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Updated June 30, 2023 at 5:29 PM ET
A major U.S. Supreme Court ruling that rejects the most extreme version of a once-fringe legal theory has eased the anxiety of many election watchers across the country.
In a 6-3 opinion from an unusual lineup of both conservative and liberal justices, the court's majority confirmed Tuesday that — contrary to what's known as the "independent state legislature theory" — state lawmakers' power under the U.S. Constitution to control how congressional elections are run can be checked and balanced by state courts and state constitutions.
With 2024 looming, here's what the high court's ruling means for upcoming elections:
The ruling brings some stability to the 2024 elections
As the justices considered this theory in the lawsuit known as Moore v. Harper, many legal scholars warned that the court's endorsement of it could threaten to upend the country's decentralized election system, which is mainly run by state and local officials.
A ruling that sided with the Republican North Carolina state lawmakers who brought the case could have spurred second-guessing of past state court rulings that have interpreted state laws to determine how states should conduct their elections for all levels of government.
"There would have been a possibility of different rules for state and federal elections, even under the same law," explains Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law who has written about the theory's origins and submitted a friend-of-the-court brief against the theory. "So there would have been enormous chaos."
Instead, election workers can now move forward with more certainty that they're carrying out their state's election system with the same rules and processes for all levels of races.
The court's repudiation of the most extreme form of the theory, Shapiro says, also keeps in place a separation of powers at the state level that has allowed state courts to step in to ensure that the election rules set by state lawmakers follow their state's constitution.
"Constitutional checks and balances dodged a bullet," Shapiro says about the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling. "And overall, democracy dodged a bullet."
But the ruling does leave open a complicated legal question about congressional elections
While the court's majority found state legislatures' authority over congressional elections is not exempt "from the ordinary constraints imposed by state law," including review by state courts, the justices also issued a warning about a limit to what state courts can do.
"In interpreting state law in this area, state courts may not so exceed the bounds of ordinary judicial review as to unconstitutionally intrude upon the role specifically reserved to state legislatures by Article I, Section 4, of the Federal Constitution," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.
Exactly what those boundaries of "ordinary judicial review" are, however, is unclear.
And that could invite requests for the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether a state court's ruling in a case about congressional elections may have gone too far.
"This is a court that doesn't want to give up control over things," Vikram Amar, the dean of the University of Illinois College of Law who filed a friend-of-the-court brief opposing the theory, said about the high court Tuesday during a press briefing organized by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. "It's not surprising that they would reserve some authority for themselves to step back in if state courts go awry."
Amar added the majority's opinion shows signs that the court doesn't have a "great appetite" for supervising how state courts oversee federal elections.
To Jason Torchinsky — an attorney who wrote briefs on behalf of the Republican National Committee and the National Republican Redistricting Trust in support of the North Carolina Republican state lawmakers — "what it means is more cases are coming."
The way Torchinsky sees it, the U.S. Supreme Court has now adopted what he considers a narrow version of the independent state legislature theory, and the full meaning of it is waiting to be tested with more lawsuits.
"I think that the first case to get there may well be a redistricting case out of Wisconsin," says Torchinsky, referring to the possibility of a lawsuit over the state's congressional map that would be heard by the Wisconsin Supreme Court's new liberal majority. "Then, out of the 2024 elections, I think there's a decent chance somebody goes to a state court and asks them to do something off the rails that could get presented to the U.S. Supreme Court."
North Carolina still needs a new congressional map, and Ohio's map is in question, too
Despite having major implications on election law, the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling has no direct effect on what initially sparked this legal fight — North Carolina's congressional map.
That's because the new Republican majority of the North Carolina Supreme Court made the unusual move in April to overrule the state court's earlier decision to strike down the Republican legislature-approved map for violating the state's constitution.
The state's Republican-controlled legislature is now expected to come up with a new congressional map.
Days after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision for the North Carolina lawsuit, it issued an order Friday that sent a similar case about Ohio's contentious redistricting plan back to the Ohio state Supreme Court for "further consideration in light of Moore v. Harper."
Republican state lawmakers in Ohio had tried to get the country's highest court to hear their argument about how the independent state legislature theory applies to their case.
As part of Ohio's drawn-out redistricting process for the 15 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives the state was allocated after the 2020 census, the Ohio Redistricting Commission — made up of politicians — ultimately adopted a map in March 2022 that Ohio's state Supreme Court later found "unduly favors" the Republican Party while disfavoring the Democratic Party.
The state court struck down the map, citing the Ohio Constitution's ban on partisan gerrymandering that the state's legislature helped put into place. That state constitutional ban also gives the state's Supreme Court the power to invalidate maps that violate the ban.
Republican state lawmakers, however, have refused to follow the state court's order to draw a new map and appealed that ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the state court overstepped into congressional redistricting duties that, according to the theory, are reserved for state lawmakers.
Now, the case returns to Ohio's Republican-controlled state Supreme Court, where the lineup of justices has changed since the court rejected the state's congressional map as gerrymandered to favor Republicans.
After last year's elections, current Republican Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy, who voted to accept the map, took over for the now-retired Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, a Republican who joined the court's three Democratic justices in striking down the redistricting plan.
Edited by Megan Pratz
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-07-07T23:14:49+00:00
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kosu.org
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https://www.kosu.org/news/politics/2023-06-28/what-the-supreme-courts-rejection-of-a-controversial-theory-means-for-elections
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Wastewater surveillance for COVID-19 a is promising tool, but critical challenges remain
COVID-19 surveillance is at a crossroads in the United States. With at-home tests now outnumbering those done in laboratories, official case counts are more incomplete than ever as the nation －and world－face down increasingly transmissible coronavirus variants.
Wastewater surveillance is poised to fill in the gaps and help avoid the threats that an invisible wave of the virus could bring. This surveillance can help identify trends in transmission a week or two earlier than clinical testing, giving public health leaders the chance to focus messaging and resources. It can be used as a tool to sequence the virus and find new variants sooner, too.
But eagerness to use this tool is stifled by uncertainty about exactly how to do so, along with a lack of resources and support to learn.
Testing sewage for virus particles can provide early warning signs of increased transmission in a community, capturing even those who have asymptomatic infections or aren't being tested.
Since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the National Wastewater Surveillance System in September 2020, hundreds of sites have come online, with potential to expand even more. The CDC has funding for the program through 2025, and the National Association of County and City Health Officials says interest among its members has grown significantly over the past two years.
But few communities have been able to translate that interest into a sustainable practice or concrete actions to manage the pandemic.
Although 38% of local public health agencies have monitored wastewater at some point during the pandemic, only 21% plan to continue after the pandemic wanes, according to a recent report.
Public health agencies ranked wastewater surveillance as the least influential factor in pandemic management, and only about half have used it to inform decision-making.
The report represents findings from a survey of more than 200 public health officials across the country that was conducted between November and January.
"The thing about wastewater data is that it is inherently messy," said Megan Diamond, who leads wastewater work for the Rockefeller Foundation's COVID-19 Response & Recovery team. The Rockefeller Foundation conducted the survey, along with the Pandemic Prevention Institute and Mathematica.
A government watchdog report from April said wastewater surveillance has "enormous potential" to be a key public health tool in the US but noted that some aspects of the science need "further development."
Sewage samples can be diluted by rainwater or industrial discharge and can be contaminated by things like animal waste, for example.
"As a result, you get a lot of uncertainty, and uncertainty is not the word that you want to present to an epidemiologist. It's scary. It means you have to make a lot of assumptions, or you have to explore a new science during a pandemic," Diamond said.
Wastewater surveillance is not a new public health tool, but it was far from mainstream before COVID-19.
Public health agencies were most likely to implement wastewater surveillance programs if they had the support of expert advocates, according to the survey of public health leaders. But about a quarter said there is no clear agency leading this work, and about half said they didn't have the resources or capacity to do it themselves.
"There's this whole rally in visibility around wastewater surveillance, and then the guys on the ground, the people who are actually leading the work are like, 'Yeah, this is not sustainable for us,'" Diamond said.
The CDC's launch of the national wastewater program has helped some, the survey found.
But it has not come without its own challenges. It took the CDC about a year and a half to work through how to best standardize and present the data it had been collecting into a national dashboard, a testament to how complicated the data can be.
The agency first stood up the national dashboard in February, presenting only one data point on the relative change in virus levels at each site over the past 15 days. It recently updated the dashboard to include another data point on how the current level of virus detection compares with other points in the pandemic.
But last month's report from the Government Accountability Office noted that more remains to be done.
The watchdog agency called out "a lack of national coordination and standardized methods" that challenge broader adoption and complicate efforts to interpret the data and use it to drive public health interventions.
It's also unclear how cost-effective wastewater surveillance is, according to the report. The GAO says wastewater surveillance can be "particularly useful when clinical testing is resource constrained" but otherwise raises questions about when it makes sense to use it.
Clinical testing may not be constrained in the U.S. right now, but it is underutilized in favor of at-home tests that remain unreported or no testing at all.
Current trends in the data are clear: Virus levels have been rising in most surveillance sites in the US for weeks. And at the end of last week, more than a third of surveillance sites had detected levels that were higher than most historical levels, according to CDC data.
Despite the challenges that remain, the benefits of wastewater surveillance shouldn't be ignored, Diamond said.
"I don't think we should not be held back by lack of consensus around standardization in the data, because it may never come," she said.
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2022-05-19T03:29:01+00:00
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wxii12.com
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https://www.wxii12.com/article/covid-19-wastewater-surveillance-promising-tool-critical-challenges-remain/40032873
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Brent Sass was just miles from fulfilling his dream of winning the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska when vicious, 60-mph (96-kph) winds whipped in from the Bering Sea, taking visibility down to about 10 feet (3 meters) and forcing him off his sled as his dogs hunkered down in the snow.
“I did not voluntarily make that stop,” laughed Sass, who was nearing his first Iditarod victory last year but had five-time champion Dallas Seavey just a few miles behind. “We got blown off the trail and it took me an hour to get all my stuff back together and figure out where I was.”
Sass regrouped and led his team of 11 dogs off the Bering Sea ice and down Nome’s main street to the iconic burled arch finish line, winning the Iditarod, the world’s most famous sled dog race, in his seventh attempt.
Sass is back to defend his title in the race, which began Saturday with a fan-friendly 11-mile (18-kilometer) jaunt through the streets of Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city. Thousands of people braved temperatures hovering near 0 degrees Fahrenheit (-17.78 degree Celsius) to line up to cheer on the mushers, who carried “Iditariders,” lucky auction winners, on their sleds for the ceremonial start.
Things get serious Sunday with the competitive start of the race that will take mushers nearly 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) across Alaska. It begins in Willow, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) north of Anchorage.
Sass was enthusiastic to get on the trail Saturday, with 11 of 14 dogs returning from last year’s championship team. “I think the replacements … are stronger dogs, so I’m really excited,” he said.
He’s expecting mild temperatures until mushers hit the western coast, where there’s been more fluctuations and predicting trail conditions is almost meaningless since they change so fast.
“They’ve went from icy trails to snow trails and back and forth all season,” he said. “I think we’re going to get what we get.”
This is the 51st running of the Iditarod, but its 33 mushers are the smallest field ever to start the race. Mushers and race organizers point to the retirement of some veteran mushers; others taking a break to recoup financially after the pandemic; inflation, and the loss of deep-pocketed sponsors amid continuing pressure from the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
PETA took out full-page newspaper ads in Alaska’s two largest cities decrying what it calls the cruel abuse of dogs forced to haul their mushers and gear over the race’s thousand miles. The group also staged a protest outside the mushers’ annual banquet Thursday.
Gordon and Beth Bokhart of Fort Wayne, Indiana, made their first-ever trip to Anchorage specifically to see the Iditarod after getting a taste for the sport by taking part in a sled dog tour in Canada. Since then, they’ve spent a lot of time reading about the Iditarod and the history of the race.
“It’s just been incredible,” he said. Bokhart said people he’s spoken to in Alaska about the race feel it will rebound.
“Having been here, I can tell you it’s an exciting thing to come and watch, and if everybody else had the same experience I’ve had, they’d understand and want to come back,” he said.
Six mushers who account for 18 Iditarod championships are not racing this year. Last year, the sport lost another four-time winner when Lance Mackey died of cancer. Mackey was named honorary musher for this year’s race.
Only 823 mushers have reached the finish line in the Iditarod’s first half-century, and only 24 individual mushers in all have won the grueling event. Mushers and their dog teams encounter some of the harshest conditions in untamed Alaska, crossing both the Alaska and Kuskokwim mountain ranges, mushing on the frozen Yukon River, trekking through monotonous flat tundra and navigating the treacherous Bering Sea ice.
Along the way, they stop in numerous, largely Alaska Native communities that serve as checkpoints.
“It’s a celebration of spring for villages all across the state. It kind of brings communities and people together for an event that celebrates the history of our state and dog mushing,” said Aaron Burmeister, an Iditarod musher who grew up watching the race end in his hometown of Nome and who finished in the top 10 eight times over the last decade.
Climate change has and will likely continue to play a role in how the race is run.
The warming climate forced organizers to move the starting line 290 miles (467 kilometers) north from Willow to Fairbanks in 2003, 2015 and 2017 because of a lack of snow in the Alaska Range. That will become more common as the weather warms, and the Bering Sea ice leading into Nome could also become thinner and more dangerous, said Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Challenges to the globe’s foremost sled dog race are mounting, said Bob Dorfman, a sports branding expert with Pinnacle Advertising in San Francisco.
“With the high expenses, the low payout, dwindling sponsorship support, PETA pressure, the danger of it all, it feels more like a trend than just an anomaly,” he said. Sass earned about $50,000 for winning last year’s race.
Iditarod CEO Rob Urbach says the race is financially healthy, and he expects the Iditarod to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2073.
Dorfman did not disagree, but said the 2073 race may not look that much different than this year’s race.
“I don’t see the fortunes changing that much,” Dorfman said. “I don’t know that it’s going to be more than 30 participants.”
Sass, 43, is considered the front-runner to win the 2023 race. Pete Kaiser, the first Yup’ik and fifth Alaska Native to win the race, is the field’s only other ex-champion.
The winner is expected in Nome about nine or 10 days after Saturday’s start.
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2023-03-05T03:22:05+00:00
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cbs4indy.com
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https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-alaskas-arduous-iditarod-kicks-off-with-ceremonial-start/
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President Biden’s video featuring clips from a Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speech to tout his legislative accomplishments reached more than 30 million views in 12 hours after it was posted Tuesday evening, according to statistics first shared with The Hill.
The video received the second-highest impressions on a Biden video since he was inaugurated, only behind his reelection campaign launch video that dropped in April.
The video received more than 34 million views as of Wednesday around 10:30 a.m. and more than 10 million of those were in the first three hours since it dropped. It also received more than 200,000 shares and more than 2 million engagements as of Wednesday morning.
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Greene’s speech at Turning Point USA was intended to attack the president on policy issues. But, the Biden campaign video set the speech to uplifting music as she lists the president’s agenda and legislative priorities and compares him to former Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
“I approve this message,” Biden said on Twitter, sharing the video Tuesday evening.
When it was first posted, other Democrats rallied around the video and shared it, including Gov. Gavin Newsom (Calif.) and Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Adam Schiff (Calif.).
“Joe Biden had the largest public investment in social infrastructure and environmental programs, that is actually finishing what FDR started, that LBJ expanded on, and Joe Biden is attempting to complete,” Greene said in her speech this weekend.
“Programs to address education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, transportation, Medicare, Medicaid, labor unions, and he still is working on it,” she added.
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2023-07-20T16:59:10+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/biden-video-mocking-marjorie-taylor-greene-speech-hit-more-than-30m-views-in-12-hours/
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Nearly 900-pound shark pings off coast days before ‘Shark Week’
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - A nearly 12-foot-long shark pinged off the coast of South Carolina just days before “Shark Week,” according to OCEARCH.
The shark, named Freya, was z-pinged near Myrtle Beach on July 19 around 9 p.m.
Freya, a sub-adult female white shark, is about 11 feet and 8 inches long and weighs about 883 pounds, according to the organization.
OCEARCH’s partner, Sea World, picked out her name.
“The name translates to Noble Woman,” OCEARCH said. “Freya was named in homage to the noble women researchers on both Expedition Carolinas and on all past research expeditions who are working to uncover crucial shark insights related to their species’ conservation.”
Freya initially was tagged on March 25, 2021.
“Shark Week” runs from July 23 through July 29 on the Discovery Channel.
Copyright 2023 WHNS via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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2023-07-25T20:41:16+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/2023/07/25/nearly-900-pound-shark-pings-off-coast-days-before-shark-week/
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SILVER SPRING, Md., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is providing an update on steps it has taken that will lead to millions of bottles of specialized medical infant formula to help address immediate needs for infants with certain allergies or critical health conditions. This type of specialized medical infant formula is currently in short supply in the U.S.
"We have made tremendous progress, including notable steps in just the past week, which will allow us to immediately begin bringing specialty and infant formula products into the U.S. as quickly as possible," said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. "We continue to work closely with our U.S. government partners and domestic and international manufacturers to identify additional formula product that will be available to parents and caregivers in the weeks and months ahead. It is our goal to ensure that hospitals, specialty pharmacies, and retail store shelves will begin seeing adequate supplies again in the coming weeks."
About 500,000 additional cans of specialized medical formula manufactured by Danone's Nutricia business will be headed to the U.S. These Neocate amino acid-based formula products -- some of which are already manufactured for the U.S. market and are made at facilities in Europe -- amounts to more than 5 million full-size, 8-ounce bottles.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Danone continue to partner to evaluate options for getting the products to the U.S. as quickly as possible. The specialized medical formula is expected to be distributed through direct ordering, hospitals, health care professionals, pharmacies, healthcare product distributors and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) local access points to ensure they get to the infants who rely on these products.
The FDA has been working with Danone's Nutricia business over the past several months to boost production of these products at its facilities and to identify additional supply of other infant formula products moving forward.
The agency is leveraging a number of flexibilities to bolster the supply of products that serve as the sole source of nutrition for many infants while ensuring the infant formula can be used safely and provides adequate nutrition. The FDA remains in further discussions with manufacturers and suppliers regarding additional supply to ensure there's adequate infant formula available wherever and whenever parents and caregivers need it.
On Tuesday, the FDA announced that it informed Kendal Nutricare that the agency is exercising enforcement discretion for the importation of certain infant formula under the Kendamil brand. Under the agency's recent increased flexibilities regarding importation of certain infant formula products, the company initially estimates that about 2 million cans of infant formula (over 50 million full-size, 8-ounce bottles) are expected to land on U.S. store shelves beginning in June. Kendal Nutricare also currently has over 40,000 cans in stock for immediate dispatch. The FDA also announced that it is not objecting to the release of about 300,000 cans of EleCare amino acid-based infant formula previously produced at Abbott Nutrition's Sturgis, Michigan, facility to individuals needing urgent, life-sustaining supplies of this specialty formula on a case-by-case basis. These products will undergo enhanced microbiological testing before release.
Last week, the FDA issued guidance that outlined a process by which the FDA would not object to the importation of certain infant formula products intended for a foreign market or distribution in the U.S. of products manufactured here for export to foreign countries. This guidance also may provide flexibilities to those who manufacture infant formula products domestically and may be able to increase further the quantity of domestically produced product for the U.S. market.
The FDA has posted a webpage that will be updated with information about additional products headed to the U.S.
The agency's around-the-clock work as part of the all-of-government efforts has already begun to improve supply and availability. The agency expects that the measures and steps it is taking, and the potential for Abbott Nutrition's Sturgis, Michigan, facility to safely resume production in the near-term, will mean more and more supply is on the way or on store shelves moving forward.
As more formula becomes available to the general population of infants, the agency understands that availability of specialty products -- such as amino acid-based specialty formulas and metabolic products -- continues to be of concern. The FDA has already taken steps with Abbott Nutrition to make product available to those with life-threatening conditions on a case-by-case basis and will continue its efforts to make these products even more readily available as the agency works with the company to implement provisions of a consent decree. In addition, these products have been an area of focus for discussions with other manufacturers that make comparable products. As a result of the recall and work with the FDA, other manufacturers have increased production of comparable product lines and in some cases expedited the importation of these products where available.
The FDA continues to advise against making infant formulas at home or diluting formula. Caregivers are encouraged to work with their child's health care provider for recommendations on changing feeding practices, if needed. HHS has also released a fact sheet with information to help families find infant formula.
The agency also monitors online marketplaces for fraudulent products and works with major online retailers to remove violative and harmful products offered for sale on their sites. Additionally, since many of these fraudulent products originate overseas, the agency targets and examines these products at ports of entry. The FDA also monitors and follows up on various external signals such as consumer complaints about potential counterfeit and fraudulent products.
The FDA will continue to dedicate all available resources to help ensure that infant formula products remain available for use in the U.S. and will keep the public informed of progress updates.
Additional Information:
- Enforcement Discretion to Manufacturers to Increase Infant Formula Supplies
- FDA Flexibilities to Yield Millions of Cans of Additional Infant Formula in Coming Months to Increase Supply Available to U.S. Consumers
- FDA Encourages Importation of Safe Infant Formula and Other Flexibilities to Further Increase Availability
- FDA Takes Important Steps to Improve Supply of Infant and Specialty Formula Products
- HHS Fact Sheet: Helping Families Find Formula During the Infant Formula Shortage
- FDA Investigation of Cronobacter Infections: Powdered Infant Formula (February 2022)
- Powdered Infant Formula Recall: What to Know
- CDC Information on Cronobacter Infection and Infants
Media Contact: FDA Office of Media Affairs, 301-796-4540
Consumer Inquiries: 888-723-3366
The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products for human use, and medical devices. The agency also is responsible for the safety and security of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, products that give off electronic radiation, and for regulating tobacco products.
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2022-05-26T21:37:14+00:00
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kcbd.com
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https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2022/05/26/fda-flexibilities-collaboration-yield-millions-bottles-specialized-medical-infant-formula-coming-months-increase-us-supply/
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2022-12-06T15:51:53+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/New-Orleans-Pelicans-Stax-17634644.php
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Multiple tornadoes have killed at least one person and injured nearly two dozen in Mississippi
JACKSON, MISS. (AP) — Multiple tornadoes swept through Mississippi overnight, killing one and injuring nearly two dozen, officials said.
State emergency workers were still working with counties Monday morning to assess the damage from storms in which high temperatures and hail in some areas accompanied tornadoes. The death and injuries were reported by officials in east Mississippi’s Jasper County. In a Monday morning news release, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said more than 49,000 homes in central Mississippi were without power.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said the tornadoes struck in Jasper County and Rankin County, which borders the capital city of Jackson. Emergency crews were doing search and rescue missions and damage assessments, deploying drones in some areas because they were impossible to reach by vehicle due to downed power lines.
Tens of thousands of people in Hinds County were still without power Monday morning after high winds pummeled the state early Friday.
Reeves said the state is opening command centers and shelters for those displaced by the severe weather.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-06-19T15:01:11+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/multiple-tornadoes-have-killed-least-one-person-injured-nearly-two-dozen-mississippi/
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Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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2023-01-25T00:37:27+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/sports/2023/01/24/ap-top-sports-news-at-1143-a-m-est-3/
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INDIANAPOLIS — Missy McDowell, Nutrition Coach and Owner of Eat Well Nutrition stopped by the studio to share how packing a healthy lunch can be easy and delicious! This recipe and others can be found in Missy’s book, Eat Well Nutrition 67 Easy Recipes which is available on e-book through Amazon Kindle or Smashwords.
Missy offers one-on-one Nutrition Coaching. Book a free call on her website, eatwellnutrition.net.
To learn more about Eat Well Nutrition visit eatwellnutrition.net.
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2022-07-18T16:45:21+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/indy-now/healthy-and-easy-meal-prep-lunches/
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PARIS (AP) — Leila Oulkebous’ research for her doctorate from one of France’s top universities was going well when the explosions started.
Oulkebous had stopped work on Ethiopia because of that country’s civil war and her research in Sudan was going to be more straightforward, she thought.
Then Sudan exploded into violence. The chiefs of the country’s army and its rival Rapid Support Forces rose to power after a popular uprising in 2019 prompted them to remove longtime autocratic ruler Omar al-Bashir. They started fighting this month amid tensions over a new plan to re-introduce civilian rule.
The bombing shook the house where Oulkebous was living in the capital, Khartoum, investigating the effects of dams on rivers that cross borders.
“We were hiding all the time under the bed,” she said Wednesday at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport as hundreds of people arrived in harrowing evacuations. World powers were rescuing people from Sudan on planes and warships in operations prompted by the eruption of the fighting that sent thousands of foreigners and many more Sudanese people fleeing for safety.
A French frigate carrying hundreds of evacuees docked Wednesday morning in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia as part of broader efforts involving several warships, in addition to airlifts.
French military spokesman Col. Pierre Gaudilliere said France evacuated more than 500 civilians from 40 nations by plane over the weekend after securing the airbase north of Khartoum Saturday, using its airbase in neighbouring Djibouti for the airlift.
Gaudilliere said the French military was the first to land, and organized the flow of its own and other nations’ planes.
“You still had airstrikes as the operation was going on, crossfire in the streets, artillery fire, so it was and still is very intense fighting,” Gaudilliere said. The French military had personnel on the ground to assess the situation during the operation, he said.
Several nations, including Japan, thanked France for rescuing their citizens.
Some other countries quickly joined evacuation efforts.
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said Wednesday three nationals have been evacuated with help from Germany, and his country is now working with Turkey to help evacuate two other citizens.
Greek national Christos Dedes, who was in Sudan for work, said he and his colleagues managed to leave their Khartoum hotel Tuesday via the Portuguese embassy, which sent a car to drive them to the airbase where there were Italian, French and German soldiers.
“We just happened to leave with the Italians, on a transport plane,” he said on Greek TV channel Mega Wednesday, after he arrived in Athens.
From their Khartoum hotel, he said, they could see that “every day the battles were heavier. Both (sides) were using heavy weapons.” He said they would hear explosions at night, and see bodies in the street.
More than 1,000 people from 58 countries were to arrive Wednesday by ship to the port of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, including many on the French warship Lorraine.
Saudi Arabia on Saturday organized the first evacuation convoy by land, via cars and buses bringing people to Port Sudan, where a navy ship took them to Jeddah.
The French foreign affairs ministry said a flight carrying 184 French nationals and their families and about 20 other nationals returned from Djibouti and landed in Paris Wednesday morning.
Among them was Oulkebous, a Moroccan PhD student at Bordeaux Montaigne University.
“The feeling I had since the first day of fighting was I felt really paralysed, I didn’t know what to do, I didn’t know how to get out, the airport was closed, we could not leave,” she said, describing “the explosions, the smoke, so really, I didn’t have the time to fully realise what was going on.”
A Royal Air Maroc plane arrived at Casablanca’s Mohammed V airport on Wednesday, carrying 136 Moroccan nationals evacuated from Sudan.
In contrast with France and some other nations, the U.S. and Britain didn’t evacuate non-diplomats at first.
The British government has come under growing criticism for its failure to airlift civilians. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defended the government’s approach, saying diplomats had been evacuated first “because they were being targeted.”
The British government since said that 301 people have been evacuated on four U.K. flights from Sudan over the past 24 hours, and four more are scheduled Wednesday. Britain intends to keep running the flights for as long as possible. In addition, “rapid deployment teams” of U.K. officials are in Port Sudan assessing potential for a seaborne evacuation.
The Foreign Office says U.K. passport-holders are eligible, “and priority is given to family groups with children and/or the elderly or individuals with medical conditions.”
Officials have said there are as many as 4,000 British citizens in Sudan, 2,000 of whom have registered for potential evacuation.
The White House said Monday the U.S. is helping from afar as thousands of Americans left behind in Sudan seek to escape fighting in the east African nation, after the U.S. Embassy evacuated all of its diplomatic personnel over the weekend and shut down.
The Biden administration is considering several options for assisting private American citizens in getting out of Sudan.
Two U.S. officials said one option being considered would be to send U.S. Navy vessels in, or en route to, the Red Sea to dock at Port Sudan and take Americans to Jeddah or another location. The officials said this would depend on the security situation and whether it was deemed safe for the ships to dock.
A U.S. official said the military has developed other options for getting Americans, including using an airfield that some European countries have used to fly out citizens. To date, it has not been told to do that, the official said.
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss sensitive matters.
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Karel Janicek in Prague, Jill Lawless in London, Elena Becatoros in Athens, Tarik El-Barakah in Rabat, Matt Lee and Tara Copp in Washington contributed to the story.
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2023-04-27T11:45:45+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/international/world-powers-pull-their-citizens-as-violence-roils-sudan/
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Rep. George Santos’s (R-N.Y.) decision to step away from committee assignments is colliding with another controversy over committees: House Republicans’ quest to block Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the Foreign Affairs panel.
There is no public indication that GOP leadership pushed Santos to step down to make it easier to block Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Santos said that he made the decision to step aside on his own.
But Santos has connected the two situations, and both demonstrate the stumbling blocks the new GOP majority faces as it works to iron out its values and leadership style.
The trouble started in mid-January, when the House GOP Steering Committee moved to assign Santos to the Small Business and Science, Space and Technology committees, despite bipartisan calls for resignation over fabrications about his background and questions regarding his personal and campaign finances.
That prompted immediate criticism from Democrats, who blasted the judgment of seating Santos as Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) moved to block Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, along with California Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee.
Then frustration started to bubble up among House Republicans. A few members indicated they would not support removing Omar over past comments that McCarthy says were antisemitic, and that she has apologized for. With a narrow majority, the math of removing Omar started to get complicated.
The challenge of getting enough votes to remove Omar factored into Santos’s decision to step aside, he told the Washington Examiner.
“Staying true to my constituency and to what I believe in, Ilhan Omar must be removed from Foreign Affairs — that is out of the question. So if I was going to distract or take away from that opportunity that was the decision,” Santos said.
Santos informed House Republicans during a closed-door conference meeting Tuesday morning that he would recuse himself from his panel assignments “temporarily” and “until I am cleared,” he said in a statement.
His announcement came one day after he met with McCarthy and asked if he could step away from his panel assignments — a move the Speaker called “the appropriate decision.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said the “drama” around Santos was related to the Omar issue.
“Just all the controversy surrounding him and then while we’re working to remove Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs,” Greene said.
Two of the holdouts on Tuesday said the Santos situation did not affect their thinking on Omar.
“Doesn’t affect me, no,” Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said when asked if Santos’s announcement changed his thinking. “I don’t know what the connection [is].”
Buck staked his opposition to kicking Omar off the Foreign Affairs panel last week, voicing concerns about a “tit-for-tat” when dealing with committee assignments.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on Tuesday said Santos’s decision did not move the needle for her at all when it comes to Omar’s committee assignment. She has said that Omar has the right to express her own opinions.
“Totally different argument,” she told The Hill when asked about Santos’s decision to step aside from committees.
But after Santos’s decision to bench himself from committees, McCarthy’s odds of booting Omar from the Foreign Affairs panel ticked up.
A compromise resolution released on Tuesday included language that described a process for members to the House Ethics Committee to appeal removal of a member to the Speaker, but Democrats say the language does not formally create that process.
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) announced Tuesday that due to that language, she would support the effort to remove Omar after previously saying she was a “no.”
“I appreciate Speaker McCarthy’s willingness to address legitimate concerns and add due process language to our resolution,” Spartz wrote in a statement. “Deliberation and debate are vital for our institution, not top-down approaches.”
“As to my fellow conservatives, I think setting a precedent of allowing an appeal process for the Speaker’s and majority-party removal decisions is particularly important to freedom-loving legislators who usually are on the receiving end of issues like this,” she added.
With that change, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Tuesday that Republican leadership had the votes to block Omar.
Republicans say they are prepared to bring up the resolution Wednesday, assuming Democrats formally submit their names for the Foreign Affairs Committee before then.
McCarthy pledged in June 2021 that he would remove Omar from the Foreign Affairs panel after making remarks that were critical of the Israeli government and its supporters, especially on matters connected to Palestinian rights — some of which have drawn accusations of antisemitism. In 2019, she was forced to apologize after suggesting that AIPAC, a lobbying group that champions pro-Israeli policies, was paying Americans politicians to support Israel.
The effort has largely been viewed as a GOP-led rebuke of the decision by House Democrats in 2021 to strip Reps. Greene and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) of their committee assignments for promoting violence against Democrats.
In speaking out against the crusade, Democrats have cited McCarthy’s decision to seat Santos on committees — despite his admitted fabrications and financial scrutiny — as they focus their attention on blocking Omar.
“The hypocrisy just grabs you by the throat,” Schiff said last week when asked about how the GOP has handled Santos and Omar. “This is a Republican speaker who is seating a human fraud, George Santos, on committees. A serial fabricator about every part of his existence. He’s perfectly comfortable with it, he needs George Santos’s vote.”
Santos’s sidelining, however, could only be temporary. McCarthy told reporters Tuesday that Santos will be seated on committees once he is “cleared” by the notoriously slow-moving House Ethics Committee. Two New York Democrats filed a complaint with the Ethics Committee that accuses Santos of failing to file timely, accurate and complete financial disclosure reports.
“The voters have elected him, they’ll have a voice here in Congress, until he answers all those questions,” McCarthy said. “At that time he’ll be able to be seated on committees.”
But two other first-term New York Republicans who have called for Santos to step down from Congress altogether — Reps. Nick LaLota and Anthony D’Esposito — are showing no signs of warming to Santos as he steps down from the two panels.
“This is a classic case of someone quitting right before they were going to get fired,” LaLota and D’Esposito said in a joint statement. “While we, and the overwhelming percentage of Long Islanders we represent, are relieved to see that Santos will not be undeservingly sitting on committees, he should still do the right thing and resign.”
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2023-02-01T02:28:39+00:00
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localsyr.com
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https://www.localsyr.com/hill-politics/gops-santos-omar-battles-collide/
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HAMBURG, Germany, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The global fashion brand DeFacto delivers its products to fashion enthusiasts in 93 countries on five continents through 500 shops and e-commerce channels. Serdar Ersoy, the General Manager of DeFacto's Alternative Sales Channels and Business Development division, who participated in the MAPIC fair, said that "we've experienced rapid growth in Europe of late, adding our presence in twelve European countries in just two years. With the new generation of our franchise model that we've developed we're putting forward, together with our business partners, a new strategy covering the entire project process, from sales to strengthening the presence of our shops and business partners. In this way we aim to grow by 300% in 3 years." DeFacto also aims to establish its presence in 180 countries worldwide by 2027.
The new generation of our franchise model – end-to-end management, from project process to point of sale
DeFacto, based in Türkiye, is launching a new strategy in line with its globalisation goals and its vision for 'accessible fashion'. Serdar Ersoy, the General Manager of DeFacto's Alternative Sales Channels and Business Development division, presented the strategy to a larger audience at the MAPIC trade fair in Cannes, which is taking place from November 29th to December 1st 2022. The company is looking to grow in the European market with its franchise system, he elaborated, and furthermore described the details of the new generation of the model developed by DeFacto.
"At DeFacto we've managed to double our growth rate worldwide, both through our own investments and with our franchise partners. Expansion and franchising in DeFacto function like a stand-alone business with its own unique dynamics. As DeFacto favours the corporate base business model, we've developed a new generation of our franchise model, in place of the wholesale model that is common around the world. The key feature of our model that differentiates DeFacto from other players in the industry is the seamless integration of this distribution channel with our other channels. We manage all processes according to the principle of 360-degree operational excellence, to ensure the same level of service when selecting franchisees in all countries. We don't run our franchises separately from our own business, but are involved in the overall business processes, from finding a location for the shop, through construction, product selection, planning and pricing to the efficiency of the operational structure. We make progress together with our business partners. We strive to ensure that all our franchises operate in sync with our brand's DNA. Our top priority is to ensure that our business partners grow quickly, profitably and reliably."
"We aim to grow our franchise channel by 300% in three years."
Serdar Ersoy emphasised that, in addition to experience and competence, the crucial factor in selecting franchisees is that the partners share DeFacto's vision.
"We offer our franchisees a turnkey retail experience. Our goal is to work with visionary partners who have the necessary financial and commercial background. We actively participate in all the processes to prepare the outlet, from site selection to the overall project and construction processes. In terms of products, we provide operational support, from the shipping of products to their estimated sales price. With this vision, we aim to grow our franchise channel by 300% in three years."
DeFacto is both a technology company and a fashion brand
DeFacto is strengthening its omni-channel infrastructure. With DeFacto Technology and its team of developers, with more than 300 employees, DeFacto is developing software that leads the transformation of the retail industry. Serdar Ersoy emphasised the fact that DeFacto is a brand that not only focuses on fashion, but also provides its partners with the technology to do so. "Our investments in technology solutions are making shopping faster and easier for our customers. We share the technologies we develop both in our own organisation and with our franchisees, with whom we work as business partners. The most important of these solutions is the DFPOS application, which, for example, prevents queues at the checkout by offering the option of paying anywhere in the shop. DFPOS, an Android POS project hat was one of the first to be implemented in the retail industry, facilitates customers' shopping experience through its mobility by enabling cross-channel payments and returns anywhere in the shop."
