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DETROIT -- Detroit Tigers closer Gregory Soto walked two batters and hit another in the ninth inning before rookie Ezequiel Duran’s bases-clearing triple gave the Texas Rangers a 3-1 victory on Thursday night at Comerica Park.
It was the fifth consecutive loss for the Tigers (24-39) and perhaps the cruelest one in a frustrating homestand that included Wednesday’s 13-0 embarrassment that prompted a post-game team meeting to talk through the club’s struggles.
Tigers rookie starter Beau Brieske threw a career-high seven scoreless innings and left with a 1-0 lead.
Javier Baez broke an 0-for-13 skid with a ground-rule double to deep center in the sixth. He would have driven in the game’s first run if it hadn’t bounced over the wall. Instead, the lone run came home one batter later on Robbie Grossman’s sacrifice fly.
Other slumping Tigers got hits on Thursday, including Jonathan Schoop and Spencer Torkelson, which counts as a modestly positive sign on an offense that needs any encouragement it can get.
Brieske, who earned his first career win five days ago, has now thrown 13 consecutive scoreless innings. That’s the longest streak for a Tigers’ rookie starting pitcher since Michael Fulmer did so twice in 2016, when he won American League Rookie of the Year.
“I’m starting to feel a little bit more comfortable out there and more consistent in my mechanics so that I’m able to repeat stuff a little easier,” Brieske said.
On Thursday Brieske walked two and struck out six through seven innings. He got 13 swings-and-misses, including six on his slider. His only real jam came when he issued back-to-back walks in the sixth. He got one of the baserunners on a pick-off play and Torkelson ended the inning by leaning into the Rangers’ dugout to grab a popup.
But things fell apart in the ninth.
Soto issued a lead-off walk to Rangers shortstop Corey Seager. Then came a two-minute delay for mound grooming, as Soto summoned the grounds crew to work out some inconsistencies in the dirt.
Soto got drilled on a combacker by Adolis Garcia, but managed to retire him at first. But then he hit Kole Calhoun with a pitch to put the go-ahead run on base.
Soto fought back to strike out Jonah Heim on a very generous called third strike, but walked Nathaniel Lowe to load the bases.
That set up a showdown Duran, a top prospect recently arrived in the big leagues. Duran punched a pitch down the third-base line to score three runs.
“He lives on the edge sometimes,” said Tigers manager A.J. Hinch. “And obviously tonight was too much.”
The Tigers did not score in the bottom of the ninth. The game ended when Eric Haase took a called third strike and had some choice words for home plate umpire Jose Navas.
“That (call) was horrendous, if we’re being honest,” Haase said.
Up next
The Tigers and Rangers meet again on Friday at 7:10 p.m. Tigers lefty Tarik Skubal (5-3, 2.71 ERA) will face Rangers right-hander Jon Gray (1-3, 4.85).
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2022-06-17T03:08:53+00:00
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mlive.com
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https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/06/rangers-score-3-in-9th-to-send-tigers-to-5th-straight-loss.html
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DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — The FBI has issued arrest warrants and released disturbing details in the armed home invasion and kidnapping of an elderly North Carolina couple and the theft of more than $150,000 of their cryptocurrency in April.
The incident took place at gunpoint at the couple’s home the morning of April 12 after thieves allegedly posed as construction workers and forced their way into the home, according to the Durham Police Department and the FBI.
According to an FBI criminal complaint obtained by Nexstar’s WNCN, the incident began when two men, dressed as construction workers, came to the victims’ home around 7:30 a.m. The duo claimed they would be inspecting pipes for damage and told the husband they would be “walking around the house.”
After a few minutes, the pair knocked on the door again and the wife answered the door. The suspects, who allegedly both had guns, then pushed their way inside.
“The men restrained and zip-tied the husband’s hands and the wife’s hands,” the FBI complaint said.
A man armed with a pink gun showed the wife it was loaded by opening the cylinder and then dragged her into a bathroom by her legs, the criminal complaint said.
The husband was taken to his Apple iMac and forced at gunpoint to log in and install a remote desktop application called AnyDesk. A person on the phone with a thief already knew “details about the account without being told,” the FBI complaint said.
The FBI believes the husband’s email account was compromised in the past, allowing the thieves to learn the details ahead of the trip to Durham and the home invasion.
The suspects were able to transfer $156,853 worth of cryptocurrency during the next 45 minutes, the FBI said. Before leaving, the thieves allegedly smashed the couple’s cellphones and the iMac.
The elderly couple managed to get out of their home and ask neighbors to call 911 for help. The pair suffered minor injuries and were transported to a nearby hospital, Durham police said.
The arrest warrants released Thursday for kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping indicate two West Palm Beach, Florida, men are wanted — Jarod Gabriel Seemungal and Remy Ra St. Felix.
According to the FBI criminal complaint filed the same day, the suspects began targeting retirees who had cryptocurrency as early as February. The accused men even had the license plate number for the husband’s car, authorities said. A third man is also named in the criminal complaint, but no arrest warrant was issued for him as of Thursday.
Messages sent between those involved identified actual cryptocurrency amounts and their locations, the criminal complaint said. One suspect had a photo of the husband’s North Carolina driver’s license in his email account, according to the FBI.
The two suspects also discussed in internet messages how potential victims “have so much” money in accounts that it would be “retirement licks” — the FBI explained in the complaint that “licks” is slang for a robbery.
The thieves apparently rented a car in Florida and visited the Millennium Hotel in Durham a couple of days before the actual robbery, according to the complaint. Video from a home near the victims’ showed the thieves’ BMW SUV “conducting surveillance” at the couple’s home each of the three days before the alleged kidnapping, the FBI said.
The FBI also noted that a person driving a similar vehicle purchased costumes — a clipboard, reflective vest, sunglasses and a pair of khaki pants — at a nearby Walmart that allowed the suspected thieves to get into the victims’ home. Both suspects were seen on surveillance video from the store.
Additional details about potential victims wasn’t immediately available. As of Sunday, authorities have not said whether either man is in custody.
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2023-07-30T18:38:49+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/national/elderly-couple-bound-held-at-gunpoint-during-north-carolina-home-invasion-fbi-investigating/
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(NEXSTAR) – Between them, Lebron James, Draymond Green, and Kevin Love have nine NBA championships, over 43 years in the league, and a net worth of more than $1 billion. Now, they’ll be able to add a new venture to their resumes: owners of a Major League Pickleball team.
Yes, pickleball. It’s one of the fastest-growing rec sports in the country, with courts and rivalries appearing from California to New York and everywhere in between. Some people are taking the sport so seriously they’ve been arrested over it.
If you aren’t familiar with the phenomenon, pickleball’s origins date back to the 1960s in the state of Washington, Chuck Menke, the chief marketing officer for USA Pickleball told Nexstar’s KSWB. Pickleball is similar to tennis, but plays on a smaller court with a ball similar to a wiffle ball and paddles slightly larger than those used in ping pong.
You won’t just find a pickleball court at a recreation area or gym near you. There are professional players competing in the sport, including at the upcoming USA Pickleball National Championships in November, which will be held near Palm Springs, California.
There are currently 12 teams within Major League Pickleball, but the league says it will soon expand to 16 teams. Next year, players will be able to compete in six tournaments throughout the U.S. with the chance to take home more than $2 million.
On Wednesday, MLP announced a new ownership group that will join already-existing team owners, which include former New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry.
In addition to James, Green and Love, members from companies founded by James comprise the new ownership group.
MLP founder Steven Kuhn said in a press release Thursday that the group “will significantly help us with our goal to reach 40 million pickleball players by 2030.”
Additional pickleball team owners are expected to be announced in the coming weeks, according to MLP.
Last year, James gained an ownership stake in the Boston Red Sox, Liverpool Football Club, Roush Fenway Racing, and a regional sports network when he became a partner with Fenway Sports Group, ESPN reports. He has also expressed interest in owning an NBA team.
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2022-09-29T21:39:01+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/news/national-world/nbas-lebron-james-draymond-green-and-kevin-love-are-buying-a-pro-pickleball-team/
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MIAMI (WSVN) - Jackson Health System locations are once again tightening visitation rules in response to rising cases of COVID-19.
Officials on Thursday listed the changes they are currently enforcing.
Adults in the emergency room can no longer have visitors, and children are allowed one.
In addition, the morning and evening visitation hours for hospitalized patients have been scaled back.
Anyone with questions and concerns about the coronavirus can call the Florida Department of Health’s 24-hour hotline at 1-866-779-6121.
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2022-05-19T22:42:24+00:00
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wsvn.com
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https://wsvn.com/news/local/jackson-health-tightens-visitation-rules-amid-rise-in-covid-19-cases/
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Previously Announced Acquisition of Etain Represents Initial Step to Becoming Licensed, Vertically-Integrated U.S. Cannabis Operator
Strong Liquidity, Robust Balance Sheet, and Appointment of Mike Totzke as Chief Operating Officer Competitively Position RIV Capital for Operationalizing Strategy in U.S. Market
TORONTO, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - RIV Capital Inc. ("RIV Capital" or the "Company") (CSE: RIV) (OTC: CNPOF) today released its financial results for the fourth quarter ("Q4 2022") and fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 ("FY 2022").
"We spent the second half of the 2022 fiscal year preparing for our entry into the U.S. cannabis market, ending the year with a transformative agreement to acquire ownership and control of New York-based Etain," said Mark Sims, President and CEO of RIV Capital. "We are excited to launch our U.S. strategy in the Empire State, which represents one of the largest legal cannabis market opportunities in the U.S. as it approaches the implementation of adult-use sales. A cultural epicenter, New York is very attractive due to its attractive regulatory framework, strong tourism industry and extremely high population density. With the potential to become the second-largest cannabis market in the U.S., second only to California, we believe the state will be vital to the success of our U.S. platform in the long term."
"We are so confident in the potential of this market that we intend to further strengthen and expand our presence in New York ahead of adult-use sales. RIV plans to invest in four additional dispensaries and a new state-of-the-art flagship indoor cultivation facility, specifically tailored to support the premium New York market, as soon we are permitted to do so. We are thrilled to be working with Etain as a top-tier brand partner and are looking forward to completing the license transfer as soon as possible."
In March 2022, RIV Capital announced a definitive agreement to acquire ownership and control of Etain, LLC and Etain IP LLC ("Etain") (the "Etain Acquisition"), owners and operators of legally licensed cannabis cultivation facilities and retail dispensaries in the state of New York. The acquisition includes one of only 10 vertically integrated licenses in New York, and four active dispensaries.
The Company's near-term plans include completing the expansion of Etain's current cultivation capacity by tripling the existing canopy size at its Chestertown facility to support the adult-use market at its outset, and preparing its existing retail locations for the expected increase in sales. RIV Capital is also in advanced discussions to construct a new, state-of-the-art flagship indoor cultivation facility that will house premier cultivation and production infrastructure specifically tailored to support the premium New York market. Additionally, the Company has plans to build out four new dispensaries as soon as the Company is permitted to do so under the state's regulations, bringing the total New York footprint to eight retail locations, three of which will be co-located for adult-use.
Once adult-use sales are in effect, the Company anticipates a significant ramp in business to occur through the second half of calendar year 2023, with its expanded operations coming fully online during the first half of calendar year 2024.
The acquisition is structured to close in two stages, the first of which was completed in April 2022, where RIV Capital acquired the non-regulated portion of the Etain companies. Subject to receipt of the relevant approvals by the New York state regulators, the second closing and license transfer is expected to occur in the second half of 2022.
Effective as of June 20, 2022, Mike Totzke has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of RIV Capital. Mr. Totzke brings extensive operational experience to RIV Capital's management team, having held a variety of operations- and sales-focused roles across The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company ("ScottsMiracle-Gro") since 2006.
Before joining RIV Capital, Totzke served in various roles at ScottsMiracle-Gro, most recently as Vice President at The Hawthorne Collective, where he led a team of highly recognized performers across legal, finance, and strategy to implement innovative investment structures within the cannabis industry. Previously, he was Vice President of Sales for the National Accounts division of ScottsMiracle-Gro, where he grew annual sales by $200 million over three years by activating new retail channels and driving incremental distribution points.
"We have entered this next fiscal year in an enviable liquidity position, with sufficient funding to complete the Etain Acquisition and finance our expansion plans in the state of New York," said Eddie Lucarelli, Chief Financial Officer of RIV Capital. "We believe that in light of the ongoing challenging backdrop in capital markets, the strength of our balance sheet is a key differentiator that will enable us to build a market-leading U.S. platform."
The Company reported an operating loss (before equity method investees and fair value changes) of $2.0 million for Q4 2022, compared with operating income (before equity method investees and fair value changes) of $0.7 million for the same period last year. The operating loss for Q4 2022 was primarily driven by an increase in the provision for expected credit losses on interest and royalty receivables.
The Company reported total operating expenses of $4.8 million for Q4 2022, compared with $7.9 million for the same period last year. General and administrative expenses were $2.2 million for Q4 2022, compared with $2.0 million for the same period last year, and were primarily attributable to employee compensation and other general and administrative activities (including insurance, business development, and general public company costs). Consulting and professional fees were $0.1 million for Q4 2022, compared with $0.7 million for the same period last year. Transaction costs were $1.8 million for Q4 2022 and were primarily attributable to legal fees and other advisory costs incurred in respect of the Etain Acquisition.
The Company's share of loss from equity method investees for Q4 2022 was $0.1 million, compared with a share of loss of $47 thousand for the same period last year. 10831425 Canada Ltd. d/b/a Greenhouse Juice Company ("Greenhouse Juice"), LeafLink Services International ULC, and NOYA Cannabis Inc. ("NOYA") represented the Company's equity method investees for which a share of income or loss was recognized for the quarter. The Company also recognized impairment charges of $0.2 million for Q4 2022, compared with no impairment charges for the same period last year.
The Company also reported a net decrease in the fair value of financial assets that are reported at fair value through profit or loss ("FVTPL") of $3.8 million for Q4 2022, compared with a net decrease of $19.8 million for the same period last year. The net decrease was primarily driven by the negative changes in the estimated fair value of the Company's investments in the Greenhouse Juice secured convertible debenture of $2.1 million and Agripharm royalty interest of $1.0 million.
The Company reported other expenses in Q4 2022 of $9.3 million, compared with other income of $0.1 million for the same period last year. This was primarily attributable to an unrealized foreign exchange loss of $6.1 million on the conversion of the Company's U.S. dollar cash reserves to its presentation currency of Canadian dollars, as well as the non-cash accretion expense on the initial convertible note issued to The Hawthorne Collective of $3.0 million.
The Company reported a total comprehensive loss of $17.2 million for Q4 2022, compared with total comprehensive income of $64.8 million for the same period last year.
As of June 10, 2022, RIV Capital had approximately U.S.$169 million of cash on hand based on the closing daily exchange rate as reported by the Bank of Canada. The Company anticipates that the cash required for the final closing of the Etain Acquisition will be approximately U.S.$42.4 million.
The following represents a brief summary of other developments in the RIV Capital portfolio during and subsequent to Q4 2022:
- BioLumic Inc. ("BioLumic") announced the launch of an operational hub in Boston, Massachusetts, as part of its expansion focused on commercial growth. In addition, BioLumic was selected as a top 50 nominee for the 2022 Food Planet Prize, recognizing innovative food sustainability solutions.
- Greenhouse Juice was named winner of Circular Opportunity Innovation Launchpad's Circulate CoLAB 2022, receiving $100,000 in demonstration project funding for the next year. Greenhouse Juice was also included in the Canadian Business New Innovators list for 2022.
- NOYA joined an exclusive collective production partnership with Gage Growth Corp. for the cultivation and production of one of the best-known cannabis brands in the world, Cookies, for its first store in Canada, which opened in January 2022.
- ZeaKal, Inc. ("ZeaKal") announced significant partnerships with Gro Alliance and Perdue AgriBusiness. ZeaKal was also named in Forward Fooding's 2021 FoodTech 500 list, for raising the quality of agriculture's most important crops by improving overall photosynthesis.
This press release should be read in conjunction with the Company's audited consolidated financial statements and MD&A for Q4 2022 and FY 2022, which are available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on the Company's website at www.rivcapital.com/investors. All financial information in this press release is reported in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise indicated.
For more information regarding the Company and its portfolio companies, please refer to the MD&A and the Company's annual information form ("AIF") dated June 10, 2022, also available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on the Company's website at www.rivcapital.com/investors.
RIV Capital is building a leading cannabis packaged goods company, with a focus on establishing one of the strongest portfolios of brands in key strategic U.S. markets. Backed by in-house expertise and cannabis domain knowledge, RIV Capital aims to grow its own brands and partner with established U.S. cannabis operators and brands to bring them to new markets and build market share. RIV Capital established the foundational building blocks of its active U.S. strategy with the announced acquisition of ownership and control of Etain, LLC and Etain IP LLC, owners and operators of legally licensed cannabis cultivation and retail dispensaries in the state of New York. Through its strategic relationship with The Hawthorne Collective, a subsidiary of ScottsMiracle-Gro, RIV Capital is The Hawthorne Collective's preferred vehicle for cannabis-related investments not under the purview of other ScottsMiracle-Gro subsidiaries.
This news release contains statements which constitute "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including statements regarding the plans, intentions, beliefs and current expectations of RIV Capital and its portfolio companies with respect to future business activities and operating performance. Forward-looking information is often identified by the words "may", "would", "could", "should", "will", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect" or similar expressions and includes information regarding the Company's investment in Etain, including the timing and cash required for completion of the final closing of the Etain Acquisition; the Company's expectations of the anticipated benefits of the Etain Acquisition and strategic rationales for acquiring Etain, including expectations regarding legal cannabis market opportunities in the New York; expectations regarding expansion and timing thereof; the size of the cannabis market in the state of New York; the Company's plan to invest in, launch and/or develop U.S. assets to build a multistate cannabis operating and brand platform and the value to be derived therefrom; the anticipated benefits of the investments from The Hawthorne Collective; the receipt of additional financing from The Hawthorne Collective; the Company's expectation that it will be ScottsMiracle-Gro's preferred vehicle for investments not under the purview of The Hawthorne Gardening Company; and expectations for other economic, business, and/or competitive factors.
Investors are cautioned that forward-looking information is not based on historical fact but instead reflects management's expectations, estimates or projections concerning future results or events based on the opinions, assumptions and estimates of management considered reasonable at the date the statements are made. Although RIV Capital believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking information are reasonable, such information involves risks and uncertainties, and undue reliance should not be placed on such information, as unknown or unpredictable factors could have material adverse effects on future results, performance or achievements of RIV Capital or its portfolio companies.
Among the key factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information are the following: the timing and likelihood for receipt of all required regulatory approvals, and satisfaction of other conditions to closing, in respect of the Etain Acquisition; the Company's ability to execute its go-forward strategy; stock market volatility; changes in the business activities, focus and plans of the Company, Etain and the Company's investees and the timing associated therewith; the timing of any changes to federal laws in the U.S. to allow for the general cultivation, distribution, and possession of cannabis; regulatory and licensing risks; changes in cannabis industry growth and trends; changes in general economic, business and political conditions, including changes in the financial markets; litigation risks; the global regulatory landscape and enforcement related to cannabis, including political risks and risks relating to regulatory change; risks relating to anti-money laundering laws; compliance with extensive government regulation, including RIV Capital's interpretation of such regulation; public opinion and perception of the cannabis industry; divestiture risks; and the risk factors set out in RIV Capital's MD&A and AIF filed with the Canadian securities regulators and available on RIV Capital's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
The Company has invested in and acquired, and intends to in the future invest in and/or acquire, companies that are involved in the manufacture, possession, use, sale, and distribution of cannabis in the recreational and medicinal cannabis marketplace in the United States. Local state laws where such operations occur permit such activities, however, investors should note that there are significant legal restrictions and regulations that govern the cannabis industry in the United States. Cannabis remains a Schedule I drug under the U.S. Controlled Substances Act, making it illegal under federal law in the United States to, among other things, cultivate, distribute or possess cannabis in the United States. Financial transactions involving proceeds generated by, or intended to promote, cannabis-related business activities in the United States may form the basis for prosecution under applicable U.S. federal money laundering legislation.
While the approach to enforcement of such laws by the federal government in the United States has trended toward non-enforcement against individuals and businesses that comply with recreational and medicinal cannabis programs in states where such programs are legal, strict compliance with state laws with respect to cannabis will neither absolve the Company of liability under U.S. federal law, nor will it provide a defense to any federal proceeding which may be brought against the Company. The enforcement of federal laws in the United States is a significant risk to the business of the Company and any proceedings brought against the Company thereunder may adversely affect the Company's operations and financial performance.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking information prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as intended, planned, anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Although RIV Capital has attempted to identify important risks, uncertainties and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be others that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. RIV Capital does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update this forward-looking information except as otherwise required by applicable law.
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2022-06-13T12:09:00+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/06/13/riv-capital-reports-fourth-quarter-fiscal-year-2022-financial-results/
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Venerable non-profit organization honors four exemplary partners
instrumental in South LA's revitalization
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vermont Slauson Economic Development Corporation will host the annual Partners Appreciation Mixer on Friday, September 9 at The Conference Room Restaurant in Playa Vista. Attendees will include core VSEDC partners, including corporate, foundation, and bank partners, as well as other community leaders who have supported VSEDC's programs, services, and CDFI.
During the event, VSEDC will honor four partners who have made extraordinary contributions in South LA, including Jack Olree with Wells Fargo for "Bank Partner of the Year"; Senator Steve Bradford of California Senate District 35 for "Government Partner of the Year"; Corie Barry with Best Buy for "Foundation Partner of the Year"; and Ted Sarandos with Netflix for "Corporate Partner of the Year." Additionally, VSEDC will honor Wah Gwaan Jamaican Kitchen & Bar – VSEDC client – as "Outstanding Business of the Year."
"VSEDC is honored to have the support of so many generous partners who are committed to supporting South Los Angeles, including our small businesses, young people, and our community," says CEO of VSEDC, Joseph T. Rouzan, III. "For too long, our community has been overlooked and underserved, but our partners affirm that they are renewed in their commitment to create an economically sustainable and successful region."
Based in the heart of South LA, VSEDC has been serving minority- and women-owned small businesses in the region for over 41 years. The non-profit works to create an equitable future and thriving local economy through customized one-on-one technical assistance, and economic development services. In 2018, VSEDC became a CDFI non-traditional lender with a revolving loan fund to infuse the local economy with capital. VSEDC's affordable small business loans supply needed funds to businesses that are historically ineligible for loans from traditional lenders, such as banks.
Vermont Slauson Economic Development Corporation (VSEDC) is a community-based nonprofit and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) recognized for decades of technical and entrepreneurial assistance to South LA small businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs. The service VSEDC provides serves to drive community self-sufficiency, facilitate business growth, access to affordable housing, goods and services, and job creation. VSEDC achieves this through youth education and entrepreneurial projects, CDFI programs, and fundraising efforts. Find out more about VSEDC at www.vsedc.org, Facebook and Instagram.
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2022-09-08T19:52:28+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/09/08/vermont-slauson-economic-development-corporation-host-annual-partners-appreciation-mixer/
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TORONTO, ON , June 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Greenbrook TMS Inc. (NASDAQ: GBNH) ("Greenbrook" or the "Company"), a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation ("TMS") therapy in the United States, announced today the acceptance of Mr. Benjamin Klein's resignation from the board of directors of the Company (the "Board").
In accordance with Greenbrook's Majority Voting Policy, since Mr. Klein received more "withheld" votes than votes "for" at the Company's annual meeting of shareholders held on June 20, 2023, Mr. Klein has tendered his resignation as a director of the Company. After review and consideration, the Board has accepted Mr. Klein's resignation with immediate effect.
About Greenbrook TMS Inc.
Operating through 133 Company-operated treatment centers, Greenbrook is a leading provider of TMS and Spravato® (esketamine nasal spray), FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapies for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder ("MDD") and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Spravato® is offered to treat adults with treatment-resistant depression and depressive symptoms in adults with MDD with suicidal thoughts or actions. Greenbrook has provided more than one million treatments to over 30,000 patients struggling with depression.
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2023-06-23T22:00:48+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2023/06/23/greenbrook-tms-confirms-resignation-director/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trent Kelly wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Mississippi's 1st Congressional District.
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2022-06-08T12:37:55+00:00
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Tesla is recalling 1.1 million of its cars due to an issue with the braking system in the vehicles. This is the second Tesla recall in China this year.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd breaks down what’s going on with Mike Regan, senior editor at Bloomberg News.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-05-12T18:54:13+00:00
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wyomingpublicmedia.org
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https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2023-05-12/tesla-recalls-more-than-1-million-vehicles-in-china
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Resurgence of COVID-19 symptoms in patients treated with Pfizer Inc.’s Paxlovid appeared far more common than has been reported, and rebounding patients still risked spreading the disease, doctors said in a report on a series of cases in a top medical journal.
The article published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine documented 13 fully vaccinated patients whose rapid COVID tests turned strongly positive and symptoms reappeared several days after finishing five-day courses of Paxlovid. One patient apparently transmitted the virus to a 6-month-old baby during rebound, while another who spent time with his wife, brother-in-law and sister-in-law just as his rebound was beginning saw all three become infected.
This summer, researchers reported high viral loads and the isolation of infectious virus in patients who rebounded after Paxlovid treatment, and the article adds to suspicions that they can spread the disease. Although small, it also adds weight to indications that Paxlovid rebound is by no means uncommon: lead study author Michael Charness, chief of staff of the VA Boston Healthcare System, said that all three members of his family who took Pfizer’s drug, including himself, experienced rebound and both members of his co-author’s family who got Paxlovid had the same experience.
The U.S. government has ordered 20 million doses of Paxlovid and nearly 1.8 million courses are currently available. Powerful evidence of its life-saving benefits continues to mount; a recent study found that it cut deaths and hospitalizations among vaccinated high-risk patients by 45%.
The possible inconvenience of a rebound “should not dissuade people,” from taking it, Charness said in a interview. “Given the large numbers out there who will be taking Paxlovid, we just wanted people to be aware.”
The frequency of rebound in the case series — as well as in a preprint study last month that found the phenomenon in 3 out of 11, or 27%, of Paxlovid-treated patients — is far out of sync with Pfizer’s numbers. The company has said that rebound generally occurs in untreated patients, along with those that get Paxlovid, at rate of about 2%, although data from Pfizer indicated that Paxlovid-treated patients had a rebound rate of almost 5%.
A Pfizer spokesperson described rebound as “uncommon and not uniquely associated with any specific treatment.”
Yet cases have been reported frequently. Both President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are among those reported to have experienced relapses after taking the Pfizer pills; presidential medical adviser Anthony Fauci also said he was hit with rebound after taking Paxlovid.
The risk that rebounding patients remain contagious prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to recommend they resume isolation and masking.
Because word about Paxlovid rebound has spread, “there’s unfortunately some hesitancy among some of our patients” to take the drug, said Jonathan Li, an infectious disease specialist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “But in the end you have to keep your eyes on the prize, which is that we want to prevent severe disease, hospitalizations and death, and Paxlovid does that, despite these cases of rebound.”
The rebounds are clearly real, Li said, but with or without the pills, “recovering from COVID is not a linear process. It waxes and wanes.” A study he co-authored found roughly one-quarter of COVID patients overall experience some symptom recurrence.
Part of the coronavirus’s replication involves using a chemical scissors called a protease to cut big chunks of protein into small pieces that make more virus. Some of those chunks can persist in infected cells for days after Paxlovid treatment, said David Ho, a Columbia University virologist who co-authored the journal study. That may allow the virus to start replicating again after the effects of the drug fade, he said.
Whether longer treatment could prevent Paxlovid rebound remains unknown. Pfizer said it plans to study patients who may need retreatment with Paxlovid. Both Fauci and Biden reportedly tried a second round of the pills, which are normally taken twice daily for just five days.
Concern about rebound may change the risk calculation for some patients considering Paxlovid: The potential for longer disruption to their lives may make the pills look less appealing.
Ultimately, risk from COVID lies on a spectrum, said Li from Harvard. For those with more mild risk factors, doctors and patients face some Paxlovid “shared decision making,” which could include some initial wait-and-see. “And for those who are at the higher end of that spectrum, there’s no doubt in my mind that Paxlovid is the right course,” he said.
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2022-09-08T00:49:57+00:00
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A new Debt.com survey reveals that shoppers have fascinating hacks for defeating inflation.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It's one month until Black Friday, which is traditionally the biggest holiday shopping day in America. A new Debt.com survey shows that people won't spend less this holiday season, but they will spend differently. Holiday shoppers are keenly aware of inflation and supply-chain issues. Yet they refuse to let it spoil their holiday cheer.
Nearly two-thirds of respondents (64 percent) said they're shopping earlier this year than last. A third started this month, but 15 percent started over the summer when it became obvious inflation wasn't going to fade away anytime soon.
While 14 percent cited inflation as their reason for shopping early, "concerns about supply" and "avoiding price markups" represented nearly 45 percent of the concerns.
"That makes perfect sense," says Debt.com president Don Silvestri. "Americans have long been willing to go into debt to have a happy holiday. What they fear most is not getting their hands on that perfect gift, either online or in the store. For most of the year, inflation is the biggest worry. Leading up to the holidays, fear of rising prices will be replaced by fear of sinking availability."
More than half (55 percent) of holiday shoppers expect to spend more this season because of inflation – but not a lot more. For example, last year 15.6 percent of these same shoppers planned to spend between $200 and $300 on holiday shopping. This year, it's just over 18.5 percent. The higher you go, the closer it gets. Last year, 9.9 percent expected to spend more than $1,000. this year, it's 10.4 percent.
Instead of watching every penny, shoppers are adopting new tactics. Yes, 31 percent said they planned to spend less, but even more (34 percent) are going to try this: "I'll spend the same amount but on fewer gifts."
"That also makes sense," Silvestri says. "Tough economic times sharpen our minds as well as our holiday budget. During the holidays, we ask ourselves if we really need to buy gifts for everyone – distant relatives and occasional coworkers, for example. Instead, we'll show how much we appreciate a small selective group."
Another 18 percent will spend more to buy quality gifts. "If you're shopping early for quality items, you're predicting that inflation and supply-chain issues will drive those prices even higher later," he says.
Of course, going into debt to enjoy the holidays only ensures post-holiday misery. Fully half of respondents will use a credit card to cover their holiday shopping, and while the most common amount of debt is less than $100 (for 45 percent of respondents), just over 4 percent expect to be over $500 in debt, and almost 5 percent expect to owe $1,000 on credit cards.
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2022-10-25T11:06:52+00:00
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It's not often Lena Dunham and her husband, Luis Felber, are seen out on the red carpet, but the premiere of her movie certainly called for the occasion!
The 36-year-old actress and Felber were spotted at her Sharp Stick premiere Monday night at Brain Dead Studios LA in Los Angeles. The Girls star looked elegant in a shiny silver gown. She accessorized the look with a number of bracelets, a necklace and her wedding ring.
Felber, whom the actress married back in September 2021, opted for black pants and a short-sleeved, see-through shirt with squares. The actress first confirmed her relationship with Felber back in March 2021 in a New York Times interview. She would later reference him in a June 2021 tweet without naming him before the couple stepped out for their first public outing at a screening of the film Zola in London.
Dunham was also photographed with her co-stars, including Taylour Paige, Luka Sabbat, Jon Bernthal, Liam Michel Saux and Scott Speedman. Dunham also wrote and directed the comedy flick, which follows Sarah Jo, a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. Sarah longs to be seen, and when she begins an affair with her older employer, she is thrust into an education on sexuality, loss and power.
Dunham described the film as a "fable."
Sharp Stick, which hits select theaters Friday, is the same film Dunham said her pals, Taylor Swift, and her boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, helped her with. Dunham told IMDb that she asked them for their help, and they happily obliged.
"They are just really great friends of mine who watched a really early cut of the film and gave me notes," Dunham said of Swift, who was a bridesmaid in her wedding, and her actor boyfriend. "They’re both just really interesting, perceptive people. Taylor’s been one of my close friends for a really long time and Joe is an actor who I actually ended up working with on a project that I shot just a few months after this."
For their help, Dunham revealed Swift and Alwyn were given a Thank You credit at the end of the film.
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2022-10-13T21:17:47+00:00
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Rasmus Dahlin peered up at the scoreboard above center ice in UBS Arena, then hung his head as the New York Islanders celebrated around their goalie Ilya Sorokin on Tuesday.
A desperate push for the tying goal, and two much-needed points in the Eastern Conference playoff race, ended with the Sabres’ second 3-2 loss in as many days. The difference was a controversial game-winner in which the puck went off Hudson Fasching’s leg and past Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen with 12:23 left in the third period.
Former Sabres winger Hudson Fasching directed a puck out of mid-air with his left leg – a play that was ruled no goal on the ice and then overturned – to snap a tie with 12:23 left as the New York Islanders defeated the Buffalo Sabres 3-2.
Kyle Okposo, the Sabres’ captain, acknowledged afterward that there’s little margin for error over the final 19 games, 10 of which are against teams currently in position to make the playoffs.
“Well, it wasn’t going to be easy,” Okposo said. “Got more difficult now, but there’s still time, and we still have to take care of business. We know what we have to do, we know we have to go on a run, but it’s going to be one game at a time.”
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The gap between the Sabres and the playoffs widened, increasing the likelihood that the franchise’s postseason drought will reach 12 years. Entering Thursday, Buffalo trailed the New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins by six and five points, respectively, for the conference’s wild-card spots.
Greenway spent his first morning skate Monday next to Zemgus Girgensons and Kyle Okposo, both of whom play a hard, direct style that should simplify his transition.
Patience is a hard sell for a fan base that has experienced unprecedented heartbreak and calamity over the past decade. However, the scene Tuesday on Long Island, from the patience shown by the youngest team in the NHL during the first period to Okposo’s tying goal in the third, was in stark contrast to those during the Sabres’ trip there exactly two years prior.
On March 7, 2021, the Sabres finished a three-game series on Long Island with a third consecutive 5-2 loss in which their captain and face of the franchise, Jack Eichel, suffered a herniated disk that eventually led to his trade to Vegas. Kevyn Adams, then amid his first year as general manager, told reporters two days prior that he was evaluating everything, including the job of coach Ralph Krueger.
