the patriotic spirit.
Starting at 10 a.m., people can enjoy a parade and then roam around a live concert, craft show, carnival games and await a fireworks finale.
The 1.5-mile parade begins at the Roswell Street Baptist Church, travels west on Roswell Street, north on East Park Square and Cherokee Street and ends at North Marietta Parkway. The fireworks show will happen sometime after 9:30 p.m.
More details can be found here. | 2023-06-30T14:58:01+00:00 | 11alive.com | https://www.11alive.com/article/life/holidays/list-heres-where-to-watch-fireworks-on-fourth-of-july-weekend-2023/85-a4defad9-ccc2-45d3-9bfc-7c589e63f325 |
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will try to prove that Donald Trump knew he lost the election, but continued to press false claims about fraud anyway.
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will try to prove that Donald Trump knew he lost the election, but continued to press false claims about fraud anyway.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-06-13T13:43:38+00:00 | kcbx.org | https://www.kcbx.org/2022-06-13/the-house-jan-6-panel-will-hear-from-more-witnesses-during-2nd-hearing |
FT. MYERS, Fla., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The illuminating new book Driven by Compassion: 8 Values for Successful Servant Leaders, by David Zechman, a leadership expert with almost forty years of experience, emphasizes the importance of focusing on the well-being of a leader's team members and the communities to which they belong. It is on sale today via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Amplify Publishing Group, and more.
Driven by Compassion is informed by the author's real-life experience with the everyday challenges and successes of leading with empathy. He reframes the popular interpretation of servant leadership as being about "hugs and kisses," in order to make it more a more practical management technique.
Zechman proves that servant leadership means living out eight core values that lead to greater engagement and fulfillment in one's career and personal life. These core values include:
- Patience
- Trustful
- Grudgeless
- Honesty and Integrity
- Communication
and more.
"Welcome to a leadership style that will help you 'remember, refresh, and renew' why you decided to accept the awesome responsibility to lead an organization's most valuable resource for success—its people," begins the book.
The servant style of leadership ensures that a leader's team feels seen, heard, and valued—ultimately leading to higher job performance and outstanding personal and organizational results. Zechman provides the knowledge and wisdom that executives need to take on a new mindset and attitude toward leadership.
David Zechman's decades of leadership experience is not confined to one field. Recognized as a Life Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, Zechman's almost forty year career in healthcare led him to serving as a successful hospital CEO and then to the founding of The Zechman Group, an award-winning consulting group that offers support for leaders of all backgrounds, especially those working in healthcare. His long professional history and personal experiences have allowed Zechman to create energizing and informative keynote speeches which he delivers around the country. Driven by Compassion is his debut book.
Zechman "writes with an authentic enthusiasm that is infectious…[Driven by Compassion is] candidly written and sensitively delivered leadership advice," according to Kirkus Reviews.
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Winter storm disrupts holiday travel plans
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Christmas is past, but travel troubles continue nationwide thanks to a major winter blast that hit most of the country last week and over the weekend.
New Mexicans are among the countless travelers still struggling to get home.
Lauren Green spoke to a familiar face about what getting home looks like for him.
“About 2 p.m. yesterday I started to get notifications my flight was delayed. I had a 6:20 flight, before I knew it, it was canceled,” said KOB 4 Sports Anchor, Brandon Ortega.
Ortega is proof that New Mexico travelers have not been immune to holiday travel troubles. He says he’s staying with his parents at least another day in California.
“I was on the phone for over two hours with Southwest on hold yesterday, and then my phone died,” Ortega said. “I heard horror stories from people in line. I heard horror stories from people that were already on their second day of cancellations.”
We are hearing similar stories from travelers everywhere.
“I don’t know what to do, the only flights are way too expensive, and we’re stuck” said a traveler.
Nationwide, thousands of flights were canceled on Christmas Day. About 3,500 flights were canceled on Christmas Eve.
Neighbors to the north were among two airports that saw the most delays over the weekend. Denver and Chicago airports pushed back more than 500 flights combined.
“I’m grateful we’re fine and everything, but I won’t get to go see my grandparents,” said another traveler.
At the Albuquerque International Sunport, travel seems a lot more normal than other airports across the country. But still we’re seeing some of the ripple effects of travel troubles elsewhere.
Delays and cancellations are still scattered throughout the day for both arrivals and departures.
Ortega is hoping to make it back sometime Tuesday.