About DeFacto
Founded in 2005, DeFacto continues its operations with the vision of being global fashion brand. DeFacto operates in 93 countries with more than 500 stores and online platforms. DeFacto, which has turned into a brand that produces not only fashion but also technology, builds the infrastructure of omni-channel technologies with its developer team of more than 300 person. After creating the Smart Store in 2019 and bringing something new to the world, the company initiated the DeFacto Fijital Store concept which is the output of the figitalization strategy that offers both physical and digital retail experience together. Acting in line with the requests and expectations of the consumers, the brand introduced DeFacto COOOL, DeFacto FİT, DeFacto Modest, DeFacto LIFE, DF Plus and Fall in Love sub-brands to the customers all around the world. Furthermore, as a signatory to Global Compact and the United Nations Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) and a member of the Better Cotton Initiative, it is determined to fulfill its social and environmental commitments. In 2022 the brand shared its 6th Sustainability Report with the public.
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2022-11-29T15:40:27+00:00
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wbrc.com
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2022-09-01T14:12:59+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/09/01/thinking-about-trading-options-or-stock-microsoft-block-alibaba-moderna-or-coca-cola/
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Copyright 2022 NPR
We're joined by two correspondents who have been watching results come in: senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and national political correspondent Don Gonyea.
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2022-11-09T17:35:06+00:00
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wbfo.org
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https://www.wbfo.org/2022-11-09/races-in-georgia-show-voters-are-defying-trumpism
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Judge: No in-person meetings for couple’s triple murder case
ST. ANTHONY, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge says a couple accused in a bizarre triple murder case will not be allowed to meet face-to-face to talk about strategy before they stand trial in April.
Attorneys for Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell presented several requests to 7th District Judge Steven Boyce during a motion hearing on Thursday, including that the trial be delayed until 2024 — a request from Chad Daybell’s attorneys — and that the death penalty be taken off the table — a request from Lori Vallow Daybell’s lawyers.
The judge refused some of the motions, like delaying the trial, and he said he would issue written rulings later on the others, EastIdahoNews.com reported.
The complicated criminal case began in 2019 when Lori Vallow Daybell’s two youngest children were reported missing. The investigation spanned four states and several months before the children’s bodies were found buried in Chad Daybell’s eastern Idaho yard.
Prosecutors say the couple used doomsday-focused religious beliefs to further a plan to kill her two children and his previous wife as part of a plot to steal social security funds and insurance money.
Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell have pleaded not guilty to murder, conspiracy and grand theft charges in connection with the deaths of 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, and Tylee Ryan, who was last seen a few days before her 17th birthday. They are also charged in connection with the October 2019 death of Chad Daybell’s late wife, Tammy Daybell. They could face the death penalty if convicted.
A trial in the case is set to begin April 3 and last up to 10 weeks.
During Thursday’s hearing, Madison County’s prosecuting attorney Rachel Smith asked the judge to sequester the jury during the trial, keeping them isolated so that they are not influenced by outside information or opinions about the case. Smith said sequestration is hard but necessary given the widespread attention the case has garnered.
“This case involves the death of two children and the death of a mother of multiple children,” she said. “If there are no safeguards provided to jurors, given the attention of some of the citizen journalists on this case, we have real concerns about the integrity of this case.”
Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorney Jim Archibald and Chad Daybell’s attorney John Prior both objected to isolating the jurors, suggesting it would narrow the pool of those willing to serve and that local law enforcement could provide jurors with adequate security.
Boyce said he understood the positions of both sides but denied the request to sequester.
“I believe adequate steps can be put into place to not require sequestration during the course of the trial, and the court will take those steps very seriously,” Boyce said.
Chad Daybell’s attorney also asked that the trial be delayed, saying he is still waiting for potential DNA evidence to be returned from the Idaho State Lab. The current schedule doesn’t give the defense enough time to do their own DNA testing, Prior said.
“If I don’t get that evidence, Mr. Daybell is going to file an ineffective counsel against me. And as much as I like Chad, he’s going to do it, and he won’t hesitate to do it,” Prior said. “Then this case will be turned over because I was not provided an opportunity to adequately prepare.”
But the judge refused to change the date, saying his hands were tied because the two defendants are being tried in one case, and Lori Vallow Daybell has not waived her right to a speedy trial. Chad Daybell has waived that right.
Still, Boyce said he would not “force” Chad Daybell into a trial if he and Prior have not had enough time to review evidence that would help their case.
“If we are on the eve of trial and the state has exculpatory evidence and did not provide Mr. Prior enough time, at that point, the cases may be severed,” Boyce said.
The judge also rejected a request from Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorneys that she and her husband be allowed to meet in person and on the phone to discuss strategies and settlement options.
Fremont County Prosecuting Attorney Lindsey Blake said she had significant concerns about the idea, suggesting that if one defendant said something incriminating in front of the other defendants’ attorneys, the attorneys would become witnesses in the case.
Boyce said the meeting request was “an idea full of pitfalls,” and denied the motion.
The judge said he would rule later on another batch of motions from Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorneys asking that the death penalty be taken off the table. Vallow Daybell’s attorneys contend the death penalty process is flawed, expensive and brings a bias to jury selection.
Idaho law enforcement officers started investigating the couple in November 2019 after extended family members reported that the children were missing. During that period, police said the couple lied about the children’s whereabouts. Their bodies were found buried later on Chad Daybell’s property in rural Idaho.
Chad and Lori Daybell married just two weeks after his previous wife, Tammy Daybell, died unexpectedly. Tammy Daybell’s death was initially reported as due to natural causes, but investigators had her body exhumed after growing suspicious when Chad Daybell quickly remarried.
Vallow Daybell is also separately charged with conspiracy to commit murder in Arizona in connection with the July 2019 death of her previous husband, Charles Vallow. He was shot and killed by Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, who claimed it was self-defense.
The Arizona legal proceedings are on hold while the Idaho case is underway.
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2023-01-20T02:09:57+00:00
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kob.com
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https://www.kob.com/news/us-and-world-news/judge-no-in-person-meetings-for-couples-triple-murder-case/
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LOS ANGELES -- "Cruel Summer" returns to Freeform with a new season, a new cast and a new mystery to unravel. But there will be similarities to season one, which was a huge hit with fans.
This story follows the relationship between Megan, Isabella and Luke when a shocking event changes everything. This season will take place over three timelines in the Y2K era. On The Red Carpet spoke to the three leads, Sadie Stanley, who plays Megan, Griffin Gluck, who portrays Luke and Lexi Underwood, who plays Isabella.
"This season is a lot like the first," said Sadie Stanley. "We have a lot of the same pieces to it and the same formula. We have the three timelines which worked so well in the first season."
"Just as unstructured as the timeline is when you watch it, it is just as unstructured while we're filming it. We are bouncing back and forth like several times a day," Gluck said. "It's really fast paced. It's tough work. But I think the way we handled it as a cast was just relying on each other you know, leaning on each other."
"I think that as an actor you always want to attach yourself to a project that's going to stretch you, that's going to make you a better artist on the other side of it," Lexi Underwood said. "I'm really grateful we were able to have the opportunity to tackle it and I think hopefully we did it justice, just like the cast in season one."
Stanley said she understands how the fans of "Cruel Summer" season one may be surprised by a new cast, but says she thinks it's worth the wait.
"I think that everybody made the right decision to make it an anthology. Hopefully the fans are excited and there's all the twists and turns that they love."
"Cruel Summer" season two premieres June 5 on Freeform. New episodes air Mondays on Freeform, and catch up on past episodes on Hulu.
The Walt Disney Company is the parent company of Freeform and this ABC station.
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2023-06-05T21:54:37+00:00
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abc30.com
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https://abc30.com/cruel-summer-season-2-freeform-new-cast/13348138/
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Is Facebook exacerbating America's political divide? Are viral posts, algorithmically ranked feeds, and partisan echo chambers driving us apart? Do conservatives and liberals exist in ideological bubbles online?
New research published Thursday attempts to shed light on these questions. Four peer-reviewed studies, appearing in the journals Science and Nature, are the first results of a long-awaited, repeatedly delayed collaboration between Facebook and Instagram parent Meta and 17 outside researchers.
They investigated social media's role in the 2020 election by examining Facebook and Instagram before, during, and after Election Day. While the researchers were able to tap large swaths of Facebook's tightly held user data, they had little direct insight about the inner workings of its algorithms.
The design of the social media giant's algorithms — a complex set of systems that determine whether you're shown your friend's vacation snapshots or a reshared political meme — have come under increasing scrutiny in recent years, driven by the popular belief that they send users down rabbit holes and enable radicalization. Those fears crystallized in the aftermath of the 2020 election, when "Stop the Steal" groups on Facebook helped facilitate the Jan. 6th Capitol insurrection.
The studies published on Thursday offer no easy answers to the debate that has raged since the 2016 election over the relationship between social media platforms and political polarization.
Still, the research sheds light on how Facebook's algorithm works. The studies found liberals and conservatives live in their own political news bubbles more so than elsewhere online. They also show that changing the platform's algorithm substantially changes what people see and how they behave on the site — even if it didn't affect their beliefs during the three-month period researchers studied.
"The insights from these papers provide critical insight into the black box of algorithms, giving us new information about what sort of content is prioritized and what happens if it is altered," said Talia Stroud of the University of Texas at Austin, who is co-leading the research project.
One Facebook, two political worlds
In one study looking at 208 million adults on Facebook in the U.S., researchers tried to answer a long-standing question: do liberals and conservatives consume different political news?
The answer seems to be yes. After analyzing popular political news links posted on the platform between September 2020 and February 2021, the researchers found that there's not much overlap between political news consumption within the two camps. Segregation also increases as a news link moves from being selected by the algorithm, to being seen by a user, to being interacted with.
That ideological gap was larger than what other research has shown for overall news consumption online and in traditional media.
"This borders on an indictment of Facebook's algorithm," said Laura Edelson, a computer scientist and postdoctoral researcher at NYU. She was not involved with the project but has done similar research and reviewed the studies' findings. (In 2021, Edelson and her team were blocked from accessing Facebook after a clash over the data they were collecting.)
The bubbles are sometimes punctured. The researchers measured segregation levels by day, and found it dramatically dropped on October 2, 2020, when the White House announced President Donald Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19.
"It's not a grand scientific observation," said David Lazar of Northeastern University, a co-author of the study. "We'd need more data to see and we'd need more crises."
The gap goes beyond the difference in what posts people see. Conservatives engaged more with political news, meaning they clicked, liked, commented on, and re-shared the political news they saw more often than liberals did. The bubbles were asymmetric: there were more political news links seen exclusively by conservatives than by liberals. Political news links posted by pages and in groups — not by friends — had even higher levels of audience segregation.
Conservatives are also the main consumers of websites that Facebook flagged as untrustworthy and links that third-party fact checkers flagged as inaccurate. That said, both amount to a very small fraction of overall political news, which itself makes up just 3% of what people share on Facebook. (Facebook began showing users less news in 2018 and less political content in early 2021.)
What happens when you tweak the news feed
Another study also examined ideological separation, using an internal Facebook measure to classify the ideological leanings of all content sources seen by active users in the US. They found that on average, about half the posts users see come from like-minded sources. One out of five users experience an echo chamber on the platform, where at least three-quarters of the posts they see come from ideologically aligned sources.
After establishing that baseline, the researchers ran an experiment, recruiting roughly 23,000 users who agreed to take part. About 30% of those users were shown less content from like-minded sources and then researchers checked if that reduction changed their political attitudes.
That was not the case. Users did, however, see more content from sources with different political leanings, as well as fewer posts from sources that repeatedly post misinformation.
Two other experiments published on Thursday also tested changes to the algorithm that have been proposed by critics of Meta and policy makers.
The researchers tried replacing Facebook's algorithmic feed with one showing posts in reverse chronological order, without any algorithmic ranking, and reducing the number of reshared posts (the kind of content that goes viral).
All of the changes to the algorithms had significant impacts on what users saw in their Facebook feeds. For example, compared with a chronological feed, the algorithmically driven feed served less political content, less moderate content, more politically aligned sources, and less content from sources Facebook deemed untrustworthy, the study found.
Edelson, the NYU researcher not involved in the project, noted that the comparison sheds light on how Facebook's ranking algorithm works — something that has been hard for outsiders to do, given how closely the company holds its data.
"This is interesting, strong evidence that when it comes to politics, the algorithm is biased towards the extremes," Edelson said. "This is genuinely new."
Moving users to a chronological feed also affected how they used the platform: they posted less about politics, liked political content less, and were less likely to share that they voted or mention politicians and candidates for office. Getting rid of the algorithmically driven feed also curtailed the amount of time people spent on the platform, sending them to Instagram.
"When I read these papers, I see some really promising lines of study. I see things that we could do to build on this work to move toward a safer algorithm, to move toward interventions where we find ways to show people less harmful content," Edelson said.
Changing Facebook's algorithm to reduce engagement would have significant business implications. The systems serve up content they predict will keep users clicking, liking, commenting, and sharing — creating an audience for the advertising that generates nearly all of Meta's $116.6 billion in annual revenue.
Big questions remain unanswered
However, none of the three experiments showed an impact on users' political attitudes over the three months the study ran. That suggests addressing political polarization is not so simple as tweaking a social media algorithm.
Meta described the findings as validating its position that its platforms are not to blame for rising rates of polarization and partisanship.
"These studies add to a growing body of research showing there is little evidence that social media causes harmful 'affective' polarization, or has any meaningful impact on key political attitudes, beliefs or behaviors," Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, wrote in a blog post shared with NPR ahead of the release of the studies.
That language was updated in Meta's published post to say: "The experimental studies add to a growing body of research showing there is little evidence that key features of Meta's platforms alone cause harmful 'affective' polarization, or have meaningful effects on key political attitudes, beliefs or behaviors."
But the outside academics who conducted the studies and other researchers who reviewed the findings cautioned against drawing broad conclusions from these studies about social media's role in polarization.
"This finding can not tell us what the world would have been like if we hadn't had social media around for the last 10 to 15 years or 15 or 20 years, however long it's been at this point," said Joshua Tucker of New York University, who co-led the research project with Stroud..
The study's short duration and setting — a three-month period ahead of a highly contentious national election — may have been too short to show an impact on beliefs, he added.
The research published on Thursday is the first batch of more than a dozen studies the project took on; further papers are in the works about the impact of political advertising, the spread of disinformation, and other topics.
Ultimately, these studies raise more questions than they answer, said Chris Bail, director of Duke University's Polarization Lab, who was not involved in the research but reviewed the findings.
"We need many, many more studies before we can come up with these types of sweeping statements about Facebook's impact on democracy, polarization, the spread of misinformation, and all of the other very important topics that these studies are beginning to shed light on," he said.
"We all want this to be a referendum on, is Facebook good or bad," he said. "But it's not."
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Encompass Health Corp. (NYSE: EHC) is proud to announce it has been named to Modern Healthcare's 'Best Places to Work in Healthcare' for 2022. This is the 11th consecutive year Encompass Health has been named to the list.
"Encompass Health continues its rapid growth trajectory to provide inpatient rehabilitation services to thousands of individuals each year. The success of our Company depends on the talent and hard work of our employees, who are committed to providing the highest level of patient care and creating an exceptional workplace culture," said Mark Tarr, president and chief executive officer for Encompass Health. "Being ranked in Modern Healthcare's prestigious list for more than a decade is a tremendous accomplishment, and I'm grateful to our dedicated teams across the country for their contributions."
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1) “Nature,” 8 p.m., PBS. Underwater life is filled with communal efforts; now we see some examples, beautifully filmed. A carrier crab gives rides to a fire urchin — which provides protection with its venom … Shrimps keep eels tidy; surgeonfish remove algae from turtles … Golden jacks hang around dugongs, grabbing any shrimps they stir up … Some creatures even go in the mouths of others, for clean-up work. It’s a fascinating world.
2) “Black Adam” (2022), 8 p.m., HBO. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson gets his superhero turn here. He plays an ancient killer, reluctantly released by the Justice League to battle a greater evil. Critics were unimpressed. The movie made close to $400 million worldwide — but not enough to justify a mega-budget and heroes including Hawkman, Cyclone, Atom Smasher and (briefly) Superman.
3) More movies. At 8 p.m., Showtime has the brilliant “Pulp Fiction” (1994) and the Paramount Network has an excellent Patrick Swayze double-feature — “Dirty Dancing” (1987) and then “Ghost” (1990) at 10:30. But the real gem could be “Duel” (1971, at 10 p.m. ET on Turner Classic Movies). Steven Spielberg was 24 when he made this film about a driver (Dennis Weaver) terrorized by a truck. It was originally a TV movie, just 74 minutes, then was expanded for theaters.
4) “Abbott Elementary,” 9 and 9:30 p.m., ABC. With “Home Economics” done for the season, ABC plans a couple double-rerun Wednesdays for “Abbott.” In tonight’s first episode, Janine (Quinta Brunson) insists her 2nd-graders join the 8th grade’s egg-drop experiment. In the second, she has a sick day, making the teachers’ lounge quieter … and forcing the principal to do some teaching.
5) “Chicago Med,” 8 p.m., NBC. Supply-chain troubles create a crisis in the hospital. That’s followed by “Chicago Fire” (including a movie-theater blaze) and “Chicago PD,” with a string of pharmacy robberies leading to a bigger case.
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2023-01-24T18:49:59+00:00
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A former top editor of an Orthodox Jewish newspaper in New York City was arrested Thursday on charges that he interfered with police officers who were trying to protect the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot.
Elliot Resnick, 39, was chief editor of The Jewish Press when he joined the crowd of Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to an FBI agent's affidavit.
Videos show Resnick grabbing and holding the arm of a Capitol police sergeant who was spraying a chemical irritant to prevent rioters from entering the building, the affidavit says. Another officer tried to remove Resnick’s hand from the sergeant’s arm, the agent wrote.
The FBI arrested Resnick in New York City on charges including civil disorder and assault of or interference with law enforcement. Clay Kaminsky, an attorney representing Resnick in New York, declined to comment on the charges.
The Jewish Press, based in Brooklyn, bills itself as the largest independent weekly Jewish newspaper in the U.S. A statement on its website says it is “known for its editorial feistiness" and “was politically incorrect long before the phrase was coined.”
Politico reported in April 2021 that video showed Resnick inside the Capitol on Jan. 6. Resnick later wrote an article defending the Capitol riot without acknowledging his presence in the building that day, Politico's report noted.
At the time, The Jewish Press publisher Naomi Mauer told Politico that the newspaper believed Resnick “acted within the law.” A statement from The Jewish Press editorial board confirmed Resnick was in the Capitol on Jan. 6 and had been “covering the rally and the rest of the day’s terrible events" for the newspaper.
The editorial board wrote, “The Jewish Press does not see why Elliot’s personal views on former President Trump should make him any different from the dozens of other journalists covering the events, including many inside the Capitol building during the riots.”
Then-President Trump addressed a crowd of his supporters at the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6. The mob that stormed the Capitol disrupted a joint session of Congress that was certifying Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
Before the riot, Resnick posted social media messages echoing Trump's baseless claims that Democrats stole the election from him, according to posts cited by the FBI affidavit.
Resnick had been a reporter and editor at The Jewish Press since 2006. He left the newspaper in May 2021, before the FBI says it began investigating him.
The Jewish Press staff didn’t immediately respond to email and telephone messages seeking comment on Resnick’s arrest.
Approximately 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. Several riot defendants have claimed that they were acting as journalists when they joined the mob in entering the Capitol, but prosecutors and judges have routinely rejected those claims.
For the past two years, the FBI has been fanning out across the county to arrest Capitol riot suspects. The cases are often based on tips that they received in the first months after the riot.
The FBI agent's account of Resnick's actions on Jan. 6 portray him as an active participant in the riot.
Video showed Resnick repeatedly gesturing for others to come up stairs toward the Capitol after rioters broke through a line of police officers, the agent's affidavit says.
Renick was one of the first rioters to enter the Capitol through the East Rotunda doors, according to the FBI. After entering the building, Resnick joined others in attempting to push open a door that a police officer was trying to keep closed, the FBI said. Another officer who tried to stop Renick was thrown to the ground by a different rioter.
Resnick grabbed and pulled other rioters into the Capitol after he failed to open the door, according to the affidavit. It says he spent roughly 50 minutes inside the Capitol before leaving.
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2023-03-16T17:27:03+00:00
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Islamic State ‘Beatle’ gets life term for US hostage deaths
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — British national El Shafee Elsheikh was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in an Islamic State scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners hostage a decade ago.
Elsheikh’s hostages gave him a somewhat whimsical nickname — he was dubbed a “Beatle” along with other English-accented captors — but the moniker belied the viciousness of his conduct.
“This prosecution unmasked the vicious and sadistic ISIS Beatles,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Raj Parekh, noting that Elsheikh and the other Beatles always wore masks when they appeared in front of their hostages.
He is the most notorious and highest-ranking member of the Islamic State group to ever be convicted in a U.S. Court, prosecutors said Friday at his sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. The life sentence was a foregone conclusion after a jury convicted him of hostage taking resulting in death and other crimes earlier this year.
The convictions revolved around the deaths of four American hostages: James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig, and Kayla Mueller. All but Mueller were executed in videotaped beheadings circulated online. Mueller was forced into slavery and raped multiple times by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi before she was killed.
They were among 26 hostages taken captive between 2012 and 2015, when the Islamic State group controlled large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
The convictions carried a mandatory life sentence. The U.S. agreed not to pursue death sentence as part of a deal that ensured extradition of Elsheikh and his friend, Alexanda Kotey, who has already been sentenced to life.
Parekh said it was difficult to convey the brutality of Elsheikh’s actions. “We lack the vocabulary of such pain,” he said, paraphrasing Dante’s Inferno.
Still, victims of Elsheikh and the Beatles testified at Friday’s hearing and gave voice to what they experienced. Danish photographer Daniel Rye Ottosen, who was released after paying a ransom, said the worst moments were times of silence during and after captivity when he was alone with his thoughts.
He said when Elsheikh and the Beatles beat him up, it was almost a relief.
“Now I knew I could only concentrate on my pain, which is much easier than being alone with your thoughts,” he said.
Ottosen was particularly close to Foley, and memorized a goodbye letter that Foley wrote to his family so he could dictate it to Foley’s parents when he was released.
Foley’s mother, Diane Foley, said holding Elsheikh accountable at trial sends a message of deterrence to other would-be hostage takers.
“Hatred truly overwhelmed your humanity,” she told Elsheikh on Friday, which was the eighth anniversary of James Foley’s beheading.
At trial, surviving hostages testified that they dreaded the Beatles’ appearance at the various prisons to which they were constantly shuttled and relocated. Elsheikh and the other Beatles played a key role in the hostage negotiations, getting hostages to email their families with demands for payments.
They also routinely beat and tortured the hostages, forcing them to fight each other to the point of passing out, threatening them with waterboarding and forcing them view images of slain hostages.
Elsheikh did not speak during Friday’s hearing. His lawyer, Zachary Deubler, said Elsheikh will appeal his conviction. Elsheikh’s lawyers had argued that his confessions should have been ruled inadmissible because of alleged mistreatment after he was captured by Kurdish-led Syrian Defense Forces in 2018.
At Friday’s hearing, Deubler confined his arguments to a request that Elsheikh not be sent to the supermax prison facility in Florence, Colorado, where he would face solitary confinement for the rest of his life. Deubler said a designation to Florence is almost a certainty unless the judge recommends otherwise.
Judge T.S. Ellis III declined to make any recommendation to the Bureau of Prisons.
“The behavior of this defendant and his co-defendant can only be described as horrific, barbaric, brutal, callous and, of course, criminal,” Ellis said.
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2022-08-19T17:34:42+00:00
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In 2018, Delta airlines unveiled new uniforms made of a synthetic-blend fabric. Soon after, flight attendants began to get sick. Alden Wicker explains how toxic chemicals get in clothes in To Dye For.
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In 2018, Delta airlines unveiled new uniforms made of a synthetic-blend fabric. Soon after, flight attendants began to get sick. Alden Wicker explains how toxic chemicals get in clothes in To Dye For.
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2023-07-19T17:55:57+00:00
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Johane Hendrik Taylor, a city of Opa-Locka sergeant and brother of Mayor John Taylor, was arrested Tuesday night by Miramar Police on aggravated child abuse, aggravated assault and felony battery charges.
Taylor, who has been with the department for eight years, is being held on a $12,500 bond at a Broward County jail.
According to an arrest report, Taylor is accused of physically assaulting and threatening his wife over the course of nine years.
His wife told police that in January of this year, he placed a handgun to her forehead and threatened to kill her before deciding to beat her instead.
The extent of the domestic abuse, which began in 2014, includes Taylor dragging his wife out of a car to beat her on the pavement, beating her at church, and even beating their three children with a belt.
Taylor started beating the oldest child, who is 13 years old, at the age of 3, according to the report. It also said he intentionally beat the children, aged 7, 10, ad 13, in their legs and butt to avoid leaving bruises visible to school officials. At one point, they were forced to stay home from school for several weeks because of the bruising.
When Taylor’s wife told him she no longer wanted to stay married to him last year, he punched her several times before dragging her out of their home in front of the children. It was one of the children who called 911 after she lost consciousness and was left with one broken rib.
Taylor then urged his wife to tell paramedics that her injuries were caused by a fall when mopping. Out of fear, his wife later told officers, she had complied.
The report states that once, Taylor told his wife that if she called the police and he lost his job, she would pay.
Updates on this developing story will be in next Wednesday’s Miami Times.
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2023-03-02T10:08:54+00:00
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HER CHILDHOOD
Cotton or wool? The queen's very birth prompted style debate, writes Bethan Holt, fashion editor of The Telegraph and author of this year's “The Queen: 70 Years of Majestic Style.”
Her wardrobe from the get-go was a topic of national fascination with a layette sewn by her mother and grandmother, and a little help from underprivileged women throughout Britain. Declaring that babies in wool looked like “little gnomes,” Lilibet's mum, then the Duchess of York, opted for frilly cotton, rejecting anything too fussy.
When sister Margaret came along four years later, the princesses often twinned it, dressing alike into their teens. But the future queen as a girl “never cared a fig” about clothes, according to her former governess, Marion Crawford.
“She wore what she was told without argument, apart from a long, drab mackintosh that she loathed,” Crawford wrote in her controversial memoir, “The Little Princesses.”
THE YOUNG HEIRESS
With the tumultuous abdication of her uncle and the rise of her father to become King George VI, Princess Elizabeth became heiress presumptive (absent any future male heir, who never materialized).
Enter couturier Norman Hartnell, according to Holt. While there were other designers, he was entrusted with dressing the family as they emerged on the world stage, including the two princesses at ages 11 and 6. Their “bow-adorned dresses and little cloaks signalled a return to the calm dependability of the monarchy,” Holt wrote.
During World War II, 18-year-old Elizabeth began to make more public appearances, training as a mechanic in early 1945 toward the end of the war. It was the only time she routinely wore trousers (and boiler suits), according to Holt.
The queen was, and remains, a practical dresser when necessary, but also glamorous in sparkly gowns when the moment beckoned. And she often went short sleeved or with no sleeves at all, something that doesn't happen today. She stood for photos with Prince Philip in a simple, light-colored dress with sleeves above the elbow and peekaboo low heels on her size 4 (6 U.S.) feet shortly before their wedding in 1947.
“People want to see their royals looking like royals, but equally, they don’t want to think that taxpayers' money is being blown away,” said Nick Bullen, editor in chief of True Royalty TV.
THE WEDDING DRESS
Hartnell transformed the florals of Botticelli's “Primavera” into a gown of white crystals and pearls. But it wasn't easy. There were diplomatic questions in the still-miserable aftermath of the war, Holt wrote. Customs impounded 10,000 seed pearls from the U.S., and journalists were assured that the origins of the silk produced in Kent and woven in Essex were worms from “nationalist" China rather than “enemy” Japan.
Thousands in the U.K. sent in their ration coupons for Princess Elizabeth to use for dress materials. That would have been illegal, so she saved up her own and asked the government for 200 extra, Holt told The Associated Press.
“It showed the thirst there was in the country for this big moment of glamour,” she said. “In recent years, we have known the queen and Prince Philip as this sweet old couple but we have to remember, in that time they were this dazzling, glamorous new couple on the scene.”
The wedding was not without behind-the-scenes drama. Queen Mary's Fringe tiara, made by Elizabeth's grandmother from a necklace given to Mary by Queen Victoria, snapped right before the ceremony and was rushed off to crown jeweler Garrard for repair.
The dress, and the wedding, offered “a real moment of hope,” Holt said.
HER HEMLINES
She settled years ago on skirts and dresses just below the knee, but her hemlines were sometimes an issue for senior members of her family. In 1952, the 25-year-old queen led her family in mourning at her father's funeral in accordance to strict dress codes set out during the reign of Queen Victoria, according to Holt.
As Queen Mary curtsied to her granddaughter and kissed each cheek, she admonished: “Lilibet, your skirts are much too short for mourning,” Holt writes. The new queen's dress hovered well above her ankles yet respectfully below the knee, while that of her grandmother reached the ground. All, including Queen Elizabeth II, were shrouded in black veils, as Queen Victoria was for 40 years after the death of Prince Albert in 1861.
“The evolution of the queen’s style from young princess to longest-serving monarch in British history has her being of the time but not following fashion,” Bullen said.
FINDING A UNIFORM
The queen we know today wears sensible block heels or brogues, usually handmade by Anello & Davide, a custom Launer perched on her arm and a brooch on one shoulder. She goes with kilts and skirts in tartans and plaids as her country style. But the queen of the early 1950s charmed the world in nipped-in waists, pencil silhouettes and some floaty, full experiments as a post-war fashion quake took hold in the country.
“In the early years of her reign, she really embraced Dior’s New Look aesthetic, and women looked to her outfits as a source of inspiration, much like people do with the Duchess of Cambridge today,” said Kristin Contino, style reporter for Page Six.
There was a playful glamour in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, including a bold multicolored evening dress in 1999 for a Royal Variety Performance. Created by Karl-Ludwig Rehse, it featured a riotous sequin diamond-pattern bodice of bright yellow, blue, green and pink.
There were also some trouser days and a turban phase in the ‘60s and ’70s amid a wide range of hat styles.
The queen learned of her father's passing on a stop in Kenya en route to Australia. Some reports indicate she was wearing jeans for an encounter with a herd of elephants the moment her father died in his sleep at Sandringham, Holt wrote. She donned slacks on safari in Zambia in 1979, and a trouser set in 2003 as she left King Edward VIII hospital in London after a knee operation.
It was Margaret, the rebel, who was renowned as a fashion plate in Dior and other designers, and her influence on Elizabeth was tangible. Little sister helped the queen scout new British designers and introduced her to up-and-comers, such as milliner Simone Mirman, according to Holt. Mirman created some of the queen's standout hats, including her Tudor-style “medieval helmet," as Hartnell called it, in soft yellow, for the 1969 investiture of Prince Charles.
“Margaret was really in tune with fashion. She would have been the one reading Vogue. And so she would often go with the queen to appointments to help her inject that little bit of extra style into her looks,” Holt said.
Usually sticking to British designers, the queen has a long-held fondness for silk scarves by the French fashion house Hermes. The brand has issued several special designs in her honor. It did so in 2016 with a horse-themed scarf to mark her 90th birthday.
One doesn't equate the queen of today with a mad rush to copy her style, but for a brief spell in the 1950s women could do just that thanks to her love of cotton dresses in dainty floral or abstract prints from Horrockses Fashions, a British ready-to-wear brand, Holt said.
Another look from those early years stands out as well. In October 1952, soon after ascending the throne, the queen was a sensation at the Empire Theatre for a royal viewing of the musical comedy “Because You're Mine.” She wore a tuxedo-like Hartnell gown in black with a white front and wide lapels in a halter design, paired with long white gloves, a tiara on her head and a diamond bracelet on one wrist.
She hit every magazine and newspaper the next day. Manufacturers rushed to copy it. It was dubbed the Magpie and she never wore it again.
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MATCHY MATCHY
The queen loves to color coordinate, sticking to bright colors and pastels in coats and floral dresses today.
That goes for her signature clear, bird-cage umbrellas as well. They're made by Fulton Umbrellas and are attainable at $30 or less, though the queen's are custom made. She owns about 100 in a rainbow of colors but contrary to reports, she doesn't possess 200 of her favorite Launer bags, Holt said. Gerald Bodmer, who rescued Launer in 1981 after a period of decline, was keen to clear up that myth.
“He says she has several styles in several colors. He says that 200 is very far off the mark,” Holt said.
Launer extends the straps of her leather bags to make it easier for her to hang them on her arm, and they make them lighter for her to carry. And what does she carry? Bullen said he's heard there's always a lipstick, a handkerchief and a photo of Prince Philip, who died last year at 99.
Irish designer Paul Costelloe, who dressed Princess Diana in the 1980s and ’90s, told the AP of the queen's style: “She’s a bit like a schoolteacher, a good schoolteacher. She never shocks. She gets it right.”
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Associated Press writer Sylvia Hui in London contributed to this report.
Caption FILE - Princess Elizabeth leaves a dentist appointment in the West End of London in October 1934. As a young princess and younger queen, her fashion choices have included nods to trends and a solid commitment to sensible dressing. (AP Photo, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth appear with their daughters Princess Elizabeth, left and Princess Margaret, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, London, June 22, 1939. The princesses often dressed alike until their teens. (AP Photo, File)
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Caption FILE - Princess Elizabeth, 14, right, appears with her sister Princess Margaret before giving her first radio broadcast in London on Oct. 13, 1940. (AP Photo, File)
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Caption FILE - Princess Elizabeth, 16, center, appears with her mother, Queen Elizabeth, and her younger sister, Princess Margaret Rose, as they walk to the parade ground of Windsor Castle for a review of the Grenadier Guards on May 19, 1942 in Windsor. Queen Elizabeth II's style has been hyper-documented since her birth, young princess days, ascension to the throne and now, more than 70 years into her reign.(AP Photo, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Princess Elizabeth talks to an ambulance officer at a stand-down parade at Buckingham Palace in London, on Oct. 24, 1945. (AP Photo, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Princess Elizabeth talks to an ambulance officer at a stand-down parade at Buckingham Palace in London, on Oct. 24, 1945. (AP Photo, File)
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Caption FILE - Princess Elizabeth wears a new style of hat during a visit to the Yugo-Slav exhibition at Burlington House on Jan. 31, 1944 in London. Her new choice of hat has distinct military lines -- a small peak and high pleated crown. (AP Photo, File)
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Caption FILE - Princess Elizabeth wears a new style of hat during a visit to the Yugo-Slav exhibition at Burlington House on Jan. 31, 1944 in London. Her new choice of hat has distinct military lines -- a small peak and high pleated crown. (AP Photo, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Princess Elizabeth appears on the grounds of the Royal Lodge at Windsor, England, on Aug. 26, 1946. (AP Photo, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Princess Elizabeth appears with Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, in London on July 10, 1947. (AP Photo, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Princess Elizabeth leaves Westminster Abbey in London, with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, after their wedding ceremony on Nov. 20, 1947. (AP Photo, File)
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Caption FILE - Queen Elizabeth II appears with her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at the Empire Theatre in London for the world premiere of the film "Dunkirk," on March 20, 1958. (AP Photo, File)
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Caption FILE - Queen Elizabeth II shakes hands with actor Charlie Chaplin at the Empire Theatre in London on Oct. 27, 1952 for Royal Film Show, a benefit performance to aid the Cinematograph Trade Benevolent Fund. (AP Photo, File)
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Caption FILE - Queen Elizabeth II crowns her son Charles, Prince of Wales during his investiture ceremony on July 1, 1969 at Caernafon Castle in Wales, as Britain's Home Secretary James Callaghan looks on. (AP Photo, File)
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Caption This combination of photo shows Britain's Queen Elizabeth II attending a Service of Thanksgiving to mark the Centenary of the Royal British Legion at Westminster Abbey, in London, on Oct. 12, 2021, left, at Paddington station in London, to mark the completion of London's Crossrail project on May 17, 2022, center, and at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton Relay event outside Buckingham Palace in London on Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo)
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Caption This combination of photo shows Britain's Queen Elizabeth II attending a Service of Thanksgiving to mark the Centenary of the Royal British Legion at Westminster Abbey, in London, on Oct. 12, 2021, left, at Paddington station in London, to mark the completion of London's Crossrail project on May 17, 2022, center, and at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton Relay event outside Buckingham Palace in London on Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo)
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Caption This combination of photos shows Britain's Queen Elizabeth II under an umbrella at a garden party at Buckingham Palace in London, on May 10, 2016, left, during her visit to the 'Wild London' exhibition in Richmond, west London on May 15, 2012, center, and leaving the British royal family's traditional Christmas Day church service at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, England on Dec. 25, 2015. (AP Photo)
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Caption This combination of photos shows Britain's Queen Elizabeth II under an umbrella at a garden party at Buckingham Palace in London, on May 10, 2016, left, during her visit to the 'Wild London' exhibition in Richmond, west London on May 15, 2012, center, and leaving the British royal family's traditional Christmas Day church service at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, England on Dec. 25, 2015. (AP Photo)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II receives flowers as she leaves after the officially opening of the new premises of the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals in London, on Feb. 19, 2020.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II receives flowers as she leaves after the officially opening of the new premises of the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals in London, on Feb. 19, 2020.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, left, laughs as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II gestures while they watch a children's sports event during a visit to Vernon Park in Nottingham, central England, on June 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Phil Noble, Pool, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, left, laughs as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II gestures while they watch a children's sports event during a visit to Vernon Park in Nottingham, central England, on June 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Phil Noble, Pool, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II attends a ceremony to unveil a memorial to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, on the Mall in London, on Feb. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II attends a ceremony to unveil a memorial to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, on the Mall in London, on Feb. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II smiles as she leaves the State Opening of Parliament, at the Houses of Parliament in London on May 8, 2013. The State Opening of Parliament marks the formal start of the parliamentary year. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II smiles as she leaves the State Opening of Parliament, at the Houses of Parliament in London on May 8, 2013. The State Opening of Parliament marks the formal start of the parliamentary year. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II wears a bright green outfit as she appears with Prince Philip, right, Prince William, center, his son Prince George, front, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge holding Princess Charlotte, left, on the balcony during the Trooping The Colour parade at Buckingham Palace, in London, on June 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II wears a bright green outfit as she appears with Prince Philip, right, Prince William, center, his son Prince George, front, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge holding Princess Charlotte, left, on the balcony during the Trooping The Colour parade at Buckingham Palace, in London, on June 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth sits next to Vogue fashion editor Anna Wintour as they view Richard Quinn's runway show before presenting him with the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design in central London on Feb. 20, 2018. (Yui Mok/Pool photo via AP)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth sits next to Vogue fashion editor Anna Wintour as they view Richard Quinn's runway show before presenting him with the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design in central London on Feb. 20, 2018. (Yui Mok/Pool photo via AP)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II holds on to her hat in high winds as she arrives for a visit to RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales on April 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Christopher Furlong, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II holds on to her hat in high winds as she arrives for a visit to RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales on April 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Christopher Furlong, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II wears a paisley print dress while receiving the President of Switzerland Ignazio Cassis and his wife Paola Cassis during an audience at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England on April 28, 2022. (Dominic Lipinski/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II wears a paisley print dress while receiving the President of Switzerland Ignazio Cassis and his wife Paola Cassis during an audience at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England on April 28, 2022. (Dominic Lipinski/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrives for an official state dinner, in front of Germany's President Joachim Gauck's residence Bellevue Palace in Berlin on June 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
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Caption FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrives for an official state dinner, in front of Germany's President Joachim Gauck's residence Bellevue Palace in Berlin on June 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
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2022-05-26T13:55:01+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/a-look-at-queen-elizabeth-iis-style-through-the-decades/OYTPBHOC5FB67LU5QC2WUJUVCQ/
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Decision is a win for misclassified workers in California
SAN DIEGO, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 5, 2022, Judge Jinsook Ohta (S.D. Cal.) granted a motion for class certification filed by Nicholas & Tomasevic, LLP of all Flower Foods Distributors in California that personally operate their territories. The court found that the employment claims for overtime, expense reimbursement, deductions from pay, and wage statement under California's Labor Code and Wage Orders were sufficiently "common" claims.
