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Nationwide Shortage of IV Solution Affecting Local Medical S
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PHARR – Hidalgo County Emergency Medical Services are scrambling to stock their shelves with IV bags.
CHANNEL 5 NEWS started tracking the shortage of IV bags in November of last year.
The reason behind the shortage comes from the main supplier of the product being based in Puerto Rico. The island is still recovering from the destruction left behind by Hurricane Maria.
Hidalgo County EMS takes in more than 2,000 calls a day and dispatches for 300; 90 percent of emergencies.
They operate with 55 ambulances and two helicopters. The main lifesaver comes in bag known as a normal saline solution, or NS.
Reymundo Mendoza, assistant director of operations at Hidalgo County EMS, said they’ve been struggling to receive NS from suppliers.
“Our vendors have been in national backorder, meaning that they're not producing enough for the demand that's out in the field.”
Field supervisor for Hidalgo County EMS Tony Shatto used to carry the solution in his work truck. He's resorted to giving his share to ambulance crews.
“They're going to use it on their scene and I should have some, but we're so low that I don't have any to put on here,” said Shatto.
The company used to buy normal saline from one vendor, but after Hurricane Maria, they’re now up to six.
Due to the shortage, they have to use a substitute formula, known as a lactated ringer.
The problem with lactated ringer is that it can't be administered to all patients because it’s made up of ingredients that can have negative health impacts on a critical patient.
Normal saline, on the other hand, can be used all the time. For now, first responders are forced to be selective with who gets the limited supply of NS.
According to the Food and Drug Administration, the shortage should ease over the next few months.
The FDA is allowing IV bags to be imported from other countries such as Canada, Mexico, Ireland and Italy. | 2022-11-16T14:16:55+00:00 | krgv.com | https://www.krgv.com/videos/nationwide-shortage-of-iv-solution-affecting-local-medical-s |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)IndyCar on Friday cleared driver Jack Harvey to return to competition following a frightening crash in the season-opening race.
Harvey was briefly evaluated at a Florida hospital following a multi-car crash in the March 5 race on the streets of downtown St. Petersburg. Kyle Kirkwood launched airborne over the top of Harvey’s car in the crash.
Rahal Letterman Lanigan said Harvey will race April 2 on the oval at Texas Motor Speedway. The British driver missed the Texas race last year with a concussion diagnosed ahead of the race from a crash earlier in the weekend.
His latest injury was not disclosed by the IndyCar medical team, which did not clear Harvey last week to test at Sebring International Raceway.
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AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports | 2023-03-18T17:32:50+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/indycar-clears-jack-harvey-to-race-again-at-texas/ |
HOUSTON, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today that it will host a conference call to discuss its third quarter 2022 financial results on Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 7:30 a.m. Central Time (8:30 a.m. Eastern Time). The company plans to issue its third quarter 2022 earnings release and earnings presentation in advance of the call. Both will be available on KBR's website.
The conference call will be webcast simultaneously through the Investor Relations section of KBR's website at investors.kbr.com. A replay of the webcast will be available after the call on our website or by telephone at +1.866.813.9403, passcode: 379276.
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The company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K, any subsequent Form 10-Qs and 8-Ks, and other U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss some of the important risk factors that the company has identified that may affect its business, results of operations and financial condition. Except as required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
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ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Although there was initial optimism that Detroit Lions rookie wide receiver Jameson Williams might be available in time for training camp, head coach Dan Campbell doesn't anticipate that happening as Williams continues to heal from his ACL injury.
"I don't see him being ready for training camp. I don't see that," Campbell said. "I'm very hopeful, but I don't see it. We're going to do this thing the right way and when he's ready, he'll be ready. But, no, I don't feel like you're going to see him out there Day 1."
The Lions are monitoring their No. 12 pick closely and don't want to rush his progress.
Williams has been spotted around the practice facility for rookie and mandatory minicamps, but he has only watched from the sideline -- while keeping a football in his hands -- in anticipation of his return.
"We'll have a plan for him moving forward," Campbell said. "He's going to be around here with us and the short period of time, at which he does go home, we know where he's going to be and who those people are. So, we're going to have a plan for him."
Williams is expected to be a big part of the team's future, which is why the front office traded up 20 spots to land him in the first round. The Alabama player tore his left ACL in January during the national championship game, but Detroit has maintained faith in his ability.
Lions quarterback Jared Goff is among those in the organization that are highly anticipating his return while also trying to keep him engaged with the team this offseason. As a young player, Goff understands the value in staying involved.
"Very excited. He's a special talent and I just keep [saying] like 'get him back, get him back,'" Goff said. "And, I know they're going to make sure he's as healthy as possible, but selfishly, I want him back as soon as possible, but he's staying engaged. He's got the script in his hand, he's seeing the plays, he's doing a good job. Obviously, he's a great talent, but a great part of our team so far as well and I expect him to grow into his role nicely."
As Goff watched Detroit move up to land him, he called the move a "great" one. Goff also admitted to watching his highlight tape on draft night and said his ability to make people miss is what jumps off the screen and his speed.
"I just think doing my best to keep him involved and make sure he feels like he's a part of what we're doing," Goff said. "And I'm not the only one, coaches are doing that and trainers and everybody, but I think that's what happens sometimes when these guys have these long rehabs and you can feel like you're not quite a part of it and I've had long rehabs in the offseason. So, just making sure he feels love and a part of what we're doing and is going to be a big part of what we're doing obviously, hopefully sooner than later." | 2022-06-09T17:02:44+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34064196/detroit-lions-coach-dan-campbell-not-expecting-rookie-wr-jameson-williams-acl-ready-training-camp |
Sur-Seal unveils unified brand, with new logo, and website as part of extensive rebranding initiative.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since 1965 Sur-Seal has provided custom sealing solutions to industry leading OEMs across a variety of markets.
In recent years Sur-Seal has invested in growing its operations and capabilities through strategic acquisitions, completing partnerships with Spectex, a provider of die-cut felts and gaskets, and Mueller, a provider of comprehensive die-cut solutions and services. Together these businesses provide custom engineering, converting, and manufacturing of flexible materials. Now they will all go to market under one unified brand name, Sur-Seal. "We now have three great companies coming together as one to reflect one family, one team and one brand," says Pete Futia, Chief Operating Officer.
In addition to offering a variety of die-cut options, Sur-Seal can now offer our customers custom rubber and silicone molded and extruded parts. The company does business in 25 countries, with over 200 original equipment manufacturing (OEM) customers, including 15 Fortune 500 partners. Sur-Seal is ISO-9001 and AS9100 certified and offers many MilSpec and ASTM-certified raw materials. Customers will appreciate the expansion of our supply chain services that will include storage, kitting, and parts assembly. "We are thrilled about the unified brand, showcasing our new logo and new website," explains Dana Waterman, Chief Executive Officer of Sur- Seal. "The rebranding work provides clarity to our mission and expertise with advanced engineering solutions which create distinct manufacturing advantages for our customers."
The organization will continue to provide customized gaskets and other sealing, thermal insulation components using the most advanced and cost-effective manufacturing techniques available. "Bringing three companies together as one provides a better customer experience with a full suite of engineering solutions for all our customers' sealing needs. The new site emphasizes our value proposition with expertise in markets such as healthcare, aerospace, alternative energy, electrical, climate control and broader industrial applications," says Pete Futia.
Sur-Seal is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio with service centers in Ohio, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Mexico, and China. Sur-Seals mission is to build strong customer relationships through engineering expertise, creative solutions, and outstanding service.
For more information about Sur-Seal visit the site at: https://www.sur-seal.com
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The Broomfield City Council is looking to replace requirements related to the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance (IHO) in hopes of increasing affordable housing access and units.
Council heard a presentation at Tuesday night’s meeting from Director of Development Finance and Economist Jeff Romine in which he proposed changes to the IHO, including updating the unit requirements to meet need and market conditions, increasing the cash-in-lieu to match affordability gap cost, and providing a timely, phased transition from the past fee requirements to updated levels.
According to the memo, the IHO is required to be reviewed every two years. After this year’s review, a study session held in September, discussions with stakeholders and additional analysis, staff recommended the IHO “prioritize the creation of on-site units by providing a more balanced approach for all stakeholders to either provide affordable units or generate sufficient funding to create future affordable units.”
Romine said another goal is to target a broader middle income to be inclusive of more residents.
“Broomfield was established with the idea of a middle income community,” Romine said. “There’s strength in that, because that allows people to be first-time home buyers. It makes it a place people can migrate to.”
A list of recommendations were made to meet the goals listed in the presentation, inducing:
• Expand the types of housing and Area Median Income (AMI) eligibility for on-site restricted housing units.
• Increase the IHO fees for rental and for-sale products by setting the fee using the Affordability Gap method.
• Phase the implementation of the increased fee over a three-year period.
• Increase the threshold for the number of units that trigger IHO requirements for rental developments.
• Provide clarity on calculation of fee payments and timing.
• Provide exclusions to updated fee amounts for qualified developments.
• Set dates for implementation of the new ordinance and periodic review.
• Continue with the current practice of possible alternatives for developers to meet IHO requirements.
Romine and City and County Manager Jennifer Hoffman answered council questions throughout the discussion including the possibility of the changes pushing away some developers, and working on incentivizing developers to want to build affordable units as opposed to just paying the cash-in-lieu options.
The second and final public hearing on this ordinance update is scheduled for Oct. 25 during the council meeting.
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Bezyl's digital health app aims to support the mental health of patients by bringing the power of each patient's network to the palm of the hand
PHOENIX, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bezyl, Inc., a global, digital mental health company, announced today that it is collaborating with THREAD® to provide its mental health digital app and support system to patients participating in clinical trials. Grounded within a secure communications platform, the Bezyl app makes it easier for patients to ask for help from friends, family, and caregivers. Additionally, it provides access to useful and easy-to-navigate resources specific to the patients' needs. With the Bezyl app, patients can easily request help from their network, set check-ins and reminders, and track their moods. As a peer-support tool, the Bezyl app aims to help patients eliminate anxiety, retain their participation in clinical trials, maintain treatment compliance, and most importantly, build their mental strength.
Founder and CEO of Bezyl, Inc., Esther Howard, shared her personal inspiration behind the development of the Bezyl app: "One of my best friends, who had a young daughter, a beautiful family and set of friends, died of colon cancer. During her illness, her family and friends always wanted to do more to support her through her treatment, and she had wished it was easier to ask for help when she needed it. She was referring to the simple things in life, like reading to her daughter or taking her to a doctor's appointment, or even just sitting down and having tea with her on the days that she was feeling better." Moved by the words from her friend, Esther set out to find a way to make seeking and receiving help easier and, in turn, build mental strength in a world that so desperately needs it.
As part of this new partnership, THREAD will offer the Bezyl mental health app to study sponsors as an optional solution provided directly by Bezyl. THREAD, the industry's leading provider of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) and eCOA, is enabling studies to be more inclusive, patient-centric and efficient. Bezyl's digital mental health solution adds to THREAD's offerings by providing a novel tool aimed at supporting mental health and connection throughout the life cycle of a study.
"We recognize that supporting participants in clinical trials requires a multi-faceted approach. Supporting the mental health of study participants is important to our customers, sites, study teams, and THREAD," said John Reites, CEO, THREAD. "We are proud to offer Bezyl to our customers as a secure and unique solution to support mental health."
"Our ultimate mission is to end the global mental health pandemic by helping people help each other," said Esther Howard, founder and CEO, Bezyl, Inc. "Patients participating in clinical research, especially cancer patients, can benefit from realizing the full strength from their network of supporters."
The Bezyl team will be among the more than 40,000 oncology professionals convening in Chicago and virtually for the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting from June 3-7.
In addition to supporting patients, earlier this month, Bezyl released a Ukrainian-specific version of its app to help Ukrainians build personal networks of support and find access to much needed humanitarian relief.
Bezyl is the only global, digital mental health company that provides a simplified communication platform to help people help each other improve their mental strength. Asking for help is easier using Bezyl's proprietary technology that directly connects individuals to their designated spheres of support. Learn how the app works at bezyl.com.
THREAD® is the industry-leading decentralized clinical trials technology and consulting service provider, helping biopharma and CROs decentralize clinical research and enable electronic clinical outcome assessments (eCOA) for sites, participants, caregivers, and home health professionals. Through its end-to-end unified platform, THREAD is making studies 30 percent more efficient and five times more inclusive and diverse. Backed by health care investors Water Street Healthcare Partners and JLL Partners, THREAD is recognized as a leader by Everest Group's Decentralized Clinical Trial Product PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2021, Frost & Sullivan's 2021 Customer Value Leadership Award as well as a long list of accolades. Visit THREADresearch.com to learn more.
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SOURCE Bezyl, Inc. | 2022-05-31T15:42:01+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/05/31/bezyls-digital-health-app-aims-support-mental-health-patients-by-bringing-power-each-patients-network-palm-hand/ |
The number of North Dakota counties considered at medium or high risk for coronavirus transmission dropped substantially over the past week, as COVID-19 cases continued to tail off.
The state's coronavirus dashboard, updated weekly on Fridays, showed 1,401 new COVID-19 cases in the past seven days, down 28% percent from the recent peak three weeks ago.
There are seven counties including Morton at high risk, down from 16 a week ago, and 21 counties including Burleigh at medium risk, down from 28. The number at low risk went from nine to 25.
County risk levels as determined by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can be found at https://bit.ly/3AfSY2A. The CDC recommends that people in high-risk areas wear a mask indoors in public and on public transportation, regardless of vaccination status. People in medium-risk areas who have conditions that make them prone to severe illness or are around others with such conditions should wear masks, according to federal guidance.
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There were 92 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in North Dakota over the past week, down from 114 the previous week. Coronavirus patients make up 4.9% of occupied inpatient beds and 7.3% of intensive care unit beds statewide, stable compared to last week.
Federal data showed one new virus-related death in North Dakota in the past week, raising the state's pandemic total to 2,330. County-level death data is not available. There have been 263,918 confirmed COVID-19 cases in North Dakota during the pandemic that began in March 2020.
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Federal data shows that North Dakota continues to have some of the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the country: 67.3% of adults in the state are fully vaccinated, with the rate for all vaccine-eligible people -- age 5 and older -- at 60.9%. The national averages are 77.3% and 71.6%, respectively.
COVID-19 booster shots are recommended for people 12 and older. North Dakota's first booster rate is 46.5%, compared to 50% nationally. Second booster doses are available for three main groups of people:
- All adults 50 years and older.
- All people 12 years or older who are moderately to severely immunocompromised.
- Adults 18 to 49 years who received two doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.
State Health Department guidance and resources for businesses is at https://bit.ly/3w0DpKj.
Go to https://www.ndvax.org or https://bit.ly/3N3IMxb or call 866-207-2880 to see where COVID-19 vaccine is available. Information on free public testing and free test kits is at health.nd.gov/covidtesting. More detailed pandemic information is at www.health.nd.gov/coronavirus and https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html. | 2022-08-26T19:32:21+00:00 | bismarcktribune.com | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/health/number-of-covid-19-high-risk-counties-in-north-dakota-drops-weekly-cases-decline/article_98acd682-2548-11ed-bcb2-1750c0adb876.html |
An international team of scientists says it has discovered two new "super-Earth" type planets about 100 light-years away, one of which may be suitable for life.
Unlike any of the planets in our solar system, the nearly 1,600 known super-Earths are larger than Earth, but lighter than icy planets like Uranus and Neptune.
Researchers at Belgium's University of Liège announced Wednesday that they found another one while using Earth-based telescopes to confirm the existence of a different planet initially discovered by a NASA satellite in the same solar system.
NASA's satellite found planet LP 890-9b, which is about 30% larger than Earth and orbits its sun in just 2.7 days. ULiège researchers used their SPECULOOS (Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) telescopes in Chile and Spain to take a closer look at the planet with high-precision cameras.
That's when the stargazers discovered another planet, LP 890-9c (renamed SPECULOOS-2c by the ULiège researchers), which is 40% larger than Earth and takes 8.5 days to orbit its sun.
Francisco Pozuelos, a researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia and one of the main co-authors of the paper, said in a news release that the planet could be suitable to life despite being a mere 3.7 million miles from its sun. Earth, by comparison, is located over 93 million miles away from our sun.
"Although this planet orbits very close to its star, at a distance about 10 times shorter than that of Mercury around our Sun, the amount of stellar irradiation it receives is still low, and could allow the presence of liquid water on the planet's surface, provided it has a sufficient atmosphere," Pozuelos said. "This is because the star LP 890-9 is about 6.5 times smaller than the Sun and has a surface temperature half that of our star."
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) searches for exoplanets orbiting nearby stars by monitoring light levels of thousands of stars. New planets are discovered when a planet passes in front of one of those stars, causing the light being monitored to dim.
ULiège scientists then follow up NASA's findings with ground-based telescopes to confirm and characterize the planets.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-09-07T23:28:19+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/news/2022-09-07/a-newly-discovered-planet-40-larger-than-earth-may-be-suitable-for-life |
Government says dogs can dine at restaurants outdoors, but not everyone is on board
(AP) - Just in time for the summer dining season, the U.S. government has given its blessing to restaurants that want to allow pet dogs in their outdoor spaces.
But even though nearly half of states already allow canine dining outdoors, the issue is far from settled, with many diners and restaurants pushing back against the increasing presence of pooches.
“I’d like to be able to enjoy my meal without having to worry about fleas, pet hair, barking and entitled dogs and their owners,” said Tracy Chiu Parisi, a food blogger in New York, who was once startled by a dog that stuck its head in her lap while she was reading a menu.
Restaurants have been required to allow service dogs for decades. But it wasn’t until the mid-2000′s that a handful of states — including Florida and Illinois — began passing laws allowing dogs in outdoor dining spaces, according to the Animal Legal and Historical Center at Michigan State University. Twenty-three states now have such laws or regulations.
But the legal landscape is confusing. Michigan law doesn’t allow dogs in outdoor dining spaces, for example, but lets restaurants apply for a variance from their county health department.
So in 2020, the Conference for Food Protection — a group of food industry and health experts that advises the government — asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to issue guidance for states. It cited a 2012 risk assessment in Australia and New Zealand that found that the health risk to human diners from dogs was very low.
The FDA’s updated food code, issued late last year, says restaurants can have dogs in outdoor areas if they get approval from a local regulator. Restaurants should have signs saying dogs are welcome and should develop plans to handle dogs and their waste. They should ensure dogs remain properly restrained and provide separate food bowls so dogs don’t use plates or utensils meant for humans.
The new guidance comes as U.S. pet ownership is rising. Nearly 87 million U.S. households now have a pet, up from 85 million in 2019, according to the American Pet Products Association.
And experts say more people are looking for dining options that will accommodate their dogs. Yelp searches for businesses using the “dogs allowed” filter jumped 58% between the year ending May 1, 2021, and the year ending May 1, 2023. A total of 47,415 businesses now describe themselves as “dog friendly” on Yelp, the company says.
“Younger pet owners, Millennials and Generation Z, have incredibly strong bonds with their pets and they are willing to act upon that,” said Steven Feldman, president of the Human Animal Bond Research Institute. “They are more likely to frequent — and express a preference for — pet-friendly businesses.”
Monty Hobbs, the managing director of a digital marketing agency in Washington, can often be found at local restaurant patios with Mattox, his 5-year-old terrier and miniature schnauzer mix. Some waiters even bring Mattox bits of bacon.
Hobbs stresses that he doesn’t take Mattox everywhere. “He’s my dog. He’s not my child,” he said.
But Mattox is well-behaved, he said, so it’s nice to know they can drop in at a neighborhood bar if they’re out taking a walk.
At Zazie, a San Francisco bistro, diners get $10 off a bottle of wine on Mondays if they bring their dogs, who get treats donated by the pet store across the street.
“It’s great for business. People really enjoy bringing their dog out with them,” said Megan Cornelius, Zazie’s co-owner.
But other restaurants are saying no to Fido.
The Salty Dog Café in Hilton Head, South Carolina, allowed dogs on its patio when it first opened in 1987. But two years later, it banned them. Too many dogs were barking through meals, fighting, lying in walkways and stealing hot dogs from kids’ plates, says Tim Stearns, the Salty Dog’s chief operating officer.
If diners object, the Salty Dog points them to a separate dog-friendly deck where they can eat takeout food from the restaurant. But most diners seem to appreciate the policy.
“We are all dog lovers at Salty Dog, but we remain a restaurant for humans,” Stearns said.
The Blond Giraffe Key Lime Pie Factory in Key West, Florida, banned dogs because it didn’t want to be held responsible if a dog ate iguana droppings — which can make them violently ill — or tripped a child or an elderly diner. In at least one case, an unleashed dog at the restaurant killed a neighborhood cat.
Julie Denzin, who has worked as a restaurant server in Milwaukee for more than a decade, has watched dogs drool, fight, growl and relieve themselves on restaurant patios. Dogs have bitten her and knocked her over, causing her to spill scalding hot coffee. She has also encountered diners who are allergic to dogs or afraid of them.