Adams began to dismantle a roster that was built to win during that Covid-shortened 2020-21 season. Taylor Hall, Eric Staal and Brandon Montour were traded. Krueger was fired March 17, 12 games into a winless streak that reached a franchise-record 18 games.
Two years later, the Sabres' young core is gaining invaluable experience during a playoff push, which will continue Thursday night in KeyBank Center against the Dallas Stars. The scenario would have been considered a pipe dream in 2021, when some members of the current core were either playing elsewhere, relegated to taxi-squad skates or struggling to produce in Krueger's system.
Prior to the recent trade deadline, Don Granato, an assistant coach under Krueger before taking the head job, offered some perspective on how far the organization has come in such little time. The Sabres have a dynamic top line, one of the best defensemen in the NHL, two centers signed long-term and a deep lineup featuring a plethora of skill.
Buffalo (32-26-4) couldn’t move up in the standings during a night in which most of the Eastern Conference playoff contenders weren’t in action.
"So many mistakes, historically, how many mistakes are made through impatience," Granato said. "And we are working on something we started out to build — I haven't even been on the job for two years yet. And when I think of where we were two years ago, before I got this position, and to where we are now, we just have to keep doing that.
"Imagine if we can grow as much in the next two years as we've just grown in these two years. I don't think we're going to sweat anything that didn't happen yesterday. There's no reason to. And I'm actually excited. Everybody is trying to make moves and spending, spending, spending to do it, spending their future, because our future, we feel, is pretty darn bright and strong."
Bottoming out
Gathered after a 7-1 loss in Boston, the Sabres listened intently Friday morning as Adams delivered a state-of-the-team address that was meant to instill confidence in his young players.
“The big message I believe that I wanted them to hear was, our biggest growth in my opinion over the next six, 12, 18, 24 months is going to come internally,” he explained before acquiring 6-foot-6 physical, power forward Jordan Greenway. “It’s our own players developing and even taking bigger steps.”
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The talk was very different from the one Adams gave his players in March 2021, when the Sabres were reeling under Krueger with 15 points through 22 games. There was no clear path to restoring the franchise to what it once was. Offseason acquisitions didn’t pan out.
Hall, who joined the Sabres on a one-year contract to reunite with Krueger and skate next to Eichel, scored only two goals before his trade to Boston. Staal, a decorated center with a Stanley Cup ring, totaled three goals before he was dealt to Montreal for two draft picks. Montour, now the Florida Panthers' top defenseman, had a minus-13 rating when he was traded for a third-round draft pick.
The roster wasn’t lacking talent because of win-now moves made by Adams and his predecessor, Jason Botterill. Linus Ullmark was part of the goalie tandem. The Sabres assembled a talented group of forwards, and their defensive depth was improved after adding Montour and Colin Miller in previous seasons. It didn't work, though.
Adding Hall and Staal, combined with a decision to prioritize winning over development in 2020-21, set the franchise back because it exiled talented, young players to skating with the taxi squad, including Tage Thompson, Casey Mittelstadt and Henri Jokiharju. Krueger’s system, particularly in how the Sabres were breaking the puck out of their zone, prevented forwards such as Hall and Eichel from using their speed to create chances off the rush. Defensemen weren't allowed to pinch in the offensive zone to try to create scoring chances.
Jeff Skinner, the Sabres’ $9 million-per-season winger, got scratched for three consecutive games by Krueger and couldn’t escape a fourth-line role that rendered him ineffective.
Eichel scored twice on 61 shots before his season ended. Defenseman Rasmus Dahlin, drafted first overall in 2018, finished with a league-worst minus-36 rating and lost the confidence that led to historic production during his rookie season.
“It was a brutal year,” said Hall, who has 36 goals over the past two seasons with Boston. “I didn't play well. I don't really have anyone to blame for that, but to come (to the Bruins) and to be around these guys and the way that they took me in and kind of helped me along, help me get my confidence back, was awesome. And I needed that at that point in my career, I really did. It was a tough stage. I was coming off injury that previous year, and then, you know, Covid hits, and that changes everyone's mindset a bit. I, honestly, for the rest of my life, I'll probably never know how things went so south that year. Just the way life goes.”
"Just by the luck of the draw of work schedules, I've been in the house for all four Sabres games this year against the Tampa Bay Lightning. What a gig. They've been spectacular hockey displays. All of them," Mike Harrington writes.
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The Sabres’ season was paused in February 2021 because of a Covid-19 outbreak, and they were playing a 56-game interdivisional schedule against playoff-hardened opponents such as the Penguins, Islanders, Capitals and Bruins. It was torturous for most on the Sabres. There was no escape from the mental anguish of the difficult-to-fathom, team-wide struggles. There were no fans to help create energy on nights when players didn't have it.
On March 5, 2021, hours before Adams addressed the media in a wide-ranging video call in which he expressed frustration, players slowly trickled into the empty lobby of the team’s hotel after walking over from their practice at Nassau Coliseum.
Few words were exchanged. Their frustration was evident. Across the parking lot, inside a mostly empty arena, Thompson was still skating on his own with Matt Ellis, who led the taxi squad that season.
“You couldn’t even go out to eat,” said Hall, referring to the NHL’s Covid-19 restrictions. “You’d have a bad game or two and you couldn’t go out for a beer. You couldn’t do anything. You just come back and sit in your apartment and you kind of think about where the world is and where you are. It was hard.
Tyson Jost and Jack Quinn scored in the latter half of the second period to give Buffalo a two-goal advantage that it protected to hold on for a 5-3 win.
“It’s crazy, because you look at the team, like Brandon Montour goes to Florida and plays really well; Sam Reinhart goes to Florida, plays really well; Jack is doing his thing. You know, I'm here, and all these guys are playing well now (in Buffalo). And it was like, why couldn't we figure it out for those three months? I mean, it's crazy that a team like that lost, I mean, what was it 17 in a row? Eighteen in a row?
"I don't have the answers, and I don't think anyone ever will. But that just goes to show you how fickle sports can be and how cruel it can be at times.”
At the time, few prospects in Rochester were close to helping the Sabres. Jack Quinn’s rookie season with the Amerks was cut short because of an injury. JJ Peterka was still in Germany. Adams wouldn’t draft defenseman Owen Power first overall for another four months. Mattias Samuelsson wouldn’t make his NHL debut until May.
Some important players found ways to improve throughout the 2020-21 season, though.
Dylan Cozens received his introduction to the NHL, appearing in 41 games as a rookie. Young forwards learned through one-on-one video meetings with Granato. Healthy scratches and taxi squaders skated with Matt Ellis, who became an assistant coach under Granato.
The organization shifted in a different direction when Adams fired Krueger and named Granato interim coach.
Granato confirmed Greenway will contribute on the penalty kill at the outset and is likely to play higher in the lineup with Alex Tuch unavailable because of a lower-body injury.
“Donny was always watching video with me and talking to me when it felt like no one was, I guess, if that makes sense,” Mittelstadt said. “Ellie, in the taxi squad, I mean, some of those days are tough. You haven't played in a while and he's jumping in the drills and being just as intense as anyone. So, I think that was great for us.”
“We were in it together,” said Dahlin. “We pushed ourselves and we knew better times were ahead.”
Injuries in goal, particularly to Ullmark, made the transition to a new coach difficult because mistakes were magnified in the final six weeks. The Sabres weren’t simply playing out the string, though. Granato installed a system that fit the speed and skill on the roster.
Dahlin and Skinner rediscovered their confidence. Thompson had seven goals and 12 points over the final 23 games. Mittelstadt had nine goals and 17 points in his last 22 games.
Learning
There was optimism when the Sabres finished the 2020-21 season with a 15-34-7 record. Adams saw which approach and direction were needed. He began a wide-ranging search for a full-time coach that ended with Granato’s promotion in June. Then, the trades began.
The Sabres want guys in the range of roughly 23-26 years old, with term on their deals. And previous relationships are always a plus. Alex Tuch and Tyson Jost fit that description. And now, so does Jordan Greenway.
Rasmus Ristolainen was dealt for a first-round draft choice that Buffalo used on Swedish winger Isak Rosen and a 2023 second-round selection. Reinhart, a restricted free agent seeking a new home, got traded to Florida for goalie prospect Devon Levi and a first-round draft pick that became Czech winger Jiri Kulich.
The long wait for Eichel ended in November 2021 with the Sabres acquiring Alex Tuch, Peyton Krebs, a 2022 first-round pick used on Swedish center Noah Ostlund and a 2023 second-round pick that was moved to Minnesota as part of the the Greenway deal.
The Sabres' commitment to development has produced several success stories over the past two seasons, helping Adams identify the players who will be in Buffalo long-term. Thompson, Cozens and Samuelsson have signed seven-year contracts. Dahlin will be the next to sign an extension.
This season, the Sabres have five 20-goal scorers, led by Thompson’s 42, and Dahlin is in position to be a finalist for the Norris Trophy. The 22-year-old has 15 goals and 53 points while ranking third among all NHL defensemen in average ice time per game (25:47). Tuch, Skinner and Cozens are among those having career years. Power might be a finalist for the Calder Trophy. Quinn and Peterka are contributing as rookies. Mittelstadt is on pace for over 50 points, and Peyton Krebs is improving as a center.
Luukkonen is starting big games against marquee opponents, including Tuesday on Long Island, when he made 36 saves.
“I’m really passionate about the people in that locker room,” said Adams. “Honestly, it gets emotional sometimes because I know what it takes to win in this league, and I know we have it. Now I just want to believe in these guys and let them go do it. That’s exciting.”
"McDavid is having the greatest season of his career, which is saying something on its own, and one reason is he's pushing to score more than to just pass," Mike Harrington writes.
Success of other teams, particularly Boston and New Jersey, will likely prevent Granato from receiving similar recognition in the coach-of-the-year voting, but he’s helped transform Buffalo into one of the top offensive teams in the league.
The Sabres entered Thursday ranked third in goals per game (3.68) and fourth on the power play (25.1 percent). They've already matched their win total from last season, and Adams has the means to add to the roster this summer. Buffalo has a deep prospect pool and ample draft capital.
The schedule ahead is difficult, even more so if Tuch remains out with a lower-body injury. No matter how it ends, all involved know this experience will be invaluable for a group of young players who have worked their way into playoff contention sooner than expected.
“These guys have done a great job, this young talent I speak of, to get us into a pressure situation and now we can’t take them out of it just because they’re young,” Granato said. “They need to go through it, and the sooner the better they go through it. … They’re going to fight and they’re going to learn from it and gain experience from doing it.”
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2023-03-09T11:45:12+00:00
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Spurs guard Devin Vassell knows he’s going to hear from all of them if he passes up an opportunity to try to score.
“I can miss three or four in a row, and if I pass up one, everybody is on my ass telling me to shoot the ball,” he said.
As he struggles to regain the offensive form he showed before knee surgery sidelined him for nearly two months, Vassell welcomes the scrutiny.
“I know it’s going to take time,” Vassell said. “I know it’s not going to be perfect. But I am making progress. The good thing is I have a great coaching staff that believes in me and my teammates believe in me.”
Vassell was expected to return Friday against Memphis after missing Wednesday’s overtime loss to Dallas due to injury management.
The Spurs hope the rest will help him recover his shooting stroke.
"He is able to get to his spots, but a couple of his shots are going in and out," point guard Tre Jones said. "That is always frustrating. But he is definitely finding himself again. He is getting to his spots, shooting the right shots and everything, they are just not falling right now. Any night they will start falling."
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In his five games after returning to action March 2, Vassell is averaging just 12.2 points on 37.9 percent shooting from the field and 25.0 percent on 5.6 attempts per game from the 3-point line.
Pre-surgery, he was enjoying a breakout season with a scoring average of 19.4 on 44.5 percent shooting from the floor and 40.4 percent on 7.0 attempts from beyond the arc.
“He doesn’t have his rhythm, and he’s having a tough time getting it back,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said.
Popovich’s comments came after Vassell matched his season low with six points in the Spurs’ 102-90 loss to Oklahoma City last Sunday. In 33 minutes as a starter, he missed 8 of 10 against the Thunder, including both his 3-point attempts.
“I think he’s a little frustrated that his game didn’t just pick up where it left off, so it’s going to take him a little bit longer to feel comfortable,” Popovich said.
The good news is Vassell said his surgically repaired left knee feels fine.
“I know what I expect of myself,” he said. “I am very hard on myself. I just have to be patient.”
It helps that his teammates have been so supportive.
“I have great teammates, man,” he said. “They are sitting there telling me to keep going. No matter how many shots I miss, I am going to keep shooting.”
It's easy for Vassell's teammates to root for him because they see how much time he puts in to improve.
"The kid works so hard, man," center Zach Collins said. "He is in here every day, off days. They got to pull him off the court, try to save him from himself because he wants it so bad."
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Collins knows first hand how difficult it is to round back into shape after an injury. A variety of ailments forced him to miss nearly two years when he was with Portland and at the start of his tenure with the Spurs last season.
"Even if you miss two games, it’s going to take a minute to come back, and he missed a long time," Collins said. "But, again, he wants it so bad. He’s a competitor and he wants to be as good as he can be every time he steps on the court. And he puts in the work. It just takes time. It doesn’t matter how good you are. Even if you have been in this league for 20 years, it takes time to come back, for sure."
In the meantime, Vassell will keep firing away while continuing to serve as one of the team's top on-ball defenders.
"He is always trying to do everything the right way," Jones said. "He is always trying to play defense, always trying to make the right plays. His shots aren’t falling right now, but he continues to play the right way, continues to apply pressure on the defensive end and play the right basketball on offense."
Said Vassell, "I know the worm will turn. I just have to keep shooting them.”
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2023-03-17T21:11:20+00:00
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QUETTA – A pair of gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a police officer assigned to guard a polio vaccination team in Pakistan's volatile southwestern Baluchistan province on Tuesday, authorities said.
The polio workers escaped unharmed and the two assailants fled the scene of the attack, which took place in the district of Pishin, senior police officer Ghulam Asghar said.
The attack came on the second day of a nationwide anti-polio campaign — the fifth this year — aimed at making Pakistan a polio-free state.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion fell of Islamic militants who often target polio teams and police assigned to protect them, falsely claiming the vaccination campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize children.
Since April, Pakistan has registered 20 new polio cases and the outbreak has been seen as a blow to the country’s efforts to eradicate the disease, which can cause severe paralysis in children.
Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan. For over two decades, the province has been the scene of a low-level insurgency by small Baluch separatist groups demanding independence from Islamabad. Militants also operate in the region, which borders Iran and Afghanistan.
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2022-10-25T15:30:37+00:00
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https://www.wsls.com/health/2022/10/25/pakistan-says-gunmen-killed-policeman-guarding-polio-workers/
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A judge on Wednesday sentenced a former Puerto Rico legislator to more than four years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to bribery as part of a kickback scheme.
Nelson del Valle Colón, who was elected to Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives in 2004 and 2016, also was ordered to pay $190,000 in restitution.
He was accused of hiring two women to work in his office and demanding biweekly kickbacks from them ranging from about $500 to $1,300 for more than three years in exchange for their employment and salaries.
The two women have pleaded guilty and are scheduled to be sentenced later this month.
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2022-09-07T21:35:31+00:00
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expressnews.com
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CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Interior Central California
National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for tonight, Wednesday, Wednesday night, and Thursday.
CAZ300-161200-
West Side Mountains north of 198-
Including the city of San Luis Reservoir
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 57 to 63. East winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 58 to 64. Northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 55 to 63. Lows in
the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 58 to 64. Lows in
the mid 40s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 56 to 64. Lows in
the mid 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Luis Reservoir 43 62 44 63 /
$$
CAZ301-161200-
Los Banos - Dos Palos-
Including the city of Los Banos
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 41. West winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds up to
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 42. West winds up to
5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds up
to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 36 to 42.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows 37 to 43.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a 30 percent chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the
lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Los Banos 37 62 38 63 /
$$
CAZ302-161200-
Merced - Madera - Mendota-
Including the cities of Merced, Madera, and Atwater
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Areas of frost late in the night. Lows in the
lower 30s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northeast
after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 60s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in the
morning. Areas of frost after midnight. Highs around 60. Lows in
the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost. Lows
in the mid 30s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a 30 percent chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the
upper 30s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 33 61 34 60 /
Merced 34 63 35 63 /
Chowchilla 33 61 34 61 /
Madera 34 61 35 61 /
Firebaugh 33 62 33 62 /
Mendota 34 62 35 63 /
$$
CAZ303-161200-
Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-
Including the cities of Planada, Lake Mcclure, and Le Grand
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Areas of frost late in the night. Lows in the
mid 30s. North winds up to 5 mph shifting to the east after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the south in
the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in the
morning. Areas of frost. Highs around 60. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs around 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Planada 34 61 35 61 /
Le Grand 34 61 35 62 /
$$
CAZ304-161200-
Coalinga - Avenal-
Including the cities of Avenal and Coalinga
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northwest winds up to
5 mph shifting to the east in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. West
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 40.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Coalinga 40 64 40 65 /
Avenal 43 63 43 64 /
$$
CAZ305-161200-
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-
Including the cities of Lemoore Station, Five Points,
and Kettleman City
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Areas of frost late in the night. Lows 34 to
40. West winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
mid 60s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northeast in
the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows 34 to 40. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 60s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the
mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 34 to 40. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 41.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huron 37 64 38 65 /
Five Points 34 64 35 64 /
NAS Lemoore 34 64 35 64 /
Kettleman City 40 64 40 64 /
$$
CAZ306-161200-
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma-
Including the cities of Selma, Sanger, Parlier, Kingsburg,
and Kerman
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Patchy fog late
in the night. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the east after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s. East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the north in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs
in the lower 60s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs around
60.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the
lower 30s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost. Lows
in the lower 30s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Selma 35 63 36 63 /
Kingsburg 34 63 34 63 /
Sanger 35 64 35 63 /
Kerman 32 62 33 62 /
Caruthers 33 63 33 63 /
$$
CAZ307-161200-
Fresno-Clovis-
Including the city of Fresno
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Areas of frost late in the night. Lows in the
upper 30s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the east after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the southwest
in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the upper 30s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs around 60.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the
mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
30s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Clovis 39 64 40 64 /
Fresno 38 64 40 63 /
$$
CAZ308-161200-
West Side Mountains South of 198-
Including the cities of Blackwells Corner and McKittrick
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. South winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 58 to 64. East winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. South
winds up to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 59 to 65. East winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North
winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 55 to 61.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 59 to 65.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 59 to 65. Lows in
the lower 40s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 57 to 64. Lows in
the lower 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 33 61 34 60 /
Merced 34 63 35 63 /
Chowchilla 33 61 34 61 /
Madera 34 61 35 61 /
$$
CAZ309-161200-
Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5-
Including the cities of Lost Hills and Buttonwillow
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost late in the night. Lows
in the mid 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
mid 60s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 60s. West winds up to 5 mph shifting to the north in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the
mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 30s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lost Hills 35 64 35 65 /
Buttonwillow 35 65 35 65 /
$$
CAZ310-161200-
Delano-Wasco-Shafter-
Including the cities of Delano, Wasco, Alpaugh, and Shafter
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost and patchy fog late in
the night. Lows in the mid 30s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph in
the evening becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
mid 60s. South winds up to 5 mph shifting to the north in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
south after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 60s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. North winds up to 5 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost and patchy fog after
midnight. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in
the morning. Areas of frost. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the
mid 30s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alpaugh 32 64 33 63 /
Allensworth 33 64 34 63 /
Wasco 34 64 34 63 /
Delano 35 64 35 63 /
McFarland 36 64 35 63 /
Shafter 36 64 36 64 /
$$
CAZ311-161200-
Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
Including the cities of Hanford, Lemoore, and Corcoran
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Areas of frost late
in the night. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost and patchy fog in the morning.
Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to
the north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. North winds up to 5 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 60s. West winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest
in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the
lower 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in
the morning. Areas of frost after midnight. Highs in the lower
60s. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lemoore 34 64 35 63 /
Hanford 33 64 33 64 /
Corcoran 34 64 35 63 /
$$
CAZ312-161200-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-
Including the cities of Goshen, Visalia, Tulare, and Porterville
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Patchy frost late in
the night. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the
mid 60s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in
the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds up to
5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. South winds up to
5 mph shifting to the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the lower
60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the
mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the mid
60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Reedley 35 63 35 63 /
Dinuba 34 64 35 63 /
Visalia 34 63 35 63 /
Exeter 37 64 38 65 /
Tulare 37 64 36 63 /
Lindsay 37 64 38 65 /
Porterville 40 64 40 65 /
$$
CAZ313-161200-
Buena Vista-
Including the city of Taft
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s. West winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds up to
5 mph shifting to the northeast in the afternoon. Gusts up to
20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. West
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. South winds up to
5 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Southwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid
60s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Taft 45 64 45 65 /
$$
CAZ314-161200-
Bakersfield-
Including the city of Bakersfield
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 44. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds up to
5 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 37 to 45. East winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. East winds up to
5 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 44. East winds up to
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 43.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid
60s. Lows 35 to 44.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows 38 to 44.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bakersfield 42 65 42 64 /
$$
CAZ315-161200-
Southeast San Joaquin Valley-
Including the city of Richgrove
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 37 to 43. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds up to
5 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 38 to 44. East winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Southwest winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest around 5 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 37 to 43. East winds up to
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 42.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid
60s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Richgrove 37 64 38 64 /
$$
CAZ316-161200-
South End San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Lamont and Arvin
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 37 to 45. South winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Southeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 40 to 46. Southeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Southeast winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 44. South winds up to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 38 to 44.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid
60s. Lows 38 to 44.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows 40 to 46.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Arvin 41 66 43 67 /
Lamont 40 66 40 66 /
Mettler 42 66 42 66 /
$$
CAZ317-161200-
Mariposa Madera Foothills-
Including the cities of El Portal and Mariposa
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 40. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds up to
5 mph shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40. Northeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 60. Lows in
the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mariposa 40 59 42 60 /
$$
CAZ318-161200-
Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-
Including the cities of Bass Lake, Coarsegold, Fish Camp,
Oakhurst, and North Fork
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 33 to 41. Northeast winds up to 10 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 55 to 61. East winds up to 5 mph with
gusts to around 25 mph shifting to the southwest in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 43. Northeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 54 to 62. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 33 to 41. Northeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 51 to 60. Lows
32 to 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 33 to 41. Highs
53 to 61.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 41.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 53 to 61.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 35 to 43. Highs
50 to 58.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oakhurst 30 63 30 64 /
Bass Lake 32 58 33 59 /
$$
CAZ319-161200-
Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
Including the city of Millerton Lake
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds up to
5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Southwest winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower
60s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Millerton Lake 41 62 42 63 /
Three Rivers 40 66 43 68 /
Springville 37 60 38 61 /
Tule River Reservation 45 64 47 66 /
$$
CAZ320-161200-
Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Auberry
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 34 to 44. East winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 52 to 62. Southeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 37 to 47. East winds up to
5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 54 to 64. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 35 to 45. Northeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 50 to 60.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 34 to 44.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 51 to 61. Lows
35 to 45.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 52 to 62.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 45.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 52 to 62. Lows
36 to 46.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 49 to 59.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Auberry 43 58 45 60 /
$$
CAZ321-161200-
South End Sierra Foothills-
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds up to
5 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds up to
5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest around 5 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds
up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower
60s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
$$
CAZ322-161200-
South End of the Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Camp Nelson
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 42. East winds up to 10 mph with
gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 54 to 60. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 39 to 45. East winds up to 5 mph.
Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 54 to 62. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 37 to 43. Northeast winds up
to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 49 to 57.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 41.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 51 to 59. Lows
36 to 42.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 52 to 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 42.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 49 to 59. Lows
37 to 43.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Camp Nelson 31 56 33 56 /
$$
CAZ323-161200-
Yosemite NP outside of the valley-
Including the cities of Tuolumne Meadows and Wawona
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Near steady temperature in the lower 20s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 33 to 49. Northeast winds
up to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 17 to 31. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 34 to 48. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 15 to 29. North winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 26 to 46. Lows
10 to 26.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 30.
Highs 32 to 47.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid
20s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow and
rain. Highs 30 to 44.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Tuolumne Meadows 9 41 12 44 /
Wawona 30 59 32 58 /
Hetch Hetchy 35 60 36 60 /
$$
CAZ324-161200-
Yosemite Valley-
Including the city of Yosemite Valley
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 29 to 39. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 51 to 59. Northeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to 40. Northeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 52 to 60. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 30 to 38. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 46 to 58. Lows
27 to 37.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 30 to 38. Highs
49 to 59.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 31 to 39.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 48 to 58.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of rain after
midnight. Lows 32 to 40.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow in the morning,
then chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs 47 to 57. Chance of
precipitation 30 percent.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Yosemite 27 63 29 63 /
$$
CAZ325-161200-
San Joaquin River Canyon-
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Near steady temperature in the upper 30s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 51 to 59. North winds up to 10 mph with
gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to 42. Northeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 52 to 60. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 32 to 40. North winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 47 to 55.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 28 to 38.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 49 to 57.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 30 to 40. Highs
50 to 58.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to 40.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 49 to 57.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 33 to 41. Highs
47 to 55.
$$
CAZ326-161200-
Upper San Joaquin River-
Including the cities of Devils Postpile, Florence Lake,
and Lake Thomas Edison
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Near steady temperature in the lower 20s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 30 to 46. Northeast winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the
mid 20s. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 32 to 48. West winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 16 to 28. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 25 to 44. Lows
10 to 24.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 27. Highs
31 to 47.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 18 to 28.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 30 to 46. Lows
17 to 29.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 29 to 43.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Devils Postpile 19 38 22 45 /
$$
CAZ327-161200-
Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-
Including the cities of Lake Wishon, Huntington Lake,
and Shaver Lake
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Near steady temperature in the mid 20s.
Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 37 to 49. Northeast winds
up to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the morning.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 20 to 30. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 38 to 48. North winds up to
10 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 19 to 29. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 32 to 44.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Colder, clear. Lows 14 to 26.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 33 to 45.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 17 to 29. Highs
36 to 46.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 19 to 29.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 34 to 46. Lows
20 to 30.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 33 to 43.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huntington Lake 24 45 27 44 /
Shaver Lake 28 51 30 50 /
Lake Wishon 25 51 29 50 /
$$
CAZ328-161200-
Kings Canyon NP-
Including the city of Cedar Grove
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature around 17.
Northeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 24 to 40. Northeast winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the
lower 20s. North winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Not as cold. Mostly sunny. Highs 27 to 43. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 13 to 25. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 19 to 37.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Colder, clear. Lows 6 to 18.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 21 to 39. Lows
11 to 23.
.SUNDAY...Not as cold. Mostly sunny. Highs 25 to 41.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the
lower 20s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 24 to 40. Lows
14 to 24.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 23 to 39.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Cedar Grove 30 58 34 61 /
$$
CAZ329-161200-
Grant Grove Area-
Including the cities of Grant Grove and Hume Lake
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Near steady temperature in the lower 30s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 43 to 55. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph shifting to the north in
the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 26 to 40. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 43 to 57. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 25 to 39. North winds up to
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 38 to 52.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Colder, clear. Lows 21 to 35.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 39 to 53. Lows
24 to 38.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 41 to 55.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 25 to 39.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 40 to 54. Lows
25 to 39.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 38 to 52.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grant Grove 31 49 33 48 /
$$
CAZ330-161200-
Sequoia NP-
Including the cities of Giant Forest and Lodgepole
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the lower
20s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 29 to 49. North winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 14 to 34. North winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 31 to 49. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 14 to 32. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 25 to 45.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Colder, clear. Lows 8 to 28.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 26 to 46. Lows
12 to 32.
.SUNDAY...Not as cool. Mostly sunny. Highs 29 to 47.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the mid
20s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 27 to 47. Lows
14 to 32.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lodgepole 20 49 24 50 /
$$
CAZ331-161200-
South End of the Upper Sierra-
Including the city of Johnsondale
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature around 30.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Highs 39 to 53. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 23 to 37. North winds up to
10 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 42 to 54. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 23 to 37. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 38 to 52.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Colder, clear. Lows 18 to 32.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 37 to 52.
Lows 20 to 36.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 38 to 52. Lows
22 to 36.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Johnsondale 21 60 23 60 /
$$
CAZ332-161200-
Kern River Valley-
Including the cities of Lake Isabella and Kernville
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 42. Northeast winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 60 to 66. East winds 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 42. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 61 to 67. East winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 58 to 64.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 33 to 39.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 56 to 64.
Lows 33 to 39.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 57 to 64. Lows in
the upper 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alta Sierra 34 51 36 51 /
Kernville 36 67 37 68 /
Lake Isabella 40 67 39 68 /
Weldon 42 65 39 66 /
$$
CAZ333-161200-
Piute Walker Basin-
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 32 to 42. East winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 48 to 60. East winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 31 to 43. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 50 to 60. East winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 30 to 40. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 48 to 58.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 29 to 41.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 45 to 58.
Lows 28 to 40.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 47 to 58. Lows
31 to 41.
$$
CAZ334-161200-
Tehachapi-
Including the city of Tehachapi
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 43. East winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 50 to 60. East winds 10 to 20 mph with
gusts to around 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 43. East winds 5 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 51 to 61. East winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 33 to 41. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 50 to 58.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 33 to 41.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 45 to 58.
Lows 32 to 40.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 48 to 59. Lows
33 to 41.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bear Valley Springs 39 54 38 55 /
Tehachapi 32 56 32 58 /
Twin Oaks 42 60 39 61 /
$$
CAZ335-161200-
Grapevine-
Including the cities of Grapevine and Lebec
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Near steady temperature in the lower 40s.
Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 61. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 54 to 62. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 51 to 59.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Highs
49 to 59.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs 52 to 60.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 50 to 59. Lows in
the upper 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grapevine 43 64 43 64 /
$$
CAZ336-161200-
Frazier Mountain Communities-
Including the city of Frazier Park
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the lower
40s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 51 to 61. East winds 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 45. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 52 to 62. East winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 44. Southwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 48 to 58.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 34 to 44.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 48 to 60.
Lows 32 to 44.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 48 to 60. Lows
34 to 44.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pine Mountain Club 35 52 37 55 /
Frazier Park 27 54 29 60 /
$$
CAZ337-161200-
Indian Wells Valley-
Including the cities of Inyokern and Ridgecrest
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds 5 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 60 to 66. Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 60 to 66.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 55 to 63. Lows in
the mid 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Inyokern 41 64 39 63 /
Ridgecrest 38 65 35 63 /
$$
CAZ338-161200-
Mojave Desert Slopes-
Including the city of Mojave
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 41. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 52 to 62. Northeast winds 10 to 20 mph
with gusts to around 35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 42. North winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 54 to 62. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the southeast 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 42. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 63.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Clear. Lows 33 to 39. Highs 48 to
58.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 33 to
41. Highs 51 to 60.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 51 to 61.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mojave 37 61 37 61 /
$$
CAZ339-161200-
Mojave Desert-
Including the cities of Rosamond, California City, Randsburg,
and Edwards AFB
1100 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds 5 to
15 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Gusts up to
35 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 30 to 38. Northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 31 to 39. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Clear. Lows 29 to 35. Highs in the
upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 27 to
38. Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Randsburg 42 58 42 58 /
California City 36 63 32 62 /
Edwards AFB 35 62 30 62 /
Rosamond 35 63 32 63 /
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Appoints Brian Adams as President and Chief Executive Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors, Effective Immediately
Appoints Richard W. Rew II as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
Announces Preliminary Unaudited First Quarter 2023 Revenue Exceeding Guidance
MOORESTOWN, N.J., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc.® (Nasdaq: TRHC) ("TRHC" or the "Company"), a leading healthcare technology company advancing the safe use of medications, today announced the appointment of Brian Adams as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Adams, who was serving as TRHC's interim Chief Executive Officer since September 2022 and previously served as the Company's Co-President and Chief Financial Officer, was also appointed to the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board") as a Class I director, effective immediately.
The Company today also announced that Richard W. Rew II has joined the Company as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, effective April 10, 2023. Mr. Rew joins the Company from IsoPlexis Corporation, where he served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. As Chief Legal Officer, Mr. Rew will be responsible for legal operations, litigation, corporate governance, and regulatory affairs of the Company. Mr. Rew will report to Mr. Adams.
In addition, the Company reported today preliminary unaudited estimated revenue from continuing operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2023.
Statements on Chief Executive Officer Appointment
Michael Purcell, Chairman of the Board, commented:
"As interim CEO, Brian has brought stability to the organization and laid a strong foundation for both profitable growth and long-term value creation. Thanks to his deep industry experience and strong knowledge of our primary target markets, in particular the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), he has also earned the respect of our clients, partners, team members and shareholders. The Board's decision to appoint Brian as the Company's CEO reflects its commitment to fostering a high-performing management team and retaining, rewarding and developing TRHC's own talent. We firmly believe Brian is the right leader as we embark on the next chapter for the Company."
Brian Adams, President and Chief Executive Officer, added:
"I greatly appreciate the Board's trust and belief in me, and I am honored to continue working alongside a talented management team and dedicated employee base. Over the past few months, we have made significant strides refocusing our business around our solutions for PACE, our fastest growing market, and we are committed to advancing these offerings in order to support future growth and enhance our client experience. Our combination of solutions is not only relevant in PACE, but also to adjacent healthcare markets taking on financial risk and serving similar demographics and I am excited to capitalize on these opportunities. The Board and the leadership team are confident in our current market position and look forward to keeping the momentum going as we continue to make positive impacts on patient care for our clients."
Preliminary Estimated First Quarter 2023 Revenues From Continuing Operations
The Company is also reporting today preliminary unaudited estimated revenue from continuing operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2023. Preliminary unaudited estimated revenue from continuing operations for the first quarter of 2023 is expected to be between $87.0 - $88.5 million, exceeding the prior guidance range of $82 - $84 million. The Company plans to report its first quarter 2023 financial results in early May.