The court determined that, under California's tests for when a worker is an employee or an independent contractor, common evidence will yield common answers and advance the claims of the entire group of distributors. California's Supreme Court and subsequently California's Legislature, adopted the "ABC Test" to distinguish between truly independent workers and those that should be treated as employees. If the distributors can show they operate within Flowers Foods' broader baking business or that Flowers has a sufficient degree of control over them by virtue of their common "Distributor Agreements," they are employees entitled to overtime, expense reimbursements (like gas, mileage, repairs), and other expenses.
Francis Tobin of Ogletree Deakins represents Flowers Foods in this action and a related action brough by distributors, where Mr. Tobin opposed and lost a motion for summary judgment finding Flowers Foods misclassified its distributors. Francis Tobin has failed to date in his efforts to force distributors to bring claims on an individual basis only and, relatedly, to minimize Flowers' liability for classifying workers as "independent contractors" throughout California.
Nicholas & Tomasevic attorneys Craig Nicholas, Alex Tomasevic, Shaun Markley, and Ethan Litney represent the now-certified class of Flowers Foods distributors in California. Shaun Markley is available for comment at smarkley@nicholaslaw.org.
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2022-07-06T20:32:51+00:00
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wbrc.com
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https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2022/07/06/nicholas-amp-tomasevic-certifies-employment-claims-california-class-flowers-foods-independent-contractor-distributors/
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A suspect accused by Richmond authorities of plotting a mass shooting pled guilty in federal court today to one count of illegal re-entry.
38-year-old Rolman Balcarcel-Bavagas was charged with re-entering the United States illegally. He was never charged with any mass shooting-related charges.
Balcarcel’s plea was accepted by U.S. District Judge M. Hannah Lauck. There was no plea agreement, but instead a five-page statement of facts which is yet to be filed.
At the end of the hearing, Judge Lauck remarked on the expediency of the proceedings from both sides.
“Everybody’s doing this as fast as they can,” Lauck said. “Faster than normal.”
Balcarcel is now facing a maximum of two years behind bars and a fine of up to $250,000. He has still not been charged with anything relating to the alleged mass shooting plot.
“We don’t know exactly where this whole notion of a mass shooting ever came from,” said 8News legal analyst Russ Stone. “It could’ve come from a tipster. It could’ve just been speculation on the part of some of the people involved in this. We honestly don’t know the answer to this, and the charge that is in federal court right now doesn’t tell us anything either.”
He will expectedly next face a pre-sentence report in November which will determine the sentencing guidelines. His sentencing is set for Saturday, Dec. 10, at 11 a.m.
Until then, Balcarcel will continue to be held by the U.S. Marshals Service.
According to documents obtained by 8News, authorities received a tip that Rolman Balcarcel was “going to do a mass shooting on July 4th.” The tip was received on Friday, July 1. The documents further stated, “The witness who gave the tip advised that the defendant [Balcarcel] showed high power rifles.”
Staff at the Consulate General of Guatemala in Maryland confirmed to 8News that both Balcarcel and 52-year-old Julio Cesar Alvarado-Dubon were originally from the Baja Verapaz in Guatemala. They also stated that the suspects were apprehended on July 2 and 3, despite RPD’s reports that they were taken into custody on July 1 and 5.
Moreover, sources confirmed to 8News that Balcarcel used an alias, which is what appears on official court documentation from the City of Richmond. While court papers show that the suspect’s name is Rolman Alberto Balcarcel, federal sources stated that his name is actually Rolman Balcarcel Ac.
Court documents also list the date of Balcarcel’s offense as June 21, 2022, more than one week before police went to the home on Columbia Street, and two weeks before they said he was arrested.
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2022-08-25T21:47:39+00:00
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wric.com
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https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/richmond/balcarcel-pleads-guilty-to-illegal-reentry-no-charges-related-to-alleged-mass-shooting-plot-in-richmond/
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In the animal kingdom, some creatures are famous for the sounds they make — birds and their songs, cats and their meows, frogs and their ribbits.
But some animals are more quietly mysterious. Do turtles talk? What about other lesser-known vertebrates such as tuataras, caecilians and lungfish?
The answer is yes, according to a new paper in Nature Communications presenting evidence that many species thought to be mute do in fact vocalize — and the researchers caught it on tape.
Want to hear the evidence? Here's the sound of a southern New Guinea giant softshell turtle. And here's a caecilian, a limbless amphibian that lives hidden underground.
Gabriel Jorgewich Cohen, an evolutionary biologist working on his PhD at the University of Zurich, is the paper's lead author.
He explains that this project began after he read about a turtle in the Amazon making sounds, and he started wondering about the little sounds his own pet tortoises made. He got in touch with a researcher at his former university in Brazil who had created a tool that would be crucial to the research.
"He developed a type of hydrophone, which is pretty much a microphone that goes underwater," explains Jorgewich Cohen. "I took it home and I started recording my own pets. And I actually heard them making a lot of noises."
The project was on. He traveled to eight or nine institutions in five countries, on a quest to record animal species that were thought mostly to be mute. He recorded fifty species of turtles, as well as caecilians, tuataras (a reptile that's now found only in New Zealand), and lungfish (fish that can breathe air).
And it turned out, none of them were mute. "Actually every single animal I recorded made sounds," Jorgewich Cohen says.
He says the findings point to a common ancestor some 407 million years ago.
"Sometimes it's surprising how much we still don't know about things that aren't necessarily uncommon but live alongside us," says Neil Kelley, a paleontologist at Vanderbilt University.
Kelley says the paper's conclusion, mapping these vocalizations onto the evolutionary tree, make sense. He notes there are unique challenges in trying to study animal sounds over millions of years.
"It's very hard to trace that in the fossil record, because sounds obviously don't fossilize and most vocal equipment is soft tissue-based," he notes.
It's important to note that sound production and hearing are different things. Snakes, for example, are famous for their hissing sounds. But they aren't thought to be able to hear themselves — or each other — hissing.
And a turtle making sounds doesn't necessarily mean that it is communicating that way, says John Wiens, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona.
"I think there's some conflation of making sounds and acoustic communication," he says of the paper.
Jorgewich Cohen says that while the research team isn't sure what all the sounds they collected mean, they used several strategies to identify sounds used for communication — including using cameras to correlate sounds with behaviors that could demonstrate some kind of intention, and only including sounds that were recurrently produced and seemed correlated to social behavior.
Wiens says the recording of these sounds is an important step toward further understanding.
"If you don't record these sounds and report them, then there's no reason why anybody would study acoustic communication in those things," he says. "You don't even know that they're making sounds."
The next step, he says, is figuring out what these animals might actually be saying.
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2022-11-03T10:49:15+00:00
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kunm.org
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A powerful storm brought drenching rain or heavy snowfall to much of California this weekend. The so-called atmospheric river storm was pulling in a long and wide plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean. Flooding and rock slides closed portions of roads across Northern California. There were also wide-reaching road closures.
This latest storm comes after another recent storm and a second earthquake in the area in a matter of weeks. Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes reports from on the ground.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-01-02T19:42:50+00:00
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https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-01-02/rain-and-snow-cause-chaos-in-northern-california
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Police are trying to piece together the events that led up to a stabbing in central Fresno.
It happened at an apartment complex on East Fedora Avenue around 7 on Saturday night.
Police say they found a man in his thirties in the parking lot with a stab wound to his upper body.
Officers found two other victims - a 30-year-old and a 15-year-old - inside their apartment.
Both had stab wounds to their upper body.
All three people were taken to the hospital.
The two men are in critical condition but are expected to survive.
The teen has non-life threatening injuries.
Police believe the three individuals got in some sort of argument.
"It's believed that one of the males was not supposed to be on the property and was confronted by the adult and juvenile, which is our indication of what caused the disturbance," said Lt. Mike Gebhart with the Fresno Police Department.
Police say knives were recovered at the scene.
Investigators are still trying to figure out which of the people involved are potential suspects in this case.
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2022-08-28T17:50:05+00:00
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abc30.com
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https://abc30.com/fresno-3-people-stabbing-15-year-old-boy-2-men-stab-each-other-police-east-fedora-avenue/12175340/
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This fast food restaurant is using AI to take orders
BUCKEYE, Ariz. (KPHO/KTVK) - A restaurant in Arizona is using artificial intelligence to help take customer orders.
A Carl’s Jr. in Buckeye is one of the first locations in the country that partnered with Presto Automation to use AI to take orders.
“This new system is reliable, it runs 24/7 and it really helps,” Agustin Medina, the store’s manager, said.
Medina said the system can adapt to what the customer is saying and can even offer other items on the menu.
“I was a little taken back at first, but it did have a very pleasant voice,” one customer said.
Medina said the new AI system is not meant to take away jobs from human employees but instead to help his staff focus on other tasks, like preparing the food.
“We’re not cutting hours or cutting another person from the schedule, it’s just someone else that can help,” he said.
The AI takes the order and sends it to a screen inside the restaurant where the workers then make the food.
The process overall is a little slower than talking to a real person, and it’s also not perfect. A staff member is on standby, just in case.
“We are always wearing our headsets so we are always ready to intervene,” Medina said.
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2023-05-07T18:18:06+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/2023/05/07/this-fast-food-restaurant-is-using-ai-take-orders/
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After a Delaware County cannabis-testing facility's license was suspended due to the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority's citing a possible public health emergency, its owner says the state has denied due process for the lab to defend itself.
Genesis Testing Labs in Grove was making efforts to expand operations with a second facility when OMMA inspectors arrived at the new lab in April, owner Tony Brixey said. They refused to communicate with lab staff while documenting what Brixey said built a case that Genesis was operating illegally out of an unlicensed facility in Broken Arrow.
"It's great they're going after the bad actors. But I'm a good guy," Brixey said in a Tulsa World interview. "I didn't do anything wrong."
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In a news release, the OMMA said more than 80 emergency orders of summary suspension have been issued so far this year.
Among the reasons cited: large numbers of untagged cannabis plants, diversion of medical marijuana products and sale of material that failed safety testing.
Brixey said Genesis requested an administrative hearing, as statute allows, to discuss the inspection and the emergency suspension. He said he intended to show proof that Genesis staff members were conducting tests on tea leaves and Haribo gummy candies at the Broken Arrow lab — no products containing THC, as was alleged — while working toward its required accreditation.
Brixey lamented the 30-day lapse between the request and the May 4 hearing date, as the Genesis facility in Grove hit dire financial straits while not in operation. He said it hardly fits the spirit of the statute, which calls for the hearing to be scheduled "promptly."
When finally given the chance to defend the lab, Brixey said whatever right he thought he had under law was "worthless."
At the administrative hearing, he said no evidence or witnesses were allowed.
"To call it a kangaroo court would be generous," he said.
By statute, such a hearing has only one order of business: An administrative judge decides whether the OMMA license should remain suspended "pending a final disciplinary hearing and ruling with the burden on the licensee to show good cause why the suspension should be set aside."
Brixey said he thinks the burden at the administrative hearing should be on the OMMA to make its case that a license should be suspended, a move that can easily bankrupt many companies.
Genesis took the question to district court and won an injunction lifting the summary suspension Monday, but Brixey said that judge's ruling won't help the lab physically reopen.
"We're hundreds of thousands of dollars in the hole," he said, adding that Genesis staff have had to find new employment while operations were shut down.
A hearing has been set for May 25 in Delaware County District Court, where the OMMA will be asked to show cause for the Genesis shutdown. However, Brixey said, the state agency has been reluctant to allow OMMA officials and inspectors to be subpoenaed, and the OMMA has asked for a venue change.
Brixey said he hopes to come to a financial agreement with the state oversight agency that would help the lab reopen, especially considering how few laboratories are licensed to test the products of thousands of growers and processors.
At least two other suspensions, one in Ottawa County and another in Pontotoc County, have been taken to district court and won injunctions. The three licensees are represented by attorney Ronald Durbin.
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2023-05-18T23:37:13+00:00
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tulsaworld.com
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https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/marijuana/marijuana-business-owner-says-omma-denying-due-process-in-emergency-shutdown/article_b5e155b8-f598-11ed-89ce-13e3db060b75.html
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Josh Wolff vowed Austin FC will learn from its shock CONCACAF Champions League exit, but he intends to “freshen up” his side ahead of facing Houston Dynamo FC on Saturday.
Trailing 3-0 to Violette FC after last week’s first leg, Austin was unable to complete the turnaround as it bowed out 3-2 on aggregate in arguably the competition’s greatest upset.
Austin must quickly get that loss out of its system as it turns focus back to its MLS campaign, which has picked up thanks to back-to-back wins since an opening-day defeat.
“The defeat was disappointing and it will hurt. You want to learn from it,” Wolff said. “That’s the biggest thing. We’re all disappointed. Being a league that has the team that won the Champions League (last year), it’s quite important to our league, to our fans, to our ownership, to the players.
“It is disappointing, but we have to move on and obviously get back and get focused on the weekend. We play an in-state rival on the weekend and we have to freshen up.”
Austin has climbed up to fourth in the early Western Conference standings, while Houston is at bottom of the division after losing its opening two games.
The Dynamo have had two weeks to reflect on the latest of those losses, a 3-0 defeat at New England Revolution, and head coach Ben Olsen is hoping for a response.
“We’ve had plenty of time to work on ourselves and make sure we utilize this bye week to get better and prepare for a very good team in Austin,” he said. “Austin have a similar team to last year. They’re very clear in who they are and how they go about winning games. They’re well-coached and have got weapons.”
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Houston – Hector Herrera
Olsen’s side may have gotten off to a shaky start, but experienced Mexico international Herrera has provided some calmness in the center of midfield. The 32-year-old has completed an average of 68 passes per 90 minutes so far, which is the third-most of any player in the division to have played at least 120 minutes.
Austin – Owen Wolff
Wolff has started all three of Austin’s MLS games this season, but he will miss their next game after this weekend after being called up by the United States Under-20 side. The 18-year-old recorded a goal and an assist in the 2-1 win over Real Salt Lake, with his assist on Joe Gallagher’s goal the final ball in an impressive 19-pass move.
MATCH PREDICTION – AUSTIN WIN
– Austin is coming off the back of a morale-crushing continental defeat but has won successive league games for the first time since July of last year.
– Houston has lost back-to-back games to begin a season for the first time in its MLS history and desperately needs to respond in front of the home fans.
– The Dynamo also have lost four of their five matches against Austin, including the past three in a row. Indeed, Austin’s four wins against the Dynamo are its most against any side.
OPTA WIN PROBABILITY
Houston – 39.5 percent
Austin – 32.2 percent
Draw – 28.3 percent
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2023-03-18T17:28:39+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/austin-dynamo-preview/
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LONDON and BENGALURU, India, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mindtree, a global technology services and digital transformation company, today announced that it has enabled the UK's leading retailer of technology products and services, Currys, to deliver a connected and highly personalised omnichannel shopping experience to its customers across multiple markets.
As part of the multi-year engagement, Mindtree has leveraged its extensive retail and digital expertise to design and implement a comprehensive omnichannel solution that provides a unified customer experience across rapidly converging online, mobile, and in-store shopping, while driving cross-channel fulfilment and inventory optimization for Currys. Through unified consoles, Mindtree has also empowered Currys' more than 32,000 'colleagues' spread across the company's retail stores, offices, contact centres, supply chain, and distribution centres to better support the omnichannel customer journey with enhanced speed and quality of service.
The solution, built using state-of-the-art Salesforce and Mulesoft technologies, has helped Currys become more data-driven. This supports its strategy to build customers for life by getting to know its customers better and driving meaningful engagement with them, while also making it easier for those customers to shop with Currys, thus maximizing cross-sell and upsell opportunities and post-sales lead generation. Mindtree and Currys are continuing to collaborate on further innovations in omnichannel retail to enhance productivity and flexibility.
"This engagement has been a fundamental part of our transformation into a 'digital-first' omnichannel retailer," said Andy Gamble, Chief Information Officer at Currys. "Our partnership with Mindtree has enabled us to not only digitally meld online and in-store experiences into a streamlined, frictionless shopping journey, but also create a single connected ecosystem that gives us a 360-degree shared view of every customer, boosting our ability to drive higher levels of personalisation and loyalty. We are now delivering on our strategy of making Currys easier to shop and giving every customer, whether they're shopping online or in-store, an unrivalled experience, augmented by technology but enabled by people. This in turn is helping us to build stickier and more valuable relationships, creating customers for life. The scale and speed at which Mindtree has executed this industry-first programme has been impressive."
"We are pleased to partner with Currys in defining the future of retail," said Venu Lambu, Executive Director and President, Global Markets, Mindtree. "With most customers increasingly shopping across multiple channels, aligning a multitude of customer journeys to deliver frictionless customer experiences across touchpoints underpinned by data and cutting-edge technology has become a strategic differentiator. This engagement is a significant step forward in revolutionising the extent and ease with which Currys' customers discover, choose, and avail of what they want and need. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Currys to help it reimagine experience, value, and convenience in today's hyperconnected ecosystem."
About Currys plc
Currys plc is a leading omnichannel retailer of technology products and services, operating online and through 830 stores in 8 countries. We Help Everyone Enjoy Amazing Technology, however they choose to shop with us. In the UK & Ireland we trade as Currys; in the Nordics under the Elkjøp brand and as Kotsovolos in Greece.
In each of these markets we are the market leader, employing 32,000 capable and committed colleagues. Our full range of services and support makes it easy for our customers to discover, choose, afford and enjoy the right technology for them, throughout their lives. The Group's operations include state-of-the-art repair facilities and 1,300 engineers in Newark, UK, a sourcing office in Hong Kong and an extensive distribution network, enabling fast and efficient delivery to stores and homes.
Our vision, we help everyone enjoy amazing technology, has a powerful social purpose at its heart. We believe in the power of technology to improve lives, help people stay connected, productive, healthy, and entertained. We're here to help everyone enjoy those benefits and with our scale and expertise, we are uniquely placed to do so.
We're a leader in giving technology a longer life through repair, recycling and reuse. We're reducing our impact on the environment in our operations and our wider value chain and we will achieve net zero2 emissions by 2040. We offer customers products that help them save energy, reduce waste and save water, and we partner with charitable organisations to bring the benefits of amazing technology to those who might otherwise be excluded.
Visit www.currysplc.com for more information.
About Mindtree
Mindtree [NSE: MINDTREE] is a global technology consulting and services company that enables enterprises across industries to drive superior competitive advantage, customer experiences and business outcomes by harnessing digital and cloud technologies. A digital transformation partner to approximately 275 of the world's most pioneering enterprises, Mindtree brings extensive domain, technology and consulting expertise to help reimagine business models, accelerate innovation and maximise growth. As a socially and environmentally responsible business, Mindtree is focused on growth as well as sustainability in building long-term stakeholder value. Powered by more than 37,400 talented and entrepreneurial professionals across 24 countries, Mindtree — a Larsen & Toubro Group company — is consistently recognised among the best places to work. For more, please visit www.mindtree.com or @Mindtree_Ltd.
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2022-09-20T11:31:52+00:00
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kswo.com
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HELENA — During their 68th session, the Montana Legislature took some time to honor two men who spent decades telling the public what was happening at the State Capitol – including one who’s a very familiar face to MTN viewers.
Last month, the Montana Senate approved Senate Resolution 53, which recognizes former MTN chief political reporter Mike Dennison for his service to the people of Montana.
It was one story that caught even him by surprise.
“It was just kind of random, really,” Dennison said. “Someone called me up and said, ‘Did you see that resolution that they're going to pass to honor you?’ I said, ‘What? No, really?’”
Dennison began his reporting career with the Great Falls Tribune in 1981, then worked the next decade as a wire-service reporter in Helena, Seattle and Grand Junction, Colo. He then returned to Montana, where he spent nearly 30 years covering state politics and government – first with the Tribune as its Capitol Bureau chief, then with the Lee Newspapers State Bureau, and finally with MTN from 2015 until his retirement in 2022.
SR 53, sponsored by Senate President Jason Ellsworth, R-Hamilton, thanks Dennison for his commitment to “report the facts, get to the truth, and be fair and objective in his news coverage,” and encourages reporters to “follow his example of excellent journalism in the Last Best Place.”
“This is a person that I think was fair, accurate in his reporting,” Ellsworth said during a hearing on the resolution. “I’ve had dealings with him. He's reached out to me and never reported anything without reaching out to me and asking comments. And that's something that we're actually starting to miss in news today. Certainly, you see it being a lot more hyper-political, and Mike Dennison never did take things to a hyper-political position.”
Dennison said, after so much time covering legislation at the Capitol, it was a strange feeling to be the subject of a resolution.
“Probably my favorite part of it is that there's a little paragraph about earning the mutual respect of a variety of parties, including the downtrodden and the public,” he said. “And if I earn the respect of those two parts of Montana, then I will have had a successful career in my book.”
Also, the House and Senate each passed resolutions honoring Dennison’s longtime colleague and friend Charles S. “Chuck” Johnson, who passed away in March.
Johnson, Montana’s longest-serving statehouse reporter, was known as “the dean of Montana political journalists.” At the start of his career, he reported on the state constitutional convention in 1972. He went on to spend more than 40 years as a reporter, covering 22 Montana legislative sessions, seven governors, nine U.S. senators and ten U.S. representatives.
The resolutions describe Johnson as “a man of integrity, a student of history who sought knowledge daily, and a fearless reporter who pursued truth, justice, and accuracy in the service of the state he loved.” They highlight his humility, his respect for others and his support for younger journalists.
Pat Hunt, Johnson’s wife, thanked lawmakers for the honor at a hearing.
“The Hunt-Johnson family is honored by this introduction of this resolution, but I want to let you know that Chuck would have been very embarrassed,” she said. “He was not one to draw attention to himself, just like the good reporter he was – it wasn't about him. But being a great reporter, maybe he would recognize that his life's work was a good story.”
Dennison and Johnson worked at competing papers for more than a decade before working together at Lee Newspapers for another ten years.
“That was just a great honor – tons of fun to work with him and Jennifer McKee,” said Dennison.
Dennison said he was glad to see Johnson honored for his work.
“You know, there's been a lot of denigration of the press in America – not so much in Montana – but a lot of politicians trying to negate the credibility of the press,” he said. “And here we have the state Senate kind of countering that, and saying that a free press and a good press is an important thing in Montana. And I'm really glad to see that.”
Also this session, the Legislature passed House Bill 855, sponsored by Rep. Laura Smith, D-Helena, which would allow private funds to be used to place a plaque at the State Capitol complex in honor of Chuck Johnson. That bill is now on its way to Gov. Greg Gianforte’s desk.
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2023-05-05T00:09:25+00:00
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krtv.com
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https://www.krtv.com/news/68th-session/montana-journalists-johnson-and-dennison-honored-by-state-legislature
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CANTON, Ohio (WJW) – A former teacher said he is making more money as a Walmart professional.
Seth Goshorn taught for nearly six years, including at an elementary school in Canton, Ohio, before deciding to change careers. It’s a decision he said that led to an increase in pay by about $20,000 after factoring in bonuses.
Dressed in his new Walmart uniform, Goshorn recorded a TikTok video acknowledging the dramatic pay gap. He said the video unexpectedly went viral.
“I didn’t think it would be this good. I might get a couple hundred likes, so just the fact that it blew up and I’ve only been on it for like a year,” said Goshorn. “It was really cool to see just the power of the internet.”
Goshorn, who has a degree in early childhood education, is now working as a “Walmart coach” on the management track. More than one month into his new job, he said the transition was smooth.
“Last year I made about $43K teaching, so not anything terrible, but it also still left a lot to be desired,” said Goshorn.
He said he loved his time as a teacher and made lifelong friendships with families. However, he was searching for a job that would better fit his financial needs while planning an upcoming wedding with his fiancée.
Goshorn said working at Walmart provides professional growth without requiring a second degree.
“My degree doesn’t exactly translate but the skills that a lot of teachers have and the leadership ability teachers have does correlate to a lot of companies,” he said. “So, find a company that’s willing to train you for a position that might pay better.”
Goshorn does not discourage anyone from becoming a teacher and said educators need additional support through increased salaries.
“Even though they’re scheduled for 40 hours, they’re working a lot more than that, whether it’s teaching, grading after school,” said Goshorn. “I coached football and track so those were other things on the weekends. I did summer school. We don’t have all the time off that they think.”
According to data referred to by the Ohio Department of Education, the median teacher assignment salary statewide is $64,427. Salaries can vary widely depending on which county and what school district a teacher works in.
Goshorn said he hopes his story serves as a teaching moment about the power of the career pivot and the importance of supporting teachers.
“I’m going to be a lifelong teacher,” he said. “That will always be a part of my life, whether it’s at Walmart or on social media.”
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2022-07-21T20:22:48+00:00
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pix11.com
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https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/former-teacher-says-he-earns-higher-pay-as-walmart-professional/
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The 80th Golden Globe Awards air Tuesday night on NBC. Below is the full list of nominees, with winners marked in bold. This list will be updated throughout the ceremony.
Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a musical-comedy or drama series
WINNER: Julia Garner, Ozark
Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown
Hannah Einbinder, Hacks
Janelle James, Abbott Elementary
Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary
Best performance by an actress in a television series - drama
WINNER: Zendaya, Euphoria
Emma D'Arcy, House of the Dragon
Laura Linney, Ozark
Imelda Staunton, The Crown
Hilary Swank, Alaska Daily
Best performance by an actor in a motion picture - drama
WINNER: Austin Butler, ElvisBrendan Fraser, The Whale
Hugh Jackman, The Son
Bill Nighy, Living
Jeremy Pope, The Inspection
Best motion picture - animated
WINNER: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Inu-Oh
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Turning Red
Best performance by an actress in a motion picture - musical or comedy
WINNER: Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Lesley Manville, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Margot Robbie, Babylon
Anya Taylor-Joy, The Menu
Emma Thompson, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Best performance by an actor in a motion picture - musical or comedy
WINNER: Colin Farrell, The Banshees of InisherinDiego Calva, Babylon
Daniel Craig, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Adam Driver, White Noise
Ralph Fiennes, The Menu
Best performance by an actress in a television series - musical or comedy
WINNER: Quinta Brunson, Abbott ElementaryKaley Cuoco, The Flight Attendant
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building
Jenna Ortega, Wednesday
Jean Smart, Hacks
Best performance by an actor in a television series - musical or comedy
WINNER: Jeremy Allen White, The Bear
Donald Glover, Atlanta
Bill Hader, Barry
Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Best original song - motion picture
WINNER: "Naatu Naatu," RRR
"Carolina," Where the Crawdads Sing
"Ciao Papa," Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
"Hold My Hand," Top Gun: Maverick
"Lift Me Up," Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Best original score - motion picture
WINNER: Justin Hurwitz, BabylonCarter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Hildur Guðnadóttir, Women Talking
John Williams, The Fabelmans
Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a musical-comedy or drama series
WINNER: Tyler James Williams, Abbott Elementary
John Lithgow, The Old Man
Jonathan Pryce, The Crown
John Turturro, Severance
Henry Winkler, Barry
Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in any motion picture
WINNER: Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda ForeverKerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness
Carey Mulligan, She Said
Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in any motion picture
WINNER: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brad Pitt, Babylon
Eddie Redmayne, The Good Nurse
Best motion picture - drama
Avatar: The Way of Water
Elvis
The Fabelmans
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Best performance by an actress in a motion picture - drama
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Olivia Colman, Empire of Light
Viola Davis, The Woman King
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
Best motion picture - musical or comedy
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Triangle of Sadness
Best motion picture - Non-English language (formerly foreign language)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Close
Decision to Leave
RRR
Best director - motion picture
James Cameron, Avatar: The Way of Water
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Baz Luhrmann, Elvis
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Best screenplay - motion picture
Todd Field, Tár
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner, The Fabelmans
Best television series - drama
Better Call Saul (AMC+/AMC)
The Crown (Netflix)
House of the Dragon (HBO Max)
Ozark (Netflix)
Severance (Apple TV+)
Best performance by an actor in a television series - drama
Jeff Bridges, The Old Man
Kevin Costner, Yellowstone
Diego Luna, Andor
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Adam Scott, Severance
Best television series - musical or comedy
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
The Bear (FX)
Hacks (HBO Max)
Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
Wednesday (Netflix)
Best television limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
Black Bird (Apple TV+)
Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Netflix)
The Dropout (Hulu)
Pam & Tommy (Hulu)
The White Lotus (HBO Max)
Best performance by an actress in a limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
Jessica Chastain, George & Tammy
Julia Garner, Inventing Anna
Lily James, Pam & Tommy
Julia Roberts, Gaslit
Amanda Seyfried, The Dropout
Best performance by an actor in a limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
Taron Egerton, Black Bird
Colin Firth, The Staircase
Andrew Garfield, Under the Banner of Heaven
Evan Peters, Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Sebastian Stan, Pam & Tommy
Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
Jennifer Coolidge, The White Lotus
Claire Danes, Fleishman is in Trouble
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Under the Banner of Heaven
Niecy Nash, Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Aubrey Plaza, The White Lotus
Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
F. Murray Abraham, The White Lotus
Domhnall Gleeson, The Patient
Paul Walter Hauser, Black Bird
Richard Jenkins, Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Seth Rogen, Pam & Tommy
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-01-11T02:59:50+00:00
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wyomingpublicmedia.org
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https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2023-01-10/golden-globes-2023-the-complete-list-of-winners
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Sales of cars from exotic brands reached new heights in 2022, despite a long list of major headwinds.
The war in Ukraine, energy and inflation crises, and supply disruptions couldn’t stop many brands in the ultra-luxury segment from posting record results.
From the brands that have reported full-year sales figures for 2022, Lamborghini was the big winner, as the automaker managed to deliver 9,233 units, an increase of 10% over the previous year.
The figure is impressive considering Aventador production ended in September of 2022, and the Huracán is also at the end of its life cycle, when sales of sporty models typically slow. The bulk of Lamborghini’s sales—5,367 units—came from the Urus SUV.
Rolls-Royce also posted a stellar performance. It reported sales of 6,021 units in 2022, a rise of 8% over the previous year. Rolls-Royce said it also saw record demand for its Rolls-Royce Bespoke personalization department.
Rolls-Royce hasn’t provided a breakdown of sales but has confirmed the Cullinan SUV as its top seller.
Bentley’s sales in 2022 also grew to a new record, in this case 15,174 units, up 4% over the previous year. It was the first time Bentley’s sales exceeded the 15,000-unit mark. The Bentayga SUV was once again the most popular model, accounting for about 42% of the total.
Even Bugatti, which sells cars that cost in the seven and sometimes eight figures, enjoyed a record 2022. It managed to deliver 80 units, which is its highest for a 12-month period. Sales are expected to grow in 2023 for Bugatti as the company plans to add more showrooms.
Aston Martin, Ferrari, and McLaren haven’t announced sales figures for 2022 yet. McLaren is a private company and as a result doesn’t have to report numbers, though its sales likely decreased due to delays in the launch of the new Artura supercar.
Ferrari likely surpassed its record of 11,155 units in 2021, while Aston Martin also likely increased sales, though it perhaps didn’t set a new record.
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2023-01-14T13:56:09+00:00
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wdtn.com
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https://www.wdtn.com/automotive/internet-brands/2022-saw-sales-of-exotic-cars-boom/
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FEEDS SENIORS DURING MAY OLDER AMERICANS MONTH
SUPERMARKETS IN 40 STATES STOCKED WITH LIMITED-EDITION 75TH ANNIVERSARY FROZEN PIZZA BOXES
10,000 pizzas to be distributed to Chicagoans in need throughout the year
CHICACO, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Home Run Inn, (HRI) the oldest family-owned pizza brand that has captured the hearts of Chicagoans since it opened its first tavern on the South Side, continues its 75th anniversary celebration with City of Chicago Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS) during May Older Americans Month, distributing to their five Regional Senior Centers and 15 satellite centers throughout Chicago.
Today, the kick-off of week-long Home Run Inn pizza parties, was held at the Regional Service Centers, at the Southwest Regional Senior Center at 6117 S. Kedzie Avenue.
With the aid of Open Kitchens, the meal delivery service which has helped DFSS provide 5 million meals for the Chicago seniors over the course of the last year, aging residents will enjoy a complete lunch featuring freshly-baked Home Run Inn pizza.
The joint effort will continue to feed Chicago seniors through a distribution of 2000 pizzas, allowing them to pick up and take and bake their own pizzas at home during the month of May.
"Our great-grandparents would be proud," says Gina (Perrino) Bolger, Senior Vice President and fourth-generation family member of Home Run Inn.
"They were visionaries and laid the groundwork for us to give back to the community over the past 75 years," says Dan Costello, CEO of Home Run Inn.
"We are grateful for Home Run Inn's ongoing support to those experiencing food insecurity in Chicago, which recently began with giving away pizzas to our many homeless shelters," says DFSS Commissioner Brandie Knazze. "During Older Americans Month we are proud to feed seniors as we honor their deep-seated contributions to the communities."
The 2022 partnership between Home Run Inn and City of Chicago Department of Family and Support Services is distributing 10,000 pizzas throughout the year to Chicagoans experiencing homelessness, Chicago Seniors and low-income families.
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ABOUT HOME RUN INN
Home Run Inn is considered Chicago's very own thin crust pizza known for its irresistible flavor, hand-pinched buttery crust, zesty sauce, plentiful cheese and homemade sausage. The small tavern of the 1920's was named Home Run Inn in 1947. Now, the company has 9 pizzerias throughout the Chicagoland area and frozen pizza sold in more than 40 states. Home Run Inn also is currently the official pizza of the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field and sold at Chicago's Midway International Airport. Still family-owned and operated, Home Run Inn ranks among the top 10 in pizza brands sold nationally and number one in the Chicagoland area. For further information, visit www.homeruninnpizza.com.