Denzin doesn’t think dogs should be banned, but says restaurants should consider designating dog-friendly areas or specific hours when dogs are allowed.
“It’s not a matter of liking or disliking dogs,” she said. “The point is, regardless of what the owner might say — no matter how perfect and obedient they insist their dog is — there’s no way to ensure the safety and comfort of other guests.”
Maddie Speirs, a dog trainer with Pawsitive Futures Dog Training in St. Petersburg, Florida, said many people hire her with the goal of training their dogs to eat out at restaurants. Not every dog is cut out for that, she said; they need to be comfortable with noise and unsolicited interactions and able to be able to sit near food for long periods.
She urges owners to think about who benefits from restaurant visits: them or their dogs.
“If you think it’s for your dog, what exactly are they getting out of it?” she said. “It’s not as fun of a social interaction for dogs as it is for us.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-15T11:54:49+00:00 | kttc.com | https://www.kttc.com/2023/05/15/government-says-dogs-can-dine-restaurants-outdoors-not-everyone-is-board/ |
The activist beauty retailer focuses on fighting voter suppression and engaging young Americans in democracy for the second year of its youth activism campaign Be Seen. Be Heard.
NEW YORK, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Body Shop is proud to announce its partnership with national nonpartisan organization HeadCount to register as many first-time voters as possible and support democracy protection. These bold actions to uphold voting rights are a part of Be Seen. Be Heard, The Body Shop's joint campaign with the UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth, which aims to increase young people's participation in public life in more than 75 countries.
Since 2021, at least 24 states in the US have passed laws that make it more difficult to vote and at least 32 states have introduced similarly restrictive bills. These laws have profound implications for voters, especially young and first-time voters, affecting access to polling stations, transportation, the voter registration process and voter ID laws, among other key determinants for election turnout.
In partnership with HeadCount, visitors to The Body Shop's stores and website can register to vote, sign a pledge to support young people's participation in democracy, and advocate for fair and accessible elections for all voters. Visit the brand's campaign website here.
"During last year's midterm elections, youth across the US made their voices heard loud and clear," said Hilary Lloyd, vice president of marketing and corporate social responsibility for The Body Shop North America. "Young people have the courage and moral clarity to help build a better world, but our institutions are not doing enough to make sure they are seen and heard. We hope this campaign, and partnership with HeadCount, will inspire more youth to think about engaging with democracy as an ongoing practice, not just during major elections."
At its core, HeadCount believes that elections should be accessible, fair, and trustworthy for all voters. Exposing young and first time voters to the power of their vote and the process is essential to its mission to make civic participation part of everyday culture.
"We are energized by The Body Shop's commitment to ensuring young Americans are engaged in democracy," said Lindsay Berberich, Partnership and Marketing Manager at HeadCount. "We look forward to partnering with them to bring more youth into the national voting rights conversation and help ensure elections are fair, accessible and trustworthy."
Further amplifying youth voices, The Body Shop is once again enlisting the support of the brand's 'Changemakers', ambassadors who are courageous and inspiring youth activists who will help spread the message of Be Seen. Be Heard. In the US, the beauty retailer is teaming up with Gen Z Girl Gang founder and reproductive rights activist Deja Foxx and Youth Climate Save Founder and animal rights advocate Genesis Butler. Through livestreams, digital storytelling and live events, The Body Shop's 'Changemakers' will instill the importance of voting access to customers across the US and drive support for HeadCount's civic engagement work.
Together, The Body Shop and HeadCount will host a number of voter registration events this year too, including an exciting activation in New York City on September 19, 2023 for National Voter Registration Day.
The Body Shop is now in its second year of Be Seen. Be Heard, having launched last May at the United Nations. Be Seen. Be Heard. has made numerous global strides since its launch, including successfully lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 in Malaysia and encouraging the UK's House of Lords to amend two clauses in its Public Order Bill to better protect the right to protest.
To join The Body Shop in its action, visit the brand's campaign website here.
ABOUT THE BODY SHOP INTERNATIONAL
Founded in 1976 in Brighton, England, by Dame Anita Roddick, The Body Shop is a global beauty brand and a certified B Corp™. The Body Shop seeks to make positive change in the world by offering high-quality, naturally inspired skincare, body care, hair care and make-up produced ethically and sustainably. Having pioneered the philosophy that business can be a force for good, this ethos is still the brand's driving force. The Body Shop operates about 2,500 retail locations in more than 70 countries. The Body Shop is part of Natura & Co, a global, multi-channel and multi-brand cosmetics group that is committed to generating positive economic, social and environmental impact.
For more information visit, www.thebodyshop.com. To connect with The Body Shop on social media, follow @thebodyshopnorthamerica on Instagram and TikTok.
ABOUT HEADCOUNT
HeadCount is a non-partisan non-profit organization that harnesses the power of music, culture, and digital media to register voters and inspire participation in democracy. Since 2004, we've registered over 1.2 million voters through our work with musicians like Ariana Grande, Camila Cabella, Dave Matthews Band, JAY-Z and Dead and Company and brands like Spotify, Ben & Jerry's and GrubHub. Our award-winning online campaigns have been seen over a billion times, while our 60,000 volunteers can be seen at more than 1,000 live events each year. We reach young people where they already are - at concerts and online - to inform and empower.
For more information visit www.HeadCount.org. To connect with HeadCount on social media follow @HeadCountOrg on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.
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Statements by Dr. Elizabeth E. Hood, Founder and Director of Research and Development and Karen B. Wilson, Co-Founder and Director of Corporate Development, GreenLab, Inc.
JONESBORO, Ark., April 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenLab, Inc. "The theme for Earth Day 2023 is 'Invest in the earth.' As a scientist, mother, wife, and plant biotech startup founder, I believe this represents a real opportunity to dig deeper for solutions that truly green industry and get beyond the corporate cliches and rhetoric associated with this annual event.
Throughout my life, I've always cared about the environment, even undertaking organic gardening to grow healthier foods for my family. It was around then that I learned about the crisis in farming where important plant traits were threatened in many of the crops producing our food. This undoubtedly influenced my choice to obtain my PhD from Washington University in St. Louis and become a plant biologist.
Since then, I've collaborated with scientists in multiple nations to help solve this problem via biotechnology, growing more food safely on less farmland with fewer inputs and energy than ever before. The technology was genetic engineering – rejected by a few but embraced by farmers all over the world.
Fast forward to today, and the team we've assembled at GreenLab now uses the next generation of plant biotech in corn to sustainably produce new proteins and enzymes at scale with applications which literally are 'greening industry.' The outcomes created by these innovative proteins do more than fuel hope; they quantifiably move us toward a better, cleaner future.
I believe it's imperative for the business sector and society at large to not just embrace the promise of apolitical, evidence-based ESG standards, but capitalize on it. The companies who partner with GreenLab will benefit by making meaningful progress achieving their own ESG objectives. Together, our collaboration can ultimately be a quantum leap for the eco revolution that inspired Earth Day over 50 years ago, seeking balance and meeting people where they are."
– Dr. Elizabeth E. Hood, Founder, Director of Research and Development, GreenLab, Inc.
"After decades in Silicon Valley, I came home to Arkansas and met my friend Dr. Elizabeth 'Beth' Hood, battling as a female scientist and startup founder to bring groundbreaking biotechnology to market. At the time, her ideas about 'the greening of industry' got the attention of some heavy hitters in the biotech industry, which made me even more excited to help make this happen.
In the United States, in 2022, according to Springboard Enterprises, a leading platform supporting women entrepreneurs, only 2% of all venture capital goes to female founded companies. As one of the earlier female founders to successfully raise VC, it was one of the hardest things to do, but also the most important. There is a renaissance of female founded biotech companies right now and a market that demands novel proteins across every major vertical we know- energy, pharma, industrial use, nutraceutical, food, and environmental. The challenge could not be more clear. We should prioritize investment in biotech companies and meet these challenges, especially when they were founded by female entrepreneurs.
Earth Day's 'Invest in the earth' message could hardly be more well-timed, as biotechnology represents one of the largest impactful investment opportunities ever. GreenLab's biotech platform will advance current challenges for partner companies looking to elevate ESG standards and solve sustainability issues by investing in the earth through biotechnology."
-Karen B. Wilson, Co-Founder and Director of Corporate Development, GreenLab, Inc.
About Elizabeth E. Hood, PhD
Over forty years of experience in biology. Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Agriculture at Arkansas State University. Runs an active research lab for GreenLab, Inc., in plant-based protein production and applications. Dr. Hood is internationally recognized for her research program and associated experience as evidenced by over 75 publications and patents, as well as invitations to speak around the world.
About Karen B. Wilson
Karen has founded multiple startups and served in senior executive roles at Fortune 500 companies generating over $300 million in strategic partnerships and alliances. As a startup founder in Silicon Valley, she successfully raised $50 million in private equity from seed financing through series C. Prior to that, Karen was a member of the inaugural class of female founders at world-renowned Springboard Enterprises.
About GreenLab, Inc.
GreenLab is a biotech startup on a mission to green industry with next-generation plant biotechnology. GreenLab's biotech platform transforms a cornfield into the factory of the future, open today. We deliver on biotech's promise of novel protein and enzyme production with end-to-end sustainability, and unlimited scalability.
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SoftwareReviews' latest Emotional Footprint report highlights the top-rated enterprise architecture reporting software solutions that focus on harnessing the power of modeling, automation, and artificial intelligence.
TORONTO, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - SoftwareReviews, a leading source for insights on the software provider landscape, has revealed its new 2023 Enterprise Architecture Emotional Footprint Report. The new report identifies the top six enterprise architecture management solutions in the enterprise space for the year.
Enterprise architecture (EA) is often perceived differently by various departments within an organization. For example, IT professionals tend to focus on the infrastructure aspect, while operations and functional leaders approach EA from a business process perspective. By adopting an EA framework, IT leaders gain a comprehensive view of the organization's current state, enabling them to visualize and model it holistically. This holistic understanding empowers them to develop strategic plans and effectively prepare for the future state of the organization.
"Current digital transformation trends are bringing business and technology increasingly closer," says Milena Litoiu, principal research director and EA category analyst at Info-Tech Research Group. "As the two become more intertwined, the enterprise architecture role grows in importance and relies on tool-supported modeling, automation, and artificial intelligence for tasks like whiteboard drawings, model conversion, pattern recognition, and optimization."
According to SoftwareReviews, the best EA software includes features like project and document management, analytics and reporting, and process architecture, as well as artificial intelligence (AI). The integration of AI in enterprise architecture brings a plethora of benefits, including data-driven insights, process automation, enhanced decision making, and improved accuracy. By harnessing the power of AI, organizations can unlock the full potential of their EA practices and pave the way for continuous innovation and success in an ever-evolving business landscape.
SoftwareReviews' survey data from 243 end-user reviews was used to identify the top EA software providers for 2023. These insights support organizations seeking to streamline their EA strategies. The leading providers in the firm's new EA Emotional Footprint have been identified as Champions in the space based on high scores from user feedback.
Providers are ranked by a composite satisfaction score, called a Composite Score (CS), that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend.
The 2023 Enterprise Architecture Software Champions are as follows:
- Capsifi Jalapeno, +96, ranked high for being caring.
- LeanIX EAM, +94, ranked high for being trustworthy.
- Essential Project, +92, ranked high for being effective.
- SAMU, +93, ranked high for having integrity.
- QualiWare EA, +91, ranked high for being fair.
- HOPEX Platform, +89, ranked high for being respectful.
Adopting the right enterprise architecture software can bring more agility into practice and increase smoothness in planning, analysis, design, and execution.
User assessments of software categories on SoftwareReviews provide an accurate and detailed view of the constantly changing market. SoftwareReviews' reports are informed by data from users and IT professionals who have intimate experience with the software throughout the procurement, implementation, and maintenance processes.
The full report is now accessible on the firm's website, which is updated in real time to reflect new reviews and ratings.
For more information about SoftwareReviews, the Emotional Footprint, or the Data Quadrant, or to access resources to support the software selection process, visit softwarereviews.com.
SoftwareReviews empowers organizations with the best data, insights, and advice to improve the software buying and selling experience.
For buyers, SoftwareReviews' proven software selection methodologies, customer insights, and technology advisors help maximize success with technology decisions. For providers, the firm helps build more effective marketing, product, and sales processes with expert analysts, how-to research, customer-centric marketing content, and comprehensive analysis of the buyer landscape.
SoftwareReviews is a division of Info-Tech Research Group, a world-class information technology research and advisory firm.
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Brookings president resigns amid FBI foreign lobbying probe
(AP) - The president of the Brookings Institution resigned Sunday amid a federal investigation into whether he illegally lobbied on behalf of the wealthy Persian Gulf nation of Qatar.
Retired Gen. John Allen wrote in a letter to the think tank that he was leaving with a “heavy heart” but did not offer a direct explanation.
“I know it is best for all concerned in this moment,” Allen’s letter said.
A retired four-star Marine general who led U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Allen’s announcement came less than a week after the Associated Press was first to report on new court filings that showed the FBI had seized Allen’s electronic data as part of the lobbying probe.
Allen has not been charged with any crimes and, through a spokesman, has denied any wrongdoing.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal wildlife officials on Wednesday announced a proposal to classify one of two dwindling California spotted owl populations as endangered after a lawsuit by conservation groups required the government to reassess a Trump administration decision not to protect the brown and white birds.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed that California spotted owls that have their habitats in coastal and Southern California be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
That population “does not have a strong ability to withstand normal variations in environmental conditions, persist through catastrophic events, or adapt to new environmental conditions throughout its range,” which led the agency to propose listing it as endangered, wildlife officials said.
The other California spotted owl population, which lives in Sierra Nevada forests in California and western Nevada, would be classified as threatened, the agency said.
The habitat of the medium-sized brown owl with white spots on its head and chest and a barred tail is under serious threat from current logging practices and climate change, including increased drought, disease and more extreme wildfires.
Most California spotted owls live on land overseen by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service.
How much the population has declined since conservation groups started their effort to protect it more than 20 years ago is unclear.
The only available demographic data on spotted owls living in coastal and Southern California was collected in San Bernardino National Forest and shows a decline of 9%, the federal wildlife service said.
The Sierra Nevada population shows declines ranging from 50% to 31% percent in some areas, the agency said.
The federal agency’s decision follows an agreement reached in November between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and several conservation groups that sued the federal agency in 2020 over its decision not to protect the California spotted owl population.
Justin Augustine, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups that sued, applauded the agency’s decision and said he was happy to see the California spotted owls could finally get the safeguards they need.
Augustine said he planned to use the 60-day public comment period to push for more protections for the California spotted population in the Sierra Nevada.
“One of the things I’ll be addressing is the issue of how to make sure that (Sierra Nevada) spotted owls are actually protected under their threatened status rather than potentially allowing some logging to occur that would be harmful,” he said.
The California spotted owl is one of three spotted owl subspecies and the last to be protected under the Endangered Species Act, Augustine said.
The other two subspecies are the northern spotted owl and the Mexican spotted owl.
The northern spotted owl habitat is in Oregon, Washington state and Northern California. The tiny owl was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1990, sparking an intense battle over logging in the region. In 2020, the Trump Administration refused to upgrade it to endangered status despite losing nearly 4% of its population annually.
The Mexican spotted owl was first listed as threatened in the U.S. in 1993. It is found in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, parts of West Texas and Mexico.
The species is in danger of extinction due to lose of habitat to logging, development, mining and wildfires. | 2023-02-23T07:51:01+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/science/ap-science/ap-federal-agency-proposes-california-spotted-owl-protection/ |
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Appeals court orders another review of revised DACA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered a lower court review of Biden administration revisions to a program preventing the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought into the United States as children.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a federal district judge in Texas should take another look at the program following the revisions adopted in August. The ruling leaves the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals up in the air, with current DACA recipients protected — for now — but new applicants barred.
“It is beyond time for Congress and Biden to act on their promises to secure permanent protections for Dreamers, including a pathway to citizenship, once and for all,” the advocacy group Families Belong Together said in a statement. People protected by DACA are commonly referred to as “Dreamers,” based on never-passed proposals in Congress called the DREAM Act.
DACA was adopted by former President Barack Obama’s administration and has had a complicated ride through federal court challenges.
Texas-based U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen last year declared DACA illegal. He found that the program had not been subjected to public notice and comment periods required under the federal Administrative Procedures Act. But he left the program temporarily intact for those already benefiting from it, pending the appeal.
“Current DACA recipients can renew their status and apply for advance parole, but the ruling continues to block new applicants from being granted DACA,” the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, an advocacy organization, said in a statement. The organization was among advocates renewing calls Wednesday for the Biden administration and Congress to protect DACA recipients.
Wednesday’s ruling by three judges of the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit upholds the judge’s initial finding. But it sends the case back to him for a look at a new version of the rule issued by the Biden administration in late August. The new rule takes effect Oct. 31.
“A district court is in the best position to review the administrative record in the rulemaking proceeding,” said the opinion by Chief 5th Circuit Judge Priscilla Richman, nominated to the court by President George W. Bush. The other panel members were judges Kurt Engelhardt and James Ho, both appointees of President Donald Trump.
The new rule’s 453 pages are largely technical and represent little substantive change from the 2012 memo that created DACA, but it was subject to public comments as part of a formal rule-making process intended to improve its chances of surviving legal muster.
In July arguments at the 5th Circuit, the U.S. Justice Department defended the program, allied with the state of New Jersey, immigrant advocacy organizations and a coalition of dozens of powerful corporations, including Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft. They argued that DACA recipients have grown up to become productive drivers of the U.S. economy, holding and creating jobs and spending money.
Texas, joined by eight other Republican-leaning states argued that they are harmed financially, incurring hundreds of millions of dollars in health care, education and other costs, when immigrants are allowed to remain in the country illegally. They also argued that the White House overstepped its authority by granting immigration benefits that are for Congress to decide.
DACA is widely expected to go to the Supreme Court for a third time. In 2016, the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 over an expanded DACA and a version of the program for parents of DACA recipients, keeping in place a lower court decision for the benefits to be blocked. In 2020, the high court ruled 5-4 that the Trump administration improperly ended DACA by failing to follow federal procedures, allowing it to stay in place.
DACA recipients have become a powerful political force even though they can’t vote, but their efforts to achieve a path to citizenship through Congress have repeatedly fallen short. Any imminent threat to lose work authorization and to expose themselves to deportation could pressure Congress into protecting them, even as a stopgap measure.
The Biden administration disappointed some pro-DACA advocates with its conservative legal strategy of keeping age eligibility unchanged. DACA recipients had to have been in the United States in June 2007, an increasingly out-of-reach requirement. The average age of a DACA recipient was 28.2 years at the end of March, compared to 23.8 years in September 2017.
There were 611,270 people enrolled in DACA at the end of March, including 494,350, or 81%, from Mexico and large numbers from Guatemala, Honduras, Peru and South Korea.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-05T23:56:02+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/2022/10/05/appeals-court-orders-another-review-revised-daca/ |
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The executive medical director of the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute (TCAI) at St. David's Medical Center recently led Venice Arrhythmias 2022, a biennial international workshop on cardiac arrhythmias held in Venice, Italy from October 13 to October 15, 2022. As Venice Arrhythmias president, Andrea Natale, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.H.R.S., F.E.S.C., organized the programming for the event. More than 600 attendees from more than 40 countries participated.
Over three days, Dr. Natale presented live cases in pulsed field ablation and discussed innovative technologies and approaches for atrial fibrillation ablation. The event's distinguished keynote speaker was Frank Biden, brother of President Joe Biden. He gave a lecture during the inaugural ceremony titled "The Future of Global Healthcare."
"With the most internationally accredited experts of the cardiac arrhythmia community in one place, on the beautiful island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice is the epicenter of the latest advances and innovations in our industry," Dr. Natale said. "I am honored to be affiliated with this prestigious conference and to represent TCAI and the world-class work of all of our physicians."
The workshop featured worldwide recognized leaders in the field of basic and clinical cardiac electrophysiology presenting the latest scientific advances and innovations. Attendees participated in a wide range of interactive and practical sessions, including debates, challenging clinical case presentations and discussions, as well as pre-recorded and live case sessions.
Venice Arrhythmias is endorsed by the International Scientific Societies operating in the cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmology fields, such as the European Heart Rhythm Association of the European Society of Cardiology (EHRA-ESC) and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS). It was also patronized by the Municipality and Province of Venice. Venice Arrhythmias was established in 1989, making it the longest-running and most successful electrophysiology conference in the world.
For more information, visit VeniceArrhythmias.org.
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‘Afraid he was going to make me lunch’: Coyote chases woman riding motorized scooter
MESA, Ariz. (KPHO/Gray News) – A woman said she was chased by a coyote in Arizona on Wednesday while riding her motorized scooter home to her senior living facility.