About Brian Adams
Mr. Brian Adams is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Tabula Rasa HealthCare. Prior to this role, Mr. Adams served as interim CEO and before that, Co-President of the Company, overseeing strategy, sales and account management, professional affairs, IT and software engineering, human resources, legal and finance. He formerly served as TRHC's Chief Financial Officer, guiding TRHC through successful public and private debt and equity financing efforts and designed and implemented a plan to achieve profitability. His broad management experience includes strategic planning, business performance optimization, and financial integration for mergers and acquisitions.
About Richard W. Rew II
Mr. Rew is the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Tabula Rasa Healthcare. He has served as General Counsel to public companies for more than 20 years. Mr. Rew's relevant experience includes serving as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of several companies in the healthcare/medical device space including ArthroCare Corporation, Luminex Corporation and, most recently, IsoPlexis Corporation. Mr. Rew has relevant experience in corporate governance, M&A, compliance, litigation, and regulatory matters.
About Tabula Rasa HealthCare
Tabula Rasa HealthCare provides medication safety solutions that empower healthcare professionals and consumers to optimize medication regimens, combating medication overload and reducing adverse drug events. TRHC's proprietary technology solutions, including MedWise®, improve patient outcomes, reduce hospitalizations, and lower healthcare costs. TRHC's extensive clinical tele-pharmacy network improves care for patients nationwide. Its solutions are trusted by health plans and at-risk provider groups to help drive value-based care. For more information, visit TRHC.com.
The historical financial data included in this press release are unaudited and preliminary, based upon the Company's estimates and subject to completion of its financial closing procedures. Moreover, these data have been prepared on the basis of currently available information by, and are the responsibility of, management. The Company's independent auditors, KPMG LLP, have not audited or reviewed, and do not express an opinion with respect to these data. Management believes that such preliminary unaudited historical financial data have been prepared on a reasonable basis. However, because currently available information is preliminary, such estimates should not be relied on as necessarily indicative of the Company's financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023. This summary is not a comprehensive statement of the Company's financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023. The Company's actual results, including net income, or other reported financial measures, such as Adjusted EBITDA, are yet to be finalized and are subject to the completion of the Company's financial closing procedures, final adjustments and other developments that may arise between now and the time the financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023 are finalized.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as "believe," "will," "may," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "should," "plan," "expect," "predict," "could," "potentially" or the negative of these terms or similar expressions. You should read these statements carefully because they discuss future expectations, contain projections of future results of operations or financial condition, or state other "forward-looking" information. These statements relate to, without limitation, our future plans, objectives, expectations, intentions, and financial performance and the assumptions that underlie these statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to: (i) our expectations regarding industry and market trends, including the expected growth and continued structural change and consolidation in the market for healthcare in the United States; (ii) our expectations about the growth of Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly ("PACE") organizations; (iii) our expectations about private payers establishing their own at-risk programs; (iv) the advantages of our solutions as compared to those of competitors; (v) our estimates about our financial performance; (vi) the visibility into future cash flows from our business model; (vii) our ability to reduce expenses as a result of our disposition of non-core businesses; (viii) our growth strategy, including our ability to grow our client base; (ix) our plans to further penetrate existing markets and enter new markets; (x) expectations of earnings, revenue, and other financial items; (xi) plans, strategies, and objectives of management for future operations; (xii) our ability to establish and maintain intellectual property rights; (xiii) our ability to retain and hire necessary associates and appropriately staff our operations; (xiv) future capital expenditures; (xv) future economic conditions or performance; (xvi) our plans to pursue strategic acquisitions and partnerships; (xvii) our plans to expand and enhance our solutions; and (xviii) our estimates regarding capital requirements and needs for additional financing; and (xix) the risks described in Part I, Item 1A of our 2022 Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 10, 2023, and our other filings and reports filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements are based on our management's beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. These statements, like all statements in this report, speak only as of their date, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise these statements in light of future developments, except as required by applicable law. We caution investors that our business and financial performance are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties.
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2023-04-13T23:35:06+00:00
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2023/04/13/tabula-rasa-healthcare-provides-corporate-updates/
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WILLIAMS, David Michael
Born October 7, 1962, in Middletown, Ohio, to Shirley Ann Williams and David Williams. Passed away September 22, 2022, age 59. He leaves to cherish his memory his loving and devoted mother Shirley A. Williams, one caring sister Kimball E. Williams, and a host of other family members, along with an entire city of friends. Visitation will be Friday, September 30, 2022, from 11am until 1pm at Faith Fellowship Church, 1915 S. Main St., Middletown, Ohio. A private family service to follow along with the burial. Professional services entrusted to Donald Jordan Memorial Chapel. Donaldjordanmemorialchapel.com.
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2022-09-28T06:04:24+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/williams-david/Z5ODNUU5HRBMFDTJL2BNVDLTXM/
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ROME -- Top-ranked Iga Swiatek was tested before pulling out a 6-4, 6-1 victory over former No. 1 Victoria Azarenka to reach the Italian Open quarterfinals Thursday and extend her winning streak to 25 matches.
Azarenka took a 3-0 lead before Swiatek won five straight games in a grueling first set that lasted 1 hour, 20 minutes.
The defending champion in Rome, Swiatek is attempting to win her fifth straight tournament.
The last player to win more consecutive matches was Serena Williams, who had a streak of 27 in a row over 2014 and 2015.
Swiatek's run makes her a favorite to win a second French Open when the year's second Grand Slam gets underway in 10 days.
In a sign of how challenging it was for Swiatek to hold serve on the red clay court at the Foro Italico, she played more than twice as many points with her serve than Azarenka did -- 98 to 47.
Azarenka got rattled when a spectator entered the front row of the mostly empty VIP section just behind her as she was facing a break point late in the first set. When she then double-faulted to hand Swiatek control of the set, she slammed her racket in frustration and complained to the chair umpire about the midgame interruption.
Swiatek will next face 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu, who eliminated Croatian qualifier Petra Martic 6-4, 6-4.
Also, third-seeded Aryna Sabalenka beat Madrid Open finalist Jessica Pegula 6-1, 6-4.
In the men's tournament, Stefanos Tsitsipas rallied past Karen Khachanov 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 for a tour-leading 29th win of the year.
Also, 2017 Rome champion Alexander Zverev, who is also coming off a run to the Madrid final, beat Alex De Minaur 6-3, 7-6 (5).
Zverev, who is still seeking his first title of the year, has his father and coach, Alexander, back on the circuit with him after a prolonged absence for reasons the family has kept personal.
When Zverev won the ATP finals in November, his older brother and fellow pro, Mischa, was coaching him.
"I was missing a coach for six months. That's what was missing," Zverev said. "That's why I took Sergi Bruguera on -- because we didn't quite know how long it would take my father to be back.
"I'm very happy for him to be back here. It gives me a certain calmness, a certain confidence as well, because he's been there from the beginning of my career. I think nobody knows me better on the court than he does."
Ten-time Rome champion Rafael Nadal and five-time winner Novak Djokovic were playing later. Djokovic meets Stan Wawrinka, and Nadal plays Denis Shapovalov.
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2022-05-12T15:26:37+00:00
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espn.com
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https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/33903322/iga-swiatek-extends-win-streak-25-defeating-victoria-azarenka-italian-open
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BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Eleven U.N. peacekeepers stationed in Central African Republic have been accused of sexual exploitation and abuse, the United Nations said Friday.
Investigations were still underway, but preliminary evidence gathered by the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services revealed that the members of a Tanzanian peacekeeping unit deployed in the country’s west were implicated in the exploitation and abuse of four victims, according to a statement by the U.N. Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic, also known as MINUSCA.
“Upon learning of the allegations, MINUSCA immediately deployed a rapid intervention team to assess the allegations and identify and listen to the alleged victims,” the statement said. “Immediately afterwards, MINUSCA relocated the unit concerned to another base, where it is confined to barracks, in order to protect the victims and the integrity of the investigation.
“Victims received immediate care and support through the mission’s partners, according to their medical, psychosocial and protection needs.”
The evidence also points to a breakdown in command and control over personnel, and once the investigation is complete, the entire unit of 60 peacekeepers will be repatriated. Some of the victims are believed to be minors, but that is yet to be confirmed, the U.N. said.
The mineral-rich but impoverished Central African Republic has faced deadly intercommunal fighting since 2013, when predominantly Muslim Seleka rebels seized power and forced President Francois Bozize from office. Mostly Christian militias later fought back, also targeting civilians in the streets. Untold thousands were killed, and most of the capital’s Muslims fled in fear.
A U.N. peacekeeping mission was deployed the following year and now has nearly 17,500 uniformed personnel. In November, the mission’s mandate was extended for a year.
The United Nations has long been in the spotlight over allegations of child rape and other sexual abuse by its peacekeepers, especially those based in Central African Republic and neighboring Congo.
In 2021, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres ordered the immediate repatriation of a contingent from Gabon operating in the country, following credible reports of sexual abuse by some of its 450 members, and past allegations.
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Sam Mednick contributed to this report from Dakar, Senegal.
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2023-06-09T18:38:51+00:00
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localsyr.com
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https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/11-un-peacekeepers-accused-of-sexual-exploitation-abuse-in-central-african-republic/
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02-04-05-06-07-09-10-12-15-18-22-24
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8-2-8-8, FIREBALL: 4
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8-7-5-2, FIREBALL: 5
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3-5-4-0, FIREBALL: 8
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8-3-3, FIREBALL: 6
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9-5-0, FIREBALL: 1
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2-6-1, FIREBALL: 5
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09-11-28-31-32
(nine, eleven, twenty-eight, thirty-one, thirty-two)
8-4-9, FB: 6
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4-7-4-3
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01-03-04-05-06-09-10-13-14-19-22
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01-03-05-07-08-09-10-11-13-17-18
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8-6-0
(eight, six, zero)
3-0-7-2
(three, zero, seven, two)
07-08-16-17-22-29, Doubler: N
(seven, eight, sixteen, seventeen, twenty-two, twenty-nine; Doubler: N)
10-17-18-26-27
(ten, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-six, twenty-seven)
5-1-1
(five, one, one)
5-4-8-2
(five, four, eight, two)
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2022-11-26T14:55:46+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Lottery-State-by-State-All-17612018.php
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'Happy to be back in Philly': World Series saver David Robertson gets 2nd Phils chance 3 years later
PHILADELPHIA - David Robertson walked off the mound after retiring Miami’s Miguel Rojas in April 2019. He wouldn’t throw another big league pitch for nearly 2 1/2 years.
He was a big bucks bust, his elbow shot less than a month into a $23 million, two-year contract with the Phillies. One surgery, a trip to Japan and three teams later, he’s wearing those high socks on a World Series mound, closing for Philadelphia at age 37.
"Very happy to end up back here in Philly," he said. "I felt like my first go-around here did not work out well for me or the team. I blew out seven games in and was never able to really show what I could do or be able to help out the club."
Robertson smiled as teammates filed by him to exchange hand slaps following Friday night’s opener. Robertson got the save for getting the final three outs in a 6-5, 10-inning win, retiring Aledmys Díaz on a game-ending groundout but only after allowing runners to reach second and third. He lived up to the "Houdini" nickname he earned with the New York Yankees, where he succeeded Mariano Rivera as closer.
"He had a tendency to get in trouble and then work his way out of it," said Phillies manager Rob Thomson, a Yankees coach from 2008-17. "But that’s who he is. He’s got a really calm demeanor and a slow heartbeat and he conveys that throughout the bullpen, so he helps a lot of the younger guys. A lot of guys are going through troubles, he can help them through it."
A Birmingham native who attended the University of Alabama, Robertson was drafted by the Yankees on the 17th round in the 2006 amateur draft and reached the big leagues two years later. He was a middle reliever during the 2009 title run, getting wins in the Division Series and League Championship Series and making a pair of scoreless appearances against the Phillies in the World Series as the Yankees won the title.
Robertson didn’t return to the Series until this year.
"I feel like a real part of the team," he said. "In 2009, it was my second year in the league and there was so many superstars on that team that I just tried to kind of stay in the background and enjoy it, but I don’t remember as much of it."
In his 14th big league season, Robertson has 57 wins and 157 saves. He became a late-inning reliever in 2011, earning his only All-Star trip, was promoted to primary setup man in 2012 and then closer when Rivera retired after the 2013 season. After one year in the role, Robertson left for a $46 million, four-year contract with the Chicago White Sox.
He was dealt back to the Yankees in July 2017. Even on a high-profile team, he was relatively anonymous away from the ballpark, riding the subway to Yankee Stadium wearing a hoodie.
When the contract expired, he became a free agent again and signed with the Phillies. Shut down 2 1/2 weeks into the season with what initially was diagnosed as a strained flexor tendon, Robertson had surgery Aug. 15 with Dr. James Andrews.
"I definitely had a rough road coming back from that injury. I had a little bit more complicated than just the Tommy John. I had flexor repair, as well," Robertson said. "So my timeline was a lot longer than most people. And I was 34 years old when I had surgery, so it took me a little bit of time to get back. In my mind that wasn’t done, I just needed it that amount of time to get my elbow right to be able to pitch."
He spent much of 2020 rehabbing, and was shut down after a setback in August. His Phillies contract over, he promised USA Baseball executive director Paul Seiler he would play for the U.S. Olympic team under Mike Scioscia. Robertson had two saves as the Americans won the silver medal.
"It was so hot over there. And even coming from Alabama, the humidity over there was something I hadn’t experienced in a long time," Robertson said. "You’re playing in 100 degrees with 100% humidity on AstroTurf, and the game was so fast. They had it sped up faster than anything I’ve ever seen. And no fans in the seats, so you could hear everything."
He signed with Tampa Bay a little more than a week after the Olympics, pitched six times for Triple-A Durham and was back in the majors on Sept. 1, 2021. He pitched 12 regular-season games and three in the Division Series. Then in January, he reached a $3.5 million, one-year deal with the Chicago Cubs that would earn him another $1.6 million in bonuses.
Batters had just one hit in their first 34 at-bats against him this season. With Chicago out of contention, the Phillies acquired him at the trade deadline on Aug. 2 for minor league right-hander Ben Brown.
"He was one of the best relief pitchers in the game of baseball at that point," Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said. "He’s pitched in big moments in a big market. So we thought if we were going to acquire somebody that can pitch at the back end of the game, he’d feel very comfortable to do that."
Robertson had six saves in nine chances with a 2.70 ERA for the Phillies and finished the season with 20 saves in 28 chances and a .173 opponents’ batting average along with a 2.40 ERA and 1.16 WHIP. He averaged 93 mph with his cutter, close to his pre-surgery peak.
Then he opened the playoffs by getting the win with a perfect eighth inning against St. Louis in the Wild Card Series opener. He missed the Division Series after hurting his right calf while jumping to celebrate Bryce Harper's home run in the clinching win over the Cardinals.
It took 13 years for Robertson to make it back to baseball’s biggest stage, and he’s enjoying the moment.
"Pretty good adrenaline rush there," he said the day after getting the Series save. "It turned into a tough inning there, but it always is tough to get those final three outs."
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2022-10-30T23:50:58+00:00
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fox29.com
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https://www.fox29.com/sports/happy-to-be-back-in-philly-world-series-saver-david-robertson-gets-2nd-phils-chance-3-years-later
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CHAMA — Money might not grow on trees, but in New Mexico it comes out of the ground.
Driven in large part by the booming oil and gas industry, projected revenues for the next budget year are expected to deliver another windfall to state government coffers.
Recurring revenues for fiscal year 2024 are projected to reach a record $10.85 billion, including $2.45 billion in "new money," according to a budget forecast presented Wednesday to the Legislative Finance Committee.
So-called "new money" is music to legislators' ears.
It is the difference between the current budget and expected revenues in the next fiscal year, and it opens the door to a host of possibilities, from infrastructure investments to more tax cuts or rebates.
Oil and gas accounts for about two-thirds of the projected revenue growth amid higher prices and continuing increased production.
In May, New Mexico’s oil production was up 41.4 percent from January. Texas' was down 8.2 percent and North Dakota's was down 25 percent.
Oil production in the state is projected to grow 4.5 percent in the next budget year.
"New Mexico continues to hit records, with the latest peak production of 1.57 million barrels per day in April 2022," the budget forecast states. "To date, New Mexico is the only top oil producing state to have recovered above prepandemic production levels."
On top of the surge in oil and gas production and higher prices, inflation is driving up gross receipts tax collections as a result of rising costs for food, construction materials and other goods and services, as well as personal income taxes linked to higher wages.
"Revenue strength is the result of sustained high inflation raising expectations for gross receipts tax and income tax collections," state economists wrote in their budget forecast. "Additionally, consumer spending has remained strong, wage growth has been robust, and high oil and gas revenues are supported by global supply-side constraints raising prices and encouraging production expansion."
The forecast, however, warns of "significant uncertainty" in the economic outlook.
"The recent and forthcoming monetary policy from the Federal Reserve could significantly slow economic growth as rising interest rates dampen economic demand. On the other hand, a failure to slow high inflation rates would discourage consumer sentiment and erode real purchasing power of households and firms leading to a downturn. The coronavirus continues to add uncertainty as new strains impact consumption, disrupt supply chains, and prevent employment recovery," the economists' report states.
For the current fiscal year, estimated recurring revenues are nearly $9.85 billion, or $1 billion more than projected in December. That's money that will also be on the table when the governor and the Legislature hammer out a spending plan in 2023 for the next fiscal year.
Ending reserve balances for fiscal year 2023 are estimated at $3.76 billion, or nearly 45 percent of appropriations, "prior to any legislative action in the 2023 session," according to the economists' report.
"Because reserves are expected to exceed 25 percent of recurring appropriations in FY23, excess oil and gas school tax collections, estimated at about $1.25 billion, will flow into the Early Childhood Trust Fund," the report states. "Additionally, excess federal oil and gas royalty payments above the five-year average, estimated at about $1.35 billion in FY23, will flow into the early childhood trust fund."
Preliminary reports indicate recurring revenues for fiscal year 2022 were $9.2 billion, an increase of $1.1 billion, or 14 percent, from fiscal year 2021, according to the Consensus Revenue Estimating Group, a collection of economists from three state departments and the Legislative Finance Committee.
This is a developing story. Stay tuned for updates.
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2022-08-17T19:12:47+00:00
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santafenewmexican.com
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https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/new-mexico-projects-2-45-billion-budget-windfall/article_01d66c50-1daf-11ed-9bc3-5314bdf2eb59.html
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REPORT: Nungesser will not run for governor
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser is set to announce on Tuesday, Jan. 10, that he will not run for governor later this year, The Advocate newspaper reports.
Instead, Nungesser is expected to announce that he will seek re-election to his current job, according to The Advocate reporter Sam Karlin.
The move is a surprising one, following months of speculation that the Republican from Plaquemines Parish would enter the race.
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Louisiana DOTD Secretary Dr. Shawn Wilson, a Democrat, is considering entering the race for governor as well.
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2023-01-09T20:47:16+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/2023/01/09/report-nungesser-will-not-run-governor/
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SEATTLE — This year Juneteenth will be recognized as a paid state holiday in Washington state for the first time. The holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.
Juneteenth also marks one year since the Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) debuted its choir, the African American Cultural Ensemble (ACE). The group started to uplift and inspire the community with hope and healing through song.
LaNesha DeBardelaben, NAAM’s president and CEO thought of the idea during the summer of 2020, as protests occurred around the country for racial justice.
“The brutal murder of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and so many other black lives, really moved our museum to do something that would bring greater awareness around the essentialness of recognizing Black lives, Black brilliance, Black excellence, and Black existence,” said DeBardelaben.
“People were despaired, disparaged, and people were depressed,” said Jason Turner, ACE’s director. “People were kind of distraught over these shootings. Well, what better way to try and encourage people and give them hope, and maybe a little bit of peace?”
Since its debut on Juneteenth 2021 ACE has performed across the Seattle area.
“The African American Culture ensemble has quite a portfolio of music of the movement of the civil rights movement. Music of our ancestors, negro spirituals, music of consciousness that asks the question, or poses the notion, 'Ooh, child, things are gonna get easier, things are gonna get better,'” said DeBardelaben.
Many Black Americans are still waiting for that message of hope to become a reality. Racism is still painfully prevalent in our society. Just last month a man allegedly motivated by racism and hate shot and killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York.
Through these challenges and dark times, DeBardlaben said their mission is to not let despair have the last word.
“That is the story of America,” said DeBardelaben. “When we look at American history, when we look at the oppression that we've had to grapple with and overcome. We have had to hold on to a sense of hope.”
While many are just now learning about Juneteenth. In Galveston, Texas, the birthplace of the holiday, they’ve been commemorating it for 156 years.
KING 5 traveled to Texas to explore those roots and spoke up with Samuel Collins, known in Galveston as "Professor Juneteenth." Collins is a historian and at Nia Cultural Center Juneteenth Legacy Project Headquarters.
Collins educates visitors on the origins of Juneteenth, short for June 19, 1865, the day Union troops arrived in Galveston to let enslaved people know they were free. The troops’ arrival came two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Lincoln.
“As the Union soldiers moved throughout the south, they spread freedom from place to place,” said Collins. “So, these states would have received a message at different times.”
Now, the holiday is all about celebrating Black culture, history and life.
Collins said Juneteenth is celebrated through events like festivals, barbeques, and church services.
“This holiday represented to the former enslaved and their descendants, really our 4th of July. But it's not an ‘our’ in the sense that it's only African Americans,” said Collins. “It's all Americans that value freedom and liberty should celebrate Juneteenth. So that's one of the things that I’m working to get more individuals to embrace. Not that Juneteenth is connected to enslavement, but that Juneteenth is connected to freedom.”
The Northwest African American Museum will hold events all weekend. ACE will perform at the Sounders and OL Reign games at 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. on June 18. NAAM will host a Skate Party and Community Day on June 19 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. at Judkins Park.
For more Juneteenth events happening in the Seattle area, visit southseattleemerald.com.
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2022-06-17T15:33:41+00:00
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king5.com
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https://www.king5.com/article/news/community/facing-race/seattle-choir-inspire-hope-healing-juneteenth/281-f4ff4c08-d31b-47b9-9da3-ae2f64a10c83
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HEMEL HEMPTSTEAD – Matthew Wolff says it was "heartbreaking" to hear his LIV Golf captain Brooks Koepka call him a quitter, issuing a statement to Sports Illustrated on Friday that said he continues to deal with mental health challenges on and off the course.
“While my 2023 season has not been all I had hoped for to this point, I have made positive strides in managing my life and feel like my game is turning for the positive,” Wolff said in his statement to SI.
“To hear through the media that our team leader has given up on me is heartbreaking. It's not what a team member looks to hear from its leader, and I think we all know these comments should have been handled much differently.”
It's the first public conflict among the 48-man roster at Saudi-funded LIV Golf, which features four-man teams with a captain.
Wolff, who walked away from golf for two months in 2021 to cope with mental health, played for Phil Mickelson's team in 2022 and switched over to Koepka's team (Smash) this year. Wolff has only two top 10s this year — his best was a tie for fifth — and he came into LIV Golf-London having not finished among the top 30 in his last five LIV events.
Koepka, a three-time LIV winner who won the PGA Championship for his fifth major in May, unloaded on Wolff in an interview with SI earlier in the week.
“I mean, when you quit on your round, you give up and stuff like that, that’s not competing,” Koepka said. “I’m not a big fan of that. You don’t work hard. It’s very tough to have even like a team dynamic when you’ve got one guy that won’t work, one guy is not going to give any effort, he’s going to quit on the course, break clubs, gets down, bad body language, it’s very tough. I’ve basically given up on him. A lot of talent, but I mean the talent’s wasted.”
Wolff said in his statement it was “beyond disappointing” to read Koepka's comment.
“When I chose to join his team in 2023, I did so with much optimism about my new home as part of Team Smash and equally as important the chance to be around and learn from a player of Brooks’ stature,” Wolff said. "Like everyone who has ever played the game at the highest level, I have had competitive moments in the past that I feel I have let myself down and even others in our new team environment. This has been quite difficult for me.
“My challenges on and off the golf course with my mental health has been well documented. I deal with those challenges every day.”
Wolff won the Jack Nicklaus Award in 2019 as the nation's best college golfer when he was a sophomore at Oklahoma State. The California native turned pro and won on the PGA Tour in his third start. A year later, he had the 54-hole lead in the U.S. Open at Winged Foot, finishing second to Bryson DeChambeau.
But he struggled in 2021 and walked away for two months.
“Mental health is a really big problem,” Wolff said when he returned that year at the U.S. Open. “Any professional athlete has to deal with a lot more stress and pressure than most people and it just kind of got to me. But I’ve been working on it, I’ve been learning and I think that’s all I can do.”
Wolff said in his statement that while his on-course results aren't positive at the moment, “I'm trying to win an even BIGGER game with my life.”
And he had a parting shot for Koepka.
“Finally, I trust Brooks wants what is best for our team. But it’s hard to imagine his comments in his recent SI interview in any way line up with those priorities," Wolff said.
He said it would be his last comment, and that he was going out to try to help his team win at LIV Golf-London.
Wolff shot a 73. Koepka had a 72. Smash was 11 shots out of the lead.
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2023-07-08T00:15:24+00:00
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ksat.com
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https://www.ksat.com/sports/2023/07/07/matthew-wolff-says-liv-golf-captain-brooks-koepka-calling-him-a-quitter-is-heartbreaking/
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PHOENIX (AP) — A Republican Arizona lawmaker who embraces election conspiracies and has former President Donald Trump’s endorsement will spar with the Democrat who helped oversee the 2020 election in Maricopa County Thursday evening as they both seek the state’s top election post.
State Rep. Mark Finchem has built a national following among Trump supporters and those who believe without evidence that the former president lost in Arizona and other battleground states because of fraud.
Finchem will debate Democrat Adrian Fontes, the former Maricopa County Recorder who lost his 2020 reelection bid. Fontes says Finchem's claims have eroded faith in democracy and he's in the odd position of having “to debate someone who doesn’t believe in reality.”
The 30-minute debate sponsored by the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission is the public's only scheduled chance to see the two candidates for secretary of state side-by-side. The secretary acts as Arizona's top election official, oversees many business filings and is next in line if the governor leaves office prematurely. The debate will be broadcast at 5 p.m. on Arizona PBS and moderated by longtime Arizona Horizon host Ted Simons, who has handled Clean Elections debates for more than a decade.
Finchem was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and has been subpoenaed by the Department of Justice as it investigates the insurrection. He's joined a lawsuit with the Republican candidate for governor, Kari Lake, that seeks to require all ballots to be hand-counted in a state that saw 3.4 million ballots cast in 2020 covering more than 100 races. A federal judge dismissed the case in August but they have appealed.
Finchem insists the courts and the media are ignoring legitimate concerns about problems with the 2020 election. He's a retired Kalamazoo, Michigan, police officer who has been a member of the Arizona House since 2015.
“People are, they’ve had a gutful of the narrative that there was nothing wrong” with the 2020 election, Finchem said in an interview the day after he won the four-way Aug. 2 Republican primary. “The whole false narrative that the national media has tried to portray for the last two years has fallen apart -- and now I’m vilified by rags like the Guardian and the Atlantic.”
Fontes is an attorney and former Marine who ran primary ads saying he would protect voting rights for all Arizonans and that election deniers like Finchem were making a full-fledged attack on democracy.
Fontes said Finchem's statements are detached from reality and that makes it difficult “to have a cogent debate.”
“His cognitive dissonance is so far out of whack that nothing he says can be trusted,” Fontes said Wednesday. “And that’s unfortunate, because I’m in the awkward position to have to debate a person who doesn’t know what reality is.”
Finchem says he will run the secretary’s office without favor for either party, and his first priority is to rewrite the state elections procedures manual, which sets out rules for county officials to administer elections. The manual was the source of controversy earlier this year when Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich sued Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs over a new manual Brnovich refused to approve. A judge refused to force changes the attorney general demanded.
Finchem said the current manual “is filled with defects.” It is written by the secretary, and the attorney general and governor must sign off on it each election cycle. If Finchem and Republicans running for attorney general and governor all win, they will be able to make sweeping changes to election administration rules.
“My campaign is going to speak to one priority, and that is restoration of the rule of law, holding people accountable for following election law,” Finchem said in the post-primary interview. He has not returned repeated calls and messages in recent weeks.
Finchem continues to insist that the 2020 election was unfair, and recent reports have documented him accusing former Vice President Mike Pence of orchestrating “a coup” when he called for the military to stop the attack on the Capitol. He’s also said he believes Trump won Arizona because he’s never met anyone who voted for President Joe Biden.
Fontes said he expects Finchem to attack him for his efforts to send all county residents mail ballots during the March 2020 presidential primary, a move that happened early in the coronavirus pandemic and was blocked by the courts. He stands by those efforts to boost voter access and on his record of running the recorders office well.
“I think he’s going to try to come across as a humble small town law enforcement guy and ignore the fact that he participated a violent insurrection that resulted in the death of police officers,” Fontes said of the upcoming debate (Finchem did not enter the Capitol). “He’ll try to distract away from his responsibility for essentially eroding our democracy.”
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2022-09-22T22:00:20+00:00
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kgun9.com
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https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/candidates-for-top-arizona-election-job-to-spar-in-debate
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Leading Duchenne Organization Expands Certification of Clinics that Provide Optimal Care for People with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy with 1st Clinic in Pennsylvania
WASHINGTON, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), a nonprofit organization leading the fight to end Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne), announced the expansion of their renowned Certified Duchenne Care Center (CDCC) Program with the certification of the clinic at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Rachel Schrader, MS, APRN, CPNP-PC, PPMD's Vice President of Clinical Care and Education says this is an exciting step for the CDCC Program as it is the first certification in the state of Pennsylvania and continues the growth and expansion of the CDCC network into the greater Western Pennsylvania region. "The heart of PPMD's CDCC Program is bringing excellent care to all people with Duchenne and Becker, regardless of where they live. We appreciate that the team at UPMC Children's has made advancements in how they deliver care, and can attest that the quality of care they provide is truly comprehensive and excellent. We are delighted to add them to our growing network of CDCCs throughout the United States, and look forward to working with them for years to come," said Schrader.
UPMC Children's is a growing clinic that currently follows approximately 120 people living with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy, under the guidance of Dr. Hoda Abdel-Hamid, the clinic's co-director and neurologist, and Dr. Jane Taylor, clinic co-director and pulmonologist.
Mena Scavina, DO, PPMD's Certified Duchenne Care Center Program Advisor had the opportunity to visit the site as part of the certification process and praised the team at UPMC Children's. "I would like to congratulate their team on the CDCC designation. Led by Drs. Abdel-Hamid and Taylor, the UPMC Children's team provides comprehensive and compassionate care to individuals living with Duchenne and Becker and their families. The center also participates in several clinical trials to investigate new therapies and treatment options," said Dr. Scavina. "PPMD's Certification Committee was impressed with what we saw from the team. We look forward to working with them and wish them continued success."
"I am very excited that our center at UPMC Children's was awarded the certification as a Certified Duchenne Care Center and is the first to be awarded in the state of Pennsylvania," said Hoda Abdel-Hamid, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology and Clinical and Translational Science at UPMC Children's. "This speaks to the dedication and the collaborative effort between all experts involved in the care for patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy."
The center at UPMC Children's provides state of the art care and management of patients and families for all aspects of care for Duchenne which includes diagnosis, medical treatment, assessment of cardiac, pulmonary, orthopedic, and equipment needs for the patients, in addition to other services as well as a chance to participate in therapeutic trials.
PPMD's Certified Duchenne Care Center Program supports standardized, comprehensive care and services for all people living with Duchenne. Certification means centers maintain the highest standards in clinical and sub-specialty services, rapidly apply new evidence-based knowledge, minimize heterogeneity in clinical research outcomes, and comply with standards in clinical care that were established by the CDC's Care Considerations. As part of its ongoing mission to end Duchenne, PPMD continues to insist that all people with Duchenne receive comprehensive care.
To learn more about PPMD's Certified Duchenne Care Center Program, visit PPMD's website. Click here to learn more about the history of PPMD's Certified Duchenne Care Center Program and to access PPMD's first published article on the program.
Duchenne is a fatal genetic disorder that slowly robs people of their muscle strength. Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) fights every single battle necessary to end Duchenne.
We demand optimal care standards and ensure every family has access to expert healthcare providers, cutting edge treatments, and a community of support. We invest deeply in treatments for this generation of Duchenne patients and in research that will benefit future generations. Our advocacy efforts have secured hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and won five FDA approvals.
Everything we do—and everything we have done since our founding in 1994—helps those with Duchenne live longer, stronger lives. We will not rest until we end Duchenne for every single person affected by the disease. Join our fight against Duchenne at EndDuchenne.org. Follow PPMD on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
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2022-07-18T15:37:47+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/18/parent-project-muscular-dystrophy-announces-pediatric-certified-duchenne-care-center-upmc-childrens-hospital-pittsburgh/
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- 2023 Kia Niro starts at $26,4901 (excludes destination)
- Notable enhancements include larger dimensions for increased passenger room and more advanced technology
- Lineup includes LX, EX, and SX trims, with optional Touring Package for extra flair
Arrives at Kia retailers this month2
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kia has announced pricing for the all-new second generation 2023 Niro Hybrid, starting at $26,490, excluding destination.
Trim Levels/Pricing – MSRP: (excludes $1,295 destination)
The all-new second generation 2023 Niro Hybrid offers more to love with a modern design, larger dimensions and more standard technology. With its increased dimensions, the crossover utility vehicle boasts best-in-class passenger room3 and offers available driver convenience technology such as dual panoramic displays and transferable digital key technology4. Designed from the ground up to exceed the expectations of hybrid vehicle shoppers, the Niro stands out with a bold design inspired by the "Opposites United" philosophy that seamlessly combines naturistic forms and aerodynamic refinement. Open the Niro's doors to an avant-garde interior including slim, contemporary seats covered by high-quality bio polyurethane and Tencel™5 made from eucalyptus leaves.
On the advanced driver assistance features front, the Niro comes standard with an array of features including Forward Collision Avoidance Assist, Blind Spot Collision Warning with Parallel Exit, and Rear Cross Traffic Collision Avoidance-Assist.6 Offered in three trim levels (LX, EX, and SX), the Niro can be further enhanced with an available Touring Package (EX and SX trims) that adds attractive styling touches. With the highest combined EPA-estimated fuel efficiency rating in its segment at 53 MPG7 (LX, EX, SX trims), the 2023 Niro offers a compelling package.