ABOUT DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND SUPPORT SERVICES (DFSS)
DFSS works with community partners to connect Chicago residents and families to resources that build stability, support their well-being, and empower them to thrive. As the 5th largest City agency and one of the largest social service funders in Chicago, DFSS provides direct services at six Community Service Centers, six Regional Senior Centers, and through partnerships with 360 community-based organizations across the city. In total, DFSS services and funding supports over 400,000 vulnerable Chicagoans each year.
Connect with DFSS on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn
Learn more about DFSS at www.chicago.gov/fss
ABOUT OPEN KITCHENS
Open Kitchens is a a family-owned food service company serving Chicagoland since 1969. Offering a wide variety of food services for a wide range of companies who need assistance in operating their food service, Open Kitchens serves meals on wheels, daycare meals, onsite management, school meals and catering. They have partnered with Chicago institutions like Public Schools, the City of Chicago, and the Arch Diocese of Chicago to support city-wide food-access. For further information, visit https://www.openkitchens.com
Contact: Janie Goldberg-Dicks, President of Margie Korshak Inc.; jdicks@korshak.com
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2022-05-25T14:42:10+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/05/25/home-run-inn-continues-celebrate-75th-anniversary-partnering-with-city-chicago-department-family-support-services-dfss/
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CA Los Angeles/Oxnard CA Zone Forecast for Wednesday, April 12, 2023
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233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
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Including Beverly Hills, Compton, Culver City, Downey, Hollywood,
and Norwalk
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with patchy drizzle. A chance of rain in the
morning. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Low clouds and fog with drizzle. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Low clouds and fog with drizzle in the morning then
mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Southwest winds around 15 mph
in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows in the
lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows in the
mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows in
the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs around
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Los Angeles County Beaches-
Including LAX, Long Beach, Redondo Beach, Santa Monica,
and Torrance
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain or heavy drizzle in
the morning. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. South winds around
15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog with drizzle after midnight.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Low clouds and fog with drizzle in the morning then
mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Southwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows in the
lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the mid 60s to around 70. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog mostly clearing in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows in the
mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
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Including Rancho Palos Verdes
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain or heavy drizzle in
the morning. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog with
drizzle after midnight. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Low clouds and fog with drizzle in the morning then
mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the lower to mid 60s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog mostly clearing in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
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.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
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Including Malibu and Pacific Palisades
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain or heavy
drizzle. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog with drizzle after midnight.
Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Low clouds and fog with drizzle in the morning then
mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny.
Highs in the 60s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the lower 50s.
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Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
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50s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows in
the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
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Including Oxnard, Point Mugu, Port Hueneme, and Ventura
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Patchy
drizzle in the morning. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly cloudy. Lows in
the mid 40s to around 50.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy except for patchy morning low clouds and
fog with drizzle. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
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around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then mostly cloudy. Highs in
the mid to upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows in the upper 40s to mid
50s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 60s.
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Including Camarillo and East Ventura
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and heavy drizzle
in the morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of precipitation 20
percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in
the lower 60s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70. Southwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the mid 60s to around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
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Santa Barbara County Southeastern Coast-
Including Carpinteria, Goleta, Montecito, and Santa Barbara
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy drizzle in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy. Lows in
the mid 40s to around 50. Northwest winds around 15 mph in the
evening.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 40s. North winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then mostly cloudy. Highs
around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the
upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny.
Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid to upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
$$
CAZ349-140015-
Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast-
Including El Capitan State Beach, Gaviota, Jalama Beach,
and Refugio State Beach
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s. Areas of northwest
winds 20 to 30 mph with local gusts to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy. Lows in
the lower to mid 40s. Areas of northwest to north winds 20 to 30
mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog.
Lows in the lower to mid 40s. North winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. West winds around
15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then areas of low clouds and
fog. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog mostly clearing in the
afternoon. Highs in the 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows in the mid 40s to lower
50s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ087-140015-
Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands-
Including Avalon
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with patchy drizzle. A slight chance of rain
in the morning. Highs in the mid to upper 50s. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Low clouds with patchy drizzle. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Patchy
fog and drizzle in the morning. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows in the mid 40s to around
50.
.SATURDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs around 60.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows around
50.
.SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog. Highs around 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60.
$$
CAZ548-140015-
Los Angeles County San Gabriel Valley-
Including East Los Angeles, El Monte, Pasadena, Pomona,
and San Gabriel
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or heavy drizzle.
Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Chance of precipitation 50
percent.
.TONIGHT...Low clouds and fog with drizzle. A 20 percent chance of
rain. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.FRIDAY...Low clouds and fog with drizzle in the morning then
partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the morning. Highs in
the mid to upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly cloudy.
Patchy fog after midnight. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the mid 70s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear except for patchy low clouds and fog after
midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the lower to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ373-140015-
Eastern San Fernando Valley-
Including Burbank, Universal City, Glendale, Sunland,
and La Canada Flintridge
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with drizzle. A chance of rain or heavy
drizzle. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s. Chance of precipitation 50
percent.
.TONIGHT...Low clouds and fog with drizzle. A 20 percent chance of
rain. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy except for patchy morning low clouds and
fog with drizzle. A 20 percent chance of rain in the morning. Highs
in the 60s to around 70. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in
the mid 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny.
Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
$$
CAZ372-140015-
Western San Fernando Valley-
Including Northridge, Woodland Hills, Van Nuys, and Chatsworth
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or heavy drizzle in the
morning. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Low clouds and fog with drizzle. A 20 percent chance of
rain in the evening. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.FRIDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog with drizzle in the morning
then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s. South winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the lower to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
$$
CAZ088-140015-
Santa Clarita Valley-
Including Lake Castaic, Newhall, Santa Clarita, and Valencia
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain or heavy
drizzle. Highs around 60. West winds 10 to 20 mph shifting to the
southwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain or heavy
drizzle in the evening. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph with local gusts to 35 mph in the evening. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the mid
to upper 60s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear.
Lows in the lower to mid 40s. West winds 10 to 20 mph in the
evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s. South winds 10 to
20 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
to upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
lower to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
$$
CAZ371-140015-
Calabasas and Agoura Hills-
Including Westlake Village and Malibou Lake
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain or heavy
drizzle. Highs around 60. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Low clouds and fog with drizzle. Lows in the lower to
mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy except for areas of morning low clouds and
fog with drizzle. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Southwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Southwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
$$
CAZ374-140015-
Southeastern Ventura County Valleys-
Including Moorpark, Newbury Park, Simi Valley, and Thousand Oaks
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and heavy drizzle. Highs
in the mid 50s to around 60. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Low clouds and fog with drizzle. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy except for patchy morning low clouds and
fog with drizzle. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Southwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s. South winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows in the
upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
$$
CAZ358-140015-
Central Ventura County Valleys-
Including Fillmore, Piru, and Santa Paula
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain or heavy
drizzle. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Southwest winds around
15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Low clouds and fog with drizzle in the morning then
partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s to around 70. Southwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear.
Lows in the mid to upper 40s. West winds around 15 mph in the
evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. South winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the mid
60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear.
Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then partly
cloudy. Highs in the 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
$$
CAZ357-140015-
Ojai Valley-
Including Oak View and Ojai
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain or heavy drizzle in
the morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Chance of precipitation 20
percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
CAZ356-140015-
Lake Casitas-
Including Meiners Oaks
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain or heavy
drizzle in the morning, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 50s to around 60. Chance of precipitation 20
percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Low clouds and fog with drizzle in the morning then
partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the mid
60s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s.
$$
CAZ370-140015-
Eastern Santa Monica Mountains Recreational Area-
Including Topanga
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or heavy drizzle.
Highs in the 50s to lower 60s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Low clouds and fog with drizzle. A 20 percent chance of
rain. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.FRIDAY...Low clouds and fog with drizzle in the morning then
partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the morning. Highs in
the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in
the mid 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 60s to mid 70s. South winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then partly cloudy. Lows in
the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.
$$
CAZ369-140015-
Western Santa Monica Mountains Recreational Area-
Including Malibu Bowl
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or heavy drizzle.
Highs in the mid to upper 50s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Low clouds and fog with drizzle. Lows in the 40s to
around 50.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy except for patchy morning low clouds and
fog with drizzle. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in
the mid 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Southwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows in the
upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ375-140015-
Santa Susana Mountains-
Including Oat Mountain
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain or heavy drizzle.
Highs in the 50s to around 60. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Low clouds and fog with drizzle. A 20 percent chance of
rain in the evening. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Low clouds and fog with drizzle in morning then partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s. Southwest winds around 15
mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. South winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s and 60s.
$$
CAZ352-140015-
Santa Ynez Mountains Eastern Range-
Including Montecito Hills
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain or heavy drizzle in
the morning. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows in
the upper 30s and 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s and 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
upper 50s and 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear.
Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ351-140015-
Santa Ynez Mountains Western Range-
Including San Marcos Pass
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the mid
50s to around 60. Areas of northwest to north winds 15 to 25 mph
with gusts to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Areas of
northwest to north winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. West winds
15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph shifting to the northeast around
15 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny.
Highs in the 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ380-140015-
Eastern San Gabriel Mountains-
Including Mount Wilson, Mount Baldy, Wrightwood,
and The Angeles Crest Highway
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with drizzle. A chance of rain and snow.
Little or no snow accumulation. Snow level 5500 to 6000 feet
increasing to 6000 to 6500 feet. Highs from the lower to mid 50s at
low elevations to the 40s at high elevations. Southwest winds around
15 mph with local gusts to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with drizzle. A chance of rain and snow.
Snow level 6000 to 6500 feet decreasing to 4500 to 5000 feet. Little
or no snow accumulation. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s except
the upper 20s to mid 30s colder valleys and slopes. Southwest winds
15 to 25 mph with local gusts to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy except for patchy morning low clouds and
fog with drizzle. A slight chance of rain and snow. Snow level 4500
to 5000 feet increasing to 5500 to 6000 feet. Highs from the upper
50s to mid 60s at low elevations to the upper 40s to mid 50s at high
elevations. West winds around 15 mph in the morning.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s
except the lower to mid 30s colder valleys and slopes.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the mid 50s to around 60 at high elevations. South
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s except
around 40 colder valleys and slopes.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs from the
mid 60s to mid 70s at low elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at
high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s
except around 40 colder valleys and slopes.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
mid 60s to lower 70s at low elevations to the mid 50s to around
60 at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the 40s to around 50 except the lower to
mid 30s colder valleys and slopes.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
upper 50s and 60s at low elevations to the upper 40s to mid 50s at
high elevations.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s except
the upper 20s to mid 30s colder valleys and slopes.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the 60s to around 70 at low
elevations to the upper 40s to mid 50s at high elevations.
$$
CAZ379-140015-
Western San Gabriel Mountains and Highway 14 Corridor-
Including Acton, Warm Springs, and Mill Creek
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with drizzle. A chance of rain and snow.
Little or no snow accumulation. Snow level 5000 to 5500 feet in the
morning. Highs from the mid to upper 50s at low elevations to the
mid 40s to lower 50s at high elevations. Southwest winds 15 to 25
mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with drizzle. A slight chance of rain and
snow. Snow level 5000 to 5500 feet decreasing to 4500 to 5000 feet.
Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s. Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with
gusts to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow in
the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Snow level 4000 to
4500 feet in the morning. Highs from the lower to mid 60s at low
elevations to the 50s at high elevations. West winds around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
West winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the lower to mid 60s at high elevations. Southwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs from the
lower to mid 70s at low elevations to the 60s at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
mid 60s to lower 70s at low elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s
at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 30s and 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
lower to mid 60s at low elevations to the mid to upper 50s at high
elevations.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the 60s at low elevations to the mid
50s to around 60 at high elevations.
$$
CAZ378-140015-
Interstate 5 Corridor-
Including Tejon Pass, Gorman, and Pyramid Lake
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with drizzle becoming partly cloudy in the
afternoon. A slight chance of rain and snow. Snow level 4500 to
5000 feet in the morning. Highs from the mid 50s to around 60 at low
elevations to the mid 40s to lower 50s at high elevations.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with drizzle. A slight chance of rain and
snow in the evening. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s. West winds 15
to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
lower to mid 60s at low elevations to the 50s at high elevations.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then mostly cloudy.
Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
from around 70 at low elevations to the lower to mid 60s at high
elevations. Southeast winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs from the
lower to mid 70s at low elevations to the mid to upper 60s at high
elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
mid 60s to around 70 at low elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s
at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
upper 50s to mid 60s at low elevations to the lower to mid 50s at
high elevations.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear.
Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s to mid 60s at low
elevations to the lower to mid 50s at high elevations.
$$
CAZ376-140015-
Southern Ventura County Mountains-
Including Rose Valley, Matilija, and Topatopa Mountains
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with drizzle in the morning becoming partly
cloudy in the afternoon. A slight chance of rain and snow. Snow
level 5000 to 5500 feet increasing to 5500 to 6000 feet. Highs from
the mid 50s to around 60 at low elevations to the mid 40s to lower
50s at high elevations. West winds 15 to 25 mph with local gusts to
40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph with local gusts to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs from the lower to mid 60s at low
elevations to the 50s at high elevations. Northwest winds 15 to
25 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
Northwest winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
mid 60s to mid 70s at low elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at
high elevations. South winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs from the
upper 60s to mid 70s at low elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s
at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to lower 70s at low
elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear.
Lows in the 40s except the mid 30s colder valleys and slopes.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
lower to mid 60s at low elevations to the 50s at high elevations.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the 60s at low elevations to the 50s
at high elevations.
$$
CAZ377-140015-
Northern Ventura County Mountains-
Including Lockwood Valley, Mount Pinos, and Ozena
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs from the mid 50s to around 60 at low
elevations to the mid 40s to around 50 at high elevations.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy. Lows in
the 30s except the mid to upper 20s colder valleys and slopes.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
upper 50s to mid 60s at low elevations to the mid 40s to lower 50s
at high elevations. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40
mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then mostly cloudy.
Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the 30s to around 40 except the
mid 20s to around 30 colder valleys and slopes. Northwest winds
around 15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs
from the mid 60s to mid 70s at low elevations to the mid 50s to
around 60 at high elevations. East winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 40s except the mid to upper
30s colder valleys and slopes.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs from the
mid 60s to mid 70s at low elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at
high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to lower 70s at low
elevations to the 50s at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear.
Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s except around 30 colder valleys
and slopes.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
upper 50s to mid 60s at low elevations to the mid 40s to around
50 at high elevations.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s and 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from
the upper 50s and 60s at low elevations to the mid 40s to around
50 at high elevations.
$$
CAZ353-140015-
Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains-
Including Big Pine Mountain, Figueroa Mountain,
and San Rafael Mountain
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog with drizzle. Highs
in the upper 50s to mid 60s. North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to
40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. North
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s. Northeast winds around 15 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Northeast winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to lower 70s at low
elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at high elevations.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
mid 60s to lower 70s at low elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s
at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
upper 50s to mid 60s at low elevations to the lower to mid 50s at
high elevations.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s to mid 60s at low
elevations to the upper 40s to mid 50s at high elevations.
$$
CAZ382-140015-
Eastern Antelope Valley Foothills-
Including Valyermo, Llano, and Pearblossom
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the morning.
Highs around 60. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to around 40.
Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s. West winds around
15 mph in the morning.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
West winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Northeast
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the
70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s.
$$
CAZ381-140015-
Western Antelope Valley Foothills-
Including Elizabeth Lake and Lake Palmdale
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the 50s to around 60. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts
to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. West
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. West
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 60s to mid 70s. East winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ383-140015-
Antelope Valley-
Including Palmdale, Lancaster, and Lake Los Angeles
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s. West winds 15 to
25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear. Lows in
the mid 30s to lower 40s. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35
mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. West winds
15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
West winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
70s to around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
$$
CAZ346-140015-
Santa Barbara County Central Coast Beaches-
Including Lompoc and Vandenberg Space Force Base
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON...
.TODAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the morning.
Highs in the mid 50s to around 60. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with
local gusts to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph with local gusts to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the mid
50s to around 60. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the upper 50s to mid 60s. West winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog mostly clearing in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
$$
CAZ347-140015-
Santa Barbara County Inland Central Coast-
Including Buellton and Santa Maria
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the morning.
Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with
local gusts to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy. Lows in
the lower 40s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with local gusts to 35
mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest winds around
15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the 60s to around 70. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows in the
mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the 60s to around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s and 60s.
$$
CAZ340-140015-
San Luis Obispo County Beaches-
Including Arroyo Grande, Avila Beach, Cambria, Morro Bay,
and Pismo Beach
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with
local gusts to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph with local gusts to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Northwest winds around
15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the mid to upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog mostly clearing in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows in the mid 40s to around
50.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs
around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ341-140015-
San Luis Obispo County Inland Central Coast-
Including Lopez Lake, Nipomo, and San Luis Obispo
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph with local gusts to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph with local gusts to 35 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Northwest winds around 15 mph in the
evening.
.SATURDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny.
Highs in the mid 60s to around 70. West winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows in the
mid to upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the mid to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
CAZ348-140015-
Santa Ynez Valley-
Including Lake Cachuma, Los Olivos, Santa Ynez, and Solvang
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy. Lows in
the lower 40s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s. Northwest winds around 15 mph in
the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Northwest winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in
the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows in the
mid to upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the lower to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
$$
CAZ343-140015-
Southern Salinas Valley-
Including Atascadero, Lake Nacimiento, Paso Robles, San Miguel,
and Templeton
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Northwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Northwest winds around
15 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Sunny after areas of low clouds and fog. Highs in the mid
60s to around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny.
Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.TUESDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ342-140015-
Santa Lucia Mountains-
Including Hearst Castle and Irish Hills
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s. Northwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
Northwest winds around 15 mph shifting to the northeast after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s. Northwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then partly cloudy. Lows in
the mid to upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in
the 60s to around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny. Highs in
the upper 50s and 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny.
Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ344-140015-
San Luis Obispo County Interior Valleys-
Including Carrizo Plain, Creston, and Shandon
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s. North winds around
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Northwest winds around
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s and 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Northeast winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Northeast
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ345-140015-
San Luis Obispo County Mountains-
Including Caliente Range, La Panza Range, and Santa Margarita Lake
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the mid
50s to mid 60s. North winds around 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to around 40. North
winds around 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to around 70 at low
elevations to around 60 at high elevations. Northeast winds around
15 mph in the morning.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
East winds around 15 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 70s at low
elevations to the mid to upper 60s at high elevations. North winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs from the lower to mid 70s at low
elevations to the mid to upper 60s at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs from around 70 at low elevations to the
lower to mid 60s at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
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Cuyama Valley-
Including New Cuyama
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the mid
50s to mid 60s. Northeast winds around 15 mph in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning then partly cloudy. Highs in the
lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
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Santa Cruz and Anacapa Islands-
Including Smugglers Cove
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy. Lows in
the mid to upper 40s. Northwest winds 20 to 35 mph with gusts to
40 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then partly cloudy. Patchy
fog in the morning. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then mostly cloudy. Highs in
the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows in the mid 40s to around
50.
.MONDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny.
Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear.
Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
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San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands-
Including Cuyler Harbor
233 AM PDT Thu Apr 13 2023
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the mid
50s to around 60. Northwest winds 20 to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy. Lows in
the mid 40s to around 50. Northwest winds 20 to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the mid
50s to around 60. Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Patchy low clouds and fog. Lows in the mid to upper
40s. Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows in the mid 40s to around
50.
.MONDAY...Areas of low clouds and fog in the morning then sunny.
Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear.
Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
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2023-04-13T09:54:19+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/ca-los-angeles-oxnard-ca-zone-forecast-17894722.php
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KYIV – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Friday he had begun a visit to Saudi Arabia, where he said he will address a summit of Arab leaders.
Zelenskyy said in a tweet that his aim is to “enhance bilateral relations and Ukraine’s ties with the Arab world.”
He said he will meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and hold other bilateral talks.
Among other topics he mentioned were Russia’s annexation of Crimea, a peace “formula” for the war that began after Moscow's full-scale invasion in February 2022, and energy cooperation.
Zelenskyy said he will present his 10-point peace formula as he seeks to engage as many countries as possible.
“Another priority is the protection of the Muslim community of Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said. “Crimea was the first to suffer from the Russian occupation, and most of those who suffer repression in occupied Crimea are Muslims”.
Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev accompanied Zelenskyy on the visit.
Zelenskyy will later travel to a Group of Seven summit in Japan where leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies aim to step up punishment on Russia for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council.
He earlier this week returned from a three-day trip to Italy, the Vatican, Germany, France and the U.K. where he sought to ensure more weapons supplies.
He has also visited Washington since the war began, but he hasn’t traveled so far east.
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2023-05-19T11:07:34+00:00
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clickorlando.com
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https://www.clickorlando.com/business/2023/05/19/ukraines-president-begins-visit-to-saudi-arabia-aims-to-enhance-ties-with-arab-world/
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Tuesday, Feb. 14, will mark six weeks since the Pennsylvania State House elected Speaker Mark Rozzi. It has done little since. No session. No rules. No plan.
However, the stalemate may soon end as lawmakers prepare to return to the Capitol, even if it’s still unclear who will be running the show long term.
Three Democrats won the special elections held in Allegheny County, and now the chamber is made up of 102 Democrats and 101 Republicans.
The legislators are scheduled to be back in Harrisburg next week.
“We’re going back into session and hopefully start doing legislation that we can move forward Pennsylvania,” said Rep. Mary Isaacson (D-Philadelphia).
How long Speaker Rozzi holds on to the gavel, whether he will switch out for Democratic leader Joanna McClinton, and if he will be able to push a law and a constitutional amendment to let survivors of child sex abuse sue beyond the statute of limitations through remains unknown.
“My fellow Pennsylvanians, the time for justice is now,” Rozzi said. “History will judge us based on what we did to protect some of our most vulnerable citizens. Our children.”
Securing justice for victims of childhood sexual assault is one of Rozzi’s top priorities.
It’s also clear that the gridlock in Harrisburg has produced hard feelings. Rozzi changed the locks of a few Republican-held offices in the middle of the night and Republican lawmaker Tom Mehaffie was kicked out of his office.
Despite Republican leaders blaming Rozzi for the lock-changing fiasco, Mehaffie frustrated others in the GOP for refusing to join their attempts to force the house back into session.
Rep Dawn Keefer (R), chair of the Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus, spoke on the situation a few weeks ago.
“Are you gonna stick with Republicans on procedural things or not? And if not, I guess you’re not part of the caucus, right? So you need to pick a horse and ride it,” Keefer said. “If you’re not going to allow us to get back to work because you’re lining up with Democrats on the issues, then you could caucus with the Democrats if they’ll allow you to caucus with them.”
Even though Harrisburg appears to be in disarray, there seems to be a bipartisan agreement that lawmakers need to get back to work.
“We need to start working bipartisanly around here, so hopefully we can get rules adopted and do people’s business,” said Isaacson.
“Everybody needs to get back to the Capitol and we need to get to work,” Keefer added.
The Pennsylvania House is scheduled to be back in session on Feb. 21, when legislative work could possibly begin.
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2023-02-14T16:47:19+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/pennsylvania-news/pennsylvania-house-to-resume-session-will-they-continue-with-mark-rozzi/
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Dear Amy: Our entire childhood, my mom consistently used my own achievements to push my brother to be better.
I was two years younger, a year ahead in school, bolder and more fearless than him in every way.
Mom made it a competition between us to help him overcome his fears. She fueled it until she died.
My brother and I are now in our late 40s.
We are both successful, but have made very different choices.
I turned down lucrative opportunities to prioritize my children over work.
He and his wife did the opposite. They both placed their career first and neglected their child. I ended up taking care of my nephew a lot over the years to make up for it.
These days, my brother takes every opportunity to blast his success to me.
He tells me how much money he makes, how much his wife makes, how much money they have in the bank, etc.
I am trying to be a better person and ignore it, but it is exhausting.
He never asks about my life and what I care about.
I wouldn’t trade my life and the strong bond I have with my kids and their son over all the money he has, but how can I change the dynamic?
I know he only brags to me and not to our other brother.
At this point, I am considering cutting him off completely.
Am I overreacting? Why does it bother me so much?
– Annoyed Little Sister
Dear Annoyed: Imagine how it would feel to be told that you are never “enough.” This is the script that your mother wrote for your brother.
He is trying to flip that script, and establish that he has finally won your lifelong competition. I suggest that you – the bold and secure one – be brave enough to let him off the hook.
Basically, I’m suggesting that you try to take the air out of this through gently surrendering.
You could start with: “You talk about your wealth a lot when you’re with me. Why is that?”
You could try telling him, “I know that Mom always set us up in a competition. I can only imagine what it was like for you. But I think she would be really proud of your success. I hope that you don’t feel like you have anything left to prove.”
Only do this if you genuinely want to try to change the dynamic.
Dear Amy: I am 76 years old. My husband passed away eight years ago.
Four years later, I moved to be near my son and grandchildren.
I left a small town where I lived for 58 years, a church I loved, and many friends. Two of my grandchildren are now in college.
I pick the youngest one up from school every day. We do lots of things together, but he is almost 12 and growing more independent.
I am active in my church here and have a few friends, but I still pine for my hometown. I taught school there for 34 years, then took care of my parents and my husband.
I have babysat for my grandchildren for 21 years, keeping them after school, on weekends, and taking them on extended vacations.
I want to move back to my hometown, but I am afraid that I will feel guilty for leaving my grandson.
I feel time slipping away and want to have some time to do what I want to do while I still can.
Do you think I should stay here for my grandson, or should I move back to my beloved hometown?
Am I being selfish?
– Guilty
Dear Guilty: I think you should do something – for you. You might start by taking an extended trip to your hometown – perhaps staying in a rental or with a friend.
Talk with your family.
I hope they will encourage you to freely make the choice that is best for you. After decades of taking care of others, it’s time to take good care of yourself.
Dear Amy: I recognized myself in the letter from “Nice Guys Finish Last,” who is a softy as a landlord.
After 25 years as a landlord, I finally hired a property manager, and it was the best thing I ever did. It was worth the money not to have to deal with the problems that arose. And they were the “bad guys!”
– Former Softy
Dear Softy: It helps to remember that this is essentially a business relationship – on both sides.
(You can email Amy Dickinson at askamy@amydickinson.com or send a letter to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or Facebook.)
©2022 Amy Dickinson. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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2022-07-27T04:36:43+00:00
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masslive.com
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https://www.masslive.com/opinion/2022/07/ask-amy-mother-fueled-competition-between-brothers-and-decades-later-its-still-in-play.html
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Tier 1 automotive supplier Marelli trialing offering to help turbocharge software development
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, at AWS re:Invent 2022, BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) announced an extension of its use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will make BlackBerry® QNX® technology available to mission-critical embedded systems developers for the first time ever in the cloud, significantly reducing time to market for their products.
At AWS re:Invent 2022, BlackBerry QNX will demonstrate the company's industry-leading Real Time Operating System (RTOS) along with its artificial intelligence (AI) data platform – BlackBerry IVY™ – running natively on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. The BlackBerry QNX RTOS running in the cloud functions as a cloud-native developer workbench and can be used independently – or in conjunction with – BlackBerry IVY, a cloud connected automotive AI platform co-developed by BlackBerry and AWS.
With the increased power and performance afforded by being able to access the QNX® Neutrino® RTOS in the cloud, industries such as automotive, robotics, medical devices, industrial controls, aerospace and defense and others stand to benefit from reduced development time, while ensuring software reliability through testing, verification, and validation.
"Arming our customers with our foundational QNX software products in the cloud is a game changer for embedded developers as they will have easy access and scale available at their fingertips," said Grant Courville, vice president, Product Management and Strategy, BlackBerry QNX. "For developers of mission-critical embedded systems, this will help them accelerate collaboration and velocity across the entire product development and deployment lifecycle. With our trusted, industry-leading OS soon to be available on AWS, we're confident the potential for efficiencies and cost savings will resonate across the IoT industry."
For instance, in the automotive industry, the average car now contains more than 100 million lines of code and both consumers and global regulators are driving demand for enhanced features and capabilities. With this, the complexity of the overall in-vehicle electronic architecture continues to grow. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are under enormous pressure to prototype, test, and validate their entire vehicle's software ecosystem while meeting standards for functional safety (ISO 26262) and cybersecurity (ISO 21434). Accessing the AWS-powered, cloud-native BlackBerry QNX RTOS will help address some of these challenges and reduce 'developer friction' by making it possible for automakers to streamline their development efforts as they work to deliver the software-defined vehicles of tomorrow.
As one of the first applications, select customer developers will be able to fully leverage cloud instances of BlackBerry IVY. At AWS re:Invent 2022, the demonstration will show how developers can leverage the cloud to streamline the development, testing, and integration of automotive AI-driven solutions that can then be deployed to run in-vehicle on automotive-grade hardware.
Early access versions of the OS in the Cloud project have been made available to select OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, including Marelli, a leading Tier 1 global automotive supplier, currently trialing the solution in its development of next generation automotive technology.
"The QNX AMI enabled our developers to reduce team ramp-up times significantly and achieve a development agility never experienced before," said Yannick Hoyau, VP – Engineering & Innovation Electronic Systems at Marelli. "It has revolutionized our way of working – we can now test the code that goes into the car - in all its variants - without the need for hardware. That is the real pivot we were waiting for to help transition to software-defined vehicles. As a Tier 1 supplier, we are proud that MInD-Xp, our Integrated Cockpit DCU, will be among the first on the market to adopt this approach."
"Connecting our partners with other leaders around the technology that is transforming industries is what powers the innovation possible on AWS," said Wendy Bauer, General Manager of AWS Automotive. "Unlocking the potential of the cloud via our Graviton2 processors and seeing the ways companies like BlackBerry are making meaningful change – and helping enable hardware parity in automotive development - is energizing for AWS and the industry at large."
For more information on how BlackBerry QNX can help with building the safe and secure vehicles of tomorrow, please visit: BlackBerry.QNX.com and follow @BlackBerry
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2022-11-28T15:18:29+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/11/28/blackberry-expands-work-with-aws-elevate-blackberry-qnx-foundational-software-cloud-accelerating-time-market-mission-critical-embedded-systems/
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County Behavioral Wellness Extends Condolences to Families Impacted Through Recent Mass Shooting Events
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(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) – The County of Santa Barbara Department of Behavioral Wellness extends deepest condolences to the families directly impacted, as well as all who have been indirectly impacted, through the multiple shootings which have occurred across our country in the past 10 days. Our hearts are broken after hearing the news of the tragic loss of lives in Uvalde, Texas, Buffalo, New York and Orange County, California.
As a community, we have together experienced multiple traumatic events, still navigating how to live life in a pandemic, and now have news of these recent events. The cumulative impact is significant. When mass shootings occur, it is normal for people to feel and experience emotional distress, even from a physical distance from the event. Common responses include increased feelings of anxiousness, depressive symptoms, irritability, and trouble sleeping.
Feeling emotional distress at this time is normal, but it is also critical that we pay attention to these feelings and take care of ourselves as we continue to strengthen our resiliency as individuals and as a community. It is important to stay connected with others, limited media exposure, stick to daily routines, take time for self-care including walks and getting outdoors, and reach out for extra support when needed.
The Behavioral Wellness 24/7 Access Line can be reached by calling 1-888-868-1649.
To learn more about County of Santa Barbara Department of Behavioral Wellness, please visit https://www.countyofsb.org/274/Behavioral-Wellness. For assistance accessing Behavioral Wellness services, call the 24/7 toll free Crisis Response and Services Access Line at (888) 868-1649.
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2022-05-25T22:21:47+00:00
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independent.com
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https://www.independent.com/2022/05/25/county-behavioral-wellness-extends-condolences-to-families-impacted-through-recent-mass-shooting-events/
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Woman killed at gas station, now being investigated as double homicide
A 50-year-old man was found dead in a vehicle in connection with a gas station homicide
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Updated: 4:24 PM CST Dec 6, 2022
DETECTIVES ARE WORKING WITH TONIGHT. CAROLINE. WELL, I’VE SPOKEN TO THE VICTIM’S FAMILY. THEY ARE UNDERSTANDABLY DISTRAUGHT, SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS IN THIS CASE. NOW POLICE ARE USING SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE THAT YOU’RE ABOUT TO SEE IN OUR STORY TO HELP TRACK DOWN THE SHOOTER. THIS IS THE VAN AT THE CENTER OF THE MILWAUKEE POLICE DEPARTMENT’S INVESTIGATION FROM A FATAL SHOOTING OVER THE WEEKEND. SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE SHOWS 36 YEAR OLD NYESHA LIGGINS AND A MAN SHOPPING AROUND INSIDE A CITGO GAS STATION NEAR 107TH. AND HEATHER AROUND 1030 SUNDAY MORNING. THE VIDEO SHOWS THE MOTHER OF FIVE PAY OFF THE REGISTER AND LEAVE WITH THE MAN GETTING INTO THE VEHICLE. BUT MOMENTS LATER SHOWS HER RUSH OUT OF THE VAN WITH A GUNSHOT WOUND TO HER ABDOMEN. SOMEONE IN THE VAN SHUTS THE DOOR AFTER HER AND DRIVES OFF. WE STOPPED THE VIDEO. THE MOMENT LIGGINS RUNS BACK INTO THE GAS STATION. IT GOES ON TO SHOW HER BLEED OUT ON THE FLOOR. THE ONLY THING I KNOW IS MY NINE YEAR OLD CALLING ME SCREAMING, SAYING AT OUR MOM BEEN GONE FOR TOO LONG AND SHE AIN’T ANSWERING THE PHONE. THE FATHER OF THREE OF LOGAN’S KIDS ASKED US NOT TO SHOW HIS FACE, THOUGH HE TELLS ME SHE WAS ABOUT TO BECOME A GRANDMOTHER AND WAS FIERCELY LOVED. STILL HOPING THAT THAT IS IF IT’S A JOKE OR A PRANK. BUT A NYESHA HAD A BIG HEART, A BIG HEART. LIKE NYESHA ALWAYS PUT THOSE THAT’S AROUND HER BEFORE HERSELF. POLICE NOW HONING IN ON THIS VEHICLE AND WHOEVER IS INSIDE IT. SO, CAROLINE, THEY’RE OBVIOUSLY SEARCHING FOR THE VEHICLE AND POLICE SAY NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE IN THIS CASE YET AS WELL. RIGHT. JOYCE AND I TALKED TO MULTIPLE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO TELL ME THE MAN, LIGGINS, IS SHOPPING WITHIN THE GAS STATION IS HER BOYFRIEND, THOUGH TH
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Woman killed at gas station, now being investigated as double homicide
A 50-year-old man was found dead in a vehicle in connection with a gas station homicide
Milwaukee police are investigating the incident of a woman shot on Dec. 4 at a gas station as a double homicide.The surveillance video obtained by WISN 12 News shows 36-year-old Nyeshia Liggins getting into a van at the Citgo gas station, and, moments later, running back inside and collapsing.Police said they responded to a call Tuesday near West McKinley Avenue and North 22 Street for a vehicle that was wanted in connection to the homicide.According to the report, police found the body of a 50-year-old man. Police said it appeared the man died from fatal gunshot injuries.Anyone with any information is asked to contact Milwaukee police at 414-935-7360 or, to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 414-224-Tips or the P3 Tips app.
MILWAUKEE —
Milwaukee police are investigating the incident of a woman shot on Dec. 4 at a gas station as a double homicide.
The surveillance video obtained by WISN 12 News shows 36-year-old Nyeshia Liggins getting into a van at the Citgo gas station, and, moments later, running back inside and collapsing.
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Police said they responded to a call Tuesday near West McKinley Avenue and North 22 Street for a vehicle that was wanted in connection to the homicide.
According to the report, police found the body of a 50-year-old man. Police said it appeared the man died from fatal gunshot injuries.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Milwaukee police at 414-935-7360 or, to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 414-224-Tips or the P3 Tips app.
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2022-12-07T00:05:11+00:00
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wisn.com
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https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee-woman-killed-at-gas-station-now-being-investigated-as-double-homicide/42168555
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LONDON >> A British aid worker detained by pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine has died in captivity, a separatist official and a U.K. charity involved with his case said Friday.
The British government summoned the Russian ambassador in London to demand an explanation.
Daria Morozova, the human rights ombudswoman for the Moscow-backed separatist leadership in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, said a British “mercenary,” whom she named as Paul Urey, died in captivity on Sunday. She said he had died of chronic illnesses and stress.
The Presidium Network aid charity said Urey’s family had been notified of his death by British officials.
Britain’s Foreign Office said it had summoned Russian Ambassador Andrey Kelin “to express the U.K.’s deep concern.”
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said she was “shocked to hear reports of the death of British aid worker Paul Urey while in the custody of a Russian proxy in Ukraine.”
“Russia must bear the full responsibility for this,” she said.
Urey, 45, was detained in April at a checkpoint near Zaporizhzhia, some 470 kilometers (290 miles) southeast of Kyiv, along with another British man, Dylan Healy. The two men had been operating on their own in the war zone, helping to evacuate civilians.