Candice Morrison said she is convinced the coyote would have attacked her if a bystander had not stepped in.
Morrison said she was taking her daily stroll around the neighborhood on her scooter when a man stopped his car next to her, telling her a coyote was chasing her about eight feet behind.
“I said, ‘What?!’ And looked back and was like, ‘Oh my god.’ Couldn’t go fast enough,” Morrison said.
She said her scooter only travels 6 mph, and she was racing home.
“I rolled into my facility and the concierge said, ‘Are you OK?’ And I started crying. I said, ‘There’s a coyote out there,’” Morrison said. “I was afraid he was going to make me lunch.”
The man who warned Morrison about the coyote followed her home until she was safe inside the senior living facility.
“He’s a guardian angel, because I was afraid,” Morrison said. “I think the car scared him (the coyote). It came right up to our property.”
Within the last month, there have been multiple run-ins with coyotes across the Valley. In separate cases, two toddlers were attacked in north Scottsdale. Luckily, they weren’t seriously hurt.
The Arizona Game and Fish Department is warning people to stay vigilant. Officials said the root cause of human and wildlife conflict is giving the animals easy access to food and water. Once animals like coyotes associate people with food, they lose their fear.
Morrison said she is thankful to be safe, but she worries this could happen again.
“I need to get some mace, I think,” she said.
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MONTEREY PARK, Calif. -- President Joe Biden moved Tuesday to bolster background checks needed before people may buy guns.
The executive order, signed by the president in the suburban community that was scene of a mass shooting in January, also took aim at promoting more secure firearms storage and ensuring U.S. law enforcement agencies get more out of a bipartisan gun control law enacted last summer.
Biden was in Monterey Park to deliver a speech on his latest efforts to curb gun violence, the Associated Press reported.
The suburban Los Angeles community was shaken in January when a gunman stormed a dance hall and shot 20 people, killing 11, following a Lunar New Year celebration. More than 65% of Monterey Park’s residents are of Asian descent.
The president also planned to meet with families of victims and with first responders from that day.
The executive order directs the Cabinet to work toward improving how the government can support communities suffering from gun violence. The plan calls on Attorney General Merrick Garland to improve the rules for federally licensed gun dealers to make clear they are required to do background checks as part of the license, Associated Press said.
Biden routinely calls for banning assault weapons — in pushing a vocal gun-control platform even tougher than during the Obama administration when he was vice president. He was emboldened by the midterm elections when his regular talk of gun control didn’t result in massive losses, and he’s expected to continue to argue for strong changes as he inches toward a 2024 reelection run, his aides told Associated Press.
But Biden’s ability is limited by bipartisan legislation passed by Congress last summer after the killings last year of 10 shoppers at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store and 19 students and two teachers at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school.
Tuesday’s action does not change U.S. government policy.
Rather, it directs federal agencies to ensure compliance with existing laws and procedures — a typical feature of executive orders issued by presidents when they confront the limits of their own power to act without cooperation from Congress, Associated Press said.
Biden, in the order, acknowledged Congress’ opposition, but said, “in the meantime, my administration will continue to do all that we can, within existing authority, to make our communities safer.” | 2023-03-14T22:25:43+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2023/03/president-joe-biden-issues-executive-order-to-bolster-gun-background-checks.html |
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott announced his run for the Republican presidential nomination Monday morning in North Charleston, S.C.
Scott made his run official with this statement from a stage at Charleston Southern University, his alma mater: "I'm announcing today I'm running for president of the United States of America."
The senator, who has represented South Carolina in the Senate since 2013, highlighted his own rise from poverty to prosperity and said that America is not a racist country. Scott is the only Black Republican senator in the U.S. Senate.
Scott is the second South Carolina Republican to enter the race for the GOP nomination. Right now, he takes on a frontrunner in former President Donald Trump. He also joins former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Haley originally appointed him to the Senate to fill a vacancy. South Carolina is a pivotal early voting state for both Republicans and Democrats.
Scott has been endorsed by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the second ranking Republican in the Senate.
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Celebrity Chef Shares Easy Meal Prep and Cooking Tips
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TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ProMedica announced today that it has entered into definitive agreements under which ProMedica will transfer, as of December 19, 2022, the real estate and management of all of its skilled nursing facilities currently part of a joint venture and master lease, respectively, between ProMedica and Welltower. Under the terms of the agreement, a new Welltower venture will own the real estate interests for the skilled nursing facilities. Operations for the skilled nursing facilities will also transition to new operators.
This transaction resolves ProMedica's ongoing operating losses within its Senior Care Division. Importantly, this action represents a cornerstone element of ProMedica's ongoing comprehensive financial performance improvement plan.
"By engaging in this transaction, we will be able to increase focus and resources on the other areas of our health system as we continue to provide high-quality, compassionate care and invest in our communities and dedicated caregivers," said Arturo Polizzi, president and CEO of ProMedica. Mr. Polizzi added that "This was a complex transaction, and I would like to personally thank Welltower's executive team – particularly Shankh Mitra, CEO – for their efforts."
The definitive agreements do not include ProMedica's non-Welltower leased senior care centers located in Adrian and Monroe, Michigan, the skilled nursing and memory care facilities located on the ProMedica Flower Hospital campus in Sylvania, Ohio, and ProMedica's Home Health and Hospice agencies. ProMedica will continue operating those centers and agencies, as well as its 58 Arden Courts memory care communities within its real estate joint venture with Welltower.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A new study published by researchers at Washington State University suggests testing how the eye’s pupil changes in response to light could potentially be used to screen for autism in young children.
The proof-of-concept study was published in the journal Neurological Sciences in March and builds on previous research first author Georgina Lynch has done to study the development of a portable technology for screening.
A portable technology tool that could help with diagnoses could allow health care providers to catch children earlier in their development when interventions are more likely to benefit them.
“We know that when we intervene as early as ages 18 to 24 months, it has a long-term impact on their outcomes,” Lynch said. “Intervening during that critical window could be the difference between a child acquiring verbal speech and staying nonverbal. Yet, after 20 years of trying we still have not changed the average age of diagnosis here in the U.S., which is 4 years old.”
The study tested 36 children aged 6 to 17 who had been previously diagnosed with autism. It also tested a group of 24 typically developing children who served as controls.
The children’s pupillary light reflexes — or how their pupils changed in response to light — were tested by trained clinical workers using a handheld pupillometer device, which measures pupil dilation in response when it’s triggered by a visual stimulus.
Research studied the children’s test results and found that children with autism showed significant differences in the time it took for their pupils to constrict in response to light. Their pupils also took longer to return to their original size after light was removed.
“What we did with this study is we demonstrated the parameters of interest that matter — speed of constriction and return to baseline and we demonstrated it with monocular technology because we knew there is no significant difference between eyes in terms of the pupillary response in autism, unlike in head injury or concussion where it’s common to see unequal pupil sizes,” Lynch said.
In a previous study, Lynch tested children’s pupil response using binocular pupillometry in a laboratory setting. However, this method uses an expensive, stationary setup that measures both eyes at once.
Lynch is working on developing her own autism screening tool and the lower expense and portability associated with monocular technology made it possible to move testing into clinical settings, which is where Lynch hopes her future tool will be used.
Lynch said she first thought to use pupil dilation as a method to screen for autism when she was working as a clinician.
“I noticed this state in kids with ASD where their pupils were very dilated even in the presence of bright light,” she said, referring to autism spectrum disorder. “That system is modulated in the brain by cranial nerves rooted in the brainstem, and adjacent cranial nerves affect your ability to acquire speech and language. The pupillary light reflex tests the integrity of that system, so it seemed logical to try this very simple, noninvasive measure to determine whether there were differences between typical development and autism.”
For her next step, Lynch hopes to expand testing to a group of 300 or more 2- to 4-year-olds across a larger number of clinical sites.
The data from the next study will be used to attempt to validate her earlier findings and will be integrated into the screening device that will help providers decide if they need to refer a child for further evaluation.
In the meantime, Lynch is already preparing to file for Food and Drug Administration premarket approval for the screening device she’s been working on. She wants to get it from an academic research setting to use in pediatric clinics.
WSU said an estimated one in 44 children in the U.S. is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder by age 8, but many kids get misdiagnosed or missed altogether due to the subjective nature of the diagnostic process.
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Erin Schneiderman used to get calls in the middle of the day two or three times a week to pick her son up from his Denver elementary school.
The third-grader had run away or was standing in the hallway screaming. Meltdowns could last for hours. School was just too loud and crowded, with too much unpredictability, for a child with autism who craved routine.
Denver Public Schools decided Schneiderman’s son should go to a privately run school that specializes in serving children with intense behavioral, mental health or special education needs. But when it came time to start fourth grade, he still didn’t have a spot. The boy spent two months at home, most of that time getting no education at all.
Today, nearly five years later, the few options for Colorado students like Schneiderman’s son have dwindled further. In 2004, Colorado had 80 of these specialized programs known as facility schools. Now there are just 30 that serve an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 children a year. A single school serves all of western Colorado. On the Front Range, another school is set to close soon.
Meager state funding, dire staffing shortages and changes to federal law have pushed the system to the brink. Lawmakers hope a cash infusion and regulatory changes will spur the opening of new schools — even as school districts are seeking their own solutions.
When there’s no open facility school seat, children may languish at home. They may remain in a mental health facility longer than they need to, taking up a bed that could be used by another child stuck in a hospital emergency room. Or they may stay in classrooms, struggling to learn, coming undone, lashing out almost daily, and disrupting the learning of their classmates.
Parents pay the price in lost jobs, and children pay the price in squandered potential.
Public schools have an obligation to educate every child. Facility schools — which operate at the crosscurrents of education, mental health, disability, and trauma — serve as placements of last resort when public schools can’t or won’t meet a child’s needs.
“K-12 was set up to educate the masses,” said Cori Woessner, a career public school educator who isn’t sure her own son with disabilities would have finished high school without the more supportive environment provided in facility schools.
“We’re not talking about the masses. We’re talking about the kids with the most severe needs that need the most support to be a productive member of society. To even have a chance at it.”
Facility schools balance academics and therapy
Facility schools are neither mental health facilities nor schools in the way most people might think about them. Operating in day treatment centers or residential facilities or tucked into hospitals, they offer academic programs within larger therapeutic settings.
Some critics say facility schools too often end up warehousing kids who, with more support, could have stayed in their home schools. Oversight is spread across multiple state and local agencies. When a school district recommends a facility school, parents have no easy way to know if the school is good or safe, though they rarely get a choice about placement.
The goal is to help children stay on an academic path while developing the skills they need to function in a public school before sending them back.
Some facilities serve children in foster care who need mental health care, or children in the juvenile criminal system who need treatment before returning home. The more common scenario is that students live at home and school districts send them to day treatment programs.
“Once we make that decision, it’s not because we don’t like kids and we’re sending them somewhere else,” said Callan Ware, the executive director of student services in Englewood Schools, a small district south of Denver. “We are saying we like them so much, we care about them so much — and we’re admitting to you we don’t have what it takes to support them and we’re going to find it and we’re going to pay for it.”
The Tennyson Center for Children is a facility school located in a bright, modern building in a residential Denver neighborhood. It serves about 50 metro-area students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The staff seems to have endless patience for behavior that would likely get a student kicked out of public school.
On a recent Friday, a middle schooler raged in a stairwell and called the principal a “fucko” because the school removed the game platform Roblox from its computers.
A high schooler who couldn’t sit still tossed a foam basketball at a staff member’s face as she drank from a water bottle, soaking her shirt.
And an elementary student ran up and down the hallway letting out a series of screams between his spelling words and math problems.
The boy was working with a staff member in one of the “nooks” — a small recessed room without a door where students can retreat if they’re feeling overwhelmed.
“I don’t want to do any more work!” the boy said, coming out of the nook and kicking the wall.
“To earn our positive breaks with staff, we have to complete work,” the staff member said, reminding the boy that he was working toward earning computer time in the library.
“It’s hard for me,” the boy said. He asked why his classmates, who had just completed a worksheet on Presidents Day, were earning points for good behavior and he wasn’t.
“Because they stay in class,” the staff member calmly told him as he pouted and fumed. “Part of the expectation of being in school is staying in class.”
The boy went back into the nook and screamed again.
When funding dries up, kids are funneled down
Children with these challenges were once institutionalized.
“Almost every general hospital had a kids’ psych unit, and they were all full,” said Skip Barber, a retired child psychiatrist who worked at state mental health institutions and facility schools.
The psychiatric facilities created their own schools. But since the 1990s, the philosophy has shifted away from institutionalization and toward community-based care. Residential treatment programs began receiving kids in crisis who previously would have gone to hospitals. Day treatment programs took kids who would have been placed in residential facilities.
And more kids just stayed in public schools.
The Medicaid dollars that supported the previous system dried up. Twenty residential treatment facilities closed in Colorado between 2007 and 2017, according to newspaper reports. On the heels of those closures, Congress passed the Family First Prevention Services Act, which sought to keep more children with relatives or foster families and placed limits on government-funded residential care.
More residential programs closed, taking their associated facility schools with them or reducing capacity. Options in rural Colorado — where the nearest school might be hours from home — became even scarcer.
“Great if we move away from facilities that aren’t cutting the mustard or doing what we need, but now we’ve gone too far,” said Becky Miller Updike, executive director of the nonprofit Colorado Association of Family and Children’s Agencies, which represents residential facilities.
More children in crisis are now funneled into day treatment programs. But the funding hasn’t increased in tandem.
In a 2020 survey, administrators at 19 facility schools told Miller Updike they were nearly or solidly in the red. One reported having to fundraise $1 million a year.
“The program loses money on a regular basis,” another wrote.
Most funding comes directly or indirectly from the state. Facility schools get $55.05 per student per day in direct state funding, an amount that’s barely increased in the last eight years, said Judy Stirman, director of facility schools for the Colorado Department of Education.
School districts pay tuition fees on top of that, ranging from $75 to $348 per day. Students come and go throughout the year, which means the daily funding comes and goes. But the salaries of the experienced specialists and one-on-one aides who make the system work are constant.
Low funding means it’s hard to hire staff. Facility schools often pay their staff less than school districts, which struggle to fill the same positions. That limits how many students they can serve.
“Every hire, we can bring in a student,” said Amy Gearhard, founder of Spectra School, which started as a therapy clinic for children with autism. Most students need one-on-one aides.
But the job is hard, and new hires don’t always stay. The aides at Spectra take 40 hours of behavior technician training and often wear bite guards and spit shields.
Despite those precautions, Gearhard said in January that three Spectra staff members had suffered concussions on the job, and two were out on workers’ compensation claims.
“You can’t pay them $15 an hour,” she said.
Two longtime facilities that closed last year — the Hampden Youth Campus in Aurora, which ran three day treatment programs, and the Youth Recovery Center at Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs — cited low funding and staffing shortages.
“Last year this program lost over $300,000, which made it very difficult to be able to hire enough staff to work with the level of acuity that we were seeing in the students,” Aurora Mental Health Center Chief Clinical Officer Kirsten Anderson told the Sentinel Colorado.
Officials with Devereux Cleo Wallace, a day treatment program in Westminster that’s set to close this year, said in a statement that “the continued regional staffing shortages have made it no longer possible to operate our flagship programs at the levels our families deserve.”
But the staff who stay at facility schools say they’re drawn to working with this student population. Renée Johnson, executive director of Third Way Center, a residential facility that serves kids in foster care or youth corrections, said these kids are “used to being thrown away.”
“These alternative schools give kids chances to do it again and be successful,” Johnson said. “That feeling of success is so important to build on.”\
Fewer schools means longer waitlists
Colorado is not alone in its hiring struggles. A nationwide shortage of special education staff means it’s harder for schools to provide the consistent support that would help kids with severe needs be successful in their home schools. At the same time, the inability to hire and retain staff has caused specialized schools nationwide to close or reduce their capacity, leading to students with disabilities being put on long waitlists, according to an October letter to Congress from the National Association of Private Special Education Centers.
“We’re seeing a supply and demand crisis on a national level,” said Danielle Damm, the association’s executive director and CEO.
In Colorado, the number of students served by facility schools has decreased. Thousands of students come and go throughout the year, but there are only so many spots at one time. A statewide snapshot taken on Dec. 1 each year found 1,266 students in facility schools in late 2017 but just 769 students in these schools in 2022. That’s a 40% decrease.
It’s not because the demand has decreased.
“We’re all on waiting lists because the facilities can only accept so many students and they’re short-staffed as well,” said Courtney Leyba, senior manager of extended school support for Denver Public Schools.
In Jeffco Public Schools, the number of students in out-of-district placements dropped 35% — from 211 students six years ago to 138 students this school year. In Denver, it went from 254 to 119 students in the same time period, a whopping 53% decrease.
Fifteen years ago, when Leyba started working for the Denver district, she said students would wait just two or three weeks to get into a facility school. “Now we can wait anywhere between two, three, or sometimes even six months for a placement,” she said.
In the wait, students can unravel even more.
Until he got into a facility school two months into his fourth grade year, Schneiderman’s son would have meltdowns over literally anything, she said.
She and her husband struggled to cobble together care for him. Grandparents from both sides of the family flew in to help, but Schneiderman ended up having to take a leave from her job. An in-home tutor the district promised didn’t start working with him until he’d already been home more than a month.
“It felt like we were completely lost in a system that we had no idea how to navigate,” Schneiderman said. “That had to have been one of the worst periods of our lives for sure.”
“Effective in some cases, but not in all”
Many advocates and experts say students belong in their own communities, not separate schools that may be hours — or even states — away from home.
“Students don’t need to be segregated in order to have their needs met and be successful in school,” said Lewis Bossing, senior staff attorney with the Washington, D.C.-based Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. “We think that there are a number of different kinds of supports that can be put in place so that, for the most part, students can be served in general education settings.”
Advocates like Connie McKenzie with The Arc Pikes Peak Region worry about a lack of oversight, and about students getting stuck and never returning to public school.
One student McKenzie worked with attended a facility school from kindergarten through 12th grade. Another was a kindergartener who was referred to a facility school because the child kept running out of the classroom, she said. The child had gone through a traumatic event.
“Removing the child from the school, sending them to a different school, just reinforced to the child that they weren’t safe at school,” McKenzie said.
Facility schools, she said, “are effective in some cases, but not in all.”
People who work in the system say the typical stay is about a year, though it varies widely based on the facility and whom it serves — from less than a week for acute psychiatric hospitalizations to years at schools for students with intellectual disabilities.
The state education department doesn’t track how many facility school students return to their home districts or how they fare later.
But even critics acknowledge there are times when a separate setting is justified.
Zoe Gross, director of advocacy for the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, said that while inclusion is ideal, “if your school district just refuses, or is unable to meet the needs of your kid, then you have really limited options outside of that.”
That’s how Woessner, the career educator whose son attended facility schools, feels.
Her son, now 18, was first referred to a facility school when he was 8. Woessner and her husband adopted him out of foster care as a baby, and he has several diagnoses, including fetal alcohol syndrome, which affects his cognitive ability.
He couldn’t read or write his name in second grade. At 7, he made a plan to kill himself by running out into the street. At 8, he put a belt around his neck at school.
“We were very fortunate that happened when he was 8 and there were still 70-some-odd facility schools and they popped him into a facility school because of the severity of his behaviors,” Woessner said.
Her son spent the next 10 years in six different day treatment and residential programs, including one out of state. He completed 12th grade at a Denver facility school and is now in a small transitional program for older students with disabilities through his home school district.
“He made it a lot further academically going through facility schools than he ever would have in a traditional school,” Woessner said.
Moving ahead toward an uncertain future
A state law signed by Gov. Jared Polis this spring boosts funding for facility schools and revamps the funding model so small schools are less vulnerable to fluctuations in enrollment.
A new technical assistance center will provide consulting services and training in rural districts so that more students could stay close to home. And a new way of approving new schools should make them easier to open.
In advocating for changes to the law, the working group described facility school students as some of Colorado’s “most vulnerable.” Parents, advocates, and special education experts all say that meeting the needs of these children will require more than just saving the schools, however: Families need more options all along the spectrum of inclusion and separation, and children need more care as they make precarious transitions from one setting to another.
Schneiderman’s son did so well at Tennyson Center in Denver that everyone agreed he should go to public middle school, she said. He enrolled at Denver’s Merrill Middle School. But even in a small program with a dedicated teacher and a classroom where he could go when things got overwhelming, going to school with 600 other students proved tough.
Wanting to fit in, Schneiderman’s son rejected help from an aide in traditional classes. He got into fights because he misunderstood regular kid banter as bullying. His meltdowns — which can turn violent and have landed him in the hospital — returned both at home and at school.
Schneiderman began getting calls again to pick him up midday.
The controlled environment at Tennyson had made it hard to predict how or if her son might struggle once he returned to public school, she said.
Partway through seventh grade, an advocate suggested Schneiderman’s son try something different. Evoke Behavioral Health is not a facility school, but a private day treatment program specializing in a type of intervention called applied behavioral analysis, or ABA. Evoke calls itself a “school alternative.”