Powered by a 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine coupled with a 32kW electric motor, the Niro Hybrid puts out a combined 139 horsepower and 195 lb.-ft of torque. Power is sent to the front wheels via a six-speed dual clutch transmission.
The 2023 Niro Hybrid is arriving in dealers now and will be available in all 50 states.
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Headquartered in Irvine, California, Kia America continues to top automotive quality surveys and is recognized as one of the 100 Best Global Brands. Kia serves as the "Official Automotive Partner" of the NBA and offers a range of gasoline, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electrified vehicles sold through a network of over 750 dealers in the U.S., including several cars and SUVs proudly assembled in America*.
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5 Tencel is a trademark of Lenzing AG.
6 Advanced driver assistance systems are not substitutes for safe driving and may not detect all objects around the vehicle. Always drive safely and use caution.
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2022-09-27T19:24:03+00:00
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kwch.com
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https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/09/27/kia-america-announces-2023-niro-hybrid-pricing/
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EXCLUSIVE: Half a dozen Republican secretaries of state say Secretary of State Antony Blinken should resign if he played a role in the creation of the letter signed by 51 ex-intelligence officials to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation.
In a letter to lawmakers, the officials said Blinken should "resign immediately" if he was involved in the letter that surfaced before the 2020 election. They said the effort to dismiss the laptop story conflicts with their efforts to protect "free and fair elections" across the nation.
"We are particularly concerned with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s role in the operation while he served as a senior member of President Biden's campaign," they wrote. "Should the Congressional investigation confirm Secretary Blinken’s leading role as stated in the report, we call on Secretary Blinken to resign immediately."
BIDEN CAMPAIGN, BLINKEN ORCHESTRATED INTEL LETTER TO DISCREDIT HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY, EX-CIA OFFICIAL SAYS
"These former intelligence officials and the presidential campaign actors contributed to the undermining of the American people's confidence in elections," the secretaries of state added.
Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston, Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, Ohio Secretary of State Franke LaRose, Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner and Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray signed the letter to members of Congress that was first obtained by Fox News Digital.
Thurston and Warner met with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan Wednesday to discuss the matter.
The secretaries of state referenced the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees' April report, which found that former intelligence officials and the Biden campaign coordinated efforts to "intentionally influence the 2020 presidential election by spreading disinformation."
In October 2020, weeks before the presidential election, 51 ex-national security officials signed onto a letter claiming that Hunter Biden’s laptop had "all the classic hallmarks of a Russian information operation."
DOJ KNEW HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP WAS 'NOT MANIPULATED,' CONTAINED 'RELIABLE EVIDENCE' IN 2019: WHISTLEBLOWER
The former officials included former Obama CIA Director John Brennan, former Obama DNI James Clapper, and former CIA director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
The House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees determined that Blinken, while serving as a senior Biden campaign adviser, was "the impetus" for the statement and organized officials to sign onto it.
Blinken has denied having a role in the creation of the letter, and has stressed that he doesn't "do politics." Blinken has said the letter "wasn’t" his idea, and said he "didn't ask for it" or "solicit it."
Three days after the letter from the former intelligence officials was made public, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden used it as a talking point in the final 2020 presidential debate to rebut criticisms made by then-President Donald Trump.
CIA HAD 'NO EVIDENCE' BIDEN LAPTOP WAS RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION, SAYS TOP INTEL OFFICER DURING 2020 ELECTION
"There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this, he’s accusing me of, is a Russian plan," Biden said during the debate.
At the time, then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Hunter Biden's laptop was not part of a Russian disinformation campaign. The FBI concurred.
The FBI first took possession of the laptop in December 2019. At the time, FBI officials knew that the laptop was not manipulated and contained credible evidence related to its investigation into Hunter Biden, according to whistleblower testimony.
CIA 'MAY HAVE ASSISTED IN OBTAINING SIGNATORIES' FOR LETTER DISCREDITING HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP: HOUSE GOP REPORT
The secretaries of state told Congress that "the full weight of the U.S. government should be used to ensure free, and fair elections in the future."
"To cast informed ballots, Americans need transparency into actions by former, and perhaps current, federal government officials to weaponize false information for political purposes," they wrote. "Congress should hold perpetrators accountable and consider all available corrective measures to provide transparency to the public of any improper actions set forth in the report."
"Congress must act to prevent and deter such interference in the future," they said.
The House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees are still investigating the matter.
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2023-07-12T22:43:11+00:00
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foxbangor.com
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https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/blinken-should-resign-if-he-worked-to-discredit-hunter-biden-laptop-story-say-gop-secretaries/article_7e143dc5-3583-59ae-bb4a-5b2342037b00.html
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Before closing the books on another problematic spring break that included two fatal shootings, Miami Beach officials are already looking to 2024 and what can be done to repeat the problems of recent years.
At a city commission meeting, Commissioner Alex Fernandez said whatever they do, the city must convey a “resoundingly clear” message to the public: “Miami Beach is shutting the door on spring break.”
“We're taking bigger, stronger actions than we have in the past to curb the lawlessness that descends upon our city during the spring break," he added.
It comes after the fourth weekend of this year's spring break when, on the back of deadly shootings the previous weekend, the city had dozens of police officers patrolling the South Beach portion of the city. They conducted DUI stops at checkpoints, and had the help of Florida Highway Patrol troopers sent by the state.
“I just want to create a scenario where no one's coming to take over our streets because there's no party, because there's nothing here."Commissioner Rosen Gonzalez
Miami Beach spent about $3 million on public events this March, like a movie screening, concerts and fitness classes, aimed at helping to control crowds. Most of the visitors sought to gather along Ocean Drive instead.
During Monday's meeting in City Hall, officials discussed the measures they wanted to take for the portion of March 2024 most likely to draw heavy crowds. They approved a curfew likely for two weekends and the week in between, and a cut-off time for alcohol sales both on and off-premise consumption.
The city manager has been asked to negotiate with the Florida Department of Transportation to close any causeways if necessary. They also approved a resolution to establish a secured perimeter around Ocean Drive and Lummus Park during a special event.
"Our community deserves to have peace and safety, so do our our businesses and our law enforcement,” Fernandez said.
Mayor Dan Gelber said he definitely supported measures like 2 a.m. alcohol bans, but reminded the city attorney that businesses have sued the city in the past over restrictions during spring break.
“Unfortunately, we've had problems in the past with some of the ideas with the court,” Gelber said. “I think the eye has to be on giving us something that you believe is our best vehicle for addressing this legally.”
An effort to ban alcohol sales after 2 a.m. last year during spring break led the Clevelander on Ocean Drive to sue the city. A Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge ruled in favor of the hotel.
Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez said she would have preferred to impose a curfew to last the whole month, or else the city risks putting out a weak message.
“I just want to create a scenario where no one's coming to take over our streets because there's no party, because there's nothing here,” Rosen Gonzalez said. “It's going to turn into, like, Naples for the month of March. Let's just turn into something so drastically different from Miami Beach.”
"Everything that we're talking about with curfews and rollbacks and restricting liquor sales citywide, that's too much for me to support. We might actually become Naples year round."Commissioner Ricky Arriola
Commissioner Ricky Arriola cautioned his colleagues to go lighter on their wish list, though.
"Everything that we're talking about with curfews and rollbacks and restricting liquor sales citywide, that's too much for me to support,” Arriola said. “We might actually become Naples year round. And I, for one, don't want to ever become Naples.
"Not that there’s anything wrong with Naples, but I choose to live in Miami Beach and not Naples. So, you know, I think we just need to be more cautious and more focused with our resources.”
Arriola preferred focusing those resources on the third weekend in March.
Ultimately, the majority of commissioners voted to have City Manager Alina Hudak and her staff suggest the specifics of what they should do, like the dates for the curfew, the time and the liquor sales rollback. They’ll return to the topic of spring break at their regular meeting in April and vote on the recommendations.
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2023-03-28T14:37:13+00:00
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wlrn.org
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https://www.wlrn.org/news/2023-03-28/city-of-miami-beach-considers-shutting-the-door-on-spring-break
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wages for American truckers rose significantly in 2021 as demand for drivers amid the ongoing driver shortage increased competition for talent, according to the results of a new industry survey released today.
"The data supports what industry sources have been saying for some time – the driver shortage has been great for drivers who saw their salaries rise last year," said ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello. "Pay increases were broad based across the industry, for example between salary increases and bonuses, the average truckload driver saw a wage increase of 10.9% last year."
As part of the 2022 ATA Driver Compensation Study, fleets with more than 135,000 employee drivers, and nearly 20,000 independent contractors were queried about their compensation, including pay rates, bonuses and benefits.
- The median truckload driver earned more than $69,000 in 2021 – an 18% increase from the previous survey.
- More than 90% of truckload fleets raised pay in 2021, with the average increase hitting 10.9%. Ninety-six percent of fleets offered referral bonuses for new drivers, and 54% offered sign-on bonuses.
- Every less-than-truckload fleet surveyed raised pay in 2021, with the median wage hitting 73,000.
- The median salary for a driver at a private fleet was $85,000.
- Non-drayage owner-operators that responded to the survey saw estimated median gross revenues of $235,000 in 2021, while owner-operators in the drayage sector saw median gross revenues of $164,000.
"The driver shortage, coupled with increased demand for goods in the post-pandemic economy, really drove driver salaries," Costello said. "These pay increases should put to lie the myths about the nature of this job – trucking is a path that can provide a well-paid career for Americans looking for one."
ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello will hold a media briefing about the 2022 ATA Driver Compensation Study at 11:30 AM EDT on Wednesday, August 10. For more information, contact Sean McNally at smcnally@trucking.org.
The full 2022 ATA Driver Compensation Study is available for purchase at ATABusinessSolutions.com
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2022-08-10T13:21:25+00:00
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kwch.com
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https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/08/10/trucking-wages-jump-2021-shortage-supply-chain-issues-increase-demand/
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Overcrowding is just one of the many issues the Oklahoma City Animal Welfare is facing. The city originally allocated $38 million of their MAPS 4 funding for a new animal shelter and later bumped that up to $42 million.
The shelter told News 9 that the new space will help save more animals.
“This shelter was built 20 years ago, we moved into this building in 2001, so whenever we moved into the building, it was new. At the time, animals were brought in, held for three days, and then euthanized. Lifesaving really wasn’t happening, only about 10% of the animals coming in at that time were being saved,” said Jon Gary, the Superintendent of Oklahoma City Animal Welfare.
The MAPS 4 funding is set aside to replace the current shelter with a brand new one.
“We were fortunate to be one of the sixteen projects picked this year to be able to build a new facility,” Gary said.
According to the city, the new shelter will be on city-owned land with adoption and care by OKC Animal Welfare.
“The whole design was not right, now that we have changed, and we are saving more lives and doing our best to save more animals. That is where this new facility is really going to come into play,” Gary said.
The new shelter will have a more modern, spacious place for cats to play and at least 50 more kennels for dogs.
“Not only is it going to be a little bit larger and have more capacity but just the overall design. Bigger kennels for instance, the kennels that our dogs stay in are far too small for the length of stay that they have to be here,” Gary said.
The vet clinic will also be expanded, which will allow staff and pet owners to stay with their animal during appointments.
“The shelter will have a space for our field team to have office space and areas where they can meet with the public,” he said.
Animal Welfare starts the design phase at the beginning of 2023. They start construction in 2024.
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2022-09-06T18:15:38+00:00
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news9.com
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https://www.news9.com/story/631635d2457f98070e13c15e/okc-animal-welfare-to-receive-maps-4-funding-for-new-animal-shelter
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A Delaware business owner has been sentenced to 30 days of incarceration for storming the U.S. Capitol after seeing the riot erupt on a Tinder date's television and taking an Uber ride to join the mob's attack, court records show.
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U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan also on Friday ordered Jeffrey Schaefer to pay a $2,000 fine and $500 in restitution for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in Washington.
On the eve of then-President Donald Trump's “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, Schaefer drove from Delaware to northern Virginia to spend the night at the home of a woman whom he had met on the Tinder online dating app. The next day, he decided to take an Uber ride to the Capitol after seeing the riot unfold on TV at his date's home in Alexandria.
“He had the Uber driver drop him off near the west front of the Capitol and he approached the Capitol from that drop off point,” Justice Department prosecutor Anita Eve wrote in a court filing.
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Schaefer entered the Capitol though a broken window near the Senate Wing doors, joined other rioters in chanting and spent approximately 28 minutes inside the building before leaving through a door, prosecutors said. He posted several images of the riot on Facebook, including one showing a pile of destroyed media equipment.
Schaefer, 36, of Milton, Delaware, was arrested in January 2022, He pleaded guilty in August to one count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum sentence of six months behind bars.
Defense attorney Joshua Insley noted that Schaefer wasn't accused of engaging in any violence or destructive conduct on Jan. 6, when Congress had convened a joint session to certify the results of President Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory.
Schaefer owns a charter transportation company based in Milton. Once a “committed supporter” of Trump, Schaefer now believes he was “manipulated and used by those who hold power and will never face any consequences,” his lawyer said.
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“While Mr. Schaefer accepts responsibility for his actions, he was guided and urged every step of the way by no less of an authority than the President of the United States and a majority of Republican Senators and Congressman that continued to repeat the ‘Big Lie’ that the election had been stolen by the Democrats,” Insley wrote.
More than 900 people have been charged with Capitol riot-related federal crimes. Over 460 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanor offenses. Over 320 of them have been sentenced, with roughly half of them receiving terms of imprisonment ranging from seven days to 10 years.
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For full coverage of the Capitol riot, go to https://www.apnews.com/capitol-siege
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2022-11-19T20:07:45+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Man-gets-jail-for-joining-Capitol-riot-after-17597686.php
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New Mexico governor signs 3 public safety bills into law
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed three bills into law Thursday, cracking down on catalytic converter theft, retail crime and “straw gun purchases”.
Straw gun purchases involve someone buying a gun for another person who’s legally not allowed to have one, or if they know that person wants to cause harm with that gun.
Lawmakers said straw purchases are one of the biggest drivers of gun violence in the nation. House Bill 306 passed the New Mexico Legislature and makes those purchases a fourth-degree felony.
House Bill 234 cracks down on organized retail crime and sets stricter punishments, such as making aggravated shoplifting a third-degree felony. The bill defines it as when a person assaults or strikes someone with a deadly weapon immediately after shoplifting or while trying to flee the scene.
Senate Bill 133 requires secondhand metal dealers to ask for documentation when someone is trying to sell a catalytic converter for scrap metal. Dealers will have to ask the seller for proof that they own and/or purchased the vehicle that the converter belongs to. The dealers also have to keep records of catalytic converter sales and acquisitions.
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2023-04-06T16:59:55+00:00
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kob.com
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https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/new-mexico-governor-signs-3-public-safety-bills-into-law/
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A former Georgetown University tennis coach who once coached former President Barack Obama’s family was sentenced Friday to 2 1/2 years in prison for pocketing more than $3 million in bribes in exchange for helping wealthy parents cheat their kids’ way into the school.
The sentence for Gordon Ernst is by far the toughest punishment handed down so far in the sprawling college admissions bribery scandal that shined a light on the lengths some rich parents will go to get their kids into the nation’s most selective schools.
Prosecutors had sought four years behind bars for Ernst, 55, who admitted to accepting nearly $3.5 million in bribes over a decade to designate the children of deep-pocketed parents as recruits even though they weren’t Georgetown-caliber players.
Ernst told the judge in Boston’s federal court that he lost his moral compass and acted out of line with what he taught his own players about making the right choices.
“I’m most ashamed that I didn’t follow what I was preaching to them,” he said.
In a letter to the judge, Ernst described growing up in Rhode Island with a demanding and physically abusive father — another Rhode Island tennis legend, the late Dick Ernst — whom he called more a “coach and tyrant than a dad.” Ernst’s mother told The Boston Globe that her husband was never abusive.
Ernst played hockey and tennis at Brown University in Providence before getting coaching jobs at Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania. He was offered the head men and women’s tennis coach job at Georgetown in 2006 and was introduced by a friend two years later to admissions consultant Rick Singer, the mastermind of the bribery scheme, Ernst told the judge.
Of the six spots Ernst got every year to recruit tennis players, he regularly gave at least two — and often up to five — to unqualified students in exchange for bribes, according to prosecutors. Over the years, he helped nearly two dozen students fraudulently get into the school, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristen Kearney told the judge.
And unlike some of the other coaches charged in the case who were bribed in the form of money for their sports programs, Ernst pocketed almost all of the money for himself, prosecutors said. He used the bribe money to pay for his daughters’ expensive private school tuition and buy a home on Cape Cod, Kearney said.
Defense attorneys asked the judge for a sentence of about a year, saying in court papers that Ernst, like the tragic Greek mythological figure Icarus, “flew too close to the sun and forgot his wings were made of wax.”
Surrounded by families with wealth and prestige at Georgetown, Ernst — whose starting salary was $55,000 — told himself he wasn’t hurting anyone or his team by accepting the bribes, his lawyers wrote.
Ernst has tried to turn his life around since his 2019 arrest and has worked part time as a tennis instructor, hockey referee, and a rental car cleaner, Ernst’s lawyers said.
“Gordie has fallen from the White House to the tabloids – a fall from grace far longer than the Court sees in a typical case,” his lawyers wrote.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani called Ernst’s actions “egregious,” and said they appeared to stem from a desire to portray himself as someone with wealth because that’s what he viewed as the measure of success.
Ernst left Georgetown in 2018 after an internal investigation launched over what the school described as “irregularities in the athletic credentials” of students he was recruiting concluded that he violated admissions rules.
He was later hired by the University of Rhode Island, which claimed it wasn’t told about the admissions rules violations. He resigned from that school shortly after his arrest.
Ernst is among 54 people who have been convicted in the Operation Varsity Blues case that exploded into headlines in March 2019.
The last defendant linked to the investigation to go to trial was acquitted by jurors on all counts last month. Another defendant was pardoned by former President Donald Trump and a third defendant got a deal that’s expected to lead to the dismissal of his case.
Before Friday, the toughest punishment had been 15 months in prison for John Wilson, a former Staples Inc. executive convicted by jurors of paying $220,000 to have his son designated as a University of Southern California water polo recruit and an additional $1 million to buy his twin daughters’ ways into Harvard and Stanford. Wilson maintains that he is innocent and remains free while he appeals his case.
Only a handful of defendants remain to be sentenced.
They include the scheme’s mastermind, Singer, who pleaded guilty in 2019 to a slew of charges. Singer secretly began cooperating with investigators before the case became public and helped the government build the massive prosecution. He’s expected to be sentenced in September.
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2022-07-02T14:57:55+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/national/ex-georgetown-coach-gets-2-1-2-years-in-bribe-scandal/
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- Found in novel microorganisms on infant skin, three years since the 2019 discovery of the first-generation microbiomes,
- Evaluation meets criteria to be a new family … Genetic difference is over 10% compared to existing microbiomes
- Highly efficacious in lipid synthesis, skin firming, and skin barrier reinforcement
- World's first AI-based microbiome platform to launch in May
BUNDANG-GU, South Korea, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cosmax succeeded in discovering the second-generation skin microbiome. The company had previously discovered the world's first anti-aging skin microbiome. The novel microorganism is considered to be a family-level discovery, expected to resonate in both cosmetic and biological academia.
Cosmax, the world's largest cosmetic R&D and manufacturing ODM company (CEO Lee Byung-man), announced on the March, 24th that it has discovered a new microbiome group with characteristics similar to that of materials which form the skin barrier.
Cosmax's Research&Innovation Center has studied microbiomes that are beneficial to the human skin since 2011. "Microbiome" combines "microbe", which inhabit human tissue, and "biome", referring to an ecosystem.
It refers to the microorganisms and their genetics inside the human body. It is often found in the intestinal, skin, oral, or respiratory organs but their individual functions have not yet been proved.
In 2019, Cosmax launched products containing the microbiome coined Strain CX, which was discovered in young women's skin. It utilizes microorganisms in the human skin to activate beneficial bacteria and maintain clear skin.
In a study following the previous discovery, a microorganisms were found through a skin microbiome analysis of 1,000 Korean test participants. Through this process, Cosmax succeeded in discovering a new group of microorganisms from infants and children who have high skin firmness and skin barrier density.
This is a discovery at a scale that is considered to be a novel family in both genetics and taxonomy. In genetics, a newly discovered microorganism is deemed a new family when it has a genetic domain with a difference of 10% or more compared to existing organisms.
Cosmax's second-generation skin microbiome was discovered through a culture method that imitates the skin's actual environment. The new strain is the third in about 2,000 bacteria, hence called "KERA-3".
Compared to the first-generation skin microbiome, its efficacy is more balanced in all areas of the skin's condition. It is particularly efficacious in lipid synthesis, skin firmness, and skin barrier reinforcement.
Cosmax calls its second-generation skin microbiome Rappoilot™. It will be trademarked and commercialized. Moreover, the study is to be published in IJSEM, the international microbiology journal.
Also, the skin microbiome platform which had been in development since 2019 will begin services in May. Cosmax developed a new AI algorithm called SKIMInet™ based on genetic information collected from 1,000 test participants.
This is the first system in the world to comprehensively analyze skin environment elements and even genetic data. It is built so that the customer can input consumer skin data for analysis and product commercialization.
Lee Byung-man, President of Cosmax, said, "Cosmax did not stop at pioneering the skin microbiome market. We continued extended studies to create research outputs as well." He continued, "Within the next five years, we will build a skin microbiome research roadmap to endeavor as a leader in the field."
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2022-05-16T14:29:24+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/05/16/cosmax-discovers-2nd-generation-skin-microbiome-pioneering-continues/
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For an elder millennial like me, the slow, sad decline of the shopping mall has been tough to watch. Spaces that once served as our community gathering spots have slowly winked out, one by one, due to “The Retail Apocalypse.”
The large brick and mortar shopping centers that remain often feel deserted, for the most part, with pop tunes echoing eerily down empty corridors. But there might be hope. As malls decline, they’re meeting another trend on its way up: pickleball!
The once-obscure sport — it’s like mini-tennis or giant table tennis — is skyrocketing. A January report from the Association of Pickleball Professionals found that 36.5 million played the sport during a one-year period from August 2021-2022—compared to the just 5 million players that earlier data had indicated. That’s about 14% of the U.S. population.
With so many folks getting interested in the sport, investors are looking for more space to play. After all, the fast growth of pickleball has led to drawbacks: Tennis players get annoyed with pickleball people appropriating their courts; neighbors complain about the constant “pop” of the balls being struck. These are issues that could be solved if more courts are available to the public.
Why not use the vast, unoccupied spaces you can find in an old shopping mall? As it turns out, malls that need tenants are diversifying their offerings. And as more established pickleball companies target malls for expansion, new chains (like Chicken N Pickle) are emerging as well.
Setting up in an already-existing location is a smart move, assuming the space is properly set up for the sport (requirements include well-spaced columns and social spaces). Since building a pickleball facility from scratch is expensive, spaces that once belonged to big-box stores like Bed Bath and Beyond can be large enough to house a number of courts.
Indeed, pickleball clubs have already taken over former mall staples. For example, a Saks Off 5th in Stamford, Connecticut, (an 80,000-square-feet space) was turned into a pickleball facility, and a massive At Home store in Tempe, Arizona, is soon to be dubbed Picklemall.
Picklemall CEO West Shaw noted that indoor pickleball can be safer in hot climates, in addition to repurposing unused space into something that’s in high demand right now.
“Right now if you go to a public court during prime hours you’ll probably have to wait to play,” Shaw told the Phoenix Business Journal. “And that’s what we’re trying to combat is that waiting time and having to play at noon in Tempe, Arizona, in the middle of July. That could potentially be dangerous.”
In April, big-box chain Bed Bath and Beyond filed for bankruptcy protection, and will likely close most or all of its 360 stores. Those stores are huge! Imagine the pickleball possibilities.
One pickleball entrepreneur already has — Paddle Up Pickleball Club is planning to open in a former Bed Bath and Beyond in Lake St. Louis, Missouri, next month. Perhaps we’ll see more in future months!
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2023-05-25T14:31:44+00:00
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abc15.com
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https://www.abc15.com/pickleball-courts-could-be-coming-to-empty-retail-spaces-near-you
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MIAMI (AP) — Caregivers at a South Florida ocean park are taking steps to prepare Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, for a possible return to her home waters in Washington’s Puget Sound.
But the move isn’t a done deal, and veterinarians and trainers told WPLG in Miami this week that they’re working with Lolita to make sure she’s strong enough to survive the journey and to acclimate to her new home.
Animal rights activists have been fighting for years to have Lolita — also known as Tokitae, or Toki — freed from her tank at the Miami Seaquarium. The park’s owner, The Dolphin Company, and the nonprofit Friends of Toki announced a plan in March to possibly move the 57-year-old orca to a natural sea pen, with the financial backing of Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay.
Jessica Comolli, the director of the Miami Seaquarium’s animal health department, said Lolita is doing great. The orca has had two health scares since 2020 but has recovered.
Lolita retired from performing last spring as a condition of the park’s new exhibitor’s license with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She’s not been publicly displayed since. The Dolphin Company CEO Eduardo Albor said they’ve invested more than $500,000 to improve Lolita’s water quality after taking over the Seaquarium last year.
In recent months, new upgrades have been installed to better filter the pool and regulate her water temperature. New chillers can now get the temp down to mimic the waters of the Pacific Northwest, said trainer Michael Partica.
Federal and state regulators would still need to approve any plan to move Lolita, and that could take months or years. The 5,000-pound (2,267-kilogram) has been living for years in a tank that measures 80 feet by 35 feet (24 meters by 11 meters) and is 20 feet (6 meters) deep.
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2023-05-25T18:20:04+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/ap-lolita-the-whale-may-someday-return-to-wild-miami-park-says-but-timeline-uncertain/
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(NewsNation) — A large percentage of drugs from Mexican pharmacies are laced with illegal drugs such as fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamines, a University of California study found.
Pharmacies in Mexico’s border towns are starting to fill up with American customers looking for discounted medications, reports found. Some are looking for a pharmacy that doesn’t require prescriptions.
However, the UCLA-led study found that across 40 pharmacies in four cities in Mexico, “two out of three had at least one controlled substance for sale without a prescription, either in bottles or individual pills.”
The researchers bought oxycodone, Xanax and Adderall, and found that a large percentage of the pills tested positive for fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine, suggesting they likely originated with Mexican cartels.
A Los Angeles Times investigation had similar findings. Reporters found pills being sold as oxycodone were actually fentanyl, and pills sold as Adderall tested positive for meth in Tijuana. Further south in Cabo San Lucas, even weaker painkillers tested positive for fentanyl.
“It is not possible to distinguish counterfeit medications based on appearance, because identically-appearing authentic and counterfeit versions are often sold in close geographic proximity,” the UCLA researchers wrote. “Nevertheless, US tourist drug consumers may be more trusting of controlled substances purchased directly from pharmacies.”
The LA Times investigation found that 71% of the 17 pills tested tested positive for more powerful drugs.
While these Mexican pharmacies also sell to locals, a majority of their customers are Americans traveling to find more affordable medications, the UCLA researchers reported. U.S. President Joe Biden addressed the issues of high health care costs Wednesday, vowing to reduce domestic drug prices.
The UCLA study indicates the tainted drugs found in Mexican pharmacies are escalating overdose death rates in the U.S., but it is hard to pinpoint the exact number of overdose deaths, as Mexico reports these deaths differently.
Because many of Mexico’s toxicology screenings don’t test for fentanyl, the cause of death may often be classified under a different medical issue.
“While more than 91,000 people died of overdoses in the U.S. in 2020, Mexico reported just 1,700 fatalities that year from all drugs, including alcohol,” the Los Angeles Times wrote. “Fewer than two dozen of those, according to the data, were from opioids, compared with more than 68,000 opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. that year.”
Dr. Raul Placios, a drug counselor on the Mexico side of the border, believes some of the drugs could have tested positive for meth because they contain the same active ingredient.
Another LA Times investigation says the State Department has been aware of the fake pharmaceuticals problem since 2019, but has failed to issue a warning.
While there are warnings about traveling to Mexico due to the cartel violence, two U.S. Democratic lawmakers have asked the State Department to issue better travel warnings to include warnings about counterfeit medication.
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2023-03-16T17:06:28+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/mexican-pharmacies-selling-fentanyl-and-meth-laced-pills-study-finds/
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In recent weeks, supporters of abortion rights have been reeling from the Supreme Court's decision to revoke constitutional protection for reproductive choice. Some are mounting a political movement for Congress to codify a federal right for abortion. Meanwhile, those on the ground, providing and funding abortion services, now have to navigate a murky legal landscape, which makes their work much more difficult in a vast swath of America.
With 13 states in the process of outlawing or limiting abortion through laws automatically triggered by the court's decision, and 13 more states likely to pass restrictions in coming weeks and months, defenders of reproductive rights now face the fight of their lives. And for abortion providers and funders, the next round of this fight is about more than politics and law. It's become increasingly about money and logistics: providing women in states that restrict abortions the option — and the resources — to travel to states where abortion is legal and accessible.
A long list of major corporations — including Amazon, Tesla, Nike, Google, Starbucks, Disney, and Dick's Sporting Goods — have announced that they will cover travel expenses for employees seeking abortions. Some commentators, like NPR's own Gene Demby, are asking about the fine print of these policy announcements. Who, he asks, are considered "employees"? Doordash, for example, has said it will cover abortion travel expenses for its employees, but most of the people who work for the food delivery service are actually independent contractors who will not be getting this medical benefit.
The reality is the population most hurt by the overturning of Roe v. Wade is impoverished women in red states, not well-paid employees of Fortune 500 companies. They are more likely to be people of color and live in rural areas (other groups of women and people who don't identify as women will, of course, also be affected). And many lack the means or ability to travel to a faraway place and obtain a relatively expensive procedure. According to Planned Parenthood, an abortion can cost "up to $750 in the first trimester, and up to $1,500 later in the pregnancy" — and that doesn't include additional costs like gas or a plane ticket or lodging or the need to take time off from work or providing childcare.
Even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe in the recent case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, many across the country struggled to pay for and access abortion care. Some lacked healthcare coverage. Others had healthcare coverage but their insurance didn't cover the procedure. Still others lived in "abortion deserts," which required making a costly journey to end a pregnancy.
Research finds that women who seek abortions but are unable to get them tend to suffer from a host of social, psychological, medical, and economic problems. One study, by scholars at UC San Francisco, finds that "Women denied a wanted abortion who have to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term have four times greater odds of living below the Federal Poverty Level."
To improve abortion access, a bunch of local and national organizations known as "abortion funds" have formed over the years to help people pay for the procedure. In post-Roe America, money is now even more determinative of who can get an abortion and who can't, and abortion funds are emerging as an even more crucial mechanism to provide poor women in red states the opportunity to access care if they want or need it.
Abortion Funds
Founded in 1991, the Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP) is "the largest national, independent, nonprofit abortion fund." It provides financial assistance to people seeking abortions or emergency contraception through a network of 700 clinics and doctors spanning the country.
In 2021, WRRAP spent $538,301 to assist 2,565 patients in getting abortions or emergency contraception. Nearly 60 percent were unemployed. 20 percent were students. And 24 percent had to travel out of state to get an abortion.
Sylvia Ghazarian, the executive director of WRRAP, says that even before the Dobbs decision, her organization was seeing a surge in the number of patients forced to travel out of state to get abortion care. Clinics that provide abortions have been shutting down, due to restrictive laws and economic difficulties. The clinics that remain have found themselves swamped with growing backlogs. These delays have medical and financial consequences. Every week a patient has to postpone the procedure, Ghazarian says, "the cost of an abortion goes up."
WRRAP, like many other abortion funds, only funds abortion services and emergency contraceptives, not travel costs. Recognizing that travel costs present a growing barrier to accessing abortion care, a number of "practical support" organizations have popped up in recent years, including The Brigid Alliance.
The Brigid Alliance was launched in 2018, and it serves clients who must travel an average of 1000 miles to get an abortion. They cover costs like gas, plane tickets, childcare, and food. They also provide virtual support to clients to help them along their journey.
Since their founding, The Brigid Alliance has seen an explosion in demand for their services. Last year, Texas passed Senate Bill 8, which severely restricted abortion access. As a result of the law, Texans have been flooding clinics in neighboring states, contributing to much longer wait times and skyrocketing travel costs for those who want abortions. The Brigid Alliance saw a 900% increase in demand for financial assistance, says Odile Schalit, the organization's executive director.
Now, with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, "We are expecting an even more significant surge," Schalit says. The Brigid Alliance, like other organizations, has benefited from a groundswell of charitable donations since the Dobbs decision was leaked and then published. But, she says, "Does the organization have enough money to be able to deal with that need? Quite frankly, no, we don't. And that is one of the most painful parts of doing this work right now." She adds that inflation, particularly surging gas prices, is making the cost of travel an even bigger barrier to abortion access.
WRRAP and The Brigid Alliance are both members of the National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF), an umbrella group for over 90 abortion funds that seeks "to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access." Lindsay Rodriguez, NNAF's communications director, says that between July 2020 and July 2021, the funds across their network answered 80,000 calls and dispersed more than $11 million. While they are helping more and more people every year, she says, abortion funds are also underfunded. They are typically only able to fund "a quarter to a third" of the people who request their financial assistance.
While NNAF has raised millions since the leak of the Dobbs decision, Rodriguez anticipates that ongoing demand for financial assistance will continue to surge, dwarfing their available funds. "Basically every time you see an abortion restriction in a state, that's an added price tag for each abortion," she says. This added price tag now includes much more travel from red states to blue states.
Beyond money, there is a growing capacity problem. Blue states are declaring themselves abortion "sanctuary states," but there are increasing worries that clinics that provide abortions in these places will be overwhelmed with a swell of demand from residents traveling from red states.
"Abortion providers in blue states are doing whatever they can to hire more abortion providers, to expand their clinics, and start new clinics," Schalit says. "But we will need more abortion providers."