Presidium Network co-founder Dominik Byrne said Urey had diabetes and needed a regular supply of insulin.
“It’s obvious that his welfare was not looked after,” Byrne said. “The Russian authorities and the Donetsk People’s Republic knew he had need of insulin but all the way through this the Red Cross has been denied welfare access to him and has never been able to verify his actual conditions in prison.”
Byrne said “multiple agencies” including the British government and the Red Cross had tried in vain to secure Urey’s release.
“We are formally calling for his captors to release his body and help us repatriate it back to the U.K. for his family,” he said. “We really feel that is of ultimate importance and the least they can do at this stage.”
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2022-07-16T01:04:58+00:00
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staradvertiser.com
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https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/07/15/breaking-news/u-k-aid-worker-held-by-ukraine-separatists-reported-dead/
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NEW YORK, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces it has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Futu Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: FUTU) between April 27, 2020 and May 16, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). A class action has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 11, 2023 in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Futu 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 Futu class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=16261 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 August 11, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose, among other things, that: (1) Futu's business was, quite simply, illegal as it related to operations in China as a result of its failure to obtain the proper licenses; (2) it did not fully disclose to investors that it was engaging in unlawful activity and instead falsely characterized the applicable Chinese laws as ambiguous; (3) the foregoing subjected the Company to a heightened risk of regulatory enforcement; and (4) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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2023-06-15T03:22:42+00:00
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Three men were given life sentences on Thursday for the 2018 killing of star rapper XXXTentacion, who was shot outside a South Florida motorcycle shop while being robbed of $50,000.
Michael Boatwright, 28, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24, were each convicted last month of first-degree murder and armed robbery by a jury following eight days of deliberations.
Prosecutors had not sought the death penalty, so life in prison was the only sentence that Broward County Circuit Judge Michael Usan could impose for the first-degree murder convictions.
During the month-long trial, prosecutors linked Boatwright, Williams and Newsome to the June 18, 2018, shooting outside Riva Motorsports in suburban Fort Lauderdale through extensive surveillance video taken inside and outside the store, plus cellphone videos the men took showing themselves flashing fistfuls of $100 bills hours after the slaying.
Prosecutors also had the testimony of a fourth man, Robert Allen, a former friend of the defendants who said he participated in the robbery. He pleaded guilty last year to second-degree murder. His sentence was delayed until the conclusion of the other three defendants’ trial.
Allen’s sentence could be as little as time served — meaning he could soon be released — or as long as life, depending partly on how much weight prosecutors give to his assistance.
Defense attorneys accused Allen of being a liar who was motivated by his desire to avoid a life sentence. They also said prosecutors and detectives did a poor job on the investigation and didn’t look at other possible suspects, including the Canadian rap star Drake, who had feuded with XXXTentacion online.
XXXTentacion, whose real name was Jahseh Onfroy, had just left Riva Motorsports with a friend when an SUV swerved in front of him and blocked his BMW.
Surveillance video showed two masked gunmen emerging and confronting the 20-year-old singer at the driver’s window, with one shooting him repeatedly. They then grabbed a Louis Vuitton bag containing cash that XXXTentacion had just withdrawn from the bank, got back into the SUV and sped away. The rapper’s friend was not harmed.
Boatwright was identified as the primary shooter and Newsome was accused of being the other gunman. Williams was accused of driving the SUV and Allen of being inside the vehicle.
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2023-04-07T02:08:51+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/3-men-get-life-for-fatal-shooting-of-rapper-xxxtentacion/
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How to Watch the Yankees vs. Blue Jays Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for April 22
Published: Apr. 22, 2023 at 7:12 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The New York Yankees versus Toronto Blue Jays game on Saturday at 1:05 PM ET will showcase a pair of hot hitters in Anthony Rizzo and Matt Chapman.
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Yankees vs. Blue Jays Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, April 22, 2023
- Time: 1:05 PM ET
- TV Channel: YES
- Location: The Bronx, New York
- Venue: Yankee Stadium
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Yankees Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Yankees rank fourth-best in MLB action with 28 total home runs.
- New York is 13th in baseball, slugging .404.
- The Yankees have the 23rd-ranked batting average in the majors (.229).
- New York is the 19th-highest scoring team in baseball, averaging 4.5 runs per game (89 total).
- The Yankees are 19th in baseball with an on-base percentage of .315.
- The Yankees strike out 8.9 times per game, the No. 19 mark in baseball.
- The pitching staff for New York has a collective 9.9 K/9, the second-best in the majors.
- New York has a 3.17 team ERA that ranks fifth across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pitchers for the Yankees combine for the No. 3-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.117).
Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher
- Gerrit Cole (4-0) takes the mound for the Yankees in his fifth start of the season. He has a .95 ERA in 28 1/3 innings pitched, with 32 strikeouts.
- The righty last appeared on Sunday against the Minnesota Twins, when he tossed nine scoreless innings while giving up two hits.
- Cole is trying to record his fifth quality start in a row in this game.
- Cole will aim to last five or more innings for his fifth straight start. He's averaging 7.0 innings per outing.
Yankees Schedule
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2023-04-22T12:25:45+00:00
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The seven states that share the Colorado River face a Tuesday deadline to agree to voluntary water cutbacks, or have federal cuts imposed. Six states have agreed to a deal, but California did not.
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The seven states that share the Colorado River face a Tuesday deadline to agree to voluntary water cutbacks, or have federal cuts imposed. Six states have agreed to a deal, but California did not.
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2023-01-31T10:37:35+00:00
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kgou.org
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The 2023 Barracuda Championship Odds & Preview: Keith Mitchell
The field for the 2023 Barracuda Championship in Truckee, California at Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood) will include Keith Mitchell. The event is from July 20-23.
Looking to place a bet on Mitchell at the Barracuda Championship this week? Read on for the betting odds and stats you can use before you make your picks.
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Keith Mitchell Insights
- Over his last 16 rounds, Mitchell has scored under par seven times, while also posting 11 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has carded a top-10 score once in his last 16 rounds.
- Over his last 16 rounds, Mitchell has finished within five strokes of the top score for the day six times.
- Mitchell has finished in the top 20 in one of his past five appearances.
- He has qualified for the weekend in three of his past five tournaments.
- Mitchell has not posted a score better than the tournament average or finished within five shots of the leader in any of his past five events.
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Barracuda Championship Insights and Stats
- At 7,480 yards, Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood) is set up as a par-71 for this event. In the past year, tournaments on the Tour have been played on courses with a shorter average distance of 7,005 yards.
- In the past year, Tour stops have seen an average score of -5, while Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood) has a recent scoring average of -6.
- Courses that Mitchell has played in the past year have measured an average of 7,296 yards, 184 yards shorter than the 7,480-yard Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood) this week.
- In the past year, the events he has played have had a scoring average of -5 among finishers, higher than the -6 average at this course.
Mitchell's Last Time Out
- Mitchell was relatively mediocre on the 10 par-3 holes at the Genesis Scottish Open, averaging par to finish in the 52nd percentile of competitors.
- His 4.05-stroke average on the 20 par-4 holes at the Genesis Scottish Open ranked in the 45th percentile among all competitors (the tournament average was 4.03).
- On the six par-5 holes at the Genesis Scottish Open, Mitchell shot better than 39% of the golfers (averaging 4.67 strokes).
- Mitchell carded a birdie or better on one of 10 par-3s at the Genesis Scottish Open (the tournament average was 1.8).
- On the 10 par-3s at the Genesis Scottish Open, Mitchell recorded one bogey or worse (the tournament average was 2.4).
- Mitchell's two birdies or better on the 20 par-4s at the Genesis Scottish Open were less than the tournament average (4.9).
- In that last competition, Mitchell carded a bogey or worse on three of 20 par-4s (the field averaged 5.6).
- Mitchell ended the Genesis Scottish Open underperforming compared to the field's average of birdies or better on par-5s (3.6), with two on the six par-5 holes.
- The field at the Genesis Scottish Open averaged 0.6 bogeys or worse on the six par-5s, but Mitchell finished without one.
Barracuda Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 20-23, 2023
- Course: Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood)
- Location: Truckee, California
- Par: 71 / 7,480 yards
- Mitchell Odds to Win: +2000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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2023-07-19T01:12:28+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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Multiyear campaign will highlight clinical evidence and patient impact of MRIdian for cancer treatment
CLEVELAND, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewRay, Inc, the U.S. maker of the MRIdian System, today announced a partnership with award-winning journalist and cancer advocate Katie Couric's multi-media company, Katie Couric Media ("KCM"). ViewRay and KCM are working together to launch a national awareness campaign to educate patients and clinicians about MRIdian SMART (Stereotactic MRI-guided adaptive radiotherapy) for treatment of pancreatic, prostate, lung, liver, breast, colorectal and oligometastatic cancers.
Nearly 25,000 patients have been treated by over 50 MRIdian systems, including 21 academic and community hospitals in the United States and nearly 30 other hospitals around the world. These centers are pioneering the use of MRIdian SMART treatments and have demonstrated favorable patient outcomes, including extended survival for pancreatic cancer patients and reduced side effects through shorter course treatments for prostate cancer patients. A list of hospitals using MRIdian is located at: https://viewray.com/find-mridian-mri-guided-radiation-therapy/
Couric's life mission is focused on cancer prevention and research. After her first husband, Jay Monahan, died from colorectal cancer more than two decades ago, Couric bravely got a colonoscopy live on NBC's Today show, which she cohosted from 1991 to 2006, to raise awareness of colon cancer screenings. The same year, she co-founded the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, and then in 2008, Couric co-founded Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C). Since its launch, SU2C has raised more than $700 million to support cutting-edge collaborative science and its research has contributed to nine new FDA-approved therapies.
"I'm thrilled to announce our new partnership with ViewRay. Their one-of-a-kind technology is enabling clinicians to treat patients with targeted, and effective state-of-the-art MRI-guided radiation therapy. Innovation like this gives me hope for the millions of people around the world currently battling cancer" says Katie Couric.
In 2017, Couric and her husband, John Molner, started Katie Couric Media, a multi-media company that creates high-quality content in collaboration with purpose-driven brands that sparks curiosity, elevates conversation, inspires action and moves the world forward. "With over 5 million subscribers across multiple platforms, our audience at KCM is looking to support companies and brands that are innovative, best in class and striving to make a difference. ViewRay's vision to conquer cancer by re-envisioning radiation therapy is a perfect example of this," says John Molner, Katie Couric Media's Co-Founder and CEO.
"Thousands of patients treated on MRIdian prove compelling and consistent clinical outcomes in both tough to treat and more common cancers. Patients demand short-course non-invasive therapy with fewer side effects and better quality of life, whether they face complex or more common forms of cancer. ViewRay is committed to delivering that to every patient who requires treatment," said Scott Drake President and CEO of ViewRay. "Our expanding body of clinical data combined with our footprint of MRIdian systems make this the perfect time to partner with Katie and her team. This campaign is an expression and expansion of our dedication to empower cancer patients and their loved ones to find the hope that resides in the best available care."
The MRIdian system provides oncologists outstanding anatomical visualization through diagnostic-quality MR images and the ability to adapt a radiation therapy plan to the targeted cancer with the patient on the table. This combination allows physicians to define tight treatment margins to avoid unnecessary radiation exposure of vulnerable organs-at-risk and healthy tissue and allows the delivery of ablative radiation doses in five or fewer treatment sessions, without relying on implanted markers. By providing real-time continuous tracking of the target and organs-at-risk, MRIdian enables automatic gating of the radiation beam if the target moves outside the user-defined margins. This allows for delivery of the prescribed dose to the target, while sparing surrounding healthy tissue and critical structures, which results in minimizing toxicities typically associated with conventional radiation therapy.
Disclaimer:
Nothing in this material is intended to provide specific medical advice or to take the place of written law or regulations.
Safety Statement
The MRIdian Linac System is not appropriate for all patients, including those who are not candidates for magnetic resonance imaging. Radiation treatments may cause side effects that can vary depending on the part of the body being treated. The most frequent ones are typically temporary and may include, but are not limited to, irritation to the respiratory, digestive, urinary, or reproductive systems; fatigue; nausea; skin irritation; and hair loss. In some patients, side effects can be severe. Treatment sessions may vary in complexity and duration. Radiation treatment is not appropriate for all cancers. You should discuss the imaging with your doctor to make sure radiation treatment is right for you.
About ViewRay
ViewRay, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRAY), designs, manufactures, and markets the MRIdian® MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy System. MRIdian is built upon a proprietary high-definition MR imaging system designed from the ground up to address the unique challenges and clinical workflow for advanced radiation oncology. Unlike MR systems used in diagnostic radiology, MRIdian's high-definition MR was purpose-built to address specific challenges, including beam distortion, skin toxicity, and other concerns that potentially may arise when high magnetic fields interact with radiation beams. ViewRay and MRIdian are registered trademarks of ViewRay, Inc.
Medicare and most major insurers cover MRIdian radiation therapy. For more information about ViewRay and MRIdian, visit www.viewray.com
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include, among other things, ViewRay's financial guidance for the full year 2022, anticipated future orders, anticipated future operating and financial performance, treatment results, therapy adoption, innovation, and the performance of the MRIdian systems. Actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statements due to numerous factors. Such factors include, among others, the ability to commercialize the MRIdian Linac System, demand for ViewRay's products, the ability to convert backlog into revenue, the timing of delivery of ViewRay's products, the timing, length, and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, including its impacts across our businesses on demand, our operations and global supply chains, disruptions in the supply or changes in costs of raw materials, labor, product components or transportation services as a result of inflation, the results and other uncertainties associated with clinical trials, the ability to raise the additional funding needed to continue to pursue ViewRay's business and product development plans, the inherent uncertainties associated with developing new products or technologies, competition in the industry in which ViewRay operates, and overall market conditions. For a further description of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to ViewRay's business in general, see ViewRay's current and future reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, as updated periodically with the Company's other filings with the SEC. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, and ViewRay assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in the forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
About Katie Couric Media
Founded by award-winning journalist, Katie Couric and her husband John Molner, Katie Couric Media creates high-quality content in collaboration with purpose-driven brands that sparks curiosity, elevates conversation, inspires action and moves the world forward. Katie Couric Media recently launched a new website and produces a newsletter, Wake-Up Call; podcast, Next Question; original video, including short-form digital series such as #SeeHer Story, The Bright Side, TIME Reports with Katie Couric, Daring to Disrupt and Thank You Notes; as well as documentaries and scripted series. Couric (@KatieCouric) is a number one New York Times best-selling author of her memoir and a co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer. For more information, visit KatieCouric.com.
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2022-08-02T20:33:26+00:00
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2022/08/02/viewray-katie-couric-media-partner-raise-awareness-about-mridian-mri-guided-radiation-therapy/
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A garage fire early Tuesday morning caused extensive damage to a house in Batavia, officials said.
According to a news release from the Batavia Fire Department, when firefighters arrived on the scene of the house fire on the 1800 block of Wagner Road around 2 a.m. Tuesday they found a three-car attached garage engulfed in flames.
After searching the home, firefighters established that all the home’s occupants had been evacuated and were safe, according to the release.
Firefighters were able to contain the fire to the garage, but due to extensive damage, the home’s occupants were unable to return to the house and relocated with family, the release stated.
Batavia Fire Department Deputy Chief John Kessler said the cause of the fire is under investigation.
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2022-12-27T18:54:05+00:00
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chicagotribune.com
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/ct-abn-batavia-fire-st-1228-20221227-5z66hjwhbfbivi5mus3hbwaqi4-story.html
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Couple find, rescue baby left in their backyard shed
LIVINGSTON, Texas (KHOU) - A Texas couple were startled to find a baby on the ground in their backyard shed but took care of her until authorities arrived. The baby’s father is now in custody on multiple charges.
John and Katharine McClain woke up Saturday morning to the sound of their neighbor’s pickup truck taking off. Their security camera caught a mostly naked man checking their vehicle’s doors before allegedly stealing the truck.
The couple called their neighbors, who reported the truck stolen. With that, they thought all the excitement was over, but it had just begun.
Video shows the McClains’ dog, Archie, barking at something in their backyard shed. When John McClain went over to investigate, he made a startling discovery.
“Come out here with him about the time I heard a cry,” John McClain said. “So, when I opened it up, the baby was laying right by the motorcycle.”
He alerted his wife, who first thought he meant a baby snake or some other animal.
“He said, ‘Call 911. There’s a baby.’ I thought he was just kidding. I was like, ‘OK, a baby snake, a baby what?’ He said, ‘Call 911 quick. There’s an infant in here,’” she said.
Katharine McClain called 911 and says the dispatcher told her it was OK to pick up the baby, so she did, before taking her up to the house. Photos show her holding the child, wrapped in a towel, while awaiting an ambulance.
The baby was checked out on site before being airlifted to Houston. Her condition is unknown, but it’s believed she will be OK.
“I’m a mom. I was pretty frantic and distraught. It’s still kind of got me a little bit,” Katharine McClain said.
Authorities say the neighbors’ stolen truck was later located with the suspect seen on video, who is also the baby’s father, behind the wheel. Records show he is now in the Polk County Jail on charges including abandoning or endangering a child.
The McClains were told the suspect’s vehicle was found abandoned along the railroad tracks that run right behind their property.
The couple says their security camera recorded the suspect holding the baby before going into the shed. He appeared to spend hours inside with her before leaving and allegedly stealing the truck.
“I just hope he comes out and takes care of his kid, cleans his act up,” John McClain said.
Katharine McClain says they’d be willing to add the baby to their family, if needed.
“I just want her to be happy and live a good life, and if they give her to me, I’ll take her in a heartbeat and she’ll never have any worries again,” she said.
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2022-09-26T08:18:02+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/2022/09/26/couple-find-rescue-baby-left-their-backyard-shed/
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President Biden is hosting his first state dinner at the White House Thursday for French President Emmanuel Macron, a return to some of the more ceremonial diplomatic activities that were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The White House says the visit by Macron and his wife, Brigitte, will underscore the deep relationship with the United States' oldest ally.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said France is not only the United State's oldest ally, but a "vital global partner" on a number critical issues.
"If you look at what's going on in Ukraine, look at what's going on in the Indo Pacific and the tensions with China, France is really at the center of all those things," Kirby said. "And so the president felt that this was exactly the right and the most appropriate country to start with for state visits."
A state visit is one of the most glamourous events held at the White House. It includes an elaborate arrival ceremony, press conference between the two leaders and a black-tie dinner, which this year will feature a performance by Grammy award winner Jon Batiste.
The Macrons arrived Tuesday night for the three-day visit that also includes a visit to NASA headquarters with Vice President Kamala Harris and lunch at the State Department.
During their stay, Macron and his wife will sleep at the historic Blair House, across the street from the White House.
As signal of the France's importance, Macron is actually returning for his second state visit. He was also the first guest of former President Donald Trump's at a state dinner.
Macron has become a critical ear for Biden on the other side of the Atlantic
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has retired and the Britain's Boris Johnson resigned, which has left the 44-year-old Macron, even though he's young, as one of the most experienced European leaders.
"France has jumped to the head of the queue," said Charles Kupchan, who was a senior adviser on European issues in the Obama White House. "America's go-to partner used to be the United Kingdom, but the U.K. has left the European Union and has been tied up in political knots."
It also symbolizes the recovery of a key relationship that deteriorated over a submarine deal with Australia last year that infuriated France.
The two teams say they're looking forward and focused on the most urgent global issues, including Russia's war in Ukraine and the challenges posed by China and Iran.
The leaders are also expected to discuss the climate, energy issues and economic cooperation.
But the visit is not without its fair share of challenges.
While there are lingering issues of trust in the defense sector following the submarine fiasco, the war in Ukraine has put those issues in perspective, said Célia Belin, a former policy adviser in the French foreign ministry.
"The war has reminded everybody of what is really at stake," said Belin, who is now a Paris-based fellow for the Brookings Institution. "And what's most important is transatlantic solidarity."
But she said the war hasn't erased all the other challenges the two country's face.
One of the big ones is France's concerns about Biden's climate and infrastructure bill.
French officials have raised concerns about Biden's "Made in America" electric car provisions, which French leaders say could put European car makers at a disadvantage. And Macron has warned Europe may have to take action in response, including granting subsidies for European companies.
Martin Quencez, the deputy director of the German Marshall Fund's Paris office, says if the Biden administration is as committed as it says it is to the alliance around the world, then it needs to take into consideration the effects of its domestic politics policies on the same allies.
"The economic measures that are taken by the Biden administration makes perfect sense from a domestic American perspective," Quencez said. "But if it has damaging effects for like this has to be discussed and this is something to be reconciled by the Biden administration, you want stronger allies. You can't actually harm them by imposing this in a unilateral way."
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2022-11-30T14:45:22+00:00
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HANGZHOU, China, July 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lynk Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'Lynk Pharmaceuticals'), an innovative clinical stage company, announced that it has dosed the first patient with atopic dermatitis in a Phase Ib clinical trial of its innovative drug LNK01004.
The trial was designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetic characteristics and preliminary efficacy of LNK01004 ointment in Chinese patients with mild to moderate atopic dermatitis.
Atopic dermatitis is a chronic, pruritic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by dry skin, erythema, oozing, crusting, and lichenification. Itchiness is a hallmark of the disease and a major burden for patients and their families. There are as many as 390 million patients with atopic dermatitis worldwide, and about 50 million patients in China, most of whom are mild and moderate patients. Current treatments primarily focus on alleviating symptoms (itching and dermatitis), preventing exacerbation of disease, and minimizing treatment risks. LNK01004 ointment is a topical, skin-restricted JAK inhibitor, primarily acting on the skin with rapid onset of action and minimal systemic exposure, thereby avoiding potential safety concerns associated with systemic drug exposure. It has the potential to be a first-in-class treatment with skin-restricted properties. LNK01004 ointment has completed Phase I clinical trials in healthy subjects, demonstrating a good safety profile. Phase Ib clinical trials for the treatment of psoriasis are currently underway.
Dr. Henry Wu, Chief Development Officer of Lynk Pharmaceuticals, said, "Atopic dermatitis is a chronic disease with a protracted course of symptoms. LNK01004 ointment has shown promising efficacy in preclinical studies, and good safety results in the healthy volunteer study. We believe it has the potential to be a better treatment for patients with atopic dermatitis. We are actively advancing the clinical development of this program and look forward to its performance in patient trials."
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2023-07-21T12:29:07+00:00
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wlox.com
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Slain football players remembered as funny, sweet, ambitious
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — They were three college football players working through changes in their sports careers. Off the field, they were funny, sweet and ambitious.
Lavel Davis Jr., aspired to be the country’s best wide receiver after overcoming a season-ending injury. Gentle but passionate, the 6-foot-7 sports star set the standard among teammates for preparing for a game — even when the coaches weren’t around.
D’Sean Perry shifted seamlessly from linebacker to defensive end when the coaches asked. He was probably among the most interesting players on the roster, an art major who could draw and listened to classical music.
Devin Chandler transferred in from Wisconsin, where the wide receiver returned a total of four kicks, three against Notre Dame. At Virginia, his sense of humor helped teammates push through the monotony of training. He loved to dance.
The three University of Virginia juniors were returning from a class trip Sunday when authorities say they were killed by a fellow student and former football player.
Two other students were wounded, including another football player, Mike Hollins, who remained hospitalized Wednesday. The other student left the hospital Tuesday.
LAVEL DAVIS JR.
Even for a football player, Davis was big, towering over teammates and defenders alike. His size helped make him a freshman sensation for the Cavaliers.
A 90-yard touchdown reception — fingertip catch — against Abilene Christian was the highlight of his first season. By the time it was over, the soft-spoken kid from Dorchester, South Carolina, had established himself as a gamebreaker.
A torn ACL derailed his sophomore season — Davis watched from the sideline — but he returned this year with great expectations. They were realized in the very first game. Trailing Richmond 7-0, he caught a 56-yard pass that tied the score.
“He wanted to be recognized as the best receiver in the nation,” said Herman Moore, who developed a friendship with Davis as an alumni-mentor.
Davis’s major was undecided. And he had aspirations to play in the NFL, Moore said. But he was also thinking about life beyond sports, perhaps in business.
“He was very ambitious — confident both as an athlete but also as a student,” Moore said.
American studies professor Jack Hamilton, who had Davis in class, offered a similar impression.
“He made a point to come up and shake my hand and told me I should call him Vel,” Hamilton tweeted.
“One thing that struck me about Vel was how much his classmates liked him and vice versa,” Hamilton wrote. “In my experience, star athletes often tend to hang out with other athletes (understandable, given the time commitment). But Vel seemed to go out of his way to make friends with non-athletes.”
D’SEAN PERRY
Perry was the son of a prison guard and a mail carrier who had earned a full scholarship to the University of Virginia. He had plans to work toward a master’s degree and continue playing football.
“When anyone met D’Sean, the first thing they would see is this gentle giant with this humility, this absolute humility for an incredible athlete, incredible student,” said attorney Michael Haggard, whose son played with Perry at Gulliver Prep in suburban Miami.
That humility was on display in September when coaches at Virginia asked Perry to move from linebacker to defensive end.
Perry told The Daily Progress that it was “no problem at all”
”(B)oth positions I’m very comfortable with and I’m just trying to help the team win,” he said.
Perry appeared in seven games this year and made seven tackles.
Zoe Tran, a friend and classmate, told WUSA9 that Perry was extremely sweet and much more than a football player.
“He was an amazing studio artist. He loved anime, loved to cook and was one of the most loyal people” Tran told the station.
Earl Sims, who coached Perry at Gulliver Prep, told reporters in Florida on Wednesday, that “D’Sean was a beautiful soul.”
Sims read aloud an essay Perry composed for an English class at Gulliver, with Perry writing that he had “an epiphany” while working with some middle school football players. One told Perry he wanted to be just like him.
“I realize that it is just not about me in the sense of what I want to do, but the people that helped me get to where I am right now and those ones who look up to me until this day,” Perry wrote.
He also noted: ”All I want to do is make my family and the city I am from proud.”
DEVIN CHANDLER
Chandler was a wide receiver from Huntersville, North Carolina. He recently transferred from Wisconsin, where his accomplishments included a 59-yard kickoff return and 18-yard rush in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl against Wake Forest in 2020.
Jim Leonhard, the University of Wisconsin’s interim head football coach, tweeted that Chandler’s personality “was infectious and he was a joy to be around.”
At Virginia, he was “the life of the party” — someone who kept everyone on the team entertained in places like the weight room, said Tony Elliott, his coach.
“He just was a big kid. Smiled all the time. Loved to dance. Loved to sing. Loved to compete, even though the guys revealed that he wasn’t very good at video games, but he thought he was,” Elliott told reporters Tuesday, laughing. “But he loved to compete.”
Ethan Johnson recalled how he spent a season playing with Chandler on their high school football team, with Johnson covering Chandler as a cornerback during practice. This past summer, the young men worked out together at their alma mater.
“And he was there telling me how much of a difference he saw in me. How much I had grown. How I had improved as a player,” said Johnson, who is now a freshman cornerback at Appalachian State. “That was the type of guy he was. He was always trying to lift people up.”
Hamilton, the American studies professor, recalled how Chandler transferred from Wisconsin and “made a point to come to my office hours repeatedly, often just to ask questions about how things worked around UVA.”
The professor later helped Chandler to declare his major in American studies.
“He was an unbelievably nice person, always a huge smile, really gregarious and funny,” Hamilton wrote. “One of those people who’s just impossible not to like.”
MIKE HOLLINS
Hollins, a running back on the team who was shot in the back, was showing signs of improvement Tuesday after a second surgery.
Hollins was removed from a ventilator and was able to visit with family and friends in his hospital room, said Joe Gipson, the chief operating officer of a law firm in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Hollins’ mother, Brenda Hollins, works.
She told The Associated Press on Monday that, “Mike is a fighter — and he’s showing it.
“We have great doctors who have been working with him. And most importantly, we have God’s grace and God’s hands on him,” she said.
Elliott, his coach at Virginia, said Hollins “has a big personality.”
“I think he’s a young man that is fully invested in this institution, this program,” Elliott said. “He is a guy that I’ve seen really start to kind of come into his own from a leadership standpoint.”
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Finley reported from Norfolk, Virginia. Associated Press news researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York, sports writer Steve Reed in Charlotte, North Carolina; and reporter Terry Spencer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; contributed to this report.
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2022-11-16T22:14:18+00:00
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kob.com
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Consumers can leave product reviews to enter for a chance to win $250 gift card
MONTVALE, N.J., Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Feeling lucky? Consumers can now enter the "Simply Better Living" sweepstakes for a chance to win one of eight $250 VISA gift cards. No purchase is necessary, and eligible participants can enter the sweepstakes as they provide a review for one of several different Sharp appliances through the official sweepstakes website. Participants who complete the sweepstakes registration form will receive one entry into the contest.
Valid products that participants can review to be included in the sweepstakes include Sharp air purifiers, filters, microwave ovens, cooktops, dishwashers, refrigerators, accessories, and more. The sweepstakes began collecting entries on October 1, 2022, and will continue taking entries until September 30, 2023. The Sweepstakes period will be split into four entry periods:
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Each entry period will have one (1) drawing and two (2) winners, BazaarVoice will contact the winners via email to notify them of the selection.
To review the full terms, conditions, and rules for the "Simply Better Living" sweepstakes, proceed to the entry site here and click on the "View Rules" option at the bottom of the page.
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2022-12-01T14:27:21+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/12/01/sharp-announces-launch-simply-better-living-sweepstakes/
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CALGARY, AB AND MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Willow Biosciences Inc. ("Willow" or the "Company") (TSX: WLLW) (OTCQB: CANSF), a leading biotechnology company focused on revolutionizing industrial manufacturing of pure, consistent and sustainable functional ingredients, has released its financial and operating results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, reporting significant progress to its operational platform, leadership and strong liquidity. Additionally, Willow has announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Peter Seufer-Wasserthal as its President and CEO, effective November 3, 2022.
Dr. Seufer-Wasserthal has served as interim President and CEO since July 2022 and brings extensive experience in biotech, pharma, nutrition, and consumer care to the Company and has already advanced several partnership discussions in the food and nutrition sectors. He will continue to build and lead the organization needed to successfully execute on the Company's mission. Dr. Seufer-Wasserthal will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board of the Company.
"The third quarter saw us take another step forward in becoming a leader in precision fermentation", said Dr. Peter Seufer-Wasserthal. "Our FutureGrown™ platform technology has allowed to secure partnerships and identify attractive functional ingredient opportunities leveraging off our initial work done on cannabinoids, and we are excited to continue to de-risk our portfolio to create value for our stakeholders."
Willow's unaudited consolidated interim financial statements and related management's discussion and analysis for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
- On July 18, 2022, Willow appointed Dr. Peter Seufer-Wasserthal as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer, effective July 17, 2022, in connection with Trevor Peters' retirement as President and CEO. Mr. Peters continues to serve as a Director of the Company.
- On August 31, 2022, Willow provided an update on Generally Recognized as Safe ("GRAS") status for its FutureGrown™ cannabigerol ("CBG") product. The Company successfully completed the Stage 1 toxicological assessment for oral product applications. Willow anticipates initiating its Stage 2 pivotal toxicological assessment in Q3 2022 and attaining an independent conclusion of GRAS in the first half of 2023.
- Subsequent to the quarter, on October 12, 2022, the Company announced that it had completed proof of concept work on a new functional ingredient Astaxanthin. Astaxanthin is a red pigment, belonging to a group of chemicals known as carotenoids. In addition to its pigmentation properties, it is one of nature's most powerful antioxidants. Development is currently underway to establish a commercial production process for pure, consistent & sustainable FutureGrown™ Astaxanthin.
- Willow ended the quarter in a strong financial position, with approximately $18.7 million in working capital (see "Specified Financial Measures" below) and $18.4 million of cash on hand.
Willow is positioned to become a leader in precision fermentation by capturing key intellectual property around what the Company anticipates being the most cost-effective methods to produce highly pure ingredients. The Company's operational capabilities, along with its strategic partners, span the entire product development pathway, and Willow's integrated R&D team in California has the full capabilities to deliver at all stages of the development cycle. The Company's established technology, capabilities, and manufacturing network can now enable biobased production for a diverse set of industries.
While the market for biosynthetically produced cannabinoids has not materialized to the extent originally anticipated, Willow remains optimistic about the long-term market potential for these ingredients and continues to optimize its production process.
While the market for biosynthetically produced cannabinoids continues to develop, Willow will utilize it's proven FutureGrownTM platform to partner with companies in the personal care, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical markets, providing access to pure, consistent and sustainable functional ingredients. So far this year the Company has announced its first partnered, non-cannabinoid program, and its first new non-cannabinoid functional ingredient, Astaxanthin. Willow is excited to continue to be adding partnerships and products, expanding its platform and de-risking its portfolio.
Willow develops and produces high-purity ingredients for the personal care, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical markets. Willow's FutureGrownÔ biotechnology platform allows large-scale production with sustainability at its core. Willow's R&D team has a proven track record of developing and commercializing bio-based manufacturing processes and products to benefit our B2B partners and their customers.
This press release contains certain specified financial measures, as described below, which do not have standardized meanings as prescribed by GAAP. As these non-GAAP financial measures are commonly used, the inclusion is useful to investors, however these amounts may not be comparable with the calculation of similar measures by other companies.
"Working capital (non-GAAP financial measure)" is calculated as total current assets minus total current liabilities. Management utilizes working capital to monitor its liquidity, capital management and its ability to fund current operations.
Please refer to the MD&A for additional information relating to specified financial measures. The MD&A can be accessed either on Willow's profile on www.sedar.com.
This news release may include forward-looking statements including future-oriented financial information and financial outlooks within the meaning of securities laws, opinions, assumptions, estimates and the Company's assessment of future plans and operations, and, more particularly, statements concerning: the continued development of Willow's FutureGrown™ CBG, and anticipated timing of GRAS status relating thereto; development and commercial production of FutureGrown™ Astaxanthin; the demand and market size potential of the synthetic ingredients industry; and the business plan of the Company, generally, including becoming a leader in precision fermentation, research and production of functional ingredients. When used in this news release, the words "will," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intent," "may," "project," "should," and similar expressions are intended to be among the statements that identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are founded on the basis of expectations and assumptions made by the Company which include, but are not limited to: the success of Willow's strategic partnerships, including the development of future strategic partnerships; the financial strength of the Company; the ability of the Company to fund its business plan using cash on hand and existing resources; the market for Willow's products, including FutureGrown™ CBG and FutureGrown™ Astaxanthin; the ability of the Company to obtain and retain applicable licences; the ability of the Company to obtain suitable manufacturing partners and other strategic relationships; and the successful implementation of Willow's commercialization and production strategy, generally. Forward-looking statements are subject to a wide range of risks and uncertainties, and although the Company believes that the expectations represented by such forward-looking statements are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such expectations will be realized. Any number of important factors could cause actual results to differ from the Company's expectations, including but not limited to: the biotechnology industry in general; the success of the Company's research and development strategies; infringement on intellectual property; failure to benefit from partnerships or successfully integrate acquisitions; uncertainty of costs and expenses due to inflationary pressures; actions and initiatives of federal and provincial governments and changes to government policies and the execution and impact of these actions, initiatives and policies; import/export and research restrictions for cannabinoid-based operations; the size of the medical-use and adult-use cannabinoid market; competition from other industry participants; adverse U.S., Canadian and global economic conditions; adverse global events and public-health crises, including the current COVID-19 outbreak; failure to comply with certain regulations; departure of key management personnel or inability to attract and retain talent; and other factors more fully described from time to time in the reports and filings made by the Company with securities regulatory authorities. Please refer to the Company's most recent annual information form and management's discussion and analysis for additional risk factors relating to Willow, which can be accessed either on Willow's website at www.willowbio.com or under the Company's profile on www.sedar.com.
Any financial outlook and future-oriented financial information contained in this document regarding prospective financial performance, financial position, cash balances or revenue is based on assumptions about future events, including economic conditions and proposed courses of action based on management's assessment of the relevant information that is currently available. Projected operational information contains forward-looking information and is based on a number of material assumptions and factors, as are set out above. These projections may also be considered to contain future-oriented financial information or a financial outlook. The actual results of the Company's operations for any period will likely vary from the amounts set forth in these projections and such variations may be material. Actual results will vary from projected results. Readers are cautioned that any such financial outlook and future-oriented financial information contained herein should not be used for purposes other than those for which it is disclosed herein.
The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date hereof and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update publicly or to revise any of the included forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable law. The forward-looking statements contained herein are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.
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2022-11-04T00:57:42+00:00
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/11/03/willow-biosciences-reports-third-quarter-2022-results-announces-appointment-dr-seufer-wasserthal-president-ceo/
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Germany backs EU-Indonesia trade pact to curb China reliance
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday that he will press for a trade agreement between the European Union and Indonesia as part of his country’s efforts to reduce its reliance on China for crucial raw materials. Speaking at the opening of the annual Hannover trade fair, Scholz told Indonesian President Joko Widodo that a trade deal between Southeast Asia’s most populous nation and the 27-nation bloc would create an economic area with 700 million people. Scholz said of the negotiations, which have been ongoing since 2016, that he is “working to finally get this agreement across the finish line.” The German leader said he was similar hopeful about talks between the EU and the Latin American Mercosur bloc, Mexico, Australia, Kenya and India.