Denver Public Schools and the family’s health insurance company agreed to pay — despite previously rejecting a similar placement.
“A lot of this feels like dumb luck,” Schneiderman said.
Evoke, she said, has been life-changing. Now that she’s not picking her son up midday, she’s able to work full-time again. And her goofy 13-year-old eighth-grader, who loves video games, science fiction audiobooks, and skiing with his parents, is thriving.
He does ABA — which Schneiderman describes as “work-reward, work-reward” — eight hours a day and has both a one-on-one aide and a caseworker. He’s able to do schoolwork for 20 minutes without getting upset, and he’s working on not arguing with his teacher.
His meltdowns now happen once a month instead of five or six times a week, she said.
But that progress means his time at Evoke is coming to an end.
Because he’s doing so well, Schneiderman said the school district wants him back in public school. That probably means Thomas Jefferson High, which offers the same type of small program he had at Merrill — but in an even larger school with about 1,300 students.
“As a parent, that is terrifying. Absolutely terrifying,” Schneiderman said. “There’s no in-between options that we can find. We can’t figure out what our next step is.”
KFF Health News’ Rae Ellen Bichell and The Colorado Sun’s Erica Breunlin contributed reporting.
Melanie Asmar is a senior reporter for Chalkbeat Colorado, covering Denver Public Schools. Contact Melanie at masmar@chalkbeat.org.
Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.
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SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - Miami-Dade Police and Miami-Dade Fire rescue units have responded to a home that a car smashed into.
It happened at the home in the area of 11545 SW 168th Terrace, a person was still inside the vehicle and needed to be extricated.
One person, who is a child, was injured inside the home and was transported to a local hospital.
The car has since been removed from the home.
Unsafe structures has since been notified.
Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.
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Rangers first. Josh Smith doubles to center field. Marcus Semien homers to center field. Josh Smith scores. Corey Seager grounds out to first base to Seth Brown. Adolis Garcia flies out to center field to Skye Bolt. Nathaniel Lowe grounds out to shortstop, Elvis Andrus to Seth Brown.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Rangers 2, Athletics 0.
Athletics second. Sheldon Neuse grounds out to shallow infield, Josh Smith to Nathaniel Lowe. Elvis Andrus singles to shallow left field. Skye Bolt grounds out to second base, Marcus Semien to Nathaniel Lowe. Elvis Andrus to second. Tony Kemp singles to right field. Elvis Andrus scores. Nick Allen grounds out to third base, Josh Smith to Nathaniel Lowe.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rangers 2, Athletics 1.
Rangers fourth. Adolis Garcia walks. Nathaniel Lowe flies out to deep right field to Ramon Laureano. Adolis Garcia to third. Leody Taveras doubles to deep right field. Adolis Garcia scores. Brad Miller lines out to first base to Seth Brown. Sam Huff strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rangers 3, Athletics 1.
Athletics fifth. Tony Kemp walks. Nick Allen singles to right field. Tony Kemp to second. Vimael Machin singles to shallow center field. Nick Allen to second. Tony Kemp to third. Ramon Laureano reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Vimael Machin out at second. Nick Allen to third. Tony Kemp scores. Sean Murphy reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Ramon Laureano scores. Nick Allen scores. Throwing error by Glenn Otto. Seth Brown reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Sean Murphy out at second. Sheldon Neuse strikes out swinging.
3 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 1 left on. Athletics 4, Rangers 3.
Athletics eighth. Sean Murphy doubles to deep left field. Seth Brown singles to right center field. Sean Murphy to third. Stephen Vogt pinch-hitting for Sheldon Neuse. Stephen Vogt grounds out to second base, Marcus Semien to Nathaniel Lowe. Seth Brown to second. Sean Murphy scores. Elvis Andrus strikes out swinging.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Athletics 5, Rangers 3.
Rangers ninth. Corey Seager homers to center field. Adolis Garcia grounds out to second base, Nick Allen to Seth Brown. Nathaniel Lowe strikes out swinging. Leody Taveras doubles to left field. Kole Calhoun pinch-hitting for Charlie Culberson. Kole Calhoun singles to right field, advances to 2nd. Leody Taveras scores. Sam Huff strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Athletics 5, Rangers 5.
Athletics tenth. Ramon Laureano grounds out to third base, Josh Smith to Nathaniel Lowe. Sean Murphy singles to right center field, advances to 2nd. Vimael Machin scores. Dermis Garcia pinch-hitting for Seth Brown. Dermis Garcia grounds out to shallow infield, Josh Smith to Nathaniel Lowe. Stephen Vogt lines out to shallow right field to Marcus Semien.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Athletics 6, Rangers 5.
Rangers tenth. Steven Duggar called out on strikes. Josh Smith strikes out swinging. Marcus Semien doubles to left field. Sam Huff scores. Corey Seager is intentionally walked. Adolis Garcia pops out to shallow left field to Elvis Andrus.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Athletics 6, Rangers 6.
Athletics twelfth. Nick Allen walks. Vimael Machin out on a sacrifice fly to deep left field to Steven Duggar. Nick Allen to second. Chad Pinder scores. Ramon Laureano singles to center field, advances to 2nd. Nick Allen scores. Fielding error by Leody Taveras. Sean Murphy is intentionally walked. Dermis Garcia doubles to third base. Sean Murphy to third. Ramon Laureano scores. Stephen Vogt walks. Elvis Andrus walks. Stephen Vogt to second. Dermis Garcia to third. Sean Murphy scores. Skye Bolt pops out to Nathaniel Lowe. Chad Pinder homers to center field. Elvis Andrus scores. Stephen Vogt scores. Dermis Garcia scores. Nick Allen flies out to center field to Leody Taveras.
8 runs, 3 hits, 1 error, 0 left on. Athletics 14, Rangers 6.
Rangers twelfth. Josh Smith singles to center field. Steven Duggar scores. Marcus Semien pops out to Vimael Machin. Corey Seager lines out to first base to Nick Allen. Adolis Garcia strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Athletics 14, Rangers 7. | 2022-07-13T04:58:58+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Oakland-Texas-Runs-17301394.php |
Celebrate CHEMTREC's 50th Anniversary and Network with Industry Leaders
FALLS CHURCH, Va., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CHEMTREC's International Hazmat Summit will take place from September 12-14, 2022, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and will be honoring the past, present and future of the hazmat industry.
The event will provide a one-of-a-kind forum for all interested parties involved in the safe transportation, handling, and use of hazardous materials, including shippers, carriers, and emergency and spill clean-up responders. Including both technical and professional development content, the 3-day Summit will be the premier destination to discuss the key topics of today and the trends of tomorrow.
"CHEMTREC is proud to have served the chemical industry and emergency response community for over fifty years," explained Bruce Samuelsen, CHEMTREC Chief Executive. "This year's Summit program will honor fifty years of improving the dangerous goods industry through safety and innovation," he continued.
The program consists of two keynote speakers, Derek Daly, Hall of Fame Race Car Driver and Network Television Analyst, and Scott Whelchel, Chief Security Officer & Global Director for Emergency Services and Security (ES&S) for Dow, Inc.
Daly will walk through the structure and framework of extraordinary teams who operate safely, on the edges of what might be possible. Attendees will learn how Daly's sport transitioned from a disconnected "hand-off" sport, to one of accountability, concern, and awareness of the big picture.
Following Daly, Whelchel will share his experiences during the early days of the COVID 19 Pandemic while leading Dow's crisis management system efforts to maintain operations globally and keeping all employees and contractors safe and secure.
The program consists of over 40 presentations from a variety of topics including:
- Incident Response and Prevention
- A Carrier's Perspective
- Emerging Issues and Technology
- Government Affairs
- Crisis Management
- Lithium Ion Battery Emergency Response and Safety Workshop
"Attendees will have access to specialized sessions where they will learn practices that can save their company time, money, and most importantly, keep everyone safe," said Samuelsen.
There are many networking opportunities built into the three days of the Summit, including extended breaks between sessions and daily networking breakfasts and lunches. There is also a networking reception that presents the ideal place to meet peers and build new relationships.
Registration also allows full access to all sessions, breakfast each morning, lunch each day, and the networking reception. CHEMTREC customers receive a discounted registration rate.
Attendees will have the opportunity to visit with the New Orleans Hazmat Team, who will be on site with their state-of-the-art hazmat truck.
The CHEMTREC Summit is approved for 20 IHMM certification maintenance points towards recertification.
Visit the Summit website to register and to view highlights from the 2019 event. Have questions about the Summit? Contact CHEMTREC's team at summit@chemtrec.com.
CHEMTREC®, originally called the Chemical Transportation Emergency Center, was established by The Manufacturing Chemists' Association (now the American Chemistry Council, Inc.) on September 5, 1971. For the past 50 years, CHEMTREC's world-leading call center has operated on a 24-hour basis, seven days a week, providing emergency response information wherever hazardous materials are manufactured, stored, transported, or used. With the right procedures and protocols in place, and by doing what's right quickly and effectively, CHEMTREC helps protect people, minimize environmental impacts, and preserve the assets and reputations of its customers.
Operating globally, CHEMTREC has offices in major regions and on-the-ground knowledge of local regulations, understanding of local nuances, and appreciation of cultural sensitivities. CHEMTREC offers a suite of services including emergency response, SDS management and authoring, hazardous materials training, crisis management, lithium battery compliance, and incident reporting. CHEMTREC is proud to have contributed to the practice of safe handling and transportation of hazardous materials for the past 50 years and looks forward to serving the chemical industry for another 50 years (and beyond).
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Falling and staying asleep is a growing concern in adults
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 10.2% of women and 6.6% of men take some type of medication to help them sleep. This is a dramatic increase from 2010 when the CDC reported just 4% of adults used prescription sleep aids. Whatever the cause, it’s essential to learn how to get a restful night’s sleep before experiencing long-term cognitive decline.
Dr. Michael Huynh, M.D. is a board-certified internal medicine hospitalist. He has a wealth of knowledge and experience with not only the causes of insomnia, but also ways to help treat it, both cognitively and medically.
In this article: Circadian Optics Light Therapy Lamp, Hatch Restore Sound Machine and Sharper Image Calming Heat Massaging Weighted Heating Pad.
Why do you have trouble sleeping?
According to Dr. Huynh, “Insomnia is one of the most common complaints for adult patients. The causes of insomnia are multifactorial, especially in modern-day society, as we have distractors that can disrupt our circadian rhythm. Life stressors also contribute heavily.”
He explained that the inability to sleep could also be caused by a medical condition, such as obesity hypoventilation syndrome/sleep apnea, nocturnal polyuria (need to urinate frequently at night) or psychiatric disorders.
How to treat insomnia
Dr. Huynh said there are usually two approaches to treating insomnia. “Medical therapy is one approach, but medications may have unwanted side effects. The other approach is cognitive behavior therapy. This focuses on addressing the underlying cause, such as having inadequate sleep hygiene, and correcting that.”
To treat insomnia, Dr. Huynh explained you must determine whether it is “acute (short-term, less than one month) or chronic (long-term). Acute insomnia may be self-limited and the stressor may only be temporary. In this instance, treatment can usually start with a sleeping aid.”
Dr. Huynh explained that chronic insomnia, however, may be attributed to an underlying medical or psychiatric condition. When facing chronic insomnia, cognitive behavioral therapy, sometimes called CBT-I, is usually recommended as the first line of treatment. CBT-I helps the individual identify and replace thoughts and behaviors that may be causing sleep problems.
Some of the tools used in cognitive behavioral therapy include light therapy lamps, wake-up lights and sound machines.
Best products that aid in sleeping
Dr. Hyunh handpicked the following items, which can aid in cognitive behavioral therapy.
Circadian Optics Light Therapy Lamp
Light therapy can reset the circadian rhythm (a hormonal regulation in the body that helps us wake up during daylight hours and sleep during nighttime hours). This light therapy lamp has three brightness levels to help get you back on track.
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Luminette 3 Light Therapy Glasses
This product takes the therapy lamp one step further. Instead of sitting in front of a lamp, it brings the light to you. It’s on-the-go light therapy that you can wear to help combat daytime drowsiness, which will help you sleep better and longer at night.
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Extract Consultants Essential Terpenes
According to Dr. Huynh, “Terpenes seem to aid with cholinergic activity in the brain, which means it would help with sleep.” Since this product contains terpenes, it may help you relax so you can fall asleep.
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This option is very similar to the previous one. This formula mixes terpenes with floral extract to help you get a better night’s sleep.
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Music therapy can help you fall asleep more easily because it has a relaxing effect that lowers anxiety and stress response. Although this is not a true music device, it does have a variety of soothing sounds, including white noise, and it functions as a sunrise alarm clock, so you can wake up more naturally in the morning. You can fall asleep to a gradually dimming light, as well.
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Sharper Image Calming Heat Massaging Weighted Heating Pad
Sometimes, all it takes is a little comfort to fall asleep. This weighted heating pad has three heat levels and three massage levels so you can fine-tune the experience you need to gently drift off to sleep each night.
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Other sleeping aids worth checking out
Here are some other useful products curated by the BestReviews team.
- These blackout curtains will keep your bedroom dark so light won’t interfere with your sleeping.
- Homedics SoundSleep white noise sound machine can play six soothing sounds to help block out noise that can interrupt sleep.
- A gravity blanket provides a comforting embrace that can be just the thing to help you fall asleep more easily.
- You can use this Jall Wake Up Light sunrise alarm clock to readjust your circadian rhythm for more restful sleep.
- If you like to fall asleep listening to music, Amazon’s Echo Dot (5th Gen) lets you do exactly that.
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New role will drive revenue and market share growth through customer and partner expansion
BOSTON, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lakeside Software, the leader in digital experience management, announced today that Tyler Winkler has joined the company as chief commercial officer. In this new role, Winkler will oversee a global team of executive leaders and drive the company's direct and channel sales strategies and operations.
Winkler brings to Lakeside three decades of executive leadership experience within the enterprise software space. As VP of Global Sales & Marketing at SecureWorks, he was instrumental in the company's growth and success, which led to a $650 million acquisition by Dell in 2011 and a subsequent IPO in 2016. He joins Lakeside from UserIQ, a predictive customer success platform, where he served as CEO and a member of the company's board of directors prior to its acquisition in August 2022. His deep-rooted software experience and success in growing high-performing sales teams add expertise and experience to Lakeside's executive team.
"Tyler's appointment is a momentous step forward for Lakeside as we continue to strengthen our leadership team and scale our global sales coverage," said David Keil, CEO of Lakeside Software. "Tyler has an incredible reputation in the software industry which will help us to hire the best in the industry and accelerate our growth. His leadership and experience will greatly enhance our ability to exceed our customers' expectations and emerge as the leader in the DEX market."
"I am pleased and proud to join Lakeside's executive leadership team," said Winkler of his appointment. "Lakeside is rapidly expanding to meet the demands of enterprise organizations worldwide, and I'm excited to help lead and develop our sales and go-to-market strategy. Our best-in-class product and deep data collection provide companies with the right tools and insights to drive their business forward. I look forward to increasing its product accessibility through direct and channel partners."
This is the latest in a series of significant developments for Lakeside in 2022. In June, Lakeside expanded the executive leadership team by appointing Elise Carmichael as chief technology officer, Guy Lever as senior vice president of customer success, and Ayelet Elstein as vice president of EMEA.
In August, Lakeside was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: End-User Experience Management, Q3 2022 report. Among the evaluated EUEM vendors, Lakeside was cited for enabling deep historical analysis of telemetry data for root cause analysis. Lakeside's telemetry monitoring was also scored highest — a benefit of the Intelligent Edge architecture found in its Digital Experience Cloud platform, which collects more than 10,000 metrics out of the box.
Lakeside Software is a leader in cloud-based digital experience management. Lakeside's Digital Experience Cloud, powered by SysTrack, gathers and analyzes data on everything that may impact end-user experience and business productivity and provides the unmatched visibility IT teams need to design and support rapidly changing digital workplaces. Customers use Lakeside's technology to perform end-user experience management, digital workplace planning, IT asset optimization, remote work management, and proactive service desk operations. For more information, visit www.lakesidesoftware.com.
Lakeside Software and SysTrack are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Lakeside Software, LLC in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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Colts fans launch online petition to keep Jeff Saturday from becoming head coach
Jeff Saturday is one of four reported finalists so far for the Colts head coaching job. It's a growing list, one that could reach at least seven candidates and features former head coaches, Super Bowl-winning assistants and current coordinators.
They are coaches with experience and reputations in the coaching profession, which Saturday is not. His inclusion in this finalist group for this kind of job, has rubbed a portion of the Colts fan base the wrong way.
Now, they're trying to do something about it.
Colts fans are sharing a petition through Change.org titled, "Don't hire Jeff Saturday as head coach." It launched Wednesday afternoon, and by the evening, it had more than 700 verified signatures.
Shawn Ward, the fan who launched the page, directed its message to owner Jim Irsay.
"We as Colts fans will always love the memories of the (Super Bowl) XLI team but we don't want Jeff Saturday as head coach of this team!" Ward wrote. "Hire someone with experience and save your fan base from revolting."
By signing and sharing the petition and tweeting the hashtag #SaturdayLeave at Irsay, fans are voicing their frustrations to the man ultimately in charge.
Though Twitter and the Change.org petition represent just a small segment of Colts fans, those voices have made it clear that hiring Saturday would be rather unpopular with some fans. In an IndyStar Twitter poll with more than 2,000 votes on Tuesday, 93% voted against the idea of hiring Saturday, with 74.2% saying they would "hate" the decision.
With general manager Chris Ballard running the search, the Colts have interviewed 13 different candidates so far. But the final decision will rest with the man the tweets and petition are aimed at.
"Ultimately, Mr. Irsay makes the final call. There’s 32 teams, 32 owners. They own the team," Ballard said. "We give him, here’s our thoughts, and Mr. Irsay is a good listener. Ultimately, he’ll make the final call but he will lean heavily on our work and what we do to get the coaching candidates in place.”
Irsay's affection for his 13-year center became clear when he hired him at midseason to take over a 3-5-1 team despite having not coached above the high school level. Saturday won his first matchup with the Raiders before losing out to finish 1-7.
Fans signing the petition were bothered by the lows along the way, bringing up the biggest collapse in NFL history against the Vikings, the worst fourth quarter in NFL history against the Cowboys and a -87 point differential in those eight games.
They came with a shortened staff that Saturday inherited at midseason, and he's promised he'd submit a very different plan of attack in interviews for how he'd run the team with a full run-up to a 17-game season.
"Hopefully, that sets me apart, is what I will bring to that," Saturday said.
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He's going up against a finalist group so far that features a two-time Super Bowl champion in Rams defensive coordinator Raheem Morris, a long-time defensive coordinator coming off a second straight top-five finish with the Cowboys in Dan Quinn and rising Broncos defensive coordinator in Ejiro Evero, who has also received interviews with the Broncos and Texans.
The group is expected to grow another three or four candidates, depending on whether 49ers defensive coordinator Demeco Ryans decides to reschedule the first interview he canceled with the team last week. Ryans is one of a few Colts candidates preparing for playoff games this week, along with Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan, Eagles offensive coordinator Shane Steichen and Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy.
The Colts have promised a fair and thorough process that could last into February if needed. They have met the terms of the Rooney Rule, as Bieniemy, Evero and Morris are minority candidates from outside the organization.
But as long as Saturday remains in the running, some fans fear a decision has already been made.
"Love Saturday the man, but we need to be better than last year," Colts fan Josh Cunningham wrote on the petition. "Going this route is dedication to losing and I won’t support that."
Contact Colts insider Nate Atkins at natkins@indystar.com. Follow him on Twitter @NateAtkins_. | 2023-01-26T01:34:24+00:00 | indystar.com | https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nfl/colts/2023/01/26/colts-online-petition-launched-to-keep-jeff-saturday-from-becoming-coach/69842412007/ |
School supplies available in upcoming giveaway
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - Multiple Lawton organizations are coming together to help make the back-to-school rush easier for Lawton students and teachers.
The Lawton Fort Sill Chamber of Commerce, Cameron Baptist Church, and The Great 580 are just a few of the organizations that have partnered together to present the 6th Annual Teacher and Student Supplies Giveaway.
Organizers say they began with handing out just dozens of backpacks, but the giveaway has increased so much they plan to hand out upwards of 700 bags this year.
“This is an initiative that we’ve been a part of for... this will be our 6th year doing it,” said Jeff Elbert, President of The Great 580. Our first year, we gave away 60 bags and we were on campus at Cameron University just kind of giving them away. And from there it grew into something much more cooler.”
The giveaway will be held August 5 at Cameron Baptist Church from 11 a.m. through 2 p.m.
To receive a bag, families are required to register their students, with a 5 bag limit per family. Adult must physically accompany their student and will be required to present their ID and ticket.