In this post-Roe world, funding interstate abortion travel and building up an abortion infrastructure in blue states to facilitate it is "going to be one of the critical ways that we support abortion access," Schalit says. "Now without the protections of Roe and the number of bans that have been triggered by the Supreme Court decision, interstate travel is more necessary than ever."
A Minefield For Abortion Funds
It won't be easy for abortion funds to muster the significant resources that are needed to ensure access to abortion care for low-income folks in red states. And even if they do raise the money to bankroll interstate abortion travel and care for those who can't afford it, lawmakers might still torpedo their efforts.
"States that are hostile to abortion rights have clearly signaled that they are not going to be satisfied by simply outlawing abortion within their own borders," says Elisabeth Smith, the director of state policy and advocacy for the Center For Reproductive Rights. "They want to see a national abortion ban."
It's worth noting that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh issued a separate, concurring opinion in Dobbs that is relevant here. While he agreed with the majority in holding that there is no constitutional right to an abortion, he wrote he does see "the constitutional right to interstate travel." Kavanaugh explicitly wrote that he believes a state cannot bar residents from traveling to another state in order to obtain an abortion.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland recently issued a statement making the same point. "We recognize that traveling to obtain reproductive care may not be feasible in many circumstances," Garland wrote. "But under bedrock constitutional principles, women who reside in states that have banned access to comprehensive reproductive care must remain free to seek that care in states where it is legal."
Even if companies or abortion funds provide the money to enable people to cross state lines for abortion access, however, legal questions remain open. "States may not be able to stop people from traveling, but what happens when someone comes home?" Smith says. What happens to out-of-state clinics that provide care to residents from states where abortion is outlawed? What happens to a company or abortion fund that helps a resident of a red state get an abortion in a blue state?
In a recent op-ed in The Washington Post, Stephen L. Carter, a professor at Yale Law School, writes that he agrees with Kavanaugh that states cannot legally bar their residents from obtaining abortions in other states. However, he adds, "if the travel is paid for by an in-state actor" — like a local employer or abortion fund — "the case might come out differently."
State leaders are already signaling that they want to clamp down on funding that helps their residents obtain out-of-state abortions. In May, after Citigroup announced it would fund interstate abortion travel, a Texas legislator threatened to introduce legislation financially penalizing Citigroup and any other company that has such a policy. And the threats aren't just financial. With the constitutional right to an abortion gone, some leaders in states that restrict abortions might try to make it a crime to help state residents obtain abortions within or outside their state.
"We have not yet seen new criminal laws that would purport to prohibit travel to a state where abortion is available," Smith says. "But we know that states are gonna wanna chill that activity, and they're going to try and do that through a variety of means."
Will federal courts allow states to prohibit companies or abortion funds from aiding interstate abortion travel? We don't really know. Smith says the First Amendment clearly protects speech, so abortion providers and funds should be able provide information to residents of states where abortion is banned. But, she says, "making someone an appointment, funding that appointment and driving them there, that clearly goes beyond just providing information." Because we haven't seen prosecutions yet, Smith says, "it's really hard to fully pinpoint what the risk is."
All of the abortion funds we spoke to expressed concerns about the legal minefield that has been opened up by Dobbs. "There's no question that we and our clients are operating and traveling in a heightened state of fear and concern," Schalit says.
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2022-07-05T11:36:34+00:00
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An ambulance brings two crash victims to the Vanderbilt Life Flight helicopter Thursday morning in an open field in the Center Hill community. [KEVIN TAYLOR/TIMESDAILY]
GREENHILL — A 1-year-old died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center almost 24 hours after the head-on collision which killed his grandmother on Alabama 64 Thursday morning.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) confirmed the baby had passed away around 8:55 a.m. Friday at the hospital. He was one of five grandchildren in the Honda Pilot, which was driven by his grandmother Emma Wade, 63, of Lexington.
All five children were flown to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for treatment.
"His smile could light up a room," his mother wrote on her social media page. "He gave the sweetest hugs and wouldn’t even mind cuddling up with a stranger. He drank every bottle or ate every bite you fed him. He was amazing and extraordinary and I don’t know how to learn to live the rest of my life without that perfect baby in it. The onlyconsolation I have for myself is that he is reuniting with his Nana in heaven - and boy did he love her."
Wade was pronounced dead at the scene by Lauderdale County Coroner Kim Jones following the head-on collision around 9:25 a.m. Thursday.
The Lauderdale County School system asked students, faculty and staff to wear grey Monday when they return to school in honor of the two who died in the collision.
"The Lauderdale County School System considers each student a member of our family," it wrote on a social media page. "When our family experiences tragedy and heartbreak, we want to lean in and support those family members. ... We will be taking up monetary donations on Monday and Tuesday. These donations will be taken up countywide at each school and given directly to the families."
The 55-year-old driver of the truck was transported to North Alabama Medical Center in Florence for treatment.
Troopers within the Patrol Division continue to investigate the crash.
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2023-04-01T16:08:52+00:00
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2022-08-14T04:06:08+00:00
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Catcher Gary Sánchez is getting another chance to restart his baseball career, agreeing Tuesday to a minor league contract with the New York Mets following his release by the San Francisco Giants.
New York assigned him to Triple-A Syracuse.
Unsigned during the offseason, the 30-year-old Sánchez agreed to a minor league contract with the Giants on April 1, a deal that called for a $4 million salary if he was added to the 40-man roster. Sánchez was assigned to Triple-A Sacramento and hit .164 (9 for 55) with no homers, eight RBIs, one double, 11 walks and 19 strikeouts in 55 at-bats. He had a May 1 opt-out provision and was released the following day.
Sánchez made the All-Star Game twice during a seven-year stint with the Yankees. He hit .299 with 20 homers in 2016 and .278 with 33 homers and 90 RBIs in 2017.
He batted .186 in 2018 and just .147 in 49 games in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. He improved in 2021 to .204 with 23 homers and 54 RBIs.
New York traded Sánchez to Minnesota in March 2022 with Gio Urshela for Josh Donaldson, Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Ben Rortvedt. Sánchez hit .205 with 16 homers and 61 RBIs in 128 games for Minnesota last year while making 80 starts at catcher.
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2023-05-09T18:02:41+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/gary-s-nchez-working-toward-minor-league-18088684.php
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Morehead State wins 62-55 against Bellarmine
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — Led by Jake Wolfe’s 14 points, the Morehead State Eagles defeated the Bellarmine Knights 62-55. The Eagles moved to 2-1 with the win and the Knights dropped to 1-1.
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — Led by Jake Wolfe’s 14 points, the Morehead State Eagles defeated the Bellarmine Knights 62-55. The Eagles moved to 2-1 with the win and the Knights dropped to 1-1.
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2022-11-13T07:49:29+00:00
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Iconic brands collaborate on apparel and dessert collection inspired by holiday treats to create a feel-good experience for fans
BOWLING GREEN, Ky., Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fruit of the Loom®, the iconic apparel brand has joined forces with beloved New York-based dessert company Milk Bar to release an exclusive apparel and dessert collection just in time for the holidays.
The collection is inspired by iconic seasonal treats, and comes in two curated sets, available for presale exclusively on MilkBarStore.com beginning November 17, 10 a.m. EST for delivery starting December 11, and in select Milk Bar locations nationwide. Blending the best of both brands, the thoughtfully designed line combines desserts with apparel available in sizes S-XXL, with pricing ranging from $80-$85.
"As we write the next chapters for Fruit of the Loom's story, showing up for our fans in unexpected ways that ignite those feel-good moments is what matters the most to us," said Angela Dennison, Vice President of Fruit of the Loom Marketing and Merchandising. "What you wear and eat have the unique power to brighten your day, and this collection puts a delicious twist on a couple of our go-to pieces, allowing our fans to experience both brands in a fun way."
The limited-edition Fruit of the Loom x Milk Bar collection is thoughtfully designed to create a feel-good experience from the moment you put on the one-of-a-kind sweatshirts and take a bite of the custom-designed sweets.
- Showcases the Fruit of the Loom Eversoft® Fleece Pullover Hoodie with a unique, limited-edition red tie-dye design. The hoodie is made with Eversoft® ring-spun fabric to ensure premium softness, wash after wash, and wicks away moisture to keep you feeling comfortable and looking great all day.
- The style and comfort of the hoodie pairs perfectly with Milk Bar's Peppermint Tie-Dye Pie – a winter classic flavor combination with a creamy, dreamy Milk Bar spin. A deep chocolate crust is topped with layers of thick vanilla and cocoa caramel, a blanket of fluffy candy cane nougat and topped with a drizzle of chocolate and holiday pretzels.
- Heavily inspired by Milk Bar's Star Burst Cookie and bringing the same premium softness and style, Fruit of the Loom's limited-edition Eversoft® Fleece Crew Sweatshirt sprinkled with black and red starbursts complements Milk Bar's classic holiday cut out cookie with more seasonal flavor and fun.
- The extra-large toasted almond cookie cake comes complete with a spiced cookie crunch base with a deep pocket of seasonal raspberry jam. A peek-a-boo starburst is cut out on the top layer and sprinkled with a generous dusting of powdered sugar.
"A classic hoodie is a lot like a perfect bite of dessert. Its very ease, its cool, seemingly effortless simplicity can rock my confidence and my mood right off the charts," said Milk Bar founder and celebrity chef Christina Tosi. "From soft crewnecks as a kid to the timeless white tees that line my closet today, Fruit of the Loom has been there for so many of my feel-good moments. And now we are bringing the power of dessert and comfort together just in time for the cozy holiday season. I, for one, can't wait to dig in."
For more details on the collaboration, visit Fruit.com. Follow both Fruit of the Loom and Milk Bar to get the latest news about future product drops: @FruitOfTheLoom @milkbarstore
At Fruit of the Loom, we've been crafting apparel you can count on for over 170 years. Whether it's sweats, underwear, or anything in between, we work hard ensuring our unique blend of fresh style, quality and comfort is woven into each one of our many pieces of clothing so that you look good and feel good every day. To learn more about Fruit of the Loom, visit Fruit.com.
Milk Bar is a dessert shop that's been turning familiar treats upside down since 2008. Founded by James Beard Award-winning pastry chef Christina Tosi, Milk Bar first opened its doors in NYC's East Village, and has developed a loyal fanbase in the decade since. Named one of the most innovative companies in the world by Fast Company in 2022, Milk Bar is currently available across 12 bakery locations in NYC, LA, Boston, Washington DC and Las Vegas, ships treats nationwide through an eCommerce care package platform, and most recently launched a line of grocery products, available nationwide in major retailers such as Whole Foods and Target. Milk Bar is also available on demand in various cities across the country in partnership with delivery providers such as DoorDash. For more information, visit milkbarstore.com
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2022-11-16T16:55:05+00:00
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BASIS Charter Schools now has 12 Texas campuses, and in addition to this new #1 District rating, BASIS San Antonio – Shavano was recently ranked as the #1 charter school in Texas by U.S. News & World Report.
AUSTIN, BENBROOK, and SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BASIS Texas Charter Schools is the #1 school district in Texas, according to the Texas Education Agency's 2022 academic accountability ratings.
BASIS Texas Charter Schools' overall score of 99 places the district in a tie for first place with three other school districts statewide. BASIS Texas Charter Schools has been near the top of the TEA's academic accountability ratings in previous years, but 2022 is the first year it has earned the #1 spot.
"The start of the school year is a fitting time to receive this well-deserved news," said Peter Bezanson, CEO of BASIS.ed Texas. "We have five new campuses, and this #1 district rating is a beacon for our new students and families there! Indeed, it's a call to families near all twelve of our Texas schools to check out the state's top district. Some of our campuses still have a few seats available!"
Interested students and families can still apply for the current school year at enrollbasistx.com.
"This is an incredible achievement for our students and schools, as well as our teachers," said Andrew Freeman, the Executive Director of BASIS Texas Charter Schools. "We are growing quickly here in Texas, including two new campuses Austin-area campuses in Cedar Park in fall, 2023. This #1 District rating shows exactly who we strive to be – and who we already are!"
There were seven BASIS campuses operating in Texas in the 2021-22 school year, on which the TEA's accountability ratings are based. This year, there are 12 BASIS Charter Schools in Texas, including seven in the San Antonio area, four in the Austin area, and one in the Ft. Worth area. The same K-12 curriculum is taught at all 37 BASIS Charter Schools in the United States. This is the 25th school year in the network's history, and its tenth school year in Texas.
Each year, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) provides academic accountability ratings to its public school districts statewide. To create the ratings, the TEA writes on its website that it considers student "performance on state-level standardized tests, graduation rates, and college, career, and military readiness outcomes." The TEA assesses "student achievement, school progress, and whether districts and campuses are closing achievement gaps among various student groups" to create a rating for each campus and district.
To see the TEA accountability ratings and data, please visit txschools.gov or click here.
About BASIS Charter Schools
The BASIS Charter Schools network is among the best in the United States, whether assessed by national rankings across myriad publications, OECD/PISA scores, AP Exam scores, college admissions, merit aid earned, or any other measure. Our passionate and knowledgeable Subject Expert Teachers serve students in kindergarten through grade 12 using the STEM-inspired, liberal arts-focused BASIS Charter School Curriculum. Our acclaimed program—founded in 1998 and cultivating excellence every school year since—educates students at the highest international levels, preparing them to be participants, not spectators, in the 21st century global workforce. Starting in fall 2022, the BASIS Charter Schools network will celebrate its 25th academic year of serving students, and will do so at 37 public charter school campuses serving more than 22,000 students in Arizona, Louisiana, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
For more information, please visit basisedtx.com, enrollBASIStx.com, basised.com, or basisschools.org.
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2022-08-31T21:19:47+00:00
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kxii.com
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In 2021 GID Investment Vehicle Achieved 1st Place as Regional Sector Leader in GRESB Benchmark
BOSTON, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GID, a real estate owner and fiduciary that invests in multiple asset classes, is proud to announce the release of its 2021 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report. The report offers comprehensive insight on GID's ESG initiatives and tracks and evaluates its yearly performance.
"At GID, we believe that in order to be a great company, we must first strive to do good," says Philip Carmody, Head of ESG and Corporate Programs at GID. "This year, we made great strides toward our program goals - we expanded our DEI program offerings, implemented numerous environmental initiatives, and engaged our residents and associates through charitable activities in their local communities. The principles of ESG are integral to our corporate mission and we are steadfast in our commitment to make a positive impact on the communities in which we live and work."
In 2021, for the second consecutive year, a GID investment vehicle achieved recognition as Residential Americas Regional Sector Leader, earning 1st place in the 2021 GRESB Real Estate Benchmark in the U.S. Residential, Multifamily Core Non-Listed Category for the second consecutive year. In addition, a second investment vehicle managed by GID in the same asset class has earned a top ten ranking in its first reporting year.
The report also includes other key highlights that showcase a year of successful ESG benchmarks:
- GID's leadership team developed language for its employee values and traits and strengthened its core values, resulting in new values that describe the company culture: Accountable, Inclusive, Energizing, and Courageous.
- Earning 65 certifications across 49 properties, including 17 Energy Star certifications and 13 LEED certifications.
- Making substantial progress towards its 2027 environmental targets in all four impact areas, with a 10% reduction from the 2017 baseline in energy use, a 7% reduction in emissions, a 4% reduction in water usage, and a 27.6% waste diversion rate.
- Rolling out seven key Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives through the DEI Committee, chaired by the company's CEO, Greg Bates, to help integrate DEI in all facets of the organization.
- Improved recycling programs at 98% of these properties, with waste data coverage of 83%, and completed lighting retrofit projects at 15 communities resulting in projected annual savings of nearly 1,540,000 kWh, or $212,300 in energy costs.
- Raised over $77,000 for various charities through its community engagement programs.
To view the entire 2021 Annual ESG Report, visit www.gid.com/esg/reporting.
GID's 2021 GRESB Ranking was awarded on October 1, 2021 by The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) and is based on CY 2020 performance. GID is a Participating Member of GRESB. Fees paid as a Participating Member totaled USD$4,800.
GID is a privately held, vertically-integrated real estate company that owns and operates a portfolio of multifamily and industrial assets, as well as develops mixed-use projects. With corporate offices in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, New York City, and San Francisco, GID is an experienced real estate private equity investor and manager supported by an integrated operating platform and has 60+ years of experience across multiple asset classes. GID's existing and under-development properties are valued at over $28.5 billion as of June 30, 2022.
The current portfolio includes over 48,000 residential units, more than 21 million square feet of industrial space, and one million square feet of retail and office space. More information is available at www.gid.com.
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2022-10-24T14:56:19+00:00
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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Boy Scouts have released that the organization is planning on selling a popular Scout campground in Central Virginia.
The Boy Scouts of America sent out a release Thursday, stating the organization has decided to sell Albright Property in Chesterfield County.
“The Heart of Virginia Council abhors the acts of abuse from decades ago that have made Scouts victims and we have zero tolerance for people who abuse children,” the Boy Scouts said in the release. “Therefore, we are fully committed to supporting the victim’s trust fund. This past year, we have reviewed all resources available to make this payment that will allow us to save Scouting while continuing to serve families in Central Virginia.”
The Scouts said the decision to sell the Albright Property allows the organization, “to fund the trust and continue to ensure that the Scouting program is available for families moving forward. The Heart of Virginia Scout Reservation with Cub Adventure Camp and Camp T. Brady Saunders will continue to be available for our Scouts and Scouters to use for all the outdoor adventure needs.”
“Starting immediately, all day use and camping fees will be waived. Facility rental fees, such as for the Cahoon Center and pavilions, will still apply. Existing reservations will be reimbursed. The final weekend of available camping will be August 19th – 21st,” the release stated.
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2022-05-21T03:59:46+00:00
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wric.com
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https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/chesterfield-county/boy-scouts-decide-to-sell-chesterfield-campground-to-support-scout-victims-trust-fund/
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — When Raevahnna Richardson spotted a woman standing outside a library in Salem, Oregon, gathering signatures for a gun-safety initiative, she made a beeline to her and added her name.
“I signed it to keep our kids safe, because something needs to change. I have a kid that’s going to be in first grade this upcoming season, and I don’t want her to have to be scared at school,” Richardson said.
“To keep our kids safe.” It’s something so many parents across the United States are worried about after the horrific massacre of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. That mass shooting has given the Oregon ballot initiative huge momentum, with the number of volunteers doubling to 1,200 and signatures increasing exponentially, organizers said.
With the U.S. Senate unlikely to pass a “red flag” bill and the majority of state legislatures having taken no action on gun safety in recent years, or moving in the opposite direction, activists see voter-driven initiatives as a viable alternative.
“To get really strong action at this moment in time, it’s going to take people in a democracy to exercise that democratic right to get on the ballot and get it voted for,” said the Rev. Mark Knutson, a chief petitioner of the Oregon initiative.
Oregon appears to be the only state in America with a gun safety initiative underway for the 2022 election, according to Sean Holihan, state legislative director for Giffords, an organization dedicated to saving lives from gun violence.
If the initiative gets on the ballot and it passes, anyone wanting to acquire a firearm would first have to get a permit, valid for five years, from local law enforcement after completing safety training, passing a criminal background check and meeting other requirements. The measure would ban ammunition magazines over 10 rounds, except for current owners, law enforcement and the military, and the state police would create a firearms database.
The age range of those gathering signatures from registered voters runs from middle-schoolers to a 94-year-old, Knutson said. Volunteers are ensconced in a room at Augustana Lutheran Church in Portland, sorting through baskets of envelopes containing mailed-in signatures.
The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action has already come out strongly against the initiative, saying on its website that “these anti-gun citizens are coming after YOU, the law-abiding firearm owners of Oregon, and YOUR guns. They don’t care about the Constitution, your right to keep and bear arms, or your God-given right of self-defense.”
Knutson says the effort in Oregon “can start to build hope across the nation for others to do the same.”
Voters in two predominantly Democratic neighboring states have already passed gun safety ballot measures.
In 2018, Washington state voters approved restrictions on the purchase and ownership of firearms, including raising the minimum purchasing age to 21, adding background checks and increasing waiting periods. In 2016, voters there overwhelmingly approved a measure authorizing courts to issue extreme risk protection orders to remove an individual’s access to firearms.
California voters in 2016 passed a measure prohibiting the possession of large-capacity ammunition magazines and requiring certain individuals to pass a background check to buy ammunition.
The same year, voters in Maine narrowly defeated a proposal to require background checks before a gun sale.
Daniel Webster, co-director of the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at Johns Hopkins University, said ballot initiatives “are a great way to advance gun policies that are popular.”
“But I honestly don’t know how much one state’s ballot initiative affects the likelihood of other states taking action,” he added.
The Oregon initiative needs to deliver at least 112,080 registered voters’ signatures — verified by the secretary of state’s office — by July 8 to get on the ballot, Knutson said. By this week, more than 52,000 signatures were received by the campaign. Knutson is already planning to have teenagers travel to the secretary of state’s office in Salem aboard school buses to deliver boxes of sheets of signatures.
Meanwhile, pro-gun activists are also using ballot initiatives to protect what they see as their Second Amendment rights.
In 2020, Montana voters narrowly approved a ballot measure to remove local governments’ authority to regulate the carrying of permitted concealed weapons and to limit their authority to regulate the carrying of unconcealed weapons.
Voters in Iowa this November will decide whether to add gun rights language to their state constitution, after majority Republicans in the Legislature passed a resolution last year that got it onto the ballot, with no signature-gathering required.
Opponents said if the Iowa measure passes, courts might wind up striking down restrictions on gun background checks, permits required to carry a gun, and a ban on gun possession by people convicted of a felony.
An initiative in Nebraska, one of several there this year, would allow concealed or open-carry weapons to be carried in public places. And in Washington state, an initiative would prohibit state and local governments imposing limits on purchasing and owning firearms.
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2022-06-11T00:44:14+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/texas-massacre-spurs-oregon-gun-safety-ballot-initiative/
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Kylee Ferranto and Isabella Ferrante might not actually have telepathy, but they play as if they do.
The two friends have played lacrosse together since fourth grade and have become an integral part of a young Haddon Heights program looking to take a big step this season nearly seven years later.
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2023-05-18T03:42:31+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2023/05/girls-lacrosse-ferrante-ferranto-continue-leading-their-team-to-new-heights.html
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A woman previously reported missing was found during a traffic stop where the male driver fled the scene in Berks County, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
On Friday, police stopped a maroon 2021 Ram 1500 for traffic violations at 11:55 p.m. on Pottsville Pike near Logistics Drive in Perry Township.
During the roadside investigation, troopers say a 34-year-old female passenger discreetly warned them there was criminal activity and was removed from the truck.
Police said the male driver, who was believed to be in his late 40s, gave them a false ID and fled the scene. He was last seen traveling on Birch Hill Road, police say.
Troopers discovered the female passenger had been reported missing from the Scranton area and was being held against her will.
Crews say this is an active investigation and anyone with information should call Tropper Reiter at (610) 562-6885.
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2023-02-12T23:38:14+00:00
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — For many in Africa, Morocco’s underdog performance is the best story in the World Cup so far, with the hopes of the continent soaring ahead of the match on Saturday against Portugal.
Across the continent of more than 1.3 billion people, African fans are excited that Morocco has become the fourth team from an African country to ever qualify for the World Cup quarterfinals, and the first in a dozen years.
Morocco’s advance also has cast rays of hope for other teams on the continent, with some like South Sudan Football Association president Augustino Maduot Parek saying African teams can be World Cup champions.
“Morocco is our pride,” Maduot told The Associated Press, adding that he believes the team will beat Portugal and become the first African team ever to qualify for the semifinals.
Cameroon (in 1990), Senegal (2002) and Ghana (2010) are the only African teams to have made the quarterfinals of a World Cup. No African team has gone any further.
Many Africans say they will be glued to their screens on Saturday.
The match will attract an unlikely Zimbabwean fan, 34-year-old Marvellous Mutohwo, who lives in the capital, Harare, and hasn’t watched football in years.
Watching World Cup matches played at night in Zimbabwe takes effort and guts for women. Crippling electricity outages mean the only places to watch matches in poor townships such as Mutohwo’s home of Mbare are bars that are often packed with male drinkers who view women patrons as sexual objects.
To counter the potential harassment, Mutohwo and her friends plan to bunch together and watch the match as a team.
“It is less risky if we go as a group,” she said while plaiting her friend’s hair. “At least I will have something to say when people discuss football, because football is what everyone is talking about these days. There is so much excitement that an African team is making it big in Qatar, I can’t miss it!”
In Somalia, where most people consider themselves Arabs, the enthusiastic support for Morocco has led a young man to abandon his longtime backing of Portugal in the quarterfinals.
Hussein Idow Ali, 23, said he will “support Morocco as an African country and our Arab and Muslim brothers, and I wish for them to bring a World Cup trophy to Rabat, but if they lose, I might return to Portugal, which I don’t wish to happen.”
Abdullahi Hassan Suleyman, a football commentator and journalist based in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, said Morocco’s performance has been unexpected.
“Morocco is a solid team, but nobody expected it could win against Belgium or Spain,” he said. He said he believes that the World Cup national teams didn’t have enough time to prepare themselves, so it’s “no surprise” if Morocco pulls off another upset against Portugal, but he puts Morocco’s chances at winning the World Cup outright at just 5%.
In Morocco, the euphoria over the team has even swept up foreigners living there.
A student from Gambia, Fattoumata Jarbi, described the atmosphere after Morocco won the match against Spain on Tuesday.
“I had my Moroccan hat with me, I was screaming and jumping in my room when I knew they qualified to the quarterfinals,” Jarbi said.
A Liberian student, Sidiki Sanoe, said the win sent a strong message to the world.
“What we as Africans are trying to accomplish is far beyond just football,” he said. “We are trying to tell the world that Africans have talents. We are very talented, we can go for better things and we can achieve.”
Morocco’s coach, Walid Regragui, is another source of pride as a local coaching the national team. All Africans teams in the World Cup this year have had local coaches, a departure from the past when most teams had European coaches.
Regragui is the first African coach to ever lead a team to qualify for the World Cup quarterfinals.
In Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, Caroline Muthoni said Morocco’s win over Spain felt very comforting, citing both the team’s performance and its family touch.
“Morocco was the last hope for Africa. And did you see how the team celebrated with their mothers? There’s just something about that country, and now it’s in my bucket list,” she said while scrolling through photos of Achraf Hakimi, who scored Morocco’s final goal against Spain, and his mother.
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Machol reported from Juba, South Sudan. Associated Press journalists Farai Mutsaka in Harare, Zimbabwe; Omar Faruk in Mogadishu, Somalia; and Hassan Alaoui in Rabat, Morocco, contributed to this report.
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2022-12-10T14:49:14+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/news/world/ap-our-pride-morocco-keeps-africas-hope-alive-in-world-cup/
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(AP) — Authorities say they have ruled out a drug lab and explosive devices as the cause of last week’s deadly explosion at an underground residence and construction business in Texas.
San Antonio Fire Department officials said at a news conference Tuesday that they are still trying to determine what caused Friday’s explosion at K-Bar Services.
Witnesses who said they had been on the property prior to the explosion told officials that they could smell gas, and a propane tank on the property had been worked on recently. Four people died in the blast. Two of them were identified on Tuesday.
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2022-12-14T04:27:09+00:00
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kurv.com
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Florida blocks high school AP African American studies class
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has blocked a new Advanced Placement course on African American studies from being taught in high schools, saying it violates state law and is historically inaccurate.
The state education department rejected the program in a letter last week to the College Board, which oversees AP classes.
Florida education officials did not specify exactly what content the state found objectionable but said, “As presented, the content of this course is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.”
“In the future, should College Board be willing to come back to the table with lawful, historically accurate content, (the education department) will always be willing to reopen the discussion,” the letter continued.
In a statement, the College Board said, “Like all new AP courses, AP African American Studies is undergoing a rigorous, multi-year pilot phase, collecting feedback from teachers, students, scholars and policymakers.”
“The process of piloting and revising course frameworks is a standard part of any new AP course, and frameworks often change significantly as a result,” the statement read.
The College Board website describes the course as interdisciplinary, touching on literature, arts, humanities, political science, geography and science. The pilot program is debuting at 60 schools across the country before it expands to additional schools. The organization has been working on constructing the course for more than a decade, according to its website.
DeSantis, a potential 2024 GOP presidential candidate, has opposed what he calls liberal ideologies in schools, including lessons around critical race theory, which examines systemic racism and has become a frequent target of conservatives.
Last year the governor signed legislation dubbed the Stop WOKE Act that restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in schools and businesses. The law bars instruction that says members of one race are inherently racist or should feel guilt for past actions committed by others of the same race, among other things.
More recently the governor’s budget office called on state colleges to submit spending information on programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory, raising concerns of potential funding cuts around such initiatives.
Sharon Courtney, a high school teacher in Peekskill, New York, teaching the African American studies course, said her students were “shocked” to learn Florida blocked the class. She described it as a factual African history course that also details what Africans experienced upon their arrival in North America.
“There’s nothing objectionable. It’s history that hasn’t been traditionally taught in the United States in a K through 12 setting,” she said, “but it’s also history that once known and understood could change race relations and improve them.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-01-20T13:14:28+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/2023/01/20/florida-blocks-high-school-ap-african-american-studies-class/
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CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly has been returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago ahead of his trial on child pornography and obstruction-of-justice charges, just two weeks after the disgraced R&B star was sentenced in New York to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking.
The 55-year-old Kelly was transferred Tuesday from the federal jail in Brooklyn to the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the Chicago Tribune reported. He was also held at the Chicago lockup after he was indicted on federal charges in Chicago and New York in 2019.
Jury selection for his federal trial in Chicago is set to begin Aug. 15.
Kelly was convicted in 2021 in New York on charges that he sexually abused young fans, including children, in a systematic scheme that prosecutors alleged went on for decades. He was sentenced in June.
Kelly has denied any wrongdoing.
Kelly was indicted in 2002 in Illinois state court on 21 counts of child pornography, but was acquitted six years later by a jury.
Federal prosecutors allege Kelly and two co-defendants fixed that state trial, saying Kelly arranged for a girl and her parents to travel overseas to prevent them from talking with police prior to his 2002 indictment and later instructed them to lie to a grand jury about the case.
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2022-07-14T02:40:27+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/entertainment-news/disgraced-rb-star-r-kelly-back-in-chicago-for-sex-trial/
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — When LeBron James was pulling up his dribble to float an alley-oop pass to Anthony Davis, or diving into the stands in an attempt to regain the ball for the Lakers, he appeared far more concerned with immediate team goals than making NBA history.
Yet, after nearly 40 minutes on the court, James couldn’t stop Los Angeles from losing ground in the standings, even as he gained on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s scoring mark.
James moved 36 points away from breaking the NBA career scoring record in the Lakers’ 131-126 loss to New Orleans on Saturday night that ended the Pelicans’ losing streak at 10 games.
“I just want to win,” James said. “You know, you play the game the right way and see what happens.”
James had 27 points to go with nine rebounds and six assists as he continued to close in on Abdul-Jabbar’s record total of 38,387 points.
“I’m tired as hell,” James said, but added, “I’ll be ready to go on Tuesday,” when the Lakers play next.
Brandon Ingram had his best game since returning 10 days earlier from a nearly two-month injury absence, scoring 35 points for the Pelicans on an array of drives and jumpers, sometimes in heavy traffic as he was fouled.
CJ McCollum had 23 points, highlighted by a late 3 to help New Orleans close out the final 3:14 on a 9-5 run that kept the Lakers at bay.
“We just continued to attack across the board,” said Pelicans coach Willie Green, whose team won for just the fourth time in 19 games. “Every guy on our team that touched the floor came in and played with force and played with confidence. That is what is going to take for us to get over the hump.”
Davis had 34 points and 14 rebounds for the Lakers. They led by 12 when James’ finger role made it 84-72 in the third quarter.
The Pelicans chipped away and closed the period with five quick points on McCollum’s transition floater and Jose Alvarado’s 3 after he caught a deflected inbound pass.
That sequence cut the Lakers’ advantage to 106-103, and New Orleans surged in front when Trey Murphy hit back-to-back 3s, the second from 27 feet, to make it 114-108.
The game remained tight thereafter, but the Pelicans didn’t allow Los Angeles to regain the lead.
Murphy finished with 21 points and Alvarado 18.
Jonas Valanciunas had 18 points and 14 rebounds for New Orleans but left late in the third quarter with a right knee injury and did not return.
Russell Westbrook scored 15 points but did not play during the final 11 minutes.
“Whatever decision they make, that’s up to them,” Westbrook said, brushing off questions about the possibility of being shipped out of Los Angeles before the Feb. 9 trade deadline. “I’ve been all in since Day 1. I’m very supportive of my teammates. I compete every night.
“Whatever decision that they make, I’ll make sure I’m very professional like I always have been and always will be,” Westbrook added.
James said trade deadline rumors should not distract the Lakers from what they need to do to win games.
“It shouldn’t be an issue. The trade deadline happens every single year,” James said. “You go out and focus, no matter what happens. You’re still a professional.”
And while James said he didn’t want to speak for the Lakers’ front office about possible trades, he didn’t quibble with the notion that Kyrie Irving, who has requested a trade and won a title with James in Cleveland, could help the Lakers.
“That’s a ‘duh’ question when talking about a player like that,” James said.
TIP-INS
Lakers: Went 2-3 during their five-game road trip that concluded in New Orleans and came in 12-16 on the road overall. … Davis was playing in his third straight game and for the fifth time in six games since missing 20 games with a right foot injury. He reached 20 points for the 26th time in 30 games played this season and 30 points for the 11th time. … Got 43 bench points including 13 from Troy Brown Jr. and 11 from Lonnie Walker.
Pelicans: Larry Nance Jr. had 10 points and nine rebounds. … Have given up at least 70 first-half points in two straight. … Shot 52% (52 of 100) for the game despite going 9 of 30 from deep, missing 11 straight 3s during the first half.
WARM WELCOME
Fans cheered James during introductions and when he scored, particularly after his end-to-end transition dunk in the third quarter. In the fourth, when James dove into the stands chasing the ball, fans patted him on the back supportively as he lay across them and helped him up.
UP NEXT
Lakers: Host Oklahoma City on Tuesday night.