“I have a ticket with American Airlines, I also have a ticket with Southwest for Wednesday morning. But if my flight with American pans out tomorrow, then I will just reimbursed with Southwest,” said Ortega. “I get to spend another day with my family, so it could certainly be worse. I could be stuck somewhere where I don’t know anybody, you know what I mean? So at least I get to hang out with my family one more day.” | 2022-12-27T14:13:26+00:00 | kob.com | https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/winter-storm-disrupts-holiday-travel-plans/ |
ORRVILLE, Ohio, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The J.M. Smucker Co. (NYSE: SJM) announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell several pet food brands to Post Holdings, Inc., a consumer-packaged goods holding company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.2 billion, consisting of $700 million in cash and approximately 5.39 million shares of common stock of Post Holdings, Inc.
The transaction includes the Rachael Ray® Nutrish®, 9Lives®, Kibbles 'n Bits®, Nature's Recipe®, and Gravy Train® brands as well as the Company's private label pet food business. The transaction includes relevant trademarks and licenses, and the Company's manufacturing and distribution facilities in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, as well as its manufacturing facilities in Meadville, Pennsylvania and Lawrence, Kansas. In addition, a group of employees will transition to Post Holdings, Inc. to support the business. The Company expects these brands to generate net sales of approximately $1.5 billion for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2023, which are primarily reported in the U.S. Retail Pet Foods segment.
"This divestiture supports our strategy to prioritize investments and resources in the areas of our business that offer the strongest growth and profit potential. In our pet business this is reflected in our focus on dog snacks and cat food, anchored by our Milk-Bone® and Meow Mix® brands, respectively," said Mark Smucker, Chair of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Portfolio optimization and strategic resource allocation remain key drivers of our long-term growth. The execution of this proven strategy has helped us streamline our business, improve margin mix, and position the Company to deliver continued shareholder value."
The Company expects the divestiture to be dilutive to its adjusted earnings per share by approximately $0.45 on a full-year basis, reflecting the foregone profit related to the divested brands and before factoring in any benefits from the use of transaction proceeds and the impact of stranded overhead costs. The Company anticipates replacing the divested earnings through the deployment of transaction proceeds and mitigating the impact of stranded overhead costs through initiatives within its Transformation Office over time.
The transaction is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter of the Company's current fiscal year ending April 30, 2023, subject to closing conditions including the receipt of required regulatory approvals. Goldman Sachs & Co., LLC is serving as the Company's financial advisor and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is serving as the Company's legal advisor in connection with the transaction.
The Company will discuss the transaction further during its prepared remarks at the Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference on Feb. 22, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. EST and when it releases its third quarter fiscal 2023 financial results on Feb. 28, 2023. The live webcasts and replays for both events can be accessed at the Company's website: investors.jmsmucker.com.
The J.M. Smucker Co. Forward Looking Statements
This press release ("Release") includes certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws. The forward-looking statements may include statements concerning our current expectations, estimates, assumptions and beliefs concerning future events, conditions, plans and strategies that are not historical fact. Any statement that is not historical in nature is a forward-looking statement and may be identified by the use of words and phrases such as "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "will," "plan," "strive" and similar phrases. Federal securities laws provide a safe harbor for forward-looking statements to encourage companies to provide prospective information. We are providing this cautionary statement in connection with the safe harbor provisions. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made, when evaluating the information presented in this Release, as such statements are by nature subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside of our control and could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements and from our historical results and experience. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following: uncertainties relating to the timing of the consummation of the sale of certain pet food brands to Post Holdings, Inc. (the "Transaction"); the possibility that any or all of the conditions to the consummation of the Transaction may not be satisfied or waived, including failure to receive required regulatory approvals; the effect of the announcement or pendency of the Transaction on the Company's ability to retain key personnel and to maintain relationships with customers, suppliers and other business partners; risks relating to potential diversion of management attention from the Company's ongoing business operations; and those described under "Risk Factors" in reports and statements filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. We do not undertake any obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements to reflect new events or circumstances.
About The J.M. Smucker Co.
At The J.M. Smucker Co., it is our privilege to make food people and pets love by offering a diverse portfolio of brands available across North America. We are proud to lead in the Coffee, Consumer Foods, Dog Snacks and Cat Food categories by offering brands consumers trust for themselves and their families each day including Folgers®, Dunkin'®, Café Bustelo®, Jif®, Smucker's® Uncrustables®, Smucker's®, Milk-Bone® and Meow Mix®. Through our unwavering commitment to producing the highest quality products, operating responsibly and ethically and delivering on our Purpose, we will continue to grow our business and the positive impact we have on society. For more information, please visit jmsmucker.com.
The J.M. Smucker Co. is the owner of all trademarks referenced herein, except for Rachael Ray®, a registered trademark of Ray Marks II LLC, which is used under license, and Dunkin'® which is a trademark of DD IP Holder LLC. The Dunkin'® brand is licensed to The J.M. Smucker Co. for packaged coffee products sold in retail channels such as grocery stores, mass merchandisers, club stores, e-commerce and drug stores. This information does not pertain to products for sale in Dunkin'® restaurants.
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