Teachers may receive supplies by presenting a valid Teacher’s ID on site during the giveaway. No registration is required for teachers. Supplies will be distributed on a first come, first served basis.
Families may register students through this website.
Copyright 2023 KSWO. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-14T02:34:59+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/2023/07/14/school-supplies-available-upcoming-giveaway/ |
MIAMI (AP) — A jury took just over an hour to convict a Miami-Dade officer of felony battery and official misconduct in the rough arrest of a Black woman who had called police for help.
Alejandro Giraldo was suspended after cellphone video circulated on social media in March 2019 showing him tackling Dyma Loving, who had called police to report that a neighbor had pointed a shotgun at her. Police body cameras also recorded the encounter.
“Police officers can put their hands on people to effectuate a lawful arrest. If the arrest is unlawful, they have no more rights than the rest of us. And he sure as heck can’t tackle her to the ground,” said prosecutor Tim VanderGiesen.
Giraldo insisted he acted lawfully in subduing an unruly woman who was interfering with an investigation.
“What you see there isn’t a crime. What you see there is a police officer working the streets, dealing with a situation and maybe his bedside manner was off,” his attorney, Andre Rouviere, told jurors. “When he arrested Dyma Loving, it was after warning after warning that she was being disruptive.”
Giraldo, who is Hispanic, faces up to five years in prison at sentencing. The jury consisted of two Black women, one Hispanic woman and three Hispanic men.
The video sparked outrage in a county where at least nine police officers from four different police agencies are awaiting trial on allegations they battered suspects while on duty, the Miami Herald reported. Three other officers have been acquitted since 2019 in excessive force cases.
The conviction of North Miami police Officer Jonathon Aledda was overturned by an appeals court in February. He had fired fired his weapon at an autistic man holding a silver toy truck, and hit the man's caregiver. Prosecutors declined to try the case again.
In Giraldo's case, video showed him pushing Loving into a fence and then taking her to the ground, where she was handcuffed. Loving was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence. Those charges were later dropped.
The arrest report inaccurately said that Loving was “causing a scene” and was being “uncooperative,” prosecutors said.
Giraldo’s defense attorney countered that it was Loving and another woman at the scene who were out of control.
“We thought that we had established that they couldn’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt the charges, but I guess the jury saw it a different way, and we have to accept the jury’s verdict,” Rouviere said after Giraldo was convicted on Thursday. | 2022-04-15T13:36:40+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/florida-police-officer-convicted-in-womans-rough-arrest/BR73DLO4GZGALB7PQHZSHY4NNI/ |
Work Leads to New Theory on Cause of Alzheimer's disease
NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An emerging field explores how groups of molecules condense together inside cells, the way oil droplets assemble and separate from water in a vinaigrette.
In human cells, "liquid-liquid phase separation" occurs because similar, large molecules glom together into dense droplets separated from the more diluted parts of the fluid cell interior. Past work had suggested that evolution harnessed the natural formation of these "condensates" to organize cells, providing, for instance, isolated spaces for the building of cellular machines.
Furthermore, abnormal, condensed – also called "tangled" – groups of molecules in droplets are nearly always present in the cells of patients with neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer's disease. While no one knows why such condensates form, one new theory argues that the biophysical properties of cell interiors change as people age – driven in part by "molecular crowding" that packs more molecules into the same spaces to affect phase separation.
Researchers compare condensates to microprocessors, computers built into circuits, because both recognize and calculate responses based on incoming information. Despite the suspected impact of physical changes on liquid processors, the field has struggled to clarify the mechanisms connecting phase separation, condensate formation, and computation based on chemical signals, which occur at much smaller scale, researchers say. This is because natural condensates have so many functions that experiments struggle to delineate them.
To address this challenge, researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases built an artificial system that revealed how the formation of condensates changes the action at the molecular level of enzymes called kinases, an example of chemical computation. Kinases are protein switches that influence cellular processes by phosphorylating – attaching a molecule called a phosphate group – to target molecules.
The new analysis, published online September 14 in Molecular Cell, found that the formation of engineered condensates during phase separation offered more "sticky" regions where medically important kinases and their targets could interact and trigger phosphorylation signals.
"Our study results show that physical changes like crowding can drive condensate formation that is converted into biochemical signals, as if condensates were squishy computers," says lead study author Liam Holt, PhD, associate professor in the Institute for Systems Genetics at NYU Langone Health.
Among the study kinases seen to be more active in a crowded, condensed environment was Cyclin Dependent Kinase 2, known to phosphorylate the microtubule-binding protein Tau. Tangled condensates of Tau are found frequently in the brain cells of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
"Our experiments suggest that formation of more Tau condensates drives more Tau phosphorylation," adds Holt, also faculty in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology. "Whether these mechanisms lead to more brain cell death, and whether reversing them could be a new treatment approach, will be important questions in our upcoming work."
Specifically, the study found that when Tau and Cyclin Dependent kinase condensed together into dense droplets, there was a three-fold acceleration of a phosphorylation at a group of sites on Tau (the AT8 epitope) linked to Alzheimer's disease.
Engineering a Biosensor
In seeking to engineer useful versions of these computers, the research team tested several artificial condensates, synthesizing different scaffold molecules to see which best pulled sample kinases – MAPK3, Fus3, and Cyclin-dependent Kinase 1 (Cdk1) – together with their targets to increase signaling. Condensates form as scaffold molecules mesh together within droplets. The team found that, in their model, the gathering of large biomolecules into droplets inside one-celled living organisms called yeast made phosphorylation reactions hundreds of times faster.
The study also found that condensate formation let the included kinases phosphorylate more kinds of molecules, and without the presence of the molecular shapes usually required. This suggests that condensates in crowded cells create altered computation types, some potentially disease-related.
Moving forward, the research team seeks to build on a past study in Holt's lab, which found that a protein complex called mTORC1 controls molecular crowding by determining the number of ribosomes, "machines" that build other large proteins in cells. The team plans to study whether compounds known to inhibit mTORC1 can reduce crowding and Tau phosphorylation.
Finally, the researchers also hope that their findings advance the design of other cellular computers that react to physical forces. This could include the introduction of engineered processors into immune cells that – to attack cancer cells – would be turned on as they sought to squeeze into tissue made dense by growing tumors.
Along with Holt, authors of the study from the Institute of Systems Genetics at NYU Langone Health were Dajun Sang and Tong Shu. Also study authors were Christian Pantoja, Alain Ibanez de Opakua, and Markus Zweckstetter of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Göttingen, Germany. Zweckstetter is also faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Department of NMR-based Structural Biology.
The study was funded by National Institutes of Health grants R01 GM132447, R37 CA240765, and TR01 NS127186. Also supporting the work were the American Cancer Society, the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Award, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) competition, the Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), and the European Research Council.
Contact:
Gregory Williams
gregory.williams@nyulangone.org
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Muslim men who were praying together in their housing unit at a Missouri prison were doused with pepper spray, physically assaulted by corrections officers and then retaliated against when they complained, according to a lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Missouri and the CAIR Legal Fund against Missouri Department of Corrections officials and several employees of the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne, Terre, Missouri.
“This lawsuit is about holding state officials to account and upholding the rights of all citizens,” Kimberly Noe-Lehenbauer, a CAIR civil rights attorney, said in a news release. “Once a person enters a correctional facility, they do not lose their most basic rights and become an open target for violence and abuse.”
The corrections department did not immediately return a request seeking comment on Friday.
The lawsuit alleges that Muslim men had been allowed to pray together many times in their housing unit at the prison after their chapel was locked down during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Feb. 28, 2021, as nine Muslim men were praying, a corrections officer abruptly told them to stop, although the men had prayed together three times previously that day, according to the lawsuit. Up to 20 officers responded to the scene.
Two of the men stopped praying and stepped away. Two others also stopped praying but were put in handcuffs. Five of the men were doused with pepper spray, some while they were handcuffed, and one prisoner was beaten, according to the lawsuit.
Seven of the men were taken to segregation, where they were not provided with different clothes, heat or beds. They were not provided with medical evaluations, eye wash, showers, cleaning supplies or medical advice, the lawsuit says.
The men were initially charged with a major conduct violation for “acts of organized disobedience” by three or more offenders. That was later reduced to a minor conduct violation. They were found guilty and released from segregation on March 10, 2021.
The lawsuit alleges that some of the men were transferred to other prisons without cause, while others were continually subjected to physical abuse and humiliations or were retaliated against after they filed complaints.
The defendants are accused of violating the inmates’ constitutional rights, including the right to freely practice their religion, to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment and to be protected from discrimination based on their race.
The plaintiffs are seeking a jury trial and that the court award appropriate damages. | 2023-03-04T20:09:23+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/lawsuit-muslims-praying-at-missouri-prison-pepper-sprayed/ |
HIALEAH, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida woman is suing the Kraft Heinz Food Company for $5 million, claiming they misled the public about the time it takes to prepare its Velveeta microwavable mac and cheese cups.
Court records show that a West Palm Beach-based law firm filed the lawsuit on behalf of Amanda Ramirez in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Nov. 18.
Ramirez is listed as the main plaintiff for the class-action suit, which alleges Kraft Heinz violated federal law by saying Velveeta Shells & Cheese cups take 3½ minutes to prepare.
“Ready in 3½ minutes” is printed on the box, which is the amount of time the product takes to cook in a microwave. However, the suit says it takes more time to complete the other required steps.
This is how the lawsuit describes the cooking process:
- “First, consumers must ‘REMOVE lid and Cheese Sauce Pouch.’
- Next, they must ‘ADD water to fill line in cup. STIR.’
- Third, ‘MICROWAVE, uncovered, on HIGH 3-1/2 min. DO NOT DRAIN.’
- Finally, they should ‘STIR IN contents of cheese sauce pouch.’
- Defendant then notes that ‘CHEESE SAUCE WILL THICKEN UPON STANDING’.”
“Consumers seeing ‘ready in 3½ minutes’ will believe it represents the total amount of time it takes to prepare the Product,” the suit states. “Meaning from the moment it is unopened to the moment it is ready for consumption.”
The lawsuit claims Ramirez bought the product for a “premium price” of $10.99 “between October and November 2022, among other times.” However, it did not say how long it actually took Ramirez to prepare the mac and cheese.
The suit described Ramirez as someone who “looks to bold statements of value when quickly selecting groceries” and is “like many consumers who seek to stretch their money as far as possible when buying groceries.”
The plaintiffs are seeking at least $5 million in damages, “including statutory and punitive exclusive of interest and costs.”
Nexstar’s WFLA has reached out to the Kraft Heinz Food Company for comment about the lawsuit, but did not immediately hear back. | 2022-11-27T15:58:18+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/woman-sues-kraft-heinz-for-5m-says-mac-and-cheese-preparation-isnt-as-advertised/ |
FDA considers making Narcan available without prescription
Published: Feb. 15, 2023 at 9:22 AM CST|Updated: 58 minutes ago
(CNN) - The opioid overdose antidote Narcan could soon be sold over the counter as a nasal spray.
On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration is meeting with advisers to discuss making the nasal-spray version of Narcan available without a prescription.
Research shows that a wider availability of Narcan could save lives as opioid deaths across the country reached record numbers last year.
The drug company seeking the FDA’s approval says its over-the-counter nasal spray version of Narcan is designed to be used by people without medical training.
It also says the spray is easier to administer than an injection.
Approval could come as early as this year.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-15T16:21:18+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/2023/02/15/fda-considers-making-narcan-available-without-prescription/ |
Here are some things happening in Northeast Ohio to add to your weekend itinerary and don't forget to grab your coat! You may need to bundle up this weekend according to the latest weather updates from News 5's weather team.
Grab a corned beef sandwich
The hugely popular sandwich shop Slyman’s is ready to serve thousands of corned beef sandwiches today. They opened at 6 a.m. to accommodate the crowd they’ll undeniably have as Clevelanders participate in the age-old tradition of having the salt-cured beef brisket on St. Patty's Day. Watch above as News 5's Mike Holden got in on the fun. Find more info here.
Cleveland’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade
This year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade is a “Salute to Irish America Athletes” and will begin today at 1:04 p.m. at the intersection of Superior Avenue and East 18th Street. Enjoy floats, bands, drill teams, and participants from all over Northeast Ohio in Cleveland’s “biggest party” for St. Patrick’s Day. Find more info, including how to watch live, here.
RELATED: St. Patrick's Day Parade in Cleveland 2023: Everything you need to know
Friday Fish Fries
Enjoy a fish dinner! With Lent season comes fish fry Fridays and we've made finding a fish dinner easy with our 2023 Fish Fry guide.
Spring Discovery Days at the Greater Cleveland Aquarium
According to their website, the Greater Cleveland Aquarium is “inviting guests to stop and appreciate some of the smaller species with contests, daily animal encounters, and activities.” Northeast Ohio traveling animal educator, Nora the Explorer, will hold an exhibit on select Thursdays, allowing guests to learn and even touch some of the small sea creatures. Spring Discovery Days are happening now, find more info here.
2023 Cleveland Bridal Show
The 14th Annual Cleveland Bridal Show presented by TL Worldwide Transportation returns to the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse Saturday, March 18 beginning at 10 a.m. Grab your family and bridal party to enjoy and meet vendors from all aspects of the wedding industry. Find more info here.
Help The Roll Arena celebrate 75 years
The Roll Arena in Elyria has been providing family-friendly fun for 75 years. They invite the public to celebrate with them on Saturday, March 18 with roller skate rentals for 25 cents, trivia with prizes, cake, and a playlist that highlights the best skating music over the last 75 years. Entry is $5, find more info here.
Strike it Big Fundraising Bowling Event
Milestones Autism Resources is hosting a family-friendly bowling fundraiser Sunday, March 19 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Spins Bowl in Independence. The fundraiser will benefit Milestones’ free autism HelpDesk, which serves thousands of individuals and families in northeast Ohio every year. Bowlers may register as a team of up to 6 people. Find registration, where to donate, and more info here.
The Disney Immersive Experience
From now until mid-May, audiences at the Disney Animation Immersive Experience will feel like they’ve entered the incredible worlds of beloved Disney characters and become one with them. Disney films old and new will be on display in this super cool-looking exhibit. Buy tickets and find more info here.
Van Aken District Indoor Winter Market
Find over 20 local farms, bakers, and artists at the indoor winter market happening Saturdays now until March 25 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Van Aken Market Hall in Shaker Heights. Find more info here.
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Faced with a man trying to open the door of an American Airlines flight court documents say the flight crew turned to a coffee pot to subdue him. Police have now charged 50 year old Juan Roberto rivas with interfering with a flight attendant. This as even more unruly airline passengers are facing federal punishment. The FAA is now handing 43 cases to the Department of Justice so it can bring charges against those accused of assaulting fellow passengers and flight crews both physically and in some cases sexually. If found guilty, they could face jail time. The flight attendants who are working these flights have been punched, kicked, spit on, disrespected and constantly under assault. Sara nelson of the Association of flight attendants says the numbers are off the charts. The now 80 total cases referred to the Justice Department make up only 1% of the 6480 incidents reported by flight crews since the start of last year, until we have people actually landing in jail and understanding that there's real consequences for acting out on a flight. We're not going to see these incidents go down. Airlines have asked the Justice Department to keep unruly passengers from boarding flights in the first place. A move eight Republican senators say should be up to Congress to decide in a new letter. They insist most unruly passenger incidents are related to the federal transportation mask mandate. They say creating a federal no fly list for unruly passengers who are skeptical of this mandate would seemingly equate them to terrorists. Transportation Secretary Pete buddha. Judge says a no fly list should be considered and more passengers should be put behind bars to keep numbers down. There is no acceptable level of unruly behavior on aircraft, especially when it is not only disrespectful but dangerous towards flight crews and other passengers.
Unruly passenger forces flight from London to Los Angeles to divert to Salt Lake City
Updated: 10:02 AM EDT Jul 27, 2022
A disruptive passenger onboard a Virgin Atlantic flight from London's Heathrow airport to Los Angeles on Tuesday caused the aircraft to be diverted to Salt Lake City, according to an airline statement.The passenger was "physically detained by other passengers and flight crew members" and was met by police upon arrival, according to Salt Lake City Police in a statement.The flight then continued to Los Angeles and landed about four hours after its scheduled arrival, Virgin Atlantic said."The safety and wellbeing of our customers and crew is always our top priority and we don't tolerate any behavior that compromises this," the airline statement said. "We always want our customers to have the best experience when they fly with us and our cabin crew are highly trained to deal with any individuals that may impact that experience for others."CNN has reached out to Salt Lake City Police for more information.So far this year there have been 1,701 reports of unruly passengers, with 582 investigations initiated, according to Federal Aviation Administration data.Last year was the worst on record for unruly airplane passenger behavior in the U.S., according to FAA data. In 2021, there were 5,981 reports of unruly passengers, with 1,113 investigations initiated.
A disruptive passenger onboard a Virgin Atlantic flight from London's Heathrow airport to Los Angeles on Tuesday caused the aircraft to be diverted to Salt Lake City, according to an airline statement.
The passenger was "physically detained by other passengers and flight crew members" and was met by police upon arrival, according to Salt Lake City Police in a statement.
The flight then continued to Los Angeles and landed about four hours after its scheduled arrival, Virgin Atlantic said.
"The safety and wellbeing of our customers and crew is always our top priority and we don't tolerate any behavior that compromises this," the airline statement said. "We always want our customers to have the best experience when they fly with us and our cabin crew are highly trained to deal with any individuals that may impact that experience for others."
CNN has reached out to Salt Lake City Police for more information.
So far this year there have been 1,701 reports of unruly passengers, with 582 investigations initiated, according to Federal Aviation Administration data.
Last year was the worst on record for unruly airplane passenger behavior in the U.S., according to FAA data. In 2021, there were 5,981 reports of unruly passengers, with 1,113 investigations initiated. | 2022-07-27T14:56:36+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/unruly-passenger-flight-london-to-los-angeles-diverts-salt-lake-city/40728852 |
NBA hopes augmented reality basketball game will be next Pokémon Go
Niantic, the company behind the hit game "Pokémon Go" is diving into the sports world for its latest creation.
The San Francisco-based software company is teaming up with the NBA and NBA Players Association to launch "NBA All-World," a new mobile game that brings the NBA world to neighborhoods globally, according to a release from the NBA.
This new free-to-play augmented reality game lets gamers find, challenge, and compete against current NBA players in their communities. Gamers can also recruit an NBA player to their team before proving themselves on the court, the NBA explained in a release.
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, is teaming up with the NBA and NBA Players Association to launch "NBA All-World," a new mobile game that brings the NBA world to neighborhoods globally. (Image courtesy of Niantic)
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"Sports are a huge part of people’s lives and a huge part of pop culture," John Hanke, founder & CEO of Niantic, said in a release. "Our version of an NBA basketball game starts with exciting one-on-one gameplay and expands from there to include the major elements of basketball culture, including music, fashion, sneakers and more, all of which are integrated into real world locations."
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, is teaming up with the NBA and NBA Players Association to launch "NBA All-World," a new mobile game that brings the NBA world to neighborhoods globally. (Image courtesy of Niantic)
Gamers can dress their teams in the latest gear in the mobile game by searching for real-world drops from various clothing brands. And players can show off their teams and interact with friends in the game and compete in one-on-one tournaments to win exclusive in-game items, according to the NBA.
Adrienne O’Keeffe, the NBA’s vice president for global partnerships, said the league and Niantic began discussing a collaboration about five years ago, shortly after "Pokémon Go" launched in 2016, according to Niantic.
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, is teaming up with the NBA and NBA Players Association to launch "NBA All-World," a new mobile game that brings the NBA world to neighborhoods globally. (Image courtesy of Niantic)
"They came to us about the same time we were thinking about them," O’Keeffe said in a statement. "From our first meeting it was clear that we saw where this could go, and ever since then, we’ve been working on the game and getting ready for this moment."
"NBA All-World" is available now on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
This story was reported from Washington, D.C. | 2023-01-25T20:44:38+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/nba-new-reality-basketball-game |
By KAREL JANICEK
Associated Press
PRAGUE (AP) — Russia reduced natural gas to Europe again Friday, including cutting flows by half to Italy and Slovakia and completely to France, as countries have worked to ease their dependence on Russian supplies amid the war in Ukraine.
It marks the third day of significant reductions to the fuel that powers industry and generates electricity in Europe, which also have hit Germany and Austria. It has further spiked already-high energy prices that are driving record inflation in the European Union.
Russia has blamed a technical problem for the cuts to the key Nord Stream 1 pipeline serving Germany and France, saying equipment being refurbished in Canada was stuck there because of Western sanctions. Leaders in Germany and Italy called the reductions a political move, and it’s escalated the energy tensions in Europe, following Russia’s previous cutoff of natural gas to Poland, Bulgaria, Finland, the Netherlands and Denmark.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that the reductions are “blackmail (against) both individual countries and Europe as a whole.”