Pelicans: Host Sacramento on Sunday night.
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2023-02-05T15:13:13+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/sports/ap-james-closes-in-on-nba-record-lakers-falls-to-pelicans/
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Santa’s house at the North Pole is now worth $1.15 million, Zillow says
With Christmas only days away, Santa is busy at the North Pole — and according to Zillow — his property is now worth a whopping $1.15 million.
According to the real estate marketplace company, Santa and Mrs. Claus first claimed their home on Zillow’s website in 2016, giving people around the world a glimpse into their enchanted lives.
The home, which sits on 25 acres, includes Santa’s main living quarters, a community of tiny elf homes, a state-of-the-art toy-making facility, a garage with space for an all-weather sleigh and stables for his reindeer.
Constructed in the 1800s, the 3-bed, 2-bath property is 2,500 square feet and is steeped in Old World charm, but thanks to a recent renovation, it also offers modern-day amenities.
Santa and Mrs. Claus first claimed their home on Zillow’s website in 2016, giving people around the world a glimpse into their enchanted lives. (Credit: Zillow)
The photos showcase a floor-to-ceiling river rock fireplace for roasting chestnuts in the living room. The gourmet kitchen also boasts an oven with 12 different cookie settings.
Santa's home was worth just over $650,000 when he first claimed it on Zillow six years ago. Now the home has appreciated enough to earn Santa a tidy return, and like many homeowners in the U.S., Santa is seeing a surge in his home's equity.
Photo of Santa's living room. (Credit: Zillow)
"The value of his house has increased 12% over the past year and nearly 77% over the past six years," the company shares. "Zillow first calculated a special Zestimate value for Santa's one-of-a-kind property using comparable homes in remote locations and applying a Santa premium."
Photo of Santa's kitchen. (Credit: Zillow)
The company says more than 3 million people have Zillow-surfed Santa's home, making it one of the most viewed homes on Zillow's website.
The elves live on-site in their own private accommodations. (Credit: Zillow)
"Santa gets a peek into millions of homes each year. Now, millions of Zillow surfers are getting a peek into one of the most famous homes in the world," said Amanda Pendleton, Zillow's home trends expert. "Touring Santa's house on Zillow has become a new, high-tech holiday tradition. The immersive virtual 3D Home tour of the Elf Village allows families to explore this corner of the North Pole from the comfort of their living room, preferably by the fire with a mug of hot cocoa."
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2022-12-22T15:45:36+00:00
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fox10phoenix.com
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https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/santas-house-at-the-north-pole-is-now-worth-1-15-million-zillow-says
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Chiefs’ backup QB announces retirement following Super Bowl win
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - Kansas City Chiefs backup quarterback Chad Henne announced his retirement after winning Super Bowl LVII.
Henne, 37, made the announcement in a post on Instagram that said, “Calling it a career. Capping it off with a Bud Light and another ring.”
“Every time you walk into the room, even though you want to be the starter, you’ve got to understand your role,” the backup quarterback told the Associated Press. “There’s only 32 starting quarterbacks in the league, and they’re pretty darn good.
“If you can be the next guy in line, that’s pretty good, too.”
Henne proved his worth in this year’s playoffs when Patrick Mahomes left the team’s AFC divisional round game against the Jaguars with an ankle injury in the second quarter.
Henne entered, completing 5 of 7 passes during a 98-yard touchdown drive. His final NFL pass was a touchdown to Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce for a win over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
“To come in a hostile game, backed up to your 2, go 98 yards — that just shows the type of competitor he is,” Kelce said.
Henne played 13 seasons in the NFL and was a starter at various points earlier in his career with the Miami Dolphins and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
He’s been the Chiefs backup for the past five seasons, starting once since 2014.
Copyright 2023 KCTV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2023-02-13T17:36:38+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/2023/02/13/chiefs-backup-qb-announces-retirement-following-super-bowl-win/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army fell about 15,000 soldiers — or 25% — short of its recruitment goal this year, officials confirmed Friday, despite a frantic effort to make up the widely expected gap in a year when all the military services struggled in a tight jobs market to find young people willing and fit to enlist.
While the Army was the only service that didn’t meet its target, all of the others had to dig deep into their pools of delayed entry applicants, which will put them behind as they begin the next recruiting year on Saturday.
The worsening problem stirs debate about whether America’s fighting force should be restructured or reduced in size if the services can’t recruit enough, and could also put added pressure on the National Guard and Reserve to help meet mission requirements.
According to officials, the Marine Corps, which usually goes into each fiscal year with as much as 50% of its recruiting goal already locked in, has only a bit more than 30%. And the Air Force and the Navy will only have about 10% of their goals as they start the new fiscal year. The Air Force usually has about 25%. Officials spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details on the recruiting totals that have not yet been released.
“In the Army’s most challenging recruiting year since the start of the all-volunteer force, we will only achieve 75% of our fiscal year 22 recruiting goal,” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said in a statement to The Associated Press. “The Army will maintain its readiness and meet all our national security requirements. If recruiting challenges persist, we will draw on the Guard and Reserve to augment active-duty forces, and may need to trim our force structure.”
Officials said the Army brought in about 45,000 soldiers during the fiscal year that ended Friday. The goal was 60,000.
The Air Force, meanwhile, was able to pull enough recruits from its delayed entry pool to exactly met its goal to bring in 26,151 recruits this year.
“Using Air Force lexicon, I would say we’re doing a dead stick landing as we come into the end of fiscal ’22, and we’re going to need to turn around on the first of October and do an afterburner takeoff,” Maj. Gen. Edward Thomas, head of the Air Force Recruiting Service, said at a conference last week. “We’re going to be starting 2023 in a tougher position than we started 2022.”
Military leaders used increased enlistment bonuses and other programs to try and build their numbers this year, but they say it’s getting more and more difficult to compete with private industry in the tight labor market. And as they look to the future, they worry that if the declining enlistment trends continue, the Pentagon may have to reassess its force requirements and find ways to make the military a more attractive profession to the eroding number of young Americans who can meet mental and physical requirements for service.
Early this year, military leaders were already braced for a bad recruiting season. The Army, for example, announced several months ago that it would have to adjust the expected size of its total force this year from 476,000 to about 466,000. The large recruiting shortfall was offset a bit by the Army’s ability to exceed its retention goal — keeping 104% of the targeted number of troops in the service.
The causes for the recruiting struggles are many and varied.
Two years of the pandemic shut off recruiters’ access to schools, public events, fairs and other youth organizations where they often find prospects. Moving to online recruiting — as in-person meetings closed down — was only marginally successful. And some of the in-person access has been slow to open up again.
At the same time, companies like McDonalds are now wooing workers with tuition benefits and other increased perks that for years made the military an attractive profession. Military leaders say that they are suffering from the same labor shortage that has restaurants, airlines, shops and other businesses desperately scraping for workers.
Exacerbating the problem is the fact that according to estimates, just 23% of young people can meet the military’s fitness, educational and moral requirements — with many disqualified for reasons ranging from medical issues to criminal records and tattoos.
“We remain committed to maintaining our standards, investing in America’s youth, and emphasizing quality over quantity,” Gen. James McConville, chief of staff of the Army said.
It’s unclear how much the debate over the COVID-19 vaccine is playing in the recruiting struggles. So far, the Army has discharged a bit more than 1,700 soldiers for refusing to take the mandated vaccine. That’s a tiny fraction of the overall force size.
At the same time, the patriotism that fueled the rush to military service in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks has dimmed. Some may look around and see no more wars and terrorists to fight so they look elsewhere. And others see lucrative hiring campaigns by private industry and know the salaries will be better than military pay, and they will be less likely to end up wounded or killed in those jobs.
The services are grappling with a number of new programs and other changes to beef up recruiting but face lingering questions about how best to convince young people that military life is a viable option for them.
During a recent Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the recruiting challenges, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., challenged the services to “think outside the box, creating new career paths, offering innovative pay and incentive structures, and realigning some capabilities from military to civilian workforces should all be on the table.”
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2022-10-01T20:59:40+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-us-army-misses-recruiting-goal-other-services-squeak-by/
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(WFLA) — Nearly two months after hurricane season ended, a non-tropical disturbance has popped up in the Atlantic.
The National Hurricane Center was tracking a low-pressure system centered in the northwest Atlantic Ocean Monday.
In a 10:05 a.m. weather outlook, the NHC said the non-tropical system was producing “storm-force winds” about 300 miles north of Bermuda.
Forecasters said that while the system appeared to be producing thunderstorms at its center, it is stuck in a cold air mass that can slow its development.
“It is uncommon this time of year to have a tropical system develop, but it does happen from time to time,” meteorologist Amanda Holly, with Nexstar’s WLFA, said. “This is a perfect situation where a non-tropical area of low pressure associated with a cold front moved into the Atlantic waters. The system is producing showers and storms like a tropical system would, and sometimes, these systems can gain tropical characteristics if they spend enough time over those warmer waters.”
However, the NHC said the system is heading northeast into colder waters, which makes it unlikely that it will develop into a subtropical or tropical cyclone. As of Monday morning, there was a zero percent chance of development.
“Even if it did, there would be no impacts to Florida, and the impacts over the open waters would remain the same: strong winds and high seas near the storm system,” Holly said. “The last time there was a January Atlantic storm was in 2016 when Hurricane Alex formed as it moved away from the Bahamas out into the open Atlantic.”
There are 136 days left before June 1, the beginning of hurricane season.
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2023-01-16T23:12:45+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/nhc-tracks-uncommon-january-disturbance-in-atlantic/
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LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection was inspired by the isolated and exotic plants and animals of the Galapagos Islands. Some religious groups don't accept that theory. In the final report on our series on the Galapagos Islands, NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reports that scientists and the faithful still find support for their points of view on these islands, arguments that go back to the 19th century.
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO reporting:
On June 30th, 1860, at the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford, there was a conference on the then-newly published book, "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection." The Anglican clergy had come out in full force to contest Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. As legend has it, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce took to the podium and ended his speech by archly asking one of Darwin's biggest supporters, Thomas Huxley, if it was his grandmother or his grandfather who was descended from an ape. In the famous riposte, Huxley is said in one version to have replied:
Unidentified Man: (As Thomas Huxley) If I had to choose between being descended from an ape or from a man who would use his great powers of rhetoric to crush an argument, I should prefer the former.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: At that, one lady fainted and had to be carried out of the room. The fight still continues today, and the Galapagos Islands, where Darwin took inspiration for his theory, is a place which both creationists and scientists find irresistible.
(Soundbite of people singing and clapping)
GARCIA-NAVARRO: A group of conservative Catholics sings at the Galapagos airport, welcoming a group of fellow Christians who've come for a spiritual retreat. If most visitors to these islands come to see the plants and animals that inspired Darwin's theory of evolution, others come here to see what they say is God's work. Norma Himbeau(ph) is part of the Catholic group.
Ms. NORMA HIMBEAU (Catholic): (Through Translator) We respect Darwin and his theory, but we believe that God is the only one to be able to create so many marvelous things. The Galapagos is one of the most beautiful places, just as God initially made it with all of its nature.
(Soundbite of chirping bird)
GARCIA-NAVARRO: The volcanic 13-island chain holds a host of amazing creatures, birds such as finches, blue- and red-footed boobies and petrels fly over dragonlike sea iguanas which scrabble on black lava rock. Giant tortoises that can weigh up to 300 pounds still roam free here. To see this natural wonderland, the California-based Institute for Creation Research offers a Galapagos Creation Tour, complete with its own guides. The brochure says visitors will get to hear the story of the development of Darwinian evolution by day and the creationist reinterpretation by night.
Dr. Kenneth Cumming is the academic dean of the institute's graduate school in Santee, California. He says the reason they offer the tour is simple.
Dr. KENNETH CUMMING (Institute for Creation Research): The Galapagos is of interest because Darwin put so much emphasis on the evolution of species in the Galapagos.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: There are many versions of creationist belief, but the strictest are creation scientists like Dr. Cumming who say that the Bible's first book, Genesis, is the word of God and thus infallibly true.
Dr. CUMMING: Our perspective at the institute is that somewhere recent in time, 10,000 years or less from the present, God went through a six-day period of creating all there is, and that ever since he's been sustaining it.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Orthodox Jews also believe in this literal interpretation and strict Muslims also hold that God created everything in its present form. According to a Gallup poll in 2001, 45 percent of Americans also hold this belief.
Professor DIEGO QUIROGA (Ecuadoran University of San Francisco): (Spanish spoken)
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Professor Diego Quiroga talks with a group of students at the Galapagos branch of the Ecuadoran University of San Francisco. Quiroga was the organizer for the first-ever Conference for Evolutionary Scientists(ph) in the Galapagos Islands, which took place in June. He says that having it in the Galapagos was important and a draw for scientists who came from Europe and the United States.
Prof. QUIROGA: It's like going back to the basics, going back to the place where Darwin first started to think about this whole theory. So we thought that the Galapagos is a world icon, where people can go and relate to the theory and go back, in a way, to its origin.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Quiroga says that among scientists there is no debate as to if evolution takes place, but how.
Prof. QUIROGA: Scientists, of course, have their own debates within the theory. I mean, within the paradigm scientists are debating whether evolution goes fast, whether it goes slow.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Ultimately, those who come to the islands have their own reasons and their own set of beliefs.
Mr. TEDDY de la TORRE(ph) (Taxi Driver): (Spanish spoken)
GARCIA-NAVARRO: On a sunny afternoon, 34-year-old Galapagano taxi driver Teddy del la Torre takes a visiting journalist to the airport, with his daughter at his side. When asked if he knows much about Darwin's theory of evolution, there's a long pause.
Mr. de la TORRE: (Spanish spoken)
GARCIA-NAVARRO: De la Torre may not be familiar with what Darwin had to say, but 141 years after the English naturalist published his revolutionary thoughts on how we came to be, what Darwin called the mystery of mysteries, both scientists and creationists flock to the Galapagos Islands he made famous. Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, NPR News.
WERTHEIMER: Read what some religious leaders are saying about evolution at npr.org.
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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2022-05-27T11:22:21+00:00
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nprillinois.org
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https://www.nprillinois.org/2005-08-10/galapagos-used-by-both-sides-of-evolution-debate
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Prince George’s County police detectives have obtained an arrest warrant for a Lewisdale man they say killed his wife over the weekend, officials said in a news release.
Detectives investigating the attack believe that Ernest Hayden killed his wife then fled their home, according to the news release. He is being held in the District and will be extradited to Prince George’s County, police said.
Clarence Williams and Magda Jean-Louis contributed to this report.
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2022-08-29T20:45:46+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/29/prince-georges-man-charged-with-murder-wifes-death-police-say/
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SCRANTON, Pa., June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Copperfield Chimney Supply ("Copperfield"), a subsidiary of Olympia Chimney Supply Holdings, LLC, today announced that it has acquired New Energy Distributing Inc. ("New Energy") a Midwest distributor serving retailers and contractors with high quality hearth products. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
"New Energy has built a solid reputation by offering high quality brands and providing excellent customer service. We see synergy with our product lines & service offerings," said Bryan Yourdon, CEO of Copperfield. "The combined offering will be a great benefit to Copperfield's new and existing customers."
New Energy Distributing, Inc was founded in 1978 and is dedicated to wood and gas fireplaces, stoves, and other hearth products. The company has grown to be a major supplier of hearth products to several hundred dealers, builders, and service providers throughout the Midwest. "Having New Energy become part of Copperfield is the right decision for our business. Copperfield will be a great partner for us and those we serve," said Rick Eudaley Founder & CEO of New Energy.
"With Copperfield's complimentary product lines and extensive resources, we are positioned to succeed like never before. I look forward to continuing our long-standing relationships of our customers and dealers while building new ones under Copperfield," said Doug Klosterman, Vice President of New Energy.
About Copperfield
Copperfield Chimney Supply, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Olympia Chimney Supply Holdings, LLC, is a leading national distributor serving contractors and retailers in the sales and service of hearth and chimney systems. Headquartered in Scranton, Pennsylvania, they have distribution centers located in Bridgeport, NJ; Cleveland, OH; and Reno, NV to service customers throughout the United States and Canada.
If you would like more information about this press release, please contact Kim Hamill at (570) 244-2733 or email at khammill@copperfield.com.
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2023-06-26T15:20:04+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2023/06/26/copperfield-chimney-supply-acquires-new-energy-distributing-better-serve-chimney-hearth-industry/
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TEMPE, Ariz. and PRAGUE, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Gen Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: GEN) today announced that its fiscal 2023 third quarter financial results will be released Thursday, February 2, 2023, after market close. Following the press release, Gen management will host a conference call and webcast at 2 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. ET.
Fiscal 2023 Q3 Earnings Call
February 2, 2023
2 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. ET
Conference call dial-in and live webcast link available on Investor.GenDigital.com
About Gen
Gen (NASDAQ: GEN) is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted Cyber Safety brands, Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, ReputationDefender and CCleaner. There's a new generation, and it's not Gen X, Y, or Z. It's Gen D: Generation Digital. Gen's family of consumer brands is rooted in providing safety for the first digital generations. Now, Gen empowers people to live their digital lives safely, privately, and confidently today and for generations to come. Gen brings award-winning products and services in cybersecurity, online privacy and identity protection to more than 500 million users in more than 150 countries. Learn more at GenDigital.com.
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2023-01-12T21:24:11+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2023/01/12/gen-announce-fiscal-2023-third-quarter-results-february-2-2023/
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In Iran, mass protests against rules forcing women to wear the hijab, the Islamic headscarf, have ended. But demonstrators are finding new ways to make their voices heard.
Copyright 2023 NPR
In Iran, mass protests against rules forcing women to wear the hijab, the Islamic headscarf, have ended. But demonstrators are finding new ways to make their voices heard.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-06-20T10:43:47+00:00
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mtpr.org
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https://www.mtpr.org/2023-06-20/public-protests-are-over-but-more-iranian-women-are-refusing-to-wear-the-hijab
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A San Jose man’s 100th birthday celebration went to the dogs Saturday. Literally!
Dr. Robert Moore’s family put out the word on the Nextdoor app, asking people to dress up their dogs and parade them in front of their house to help their dad celebrate the milestone.
The response was incredible.
Alison Moore told NBC Bay Area she was expecting about 20 to 30 dogs to show up for her dad’s party. Instead, she said that about 200 dogs and their owners came by to wish him a happy birthday.
In fact, there were so many dogs. The line stretched all the way around the block and down the street.
There were dogs in cowboy hats, tuxedos, pups with disabilities, pulling carts and canines in classic cars.
Robert is an avid dog lover and a retired dean from San Jose State University. He was positively elated to meet each dog and their owners.
“My father, he was so touched. He pet every single dog that came through. Every person brought the dog up to him. It was so lovely,” Alison said.
But it didn’t stop there. Even though most people didn’t know Robert, they brought him flowers, cupcakes and made him drawings and posters.
The Moore family said they were definitely touched by how the community came together to help their dad celebrate his 100th, a birthday he will never forget.
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2023-06-20T23:15:54+00:00
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pahomepage.com
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https://www.pahomepage.com/clear-the-shelters/california-man-celebrates-100th-birthday-with-dog-parade/
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Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in U.S. history, swamped southwest Florida on Sept. 28, turning streets into rivers, knocking out power to 2 million people and threatening catastrophic damage farther inland.
In the days before Ian made landfall, a social media post claiming a screenshot of a tweet allegedly posted by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in August 2019 was “real” went viral on Twitter. The tweet has garnered over 21,000 likes since it was shared on Sept. 26, 2022.
“I see people are rushing out to fill up their cars for this hurricane at the gas station. This wouldn’t be an issue if they had electric cars. If the power is out for a week how are they going to get gas? We need to start planning ahead and moving forward,” the Aug. 30, 2019, tweet purporting to be from Ocasio-Cortez said.
THE QUESTION
Did Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweet about electric cars being better than gas during hurricanes?
THE SOURCES
- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Twitter page
- Archive.today, webpage archive
- Politwoops, an internet tool by ProPublica that tracks politicians deleted tweets
THE ANSWER
No, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not tweet about electric cars being better than gas during hurricanes.
WHAT WE FOUND
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addressed the tweet on Aug. 31, 2019, when she told former White House aide Sebastian Gorka that she did not post it, a screen capture of the exchange on Archive.today shows. The original tweet also does not show up on Ocasio-Cortez’s profile on Politwoops, an internet tool by ProPublica that tracks politicians’ deleted tweets.
In addition to Ocasio-Cortez debunking the false claim herself, the font in the phony tweet does not match the way posts on Twitter normally look. For example, “retweets” and “likes” are both in all caps in the fake tweet but in real tweets, the words are stylized in sentence case. The date is also displayed wrong — in real Twitter posts, the time is shown before the date with a dot icon separating the two.
VERIFY found that the claim has been circulating on social media since at least late August 2019, when Hurricane Dorian was gaining strength off the coast of Florida. Many gas stations in the state were overwhelmed as evacuees rushed to stock up before the storm made landfall, VERIFY sister-station WTSP reported at the time.
VERIFY contacted Ocasio-Cortez’s press team for comment but did not hear back by the time of publication.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2022-09-29T23:15:48+00:00
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kagstv.com
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https://www.kagstv.com/article/news/verify/social-media/aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-hurricane-electric-vehicles-tweet-fake-not-real-fact-check/536-2d5ff2c6-679a-42b5-9311-f2f58be9a5cb
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PHOENIX (AP) — The board overseeing a southeastern Arizona county whose Republican leaders had hoped to recount all Election Day ballots on Friday delayed certifying the results of last week’s vote after hearing from a trio of conspiracy theorists who alleged that counting machines were not certified.
The three men, or some combination of them, have filed at least four cases raising similar claims before the Arizona Supreme Court since 2021 seeking to have the state’s 2020 election results thrown out. The court has dismissed all of them for lack of evidence, waiting too long after the election was certified or asking for relief that could not be granted, in increasingly harsh language.
But Tom Rice, Brian Steiner and Daniel Wood managed to persuade the two Republicans who control the Cochise County board of supervisors that their claims were valid enough for them to delay the certification until a Nov. 28 deadline.
They claimed the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission allowed certifications for testing companies to lapse, and that voided the certifications of vote tabulation equipment used across the state.
That came despite testimony from the state’s elections director that the machines and the testing company were indeed certified.
“The equipment used in Cochise County is properly certified under both federal and state laws and requirements,” state Elections Director Kori Lorick told the board. “The claims that the SLI testing labs were not properly accredited are false.”
The move is the latest drama in the Republican-heavy county in recent weeks, which started when GOP board members Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd voted to have all the ballots in last week’s election counted by hand to determine if the machine counts were accurate.
Crosby also defended a lawsuit he and Judd filed against the county elections director earlier this week seeking to force the hand-count. They dropped the case against Lisa Marra on Wednesday.
“If our presenters’ request is met by the proof that our machines are indeed legally and lawfully accredited, then indeed we should accept the results,” Crosby said. “However, if the machines have not been lawfully certificated, then the converse is also true. We canot vertify this election now.”
Crosby and Judd then voted to delay certification, with Crosby saying he believed Wood, Steiner and Rice needed to be provided proof since they were “the experts.”
Democratic Supervisor Ann English was powerless to overrule them.
The delay potentially jeopardizes state certification, set for Dec. 5, and at least one statewide recount.
Lorick issued a statement after the vote vowing legal action to force the board to accept the results. Under Arizona law the formal election canvass can’t be changed by the elected county boards — their only role is to accept the numbers as they are tallied by their elections departments.
“If they fail to do so, the Secretary (of State) will use all available legal remedies to compel compliance with Arizona law and protect Cochise County voters’ rights to have their votes counted,” Lorick said.
All 15 Arizona counties face the same Nov, 28 deadline, but there is no sign others are considering similar defiance.
Once the state certifies the results Dec, 5, there will be a recount in at least one statewide race.
That contest, between Republican Abraham Hamadeh and Democrat Chris Mayes for attorney general, is so close that a recount is certain. As of Friday night, Mayes was less than 600 votes ahead with fewer ballots remaining to be counted than the margin for a mandatory recount, which will be about 12,500 votes.
“It’s going to be close, and every vote matters,” Mayes said in a brief interview. “And obviously we’re headed into a recount, one way or another.”
One other statewide race also is within the margin for a recount, but incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman conceded to Republican Tom Horne on Thursday. Horne is a former schools chief who served two years as attorney general before losing the 2014 primary. He was more than 9,000 votes ahead on Friday.
Horne criticized Hoffman for embracing progressive teaching and promised to shut down any hint of “critical race theory,” which is not taught in state schools but is a hot-button issue for social conservatives.
Judd had said Wednesday she would move to clear the way for the state recount.
“We’ve had to step back from everything we were trying to do and say, OK, we’ve got to let this play out,” Judd told The Associated Press. “Because it’s the last thing we want to do to get in (Marra’s) way.”
There has been no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines in 2020 or during this year’s midterm elections.
Arizona recount laws were changed this year. The previous margin for a mandatory recount was 1/10 of 1%. It is now 0.5%.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the elections at: https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections. Check out https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-the-elections to learn more about the issues and factors at play in the 2022 midterm elections.
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2022-11-19T03:51:02+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/arizona-county-board-delays-certifying-election-results/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all
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Siouxland Business Spotlight: Lawton Senior Living
Published: Aug. 8, 2022 at 3:39 PM CDT|Updated: 26 minutes ago
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Siouxland Business Spotlight host Blake Meacham spoke with Angie Aldrich with Lawton Senior Living about the Red Carpet Philosophy they implement with their clients. If you would like to learn more about Lawton Senior Living you can call them at (712)-823-3903 or visit their website at lawtonseniorliving.com.
Copyright 2022 KTIV. All rights reserved.
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2022-08-08T21:05:56+00:00
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ktiv.com
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https://www.ktiv.com/2022/08/08/siouxland-business-spotlight-lawton-senior-living/
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Prosecutors: Man charged with killing wife suspected affair
(AP) - The husband of a Massachusetts woman who has been missing since New Year’s Day suspected she was having an affair and persuaded his mother to hire a private investigator to prove it, according to prosecution documents released Thursday.
In December, Brian Walshe “would repeatedly access the Instagram page” of one of Ana Walshe’s male friends from Washington, D.C., where she was working, prosecutors said. His mother hired the investigator on Dec. 26 “with his input and direction” to conduct surveillance and, the next day, his oldest child’s iPad was used for an internet search on “divorce.”
Walshe, 47, has been charged with first-degree murder as well as misleading a police investigation/obstruction of justice and improper conveyance of a human body. A first-degree murder conviction in Massachusetts carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.
Walshe is accused of killing Ana Walshe, dismembering her and disposing of her body. He pleaded not guilty Thursday in Norfolk County Superior Court. A judge ordered that he be held without bail.
Ana Walshe, 39, a mother of three who is originally from Serbia, was last seen early Jan. 1 following a New Year’s Eve dinner at her Massachusetts home with her husband and a family friend, prosecutors said.
Brian Walshe said she was called back to Washington on New Year’s Day for a work emergency. He didn’t contact her employer until Jan. 4, saying she was missing. The company — the first to notify police Ana Walshe was missing — said there was no emergency, prosecutors said.
She divided her time between Washington, D.C., where she worked for an international property management company, and the family home in the affluent coastal community of Cohasset, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southeast of Boston.
Brian Walshe had been on home confinement with some exceptions while awaiting sentencing in a fraud case involving the sale of fake Andy Warhol paintings, according to federal court records.
Ana Walshe went out with a friend in Washington on Dec. 28 and became “uncharacteristically emotional and extremely upset,” prosecutors said.
“Ana believed Mr. Walshe was going to be incarcerated on his pending criminal case. Ana told her friend that she intended to relocate her three children to Washington, D.C., and was prepared to leave Mr. Walshe,” the document said.
Brian Walshe’s attorney, Tracy Miner, said Thursday that a person is not presumed dead for seven years “because it is easy for a single person to disappear if they want to disappear.”
She said there’s been no body found, no indication if she died or how, and no murder weapon or motive.
Miner said Brian Walshe’s mother did hire a private investigator, but he said his mother was “crazy.”
“‘Ana’s a good girl, but go ahead. You’ll be proved wrong,’” he told her, according to Miner. “The investigator never found any evidence of an affair because they didn’t actually have time to start doing anything before Ana went missing.”
She said during the New Year’s Eve dinner, the couple and the friend had champagne and signed the box the bottle came in, saying that 2023 would be their best year ever.
Miner said he waited three days to call Ana’s employer, following a pattern since Thanksgiving where she would be gone for days at a time and couldn’t be contacted.
Prosecutors have said that starting Jan. 1 and for several days after, Brian Walshe made multiple online searches using the child’s iPad for “dismemberment and best ways to dispose of a body,” “how long before a body starts to smell” and “hacksaw best tool to dismember.”
Miner said there also were other searches, such as “how to set up a charitable corporation to give away large lottery winnings, tax free,” and best places to go for a family vacation in 2023.
Investigators said they found Jan. 3 surveillance video of a man resembling Brian Walshe throwing what appeared to be heavy trash bags into a dumpster at an apartment complex in Abington, not far from Cohasset.
A Jan. 8 search of a trash processing facility not far from Brian Walshe’s mother’s home, uncovered trash bags that contained a hatchet, hacksaw, towels and a protective Tyvek suit, cleaning agents, a Prada purse, boots like the ones Ana Walshe was last seen wearing and a COVID-19 vaccination card with her name, authorities said.
Prosecutors also said that Ana Walshe had taken out $2.7 million in life insurance naming her husband as the sole beneficiary. Miner said Brian Walshe was not in need of money. She said his mother, who is wealthy, has given “tens of thousands of dollars” to the couple.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-04-28T06:13:01+00:00
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foxcarolina.com
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https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/04/28/prosecutors-man-charged-with-killing-wife-suspected-affair/
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, June 16, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Central Sullivan County in central New York...
Northeastern Wayne County in northeastern Pennsylvania...
* Until 515 AM EDT.
* At 415 AM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Hortonville,
or 13 miles west of Liberty, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
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2022-06-16T09:54:51+00:00
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Bubble machines blow into action after San Diego Wave goals, while a menagerie of inflatable creatures — a hippo in a pink tutu, a red-crowned rooster, and two sharks — bop spastically in the Sirens supporters’ section at Snapdragon Stadium.
At Portland Thorns games, a throng of Rose City Riveters, backed by nonstop bass drums with trumpet interludes, maintains a steady, sometimes salty, stream of chants. A red smoke bomb and coordinated cha-cha dance moves mark each goal by the home team.
Professional women’s soccer is thriving in San Diego and Portland. The Wave lead the National Women’s Soccer League in attendance in just their second season and the reigning champion Thorns boost Portland’s claim as “Soccer City USA.”
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Behind the spectacles in the stands lie lessons for Boston, which is getting another chance at professional women’s soccer with an investors group atop a list of potential NWSL expansion franchises to begin play in 2026.
Because it has teams in each of the four biggest professional leagues and fans with deep attachments to each of them, Boston is a different breed of sports town than San Diego and Portland, which have just one team each in the four big leagues. Still, whether it’s marketing, the stadium, the game-day experience, or the team on the field, the formula that drives success in San Diego and Portland bears relevance for Boston.
Aiming high
The person who sounds the least surprised that the Wave, in just their second season, have set NWSL attendance records is Jill Ellis.
Three months before the Wave played their first game at one-month-old Snapdragon Stadium in September of 2022, the team president urged the staff to aim high.
That meant selling out the stadium, which they did. The 32,000 who attended the team’s opener established an NWSL regular-season record.
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“Nobody goes to the Olympics and goes, ‘Gosh, I really hope I win bronze,’ right?” said Ellis, who is best known as head coach of the US women’s national soccer team at the World Cups in 2015 and 2019.
“So I think we’ve just got to always push to the maximum of what we can achieve, because I also believe even if you fall short, you’re going to learn a hell of a lot more about taking risks and being bold in your thinking than you are by just planning conservatively and hitting numbers.”
The Wave, who drew close to 31,00 for their season opener this year, lead the league (and are ahead of 10 MLB teams) in average attendance with 21,545 — about 2,300 ahead of another new team, Los Angeles’s Angel City FC, and nearly 5,000 more than third-place Portland.
The move from 6,000-seat Torero Stadium at the University of San Diego late last season to Snapdragon, located just off I-8 north of the city and barely a half-hour ride from downtown on the trolley, validated the Wave.
“It’s a beautiful venue, it’s modern, the surface is fantastic — which for a purist like myself is really important — and the atmosphere there is such that the noise definitely comes down in volumes,” said Ellis. “Especially when you’re new to a town and you’re a new franchise, you want to make sure that that first experience is phenomenal because it’s an instant commercial for having people wanting to be back.”
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Rachel Hill is a Wave forward from Rollinsford, N.H., who also played at the University of Connecticut. Before arriving in San Diego, she played for the Chicago Red Stars, the up-for-sale franchise that plays a 30-minute drive from downtown and has a firm grasp on the NWSL cellar for average attendance (3,874).
“We weren’t in the city of Chicago, and it was kind of a tough place to get out to,” said Hill. “There is nothing really around.
Hill added that Chicago was alreadya tough market to compete in because of the other major pro sports teams. The Wave, she said, “really do a great job of building that bond between the community and the team, and that’s another reason why the excitement is there.”
The Wave’s roster is blessed with the presence of Alex Morgan, arguably the top talent and most recognizable member of the national team. Attendance ticks up in other cities when she plays; New Jersey/New York Gotham FC set its attendance record (15,058) recently after advertising Morgan’s arrival.
The Wave have been building relationships with youth leagues and soccer fans south of the city, including in Mexico, where soccer is the national sport. They have pushed northward a bit, towards Orange, but they are well aware of Angel City FC, Los Angeles’s NWSL team that also began play last year.
The league at first expressed hesitancy about San Diego’s proximity to Los Angeles, but Ellis played it up as a rivalry the league needs.
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“I think it’s going to be probably one of the purest rivalries in the league,” said Ellis.
Support, and then some
San Diego’s supporters group, the Sirens, is, according to its president, “super open and welcoming.”
“You don’t hear as many snarky comments in our section,” said Tali Lerner. “We don’t take ourselves too seriously; I mean, we have a hippo and bubbles.”