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2023-04-16T20:46:58+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/news/2023/04/16/germany-backs-eu-indonesia-trade-pact-to-curb-china-reliance-2/
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ROME (AP) — A moderate earthquake shook Italy’s northeastern coast early Wednesday, causing some cracks in buildings and prompting at least one health clinic to evacuate. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Premier Giorgia Meloni was in constant contact with Italy’s civil protection agency monitoring the situation, her office said in a statement.
Italy’s vulcanology institute said the 5.7-magnitude temblor struck at 7:07 a.m. (0507GMT) with an epicenter in the Adriatic Sea off Ancona, in the north-central Le Marche region. The U.S. Geological Survey put the magnitude at 5.6 and added it was at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles).
Italian news reports said Ancona’s private Villa Igea clinic evacuated patients as a precaution.
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2022-11-10T01:28:28+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/international/ap-damage-in-5-7-magnitude-quake-off-italys-adriatic-coast/
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (LGF.A) on Thursday reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $16.6 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Santa Monica, California-based company said it had net income of 7 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 26 cents per share.
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The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 2 cents per share.
The motion picture producer and distributor posted revenue of $1 billion in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $865.3 million.
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2023-02-09T22:38:17+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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PORTLAND, Ore. – The Biden administration said Wednesday it has approved ambitious plans by 34 states and Puerto Rico to create a national electric vehicle charging network as the U.S. begins in earnest its transition away from gas-powered transportation.
The plans’ approval means $900 million can begin to flow to the states, which are tasked with using money from President Joe Biden’s huge infrastructure law to form the network of chargers across the nation. Building out a reliable and convenient network is critical to spur more adoption of the technology, which is itself key to reducing greenhouse emissions that cause global warming.
The announcement came on the same day that Biden toured the North American International Auto Show in Detroit to tout the new law that includes tax incentives to purchase electric vehicles.
In practical terms, it means residents in some of those states could see more charging stations start popping up along major travel corridors as early as next summer. Biden has a goal of ultimately installing 500,000 chargers across America and building a network of fast-charging stations across 53,000 miles of freeways from coast to coast.
“Unlocking this type of funding is an enormous step in getting the charging network out, which is something we absolutely need if we’re going to get full-scale deployment and adoption” of electric vehicles, said Nico Larco, director of Urbanism Next Center at the University of Oregon. “We don’t have the capacity now to power anywhere near the fleet that we need.”
Federal officials said they will continue to review the plans not approved in this round with the goal of approving all the states’ EV roadmaps by Sept. 30.
Biden's infrastructure law provides $5 billion over five years for the electric vehicle charging network.
The funding announced Wednesday is specifically for installing the most powerful chargers along “alternative fuel corridors” — major freeways that connect states — with the goal of eliminating the “range anxiety" that keeps many people from purchasing electric vehicles or using them on long road trips. Under proposed guidelines, states would be required to install at least one four-port fast-charging station every 50 miles on these corridors and ensure they are within one mile of an off-ramp.
Some states received exemptions in rural areas for the 50-mile requirement, according to the approval letters.
An additional $2.5 billion in discretionary grants is also available to fund electric vehicle charging infrastructure in economically disadvantaged communities, rural areas and urban cores. And Biden’s recently passed Inflation Reduction Act includes $3 billion to spur electric vehicle adoption and charging accessibility in disadvantaged communities.
Industry analysts said the federal investment was a huge windfall but alone was not enough to meet projected demand.
“It’s important to see this funding as something that will hopefully kickstart further private sector funding," said Jessika Trancik, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.
“What government can do is incentivize further private sector funding and push forward this shift towards electric vehicles ... where there might not be as much private sector investment,” she said.
Rural states have raised serious concerns about the proposed federal requirements that accompany the money, including the every 50-mile requirement.
State transportation officials in Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota joined last month to urge the Biden administration to ease the requirements.
EVs account for 0.1% of vehicle registrations in Wyoming, and state Department of Transportation Director Luke Reiner told federal officials that it would be “irresponsible and illogical” to spend now on requirements that include four charging ports at stations every 50 miles.
It will be more than 20 years before there’s enough EV adoption in Wyoming to worry about lines at a four-port station, Reiner said. So instead of concentrating solely on major highway corridors, Reiner said, the federal money should also be used in areas away from interstates that attract lots of tourists, such as Yellowstone National Park.
“Most of our EVs will be tourist traffic,” Reiner said Wednesday. “The idea is if you’re a nice lady from Iowa with an electric car and you want to get to Yellowstone, we want to get you there. ... We want to make sure these stations are in populated areas so there’s more chance of success.”
Wyoming asked for exceptions from the mileage requirement for 11 stretches of highway. Federal officials have not yet responded, Reiner said, and the state's plan is still pending.
The Federal Highway Administration will review those concerns and determine the final guidelines now that the public comment period has closed. Federal officials are also considering a waiver of the “Buy America” provision of the infrastructure deal.
Officials in Nevada, for example, have expressed concern that they would not be able to acquire charging stations that meet the American-made provisions and thus would be unable to start building out their piece of the network.
Experts who have followed the evolution of electric vehicle adoption in the U.S. say having charging stations everywhere is important.
“It’s like the U.S. Postal Service. You need to be able to send mail everywhere, including places that are rural," said Jeremy Michalek, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and director of the university's Vehicle Electrification Group.
"Even if that charger that’s in that rural area isn’t used as much every day, we still need the infrastructure to supply them.. We have gas stations that are used less in rural areas than they would be in a big city, but we need them for the demand.”
Electric vehicle owners hailed the news and said they currently must take extra precautions if they want to take their EVs on a long trip.
Bob Palrud of Spokane, Washington, says the small number of chargers in some rural areas of the West means he must carefully plot his travel routes to avoid running out of power. Palrud journeys three times yearly with his wife, Judy, to their cabin in Sheridan, Wyoming, and twice they’ve gotten so low on electricity coming through southeastern Montana that his vehicle automatically shut down some functions to conserve power.
“The thing people worry most about is range,” said Palrud, a semi-retired house painter who was at a charging center just off Interstate-90 in Montana on Wednesday on his way back to Spokane. “I sit there and do mental calculations on what kind of range I’m going to get.”
When he travels to see family in Minnesota, Palrud said he goes hundreds of miles out of his way to avoid northern Montana, where there is no major interstate and charging options are few.
“It would be better to have more but it’s not a deal killer,” he said. “I could chop a couple hundred miles off and that would be great.”
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2022-09-15T10:45:28+00:00
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ksat.com
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https://www.ksat.com/news/politics/2022/09/14/money-approved-for-states-to-build-car-charging-network/
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Prosecutors are asking a federal judge to put Sam Bankman-Fried in jail ahead of his trial, which is scheduled to start in October.
As he considers their request, the judge has imposed a broad, temporary gag order in the case.
There were audible gasps in the courtroom on Wednesday when prosecutors told the judge they were seeking Bankman-Fried's detention. His defense attorney, Mark S. Cohen, said he was only notified of the ask "one minute before court."
Bankman-Fried has been living under house arrest in his parents' home in Northern California, near the Stanford University campus, since December. He was released on a $250 million bond.
The U.S. sought modifications to Bankman-Fried's bail agreement after The New York Times published a piece about Caroline Ellison, the former head of the crypto hedge fund Bankman-Fried founded.
Ellison is also Bankman-Fried's former girlfriend and a key witness for the prosecution. She pleaded guilty to fraud charges earlier this year, and she is expected to testify against him at trial.
Bankman-Fried recently sat down for an interview with The Times, and showed a reporter some of Ellison's "private writings." The prosecution argued this amounted to witness tampering, adding it also could taint the jury pool.
The U.S. government says Bankman-Fried has had more than 1,000 phone calls with journalists since he was arrested. Prosecutors say he had more than 100 calls with the reporter who wrote the Ellison story, many of which lasted longer than 20 minutes.
They also note Bankman-Fried has had more than 500 calls with author Michael Lewis, who is writing a book about the disgraced crypto mogul's rise and precipitous fall.
Bankman-Fried's FTX was once the most popular cryptocurrency exchange in the world. At the end of last year, FTX collapsed, and Bankman-Fried was arrested and charged with orchestrating one of the largest financial frauds in history.
Unlike other high-profile defendants, he has frequently communicated with the public and reporters.
This is not the first time Judge Lewis Kaplan has considered a request to modify the terms of Bankman-Fried's bail. He agreed to the government's request to restrict the defendant's access to the Internet after protectors discovered Bankman-Fried had used an encrypted messaging app to communicate with a former colleague at FTX.
During those earlier proceedings, Kaplan seemed impatient with Bankman-Fried's behavior, and asked attorneys for the Southern District of New York why they weren't considering even stricter prohibitions on the defendant.
At the close of today's hearing, Kaplan said he is taking the prosecution's request, which he wants to see in writing by Friday, "very seriously."
He then addressed the defendant directly: "You better take it seriously too."
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2023-07-26T22:43:56+00:00
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kpcc.org
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https://www.kpcc.org/npr-news/2023-07-26/prosecutors-want-disgraced-crypto-mogul-bankman-fried-in-jail-ahead-of-trial
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Top takeaways from each team on the final day of the City girls basketball tournament
Steve Klunick emphasizes defense more than anything else.
It has undoubtedly been a cornerstone to Sacred Heart-Griffin's ongoing success over the years.
The Cyclones captured the outright City girls basketball tournament title with a 52-20 victory over Lanphier at the Bank of Springfield Center on Saturday.
It was their fourth straight City title and 12th straight win of the season. It was also Klunick’s 200th win as head coach stretching back to 2013.
They have maintained their reign over the City by simply buying in, Klunick said.
“It's different teams every year,” Klunick said. “We were more offensively skilled a few years back with (Sofie) Lowis, (Emily) Brenneisen, (Jillian) Hulcher, Addison Scarlette and that group. This team's a little more defensive and they bought into it. I think you've seen that throughout the City tournament. They really play some good defense.”
SHG shifts focus to defense … and rebounding
The Cyclones (21-5 overall, 13-2 Central State Eight Conference, 3-0 City) forced eight turnovers in the first half en route to Wednesday’s 44-26 win over Springfield High.
That nettlesome defense came up with 17 turnovers in Friday’s 45-37 win over Southeast and upended Lanphier with 22 in the finale.
SHG outscored Lanphier 20-1 in the second quarter for a 29-11 halftime advantage. That included three consecutive Lanphier turnovers against the full court press.
SHG also thrived in the rebounding department with 14 offensive boards, including eight from junior forward Maggie Fleischli. The Cyclones capitalized with 14 second-chance points while Lanphier (2-20, 0-14 CS8, 0-3) had none.
“We definitely this season started working on rebounding a lot more,” sophomore guard Izzy Hassebrock said. “And we've grown so much since the beginning of the year, especially in rebounding.”
Hassebrock led SHG with 14 points. Junior forward Callie Huston ensued with 11 points while Fleischli totaled seven points and 13 rebounds. Junior guard Liv Redpath chipped in eight points.
“We've worked a lot on rebounding because we're small, so we do a lot of rebounding,” Klunick said.
Lanphier’s confidence grows
Lanphier also fell to Southeast 41-23 on Wednesday and Springfield High 49-31 on Friday but trailed by just a couple possessions late in the third quarter in both of those contests.
The Lions also jumped ahead SHG 10-9 in the first quarter before fading away with three freshmen (Aburey Beavers, Angel Price and Lovely Jackson) in the starting lineup.
Senior A’Jah Furdge led Lanphier with nine points while fellow senior Apiphany Patterson had five against SHG.
Lanphier coach Doug Collins said his young team has drastically improved since the beginning of the season.
“I think it was good experience for our freshmen,” Collins said. “I think it's a good experience for our team. We've got a lot of newcomers this year. I'm very pleased with the way we competed in these three days at the City tournament.
“I think the future's bright. We'll continue to work. We played against some very good competition over these three days, so I'm very pleased with the Lanphier Lions.”
Scheffler finds her range for SHS
Junior guard Emma Scheffler drained four 3s in the fourth quarter and rallied Springfield High to a thrilling 53-52 victory over Southeast for second place.
SHS (14-12, 9-6 CS8, 2-1 City) trailed 47-42 early in the fourth quarter until Scheffler hit three straight treys for a 51-47 advantage.
Scheffler shot 7 of 12 from 3-point range and led the Senators with 26 points. She totaled 13 points the past two games combined.
“I feel like I was more calm tonight,” Scheffler said. “The past two nights I was more like fire it up there and tonight I feel like I took my time, shot it and they went in.”
Scheffler also stepped up on the defensive end. She swiped a steal with under a minute remaining after falling behind 52-51.
The ensuing fast break put sophomore guard Megan McMullen at the free throw line with 35.6 seconds left. She converted both free throw attempts to escape with the win.
“It was scary to say the least,” McMullen said. “But I pulled through, I'm proud of myself for that.”
It’s a credit to McMullen’s toughness, SHS coach Brad Scheffler said.
“She hasn't had many of those situations and to be able to do that and knock two big ones shows what I believe in her,” Brad said.
Spartans glean positives
Southeast (8-16, 6-8 CS8, 1-2 City) nearly foiled the comeback with a pair of steals itself.
Sophomore guard Chloe Crawford poked the ball at midcourt to briefly steal the lead with a minute remaining.
The Spartans still had a chance to come away with the win in the final seconds after Scheffler missed both of her free throw attempts with 10.9 seconds left.
Southeast freshman guard Ra’Kiyha Coleman, though, missed her game-tying free throw attempt in the bonus with 3.9 seconds left and SHS freshman forward Aniyah Rhinehouse nabbed the defensive rebound.
Southeast nearly prevailed without star junior guard Marisa Gant down the stretch.
Gant fouled out with 6 minutes, 13 seconds left in the fourth and finished with a team-best 17 points. Sophomore forward Diamond Walker had a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds.
“At the end there, I had three freshmen and two sophomores out there playing,” Southeast coach Mike Collins said. “We're very young and putting them in that position. They'll just grow from it.
“That's what I told the girls. We just want to keep working towards that (the postseason) because everybody gets into the tournament, so we just want to keep building and building, and we are. We're definitely getting better and going in that direction.”
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2023-01-29T19:22:07+00:00
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Editor’s note: This story contains depictions of suicide and may not be appropriate for some readers.
If you or someone you know is in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255, text HOME to 741741 or visit Vibrant Emotional Health’s Safe Space for digital resources.
When Ollie Hartz told his parents he was transgender, there was a range of emotions to process.
Navigating the transition with family, friends and themselves can be heart-wrenching. More than half of all transgender teens have attempted suicide.
However, as Ollie’s family journeyed to accept him, they not only learned acceptance but found a new joy as well.
“We've lost, you know, Ainsley, but we've gained Ollie,” said Kathy Kuntz, Ollie’s mother.
The dead name
If we're lucky, our earliest moments in this world are documented, printed on paper and saved. They can be a reminder of just how much things can change.
“In my mind, I knew we brought home Ainsley Marie. That's what I knew,” said Kuntz
Ainsley Marie was adopted as a newborn by Kuntz and her then-husband Jason Hartz. At the age of 14, Ainsley came to the family with an announcement the Maple Valley parents didn't see coming.
“We get emails from the school to ‘Oleander Hartz,’” said Jason Hartz. “And we were like, ‘Who's Oleander?’ It's like, you know, it's Ainsley.”
Ainsley's time was up.
“[Ainsley] kind of squat down in front of us and just started crying,” said Hartz. “I kind of said, 'Are you trying to tell us that you're trans?' And [Ainsley] nodded. Yes. And the first words out of his mouth is like, ‘Will you, will you stop loving me?’”
Ainsley chose a new name: Oleander or Ollie for short. Ollie wanted his parents to accept and address him as a male.
“I started sobbing for sure,” said Ollie. “I was looking up shelters just in case, that if, they kick me out.”
Ollie’s parents said they did everything they could to support their son. But Kuntz recalled struggling to let go of Ainsley and accept Ollie.
“I would have to say that that's taken some couple years to do that,” Kuntz said. “I remember grieving deeply. 'I'm losing a daughter,' and this is what I knew.”
“[Ollie] would say, you know, ‘Ainsley is my dead name,’” Hartz said. “He would say many times, like, 'Dad, does that bother you?’ And we're like, 'A little bit.’ But you know, we would have to just sort of just process it and get through it.”
Ollie’s parents said many of their friends and family initially believed Ollie was too young to make a decision of this magnitude. Ollie’s parents said some people in their circle didn’t understand it, including using Ollie’s preferred pronouns as a form of respect.
“I felt that God put me in a girl's body instead of a boy’s,” said Ollie, who is now 15 years old. “And I was really confused for like a big part of my childhood about that.”
Transgender suicide risk
Ollie's gender journey has taken him through dark territory.
“I've gotten chased by a car full of kids who were screaming slurs at me and saying that I will never be a real man,” Ollie said. “I was at a place in my life where I didn't have anyone, anything. That's when I planned this suicide date.”
That suicide date came and went. Ollie eventually confided in a school counselor and his parents were notified he was having thoughts of harming himself.
Ollie was experiencing a level of trauma that many in the transgender community face. A 2020 study published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence found 82% of transgender people have considered killing themselves. An alarming 56% of transgender teens have attempted suicide at least once.
Desperate for help, Ollie's parents admitted him to Smokey Point Behavioral Hospital in Marysville – where staff say more than 10% of underage patients identify as transgender or non-binary.
“Depression is huge. Anxiety is off the charts with those that suffer from gender dysphoria,” said David Vandegrift, director of family services at Smokey Point Behavioral Hospital. “It's a complex picture – self-harm, self-injury. That includes drug and alcohol addictions, dropping out of school because they don't want to be bullied, self-mutilation and self-injury, burning, pulling hair out, cutting, unsafe sex. [It] all comes from just not having a way to express the pain they're in.”
Recently Smokey Point launched a new program for transgender and non-conforming trans teens. The program treats mental health issues first and works with parents to foster understanding and support around a child's gender identity. However, some parents refuse to accept their child’s transgender identity, Vandegrift said.
“It's more of a presence of hostility,” Vandegrift said. “Like, ‘I don't want to deal with this,’ or ‘You were born male. This is your name. Then stick to it.’ One of the things that I encourage parents to do is to grieve and to mourn what actually may never have been in the first place. How they saw their child, because the feelings [the child has] are typically [there] from a really early age.”
Transgender acceptance
Acceptance for transgender people isn't as widespread as many hope. 32% of U.S. adults say greater acceptance of transgender people is a bad thing for society, according to a 2021 Pew Research Center Survey.
“Stop the stigma,” said Fredericka Ford, CEO of Smokey Point Behavioral Hospital. “Our focus really is enhancing the family support to understand who their child is so that they can be successful in life.”
Ollie spent several weeks at Smokey Point, and he and his parents are now part of the outpatient program. Ollie’s parents said they have accepted Ollie as their son and they are incredibly proud of his strength.
“Just to see him be authentically him and just grow as the person that he has known that he's been inside all these years. It's been actually really amazing,” Hartz said.
Going through old childhood photos doesn’t upset Ollie. Instead, it offers a sense of relief.
“Looking back at my younger photos, I really just wanted to give the younger me a hug,” Ollie said. “And just tell them everything's gonna be alright.”
Resources for Transgender teens and parents
- The New York Times’ The ABCs of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ (a quick-read primer on basic identities)
- Breaking Binaries Worksheet: Use this worksheet to understand how you personally understand your assigned birth sex, gender expression, gender identity, and sexual orientation. It can be a conversation starter about non-binary identities.
- Test Prep Insight's College Guide and Resources For LGBTQ Students: This guide covers all aspects of college life for LGBTQ students, including common challenges, tips for integrating into campus life, and perhaps most importantly, guidance from experts on navigating college relationships.
- Resources from the American Psychological Association:
- GLAAD’s Tips for Allies of Transgender People
- HRC’s Be an Ally - Support Trans Equality
- Action Tips for Allies of Trans People
- Trans Ally Resources
- them’s Trans Voices series on YouTube
- PFLAG’s We Are All Allies offers some quick starting points for all allies
- 10 ways to be an ally to Black LGBT people
- The Guide to Being a Straight Ally: Learn more about what it means to be a straight ally and get some great tips and tools to being more supportive of your LGBTQ, friends, family, and colleagues.
- Hachett’s Essential Reading on the LGBTQ Journey
See more resource lists here:
- Buffer's 50+ Resources for LGBTQIA Allies
- Glaad's LGBTQ Resource List
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2022-06-23T15:11:27+00:00
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king5.com
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https://www.king5.com/article/news/community/transgender-teen-healthcare-family-mental-health/281-c24e4fd7-6e51-4bd8-81c6-0a927d7092c8
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Experienced IT Executive Brings Cloud Expertise to Drive Innovation and Growth for the Company and its Clients
COLUMBUS, Ga., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta Data, a leading provider of pooled asset and mutual fund software solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Carney as the new Chief Technology Officer. With over 20 years of experience in IT management and a proven track record of success in leveraging technology solutions to deliver superior solutions, Chris is the ideal candidate to drive Delta Data's cloud initiatives and lead the company in its next phase of technology transformation.
"We are delighted to welcome Chris to the Delta Data team," said Cameron Routh, CEO of Delta Data. "His expertise and experience in technology and leadership will be invaluable as we continue to advance our technology solutions to the next level. Chris is distinctively suited to drive innovation as we accelerate our transformation with differentiated cloud-based solutions that will benefit Delta Data's clients with greater convenience, scalability, and security. We are confident that he will play a crucial role in creating and delivering on Delta Data's strategic technology vision."
Chris's extensive knowledge of cloud technology was a significant factor in his appointment. He previously worked for Accruent, where he led the development of an integration platform that leveraged Microsoft Azure to improve efficiency and costs for clients. He was awarded the Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation award for developing a data platform for customers to build dashboards and reports using real-time data, resulting in improved decision-making and cost savings for their clients.
Chris is known for building high-performing teams and driving results and he is expected to foster a positive, collaborative work environment at Delta Data while supporting the professional growth of his team.
"The team's unsurpassed understanding of the pooled asset/mutual fund industry and the challenges it faces was key in my decision to join Delta Data," Chris noted. "I am excited to join such an experienced team and contribute my experience in technology to the mix. I am confident that together we will continue to deliver forward-looking solutions to address the biggest issues facing our clients."
Chris joins Delta Data at a time of exciting growth for the company and his appointment as CTO is a testament to the company's commitment to delivering the best technology solutions to its clients. Having led multiple critical technology initiatives, Chris brings a strategic mindset and a wealth of knowledge from which Delta Data clients, partners, and team members will all benefit.
About Delta Data
Delta Data is a leading provider of technology solutions for the mutual fund and pooled assets industry, processing trillions of dollars in assets for top financial institutions.
Our industry-vetted SaaS integrated suite is trusted by four of the top 10 US banks, three of the top five US retirement recordkeepers, and six of the top 10 US investment managers. We empower financial companies to navigate the complex regulatory landscape and mitigate risk through efficient data management and streamlined automation. Join the ranks of industry leaders and benefit from our innovative, proven solutions.
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2023-02-28T15:46:43+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2023/02/28/delta-data-appoints-chris-carney-cto/
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Two of four women who testified that Ghislaine Maxwell played a role in their sexual abuse at the hands of financier Jeffrey Epstein may be speaking at her sentencing or have their statements read aloud.
Prosecutors told a federal judge in a letter on Friday that two of six women who either testified or were mentioned during a December trial plan to attend the Tuesday sentencing of the 60-year-old British socialite. Maxwell's lawyer Bobbi Sternheim said in a separate submission to the judge that the hearing “should not be a bully pulpit for anyone who was not identified as a victim of the charged federal offenses and does not qualify as such.”
Those individuals are not among the six people who prosecutors have formally identified as victims in the case and “should not be permitted to give oral testimony or have their written victim impact statements read during sentencing,” she said.
Sternheim also objected to written statements by Farmer or Kate being read at sentencing, saying they raise issues that were not disclosed by the government or revealed during their testimony.
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2022-06-25T00:15:41+00:00
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wkbw.com
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https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/several-accusers-seek-roles-at-ghislaine-maxwell-sentencing
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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — One solider was killed and six insurgents were dead after an overnight operation in Pakistan’s volatile southwestern Baluchistan province, the military said Saturday.
The military said in a statement that during exchange of fire with separatists the Hoshab area of Kech district, another soldier was injured.
It said the operation was launched after government forces received information that a group of insurgents were riding motorcycles from Kech to Mastung. The insurgents opened fire and the resulting exchange with the military resulted in death of six insurgents and one soldier.
Troops seized arms and ammunition carried by the dead insurgents and a search and clearance operation was ongoing Saturday.
For nearly two decades, Baluchistan has been the scene of a low-level insurgency by the Baluchistan Liberation Army and other separatist groups demanding independence from the central government in Islamabad. The government says it has quelled the insurgency, but violence in the province has persisted.
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2022-07-30T23:26:33+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/pakistan-says-1-soldier-killed-6-separatists-dead-in-clash/
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TORONTO and RAMAT-GAN, Israel, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Short Wave Pharma Inc. ("Shortwave" or the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company developing patent pending psychedelic compositions and methods of delivery, is pleased to announce that it has signed a Clinical Trial Agreement (the "Agreement") with the Sheba Fund for Health Services and Research (the "Fund") and with Dr. Eitan Gur, Principal Investigator and head of the Sheba Medical Center Department for Eating Disorders (the "Center") and Mr Yoel Golbert, Co–Investigator at the Center.
Under the Agreement, Shortwave will be the exclusive commercial partner in an investigator-initiated, open-label, phase II study of the safety and feasibility of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of anorexia nervosa (the "Trial").
The Trial, the first of its kind in Israel, recently obtained approval from the Israeli Ministry of Health and is preparing for participant recruitment.
In recognition of its financial support for the Trial, the Company will gain access to the Trial's data as well as a first right of refusal to commercialize any intellectual property generated from the Trial. The parties agree to cooperate in the future, and to positively consider a follow-on study by the Fund and the Center using the Company's psilocybin-based formulation and buccal film delivery system.
Anorexia nervosa is a life-threatening disease and a severe eating disorder that affects about 0.5-1% of the population. Of all psychiatric disorders, anorexia is a leading cause of disability in the U.S. and many other developed countries. When left untreated, anorexia can lead to severe distress, significant psychological dysfunction and even death at a 5-18% incidence with a high risk of suicide. It is a chronic disease with no approved pharmacological treatment.
Shortwave's patent-pending psilocybin-based formulation is designed to affect several receptors which play a part in anorexia nervosa through an expanded mechanism of action, and its proprietary buccal method of administration directly addresses metabolism related challenges and eliminates patient burden in this vulnerable population. Together, they constitute a cost-efficient approach for treating this complex condition.
ABOUT SHORTWAVE
Short Wave Pharma Inc. is an Israeli based biopharmaceutical company developing novel formulations of psilocybin and additional APIs, as well as customized delivery methods, to effect significant additional benefits for patients suffering from mental health disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, chronic pain, and potentially all other medical conditions where psilocybin is known to have a positive effect.
The Company has begun pre-clinical studies related to its anorexia nervosa product and plans to be ready for phase I/IIa trials in Q2 2023. Shortwave's leadership team combines years of experience in drug development and clinical research, accelerated regulatory pathways and pharmaceutical industry expertise. The Company's future programs include development of novel formulations and delivery approaches for chronic pain and neuro degenerative diseases.
ABOUT THE CENTER FOR EATING DISORDERS AT THE SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER
The Center for Eating Disorders is the largest center of its kind in Israel and provides care for patients over 18 years old dealing with eating disorders of various severity including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, a-typical anorexia and more.
The Center includes acute care units, inpatient and outpatient facilities along with a program for chronic and treatment resistant patients. It employs a multi- disciplinary staff including physicians, clinical dietitians, psychologists, social workers, movement, drama and art therapists and fitness professionals.
As Israel's top facility for treating eating disorders, it strives to address the need for safe and effective novel treatments.
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2022-08-15T10:46:12+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/08/15/short-wave-pharma-signs-clinical-trial-agreement-with-sheba-research-fund-sheba-center-eating-disorders/
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CHICAGO, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A racial discrimination lawsuit has been filed against Zep Inc., a leading industrial and consumer cleaning products company, by one of its Chicago-based employees. The female employee, who is Black alleges the following:
- In November 2021, during a virtual training session, Zep's Vice President of Sales and Service said something to the effect of, "This may offend some people but...." and then repeatedly used a known racial slur, as he described Black workers in the South. The plaintiff was the only Black person in the virtual room.
- The slur was repeated in the presence of at least a dozen other employees, yet nobody voiced an objection.
- The plaintiff immediately complained to multiple people within the company including to HR.
- Zep's Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer told the plaintiff that the VP of Sales did not know the word was a known racial slur.
- When the plaintiff pushed back, the Executive VP told her that since she "couldn't get over it," he would help her "transition from Zep," despite the plaintiff stating that she liked her job but that she did not feel safe.
- Then in January 2022, in an attempt to silently push her out of her job, the Executive VP handed the plaintiff a "Separation Agreement and Release of Claims," offering her 12-weeks' compensation, disguised as wages, in exchange for her confidentiality and departure from the company. She refused to leave.
- In response, Zep continued to retaliate against her by assigning her more dead accounts.
- The plaintiff is a virtual account representative for Zep, a manufacturer of cleaning products to businesses and retailers, including but not limited to Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart, and Ace Hardware, along with manufacturing giants like Siemens.
The plaintiff is represented by Tamara Holder, who focuses her law practice on employment discrimination, sexual abuse/harassment, and institutional abuse. Holder is a nationally recognized voice on workplace equality and worked as a progressive legal analyst and host on Fox News Channel for nearly a decade. The Law Firm of Tamara N. Holder, LLC, is a boutique practice founded in 2005 by Chicago. For more information, visit tamaraholder.com.
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2022-12-20T06:07:16+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/12/19/leading-cleaning-products-company-zep-inc-sued-by-chicago-woman-represented-by-law-firm-tamara-n-holder-llc-racial-discrimination/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Bruce Springsteen has a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a coveted Kennedy Center Honor. He has won multiple Grammys and Golden Globes, plus an Academy Award and a special Tony Award.
Springsteen will add to his collection of accolades on Tuesday when President Joe Biden honors “the Boss” with the 2021 National Medal of Arts. It’s the nation’s highest award for advancing the arts in America.
Springsteen, who has sold around 140 million albums, is among a dozen individuals and groups that Biden has chosen to honor with arts medals during a White House ceremony on Tuesday. First lady Jill Biden will also participate.
At the same event, Biden will award 2021 National Humanities Medals to a group including authors Amy Tan, Colson Whitehead and Ann Patchett. The medal honors individuals or groups for work that deepens understanding of the humanities.
The medals are Biden’s first batch of awards for the arts and humanities and were delayed by the pandemic. The president surprised Sir Elton John with a National Humanities Medal during a White House musical event last September.
Recipients of the 2021 National Medal of Arts:
— Judith Francisca Baca, artist.
— Fred Eychaner, businessman and philanthropist.
— Jose Feliciano, singer.
— Mindy Kaling, actress.
— Gladys Knight, singer.
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actor.
— Antonio Martorell-Cardona, painter.
—Joan Shigekawa, film producer.
— Bruce Springsteen:.
— Vera Wang:, fashion designer.
— The Billie Holiday Theatre.
— The International Association of Blacks in Dance.
Recipients of the 2021 National Humanities Medal:
— Richard Blanco, poet and author.
— Johnnetta Betsch Cole, anthropologist.
— Walter Isaacson, writer.
— Earl Lewis, social historian.
— Henrietta Mann, academic.
— Ann Patchett, author.
— Bryan Stevenson, advocate for the poor.
— Amy Tan, author.
— Tara Westover, author.
— Colson Whitehead, author.
— Native America Calling.
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2023-03-21T12:12:15+00:00
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nwahomepage.com
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https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/entertainment-news/biden-awarding-1st-batch-of-arts-humanities-medals-tuesday/
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NEW YORK , June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for XELA, CCL, INTC, CSX, and KO.
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2022-06-17T15:15:18+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/06/17/thinking-about-buying-stock-exela-technologies-carnival-corp-intel-corp-csx-corp-or-coca-cola/
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On Dec. 16, I checked out three books from the Santa Fe Public Library, the 50th, 51st and 52nd books I read last year. Reading one book a week in 2022 was a New Year’s Resolution inspired by Waco Tribune-Herald arts and entertainment columnist Carl Hoover’s column, “52 weeks, 54 books.”
The last three books I read were representative of the variety of my reading list: Kostya Kennedy’s True — The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson, a new biography revealing little-known details of the complex man who broke baseball’s color barrier and became a civil rights hero; Caleb Gayle’s We Refuse to Forget — A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power, the story of the Creek Nation that in the 1800s both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full citizens; and David Marchick’s The Peaceful Transfer of Power — An Oral History of America’s Presidential Transitions, which seemed an appropriate way to end a year dominated by the work of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that threatened the peaceful transfer of power.
Favorite author? I’ve been a fan of National Book Award-winner Timothy Egan since reading The Worst Hard Time, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher and The Big Burn. So I read his account of the West in Lasso the Wind. (“They have tried to tame it, shave it, fence it, cut it, dam it, drain it, nuke it, poison it, pave it, and subdivide it,” writes Egan; still, “this region’s hold on the American character has never seemed stronger.”) And I read his latest book, A Pilgrimage to Eternity, a personal account of his journey along the Via Francigena from Canterbury to Rome.
I also read books to better establish my New Mexico bona fides. John Nichols’ The Milagro Beanfield War is a thinly fictionalized tale about the conflict between Hispanic subsistence farmers and the encroachment by Anglo American development in my adopted Northern New Mexico, later a movie directed by Robert Redford. Another was critically acclaimed Chicano author Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima, the semiautobiographical story of a young boy and the curandera — a folk healer — who helps him decide his destiny. Also in this category was Carla Trujillo’s Faith and Fat Chances, which takes place in a fictional barrio in Santa Fe where a hilarious cast of locals (including another curandera) fights to prevent a former Santa Fean, now living in California, from leveling the barrio and replacing it with an upscale winery.
As a fan of National Public Radio, I enjoyed reading Susan, Linda, Nina and Cokie — The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR. It was a group biography of four women who wouldn’t be relegated to secretarial positions, ultimately covering some of the biggest stories of the 20th century and in the process making NPR the great network it is today. Other biographies I read included Michelle Obama’s Becoming, Mitch Landrieu’s In the Shadow of Statues — A White Southerner Confronts History, and David Nasaw’s The Chief — The Life of William Randolph Hearst. (After reading The Chief, I toured the Hearst Castle in San Simeon on a road trip to California.)
Almost all of the books I read in 2022 were borrowed from the Santa Fe Public Library, a great library where I can order books online, which is good, since it’s not as easy to retrieve books from the bottom shelf and get back up these days. And while I do most of my reading in my study at home, the library’s Southwest Reading Room — a beautiful space with historic mission-style furnishings — is the perfect alternative.
I am proud to say I read one book a week last year. But I’ll probably read one book a month in 2023.
Jim Vaughan served eight years as president of the Greater Waco Chamber. He retired in 2012 and has lived in Santa Fe since 2014.
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2023-01-15T04:36:50+00:00
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santafenewmexican.com
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https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/lessons-from-a-book-a-week-in-2022/article_8aa296a2-928b-11ed-88ca-e3a098af0a3d.html
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Governor Reeves announces 15 new RESTORE Act projects
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Governor Tate Reeves announced 15 new Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies (RESTORE) Act projects Thursday, totaling $49 million for Mississippi’s Gulf Coast.
The 15 projects announced for 2022 are funded through the Act, which is a Gulf Coast Restoration trust fund.
“I remain fully committed to ensuring that every dollar meant for our Gulf Coast, stays on our Gulf Coast,” said Governor Tate Reeves. “Mississippi’s economy is thriving in every region across our state, and this includes our Gulf Coast. These 15 new projects that I approved will strengthen our Coastal economy and better the quality of life for those living there. I’m grateful to the Governor’s Gulf Coast Advisory Committee and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality for their continued efforts to make our state the best in the nation to live, work, and raise a family.”
Once implemented, these projects will join the total of more than $795 million already being spent by the state of Mississippi through MDEQ on restoration projects across the Coast.
“There is a purpose and strategy to our restoration work,” said Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) Executive Director Chris Wells. “From ecological restoration and conservation to infrastructure, to workforce development and tourism, there are many factors at play in each project. We are excited for today’s announcement of projects which directs our work towards continued and purposeful restoration in Mississippi.”
The projects include:
RESTORE Act Direct Component Funding (Bucket 1):
- Lowery Island Restoration ($4.4 million) — create a marina and mixed-use district.