Russia told Slovakia’s state-controlled gas company SPP that it would reduce deliveries to the country by 50%, SPP director Richard Prokypcak told a conference in Bratislava. The reason for the reduction has not been made clear.
Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom told Italian gas company Eni on the same day that it would supply only 50% of the amount of gas requested for Friday, reducing the flow to one of Europe’s biggest importers of Russian gas for a third day.
Gazprom reduced by 15% Italy’s requested delivery on Wednesday. The ANSA news agency reported the Russian company dropped it by 35% on Thursday. Italy gets 40% of its gas from Russia but has been working to find alternative sources in countries like Algeria.
And France is no longer receiving any natural gas from Russia. The French gas network operator GRTGaz said Russian supplies via Germany came to a halt Wednesday, after dropping by 60% over the first five months of the year.
The operator said Friday that despite the halt in Russian supplies, no disruptions to gas supplies are expected this summer, in part thanks to more shipments via Spain. France normally gets about 17% of its natural gas from Russia, but overall gas is a relatively small part of France’s energy mix, at about 16%.
The cut in supplies to France was “a consequence of the already-known reduction” of gas supplies via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, German Economy Ministry spokesman Stephan Gabriel Haufe said. He didn’t have further details of specific reasons for the cut.
Russia has said Canadian sanctions prevented German partner Siemens Energy from delivering equipment that had been sent there to be overhauled. The German government said maintenance shouldn’t have been an issue until the fall and the Russian decision was meant sow uncertainty and push up prices.
“Both we and Germany and others maintain it’s a lie, there’s a political use of gas” by Russia, Italian Premier Mario Draghi said in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on Thursday.
In Slovakia, Prokypcak downplayed the impact of the cuts despite “facing a real risk (the supplies from Russia) will halt completely,” the CTK news agency quoted him as saying.
In the previous days, the cuts reached 10% on Wednesday and 34% on Thursday. To diversify supplies, Slovakia has recently struck a deal with Norway to receive gas from the North Sea through Germany and also liquefied gas from other countries.
Economy Minister Richard Sulik said the new deals would reduce his country’s dependence on Russian gas by 65%. Before the deals, Slovakia received 85% of its gas from Russia.
Slovakia has about one-third of the country’s one-year consumption in its gas storages and was planning to have enough gas for the winter season stored by July 10.
Austrian oil and gas company OMV said Thursday that Gazprom had informed it of a reduction in supplies but didn’t specify by how much.
The European Union is trying to reduce gas imports from Russia by two-thirds by the end of the year and has used imported liquid gas from the United States to start making up that gap. But an explosion and fire at a key U.S. export facility in Freeport, Texas, took one-fifth of the country’s gas export capacity offline and underlined concerns about the fragility of Europe’s gas supplies.
Short-term natural gas prices remained elevated Friday, at 126 euros per megawatt for month-ahead gas futures. That is up some 50% from Monday.
Gas prices had fallen with the end of the winter heating season, offering some relief to European utilities scrambling to refill underground storage to have enough to get through next winter.
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AP writers Angela Charlton in Paris, Geir Moulson in Berlin, and Nicole Winfield and Frances D’Emilio in Rome contributed.
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MONTREAL (AP) — Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain won the National Bank Open on Sunday, beating eighth-seeded Hubert Hurkacz of Poland 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.
The first unseeded winner in the event since Argentina’s Guillermo Canas in 2002, Busta won his seventh ATP Tour title and first Masters 1000 victory.
“It’s an amazing feeling,” Busta said. “I worked very, very hard (throughout) my career to finally be here.”
The 23rd-ranked Carreno Busta improved to 7-5 in final appearances.
“It’s not the first one, but it’s for sure the most important,” Carreno Busta said. “It’s a Masters 1000. It’s something great to win these kind of titles.”
Hurkacz fell to 5-1 in finals.
“It’s the little things that make a big difference,” Hurkacz said. “If you don’t make your first serves and, with Pablo making some good returns, then you’re under a lot of pressure.”
Unseeded Reilly Opelka reached the final last year in Toronto, then lost to Daniil Medvedev. | 2022-08-15T03:57:00+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/sports/ap-sports/pablo-carreno-busta-wins-in-montreal-1st-masters-1000-title/ |
Roanoke, Va., is unveiling plans for a statue of Henrietta Lacks, who died of cancer in 1951. Cell samples taken from her without her knowledge have been used to study cancer and develop vaccines.
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Roanoke, Va., is unveiling plans for a statue of Henrietta Lacks, who died of cancer in 1951. Cell samples taken from her without her knowledge have been used to study cancer and develop vaccines.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-12-22T12:08:49+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/2022-12-22/a-woman-whos-helped-saved-millions-of-lives-is-being-celebrated-in-her-hometown |
Many Americans are watching something they have never seen in China. The last time the world witnessed massive protests against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was over 33 years ago in Tiananmen Square.
For those old enough to remember, the iconic picture of the lone dissident standing in front of a Chinese Tank (“Tank man”) encapsulated the event. Starting more than a week ago, the people of China have again risen up for freedom. This protest has taken many Western observers by surprise, due both to mainstream media failures in lack of coverage and to the massive state control over the Chinese people. Multiple factors have made it inevitable and with geopolitical consequences. Let me explain.
First, despite the exponential economic growth of China, the nation is facing substantial demographic decline causing unrest. For a number of years, owing to China’s one-child policy, the Chinese birthrate has been plummeting.
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During the past decade of Xi’s rule, annual birthrates fell by more than 45% even with the CCP ending the one-child policy in 2016. As of around a year ago, the Chinese population started decreasing and is expected to plummet.
On current trends, by 2100, the population will go from 1.4 billion to around 800 million. Further exacerbating this spiral, obstetrics expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professor Yi Fuxian, asserts that China’s unemployment and general anxiety over continual lockdowns have caused Chinese to hold off on marriage and childbearing. By Fuxian’s estimates, this dynamic has reduced the number of births in China by around a million (beyond the other trends) in both 2021 and 2022.
Within the context of the demographic decline, the Chinese have had to endure the CCP’s draconian and inhumane zero COVID policy. In practice, this has meant that starting in early 2020, tens of millions of Chinese have been locked down at various times. Parents have been separated from children due to quarantine. Pets killed throughout cities. People locked in apartments for days or weeks at a time, without basic necessities like food.
Though the CCP COVID response was praised by many Western health officials and the World Health Organization (WHO), it has been utter cruelty to the Chinese. Though the CCP policy initially kept deaths low, it was quickly challenged by the highly transmissible newer variants, which weren’t stopped by the lockdowns.
Unfortunately, the Western media directed their focus on the response of the Trump administration, ignoring what the Chinese have been suffering. The reality was that the CCP refused to import better foreign vaccines while accepting lower rates of vaccination. Those factors, combined with less general access to health care, caused CCP concerns that China’s population of 1.4 billion people could experience the highest death rate, thereby embarrassing the CCP. I remember travelling to Italy in April 2021 and seeing a group of Chinese tourists traveling in full (COVID) protective body suits.
In September 2022, 27 Chinese died in a bus crash while being forcibly taken to the Guizhou quarantine center (Note: Only two Covid-related deaths were reported in the province since the pandemic began). This story seeped throughout China, despite CCP censorship.
Later, thousands of employees in an Apple iPhone factory under inhumane conditions fought riot police and tore down barricades. Chinese started sharing more of these types of stories, and began to see that the rest of the world, like fans at the World Cup, are without masks and unrestricted.
The final spark for the explosion of protests came when 10 people died in a building fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang. Urumqi had been in harsh lockdown for over three months. The people died as a result of being locked in the burning building.
Anger was exacerbated by the CCP response of blaming the victims for not “rescuing themselves." On Friday, Nov. 26, in Urumqi, people took to the streets singing “Rise up, those who refuse to be slaves.”
By Saturday, crowds gathered in Shanghai and demanded Xi Jinping step down. By Sunday, massive protests spread to Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuhan, Lanzhou, Nanjing, and universities throughout China.
In addition to protests in solidarity with Urumqi, a “white paper” protest began over lack of free speech. A student at Tsinghua university, Beijing was holding a single blank white sheet when it was ripped from her hands by authorities. She refused to leave and was soon joined by hundreds of Chinese students and others with white sheets.
One young protester explained to Reuters: “The white paper represents everything we want to say but cannot say” and another claimed, “We launched the blank paper remembrance movement. Do we say anything on the paper? No. All accusations are in our hearts. All Thoughts are in our hearts.”
The CCP will try to appear relatively easy on protesters while under media scrutiny but will later mete out harsh punishment to individuals. However, it will use extreme measures to quell protests that appear, in the slightest, to threaten the regime.
The current protests are spread throughout China, making it more difficult than with Tiananmen Square, but protesters still face becoming the next “Tank man.” America cannot remain silent in this fight, and must go on the record in full support of protesters. Freedom is God’s gift, and we stand behind the Chinese people in taking it back from the CCP.
Bill Connor, a retired Army Infantry colonel, author and Orangeburg attorney, has deployed multiple times to the Middle East. Connor was the senior U.S. military adviser to Afghan forces in Helmand Province, where he received the Bronze Star. A Citadel graduate with a JD from USC, he is also a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Army War College, earning his of strategic studies. He is the author of the book "Articles from War.” | 2022-12-04T07:52:50+00:00 | thetandd.com | https://thetandd.com/opinion/columnist/commentary-fight-for-freedom-in-china/article_0c7695d9-fb6e-578e-ab27-87dec27afa21.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are mixed Thursday as more data show the job market remains strong and worries about interest rates continue to weigh on Wall Street.
The S&P 500 was 0.1% lower in midday trading after paring a larger morning loss. The Nasdaq composite was also down, 0.4% lower, as another rise in yields in the bond market added more pressure on technology and high-growth stocks in particular.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was stronger, up 152 points, or 0.5%, at 32,814, as of 11 a.m. Eastern time, largely because of a leap for Salesforce following a strong earnings report.
A report in the morning showed fewer workers applied for unemployment benefits last week for a third straight week. It’s the latest data to show the job market is remaining far more resilient than expected, even though the Federal Reserve has jacked up interest rates at the fastest pace in decades.
While that’s good news for workers and calms fears about a recession in the near term, the fear is that a too-strong jobs market could add upward pressure to inflation. Inflation has recently been more stubborn to cool than expected after coming down from its summertime peak.
A separate report Thursday showed that labor costs were higher than earlier reported for the last three months of 2022, while productivity was revised down. Both could also add pressure on inflation. It follows other reports over the last month showing overall job growth, spending by consumers and inflation at multiple levels of the economy all remain higher than expected.
That’s forced Wall Street to raise its forecasts for how high the Fed will ultimately take interest rates. It also means a delay in any hopes for upcoming cuts to rates. Traders are now in closer alignment with what the Fed has long been saying about keeping rates higher for longer, with many expecting the central bank to ratchet up its own forecasts later this month.
The swing has been clear in the bond market, where Treasury yields have shot higher. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.05% from 4.00% late Wednesday and from less than 3.40% earlier this year. It helps set rates for mortgages and other loans that shape the economy, and it’s near its highest level since November.
The two-year yield, which moves more on expectations for the Fed, rose to 4.92% from 4.88% and is close to its highest level since 2007.
Higher rates can drive down inflation because they slow the economy, but they also raise the risk of a recession down the line. They likewise hurt prices for stocks and other investments.
They tend to most hurt investments seen as the riskiest, most expensive or forcing their investors to wait the longest for big growth. That’s hit technology and high-growth stocks in particular.
Telsa was helping to lead the way lower for the stock market. It sank 6.5% after saying its next generation of vehicles will cost half as much, though providing few details about its design in a presentation to investors. Hormel Foods, the company behind Spam and Applegate meats, also fell. It sank 4.8% after reporting weaker profit and revenue for the latest quarter than expected.
On the winning side was Salesforce, which topped forecasts for its profit and revenue last quarter. It also gave a stronger-than-expected forecast for upcoming results. It leaped 13.5%.
Expectations have been coming down recently for profits at big U.S. companies given still-high inflation and interest rates. But several joined Salesforce in rising Thursday after posting encouraging results.
Macy’s rose 11% after reporting stronger profit and revenue for the holidays than analysts expected. It also gave a forecasted range for earnings this year that was above some analysts’ expectations.
It ran counter to several other big retailers that have offered discouraging forecasts recently given the struggles of some U.S. households amid still-high inflation.
Kroger rose 3.7% after the grocer also turned in stronger profit for the latest quarter than expected.
Stock markets overseas were also mixed.
New data out of Europe Thursday showed that inflation eased slightly in the 20 countries that use the euro currency but remains higher than economists expected.
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AP Business Writers Joe McDonald and Matt Ott contributed. | 2023-03-02T17:43:41+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/business/ap-business/ap-asian-stocks-mixed-after-wall-st-falls-on-inflation-fears/ |
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) announced today that its board of directors has elected Robin Watson, 55, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of John Wood Group PLC, to its board of directors as an independent director.
Watson was appointed CEO of Wood in 2016 after serving as both chief operating officer and an executive member of the Wood Group Board of Directors since 2013. During his tenure as CEO, Watson led the transformation of Wood from an oil field services company to an integrated engineering and consultancy company, spanning a variety of growing end markets in energy and the built environment, with a focus on sustainable technologies. Watson stepped down from his position as Wood's CEO in July 2022 and currently serves as an advisory consultant for the company.
Prior to joining Wood, Watson was a director and senior manager at Petrofac, working in a variety of roles in service and investment delivery. He began his career in management and engineering at Mobil Oil in the United Kingdom.
"Robin brings demonstrated experience to Honeywell's board in helping organizations deliver a more sustainable future," said Darius Adamczyk, chairman and chief executive officer of Honeywell. "His experience and passion for driving the energy transition has been demonstrated throughout his career, but especially in his transformational leadership of Wood Group. His success in identifying opportunities for sustainable outcomes, implementing digital technologies and achieving emissions-reducing green solutions make him an invaluable addition as we continue Honeywell's own transformation."
Watson holds an honors degree in offshore & mechanical engineering from Heriot-Watt University and a master's degree in business administration (MBA) from University of Strathclyde. He has been a Non-Executive Director at the Institute of Directors since August 2021. Robin also received the Commander of the Order of the British Empire Award as part of the Queen's 2020 Birthday Honors.
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 technology company that delivers industry specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help everything from aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
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Plans to Transform the Bank into Indonesia's Innovative Digital Bank
- WeLab and Astra now jointly control the bank, with a total share ownership of approximately 99.13% of BJJ
- All relevant regulatory approvals have been obtained, including from the Financial Services Authority (OJK) of Indonesia
- This transaction is Southeast Asia's largest digital bank M&A transaction in 2022
HONG KONG, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WeLab, a leading pan-Asian fintech platform, today announced the completion of the acquisition of an Indonesian commercial bank, PT Bank Jasa Jakarta (BJJ), together with PT Astra International Tbk (Astra), one of Indonesia's largest public companies. The completion is marked by the issuance of acquisition approval by the Financial Services Authority (OJK). For this transaction, a WeLab-led consortium, Welab Sky Limited (WeLab Sky), participated in the acquisition together with Astra's subsidiary PT Sedaya Multi Investama (Astra Financial). The WeLab-led consortium has drawn wide-spread support from existing and new investors, including Allianz X, Boyu Capital, Horizons Ventures, SCBX Group[1] and TFB (Taipei Fubon Bank) Capital.
In December 2021, WeLab entered into a Share Purchase and Subscription Agreement with the shareholders of BJJ, and completed a strategic investment for 24% of BJJ. With the acquisition completed today, WeLab and Astra each holds 49.56% of BJJ shares, becoming the majority shareholders and joint controllers of the bank. The transaction is Southeast Asia's largest digital bank M&A transaction in 2022, illustrating the substantial commitment to invest in, and contribute to digitizing Indonesia's banking industry. The shareholders aim to transform BJJ into an innovative digital bank in Indonesia.
Simon Loong, Founder and Group CEO of WeLab, said, "Expanding WeLab's digital banking presence across Asia, first in Hong Kong and now in Indonesia, has been one of our key strategic moves. This partnership with Astra reinforces WeLab's strategic focus on enhancing cross-country and business synergies with partners to increase scale and reach, in order to further strengthen the breadth and depth of the existing pan-Asian fintech platform. We're excited that our long-term partner, Astra will be collaborating with us to deliver the best tech-driven banking services through BJJ in Indonesia. We look forward to bolstering the customer trust level with the collaboration with Astra."
President Director of Astra Djony Bunarto Tjondro said, "Investment in BJJ is in line with Astra aspirations in financial services pillars to become leading retail financial providers in Indonesia and support the growth of financial services industry as well as the economy of Indonesia."
Propel growth and digital innovation with strong synergies between Astra and WeLab
WeLab and Astra are long time partners in Indonesia's fintech ecosystem. This is WeLab's second strategic partnership initiative with Astra since the formation of a fintech lending joint venture, PT Astra WeLab Digital Arta (AWDA), in 2018. The complementary strengths of the partners, including WeLab's know-how and technology in building and being an operator in digital banking, together with Astra's solid business ecosystem and experience as well as vast distribution network, are highly synergistic and key success factors to propel BJJ's digital transformation and into an innovative digital bank to serve the digital financial needs of Indonesians with accessible and innovative banking solutions.
Address unmet financial needs and advocate financial inclusion
The prospect of digital banking in Indonesia is currently on the rise and represents a huge opportunity to provide accessible and innovative digital banking solutions, especially to the retail and MSMEs (Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises) segments. The utilization of financial services in Indonesia has the potential to grow, as 77% of Indonesia's 270-million-population is either underbanked or unbanked. The country also has a sizable population of 180 million tech-savvy younger consumers, representing a great demand for digital banking services.
About WeLab
WeLab, a leading pan-Asian fintech platform, operates WeLab Bank as well as multiple online financial services with leading positions in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Indonesia, with more than 50 million individual users and over 700 enterprise customers. WeLab uses game-changing technology to help customers access credit, save money, and enjoy their financial journey.
Powered by proprietary risk management technology, patented privacy computing techniques, and advanced AI capabilities, WeLab offers mobile-based consumer financing solutions and digital banking services to retail individuals and technology solutions to enterprise customers.
WeLab operates in three markets under multiple brands, including WeLend, and WeLab Bank in Hong Kong, various business lines in Mainland China, Maucash and a digital bank in Indonesia.
WeLab is backed by the most renowned investors including Allianz, China Construction Bank International, International Finance Corporation (a member of the World Bank Group), CK Hutchison's TOM Group, and Sequoia Capital.
To learn more, please visit: www.welab.co, or follow WeLab on LinkedIn and Facebook.
About Astra:
Astra is one of Indonesia's largest public companies, comprising 240 subsidiaries, joint ventures, and associate companies, supported by nearly 190,000 employees. The company's diversified business model creates synergies and opportunities across industry sectors including automotive, financial services, heavy equipment, mining construction and energy, agribusiness, infrastructure and logistics, information technology, and property. The company has a new sustainability framework which contains Astra 2030 Sustainability Aspirations. It will guide Astra in the transition journey to be a more sustainable business by 2030 and beyond. Astra wishes to contribute to the strength and resilience of the Indonesian economy while supporting an inclusive and prosperous society.
Astra has a strong record of public and social contributions through four pillars, which consist of health, education, environment, and entrepreneurships as well as nine foundations to contribute to the growth of the Indonesian economy while encouraging a more inclusive and prosperous society. Established in 2010, Astra's Semangat Astra Terpadu Untuk (SATU) Indonesia Awards programme, has recognised the contribution of 493 young Indonesians across each of these focus areas, including 81 national level recipients and 412 provincial level recipients. The SATU Indonesia Awards programme is integrated with Astra's wide range of community activities through 170 Kampung Berseri Astra and 1,060 Desa Sejahtera Astra initiatives in 34 provinces throughout Indonesia.
For more about Astra, visit www.astra.co.id & www.satu-indonesia.com and follow us on Instagram (@SATU_Indonesia), YouTube (SATU Indonesia), Facebook (Semangat Astra Terpadu) and Twitter (@SATU_Indonesia).
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WASHINGTON, May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Winston & Strawn LLP today announced that Lawrence Block, Elizabeth Leavy, and Lawrence Sher have joined the firm as partners specializing in government contracts matters within the firm's Litigation Department and the White Collar, Regulatory Defense & Investigations Practice.
All three partners will work out of the firm's Washington, D.C., office and will add a broad array of government contracts experience to the firm, including handling regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters. Their collective backgrounds will also expand the firm's capabilities in the health care and life sciences sectors.
Lawrence Block brings significant experience in government contract consultation and litigation. Larry has been responsible for successfully challenging some of the largest government contract awards in the country through bid protests on behalf of disappointed offerors and by protecting the interests of successful offerors in similar procurements. He maintains a nationwide litigation practice representing government contractors in all matters related to state and federal government contracts, including False Claims Act matters, suspension/debarment proceedings, procurement fraud, small business issues, claims, and prime/subcontractor disputes.