On an evening when they could have been sunset surfing or pub-hopping in the Gaslamp Quarter, a sizable percentage of Sirens opted to attend this “Under the Sea” themed-game in aquatic garb.
Paul Nacu and his young son were wearing homemade orange-and-white-striped Marlin and Nemo T-shirts. Nacu believes that the Sirens and the Wave will eventually experience “exponential growth.”
“We’ll get more mainstream media, but right now there’s not as much as I’d like,” said Nacu. “You hear references to Alex Morgan on sports radio, not so much the wins and losses.”
Jeni Dell’s family didn’t recognize her when her soccer fandom began with the Wave’s entry into the NWSL.
“I never had a team I was passionate about, but I’m a huge advocate for women and women’s sports,” said Dell, the Sirens’ finance and events coordinator.
“Around nine months before the Wave came in, I saw on Facebook an announcement for a draft party for them and I was in. My family was like, ‘Who are you?’
“This is what I’m doing now. I’m on board. I’m going to the World Cup in Australia [next month] and I’ve got tickets to Paris for the women’s soccer Olympics [in 2024]. I went from 0 to 60. I fell in love with women’s sports.”
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Meanwhile in Oregon ...
The Thorns have been the marquee franchise of the NWSL since their start as one of the original franchises in 2013. They won the league championship that first season, again in 2017, and are the current champions. No other team has won three titles.
Traditionally the league leader in attendance, the Thorns’ 16,000-plus average is higher than baseball’s Kansas City Royals, Miami Marlins, and Oakland A’s.
Portland, with its plentiful array of outdoor recreational and foodie options, is nicknamed “Soccer City USA” because of strong University of Portland women’s teams, vibrant youth leagues, and longtime support of the city’s Major League Soccer team, the Timbers.
At Providence Park, home to both the Thorns and Timbers, the Riveters support group unleashes its formidable rooting skills in the stadium’s North End.
Gabby Rosas, president of the board of directors of the 107 Independent Supporters Trust, parent organization for both the Riveters and the Timbers’ supporters group, Timbers Army, sees hope for a Boston team if it “figures out how to appeal to adults.”
“It’s not about trying to make it all kid-friendly,” says Rosas, “but putting together packages that try to make it be a little bit more mature. Let’s make this be a competitive sport where there’s swearing, there’s passion, there’s anger — it doesn’t have to be sanitized.
“I think especially in a city like Boston, which is not exactly known for being a calm sports town, it’s trying to figure out, how do people know that it’s OK to bring passion?”
Can it work in Boston?
Long before she became captain of the national team, Becky Sauerbrunn, now a defender for the Thorns, played in the summer of 2005 for the Boston Renegades, a second-tier USL team. She also played against the now-defunct Breakers at a couple of their Boston-area venues.
When told about the Boston bidders’ plan to help transform Franklin Park’s White Stadium to meet NWSL standards, the 38-year-old Sauerbrunn said, “Hey, as long as there are standards, that’s good. That’s a jump from the start of the NWSL, when I don’t think there really were standards.
“I don’t know who the owners are, but if they have deep enough pockets and they invest enough in the infrastructure, in the marketing, in introducing the team, then I think absolutely a women’s soccer team could thrive in Boston.”
She said the strategy of marketing only to soccer-playing families does a “disservice to a lot of other populations.”
“I think you can absolutely market us to everybody,” said Sauerbrunn. “Boston’s a little fickle, though; you guys are pretty hit-or-miss with your teams. If they do well, it’s great. If they do bad, everyone else messed something up, so it’s not their team’s fault.
“So their team has to be pretty good, right off the bat; I would say that would be helpful. And that comes down to putting in the right people — people that know the game, know women’s soccer, know the good players, know the environment.”
Shelby Hogan, a Thorns goalkeeper, grew up in Franklin and played for Bishop Feehan High School and Providence College, where her first season in 2017 was the Breakers’ last.
“It was obviously disappointing to see the Breakers fold back then, but I think there’s enough people for there to be a fan base,” said Hogan.
Start with youth, club, and college soccer fans, then gradually expand to Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics, and Bruins fans.
“It’s just how we bring them in and have them watch the product on the field and see how interesting it really can be,” said Hogan.
Thorns general manager Karina LeBlanc also has a Boston connection: She was a goalkeeper for the first version of the Boston Breakers in 2001-03.
LeBlanc challenged the question of whether an NWSL team can stand out and draw enough fans from a sports town like Boston where there is so much competition for fans.
“I guess my question to you is ‘Why do they have to choose?’ ” she said. “Sports brings life and energy to people, it brings purpose.
“Maybe you don’t have to be a season ticket-holder, but you can still support the team. Your core base of fans will come. They will buy season tickets, they will understand why they’re there, they’ll understand it’s part of something bigger.
“There’s room, there’s enough people in Boston. There’s room for everyone.”
Michael Silverman can be reached at michael.silverman@globe.com.
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2023-06-21T10:25:29+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/21/sports/national-womens-soccer-league-success/
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top editors at the Dutch national broadcaster’s sports department have stepped down amid reports that there was a culture of inappropriate behavior and bullying among staff spanning more than two decades, the broadcaster said Monday.
The move followed a report last week compiled by external experts who were asked to look into behavior at NOS Sport amid a wider investigation into the public broadcasting network following another high-profile case last year alleging workplace bullying at a flagship early evening talk show.
“The inventory report contains reports of bullying, (sexual) intimidation, discrimination, verbal aggression and integrity issues over a period of more than 20 years,” NOS said in an initial reaction last week.
At the time, the broadcaster said that the editorial leadership of the sports department would step down at an unspecified date in the future. But following reports in Dutch media over the weekend about the working conditions at NOS Sport, the four top editors said they would step down immediately.
“Due to the discussions we have had over the past few days about the results of the inventory, the previously announced phased withdrawal has sped up,” General director of NOS Gerard Timmer said in a statement Monday. “We are now entering a phase in which we will look at what the sports department needs in the short term and in the future.”
Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant reported in its weekend edition that it had spoken to 32 people, including current and former staffers at NOS Sport, and found a culture “in which women felt unsafe and where reports of (sexually) transgressive behavior were not taken seriously.”
NOS Sport is the country’s major sports broadcaster, covering major international events including the Olympics and the soccer World Cup.
NPO, the umbrella organization for Dutch public broadcasters, said it supported the decision for NOS Sport leaders to step down.
“There should be no room for transgressive behavior in public broadcasting,” NPO said in a statement. “It is vital that everyone feels supported not to accept and to correct inappropriate behavior in the workplace, but also that everyone feels safe enough to speak up about it.”
The independent commission of inquiry was established last year following the reported bullying at De Wereld Draait Door — The World Keeps Turning — a popular talk show that ran for years on the public broadcast network. The commission is aiming to publish its final report by the summer.
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2023-03-13T20:45:22+00:00
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nwahomepage.com
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https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/international/ap-international/dutch-sports-broadcaster-editors-quit-over-bullying-report/
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The temperature-controlled print bed system uses contactless power and communication modules
REHOVOT, Israel, Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Steakholder Foods Ltd. (Nasdaq: STKH), (formerly MeaTech 3D: MITC), an international deep-tech food company at the forefront of the cultivated meat industry, today announced that it has developed a temperature-controlled print bed for its industrial-scale printer. This is another significant step forward on the company's path toward mass production of cultivated meat using 3D printing technology.
Temperature control is a critical requirement when printing a cultivated product containing live cells. Maintaining optimal temperature poses a challenge in the architecture of Steakholder Foods' industrial printers, so the development of temperature-controlled print beds is a major milestone on the path to production at scale. Contactless electromagnetic power is delivered to the print bed which is connected to a wireless communication module that monitors and controls its temperature.
Arik Kaufman, CEO of Steakholder Foods: "We are proud to have reached this important milestone with our technology. It is a critical step toward producing structured cultivated meat at scale."
About Steakholder Foods
Steakholder Foods Ltd., formerly MeaTech 3D Ltd., is an international deep-tech food company at the forefront of the cultured meat revolution. The company initiated activities in 2019 and is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker "STKH" (formerly MITC). Steakholder Foods maintains facilities in Rehovot, Israel and Antwerp, Belgium and has recently expanded activities to the US.
The company is developing a slaughter-free solution for producing a variety of beef, chicken, pork, and seafood products — both as raw materials and whole cuts — as an alternative to industrialized farming and fishing. With its membership in the UN Global Compact, Steakholder Foods is committed to act in support of issues embodied in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which include strengthening food security, decreasing carbon footprint, and conserving water and land resources.
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2022-12-09T15:12:42+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/12/09/steakholder-foods-develops-temperature-controlled-print-bed-system-its-industrial-scale-3d-bio-printer/
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Finical advisers say President Joe Biden’s plan to provide at least $10,000 in debt cancellation for millions of Americans could have a positive impact on your credit score.Borrowers who earn less than $125,000 a year, or families earning less than $250,000, would be eligible for the $10,000 loan forgiveness. Recipients of the Pell Grant, which is given to students applying for undergraduate degrees experiencing financial hardship, would be eligible for another $10,000.Pam Rodriguez, vice president and financial adviser with Captrust, said you’ll want to watch your credit score over the coming month. She says you should see a higher credit score, which means better opportunities for more people.“Especially in today’s environment because interest rates are so high. Let's say you’re getting ready to buy a house, this could really help you if it improves your score enough to get you in that next level of reduction in an interest rate for a mortgage,” Rodriguez said.Some students at Sacramento State say they’re excited to know they could leave school in a better position.“They’re always increasing the rates of tuition and they kind of ignore all of the students and the burdens that they have to face financially. I feel like this is one of the best options to level the playing field to make sure that people can go college and can get out with as little debt as possible,” said Beth Agbassekou, a junior at Sac State.The bottom line is students need help to pay for school and this will take a little off their plates.“It’s awesome. It’s such a stress relief. Now we can focus on school and not have to focus on that part,” said Yasmine Hernandez.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Finical advisers say President Joe Biden’s plan to provide at least $10,000 in debt cancellation for millions of Americans could have a positive impact on your credit score.
Borrowers who earn less than $125,000 a year, or families earning less than $250,000, would be eligible for the $10,000 loan forgiveness. Recipients of the Pell Grant, which is given to students applying for undergraduate degrees experiencing financial hardship, would be eligible for another $10,000.
Pam Rodriguez, vice president and financial adviser with Captrust, said you’ll want to watch your credit score over the coming month. She says you should see a higher credit score, which means better opportunities for more people.
“Especially in today’s environment because interest rates are so high. Let's say you’re getting ready to buy a house, this could really help you if it improves your score enough to get you in that next level of reduction in an interest rate for a mortgage,” Rodriguez said.
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Some students at Sacramento State say they’re excited to know they could leave school in a better position.
“They’re always increasing the rates of tuition and they kind of ignore all of the students and the burdens that they have to face financially. I feel like this is one of the best options to level the playing field to make sure that people can go college and can get out with as little debt as possible,” said Beth Agbassekou, a junior at Sac State.
The bottom line is students need help to pay for school and this will take a little off their plates.
“It’s awesome. It’s such a stress relief. Now we can focus on school and not have to focus on that part,” said Yasmine Hernandez.
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2022-08-25T05:15:06+00:00
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kcra.com
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https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-state-students-bidens-student-debt-plan/40984732
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluedot, the customer arrival platform that empowers top brands to provide real-time interactions and pickup solutions, has been honored as a Silver Stevie® Winner in the Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year - Up to 100 Employees category in the 20th Annual American Business Awards®.
The American Business Awards are the U.S.A.'s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. were eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. Bluedot was selected from more than 3,700 nominations.
"We're honored to be named a Stevie winner and among the most innovative tech companies in the U.S. It's another reflection of how our tech is impacting the customer experience for something that is as simple as a mobile order pickup," said Emil Davityan, Bluedot co-founder and CEO. "Having the ability to protect a person's precious time and making the handoff to the customer as smooth as possible is now table stakes. Industries are going through rapid digital transformation, especially post-pandemic. We're helping businesses connect the dots between online and offline – whether that's at a mobile pickup location in a store, at the drive-thru, or the moment a customer pulls into a curbside space. We're really proud to be recognized for the exceptional growth, innovation, and success the company has achieved over the last year."
Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2022 Stevie winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.
About Bluedot
Bluedot is a customer arrival platform that empowers brands to provide real-time interactions and pickup solutions. The company's hyper-accurate location technology identifies exactly when and where a user arrives whether that's entering a store, pulling into a curbside pickup space, or at a parking lot. Bluedot enables brands to provide timely messaging, proximity offers, automated loyalty identification, frictionless curbside pickups, gamification, and more. Easy to implement, Bluedot is inherently compliant with GDPR and CCPA.
Bluedot works across key industries including retail, restaurants, and transportation. The global brands that trust Bluedot for their location strategy include Federal Realty, McDonald's, Dunkin', Six Flags, and IAG. For more information on Bluedot and its solutions, visit bluedot.io.
About the Stevie Awards Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
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2022-04-28T17:05:55+00:00
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live5news.com
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In April, the New York Times and Boston Globe published incendiary reports detailing credible allegations of abusive behavior by iconic chef Barbara Lynch.
Lynch won industry-wide admiration for her skills and her climb from a tough childhood in South Boston to the top of the food world with her award-winning restaurants. The stories were shocking for the fact that many said the allegations were widely known already and for how common they were industry-wide.
Host Robin Young recently spoke to a panel including the Boston Globe’s Janelle Nanos and women in thethree food industry women: Hassel Aviles, former restaurateur and founder of Not 9 To 5, a food industry advocacy group; Irene Li, James Beard award-winning chef and co-founder of Mei Mei Dumplings in Boston; and Hannah Selinger, who’s written about being fired from Momofuko Restaurant, run by restaurant giant David Chang.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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2023-06-05T18:55:53+00:00
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nprillinois.org
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https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-06-05/abuse-runs-rampant-in-restaurant-industry-what-will-it-take-to-change
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New team members to contribute key industry expertise to help accelerate strong business momentum
Cetera attracted a record $6.3 billion in assets through third quarter recruiting as advisors continue to seek independence combined with leading resources and support
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cetera Financial Group, one of America's largest networks of financial professionals, announced today that it has expanded its business development team with three new team members. The industry veteran hires complement strong business development momentum, with Cetera attracting a record $6.3 billion in assets through recruiting efforts in the third quarter. Cetera's business development team has grown exponentially throughout 2022, delivering record results as the firm eyes even greater growth headed into 2023.
The three new hires are:
- Jeremy Wilmes, CLU®, ChFC®, CASL®, RICP®, joins the team as a senior recruiter who will cover Florida from his home in Tampa Bay. Prior to joining Cetera, he was a director at Truist Life Insurance Holdings, where he covered Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Texas. Jeremy worked in multiple roles at Allstate Life & Retirement over the course of six years, where he led life and retirement sales among 700 agencies and 2,000 licensed producers across five states. He is a CFP® certification candidate and holds multiple securities registrations and financial designations and certifications.
- Tim Petrovich joins the team as a senior recruiter covering California. Prior to joining Cetera, he was a regional director of business development at Atria Wealth Solutions, where he developed and oversaw a new territory and drove sales and growth for the firm. He also worked in business development roles at Securities America and LPL for more than 10 years.
- James Fox joins the team as a sourcing and engagement specialist from JP Morgan Chase, where he served in recruiting, onboarding, compliance and human resources roles of increasing responsibility for more than 10 years. Throughout his career, he has developed a track record of success in recruiting, sourcing, management, HR operations, reporting, business analysis, quality assurance, sales, relationship management, retail banking, and customer service.
"Jeremy, Tim and James join Cetera at a critical time, as we look to close out a record year on a positive note and reach for even greater success in 2023," said John Pierce, head of business development at Cetera. "As advisors continue to reevaluate their firm affiliation amid changing industry dynamics, we are positioned well to attract the industry's best financial professionals who are looking for a fresh start and better fit for their business and their clients. We welcome Jeremy, Tim and James to Cetera and look forward to their contributions in helping us achieve our collective goals."
Visit www.cetera.com for more information.
Cetera Financial Group (Cetera) is a leading financial services firm whose purpose is to enable the delivery of best-in-class financial advice to as many Americans as possible. Cetera empowers its financial professional communities to help clients achieve their version of financial wellbeing through the Advice-Centric Experience®. Cetera proudly serves independent financial professionals, tax professionals, banks and credit unions in providing wide-ranging financial planning and wealth management services.
Cetera oversees approximately $353 billion in assets under administration and $122 billion in assets under management, as of December 31, 2021.
Visit www.cetera.com, and follow Cetera on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
"Cetera Financial Group" refers to the network of independent retail firms encompassing, among others, Cetera Advisors LLC, Cetera Advisor Networks LLC, Cetera Investment Services LLC (marketed as Cetera Financial Institutions or Cetera Investors), and Cetera Financial Specialists LLC. All firms are FINRA/SIPC members. Located at: 655 W. Broadway, 11th Floor, San Diego, CA 92101.
Individuals affiliated with Cetera firms are either Registered Representatives who offer only brokerage services and receive transaction-based compensation (commissions), Investment Adviser Representatives who offer only investment advisory services and receive fees based on assets, or both Registered Representatives and Investment Adviser Representatives, who can offer both types of services.
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2022-11-08T18:08:51+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/11/08/cetera-bolsters-business-development-team-with-three-new-hires/
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The BA.5 omicron subvariant, which is now the most prevalent coronavirus strain in the United States, is four times more resistant to COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new study.
The strain, which is considered "hypercontagious," according to the Mayo Clinic, is more defiant against messenger RNA vaccines, which include Pfizer and Moderna.
The BA.5 strain represented 65% of cases from July 3 to 9, according to data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
It is contributing to increases in COVID-19 hospitalizations and admissions to intensive care units across the country.
But vaccines still provide much better protection than going without the safeguards.
Unvaccinated people have about a five times higher chance of contracting the virus than those who are vaccinated and boosted, while chances of hospitalization are 7.5 times higher, and chances of death are 14 to 15 times higher, said Dr. Gregory Poland, head of the Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group.
"Let me make a clear, clear point here that's a little tough to hear: Whether you've been vaccinated, whether you've been previously infected, whether you've been previously infected and vaccinated, you have very little protection against BA.5 in terms of getting infected or having mild to moderate infection," he said. "You have good protection against dying, being hospitalized or ending up on a ventilator."
The CDC still recommends getting tested if you experience COVID-19 symptoms, and wearing masks depending on the number of cases where you live.
The more contagious omicron variant was first detected in the U.S. in December 2021.
As the BA.5 strain becomes more popular, incidences of the BA.1, BA 1.1 and BA.2 omicron subvariants have declined.
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2022-07-15T07:20:55+00:00
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delawarepublic.org
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https://www.delawarepublic.org/npr-headlines/2022-07-15/the-omicron-subvariant-dominating-u-s-covid-19-cases-is-more-vaccine-resistant
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The Pulitzer Prizes recognizing the best of journalism and the arts in 2022 were announced Monday. The Associated Press will update the list of winners with more information — including any specific citations for journalists — and reaction as we learn more.
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PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD: Mstyslav Chernov, Lori Hinnant, Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko, The Associated Press
You can find a list of stories the team produced on our “Erasing Mariupol” page.
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING: The Los Angeles Times
The staff of the Los Angeles Times published a secretly recorded conversation among city officials that included racist comments and followed up with in-depth coverage of the aftermath.
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal’s “Capital Assets” series analyzed the investments of about 12,000 federal officials and their families between 2016 and 2021. The Journal collected and analyzed data on about 850,000 financial assets and more than 315,000 transactions. This was a staff award.
EXPLANATORY REPORTING: Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic
The Atlantic’s Caitlin Dickerson conducted more than 150 interviews as part of an 18-month investigation into former President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy of child separation at the border.
LOCAL REPORTING: John Archibald, Ashley Remkus, Ramsey Archibald and Challen Stephens, AL.com; Anna Wolfe, Mississippi Today
There were two winners; they don't share the category, but instead each receive the full prize amount of $15,000. The AL.com reporters won a series exposing how the police force in the town of Brookside preyed on residents to inflate revenue.
Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe’s “The Backchannel” series detailed how state officials misspent millions in welfare money that was supposed to help some of the poorest people in the United States. Wolfe uncovered evidence that former Gov. Phil Bryant and NFL legend Brett Favre worked together to channel at least $5 million of the state’s welfare funds to build a new volleyball stadium at University of Southern Mississippi, where Favre’s daughter played the sport.
NATIONAL REPORTING: Caroline Kitchener, The Washington Post
Caroline Kitchener wrote about the consequences of life after Roe v. Wade.
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING: The New York Times
The staff of The New York Times won for their coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including an investigation into Ukrainian deaths in the town of Bucha.
FEATURE WRITING: Eli Saslow, The Washington Post
Eli Saslow won for “evocative individual narratives” about people struggling with the pandemic, homelessness, addiction and inequality in the United States. Saslow has since left the Post, joining The New York Times in February. According to the Times announcement, he had been a finalist in this category thrice before and has won a Pulitzer for explanatory reporting.
COMMENTARY: Kyle Whitmire, AL.com
Kyle Whitmire of AL.com, Birmingham won for “measured and persuasive columns” that document how Alabama’s Confederate heritage still lingers.
CRITICISM: Andrea Long Chu, New York magazine
Andrea Long Chu of New York magazine won for book reviews that employ “multiple cultural lenses” to explore societal issues.
EDITORIAL WRITING: Nancy Ancrum, Amy Driscoll, Luisa Yanez, Isadora Rangel and Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald
The Miami Herald writers won for a series of editorials on the failure of Florida public officials to deliver on taxpayer-funded amenities and services long promised to residents.
ILLUSTRATED REPORTING AND COMMENTARY: Mona Chalabi, The New York Times
New York Times contributor Mona Chalabi won for illustrations that combine statistical reporting with analysis to help readers understand the immense wealth and economic power of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
This prize replaced the editorial cartooning award last year, right on the heels of Pulitzer judges declining to name an editorial cartooning winner in 2021.
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY: The Associated Press
A team of AP photographers won the Pulitzer for “unique and urgent” images of the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY: Christina House, Los Angeles Times
Christina House of the Los Angeles Times won for for “an intimate look” into the life of a pregnant 22-year-old woman living on the street in a tent.
AUDIO JOURNALISM: Gimlet Media, notably Connie Walker
The award went to the staff of Gimlet Media, notably Connie Walker, whose investigation into her father’s troubled past revealed a larger story of abuse of hundreds of Indigenous children at a residential school in Canada.
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2023-05-08T19:37:37+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/entertainment/article/see-more-about-the-2023-pulitzer-winners-in-18086381.php
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SEOUL, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VisualCamp, a leading AI-based eye-tracking technology startup from South Korea, provides eye-tracking software to various industries including education, digital healthcare, and UI/UX testing. With successful use cases in Korea, VisualCamp is looking to expand their eye-tracking solutions to the U.S. VisualCamp will participate in TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco.
With the increasing demand for contactless and remote services, eye-tracking is being utilized to understand users' focuses and monitoring functions to prevent fraud in mobile apps/web. Using gaze data, end users can control apps with their eyes by where they are looking. VisualCamp's success is from making eye tracking more accessible, mobile optimized, and eye-tracking in "natural" environments.
SeeSo, a mobile eye-tracking SDK (Software Development Kit) is a software solution for mobile app developers. Without using extra hardware, this is the first eye-tracking software solution that can utilize front-facing cameras with the highest levels of accuracy. SeeSo has its own software licensing, is easily integratable, and can be used at any time with a mobile device or PC. This makes eye-tracking technology available for everyone at an affordable price. SeeSo's innovation has been recognized by clients and prestigious awards, including the CES Innovation Award in 2022.
Currently, VisualCamp has been working with medical experts to research and develop eye tracking healthcare solutions, which includes diagnosing myopia, dyslexia, ADHD, and cognitive ability in advance. It will first be provided to education companies and the Department of Education in Korea. VisualCamp will eventually expand business into overseas markets.
"The scope of application for eye-tracking technology is limitless." Said Yunchan Suk, CEO of VisualCamp. "After strengthening the business through R&D with experts in each field, we aim to become the No.1 eye-tracking company recognized not only within Korea, but also abroad."
SeeSo 2.0: https://seeso.io/.
Testimonial: https://youtu.be/7TDAvaEeIw4.
Providing eye-tracking technology solutions that are easily accessible, reasonably priced, and scalable, VisualCamp's goal is to make eye-tracking solutions available for all, as it can be a useful tool in anyone's daily life. VisualCamp owns 24 IPs, including 5 in the U.S., with 42 on file, and 18 PCTs pending. VisualCamp is also looking for new investments to help grow and expand their solutions.
Media Contact:
Joy Lim
joy@visual.camp
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SOURCE KIC Silicon Valley
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2022-10-12T09:49:30+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/10/12/leading-eye-tracking-technology-startup-visualcamp-will-participate-techcrunch-disrupt/
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California last week enshrined its 2035 ban on sales of new gasoline vehicles that don’t plug in. And now this week it’s telling the relatively few EV drivers in the state to hold off on plugging in during the afternoons.
On Thursday afternoon, leading into the Labor Day long weekend, the state’s Independent System Operator (ISO) sent out a Flex Alert notice, indicating it called for a day of “voluntary electric conservation” on Friday—the third consecutive day this week, and a day that many EV drivers had expected to use a full charge on the way out for the long weekend.
The Flex Alert conservation actions suggest that Californians charge electric vehicles before 4 p.m. That’s a situation only feasible for those who work at home, for instance, or those who have workplace charging.
EV sales have skyrocketed in California, and it cracked 15% EV sales by the end the second quarter of 2022, buoyed by Tesla registrations. But gasoline vehicles will remain in use for decades and the fleet turns over slowly. According to data from the Department of Energy and Experian, updated in June 2022, California leads the nation in current EV registrations, with about 563,000 EVs in its fleet. California has about 30 million registered vehicles, so even in the Golden State less than 2% of vehicles are fully electric.
There was no particular outage or technical reason for the alert, the California operator explained—simply that it’s hot, and electricity demand is up due to air conditioning use.
In broader guidance, the operator suggested that during the period Thursday, from 4-9 p.m., consumers are urged to set their thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, minimize appliance use, and turn off unnecessary lights. Sunset Thursday in Los Angeles was at 7:19 p.m.
“They should also avoid charging electric vehicles while the Flex Alert is in effect,” it summed, introducing the idea of outages. “Reducing energy use during a Flex Alert can help stabilize the power grid during tight supply conditions and prevent further emergency measures, including rotating power outages.”
The optics aren’t so great. If California wants to ramp up the number of EVs in its fleet, how will the grid handle next year’s heat waves?
Smart charging is part of that answer, and many utilities offer Time of Use rates that help incentivize EV owners to charge at a time of the day advantageous to the grid and a greater use of renewables. But as California accelerates its shift to EVs it will take more than that. A 2020 report suggested that the state’s energy demand could rise about 25% overall, requiring massive grid upgrades, if all of its passenger vehicles were fully electric.
This isn’t the first time the ISO has issued these requests. For instance, it issued several Flex Alerts during a June 2021 heat wave.
In June this year, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) suggested that a sustained California drought would increase the carbon footprint of the state’s electricity used to charge EVs—because a cut in California’s hydropower generating capacity will nudge in more carbon-intensive sources for a greater amount of the mix. The state’s grid has shown some progress this year, however; in April it was briefly powered entirely by renewable energy.
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2022-09-02T14:53:57+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/automotive/internet-brands/leading-into-labor-day-weekend-california-asks-ev-drivers-to-limit-charging/
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ROME (AP) — Italy’s agriculture minister warned Parliament on Wednesday that a third of Italy’s agricultural production was at risk because of drought and poor water infrastructure, and that the situation is only going to get worse in years to come.
Stefano Patuanelli provided the latest data from government research institutes which showed that Italy lost 19% of its available water resources from 1991-2020 compared to 1921-1950, and that the next decades could see further decreases of up to 40%.
“We are thus witnessing a slow but unrelenting wasting away of water availability in our country,” Patuanelli told the lower Chamber of Deputies.
The government has declared a state of emergency in several northern regions because of a prolonged drought and accompanying heat wave that has dried up the Po River, a crucial artery for irrigation across an area of north-central Italy that is a key producer of fruits, vegetables and grain.
The drought followed unusually light precipitation during the winter that deprived mountains of fresh snowfall which would normally feed rivers and reservoirs in summer. The combined climactic events have been blamed for the July 3 cleaving off of the melting Marmolada glacier and ensuing avalanche that killed 11 hikers in northern Trento.
Patuanelli told lawmakers that such droughts occur cyclically in Italy, roughly every five years, but that they are projected to occur more often and “with ever more devastating consequences.”
He said the Po River basin is currently the biggest worry “because the area concerns a third of national agricultural production.”
“We’re talking about the cultivation of fruit, vegetables, tomatoes and cereals, especially corn and rice,” as well as the breeding farms that produce the region’s famed Parmesan cheese and prosciutto.
Italian farm lobby Coldiretti has said the emergency has already cost Italian farmers about 3 billion euros in losses, coupled with soaring energy prices stemming from Russia’s war in Ukraine.
While unusual heat and lack of rainfall are to blame for the current crisis, Italy has a notoriously wasteful water infrastructure that national statistics agency ISTAT estimates loses 42% of drinking water from distribution networks each year, in large part due to old and poorly maintained pipes.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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2022-07-13T19:41:08+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/ap-news/2022/07/13/drought-italy-warns-a-third-of-farm-production-at-risk-2/
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Inflation has struck the Clear Lake Fire Department, raising the cost of a new class A pumper fire apparatus by more than $79,000.
The estimated cost for the new equipment was $650,000. But in the past six months, the price of stainless steel has risen 50%. Petroleum and lead have also increased in price, leading to the inflated cost.
During the last six months, the CLFD met with seven manufacturers about the new fire apparatus to discuss specifications and estimated costs, but were able to find just one bidder.
“That’s incredibly disappointing to us, based on the fact that all these vendors expressed considerable interest in this project” said Doug Meyers, CLFD chief. The vendors expressed their desire to use their own title specifications rather than the specifications CLFD has for their plans.
But, with a prepayment option, the City Council approved the purchase of the apparatus for $710,483 — a 9.1% increase from the initial estimated cost. The CLFD hopes resale of the two trucks being replaced by the apparatus will help offset the cost.
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Also Monday, the council approved the sale of a vacated alley to three buyers for $1.50 per square foot. Three owners of adjacent land had expressed interest in purchasing the alley, which runs along Nine S. 15th St., 11 S. 15th St. and 1421 Main Ave. There are no city utilities in the alley, and the sale was approved for a total of $3,600.
Bids for two projects were rejected at Monday's council meeting: the 2022 Street resurfacing project (Division 1: PCC Improvements) and 700 block Buddy Holly Place HMA alley reconstruction project. The street resurfacing project received one bid, with both the base bid and alternate bid more than 50% above the engineer's estimate. The alley reconstruction project received no bids. Bid letting will be revisited in January.
Public Works Director Jeremy Korenberg gave updates on two projects. Water main and sanitary sewer main has been completed from 14th through 12th streets for the the Main Avenue street reconstruction project. House services for water and sanitary sewer will begin after approval. The 12th Avenue South HMA pavement patching project has been completed.
Creighton Schmidt of the finance department brought recommendations for the update of Clear Lake's 2008 joint comprehensive plan. City Administrator Scott Flory said three government entities as well as a nonprofit have come together on this project. North Iowa Corridor is the leading entity on this project, and if approved, the contract will go through them.
The committee will include Mark Bale of the planning and zoning commission, Councilman Bennett Smith and Stacy Doughan of the Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce.
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Schmidt also brought forward plans for the Surf District Hotel, which he called an "exciting signature project." The hotel will be boutique style, adjacent to the Surf Ballroom, and will house between 45 and 50 rooms.
Rae Burnette is a GA and Crime & Courts Reporter at the Globe Gazette. You can reach her by phone at 641.421.0523 or at Rae.Burnette@GlobeGazette.com
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2022-08-02T21:22:44+00:00
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globegazette.com
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https://globegazette.com/news/local/clfd-faces-major-price-inflation-for-new-fire-apparatus/article_082d77da-6b4d-5513-91c7-b01890789d31.html
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BERLIN, Md. (AP) — A 20-year-old man was killed when two personal watercrafts collided Monday on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, officials said.
Maryland Natural Resources Police said the crash happened in Sinepuxent Bay in an area off Grays Creek Drive in the Berlin area, The Daily Times reported. Two personal watercrafts were traveling close together at a high rate of speed when they collided, sending one watercraft and its rider airborne, police said.
One man, identified as Derek Salas of Silver Spring, was breathing when he was removed from the water, but he was unconscious, police said. He died on the way to the hospital, police said.
The other person involved in the crash was not named.
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2022-05-31T22:48:24+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Police-Man-killed-when-personal-watercrafts-17210467.php
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — For 10.10 seconds, Ferdinand Omanyala forgot all about the visa issues that almost kept him home, the jet lag from an international flight and his mad dash from the airport to the track just to make it to the starting line in time.
Once the Kenyan sprinter crossed the finish line, though, the exhaustion hit him hard.
Next stop: bed.
But at least Omanyala can sleep easy Friday night knowing this — he has moved on to the semifinal round of the 100 meters at the world championships.
“I never knew I was tired until I ran that race,” said Omanyala, who advanced on a night when Fred Kerley turned in the fastest time at 9.79 seconds. “It was disappointing (the visa issues). But you have to put the challenges aside. You have to come here and run.”
It was a race just to make it to his race due to a delay in securing his visa. He was actually resigned to sitting this one out.
But his paperwork was approved at the final hour and his team quickly scrambled to book a flight. It was quite a trek, too — flights from Nairobi to Doha, then to Seattle, and finally to Eugene and one last ride to Hayward Field. All in all, he spent about 20 hours on planes. That doesn’t include the layovers.
He did receive an upgrade — to business class. That made sleep a little easier. No running down the aisles, though, as a way to warm up. He drank plenty of water.
Omanyala arrived at the track about two hours before his 100 race. He was placed in the seventh of seven heats, buying him some extra time to stretch out. He finished third in his heat, which was good enough to move him through to the semis.