- Pearl River Community College Hancock Aviation Aerospace Workforce Academy ($2.09 million) — purchase equipment to support the establishment of PRCC Aerospace Workforce Academy.
- The Kiln Utility District and Fire District Water and Sewer Expansion Project ($3.0 million) — expand water and sewer to support increased development.
- Hwy 609 Washington Street Gateway Phase II ($5.5 million) — construct pedestrian friendly features including sidewalks, crosswalks, and landscaped median under Phase II from Old Fort Bayou to Highway 90.
- Trent Lott International Airport North Apron Expansion ($2.4 million) — expand the north apron of the Trent Lott International Airport.
- Magnificent Mile: I-10 Hwy 63 Corridor Improvement ($5.5 million) — investment in road infrastructure to alleviate traffic congestion and encourage development.
- Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport Secondary Runway Extension ($2.2 million) — funding will expand the secondary runway.
- Port Bienville Railroad Intermodal Expansion ($3.3 million) — construction of a 7-track classification yard and the addition of a truck to rail intermodal facility expansion.
RESTORE Act Spill Impact Component Funding (Bucket 3):
- Jones Park Expansion Parking Areas ($1.65 million) — expand parking areas at Jones Park.
- Walter Anderson Museum of Art Creative Complex ($1.2 million) — provide funding for facility construction and new program implementation.
- Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Workforce Training ($4.95 million) — development of curricula and workforce development program designed to meet job market needs.
- Health Professions for our Community (HEALP): Health Professions Center of Excellence ($6.6 million) — project will focus on developing a Health Professionals Center of Excellence.
- Marina at Front Beach ($5.5 million) — funding to convert derelict shrimp processing plant to marina and event center.
- Institute of Marine Mammal Studies Outreach and Ecotourism ($875,000) — enhance and expand ecotourism around Gulf Coast marine resources.
- St. Stanislaus and Ocean Springs Environmental Education ($566,500) — enhance environmental science programs related to marine ecosystem education.
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2022-11-10T21:48:00+00:00
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wlbt.com
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https://www.wlbt.com/2022/11/10/governor-reeves-announces-15-new-restore-act-projects/
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Yellow's Proposal Would Subvert Bargaining, Violate Constitution
WASHINGTON, March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Teamsters forcefully rejected change of operations proposed by Yellow Corp. during a meeting today with the company at union headquarters.
Yellow's proposal seeks to jam through operational changes without a vote of the Teamsters' freight membership, a clear violation of Article XII of the union's constitution as the company's request would change the terms of the current collective bargaining agreement.
At the direction of General President Sean M. O'Brien and General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman, the Teamsters cancelled a Change of Operations Committee meeting with Yellow planned for April 5-7.
"Fred Zuckerman and I have been all over this country meeting with our freight members, who repeatedly tell us the company's proposed changes to the contract are unacceptable. We have heard them loud and clear," O'Brien said. "Yellow doesn't want to put this to a vote because they know the Teamsters Constitution and they know our members will unanimously reject their proposal. This company doesn't get to run around and ignore workers' rights. We're not playing games."
Yellow, represented at the meeting by Vice President of Trucker Relations Bryan Reifsnyder and others, admitted that 104 Teamster locals would be impacted by proposed changes, but as many as 100 local unions have already objected to it. The 1.2-million-member union is continuing to take a harder look at Yellow's finances and analyze its ability to maintain operations under the existing agreement.
"Our members need to participate in every step of the process regarding their contract. The Teamsters will not allow Yellow to railroad workers on any issue," Zuckerman said. "If any changes are going to be made to our contracts, they'll be made on our terms and no one else's."
The company's massive proposal fails to address serious concerns raised by the union. The Teamsters demand that established work standards and contractual protections be maintained, that primary lanes be preserved, and traditional road driver classifications and dock workers be protected.
The Teamsters National Freight Industry Negotiating Committee (TNFINC) does not endorse or approve any operational changes at Yellow.
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.
Contact:
Daniel Moskowitz, (770) 262-4971
dmoskowitz@teamster.org
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2023-03-23T19:40:16+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2023/03/23/teamsters-reject-proposed-operation-changes-yellow/
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ST. LOUIS, March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As obesity rates in the United States continue to climb, Mercy is taking an innovative approach and adding an optional fourth year to its Mercy Family Medicine Residency program. One of only three family medicine residency programs in the U.S. approved for an additional year, Mercy's is the only one focused on prevention and management of obesity and its complications.
"Obesity isn't just a condition in the U.S., it's an epidemic and study after study shows the burden it puts on patients and the health care system as a whole," said Dr. Sarah Cole, Mercy Family Medicine Residency program director. "Family medicine residents traditionally train for three years but an extra year would give them expertise in treating obesity."
The goal of the additional year, recently approved by both the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), is to produce family medicine physicians who lead community efforts in public health and care related to obesity and associated conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, depression and diabetes across all ages.
Residents who choose to participate will collaborate with Mercy Clinic Weight and Wellness Medical Director Dr. Kara Mayes, who will serve as core faculty and site director. Once their residency is complete and after achieving primary certification by the ABFM or American Osteopathic Board of Family Practice, residents are eligible to sit for specialty certification by the American Board of Obesity Medicine.
Dr. Elizabeth Hoover, a third-year resident with the Mercy Family Medicine Residency program, will be the first to take advantage of the optional fourth year of training.
"Early in my second year of residency I did an elective with Dr. Mayes and fell in love with the patient population and realized how much I can help them," Dr. Hoover said. "As family medicine physicians, we often manage the conditions that come from obesity, and prevention is more important than treatment after the fact. I'm lucky to have this opportunity to train for another year and continue working with amazing attending physicians."
The change is part of a national assessment of length of family medicine residency training and is approved by the ACGME and the ABFM under their Advancing Innovation in Residency Education collaboration.
Now in its 50th year, Mercy Family Medicine Residency, based at Mercy Hospital St. Louis and traditionally a three-year program, has a long history of educating resident physicians in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Six residents join the program each year and the optional fourth year is available to one resident annually, providing an opportunity to better address obesity and support patients.
Mercy, one of the 25 largest U.S. health systems and named the top large system in the U.S. for excellent patient experience by NRC Health, serves millions annually with nationally recognized quality care and one of the nation's largest Accountable Care Organizations. Mercy is a highly integrated, multi-state health care system including more than 40 acute care, managed and specialty (heart, children's, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, convenient and urgent care locations, imaging centers and pharmacies. Mercy has 900 physician practices and outpatient facilities, 4,000 Mercy Clinic physicians and advanced practitioners, and more than 40,000 co-workers serving patients and families across Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has clinics, outpatient services and outreach ministries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
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2023-03-16T13:30:36+00:00
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/03/16/mercy-first-us-expand-family-medicine-residency-program-focus-obesity/
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Judge sets a deadline to put Lake Erie on pollution diet
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ohio will have until the end of June to finish a plan to aimed at combating toxic algae blooms that have flourished in Lake Erie since the late 1990s. The deadline is part of settlement agreement approved by a federal judge on Thursday. The consent decree also calls for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to either approve the plan or come up with its own if it determines the state’s proposal isn’t strong enough. The agreement brings an end to a lawsuit seeking to force mandatory pollution rules for the lake following algae outbreaks that have fouled drinking water.
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2023-05-05T17:12:26+00:00
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krdo.com
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https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/05/05/judge-sets-a-deadline-to-put-lake-erie-on-pollution-diet/
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Carnegie Diner & Cafe, whose flagship location is on West 57th Street near Carnegie Hall in Manhattan’s midtown area, will open its second location and first in New Jersey in Secaucus at 700 Plaza Drive on Thursday, Aug 18. The contemporary diner and cafe will welcome guests for breakfast, lunch and dinner from 7 a.m. to midnight.
Stathis Antonakopoulos, the restaurant’s executive chef and owner, is also the CEO of Carnegie Hospitality which owns and operates Pizza & Shakes and Carnegie Catering. He also operates three ghost kitchens for delivery including Organic Burger House, NYC Pancake House and NYC Pastrami House.
The menu features an all-day breakfast menu in addition to serving a wide selection of salads, burgers, sandwiches, entrees, steaks, fresh fish, pastas, desserts, and more.
The new 6,600 sq. ft. venue has booth seating for both small and large groups. One of the diner’s focal walls is a from-the-stage view of Carnegie Hall and other portraits of some of the musicians who have performed at the venue over the years.
The diner’s bar pays homage to the city it came from and is adorned with subway tiles throughout. Al fresco dining will also be available. There are 199 seats inside, and 60 outside, with free parking outdoors.
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2022-08-17T21:21:51+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/08/carnegie-diner-to-open-its-first-nj-restaurant-in-secaucus.html
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WILTON MANORS, Fla. (AP) — When Alicia Griggs steps outside her suburban Fort Lauderdale home, Florida’s latest invasive species comes a-hoppin’ down the street: lionhead rabbits.
The bunnies, which sport an impressive flowing mane around their heads, want the food Griggs carries. But she also represents their best chance of survival and moving where this domesticated breed belongs: inside homes, away from cars, cats, hawks, Florida heat and possibly government-hired exterminators.
Griggs is spearheading efforts to raise the $20,000 to $40,000 it would cost for a rescue group to capture, neuter, vaccinate, shelter and then give away the estimated 60 to 100 lionheads now populating Jenada Isles, an 81-home community in Wilton Manors.
They are descendants of a group a backyard breeder illegally let loose when she moved away two years ago.
“They really need to be rescued. So we’ve tried to get the city to do it, but they’re just dragging their feet,” Griggs said. “They think that if they do that, then they’ll have to get rid of iguanas and everything else that people don’t want around.”
Monica Mitchell, whose East Coast Rabbit Rescue would likely lead the effort, said capturing, treating and finding homes for them “is not an easy process.” Few veterinarians treat rabbits and many prospective owners shy away when they find out how much work the animals require. Griggs agreed.
“People don’t realize they’re exotic pets and they’re complicated. They have a complicated digestive system and they have to eat a special diet,” said Griggs, a real estate agent. “You can’t just throw any table scraps at them.”
Wilton Manors is giving Griggs and other supporters time to raise money and relocate the rabbits rather than exterminate them, even though the city commission voted in April to do just that after receiving an $8,000 estimate from a trapping company.
The vote came after some residents complained the lionheads dig holes, chew outdoor wiring and leave droppings on sidewalks and driveways. City commissioners also feared the rabbits could spread into neighboring communities and cities and become a traffic hazard if they ventured onto major streets.
“The safety of this rabbit population is of utmost importance to the City, and any decision to involve ourselves will be certain to see these rabbits placed into the hands of people with a passion to provide the necessary care and love for these rabbits,” Police Chief Gary Blocker said in a statement.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which often culls invasive animals, has told the city it will not intercede. The rabbits pose no immediate threat to wildlife.
Lionhead rabbits aren’t the only invasive species causing headaches or worse for Floridians. Burmese pythons and lionfish are killing off native species. Giant African snails eat stucco off homes and carry human disease. Iguanas destroy gardens. Like the Wilton Manors lionhead rabbits, those populations all started when people illegally turned them loose.
But unlike those species, Florida’s environment is not friendly to lionheads. Instead of the 7 to 9 years they live when properly housed, their lives outdoors are nasty, brutal and shortened.
The lionheads’ heavy coat makes them overheat during Florida summers and their lack of fear makes them susceptible to predators. Munching on lawns is not a healthy diet. Their illnesses go untreated. They need owners.
“Domesticated (rabbits) released into the environment are not equipped to thrive on their own,” said Eric Stewart, executive director of the American Rabbit Breeders Association. He said the breeder who released them should be prosecuted, a path the city has not pursued.
The Wilton Manors colony survives and grows only because lionheads breed like the rabbits they are, with females birthing litters of two-to-six offspring every month, starting when they are about 3 months old.
On a recent morning in Jenada Isles, clutches of two to 10 bunnies dotted the streets and lawns, the bravest hopping up to residents and visitors in search of treats.
A large group of rabbits gathered on the driveway of Gator Carter, who puts out food for them. He said the lionheads bring the neighborhood joy, and his two young grandchildren love giving them carrots.
“People drive by, stop, love ’em, feed ’em,” Carter said. “They don’t bother me. We have a couple Airbnbs on the island here and the people (guests) are just amazed that the rabbits come right up to them.”
But Jon King said he wants the rabbits gone soon. They dig in his yard and he spent $200 repairing his outdoor lights after they damaged the wiring. He bought rabbit repellent, but that didn’t work, and his little dog doesn’t scare them: “He’s their best friend.”
“Every morning, I get up and first thing I do is cover up the holes and chase them out of the backyard. I like them, I just wish they would go somewhere else,” King said. “Rescue would be great.”
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2023-07-17T17:03:34+00:00
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localsyr.com
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https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/ap-fuzzy-invasion-of-domestic-rabbits-has-a-florida-suburb-hopping-into-a-hunt-for-new-owners/
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OSR Holdings expected to be public in the fourth quarter of 2023
BELLEVUE, Wash. and SEOUL, South Korea, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bellevue Life Sciences Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: BLAC), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company ("BLAC"), and OSR Holdings, Ltd. ("OSR Holdings"), a global healthcare holding company, announced today that they have entered into an exclusive, non-binding letter of intent, with the goal of completing a business combination in the fourth quarter of 2023, resulting in OSR Holdings becoming a publicly traded company.
BLAC and OSR Holdings expect to finalize their definitive agreement with respect to the proposed business combination in the coming weeks and plan to announce additional details at that time. Upon completion of the business combination, the surviving company will be renamed as OSR Biosciences, Inc.
About OSR Holdings
OSR Holdings is a global healthcare company that leverages its international network of partners in the US, Europe, and South Korea to develop and license its pipeline of innovative biomedical therapies based on proprietary platform technologies, with the ultimate goal of addressing unmet medical needs. OSR Holdings currently wholly-owns three operating subsidiaries in Switzerland and South Korea, two of which are focused on developing therapeutic drugs in the areas of oncology and osteoarthritis, and the third is a distributor of medical devices for the treatment of neurovascular and other diseases. Additionally, OSR Holdings signed a Letter of Intent on July 7, 2023 to acquire Landmark BioVentures AG, a Swiss company which operates through four different biotech ventures in France with therapeutic focuses on oncology and immunology. For more information, visit www.osr-holdings.com.
"OSR Holdings believes in 'Open Innovation'. Harnessing our strong partnerships globally within and across leading academia and industries, we aim to develop the most scientifically advanced and effective biomedical technologies and therapies," said Sung Jae Yu, Chief Operating Officer of OSR Holdings. The combination with BLAC will allow us to further deliver on our mission, accelerate our growth, and provide greater shareholder value as a public company."
About BLAC and its sponsor, Bellevue Global Life Sciences Investors LLC
BLAC is a special purpose acquisition company that completed its initial public offering in February 2023. BLAC's sponsor, Bellevue Global Life Sciences Investors LLC, is an affiliate of Bellevue Capital Management, LLC, a Bellevue, Washington-based global healthcare investment firm. BLAC's sponsor management team has decades of combined experience in healthcare investing and extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, and investment management including within the healthcare sector. For more information, visit www.bellevuespac.com.
Kuk Hyoun "Peter" Hwang, Chief Executive Officer of BLAC, commented: "We closed the BLAC IPO in February 2023 with special focus on finding a suitable acquisition candidate in the life sciences and biotechnology sector. We are delighted to identify OSR Holdings as our candidate. OSR Holdings represents a timely investment opportunity working on the development of breakthrough therapies for unmet medical needs. OSR Holdings' purpose and mission, global growth potential and substantial impact on healthcare make it an appealing candidate for BLAC. We look forward to supporting their transition to a public company."
Prior to the execution of the letter of intent, BLAC's board of directors formed a special M&A committee of BLAC's independent directors. The committee evaluated and approved the execution of the letter of intent and the issuance of this announcement, and such committee's approval will be required prior to execution of a definitive agreement with respect to the proposed business combination.
Additional Information and Where to Find It
If a definitive agreement is entered into in connection with the proposed business combination, BLAC will prepare a proxy statement/prospectus (the "BLAC proxy statement/prospectus") to be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and mailed to BLAC's stockholders. BLAC and OSR Holdings urge investors and other interested persons to read, when available, the BLAC proxy statement/prospectus, as well as other documents filed by BLAC with the SEC, because these documents will contain important information about the proposed business combination. Such persons can also read BLAC's Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K and its registration statement on Form S-1 for its initial public offering, all as filed with the SEC for more information about BLAC and the security holdings of its officers and directors and their respective interests as security holders in the consummation of the transactions described herein. The BLAC proxy statement/prospectus, once available, and BLAC other reports can be obtained, without charge, at the SEC's web site (http://www.sec.gov).
Participants in the Solicitation
BLAC, OSR Holdings, and their respective directors, executive officers and other members of their management and employees, under SEC rules, may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies of BLAC stockholders in connection with the proposed business combination. Investors and security holders may obtain more detailed information regarding the names, affiliations and interests of BLAC's directors and officers in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, which was filed with the SEC on March 31, 2023, and its registration statement on Form S-1 for its initial public offering. Information regarding the persons who may, under SEC rules, be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies to BLAC's stockholders in connection with the proposed business combination will be set forth in the proxy statement/prospectus for the proposed business combination when available. Information concerning the interests of BLAC's and OSR Holdings' equity holders and participants in the solicitation, which may, in some cases, be different than those of BLAC's and OSR Holdings' equity holders generally, will be set forth in the proxy statement/prospectus relating to the proposed business combination when it becomes available.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The expectations, estimates, and projections of the businesses of BLAC and OSR Holdings may differ from their actual results and consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Words such as "expect," "estimate," "project," "budget," "forecast," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "may," "will," "could," "should," "believes," "predicts," "potential," "continue," and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, expectations with respect to entry into a definitive agreement for the proposed business combination, the satisfaction of the closing conditions to the proposed business combination, the timing of the completion of the proposed business combination and the future performance of OSR Holdings, including the anticipated impact of the proposed business combination on this performance. These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the expected results. Most of these factors are outside of the control of BLAC and OSR Holdings, and are difficult to predict. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to: (1) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the negotiations and any subsequent definitive agreements with respect to the proposed business combination, and the possibility that the terms and conditions set forth in any definitive agreements with respect to the proposed business combination may differ materially from the terms and conditions set forth in the letter of intent, (2) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the parties following the announcement of the proposed business combination and any definitive agreements with respect thereto; (3) the inability to complete the proposed business combination, including due to failure to obtain approval of the stockholders of BLAC and OSR Holdings or the failure of any other conditions to closing; (4) the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (or any other global health disruption) on (x) the parties' ability to negotiate and consummate the proposed business combination and (y) the business of OSR Holdings and the surviving company; (5) the receipt of an unsolicited offer from another party for an alternative business transaction that could interfere with the proposed business combination; (6) the inability to obtain or maintain the listing of the surviving company's common stock on Nasdaq or any other national stock exchange following the proposed business combination; (7) the risk that the proposed business combination disrupts current plans and operations as a result of the announcement and consummation of the proposed business combination; (8) the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the proposed business combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of the surviving company to grow and manage growth profitably and retain its key employees; (9) costs related to the proposed business combination; (10) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (11) the demand for OSR Holdings' and the surviving company's technologies, products or product candidates together with the possibility that OSR Holdings or the surviving company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; (12) risks and uncertainties related to OSR Holdings' business; and (13) other risks and uncertainties included in (x) the "Risk Factors" sections of the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC by BLAC and (y) other documents filed or to be filed with the SEC by BLAC. The foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. You should not place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. BLAC and OSR Holdings do not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in their expectations or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
No Offer or Solicitation
This press release shall not constitute a solicitation of a proxy, consent, or authorization with respect to any securities or in respect of the proposed business combination. This press release shall also not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any states or jurisdictions in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offering of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Contacts
For OSR Holdings
Sung Jae Yu, Chief Operating Officer
alex.yu@osr-holdings.com
For BLAC
Tom Shin, Senior Vice President
tom.shin@bellevuecm.com
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2023-07-11T21:10:49+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2023/07/11/bellevue-life-sciences-acquisition-corp-osr-holdings-sign-an-exclusive-letter-intent-business-combination/
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The Department of Labor’s (DOL) internal watchdog is estimating that a minimum of $191 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits may have been misspent.
DOL Inspector General Larry Turner said in testimony submitted Wednesday to the House Ways and Means Committee that “at least $191 billion in pandemic UI payments could have been improper payments, with a significant portion attributable to fraud.”
That figure is nearly $30 billion higher than the $163 billion estimate Turner gave in testimony last year to the Democratic-controlled Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The Ways and Means panel, chaired by Republican Rep. Jason Smith (Mo.), is meeting Wednesday for a hearing on what Smith has called “the greatest theft of taxpayer dollars in American history, the massive fraud perpetrated in the unemployment insurance program that skyrocketed with the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“With these varying estimates, it’s clear that the Biden Administration and Congress are in the dark about the size and scope of the greatest theft of taxpayer dollars in American history. The new Republican majority is turning on the lights,” Smith said.
The government created four new unemployment programs as the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country in an effort to help impacted workers, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the quick dispersal of funds opened up the programs to exploitation.
Citing DOL statistics, GAO puts the amount the federal government paid out in unemployment insurance benefits at around $878 billion between April 2020 and September 2022.
GAO said in a report last month “substantial levels of fraud and potential fraud in unemployment insurance (UI) programs during the pandemic.” Though it clarified that no measure “completely and reliably indicates the extent of fraud in UI programs,” GAO estimated that fraud specifically may have exceeded $60 billion.
Turner’s testimony says the DOL’s office of inspector general is “committed to meeting the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic” and to helping improve “the efficiency and integrity” of the unemployment insurance program.
“Strengthening the UI program to prevent fraud before it occurs and to detect it when it does are key objectives to ensure that unemployed workers expeditiously receive much needed benefits while safeguarding tax dollars directed toward that goal,” Turner wrote.
After taking control of the lower chamber from Democrats in the midterms, Republicans have put oversight of the Biden administration and scrutiny into the COVID-19 pandemic among their top priorities for probes.
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2023-02-08T21:12:09+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/hill-politics/watchdog-us-may-have-misspent-191b-in-pandemic-unemployment-benefits/
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LONDON, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Taskize, the leading provider of inter-company workflow to the financial services industry, today announced a significant milestone with 500 financial institutions now live on the company's network, almost double the 289 companies in January 2021.
Operating across 85 countries, the recent growth of the network has been driven by the wave of new regulations along with industry initiatives, such as T+1 settlement. The Settlement Discipline Regime of the Central Securities Depository Regulation (CSDR) and the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) have created an increased need for solutions that facilitate faster and more efficient resolution of settlement breaks and margin disputes.
The global, web-based platform, used by Tier-1 investment banks, brokers, asset managers, hedge funds, CSDs, custodians and CCPs, allows firms to more efficiently manage operational issues across counterparties as well as internally within their organisation.
The Taskize Smart Directory™ and Taskize Bubble™ allow users to manage all work in one place making work flow more efficiently across all their post-trade operational areas, including settlements, corporate actions, income and collateral.
Joining the network is a quick and simple process. Seamless integrations with email, Microsoft Teams and Symphony enable workflow across both traditional and emerging communication channels. The easy-to-use API integrates with existing applications allowing internal workflows to be extended across the entire business network for even greater efficiency. This, along with a flexible sponsored subscription model, has facilitated a rapid increase in members to 500 companies in under 18-months.
Philip Slavin, CEO and co-founder of Taskize, commented on the achievement: "We are excited to have passed this significant milestone after experiencing strong demand from the market. The growth of our network is testament to the value Taskize brings, with those using our platform realising the benefits of inter-company workflow. In the face of mounting regulatory pressures, we expect the network of Taskize users to continue to grow, which will bring cumulative benefits as the industry reaps the rewards of radically reducing emails between global financial operations teams by up to 90%."
For more information on the Taskize network and how to join please see here: https://www.taskize.com/join-the-network/
About Taskize
Taskize is trusted by over 500 financial firms in 85 countries making it the leading provider of structured inter-company workflow to the Financial Services Industry to improve operational efficiency across buy-sides, sell-sides, custodians, market infrastructures and Fintech providers. Taskize eliminates the inefficiency and insecurity of email, phone, and chat to provide everything needed to resolve post-trade, cross-party issues securely and efficiently. Taskize is cloud-native, with an open architecture leading to easy adoption and benefit realization. Taskize is owned by Euroclear, a leading global provider of Financial Market Infrastructure services, operating independently. Follow @Taskize on LinkedIn or visit www.taskize.com.
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2022-06-06T15:17:27+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/06/06/500-financial-institutions-now-live-taskize-network/
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Santa Maria Regional Transit awarded $6.6 million in federal funds for six electric buses
SANTA MARIA, Calif. – Santa Maria Regional Transit (SMRT) was recently awarded $6.6 million from the Federal Transit Administration to purchase six electric buses.
“We’re truly grateful to have been awarded this highly competitive funding. It will go a long way in supporting our ongoing approach to modernizing public transit and further improving the quality of life for Santa Maria residents," said Transit Service Manager Gamaliel Anguiano.
"With these funds, SMRT will complete the final phase of transitioning to zero-emission vehicles and be carbon-free by 2024.”
SMRT began its transition to a zero-emissions bus fleet and expects to be 100% electric by 2024 – well ahead of state mandates, according to Anguiano.
Santa Maria's Transit Division is authorized to spend roughly $22 million in federal and state funding over the next two fiscal years to support the purchase of as many as 15 electric buses, in addition to the two already ordered.
All buses will come with new SMRT branding livery, additional passenger amenities, and the latest air quality management system, according to Anguiano.
The grant was part of the Federal Transit Administration's Low-No grant and is part of $1.66 billion in grants nationwide.
There is also a virtual bus driving training simulator included in the grant as part of SMRT's workforce development program.
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2022-08-16T21:58:45+00:00
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keyt.com
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https://keyt.com/news/santa-maria-north-county/2022/08/16/santa-maria-regional-transit-awarded-6-6-million-in-federal-funds-for-six-electric-buses/
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Josef Newgarden overtook Marcus Ericsson in the final lap of the Indianapolis 500 to win Sunday’s race.
It was Newgarden’s first win at the Indianapolis 500.
He won as the race ended on a one-lap shootout prompted by a multi-car wreck in the final laps of the race. The late-race wreck was one of three that disrupted the race in the final 16 laps.
Newgarden battled all the way from the sixth row to find himself at the front of the Indy 500.
A scary incident with 16 laps to go nearly put a damper on the race. Felix Rosenqvist and Kyle Kirkwood collided, causing Kirkwood’s vehicle to flip. Meanwhile, a tire from Rosenqvist’s vehicle popped off and shot over the protective netting, narrowly missing a crowded grandstand.
Broadcast footage showed the tire landing in a parking lot, striking a car outside the racetrack. It appeared no one was hurt in the frightening crash.
The ending was relatively bitter for Rosenqvist, who earned a spot in the front row of Sunday’s race.
With just eight laps to go, Pato O’Ward, who was among the favorites to win, spun into the wall, ending his race and prompting a second red flag late in the race.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com
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2023-05-28T21:36:37+00:00
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krtv.com
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https://www.krtv.com/newgarden-slips-past-ericsson-in-final-lap-to-win-indianapolis-500
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Michelle Obama teams with Audible for new podcast
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michelle Obama’s recent celebrity-filled book tour is becoming a podcast.
Audible announced Wednesday that the former first lady will launch the "Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast" on March 7. It’s based on Obama’s tour promoting "The Light We Carry," her recent bestselling book, which featured special guests like Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Tyler Perry, David Letterman and more.
"Though only a few thousand people were able to attend the events live, these remarkable conversations can now be heard by everyone," Audible said in a news release. The eight-episode podcast "goes beyond the book as Michelle Obama and her friends share personal stories and insights listeners won’t encounter anywhere else."
Obama said in a statement that the book tour was a way to expand on the book’s reflections about dealing with stress and change and a chance to "connect with real people once again." The podcast, she said, is "a deeper examination of those fun and meaningful moments."
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Obama released "The Light We Carry" book on Nov. 15, and kicked off her promotional tour the same night. She was joined in Washington for the first event by DeGeneres.
The podcast is the first original project in a multiyear deal between Audible and Higher Ground Productions, which was started by Barack and Michelle Obama after they left the White House. The company has produced several acclaimed documentaries, including the Oscar-winning film "American Factory."
Episodes of "The Light Podcast" will be an Audible exclusive for two weeks, and will be widely available on other podcast platforms after that.
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2023-02-05T22:53:32+00:00
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fox6now.com
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https://www.fox6now.com/news/michelle-obama-audible-light-we-carry-podcast-book-tour
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Over the last several weeks, the concept of "quiet quitting" has exploded like a supernova across the media universe.
The big bang began on TikTok, with a video uploaded by a 20-something engineer named Zaid Khan. With the sound of a piano playing a ragtime-style tune and summertime shots of New York City flashing across the screen, Khan narrates a 17-second video that has introduced millions of people to the idea.
"I recently learned about this term called quiet quitting, where you're not outright quitting your job, but you're quitting the idea of going above and beyond," Khan says. "You're still performing your duties, but you're no longer subscribing to the hustle culture mentality that work has to be your life. The reality is it's not — and your worth as a person is not defined by your labor."
Quiet quitting, in other words, is not really about quitting. It's more like a philosophy for doing the bare minimum at your job.
In Japan, there's a concept called shokunin, which refers to an artisan who is deeply dedicated to their craft, always striving for perfection in what they make. Quiet quitting is like the opposite of that. It's about divorcing your ego from what you do for a living and not striving for perfection. Setting boundaries and simply completing the tasks you're supposed to complete within the time that you're paid to do them — with no extra frills. No more kowtowing to your boss or customers. No more working nights and weekends, incessantly checking your email.
Workaholism is out. Coasting is in. Call it the work-life balance manifesto.
Tapping Into The Post-Pandemic Zeitgeist
Most observers seem to agree that the recent enthusiasm for quiet quitting says something about our post-pandemic zeitgeist. With a super-tight labor market giving workers multiple job options, and an ongoing battle being fought over the preservation and expansion of remote work, many workers seem to be reevaluating where and how they do their jobs.
Maybe quiet quitting is just an extension of "The Great Resignation" (or, as we rebranded it, "The Great Renegotiation"). Maybe a large chunk of our labor force was always phoning it in, but now they have a loud social-media presence and better branding. Maybe it's people feeling like suckers for going the extra mile pre-pandemic just to get laid off en masse. Or maybe quiet quitting is a BS pseudo-trend. To be honest, we don't know. But there is at least some data to suggest there's something real going in the psyche of the workforce.
"With layoffs and firings at a record low... people have unprecedented job security," says Julia Pollak, chief economist at the job-search website ZipRecruiter. "And so the risk of termination is lower. And that's also why the incentive to work harder is reduced. The consequences of being found to shirk have become much smaller. One, because companies can't afford to fire people. And two, because there are so many alternatives out there if you do lose your job."
Meanwhile, government data shows an historic drop in productivity over the last two quarters. There could be many reasons for this: the supply chain fiasco, a record rate of job switching, business hiring decisions during a weird time for the economy, scars from the pandemic, growing pains from the mass adoption of remote work, you name it. But some argue that something like quiet quitting might have something to do with it. It would certainly play into a sentiment expressed by some of America's biggest corporations: their employees just aren't being productive enough.
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Gallup recently did a survey about quiet quitting, counting workers who report being neither engaged nor "actively disengaged" at work. They found that these quiet quitters make up at least half of the U.S. workforce. Overall, Gallup's data doesn't really show a sizable shift in how workers feel about their jobs over the last few years, suggesting that quiet quitting could be a normal feature of the American workplace. One area where the data did show a somewhat significant change, however, was among younger workers. "The percentage of engaged employees under the age of 35 dropped by six percentage points from 2019 to 2022," Gallup finds, suggesting that while feeling meh about work may be par for the course for a lot of Americans, it may be gathering momentum among Gen Zers and millennials.
"It's clear that quiet quitting is a symptom of poor management," Gallup writes. The organization recommends that company managers do a better job communicating with their underlings. "Gallup finds the best requirement and habit to develop for successful managers is having one meaningful conversation per week with each team member — 15-30 minutes."
The Loud Reaction To Quiet Quitting
Since the concept of quiet quitting began ricocheting around the internet, there have been countless takes on it. Supporters argue that quiet quitting is a way to safeguard your mental health, prioritize your family, friends and passions, and avoid burnout. But many movers and shakers are against it.
"Quiet quitting isn't just about quitting on a job, it's a step toward quitting on life," complains Arianna Huffington, arguing quiet quitters would be better served finding jobs they are passionate about.
"People who shut down their laptop at 5... they don't work for me," says business thinkfluencer Kevin O'Leary in a CNBC video. "I hope they work for my competitors."
Others worry that quiet quitting is too passive aggressive, can't accomplish what workers really want, and puts an extra burden on coworkers. Kami Rieck, writing in The Washington Post, suggests "the people who tend to experience the highest levels of burnout — women and people of color — probably can't afford to 'quiet quit.'" Instead of silently refusing to put in extra effort, Rieck writes, "it would probably be more helpful to raise these concerns with your boss and brainstorm other solutions."
Hamilton Nolan, writing in The Guardian, stresses that workers in generations past also felt a "collective sense of malaise," but they channeled their frustrations into something more productive than coasting at their jobs: creating unions. "All of these working people did not quit. Nor were they quiet. They knew what was wrong, and they fixed it. Loudly."
Even U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh recently chimed in on quiet quitting: "If you are an employer, you should catch on early enough that your employees aren't satisfied, aren't happy, and then there needs to be a dialogue, a conversation."
The Economics Of Quiet Quitting
One of the more simple models in neoclassical economics says that, in a competitive market, workers are paid their "marginal product." That means the more productive they are — the more extra widgets they make per hour — the more they get paid. In this cartoon world, there would be strong incentives against quiet quitting. You work harder, you get paid more: You coast, and you get paid less. And, we should say, for some workplaces, that may actually be a good approximation of how the world works. You're more likely to get raises and promotions when your boss believes you're working hard.
But, of course, the world is much more messy than workers simply getting paid for how efficiently they work. A more sophisticated cartoon of the workplace is known as "the principal-agent model." In this model, the principal (the boss) enlists an agent (the worker) to do a specific job for them. The problem: the principal doesn't have complete information on exactly what their agent is doing. Is their agent being productive on the job? Or are they slacking? In order to make sure the agent is doing their bidding, the principal must figure out ways to incentivize and monitor them. The model has implications for the dramatic changes in office life — or lack-of-office life — we've seen in recent years. With the mass adoption of remote work, many managers seem to be struggling with how to effectively monitor and motivate their employees.
But companies are trying. A recent investigation by the New York Times finds "eight of the 10 largest private U.S. employers track the productivity metrics of individual workers, many in real time." And they document a surge in companies investing in "digital productivity monitoring" to oversee their white-collar employees. "Many employees, whether working remotely or in person, are subject to trackers, scores, 'idle' buttons, or just quiet, constantly accumulating records. Pauses can lead to penalties, from lost pay to lost jobs." It's all a bit icky.
Workers Tell NPR What They Think
Of course, the mantra of quiet quitting, at least according to TikTok, is not really about failing to do your job. It's about "quitting the idea of going above and beyond." But the concept has drawn much criticism — for being a misnomer, for example. Or for overshadowing the "quiet firing" trend, where companies passively aggressively make their employees' work lives unhappy, and "quiet fleecing," which refers to workers' pay lagging behind their increased productivity for decades.
NPR reached out to listeners and readers to get their perspective on quiet quitting. Some dislike the name. It's pretty confusing. So they offered some rebranding alternatives:
Reverse hustle
Work-life integration
Acting your wage
Workforce disassociation
Corporate coasting
Working at work
DYJ: Doing Your Job
Working to rule
Working to thrive
Morale-adjusted productivity
Our audience members also shared their real-life experiences with setting boundaries at work. Below are some of their comments (with two people asking to shorten their last names for fear of repercussions at work).
Sara M., department manager: "Since COVID, I feel like my priorities, values, who and what are important to me have shifted drastically. I now leave my office at the end of the day not thinking about what I need to work on when I go home at night. I set boundaries for checking my emails and reaching out to co-workers during non-office hours. Most importantly, I do not feel any bit of anxiety when it comes to requesting time off, taking personal days or especially taking sick time. Before it was something I would agonize over. Now it's something I can do without hesitation or worry."
Lane Sheldon, attorney: "Many of my friends work in Big Law and while they're paid very well, the expectations placed on Associates are extremely demanding and often unfair/emotionally abusive. They can't or won't draw similar boundaries, often for fear of retaliation, but they all recognize the toll it takes on their mental AND physical health. Many have left their positions as a result."
Christy G., administrative assistant: "I do not interact with anything from work before 7:00 or after 4:30, which is the time my office is open. I work in a corporate setting so my tasks are not life or death. If someone asks for something, like maybe a file scanned or something like that, at the end of the day — it can wait until the next day. My colleagues do not feel the same way. They answer their phones and answer emails outside of work and on vacations. Sometimes I'll come in on Monday morning and will see 5+ emails from co-workers sent at 7 pm on Saturday."