Larry also consults with contractors regarding government contracts and grant requirements daily, and conducts internal investigations related to whistleblower complaints, organizational conflicts of interest (OCI), and mandatory disclosure issues. He is particularly knowledgeable about emerging technology and regularly addresses issues related to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), and Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) grants. Larry is also heavily involved with corporate transactions involving government contractors, and he assists buyers and sellers throughout the M&A process, including government contracts due diligence, novations, and post-sale compliance.
Elizabeth Leavy is an experienced government contracts litigator representing corporations in disputes and government investigations related to the award, administration, and termination of federal and state government contracts. Liz represents government contractors in bid protests and claims before the GAO, the Court of Federal Claims, the Boards of Contract Appeals, and state agencies. She also represents contractors that are the targets of government investigations and whistleblower lawsuits alleging violations of the False Claims Act, the Defense Contractor Whistleblower Reprisal Act, and other Office of the Inspector General investigations. Liz provides advice and counsel to private equity funds and strategic buyers on the acquisition of government contractors or their assets and provides specialized due diligence and post-closing support in M&A transactions. In addition, she counsels companies holding federal contracts and grants with respect to contract negotiation and regulatory compliance.
Lawrence Sher is a creative, highly skilled litigator with more than 25 years of experience. He has tried several civil cases to judgment and frequently argues decisive and dispositive motions before numerous federal and state courts, federal and state agencies, Administrative Law Judges, and arbitration tribunals. His practice focuses on both government contracts and health care-related disputes. Larry's litigation practice encompasses a broad spectrum of matters, including: government contract disputes at the GAO and U.S. Court of Federal Claims; federal and state bid protests; Contract Disputes Act (CDA) claims and appeals; wrongful terminations; Civil False Claims Act (FCA) violations and qui tam investigations; health care-related litigation, administrative hearings, and appeals; lawsuits to compel or prevent actions by federal and state agencies; complex commercial disputes; and federal regulatory compliance.
In a joint statement, the three partners said, "We are honored to join Winston & Strawn and the outstanding team in Washington, D.C., where government contracts and regulatory experience increasingly are in high demand. That is especially true given the recent implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. We look forward to guiding existing and new clients through the unique business and legal challenges that government contractors confront throughout the entire procurement cycle. We believe our focused litigation and regulatory experience will fully complement Winston's highly regarded and successful litigation practice."
"The addition of this distinguished government contracts team provides an immediate and significant expansion of our ability to serve our clients on matters such as disputes, claims, federal and state bid protests, False Claims Act investigations and defense, procurement counseling, and M&A due diligence in this space," said David Rogers, Winston's Washington, D.C., office managing partner. "Their arrival offers Winston's clients additional capabilities beyond government contracts and enables us to expand our representation in health care and life sciences matters—particularly in health care disputes arising out of clients' participation in state or federal programs."
"This trio of talent will boost our client service capabilities not only in the nation's capital but across the firm," said Winston Chairman Tom Fitzgerald. "Their experience will help Winston stay one step ahead on critical issues affecting the lifecycle of federal and state government contracts. And their regulatory, transactional, and litigation experience will be a significant benefit to the D.C. office's continued growth."
Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with 16 offices in North America, South America, Asia, and Europe. More information about the firm is available at www.winston.com.
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LS20 is a Compact Energy Source; Flexible Light-Scale System; Quicker to Build and Faster to Market; and a Complete Liquefaction, Storage, and Dispensing Unit
TITUSVILLE, Fla., Dec. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GenH2, an industry leader in hydrogen infrastructure solutions, announced the launch of its ground-breaking LS20 Mobile Liquid Hydrogen System, an end-to-end liquefication and storage system. The innovative, mobile liquefaction unit offers a space-optimized, fully integrated liquid hydrogen solution to be used in a range of applications from transportation to energy backup to accelerating the use of liquid hydrogen through pilot projects and testing. It will also be utilized as a lab setting for testing material, insulation, thermodynamic properties, and use cases for their applications.
With a mission to provide light-scale infrastructure solutions for liquid hydrogen, GenH2 designed the LS20 with the capability of producing small amounts of liquid hydrogen in order to provide access to more hydrogen researchers and hydrogen industry players. The LS20 can produce between two and 20kg of liquid hydrogen per day, to provide liquid hydrogen at-the-ready, when and where it is needed. Twenty kg of liquid hydrogen contains nearly 2400 Megajoules of energy and can be readily stored and used within GenH2's ultralight utility tank systems.
"The development of the LS20 has been a culmination of decades of experience and engineering within and in conjunction with NASA," said Jong Baik, Chief Technology Officer of GenH2. "Providing researchers and developers of hydrogen infrastructure with a modular, efficient way of getting their hands on liquid hydrogen is a vital requirement to advance the hydrogen economy. "
The smallest liquid hydrogen mobile unit currently commercially available, the LS20 is self-sustaining and can run independently with a portable generator or plug into a building's power source. This makes the LS20 ideal for dispensing fuel to multi-purpose drones and providing an emergency power supply to first responders. Additionally, the LS20 units are manufacturing ready to keep up with the increasing demand for hydrogen and enable faster infrastructure build-out and adoption. According to Baik, with its flexibility, compact size, and speed-to-market capabilities, the LS20 is a game-changer for a rapidly growing hydrogen industry.
The LS20 is designed for those areas where relatively compact systems are necessary to enable hydrogen viability. As a complete system, the LS20 can liquefy, store, and dispense liquid hydrogen from any gaseous hydrogen source, such as a storage tank or an electrolyzer. This compact, flexible system offers the user the ability to provide liquid hydrogen when and where it is needed. The key features of LS20 technology are:
- Convenient and safe liquid hydrogen production on demand between two and 20 kg per day
- D.O.T. approved 400 Liter capacity liquid hydrogen storage tank with zero-boil-off storage feature
- Fully automated liquid hydrogen production/storage level control and monitoring system
- Zero-loss, liquid-to-liquid transfer system with hydrogen gas recovery bag
- Detachable liquid hydrogen storage tank for separate liquid hydrogen transport
- Innovative quick-connect vacuum jacketed receptacles
- Ultra-light liquid hydrogen tanks for hydrogen mobilities such as cars, drones, UAVs, trucks, etc.
- Hydrogen detection sensor, Oxygen monitoring, IR hydrogen flame detectors
- Multiple pressure relief devices and advanced emergency venting system
The LS20 also serves as a foundation for higher capacity GenH2 systems including the 100Kg LH2 per day and 1000Kg LH2 per day solutions. Once deployed, these solutions will be an innovative addition to the options for advanced clean energy. The LS20 demonstrates GenH2's continuing support for the expansion of the hydrogen economy. The company is working closely with the Department of Energy, NASA, various universities, and energy companies around the globe for a better tomorrow.
GenH2 is a technology leader in hydrogen infrastructure systems for advanced clean energy. GenH2 solutions will allow for safe liquefaction, storage, and distribution of liquid hydrogen. The company will focus on mass-producing light-scale equipment to speed infrastructure buildout and make hydrogen accessible for everyday use around the globe. The Titusville, Florida-headquartered technology team includes former NASA researchers and developers who possess decades of experience researching, engineering, and building hydrogen solutions. Learn more about GenH2 at www.DiscoverHydrogen.com
Melissa Pearlman
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ILLINOIS (WCIA) — January is Human Trafficking awareness month, and while some may think human trafficking is only an international issue, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is working to improve awareness and prevention in Illinois.
“Human trafficking is not something that only happens to adults in other countries; it occurs every day across Illinois to children whose average age is 14,” said Illinois DCFS Director Marc D. Smith. “Youth in care and those living in congregate care facilities are especially vulnerable, and providing this training to staff who care for our children in these settings is one more step we can take to ensure their safety.”
DCFS is partnering with The Power Project to train group home and residential care facility staff across Illinois on how to identify, intervene and prevent human trafficking among their youth in treatment. Nearly 1,000 care staff in 37 facilities across Illinois completed Commercial Sexual Exploitation 101 training in 2022.
“As a former youth in care, I realize that I could have very easily become a victim of human trafficking when I was younger, and now it’s my passion to look for ways to prevent youth from being trafficked in the first place,” said The Power Project Founder and CEO Mieko Taylor. “It is so much easier to keep a kid from being broken, rather than trying to put them back together.”
DCFS said victims of human trafficking often do not seek help because they are fearful, ashamed of their situation, distrust law enforcement or become dependent on the perpetrator.
DCFS shared common signs to be aware of the situation. They said a trafficked child might:
- Have an adult control them by speaking for them.
- Seem out of place given the time of day or night.
- Look disheveled or dressed in clothes that they could not afford to buy.
- Show signs of physical abuse such as bruising or red marks.
- Not possess any form of identification.
- Perform inappropriate work for their age and not be compensated.
DCFS partners with three agencies to provide support and services to youth who have been trafficked or are at risk of it. These include Chicago’s ReClaim13, Hoyleton’s HALO (Healing and Loving Oneself) program, and Selah Freedom.
They also maintain strong partnerships with the FBI, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, the Chicago Police Department, and the Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center.
Anyone who believes a child might be trafficked, or in danger of being trafficked, should immediately call 911 and the DCFS Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-25-ABUSE (1-800-252-2873). | 2023-01-03T22:00:26+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/il-dcfs-announces-new-staff-training-prevention-program-during-human-trafficking-awareness-month/ |
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Annual inflation in Denmark came at 8.7% last month — rising at the fastest pace since 1983 — while the figure in neighboring Norway reached 6.8%, authorities said Wednesday.
Statistics Denmark said the price of goods has increased by an average of 13.2% in the past year, the highest annual increase since February 1982, when the annual increase was the same. Within the goods category, it is to a very large extent price increases on food, electricity, fuel and gas.
In Norway, the July figures marked “a historically high price increase for food and non-alcoholic beverages,” according to Espen Kristiansen of Statistics Norway, saying there had been “an unusually strong rise in food prices.”
Over the year, the prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages rose by 10.4%. From June to July this year, they went up by 7.6%, Statistics Norway said.
“We have never previously measured a similar price increase for food from one month to the next,” Kristiansen said.
Denmark is part of the European Union but not part of the 19 countries using the euro currency, while Norway is not an EU member.
Annual inflation in the eurozone rose to a record 8.9% in July. | 2022-08-10T21:19:57+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/inflation-rises-in-denmark-norway-hitting-food-costs-hard/ |
Artist FN Meka has been dropped by Capitol Records after backlash citing "gross stereotypes," Forbes reported.
Meka has over 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and over 10 million followers on TikTok.
The backlash began to gain traction on social media after users said they were not comfortable with the way the AI character was being portrayed.
On Tuesday, the nonprofit Industry Blackout wrote in a letter, “It is a direct insult to the Black community and our culture. An amalgamation of gross stereotypes, appropriative mannerisms that derive from Black artists, complete with slurs infused in lyrics,” the statement said. “We find fault in the lack of awareness in how offensive this caricature is.”
The organization called for Capitol Records to cut ties with the computer-generated artist. | 2022-08-25T04:02:19+00:00 | koaa.com | https://www.koaa.com/news/national/capitol-records-drops-artificial-intelligence-rapper-after-just-one-week |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia and other major oil producers on Sunday announced surprise cuts totaling up to 1.15 million barrels per day from May until the end of the year, a move that could raise prices worldwide.
Higher oil prices would help fill Russian President Vladimir Putin's coffers as his country wages war on Ukraine and force Americans and others to pay even more at the pump amid worldwide inflation.
It was also likely to further strain ties with the United States, which has called on Saudi Arabia and other allies to increase production as it tries to bring prices down and squeeze Russia's finances.
The production cuts alone could push U.S. gasoline prices up by roughly 26 cents per gallon, in addition to the usual increase that comes when refineries change the gasoline blend during the summer driving season, said Kevin Book, managing director of Clearview Energy Partners LLC. The Energy Department calculates the seasonal increase at an average of 32 cents per gallon, Book said.
So with an average U.S. price now at roughly $3.50 per gallon of regular, according to AAA, that could mean gasoline over $4 per gallon during the summer.
However, Book said there are a number of complex variables in oil and gas prices. The size of each country's production cut depends on the baseline production number it is using, so the cut might not be 1.15 million. It also could take much of the year for the cuts to take effect. Demand could fall if the U.S. enters a recession caused by the banking crisis. But it also could increase during the summer as more people travel.
Even though the production cut is only about 1% of the roughly 100 million barrels of oil the world uses per day, the impact on prices could be big, Book said.
"It's a big deal because of the way oil prices work," he said. "You are in a market that is relatively balanced. You take a small amount away, depending on what demand does, you could have a very significant price response."
Saudi Arabia announced the biggest cut among OPEC members at 500,000 barrels per day. The cuts are in addition to a reduction announced last October that infuriated the Biden administration.
The Saudi Energy Ministry described the move as a "precautionary measure" aimed at stabilizing the oil market. The cuts represent less than 5% of Saudi Arabia's average production of 11.5 million barrels per day in 2022.
Iraq said it would reduce production by 211,000 barrels per day, the United Arab Emirates by 144,000, Kuwait by 128,000, Kazakhstan by 78,000, Algeria by 48,000 and Oman by 40,000. The announcements were carried by each country's state media.
Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak meanwhile said Moscow would extend a voluntary cut of 500,000 until the end of the year, according to remarks carried by the state news agency Tass. Russia had announced the unilateral reduction in February after Western countries imposed price caps.
All are members of the so-called OPEC+ group of oil exporting countries, which includes the original Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries as well as Russia and other major producers. There was no immediate statement from OPEC itself.
The cuts announced in October — of some 2 million barrels a day — had come on the eve of U.S. midterm elections in which soaring prices were a major issue. President Joe Biden vowed at the time that there would be "consequences" and Democratic lawmakers called for freezing cooperation with the Saudis.
Both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia denied any political motives in the dispute.
Since those cuts, oil prices have trended down. Brent crude, a global benchmark, was trading around $80 a barrel at the end of last week, down from around $95 in early October, when the earlier cuts were agreed.
Analysts Giacomo Romeo and Lloyd Byrne at Jefferies said in a research note that the new cuts should allow for "material" reductions to OPEC inventory earlier than expected and could validate recent warnings from some traders and analysts that demand for oil is weakening.
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, a Gulf expert at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, said the Saudis are determined to keep oil prices high enough to fund ambitious mega-projects linked to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's Vision 2030 plan to overhaul the economy.
"This domestic interest takes precedence in Saudi decision-making over relationships with international partners and is likely to remain a point of friction in U.S.-Saudi relations for the foreseeable future," he said.
Saudi Arabia's state-run oil giant Aramco recently announced record profits of $161 billion from last year. Profits rose 46.5% when compared to the company's 2021 results of $110 billion. Aramco said it hoped to boost production to 13 million barrels a day by 2027.
The decades-long U.S.-Saudi alliance has come under growing strain in recent years following the 2018 killing of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S.-based journalist, and Saudi Arabia's war with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
As a candidate for president, Biden had vowed to make Saudi Arabia a "pariah" over the Khashoggi killing, but as oil prices rose after his inauguration he backed off. He visited the kingdom last July in a bid to patch up relations, drawing criticism for sharing a fistbump with Crown Prince Mohammed.
Saudi Arabia has denied siding with Russia in the Ukraine war, even as it has cultivated closer ties with both Moscow and Beijing in recent years. Last week, Aramco announced billions of dollars of investment in China's downstream petrochemicals industry.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Trevali Mining Corporation ("Trevali" or the "Company") announced today that, in accordance with an order of the Supreme Court of British Columbia (the "Court") dated January 9, 2023 (the "Receivership Order"), effective as of January 24, 2023 at 11:59pm PST, the Court appointed FTI Consulting Canada Inc. as receiver, without security, of all the assets, undertakings and property of Trevali Mining (New Brunswick) Ltd. ("Trevali (NB)") (owner of the Caribou Mine in northern New Brunswick, Canada), including all proceeds thereof, other than any real property, mineral claims, mining leases, or real property leases owned or held by Trevali (NB).
Trevali also announced that Steven Molnar has resigned as a director of Trevali Mining (Maritimes) Ltd. and Trevali (NB), effective immediately. Steven Molnar will remain as the Company's Chief Legal Officer.
All inquiries regarding the proceedings of the Company under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act ("CCAA"), including inquiries regarding the Receivership Order, should be directed to FTI Consulting Canada Inc. (email: Trevali@fticonsulting.com or telephone: +1-877-294-8998).
Information about the Company's CCAA proceedings, including all court orders made, are available at http://cfcanada.fticonsulting.com/trevali/.
Trevali is a base-metals mining company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
For further details on Trevali, readers are referred to the Company's website (www.trevali.com) and to Canadian regulatory filings on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
This news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (collectively, "forward-looking statements"). Forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs, expectations and opinions of management of the Company as of the date the statements are published, and the Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required by law. In certain cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "plans", "expects", "outlook", "guidance", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might", "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved" or the negative of these terms or comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance and reflect management's expectations or beliefs regarding future events including, but not limited to, statements with respect to the CCAA proceedings and creditor protection and the restructuring process, including the outcome thereof. By their very nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, operating in foreign jurisdictions with risk of changes to governmental regulation; compliance with governmental regulations; compliance with environmental laws and regulations; maintaining ongoing social license to operate; limitations inherent in our insurance coverage; litigation; and other risks of the mining industry including, without limitation, risks and uncertainties that are more fully described in the Company's annual information form, interim and annual audited consolidated financial statements and management's discussion and analysis of those statements, all of which are filed and available for review under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Trevali provides no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events may differ from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
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Clarendon, a 1-year-old pig with a lovable personality that was left abandoned in Boston, has found a new permanent home in New Hampshire through the Animal Rescue League of Boston.
In an update to an appeal for adopters for Clarendon back in early February, ARL said in a news release Monday that a New Hampshire family who already had two large pet pigs saw the reports of Clarendon looking for a home and were “immediately interested” in adopting her.
On Friday, ARL brought the young sow to the family’s New Hampshire home where she was renamed Rosie and “took to her new home with great enthusiasm,” according to ARL.
There she met her “new pig friends” and her new family is “overwhelmed with excitement to welcome this special pig to her permanent home,” ARL added.
Clarendon is a type of pig typically bred for meat production, according to ARL, and she will likely weigh several hundred pounds when fully grown.
She was first taken in by the organization in late October 2022. Clarendon’s previous owner had illegally transported her to the residence of a relative in Boston from Northern New England, ARL said, but after the owner left, Clarendon was left behind.
The resident of the home contacted Boston Animal Control concerned about Clarendon’s welfare, ARL said. Boston Animal Control then contacted ARL, who took in the young pig and brought her to the group’s Dedham Animal Care and Adoption Center.
During her time spent at ARL, she became a “favorite among staff and volunteers” thanks to her “sparkling personality and playfulness,” the organization said.
“ARL has taken tremendous joy in caring for Clarendon over the past six months, she truly is an amazing pig with an infectious personality,” ARL Media Relations Manager Mike DeFina said in a statement. “It was a wonderful moment to see her welcomed into her home and we are grateful to her new family for giving her the home she truly deserves.”
ARL added that it went “to great lengths” to find her “the perfect home,” where she is now “thriving.”
ARL, founded in 1899, provides “high-quality veterinary care, adoption, and rescue services while also confronting the root causes of animal cruelty and neglect through innovative community programs, police investigations, and public advocacy,” the group said.
In 2022, ARL served 20,601 animals across Massachusetts, it added. It relies on the generosity of its supporters to help animals in need, as it does not receive public funding or government grants. | 2023-03-27T19:37:18+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/news/2023/03/animal-rescue-league-finds-home-for-abandoned-pig-with-sparkling-personality.html |
The Sao Paulo Grand Prix, a Formula 1 race featuring Max Verstappen, takes place on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022 (11/13/22) at Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
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Ryan Novozinsky may be reached at rnovozinsky@njadvancemedia.com. | 2022-11-13T17:16:22+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/sports/2022/11/sao-paulo-grand-prix-free-live-stream-111322-watch-formula-1-online-time-usa-tv-channel.html |
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Virginia and Duke will meet again with the Atlantic Coast Conference championship at stake — and hopefully officiating won’t have as big an impact on the outcome this time around.
Jayden Gardner had 23 points and 12 rebounds and No. 13 Virginia beat Clemson 76-56 on Friday night, sending coach Tony Bennett’s team to the ACC title game for the first time since 2018, when the Cavaliers won it all.
Armaan Franklin scored 16 points and Kihei Clark added 13 for the Cavaliers, who shot 50% from the field while outscoring the Tigers 40-22 in the paint.
The second-seeded Cavaliers (25-6) will play fourth-seeded and No. 21 Duke at the Greensboro Coliseum on Saturday night. Virginia beat Duke 69-62 in overtime on Feb. 11, but ACC officials admitted a day later that a botched a call by officials at the end of regulation potentially cost the Blue Devils a win.