“It’s tiring and it’s a torture, too, mentally,” Omanyala said of his ordeal. “If you’re not strong enough, you will crumble.”
This is hardly the typical routine for Omanyala, who likes to arrive about three or four days before an event.
“This was just different,” he said. “This was a first. I’ve never had such a situation before.”
His case was one of about 375 that had been flagged to local organizers, World Athletics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. World Athletics officials said that of the 5,500 participants and officials coming to Eugene, fewer than 1% still had visa issues on the eve of the championships.
That’s far too many in Omanyala’s eyes. He’s hoping visa issues aren’t a holdup when the next major meet comes to America — the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
“They need to learn from this and do it better next time,” he said.
His rivals were certainly impressed with his quick turnaround. It’s a risk-reward proposition, too. Long plane rides and not enough water are a combination for pulling a hamstring. American Marvin Bracy, who won the first heat, had a similar situation develop before a Diamond League race in Europe. He opted not to go.
“Because we know how dangerous that can be,” Bracy said. “To come out here and compete at that high of a level, it’s kind of scary.”
Omanyala did receive a lift from the applause at Hayward Field.
“It’s nice when you see so many fans cheering you on,” said Omanyala, whose season-best time is 9.85 seconds. “I felt elevated for sure.”
As he chatted in the mixed zone, a Netherlands sprinter sauntered past him and simply: “Hero.”
A tired one at that.
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2022-07-16T14:04:15+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/sports/nick-of-time-kenyan-makes-it-to-worlds-moves-on-in-100/
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QINGDAO, China, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At the 2022 Qingdao Land-Sea Linkage Seminar held on August 15, 2022, the International Shipping Hub Development Index -- RCEP Regional Report (2022), the Xinhua-SPG Port Commodity Index Report (2022), and the RCEP Seaborne Trade Index Report 2022 were released. Experts believed that the high-standard interconnection infrastructure for the industrial chain and supply chain could be provided by accurately depicting the changes in port commodity trade as well as achieving the efficient linkage among port shipping, commodities, and trade.
The International Shipping Hub Development Index(ISHDI) -- RCEP Regional Report (2022) compiled by China Economic Information Service was another world-class port and shipping evaluation index launched globally, with a focus on the competitiveness elements of shipping hubs based on the Xinhua -- Baltic International Shipping Center Development Index. It aims to facilitate smooth cooperation and coordinated development of hub ports.
ISHDI incorporates 17 secondary indicators dividing into 5 primary dimensions, which are infrastructure capability, operation service, network connectivity, smart & green level of ports and economic vitality of the hinterland. To study the development of the ports & hubs in the RCEP region, ISHDI project team chose 29 major shipping hubs in the members of the RCEP by scale and representativeness. As per calculation, 29 sample ports are divided into four classes, Class A-D. As the leading force, Shanghai Port and Singapore Port are Class A shipping hubs playing crucial role in the world shipping industry, Shanghai and Singapore are also the world leading shipping centers. Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, Qingdao Port, Shenzhen Port, and Busan Port were rated as Class B. These ports not only have significant advantages in infrastructure capability, network connectivity, but also have their own characteristics such as good service, leading innovation, etc.
Xinhua-SPG Port Commodity Index was jointly developed and compiled by Shandong Port Group and China Economic Information Service. It was first released in Qingdao in October 2021. And the index system included the Crude Oil Price Index, Iron Ore Inventory and Entry & Exit Index, Coke Inventory and Entry & Exit Index, Steel Billet Price Index, and Hot Rolled Coils Price Index. The Iron Ore Price Index and Coke Price Index were newly released this time, forming a comprehensive monitoring system covering the iron ore and coke commodity prices, inventories, and entry & exit states in ports of Shandong Port Group. According to the planning, the categories involved in the later index system will be further enriched, and the coverage will also be extended to other ports along the coast, gathering more information on advantageous cargo types of the ports.
The RCEP Seaborne Trade Index Report 2022 took the 14 member countries except for Laos of the RCEP as the research objects and selected six major categories of cargo, including container cargo, iron ore, coal, petroleum products, LNG, and automobiles, which accounted for about two-thirds of the RCEP seaborne trade volume, as the analysis objects to reflect the annual development trend of the RCEP seaborne trade from the two dimensions -- overall trade volume and seaborne trade volume. The RCEP Seaborne Trade Index was 101.1 in 2021, which had exceeded the highest level before the COVID-19 pandemic (2019). The report also pointed out that it would have a positive effect on the seaborne trade of goods in the region in the future, driving the RCEP Seaborne Trade Index to further go up, with the liberalization and facilitation of RCEP trade in goods as well as the continuous deepening of the rules for accumulation in the region of origin.
Sea transportation has been the main mode of transportation for global trade, and the ports are its hubs and bridges. Huang Youfang, Council Chairman of the 8th China Institute of Navigation and Vice Chairman of China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing, believed that as the digital information link, the release of the three upgraded indexes would enhance the status of ports as international shipping hubs, guide the hub ports to achieve smooth cooperation, and help global ports and shipping optimize resource allocation and achieve sustainable development.
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SOURCE China Economic Information Service
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2022-08-18T15:11:31+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/08/18/index-accelerates-digitalization-port-commodity-trade-helps-realize-interconnection-between-industrial-chain-supply-chain/
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The Honey Baked Ham Company® Helps Shoppers Save Time and Lessen Stress with Delicious, Complete Meals
ATLANTA, March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study found that 67% of Americans celebrating Easter are visiting multiple grocery stores to find all the items they need to prepare Easter dinner this year. The average shopper stops by three stores to check all the items off their list. The hassle leaves 59% stressed out by grocery shopping. Here to help hosts skip the Easter-shopping marathon, The Honey Baked Ham Company® offers convenient Easter meal options that come with tasty proteins, heat & serve sides and decadent desserts.
The research also revealed that 78% find hosting a large dinner in their home to be stressful. Almost half of respondents say hosting a large dinner is more stressful than catching a plane before the gate closes or taking the SATs. This year, in addition to their immediate family, Easter hosts expect to welcome an average of five guests at their table.
What has hosts so stressed?
- Determining how much food to prepare (41%)
- Worrying about how clean their home is (40%)
- Figuring out how long it will take to prepare or cook food (40%)
- If guests will like the food (39%)
- If guests will have enough food (37%)
"While HoneyBaked® may not be able to help with cleaning, we can help with delicious food and simple meal prep," said Tripp McLaughlin, Chief Marketing Officer of The Honey Baked Ham Company. "We also take the hassle out of planning with a variety of complete meal options for Easter, including a mix of our signature hams, turkeys and easy-to-serve sides. You can also add on one or more of our delicious desserts to finish your meal."
Almost three in four (73%) people believe that Easter should be as stress-free as possible. But 74% claim it is a challenge to find what they need while food shopping.
- 80% find grocery shopping for a large gathering is even more stressful than regular shopping
- Planning dinners starts seven days in advance and shopping starts six days out
- 42% spend more time shopping today than they did five years ago
- The average person spends 41 minutes shopping for groceries each week
- Ahead of hosting friends and family, respondents average 51 minutes per trip
"There is no need to visit multiple grocery stores for Easter Dinner," continued McLaughlin. "HoneyBaked's one-stop-shop offers everything you need. Plus, you get our signature, sweet and crunchy glaze on your ham and turkey which will have everyone asking for seconds."
HoneyBaked Easter meals are sure to please gatherings of all sizes. Try any of the following from a local retail location:
- Quarter Ham Meal has a Quarter Bone-In Ham and three Heat & Serve Sides like Maple Sweet Potato Souffle, Green Bean Casserole, Cheesy Potatoes Au Gratin and Double Cheddar Mac & Cheese. Serves 4-8.
- Signature Honey Baked Ham® Meal includes a Bone-In Half Ham (8 or 9 lbs.) and four Heat & Serve Sides. Serves 10-16.
- Honey Baked Ham® & Turkey Feast comes with a Bone-In Half Ham, Turkey Breast and four Heat & Serve sides. Serves 12-16.
- NEW Half Boneless Ham Meal consists of a Half Boneless Ham and three Heat & Serve sides. Serves 4-6.
- Coconut Cake, a limited time seasonal offer, is loaded with layers of coconut crème filling, whipped frosting and savory coconut shavings.
All meal offerings above are available for purchase at your nearest HoneyBaked location or visit honeybaked.com to buy online and pick up in store.
For additional savings, enjoy $5 off any Bone-In Half Ham or Easter meal during Gold Pick Up Days. Just select early pickup at retail stores, only on April 4-5, 2023 (coupon required). HoneyBaked also offers a wide variety of meals, proteins, sides and desserts that ship directly to your home. Visit honeybaked.com to order your Easter meal or pick up at your nearest HoneyBaked location.
Skip the unnecessary stress and the long grocery store lines this Easter. HoneyBaked is here to take meal prep off your hands with delicious and easy-to-serve meals that will leave all guests wanting more. Wishing everyone a safe and happy Easter!
Survey methodology:
This random double-opt-in survey of 2,000 Americans who celebrate Easter was commissioned by The Honey Baked Ham Company between February 17 and February 22, 2023. It was conducted by market research company OnePoll, whose team members are part of the Market Research Society and have a corporate membership to the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and the European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR).
About The Honey Baked Ham Company:
For more than 60 years, The Honey Baked Ham Company has provided customers and their families with delightful food to enjoy for all of life's special moments. HoneyBaked's origins began when founder Harry J. Hoenselaar patented a spiral-slicing ham machine, making way for the first HoneyBaked Store in Detroit, Michigan. Since that momentous opening in 1957, the family-owned company has grown to more than 400 locations nationwide, serving its signature spiral-sliced Honey Baked Ham with sweet and crunchy glaze, premium turkey breast, heat & serve sides, desserts, sandwiches and more. Offering convenient meals using the best ingredients, HoneyBaked will make every occasion a little more memorable, whether you're dining in store, picking up or ordering online. For more information visit www.honeybaked.com and connect on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and TikTok.
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2023-03-14T10:50:59+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2023/03/14/new-research-shopping-marathon-easter-dinner-has-more-than-half-hosts-stressed/
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – With temperatures just above freezing and wind gusts chilling his skin, Santos Ismael Najera built a shelter inside a Downtown El Paso garage by taping the side of cardboard boxes to a concrete pillar.
“The cold took us by surprise. We did not know it would get this cold,” said the Nicaraguan migrant who found himself homeless after U.S. immigration authorities released him from a processing center Monday afternoon.
A few feet away, other migrants huddled under donated blankets, some bearing the logo of the American Red Cross. Not far away on Leon Street, another group of migrants slept over blankets on the sidewalk and some huddled on a mattress a local resident dropped off in a pickup.
They were among the 798 paroled migrants U.S. Customs and Border Protection released onto the streets of El Paso between Sunday and Monday as nonprofit shelters are full and federal processing facilities are way above capacity. The latest humanitarian crisis unfolds a few days before Title 42 expulsions of migrants on public health grounds end on Dec. 21 and just as Homeland Security Secretary is supposed to visit the city on Tuesday.
Since last Saturday, hundreds of asylum-seekers have come over from Juarez, Mexico, to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol agents. Hundreds lined up on the U.S. bank of the Rio Grande early Tuesday waiting to be placed on white, unmarked buses that will take them to a CBP processing center.
Most of the new arrivals are Nicaraguans, but other migrants interviewed Tuesday in Juarez prior to crossing the border said they were from Guatemala, which border agents say are still amenable to Title 42 expulsions. Almost all of those interviewed on both sides of the border say they are fleeing poverty and corrupt governments.
“In our country we did not have what we need. We came looking for that in this country so that our family can have a better life and things change,” Najera said. “My dad is dead. I only have my mom, my children and my brothers. I left a 4-year-old boy and two sons (ages) 12 and 16 who are in school. That is why I’m making this effort, so they get ahead and become better people.”
Najera said he felt slighted in Nicaragua because of his Christian evangelical religious views.
“There is no freedom. That president (Daniel Ortega) thinks he is God,” he said, recalling how government officials disbanded an outdoor event by his congregation because a government march was to take place that Sunday. “They do not respect your freedom. The economy is shot, and things are difficult. They took away scholarships from young people and now they are threatening to take away benefits for the elderly.”
Bismar Centeno Benavidez huddled with his wife and sister against a wall inside the garage late Monday. He brushed away the cold by focusing on the positive aspects of his situation.
“We are grateful now that this country is giving us this opportunity. We feel good. It’s a blessing,” the Nicaraguan migrant said. “The purpose is to help our family get ahead. I have my daughter back home and my sister also has her children there, too. We will take this opportunity to work and earn money honestly.”
Centeno said members of nonprofit groups in El Paso approached his family earlier in the day and gave them jackets and food. His family plans to settle in Houston as soon as they get the funds to travel out of El Paso.
The migrant said he decided to leave Nicaragua after losing his job. “There is no work in our country. The economic situation is bad. Businesses have closed and they have laid us off from our jobs …. and now we are here,” he said.
David Garcia, another Nicaraguan shivering in the cold, said being outdoors was an inconvenience, but nothing compared to the horror he and some travel companions endured in Mexico. Garcia was part of a large group of Central and South Americans held for ransom by a drug cartel in Durango, Mexico, last week.
Garcia said his captors demanded he call his family and instruct them to wire hundreds of dollars to them so he could be released.
“They kept us in three houses, all crowded, one on top of the other. They gave us (instant) soup and water once a day. It was a bad experience,” he said, adding that two women who were being kept in separate quarters managed to escape and called Mexican authorities.
The smugglers left when they saw police approach, and the migrants regrouped, formed a caravan and crossed into the border state of Chihuahua last Friday. They were bused to Juarez on Saturday, and Garcia wasted no time in making his way to the American side of the Rio Grande.
“It was a nightmare going through Mexico, but we are safe now. I am grateful to the president (Biden) and to the people of the United States for giving us this opportunity,” he said with a half smile amid the chill.
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2022-12-13T21:08:09+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/news/border-report/migrants-brave-bitter-cold-on-el-paso-streets/
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.
The space agency attempted the test two weeks ago to see if in the future a killer rock could be nudged out of Earth’s way.
“This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready for whatever the universe throws at us,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said during a briefing at NASA headquarters in Washington.
The Dart spacecraft carved a crater into the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, hurling debris out into space and creating a cometlike trail of dust and rubble stretching several thousand miles (kilometers). It took days of telescope observations from Chile and South Africa to determine how much the impact altered the path of the 525-foot (160-meter) asteroid around its companion, a much bigger space rock.
Before the impact, the moonlet took 11 hours and 55 minutes to circle its parent asteroid. Scientists had hoped to shave off 10 minutes but Nelson said the impact shortened the asteroid’s orbit by about 32 minutes.
The amount of debris apparently played a role in the outcome, scientists said. The impact may also have left Dimorphos wobbling a bit, said NASA program scientist Tom Statler. That may affect the orbit, but it will never go back to its original orbit, he noted.
Neither asteroid posed a threat to Earth — and still don’t as they continue their journey around the sun. That’s why scientists picked the pair for the world’s first attempt to alter the position of a celestial body.
Planetary defense experts prefer nudging a threatening asteroid or comet out of the way, given enough lead time, rather than blowing it up and creating multiple pieces that could rain down on Earth.
“This is spectacular that we’ve taken this first step … but we really need to also have that warning time for a technique like this to be effective,” said mission leader Nancy Chabot of Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, which built the spacecraft and managed the $325 million mission.
“You’ve got to know they’re coming,” said NASA’s Lori Glaze.
Launched last year, the vending machine-size Dart — short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test — was destroyed when it slammed into the asteroid 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) away at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph).
”We’ve been imagining this for years and to have it finally be real is really quite a thrill,” said Statler.
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WABASH VALLEY, Ind. (WTHI) - The Vigo County commissioners awarded $70,000 to drug abuse prevention programs.
The money was given to a coalition of organizations in the Wabash Valley. It includes places like Next Step and Chances and Services for Youth.
The money will be used to develop programs to help combat the opioid crisis.
It'll also allow the coalition to request money from the national opioid settlement.
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2023-03-01T00:06:12+00:00
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wthitv.com
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https://www.wthitv.com/news/vigo-co-commissioners-award-money-to-organizations-for-drug-prevention/article_b606055a-b7a6-11ed-8914-fff3c762c0bb.html
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Joe Burrow says the Cincinnati Bengals’ championship window should stay open for years.
“The window is my whole career,” the franchise quarterback said matter-of-factly after the Bengals clinched their second straight AFC North title.
His confidence is understandable given the offensive weapons available: Receivers Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins have gained 1,000 yards in back-to-back seasons, making them the first pair of Bengals wideouts to do that since Chad Johnson and T.J. Houshmandzadeh in 2006 and 2007.
While both have been limited by injuries this season, they’ve combined to catch 18 touchdown passes and will look for when Cincinnati plays at Kansas City on Sunday in the AFC championship game for the second straight year.
Economics may dictate the future of the star receivers, however.
Team owner Mike Brown acknowledged before the season that finances were already being restructured to be able to sign Burrow, the top overall pick in the 2020 draft, to an extension that will keep him in Cincinnati for years. Based on the contracts of other top quarterbacks, Burrow’s deal could put him in range of $40 million to $50 per season.
With the best years ahead for Chase and Higgins, the famously frugal Bengals could have some hard choices.
The 22-year-old Chase — Burrow’s teammate at LSU during their 2019 national championship year — was drafted fifth overall in 2021 and made a splash, piling up 1,455 yards and 13 touchdowns in helping lead the Bengals to the Super Bowl and winning offensive rookie of the year.
“He’s one of the best,” Burrow said this week. “Anybody that watches tape can see it. You can double him, you can cloud him, you can have a guy follow him — he’s going to get his. You just got to get him touches because of how dynamic he is with the ball in his hand.”
Offensive coordinator said Brian Callahan said Chase’s development in his second season has allowed the Bengals to put him at different spots to keep defenses guessing. Chase ran out of the backfield at times in last week’s win over Buffalo in the divisional round.
“Our job is to move him around so much that they can’t pinpoint where he’s going to be,” Callahan said. “We’ll see how that looks like come Sunday. We’ve done a good job protecting him from getting double-teamed as much as teams want to double-team him. They’ll have their work cut out for him to do that.”
The 23-year-old Higgins is in his third season out of Clemson. He led Cincinnati with 908 receiving yards when he and Burrow were rookies in 2020.
“I just feel like the older we get, the more we know, the more we learn about the game, the more and more we learn about the defenses,” Higgins said. “Then, we got the vet with (Tyler Boyd) teaching me and Ja’Marr all the little things, and I feel like that’s helping us out tremendously.”
Like Burrow, Higgins has a four-year entry-level contract and will soon become eligible for an extension. Chase is in the second year of a similar rookie deal.
But that’s down the road. Right now, no one is looking beyond Sunday.
“It’s going to be a tough one, but I believe in the guys that we got in our room,” Higgins said. “And I believe in the man that is running the offense — Joe putting the ball in the right spots.”
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2023-01-29T02:45:54+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/sports/nfl/ap-bengals-powered-by-3-young-stars-burrow-chase-higgins/
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DETROIT, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bollinger Motors, which recently became a majority owned company of Mullen Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ: MULN), announces today it has teamed up with Wabash, a leading truck body and trailer manufacturer, to develop a stronger, lighter, refrigerated truck body on electric chassis.
Wabash has developed a lightweight composite technology, EcoNex™ Technology, for use in truck bodies and trailers that will seamlessly integrate with Bollinger's Class 4 electric chassis cab. Wabash's EcoNex Technology is made from composite material that is more durable, lighter, and more thermally efficient than other commercial products.
The companies' unique offering includes:
- Weight savings due to Wabash's lightweight EcoNex composite technology
- Electrification of customer fleets utilizing Bollinger's all-electric chassis cab
- Increased total payload capacity due to lower overall truck weight
- Breakthrough improvement in thermal efficiency compared to conventional design
- Overall cost savings due to weight savings and thermal efficiency
"Wabash's EcoNex composite technology reduces the amount of electricity needed to maintain cold temperatures," said Mark Ehrlich, VP new business development at Wabash. "The all-electric truck we're developing with Bollinger Motors will be highly efficient with more uptime and less charging compared to conventional construction."
"I'm excited to help 'green up' the journey from farm to table," said Robert Bollinger, Founder & CEO of Bollinger Motors, who was inspired to start the company while he owned a farm in upstate New York. "We're confident Wabash's expertise in commercial transportation, combined with Bollinger's leadership in Class 4 electrification, will deliver a superior product for customers looking to reduce their carbon footprints."
On Wednesday, September 7th, 2022, Bollinger Motors become a majority owned EV truck company of Mullen Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ: MULN). This is Mullen's first EV acquisition and propels the Company into the medium-duty truck classes 3-6, along with the B1 and B2 sport utility trucks. Learn more about the acquisition here. Bollinger Motors is led by founder and CEO, Robert Bollinger, out of its Oak Park, Michigan headquarters.
Founded in 2015 by Robert Bollinger, Bollinger Motors is a U.S.-based company, headquartered in Oak Park, Michigan. Bollinger Motors will manufacture all-electric platforms and chassis cabs for commercial vehicles in Classes 4-6. www.BollingerMotors.com.
Wabash is a world-class manufacturer of advanced engineered solutions and services for transportation, logistics and distribution industries, with capabilities recognized for innovation, reliability and industry expertise.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Any statements contained in this press release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed forward-looking statements. Words such as "continue," "will," "may," "could," "should," "expect," "expected," "plans," "intend," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential" and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements, many of which are generally outside the control of Bollinger Motors and are difficult to predict. Examples of such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to whether the all-electric truck being developed by Wabash for Bollinger Motors will be successful or achieve the efficiencies and optimal charging contemplated. Additional examples of such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to: (i) Bollinger Motors' ability (or inability) to obtain additional financing in sufficient amounts or on acceptable terms when needed; (ii) Bollinger Motors' ability to maintain existing, and secure additional, contracts with manufacturers, parts and other service providers relating to its business;
(iii) Bollinger Motors' ability to successfully expand in existing markets and enter new markets; (iv) Bollinger Motors' ability to successfully manage and integrate any acquisitions of businesses, solutions or technologies; (v) unanticipated operating costs, transaction costs and actual or contingent liabilities; (vi) the ability to attract and retain qualified employees and key personnel; (vii) adverse effects of increased competition on Bollinger Motors' business; (viii) changes in government licensing and regulation that may adversely affect Bollinger Motors' business; (ix) the risk that changes in consumer behavior could adversely affect Bollinger Motors' business; (x) Bollinger Motors' ability to protect its intellectual property; and (xi) local, industry and general business and economic conditions. Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements can be found in the most recent annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and current reports on Form 8-K filed by Mullen Automotive, Inc., of which Bollinger Motors is a partially-owned subsidiary, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Bollinger Motors anticipates that subsequent events and developments may cause its plans, intentions, and expectations to change. Bollinger Motors assumes no obligation, and it specifically disclaims any intention or obligation, to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as expressly required by law. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and should not be relied upon as representing Bollinger Motors' plans and expectations as of any subsequent date.
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2022-09-21T14:00:11+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/09/21/bollinger-motors-wabash-announce-joint-development-produce-last-mile-refrigerated-delivery-electric-truck/
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MLB Games Tonight: How to Watch on TV, Streaming & Odds - Monday, May 1
Today's MLB slate features top teams in action. Among those contests is the Toronto Blue Jays playing the Boston Red Sox.
How to watch all the action in the MLB today is included here.
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How to Watch Today's MLB Games
The New York Mets (15-12) play host to the Atlanta Braves (18-9)
The Braves will hit the field at Citi Field against the Mets on Monday at 1:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- NYM Key Player: Pete Alonso (.257 AVG, 10 HR, 25 RBI)
- ATL Key Player: Ronald Acuña Jr. (.352 AVG, 4 HR, 14 RBI)
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The New York Mets (15-12) take on the Atlanta Braves (18-9)
The Braves hope to get a road victory at Citi Field against the Mets on Monday at 4:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- NYM Key Player: Pete Alonso (.257 AVG, 10 HR, 25 RBI)
- ATL Key Player: Ronald Acuña Jr. (.352 AVG, 4 HR, 14 RBI)
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The New York Yankees (15-14) host the Cleveland Guardians (13-15)
The Guardians will take to the field at Yankee Stadium versus the Yankees on Monday at 7:05 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- NYY Key Player: Gleyber Torres (.245 AVG, 4 HR, 10 RBI)
- CLE Key Player: José Ramírez (.280 AVG, 3 HR, 17 RBI)
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The Washington Nationals (10-17) play the Chicago Cubs (14-13)
The Cubs will take to the field at Nationals Park versus the Nationals on Monday at 7:05 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- WSH Key Player: Jeimer Candelario (.239 AVG, 4 HR, 14 RBI)
- CHC Key Player: Nico Hoerner (.328 AVG, 2 HR, 17 RBI)
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The Boston Red Sox (15-14) play the Toronto Blue Jays (18-10)
The Blue Jays will look to pick up a road win at Fenway Park against the Red Sox on Monday at 7:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- BOS Key Player: Rafael Devers (.232 AVG, 10 HR, 27 RBI)
- TOR Key Player: Matt Chapman (.384 AVG, 5 HR, 21 RBI)
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The Houston Astros (14-13) face the San Francisco Giants (11-16)
The Giants will hit the field at Minute Maid Park against the Astros on Monday at 8:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 8:10 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- HOU Key Player: Kyle Tucker (.286 AVG, 5 HR, 20 RBI)
- SF Key Player: Thairo Estrada (.346 AVG, 4 HR, 10 RBI)
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The San Diego Padres (15-14) play the Cincinnati Reds (12-16)
The Reds will take to the field at PETCO Park against the Padres on Monday at 9:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- SD Key Player: Xander Bogaerts (.308 AVG, 6 HR, 13 RBI)
- CIN Key Player: Jonathan India (.287 AVG, 1 HR, 11 RBI)
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The Los Angeles Dodgers (16-13) play host to the Philadelphia Phillies (15-13)
The Phillies hope to get a road victory at Dodger Stadium versus the Dodgers on Monday at 10:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: SportsNet LA
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 10:10 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- LAD Key Player: Max Muncy (.238 AVG, 11 HR, 22 RBI)
- PHI Key Player: Nicholas Castellanos (.313 AVG, 4 HR, 17 RBI)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
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2023-05-01T12:25:20+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/sports/betting/2023/05/01/mlb-odds-how-to-watch/
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A heated exchange between rapper Cardi B and the lawyer for a man suing her for copyright infringement got so intense Wednesday that the judge briefly stopped the trial.
The Grammy winner delivered pointed answers to several questions by attorney A. Barry Cappello, who is representing a man who claims the rapper misused his likeness on the cover of a 2016 mixtape.
The testy back-and-forth between Cappello and the star witness prompted U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney to send jurors out of the Santa Ana, California courtroom and tell both sides he was considering a mistrial. After a break, he called the arguing “unprofessional” and “not productive” but allowed questioning to resume – placing new restrictions for both sides.
Kevin Michael Brophy is seeking $5 million from Cardi B over the appearance of some of his distinctive back tattoos on the mixtape’s artwork, which shows a tattooed man from behind with his head between the rapper’s legs.
The rapper said she felt Brophy hadn’t suffered any consequences as a result of the artwork, yet has harassed her legally for five years. At one point she said she missed a special moment with her youngest child, who recently turned 1-year-old.
“I have empathy for people,” she said. “I care about people. I feel like I’m being taken advantage of. I missed my child’s first step by being here.”
Brophy told jurors Tuesday that he felt “humiliated” by the racy artwork.
At one point, Cardi B pointed out that the man’s face cannot be seen in the artwork. Capello asked her to calm down, but she instead barked back at the lawyer’s contention that she knew about photo-editing software used to put Brophy’s tattoos – which have been featured in magazines – on another model’s body.
“It’s not your client’s back,” she said about the image, which features a Black model. Brophy is white. The rapper said she posted a photo of the “famous Canadian model” on her social media.
Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar, said an artist used only a “small portion” of the tattoos without her knowledge. She had previously said the cover art – created by Timm Gooden — was transformative fair use of Brophy’s likeness.
Cappello said Gooden was paid $50 to create a design but was then told to find another tattoo after he turned in an initial draft. He said Gooden googled “back tattoos” before he found an image and pasted it on the cover.
Cardi B’s lawyer, Peter Anderson, said Brophy and the mixtape image are unrelated, noting the model did not have neck tattoos, which Brophy does.
“It’s not him,” the rapper said. “To me, it doesn’t look like his back at all. The tattoo was modified, which is protected by the First Amendment.”
She said the image hasn’t hindered Brophy’s employment with a popular surf and skate apparel brand or his ability to travel the world for opportunities.
“He hasn’t gotten fired from his job,” said Cardi B, who implied that the mixtape was not a lucrative one for her. “He hasn’t gotten a divorce. How has he suffered? He’s still in a surf shop at his job. Please tell me how he’s suffered.”
Brophy, a self-described family man, said he sent a cease-and-desist letter to Cardi B’s representatives to remove the image, but he never received a response. The rapper said she hadn’t seen the letter.
At one point, Cardi B said she doesn’t check her mailbox because that’s for “old people” – leading some in the courtroom to chuckle.
When Cardi B left the courthouse, she was swarmed by around 30 high schoolers who were attempting to take selfies with her. As the rapper walked toward her vehicle with security, she smiled and waved before telling them she would be more responsive after the trial.
Last month, Cardi B pleaded guilty to a criminal case stemming from a pair of brawls at New York City strip clubs that required her to perform 15 days of community service. Earlier this year, the rapper was awarded $1.25 million in a defamation lawsuit against a celebrity news blogger who posted videos falsely stating she used cocaine, had contracted herpes and engaged in prostitution.
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2022-10-20T13:10:46+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/cardi-b-argues-with-lawyer-in-racy-mixtape-artwork-case-judge-threatens-mistrial/
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NEW YORK (AP) — Visa Inc. said its fiscal fourth quarter profits rose by an adjusted 16% from a year earlier, helped once again by higher usage of its global namesake payment network.
The San Francisco-based company said it earned a profit of $3.94 billion, or $1.86 a share. Excluding one-time charges, which included Visa writing down some of its investments due to the drop in the stock market this year, the company earned $4.09 billion, or $1.93 a share. That’s better than the $1.87 per share that analysts were forecasting, according to FactSet.
Visa processed $2.929 trillion in payments on its network in the July to September quarter, up 10.5% on a constant-dollar basis. Since the pandemic, there’s been a global move to use electronic payments for more routine purchases, such as groceries. That behavioral change has directly benefited Visa’s bottom line, since it takes a small fee for every transaction run on its network.
The payments increase has come despite the surge in inflation across the world. Visa said that its has seen no change in consumer purchasing behavior yet.
“As we look ahead, while some short-term uncertainty exists, we remain confident in Visa’s long-term growth trajectory across consumer payments, new flows and value added services,” Visa CEO Al Kelly said in a statement.
For the full fiscal year, Visa said it earned $16 billion on an adjusted basis on revenue of $29.3 billion. That’s up 24% from a year earlier.
Visa’s board of directors also approved an increase to the company’s quarterly dividend to 45 cents per share. The board also approved a new $12 billion stock buyback program, replacing its previous program.
Visa’s stock was up about 2% in after-hours trading.
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2022-10-26T22:19:55+00:00
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upmatters.com
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https://www.upmatters.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-visa-posts-jump-in-quarterly-profit-increases-dividend/
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- First Horizon Corporation (NYSE: FHN or the "Company") today announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly common stock dividend of $0.15 per share. The dividend is payable on October 2, 2023 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 15, 2023.
Preferred Dividend Information
Cash dividends were also declared on the Company's Series C, Series D, Series E and Series F Preferred Stock, and on First Horizon Bank's Class A Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, as follows:
FHN Series C
Quarterly cash dividend of $165.00 per share on FHN's 6.60% Fixed to Floating Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series C ("Series C Preferred Stock"). This equates to a cash dividend of $0.4125 per Depositary Share (NYSE: FHN PRC), which each represent a 1/400th interest in a share of the Series C Preferred Stock. The dividend is payable on November 1, 2023 to shareholders of record at the close of business on October 17, 2023.
FHN Series D
Semi-annual cash dividend of $305.00 per share on FHN's 6.10% Fixed to Floating Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series D ("Series D Preferred Stock"). This equates to a cash dividend of $0.7625 per Depositary Share (NYSE: FHN PRD), which each represent a 1/400th interest in a share of the Series D Preferred Stock. The dividend is payable on November 1, 2023 to shareholders of record at the close of business on October 17, 2023.
FHN Series E
Quarterly cash dividend of $1,625.00 per share on FHN's 6.50% Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series E ("Series E Preferred Stock"). This equates to a cash dividend of $0.40625 per Depositary Share (NYSE: FHN PRE), which each represent a 1/4,000th interest in a share of the Series E Preferred Stock. The dividend is payable on October 10, 2023 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 25, 2023.
FHN Series F
Quarterly cash dividend of $1,175.00 per share on FHN's 4.70% Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series F ("Series F Preferred Stock"). This equates to a cash dividend of $0.29375 per Depositary Share (NYSE: FHN PRF), which each represent a 1/4,000th interest in a share of the Series F Preferred Stock. The dividend is payable on October 10, 2023 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 25, 2023.
First Horizon Bank Class A
Quarterly cash dividend of $16.33641 per share on First Horizon Bank's Class A Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock. The dividend is payable on October 10, 2023 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 25, 2023.
About First Horizon
First Horizon Corp. (NYSE: FHN), with $85.1 billion in assets as of June 30, 2023, is a leading regional financial services company, dedicated to helping our clients, communities and associates unlock their full potential with capital and counsel. Headquartered in Memphis, TN, the banking subsidiary First Horizon Bank operates in 12 states across the southern U.S. The Company and its subsidiaries offer commercial, private banking, consumer, small business, wealth and trust management, retail brokerage, capital markets, fixed income, and mortgage banking services. First Horizon has been recognized as one of the nation's best employers by Fortune and Forbes magazines and a Top 10 Most Reputable U.S. Bank. More information is available at www.FirstHorizon.com.
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2023-07-25T20:42:49+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2023/07/25/first-horizon-declares-cash-dividends-common-preferred-stock/
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