James Holverstott, laborer: "I have zero ability to do anything but do as I am required by my boss. The idea that 'quiet quitting' fits any jobs besides ones laden with keyboard strokes, spreadsheets, and meetings is patently foolish. It feels like more of a realization by people who have been more than happy to work 24/7/365 to chase the almighty dollar that their lives are being wasted in the pursuit of more stuff, and now they are presenting some laughable notion of 'I just realized I work too much, but luckily I can afford to do less because no one will notice anyway!' as somehow a paradigm shift in worker's rights. I am disgusted that this has even become something people believe could be effective for the bulk of the workforce."
Nick Ivanov, university research assistant: "No boundaries. I will do whatever necessary to make it possible to get a green card in the future. I cannot return to where I am originally from. I have to work 10 times more to be entitled to one tenth of what U.S. citizens take for granted."
Adrian Brothers, school bus driver: "The company I work for wants me to voluntarily put an app on my personal phone. I don't put it on there. ... If they want to communicate with me about work, they can either give me a phone call, a text-message, heck, even send me a letter in the mail. But I will not give the company access to my phone. If they want me to sign on to an app so they can message me every day, they can shell out the money for the phone to come with it."
Misty Moore, nurse: "I have the boundary of accepting as many assignments as I can handle and yet still provide excellent results. I do take on extra work but that is 100% my choice. No one should be looked down upon for not doing extra work."
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2022-09-13T11:23:20+00:00
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mtpr.org
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https://www.mtpr.org/2022-09-13/the-economics-behind-quiet-quitting-and-what-we-should-call-it-instead
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Revolutionary BIP platform to provide IP Expansion for Jazwares and Metaverse Gaming Phenomenon's Brookhaven, Jailbreak, and more!
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BIP, the global IP licensing marketplace, today announces the launch of its innovative web-based marketplace. Jazwares, a global leader in toys and licensing, and Metaverse gaming sensations Brookhaven, Jailbreak, and more have signed on to utilize BIP's newly-formed global IP licensing marketplace.
The BIP online ecosystem bridges the gap between licensors and licensees worldwide allowing for greater connectivity within the licensing industry with a deep focus on transparency. The BIP licensing hub features several tools aiding in the deal making process, including real-time tracking enabling all users to easily track deal memo progress, virtual chat room communication, and post-deal management services. Co-Founded by Ari Zebersky, BIP serves as an expansive centralized hub streamlining the licensing marketplace providing brands opportunities to field potential collaborations, expand territory, and provide a wider range of product categories.
"BIP provides a powerful toolkit for all brands utilizing the platform—from the discovery of new and untapped licensing opportunities to creating new revenue streams—we're there every step of the way to maximize value to these brands and streamline deals," said Ari Zebersky, Co-Founder and CEO of BIP. "Our goal is to provide the licensing industry with the ultimate catalyst for brand collaboration, opening the door for IP expansion and impactful multi-category product extensions."
With more than twenty-five of the world's hottest brands currently signed on for BIP, the company aims to revolutionize the way in which IP is monetized by connecting buyers and sellers in a highly immersive and intuitive global marketplace. The web-based platform will initially be utilized by Jazwares to identify and forge new consumer product offerings in support of its industry-leading plush brand Squishmallows® and First Act™, the preeminent instrument brand for aspiring musicians.
"At Jazwares, we always have our fingers on the pulse, tapping into the partners and technologies that maximize our licensing efforts, bringing them to the next level," said Sam Ferguson, Senior Vice President of Global Licensing, Jazwares. "BIP enables us to have a 24/7, 365-day support solution to help find the best partners to bring our IP to life via a streamlined and highly intuitive online marketplace."
Ari Zebersky along with Co-Founder Dylan Karofsky, and chief technical officer Ben Hakim M.D., initially developed BIP as an NFT-IP marketplace to focus on buying and selling in-demand IP which quickly expanded into a multi-category network spanning consumer products, music, fashion, consumables, and more. BIP recently hit its latest milestone having completed the pre-seed round of funding through a group of angel investors with significant experience in tech, investing, and – notably – the licensing industry.
"BIP marketplace revolutionizes how we currently think of brand activations," explained Dylan Karofsky, Co-Founder, BIP. "Brands finally have a go-to marketplace that enables them to recognize the true value of their brands."
BIP will continue to reach diverse global audiences and onboard the hottest new brands as they hit the market. For more information visit www.bip.co.
BIP is an online licensing marketplace connecting some of the hottest brands with licensees worldwide. By innovating an antiquated industry, BIP allows brands to find their next partner through increased accessibility and simple searchability to enable brand expression for clients in various industries, including apparel, electronics, home and beauty, accessories, food & beverage, and toys & games. BIP is committed to breaking down the traditional barriers in the licensing industry, and our goal is to create a world where all brands can have equal access to growth opportunities while supporting post-deal management with features like payment administration, a digital document storage vault, and real-time negotiation functionality. For more information, visit BIP.co or connect on LinkedIn.
Contact:
Ari Zebersky
Co-Founder, BIP
ari@bip.co
bip.co
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2023-03-01T18:11:31+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2023/03/01/bip-launches-break-frame-licensing-marketplace-with-jazwares-exclusive-access-hit-metaverse-gaming-brands/
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey on Tuesday lifted one of its last remaining COVID-19 restrictions, the wearing of masks in crowded indoor locations.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the relaxation in a televised meeting of the scientific board that has guided Turkey through two years of the pandemic. He said the board would not reconvene unless “extraordinary” circumstances arose.
“The obligation to use masks in closed spaces … has been completely removed,” Erdogan said from Ankara. “Mask application will be continued for a while only on public transport vehicles and in health institutions until the number of (daily) cases falls below 1,000.”
Over-65s and those with other health problems would be advised to continue wearing masks, he added.
The number of daily cases has dropped dramatically since early February, when more than 110,000 infections were recorded. Monday’s daily data from the Health Ministry showed 2,604 cases and 15 deaths.
At the start of March the government lifted rules on wearing masks outside or in indoor areas with sufficient air circulation and social distancing. It also ended the need for people to show a cell phone app logging their personal health record when entering venues such as shopping malls.
Some 53 million of Turkey’s population of 84.6 million have received at least two doses of vaccine, with nearly 28 million having had a third dose.
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2022-04-27T10:46:45+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/health/turkey-lifts-wearing-of-masks-inside-as-covid-19-cases-fall/
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Jets committed to help Wilson ‘through hell or high water’
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Zach Wilson’s rough second season is over. When — or if — he plays another game for the New York Jets remains to be seen.
The struggling quarterback will be inactive Sunday in the team’s season finale at Miami, with Mike White starting a second straight game and Joe Flacco the backup. Still, coach Robert Saleh insisted Wednesday that Wilson still has a future with the franchise.
“Zach has got all the talent in the world and we have all the confidence in the world in him,” Saleh said. “It’s just like I’ve said from this ‘reset,’ we’re going to grind with him, we are.
“And through hell or high water, we’re going to figure out how to get him to where we know he can be.”
That’s the challenge Saleh and his coaching staff face this offseason, which also lends itself to the stark reality that the Jets still don’t know for sure what they have in Wilson.
Some fans and media have labeled the No. 2 pick in the 2021 draft a bust, and his miserable statistics could support that. Wilson has 15 touchdowns and 18 interceptions with a 55.2 completion rate and a 72.8 quarterback rating in 22 starts.
He also has been benched twice this season so he could, as Saleh called it, “reset” himself mentally and physically.
But Wilson also has shown flashes of the off-schedule playmaking ability that made the Jets and others drool leading up to the draft.
“Again, we’re not wavering,” Saleh said. “We believe in the young man and the biggest thing for Zach, it’s not his talent. We want to make sure that we reconnect with Zach and regain his confidence, and regain his confidence in himself and us, and us in him, just all of us. Just to make sure that he’s back on track, get his footwork down right, get his mechanics right, get his mind right.
“So, it’s not a talent thing for Zach, I don’t believe that. I just think, like I said, when it’s a reset, we’re going to work our tails off to help him. We’re committed to him.”
That doesn’t mean, however, Wilson will be the starter next season. Or that he’s a sure thing to even be on the roster — although that would appear likely.
Wilson’s four-year, $35 million rookie contract is fully guaranteed, which means the Jets would take a massive financial hit if they cut him after this season. Wilson will count $9.6 million against the salary cap next season and cutting him would cost New York nearly $20.8 million in dead money. So it would cost the Jets more to cut him ($11.2 million) than keep him.
A trade could be a possibility, but it’s unlikely teams would be willing to give up much to acquire Wilson.
White and Flacco are free agents after this season, so it would make sense for general manager Joe Douglas to try to either sign or acquire a veteran quarterback and keep Wilson as a backup — with the hope he can become more.
“You just see it all over the league where these quarterbacks hit, and especially this year,” said Saleh, who referred to two former Jets. “When you look at what Sam (Darnold) is doing in Carolina, doing a really nice job, and Geno (Smith) just from a relatable standpoint, these guys take time.
“And we’re going to give him that time.”
One narrative is that perhaps Wilson isn’t a perfect fit in offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur’s scheme.
“There’s always going to be a challenge,” Saleh said. “There’s a patience aspect to it and I get it — if you love patience, why did you put him down? I get it, there’s things a lot deeper than it. But you can look back and say a lot of things on what ifs, but at the end of the day, a quarterback’s got to be able to sit in the pocket and he’s got to be able to deliver the football.”
That’s an area where Wilson needs to improve, Saleh said, and something he showed at times early this season before getting off track.
“It just slowly got away from him a little bit, for one reason or another,” Saleh said, “and how do you find that consistency?”
Wilson taking a true mental break when the season ends might be the first step in him getting back on track.
“Get away from this game, just reset,” Saleh said. “I think the greatest strength and greatest gift you can give yourself as a human is to figure out what’s important to you, what do you value and how can you stick to those values day in and day out?
“That is the greatest gift you can give yourself, is to discover yourself and I think Zach needs to get away, read a book and figure that out.”
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2023-01-04T22:35:10+00:00
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kob.com
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https://www.kob.com/sports-stories/ap-football/jets-committed-to-help-wilson-through-hell-or-high-water/
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GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — For Rory McIlroy, it’s a flat-out “no.”
U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick is open to having LIV Golf players on Europe’s team at next year’s Ryder Cup, because, as he said, “I just want to make sure that we win.”
Europe captain Luke Donald, meanwhile, is toeing the official tour line when he says he’s in “limbo” waiting for the conflict to be decided in the courts.
As several of Europe’s top players prepare to play this week’s Italian Open on the Marco Simone course outside Rome that will host next year’s Ryder Cup, the pre-tournament discussion has been about who should and who should not be included on the 2023 team.
“I have said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times: I don’t think any of those guys should be on the Ryder Cup team,” McIlroy said Wednesday of the players who have joined the Saudi-backed breakaway series.
Litigation is ongoing on both sides of the Atlantic involving the PGA and European tours after LIV golfers were excluded from events, and the divide between the players sticking to the traditional tours and those who have joined the lucrative breakaway series is growing.
But Fitzpatrick, who won his first major title in June, is taking a more neutral stance.
“I just want to win the Ryder Cup. … I want the 11 best guys we can get,” said the Englishman, who lost all three of his matches when the U.S. romped to a record rout in Whistling Straits, Wisconsin, last year. “I’m not really too bothered about where they are going to come from.”
Fitzpatrick even went so far as to reach out to a LIV player at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth last week.
“I told him I’d happily have him on the team,” Fitzpatrick said, without naming the player.
Donald was named captain last month after Henrik Stenson was stripped of the title because he joined LIV.
“Nothing that’s really changed since I was appointed,” Donald said. “We’re still a little bit in limbo. We don’t know what’s going to happen with the lawsuit so I’m trying to not really put too much energy into it. Once we get a clearer picture, I can give you better answers.”
While European Ryder Cup stalwarts Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter were among the contingent of LIV golfers competing at Wentworth, none of those high-profile names came to Italy.
“I had already committed to playing in this event before Luke was the captain and it was someone else,” McIlroy said, refusing to mention Stenson by name again.
“I’ve had discussions with Luke and actually a few of us are meeting for dinner tonight for a little bit of team bonding but also to have a talk about the course and how we think it should be set up to favor the European team.”
Located a half-hour drive from the center of Rome — without traffic — the course owned and run by fashion designer Lavinia Biagiotti Cigna features hilly terrain which should lend itself to a stadium-like setting suited for the Ryder Cup.
“You’ve got two drivable par 4s (Nos. 11 and 16), you’ve got a few holes with water and you’ve got that wonderful closing hole which could be really exciting,” McIlroy said of the back nine.
The only time McIlroy previously played in Italy came when he won the European amateur championship in 2006 in the northern town of Biella.
“So I’ve got a 100% record in this country and I’d like to keep that going,” he said.
McIlroy has been enjoying strolling around Rome with family, especially since his wife once studied in the city for seven months “and she knows her way around.”
McIlroy and his teammates’ main order of business, however, is strategizing how to reduce the gap from that 19-9 whipping by the U.S. in Wisconsin.
“The European team has a core of six or seven guys that I think we all know are pretty much going to be on that team, and then it’s up to some of the younger guys to maybe step up,” McIlroy said. “I think we were in need of a rebuild anyway. We did well with the same guys for a very long time but everything comes to an end at some point. I think Whistling Straits is a good sort of demarcation.”
Donald is paired with rising Italian Guido Migliozzi and Adrian Meronk, the Polish player who won the Irish Open in July, for the opening two rounds this week.
Then there’s Nicolai Højgaard, the 21-year-old Dane who won at Marco Simone last year a week after his identical twin brother, Rasmus, won the European Masters in Switzerland .
Vice captain Thomas Bjørn is in a group with the 24-year-old Norwegian Viktor Hovland, who is No. 11 in the world golf rankings.
“I’m excited to see their games,” Donald said. “I’ll be keeping my eye on some of the younger, exciting talent to try to make this team.”
Then there’s Francesco Molinari, the hero of Europe’s victory in 2018, who’s looking to return to the team after missing 2021 because of back issues. He’s coming off a top-10 finish at Wentworth.
“Having an Italian on the team would be huge,” McIlroy said.
Molinari said the issues with LIV will take a back seat come the Sept. 29-Oct. 1 event next year.
“The Ryder Cup is such a big, important and fantastic event that I don’t think it will be damaged at all by the conflict,” Molinari said. “Even if the situation isn’t resolved, I think that for that week everyone’s attention will be on the Ryder Cup.”
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Around two days a week, Natalee Hartwig leaves her home in Madison, Wisconsin, before her son wakes up, to travel across the border into Illinois.
"Luckily it's summer," said Hartwig, a nurse midwife at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. "For now he can sleep in. But any getting ready that has to happen will be on my spouse."
She drives at least two hours each way, immersed in audiobooks and podcasts as she drives to a clinic in the northern Illinois suburb of Waukegan. She spends her days in the recovery room, caring for patients who had abortions and checking their vitals before they go home. She also got licensed in Illinois and trained to provide medication abortion, something she'll be able to do virtually through telehealth with patients across Illinois.
Hartwig is essentially working part time in Illinois because when Roe v Wade was overturned in June, a Wisconsin law immediately took effect that bans nearly all abortions, except to save the life of the pregnant person. Wisconsin providers want to preserve access for patients, while those in Illinois – long an oasis for abortion rights – need more staff to help treat a surge of people arriving from across the U.S.
The Waukegan clinic is Planned Parenthood of Illinois' busiest for out-of-state abortion patients. After Roe fell, 60% of patients came to this clinic from outside the state – mostly from Wisconsin. In fact, the organization opened in Waukegan two years ago with Wisconsin in mind, knowing that if Roe v. Wade did fall, access to abortion in that state would greatly diminish.
After Roe was struck down, Planned Parenthood organizations in both states announced their partnership. More than a dozen employees from Wisconsin – including doctors, nurses and medical assistants – now commute to Waukegan to help provide care.
"It really required this perfect pairing of supply and demand," said Kristen Schultz, Planned Parenthood of Illinois' chief strategy and operations officer. "They had capacity without local demand, and we had the opposite."
In the month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision, Illinois became even more of an oasis for people seeking abortions. Dozens of clinics closed across the nation as 11 states in the South and Midwest implemented bans, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit that supports abortion rights and tracks the issue.
The influx of patients into Illinois has had another impact. For years, abortion providers have been traveling once or twice a month to other states like Kansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma, where their help was badly needed.
Chicago OB-GYN Dr. Laura Laursen was one of them.
"Now the script is totally flipped," said Laursen, a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health. "This is where you are needed more than anywhere else."
Anti-abortion groups oppose the Planned Parenthood partnership and are preparing for a marathon effort to restrict abortion rights in Illinois. In a statement after the organization's announcement, Amy Gehrke, executive director of Illinois Right to Life, called it "particularly tragic."
Helping to treat the surge
Inside the Waukegan clinic, there are typical exam tables, ultrasound machines and hardwood floors throughout. There are also signs of what the space used to be – a big bank on a busy retail strip – such as the shiny vault in the staff break room.
Some of the Wisconsin providers commute to Waukegan a few times a week; others a few days a month.
For Hartwig, associate director of clinical services at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, she's able to do more for patients in Illinois than she could back home. Even as a nurse with an advanced degree, she wasn't allowed to provide medication abortion in Wisconsin. But she can in Illinois, according to the state Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
"This was really just what I was always supposed to do," Hartwig said. "There's nothing that's going to keep me from helping our patients."
Dr. Kathy King, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin's medical director, said while her staff is dedicated to providing these services, it comes at a cost.
"It is a burden on our clinicians and nurses and medical assistants who have young children at home," King said. "It sounds great. Sure, we'll all just travel down to Waukegan five days a week. But the logistics of that and the sacrifice of doing that on just people's day-to-day lives takes a toll."
Still, this sacrifice has helped. With staff from Wisconsin, the Waukegan clinic now has doubled the number of abortion appointments available, and they're still ramping up. This also frees up other staff to treat patients who come for other needs, like birth control and cancer screenings.
There has been a burst of patients from Wisconsin for abortion appointments at all Planned Parenthood of Illinois clinics — a tenfold increase in the month after Roe was overturned, from about 35 patients a month to 350, King said. That doesn't include Wisconsin residents who might have sought abortions with other providers.
A potential model
The Waukegan clinic has ignited interest from abortion providers in other nearby states. Planned Parenthood of Illinois is fielding calls from those in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, for example, Schultz said.
What Illinois needs is more staff to treat more patients. But where will those additional employees come from? The commute from Wisconsin to Waukegan is relatively short compared with providers in Ohio who'd have to cross Indiana to get here.
Across the nation, there are other conversations happening among providers. The National Abortion Federation, which has about 500 facility members including independent abortion clinics and hospitals, is pairing up people who are looking for jobs at clinics with those that need workers, said Melissa Fowler, chief program officer at the federation.
Still, she acknowledged moving isn't a realistic option for everyone.
"People have lives," Fowler said. "They have families. They're deeply rooted in their communities. ... And so a situation like you're seeing in Illinois and Wisconsin is great because people are able to stay connected to their community, not have to move their family and still be able to provide care."
In southern Illinois, many people who work in a clinic in Fairview Heights live across the border in St. Louis. It's a roughly 30-minute commute for Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri.
During her career, she's traveled to Kansas and Oklahoma to provide abortions. Now she's seeing whose expertise she can bring to Fairview Heights, such as doctors and clinic managers in Arkansas who in a post-Roe world now work in a state that has banned nearly all abortions. There's been a big uptick in patients seeking abortions in Fairview Heights recently coming from Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi.
"Who's going to provide those services?" McNicholas asked.
Before the June decision, patients in Fairview Heights typically waited three days for an appointment to get an abortion. Now they wait around three weeks — at a clinic that provides abortions six days a week, eight hours a day.
Within the year, McNicholas said the clinic might open its doors seven days a week, 12 hours a day.
She worries even that might not be enough to give quick access to patients.
This story was produced as part of NPR's partnership with Kaiser Health News and WBEZ Chicago.
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Two people who were left stranded in a plane after it crashed into a transmission tower in Maryland on Sunday evening have been rescued, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue officials.
The crash, which took place around 5:30 p.m. ET, sent the plane into a tower near Rothbury Drive and Goshen Road, according to Pete Piringer, a public information officer for the county's fire department.
The passengers were stranded for hours while suspended almost 100 feet in the air. The Montgomery County Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security announced at 1:11 a.m. Monday that the pair had been rescued.
The collision, which happened about 40 miles southwest of Baltimore and 15 miles outside of Washington, D.C., caused power outages throughout Montgomery County. As of 1:40 a.m. ET, 313 customers were without power, according to Pepco.
Officials have also shut down roads around the area.
Rescue crews are still working to extract the plane from the site of the crash.
In footage posted to Piringer's Twitter account about an hour after the crash, the plane is seen trapped among the powerlines as fire trucks surround the area.
Gaithersburg, MD plane crash https://t.co/aeT9pFAFdU
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) November 27, 2022
Due to the power outages, some traffic signals and elevators in the area are no longer working. Some residents reported flickering lights. Montgomery County Public Schools and Montgomery College locations canceled classes for Monday.
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By ANDREW MELDRUM
Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s state electricity operator on Saturday announced blackouts in Kyiv and seven other regions of the country in the aftermath of Russia’s devastating strikes on energy infrastructure.
The move comes as Russian forces continue to pound Ukrainian cities and villages with missiles and drones, inflicting damage on power plants, water supplies and other civilian targets, in a grinding war that is nearing its nine-month mark.
Russia has denied that the drones it has used in Ukraine came from Iran, but the Islamic Republic’s foreign minister on Saturday for the first time acknowledged supplying Moscow with “a limited number” of drones before the invasion. Hossein Amirabdollahian claimed, however, that Tehran didn’t know if its drones were used against Ukraine and stated Iran’s commitment to stopping the conflict.
Ukrenergo, the sole operator of Ukraine’s high-voltage transmission lines, initially said in a an online statement Saturday that scheduled blackouts will take place in the capital and the greater Kyiv region, as well as several regions around it — Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Poltava and Kharkiv.
Later in the day, however, the company released an update saying that scheduled outages for a specific number of hours aren’t enough and instead there will be emergency outages, which could last an indefinite amount of time.
Ukraine has been grappling with power outages and disruption of water supplies since Russia started unleashing massive barrages of missile and drone strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure last month.
Moscow has said those came in response to what it alleged were Ukrainian attacks on Crimea, the region that Russia illegally annexed in 2014. Ukraine has denied those allegations.
Meanwhile, Russian shelling of Ukrainian regions continued into the early hours of Saturday.
About 40 shells were fired overnight at the city of Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko said on Telegram. The Russian forces targeted the city and the areas around it from heavy artillery. Two fires broke out, and more than a dozen of residential and utility buildings, as well as a gas pipeline, were damaged, the official said.
Elsewhere in the region, the Ukrainian forces shot down a drone and another projectile, according to Reznichenko.
In the southern Mykolaiv region, the overnight shelling of rural areas damaged several houses, but didn’t cause any casualties, Mykolaiv Gov. Vitali Kim said on Telegram.
The Russian forces also fired missiles at the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, which has been illegally annexed by Moscow and large parts of which remain occupied. According to regional Gov. Oleksandr Starukh, the attack took place shortly after midnight and damaged buildings of three businesses, as well as a number of cars.
In the eastern Donetsk region, also annexed and partially occupied by Russia, eight cities and villages have been shelled, including Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Porkovsk.
Russian-installed authorities in Donetsk reported an attempt on the life of a Moscow-appointed judge of the region’s Supreme Court. Alexander Nikulin, who was on a judicial panel that in June sentenced to death two Britons and a Moroccan fighting on the Ukrainian side, has been hospitalized with gunshot wounds and is in grave condition, Kremlin-backed officials said.
According to Ukraine’s presidential office, at least three civilians were killed and eight others were wounded over the past 24 hours by Russian shelling of nine Ukrainian regions, where drones, missiles and heavy artillery were used.
In the Russian-occupied Kherson region, where a Ukrainian counteroffensive is underway, the Russian military continue to abduct local residents, the presidential office said, with the most recent cases taking place over the past 24 hours.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. deals with its deadliest overdose crisis to date, a national crime-prevention group is calling on the Justice Department to clamp down on social media’s role in the spread of fentanyl, the drug largely driving a troubling spike in overdose deaths among teenagers.
The National Crime Prevention Council sent a letter Wednesday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, calling for an investigation. The group known for ads featuring McGruff the Crime Dog is especially concerned about the sale of fake pills laced with fentanyl on Snapchat, a popular platform among teens.
“Drug dealers are using American innovation to sell lethal products,” executive director Paul DelPonte wrote. “Social media platforms bear some responsibility for these deaths.”
Overdose deaths in the U.S. hit a record last year, with an average of one death every five minutes in the U.S. Among teens ages 10 to 19, deaths spiked 109% between 2019 and 2021, according to monthly median data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vast majority of those deaths, 84%, involved fentanyl, according to the report released last week.
Dealers use many social media and money exchange platforms, sometimes in the same transactions, but Snapchat’s encrypted technology and disappearing messages make it especially hard to catch dealers, DelPonte said.
The Justice Department had no comment on the letter.
Snapchat’s parent company, for its part, said it has taken significant steps to improve safety on the platform and saw a drop in user reports about drug sales from over 23% last year to 3.3% last month. It’s also backing a new bill to bolster drug-activity reporting by social media companies.
Jennifer Stout, vice president of global public policy at Snap, said the company uses technology to identify and remove dealers and support police investigations. “We will continue to do everything we can to tackle this national crisis,” she said in a statement.
Still, Snapchat is the most common platform grieving families mention when they reach out to his group for help, DelPonte said.
Those parents included Amy Neville, whose son Alex was 14 when he bought a pill that he thought was Oxycontin through the platform in June 2020. The boy had just told his parents about his experimentation with drugs and they were about to put him in treatment.
One day, he got his hair cut, went to lunch with his dad and hung out with friends. After he returned to the family’s home in Orange County, California, he went to his room and at some point took the pill that ended his life.
“The following morning I found him in his bed. The rest is craziness,” Amy Neville said. “After he passed away, we said, ‘How did this happen?’ We thought we were prepared.’”
His family knew little about fentanyl, which federal authorities say can be lethal in amounts smaller than the tip of a pencil. Neville has gotten a tragic education in the years since her son died and has also heard from more families whose children died of overdoses after buying pills through Snapchat, often for less than $25.
Neville, who calls Snap’s recent changes “a little Band-Aid on a gaping wound,” is also part of a lawsuit in California against the company. The lawsuit names several teens and young adults around the country who have died after accidental overdoses. It was filed by the Social Media Victims Law Center, which is now representing 28 families whose children have bought counterfeit pills through Snapchat. Founding attorney Matthew Bergman said the platform is the only one where their clients’ children have gotten fake or lethal pills.
The Drug Enforcement Administration has called fentanyl “the deadliest drug threat facing this country,” and administrator Anne Milgram has said social media apps are the “perfect drug delivery tool” in a speech where she also named platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
Ed Ternan became an activist after his son died at age 22 from taking a single fentanyl-laced pill he thought was Percocet. He said he’s seen more action from Snapchat than other platforms since they became aware of the problem in early 2021. But he’d rather see the government work with companies to prosecute dealers than launch a corporate investigation.
“If the carrot is working, at some point the stick is counterproductive,” said Ternan, who serves on Snap’s safety board. “I want to prevent future deaths. And we do that with education awareness and joining forces with the social media companies.”
While the latest overdose death data has some encouraging signs, the number of fentanyl-laced pills seized in the U.S. more doubled this year, the DEA said this week. The drug is largely being produced in illicit labs in Mexico, with precursor chemicals bought from China, authorities have said.
For drug dealers, social media today holds a similar place to phones and beepers in years past, said Jim Carroll, a former director of Office of National Drug Control Policy who also serves as an unpaid member of the safety board advising Snap. There’s no data on exactly how much fentanyl is trafficked through social-media sites, he said, but Snapchat’s immense popularity among younger people could also help explain why dealers use the site and there are more deaths connected with the platform, he said.
“You can’t go after the phone company just because it’s the method of communication,” he said. Still, “All these social media companies need to do more.”
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This story corrects the spelling of the last name of the executive director of National Crime Prevention Council. It is Paul DelPonte, not DePonte.
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Malik Lofton, a cornerback for the South Dakota State football team, has been arrested on a warrant for two counts of second-degree petty theft, per the Brookings County State’s Attorney’s office.
Lofton, a senior from Minneapolis, was absent from the team’s practice on Tuesday, which was when Coach John Stiegelmeier said he was notified of the arrest. Stiegelmeier said disciplinary action from the team is pending.
Lofton has appeared in all 12 games for South Dakota State this season, recording 18 tackles and an interception. He is a three-time member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference academic honor roll, and received the Valley Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award for the 2020/21 season.
Lofton’s initial court appearance is set for Jan. 23 at 9 a.m.
The Jackrabbits host Holy Cross Saturday at 11 a.m. at Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium in the quarterfinals of the FCS playoffs.
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By The Associated Press
A look at what’s happening around the majors on Tuesday:
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MACHADO UPDATE
Manny Machado was out of the lineup a day after spraining his left ankle, but Padres acting manager Ryan Flaherty is optimistic the All-Star third baseman won’t need to go on the injured list.
“He’s got some purple and blue in there but overall he’s moving around pretty good and feels good,” Flaherty said Monday.
Machado, who’s having an MVP-caliber season, was injured Sunday in Colorado while trying to beat out a grounder. His cleats slipped across the top of first base and he fell to the ground.
Machado is batting .328 with 12 homers and 46 RBIs. He has largely carried the Padres’ offense in the absence of All-Star shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr., who remains out while rehabbing his surgically repaired left wrist.
1998 YANKEES RETURN — IN NAME ONLY
Two 23-year-old shortstops named after stars on the 1990s New York Yankees championship teams came up to the major leagues this week.
Boston recalled Jeter Downs from Triple-A Worcester and his first name comes from Yankees Hall of Fame shortstop Derek Jeter. Downs hit .180 with one homer and 11 RBIs at Triple-A this year.
Pittsburgh recalled Oneil Cruz from Indianapolis — he’s named for Yankees right fielder Paul O’Neill. Cruz made his big league debut on the final weekend of last season, going 3 for 9 with a home run in two games against Cincinnati. He is batting .232 this season with nine homers, 35 RBIs and 11 steals at Triple-A.
Downs and Cruz were both born in 1998, the year the Yankees swept San Diego for the first of their three straight titles.
SUBSTITUTE ACE
With Walker Buehler likely sidelined until at least September with a flexor strain and also recovering from surgery to remove bone spurs from his elbow, Tony Gonsolin has been pitching like an ace for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Gonsolin could take over the major league ERA lead when he starts at Cincinnati.
The 28-year-old right-hander is 8-0 with a 1.42 ERA in 12 starts covering 63 1/3 innings. It will be the Dodgers’ 66th game, meaning he needs 2 2/3 innings to qualify for the ERA lead.
Gonsolin has allowed one run over his last three starts, giving up six hits in 18 1/3 innings with 16 strikeouts and four walks.
Cincinnati’s Tyler Mahler is 0-1 despite a 3.08 ERA in six starts since winning at Pittsburgh on May 13.
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NASTY NESTOR
In his last start before the Yankees hold Nasty Nestor T-shirt night this weekend, Nestor Cortes starts at Tampa Bay.
The 27-year-old left-hander is 6-2 with a 1.94 ERA in 12 starts, striking out 75 and walking 17 in 69 2/3 innings while holding opponents to a .190 average.
He already is 2-0 against the Rays this season, allowing one run over eight innings at the Trop on May 26 and giving up one run over 5 1/3 innings at Yankee Stadium last week.
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Which smartwatches are best?
Some smartwatches work best paired with a phone and some work well all their own. They no longer are a new or unusual product, so there are many varieties of smartwatches designed with different purposes and budgets in mind.
The top choice is the Apple Watch Series 6 for those who want a premium-quality smartwatch with many features. The latest generation of Apple watch technology is stylish and customizable.
What to know before you buy a smartwatch
Which operating system you use
To connect a smartwatch to your existing smartphone or other devices, it should be compatible. For example, the Apple watch integrates well with iPhones and other Apple products. Before buying a smartwatch, check that it will function well with smart devices you already own.
Are you using a smartwatch for fitness?
Many smartwatches have useful health and fitness tracking features. However, you do not necessarily need a smartwatch to access such tech. You can connect dedicated fitness tracker devices to your smartphone, which costs much less. The battery life of dedicated fitness trackers also tends to be more than what users can expect from a smartwatch. If your main goal is fitness, consider fitness trackers instead of a smartwatch.
Manufacturer
Different smartwatch makers operate on different product life cycles. Depending on when you are looking for a smartwatch, a new model may be nearing release. Before investing in a smartwatch, check the different options available that interest you and determine if the company will be releasing an improved model soon. It might be worth a wait for a higher-quality piece of wearable tech. For more smartwatch options and similar items, take a look at the BestReviews buying guide.
What to look for in a quality smartwatch
Applications
The best smartwatches have application support for the apps you use. Depending on the smartphone you use, different smartwatches help you get the most out of the app software. Apple watches are best for iPhone users, and smartwatches with Android Wear are best for Android users.
Fitness features
Smartwatches have varying degrees of fitness tracking. Some serve as simple step counters or monitor vitals, but some can use GPS functionality to track exercise routes on foot or on a bike. If you need more fitness tracking options, there are smartwatches optimized with useful features, but not all smartwatches are specifically designed for fitness buffs.
Performance plans
Although not a feature of a quality watch itself, the insurance plan for a smartwatch is an important part of the purchase. Unlike smartphones that spend most of the time in a user’s pocket, a smartwatch is exposed to wear and tear on the user’s arm. A performance plan is not necessary with many electronic devices but with a smartwatch, it is necessary to get a plan that covers accidental damages to the vulnerable glass screen and small components.
How much you can expect to spend on a smartwatch
A smartwatch with basic, entry-level functionality costs $100-$200. Smartwatches with app support and integration can go up to $400, while models featuring independent LTE functionality can cost more than $400.
Smartwatch FAQ
Can smartwatches make phone calls?
A. Depending on the model, a smartwatch may be able to act as the microphone and speaker for a call using a separate smartphone. In other cases, the smartwatch can make calls and connect to the internet by itself rather than depending on a secondary device. Models that operate as independent mobile devices are more costly.
Do you need a special charger for a smartwatch?
A. Some models use proprietary charging cables instead of generic chargers that you may already own or easily can find. If standard micro-USB cables are incompatible with your smartwatch, get a duplicate of the special charger that you need. If that is a concern, it might be better to find a smartwatch able to charge with common cables.
What’s the best smartwatch to buy?
Top smartwatch
What you need to know: These versatile and high-quality watches include a wide range of features and the quality customers expect from Apple.
What you’ll love: It can monitor and measure health information while worn and track sleep. It has fitness tracking features and statistics for the user. The design is customizable for the individual and is a simple, stylish piece of wearable tech.
What you should consider: The price is high, but if that does not turn you away, there is not much to complain about with this one.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
Top smartwatch for the money
What you need to know: This is an affordable smartwatch with a solid array of features that provides great value for the price.
What you’ll love: It has health tracking features for detecting heart rate, sleep and movements such as steps or falls. The leather strap is stylish and comfortable to wear for long periods of time. It is very durable and pairs well with a high-quality smartphone companion app.
What you should consider: Some variations of the model are more pricey than others, depending on the size and materials.
Where to buy: Sold by Samsung.
Worth checking out
Fossil Gen 5 Julianna Smartwatch
What you need to know: It is a stylish smartwatch using Google’s best wearable tech available.
What you’ll love: It has access to hundreds of supported apps, including Google Assistant for voice controls. The built-in speaker is high quality. The watch comes in multiple styles and is waterproof. It has a battery-saving mode that helps it last for multiple days.
What you should consider: This is not designed with features for fitness and activity tracking.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
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2022-07-29T17:23:14+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/reviews/br/electronics-br/wearable-technology-br/the-best-smartwatch/
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WATERLOO — The following upcoming events are planned at the Waterloo Public Library:
Tuesday 6-7 p.m., CYOA Library Read-Aloud Book Club #4. The Choose Your Own Adventure Read-Aloud Book Club is for fourth- and fifth-graders. It meets twice a month on Tuesdays in the conference room to hear a story read aloud. The group will choose which path to take along the way. Register with the following online link: tinyurl.com/wplCYOApart4. After registration, participants will receive more details regarding the club.
Wednesday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. – Hive Workshop: Quilting Drop-in at the Hive Main Room. Bring unfinished quilting projects and make some progress. Quilting advice and second (and third) opinions will be available. Sewing equipment is provided but people should bring their own fabric, batting, thread, and pattern.
She was transported from the store parking lot in the 1300 block of Logan Avenue to UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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2022-11-27T22:03:58+00:00
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wcfcourier.com
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https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/waterloo-public-library-announces-upcoming-events/article_59d3ad97-5807-5807-a388-fe1569384c46.html
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