Duke has won eight straight since then and is looking like a dangerous NCAA Tournament team.
“I know they are defending well and running an efficient offense,” Bennett said. “They have very good players and are well-coached. Our game was a battle at our place. … We are going to have to play some good basketball.”
Added Gardner: “Duke has been trending in the right direction and it’s another challenge that we are going to have to answer and just meet their physicality.”
Hunter Tyson made four 3-pointers and scored 15 points, and P.J. Hall had 13 for Clemson (23-10), which is on the NCAA Tournament bubble.
Virginia broke open a close game with an 8-0 run in the final 2:23 of the first half to build a 37-25 halftime lead, getting four points each from Franklin and Gardner during that stretch — with all of those points coming in the paint.
Before the start of the second half, Tyson gathered his Tigers teammates together on the court and gave an impassioned speech, imploring them to play harder.
But Clemson came up empty on its first five possessions of the second half while Virginia continued to pound away inside, opening an 18-point advantage and bringing the crowd to its feet with chants of “UVA! UVA!”
Clemson’s first field goal of the second half didn’t come until nearly four minutes in on a driving layup by Tyson, snapping a scoring drought of 7:49.
“Their offensive movement is very good and it’s taxing on you,” Clemson coach Brad Brownell said. “If you are little fatigued, they can wear you down.”
Virginia stretched its lead to 52-29 behind a powerful two-handed dunk by Kadin Shedrick off a pick-and-roll feed from Reece Beekman, and the Tigers never challenged again.
“I think the guys are taking care of the ball, they are cutting hard and our screening has improved,” Bennett said. “They are seeing things as the game presents it. And that’s the best basketball to me when you give them a structure and they play the game out of it.”
Frustration began to mount a short while later, with Brownell getting a technical for shouting at the referees.
A RARE CHAMPIONSHIP
Virginia and Duke both have had plenty of success over the years, but they’ve only met once before in the ACC title game, with the Cavaliers winning 72-63 in 2014 behind MVP Joe Harris.
BIG PICTURE
Clemson: The Tigers are a good team — better than a lot of people think — but questions remain over whether they’ve done enough to earn an NCAA Tournament bid. Normally, a third place finish in the ACC regular season gets you into the Big Dance, but this is a down season for the ACC and with Duke, Miami and Virginia already locks to make it, the Tigers will have to sweat this one out on selection Sunday. “We will keep our fingers crossed,” Tyson said, adding he thinks the Tigers are clearly one of the nation’s top 68 teams.
Virginia: The Cavaliers have to be one of the most irritating teams to guard in the country. They are methodically precise with their offense, and if a team falls behind, it’s difficult to mount a run against them given their pace of play. This may not be Bennett’s best team, but the Cavs looked poised to make some noise in the NCAA Tournament behind a balanced scoring attack.
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NASCAR drivers are angry and concerned about their safety in the new Next Gen cars as the playoffs roar into one of the most chaotic and dangerous tracks on the circuit.
Alex Bowman will miss Sunday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway with a concussion diagnosed four days after he crashed. Bowman hit the wall early at Texas Motor Speedway but finished Sunday’s race despite radioing his Hendrick Motorsports crew: “I can’t drive the rest of the day.”
“I don’t understand how (the car) is still rolling. That’s the hardest I’ve crashed anything in my entire life,” Bowman added.
Now he is on the sidelines alongside Kurt Busch, who will miss his 11th consecutive race because of his own concussion. He crashed in July during a qualifying run when he spun and backed his car into the wall. Busch said his vision and balance are not at 100% but he hopes to race again this season.
Complaints about the Next Gen — introduced this season as a cost-saver and a way to bring some parity to the grid — have reached a critical level following four difficult playoff races and three injured drivers. Cody Shane Ware will race Sunday despite a fractured foot suffered in a hard crash.
Drivers amplified their complaints as soon as they learned of Bowman’s concussion. They have been concerned since an exaggerated tale emerged of an ominous NASCAR crash test of the Next Gen at Talladega in 2021. The rumor was that the crash-test dummy had suffered forces in the collision that would have killed a human.
“Completely unacceptable that those in charge have let things get to this point,” Kevin Harvick wrote on Twitter. He said he recalled Denny Hamlin insisting “that the car was too stiff. Data didn’t agree. TIME TO LISTEN TO THE DRIVERS CRASHING THEM!”
Hamlin, who was heard moaning on his radio after a hard crash last month, also directed his anger at NASCAR.
“Pretty disappointing that our sanctioning body refuses to acknowledge or accept any responsibility for drivers getting hurt,” Hamlin wrote. “It’s the same THEY said. WE knew better. It’s wrong these drivers continue to get taken advantage of by the system.”
The Next Gen was an industry-wide collaboration to develop a spec car that would both lower costs and equalize the competition. But part of the cost-cutting came in designing a durable car that can withstand crashes without being destroyed, a step to reduce the fleet sizes needed to compete for a full season.
So the Next Gen is very stiff and the parts and pieces that used to fly off a car during a crash are holding tight, resulting in drivers absorbing more energy from collisions.
NASCAR has been attempting to address issues with the Next Gen as they arise. There has been a rash of problems with the car through the first four playoff races — in the Bristol elimination race, 12 of the 16 playoff drivers had some sort of issue — ranging from unexplained fires to tire and parts failures and now the unyielding nature of the car actually affecting drivers.
After fires during the playoff opener ar Darlington, senior vice president of competition Scott Miller said it was “unacceptable” and NASCAR quickly mandated design changes. The series is also considering monitoring pressure levels to determine if drivers are blowing tires because their teams are too aggressive with the settings.
Andy Petree, vice president of competition at Richard Childress Racing, said NASCAR has been receptive to feedback.
“I think NASCAR is doing a good job of taking input, listening to what we are saying as an industry. I don’t know about the drivers, they may not be getting the response that they feel like they need on these things,” Petree said. “But NASCAR is working on the car. I’ve seen some future design changes that address some of the things the drivers say about the impacts.”
Harvick said Petree’s comment was “very telling as to who has all the say in these processes. NASCAR and the teams.” He also urged NASCAR to pick up its pace in investigating the issues.
Talladega is one of the most chaotic tracks on the NASCAR schedule because of the tight pack racing and high speeds. The pole-winning speed in April was 180.93 mph and speeds top 200 miles per hour (321.9 kilometres per hour) when cars are in the draft.
The spring race was tame by Talladega standards with only four cautions for accidents and the race ended under green with no overtime needed. But Sunday is the middle race of the second round of the playoffs and the stakes are much higher. Additionally, the first four playoff races have been won by drivers not racing for the championship.
BLANEY CREW SUSPENSION
Team Penske dropped its appeal against the four-race suspension for three of Ryan Blaney’s crew members, who were suspended because a left wheel rolled off Blaney’s Ford at Bristol.
The trio of crew chief Jonathan Hassler, jackman Graham Stoddard and rear tire changer Zachary Price all worked last week at Texas as Penske appealed. Team Penske dropped the appeal this week and Blaney goes to Talladega on Sunday ranked fourth in the standings.
The field of 12 will be trimmed to eight after next week’s race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Blaney will be without his regular crew members at Talladega, Charlotte, Las Vegas and Homestead. By dropping the appeal now, Team Penske hopes Blaney advances into the next round and gets Hassler back for the final two races of the season still eligible for the championship.
Miles Stanley, a longtime Penske engineer, will be interim crew chief for Blaney. He will also get crew members from The Wood Brothers No. 21 Ford to help pit Blaney’s car.
CHILDERS 600th
Rodney Childers began racing to become a famous driver. When it didn’t pan out behind the wheel, Childers moved to the technical side of the sport and began a climb into a crew chief role.
He goes to Talladega on Sunday set to crew chief his 600th race. Childers has been paired with Kevin Harvick since 2014 at Stewart-Haas Racing in the longest active pairing in the Cup Series garage. Childers has run Harvick’s team for 313 races, eighth on the all-time pairings list.
“I think everybody knows that my career definitely changed when Kevin wanted me to do this, and to be able to do it for a long time and win a lot of races has been pretty special,” Childers said.
Childers guided Harvick to his only Cup championship in 2014, their first season together at SHR.
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The Tampa Bay Rays are on such a roll, the only question is which of their stats is most impressive.
They’re the first team to start 9-0 since the 2003 Kansas City Royals. They’ve scored the most runs in baseball (75) and allowed the fewest (18).
They’ve won every game by at least four runs. The last team to win this many in a row by at least four — at any point in the season — was the 1939 New York Yankees, who did it for 10 straight games.
And here’s another tidbit, thanks to the win probability stats at Baseball Savant: There’s only been one game during this streak in which Tampa Bay’s win probability has been below 30% at any time.
That was Tuesday, when Washington led the Rays 6-4 after seven innings and was still ahead 6-5 before Tampa Bay scored five runs in the ninth to win 10-6. The Rays have only trailed in one other game — they were down 1-0 in the second Friday when they scored six runs in the bottom of the inning on their way to a 9-5 win over Oakland.
There is a chicken-and-egg question surrounding Tampa Bay’s streak. The Rays have done it all against Detroit, Washington and Oakland, three teams who combined to lose 305 games last year and are expected to be pretty poor this season as well. Is Tampa Bay this good or are those other teams that bad?
The answer to that will come soon enough, but right now the Rays can enjoy a dominant stretch to start the season.
BIG SETBACK
The Pittsburgh Pirates lost talented young shortstop Oneil Cruz to a fractured ankle Sunday when he was injured sliding into home.
That was a huge downer for a Pittsburgh team that is actually off to a promising start. The Pirates beat the White Sox 1-0 for their fifth win in six games. They’re 6-3 and just a game out of first place in the NL Central.
Bryan Reynolds, still with Pittsburgh after requesting a trade in the offseason, is hitting .405 and already has five homers.
TRIVIA TIME
The Milwaukee Brewers tied a record with 13 straight wins at the start of the 1987 season. Later that year, a Milwaukee player went on the American League’s longest hitting streak since Joe DiMaggio’s 56-gamer in 1941. Who was the player and how long was the streak?
LINE OF THE WEEK
This week’s honor goes to a minor league team. The Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts somehow finished a seven-inning game with the following line Saturday: seven runs, no hits and no errors.
The Lookouts — an affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds — beat the Rocket City Trash Pandas 7-5 in the first game of a doubleheader. They scored all seven runs in the top of the seventh without the benefit of a hit — when Rocket City pitchers walked five, hit four batters and threw a run-scoring wild pitch. A dropped fly ball with the bases loaded also played a crucial role.
COMEBACK OF THE WEEK
The Blue Jays and Angels played a wild one Sunday in which both teams blew big leads. Los Angeles had a win probability of 98.3% in the fifth inning while ahead 6-0, but Toronto rallied to take a 10-6 advantage in the seventh. The Angels tied it in the ninth on Hunter Renfroe’s two-out, two-run double.
Toronto eventually won 12-11 in 10 innings. Shohei Ohtani grounded out with the bases loaded to end the game.
TRIVIA ANSWER
Paul Molitor hit safely in 39 consecutive games in 1987, the same season as the Brewers’ 13-0 start. Despite all that, Milwaukee had to settle for a third-place finish in the AL East with a 91-71 record.
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Western nations promised more and more advanced arms to bolster Ukraine’s defense as its troops battled a grinding Russian offensive that was closing in on capturing a key city in the east.
Germany said Wednesday it will supply Ukraine with modern anti-aircraft missiles and radar systems, and the U.S. will unveil a new weapons package later in the day that will include high-tech, medium-range rocket systems.
The Kremlin spokesman told reporters Wednesday that the U.S. is “pouring fuel on the fire.”
Western arms have been critical to Ukraine’s success in stymieing Russia’s much larger and better equipped military — thwarting its initial efforts to take the capital and forcing Moscow to shift its focus instead to the eastern industrial Donbas region.
Related Story: Biden Says US Sending Medium-Range Rocket Systems To Ukraine
But as the war drags on and Russia bombards towns in its inching advance in the east, Ukraine has repeatedly pleaded for more and better weapons. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has occasionally criticized the West for moving too slowly in shipping arms — and military analysts have said Russia is hoping to overrun the Donbas before any weapons that might turn the tide arrive.
Germany has come under particular fire, both at home and from allies abroad, that it isn’t doing enough.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told lawmakers that the surface-to-air IRIS-T SLM missiles it will send are the most modern air defense system the country has. They can operate at longer ranges than the Cold War-era anti-aircraft vehicles it has previously provided.
“With this, we will enable Ukraine to defend an entire city from Russian air attacks,” he said. The radar systems Germany is sending will help Ukraine locate enemy artillery.
Scholz said Germany and the United States are coordinating their moves.
In addition to the rocket systems it has promised, the U.S. package will include helicopters, Javelin anti-tank weapon systems, tactical vehicles, spare parts and more, two senior administration officials said Tuesday. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the package before it is formally unveiled.
One official noted that the advanced rocket systems will give Ukrainian forces greater precision in targeting Russian assets inside Ukraine.
Moscow views the U.S. plans to supply more weapons “negatively,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Wednesday, saying the Kremlin doesn’t trust Kyiv’s assurances that the rocket systems will not be used to attack Russia.
“We believe that the U.S. is deliberately and diligently pouring fuel on the fire,” Peskov said.
The announcements come as a regional governor said Russian forces now control 70% of Sievierodonetsk, a city that is key to Moscow’s efforts to complete their capture of the Donbas, where Ukrainian and Russian-backed separatists have fought for years and where the separatists already held swaths of territory.
Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai said in a post on the Telegram messaging app that some Ukrainian troops have pulled back from the city, though he later told The Associated Press that the troops who remained were battling it out in the streets.
The only other city in Luhansk that the Russians have not yet captured, Lysychansk, is still “fully” under Ukrainian control, he said — but it would likely be next.
“If the Russians manage to take full control over Sievierodonetsk within two to three days, they will start installing artillery and mortars and will shell Lysychansk more intensively,” Haidai said.
Zelenskyy, meanwhile. said the country is losing between 60 and 100 soldiers a day in the fighting and that another 500 are wounded.
He told the U.S. TV channel Newsmax on Tuesday night that “the most difficult situation is in the east of Ukraine and southern Donetsk and Luhansk,” two regions that make up the Donbas.
In southern Ukraine, a regional governor sounded a more positive note, saying Russian troops are retreating and blowing up bridges to prevent a possible Ukrainian advance. Vitaliy Kim, governor of the Mykolayiv region, said in messages on Telegram on Wednesday that Russia was on the defensive.
“They are afraid of a counterattack by the Ukrainian army,” Kim wrote. He didn’t specify where the retreat was happening. The parts of the Mykolayiv region which have been held by Russian forces in recent days are close to the large Russia-held city of Kherson.
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Shea Langeliers got three hits, including Oakland’s first triple after a strange 81-game drought without a three-bagger, and the Athletics beat the Seattle Mariners 5-3 Sunday.
JP Sears (5-0) allowed one run, on Mitch Haniger’s homer, in five innings. Six A’s relievers held the lead for the team with the worst record in the AL.
Seattle, near the top of the wild-card standings, lost for the second straight day to the A’s. Cal Raleigh had two doubles for the Mariners.
Luis Castillo (1-1) failed to reach the seventh inning for the first time in four starts since being traded from Cincinnati to Seattle. He yielded four runs and eight hits in five innings.
Seth Brown, who hit Oakland’s previous triple on May 18, doubled and scored on Sean Murphy’s single in the first. A double by Langeliers keyed a two-run second.
Haniger’s fifth homer made it 3-1 in the third. Oakland added a run in the sixth when Tony Kemp dragged a bunt single and later scored on Stephen Vogt’s single.
Raleigh had an RBI pinch-hit double and Julio Rodriguez singled home a run in the seventh.
The Mariners stranded runners on the corners in the eighth inning, which ended with A’s left-hander Sam Moll coaxing a groundout from Dylan Moore.
Raleigh again doubled with one out in the ninth inning, but Austin Pruitt recorded the final two outs for his first save in two opportunities.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Mariners: LF Sam Haggerty was scratched from the lineup with left shoulder discomfort. Haggerty aggravated this ailment a couple of days ago, manager Scott Servais said. Moore, who would have started at second base, occupied left field instead while Adam Frazier filled in at second. Haggerty entered the game as a pinch-runner in the eighth.
A’s: CF Ramon Laureano is still “moving forward pretty quickly” in his recovery from a strained left oblique, manager Mark Kotsay said. Laureano, who hasn’t been in a game since Aug. 14, played catch on Sunday, one day after taking 10 swings with no ill effects ... OF Skye Bolt missed his second start in a row with left knee soreness but felt fit enough to enter the game in the eighth. ... RHP Brent Honeywell’s minor league injury rehabilitation assignment will intensify Tuesday when he becomes available to pitch in relief for Triple-A Las Vegas. Honeywell is on the injured list with a stress reaction in his right elbow.
UP NEXT
Mariners: Following Monday’s scheduled off-day, the Mariners face Washington on Tuesday to open a six-game homestand.
Athletics: Host Miami on Monday, with Adam Oller of the A’s opposing right-handed counterpart Pablo Lopez.
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Cole County Presiding Commissioner Sam Bushman is excited about three low – income private apartment complexes planned for Jefferson City. He says when built they’ll offer about 120 – apartments to lower income workers …
While Commissioners unanimously signed off on the ‘workforce housing’ plan, Mayor Carrie Tergin had to break a five – five tie when the issue came before the City Council. The developers hope the apartments can at least partially replace the 150 – rental units that were destroyed by the 2019 tornado. | 2022-10-28T04:22:21+00:00 | kwos.com | https://kwos.com/2022/10/cole-commissioner-backs-planned-low-income-hosuing/ |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP)Iranian authorities said Tuesday that two former members of the national soccer team arrested this month in connection with nationwide protests have been released on bail.
The announcement came hours before Iran was set to play the U.S. at the World Cup in a politically-charged match that authorities are heavily promoting as they grapple with nationwide protests that are well into their third month.
Parviz Boroumand, a retired goalkeeper, was arrested nearly two weeks ago on charges of participating in protests in the capital, Tehran, and was accused of damaging property. Voria Ghafouri was arrested last week for ”insulting the national soccer team and propagandizing against the government,” according to state-linked media.
The judiciary announced their release Tuesday without elaborating.
After his release, Ghafouri expressed gratitude to the members of the national team, who he said had pursued his case. ”I wish success for the team in its match against the U.S. I hope the national soccer team players perform their best,” he was quoted as saying by a local news website.
Ghafouri, who is still playing for a local club but was not chosen to go to the World Cup, has been an outspoken critic of Iranian authorities throughout his career. He objected to a longstanding ban on women spectators at men’s soccer matches as well as Iran’s confrontational foreign policy, which has led to crippling Western sanctions.
More recently, he expressed sympathy for the family of a 22-year-old woman whose death while in the custody of Iran’s morality police ignited the latest protests. He also called for an end to a violent crackdown on protests in Iran’s western Kurdistan region.
Iranian officials have not said whether Ghafouri’s activism was a factor in not choosing him for the national team.
The latest protests mark one of the biggest challenges to Iran’s ruling clerics since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought them to power. Rights groups say security forces have unleashed live ammunition and bird shot on the protesters, as well as beating and arresting them, with much of the violence captured on video.
At least 452 protesters have been killed and more than 18,000 detained since the start of the unrest, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that has been monitoring the protests.
Authorities have blamed the unrest on hostile foreign powers, without providing evidence. The judiciary says it has released more than 1,000 detainees in recent days.
The protesters say they are fed up after decades of social and political repression, including a strict dress code imposed on women. Young women have played a leading role in the protests, stripping off the mandatory Islamic headscarf to express their rejection of clerical rule.
Some Iranians are rooting against their own team at the World Cup, associating it with rulers they view as violent and corrupt. Others insist the national team, which includes players who have spoken out on social media in solidarity with the protests, represents the country’s people. Billboards promoting the team have sprung up across the capital, Tehran. | 2022-11-29T20:12:20+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/iran-releases-soccer-player-ahead-of-match-against-us/ |
New research suggests humans lived in South America at the same time as now extinct giant sloths, bolstering evidence that people arrived in the Americas earlier than once thought.
Scientists analyzed triangular and teardrop-shaped pendants made of bony material from the sloths. They concluded that the carved and polished shapes and drilled holes were the work of deliberate craftsmanship.
Dating of the ornaments and sediment at the Brazil site where they were found point to an age of 25,000 to 27,000 years ago, the researchers reported. That's several thousand years before some earlier theories had suggested the first people arrived in the Americas, after migrating out from Africa and then Eurasia.
“We now have good evidence — together with other sites from South and North America — that we have to rethink our ideas about the migration of humans to the Americas,” said Mirian Liza Alves Forancelli Pacheco, a study co-author and archaeologist at the Federal University of Sao Carlos in Brazil.
In the past decade, other research has challenged the conventional wisdom that people didn’t reach the Americas until a few thousand years before rising sea levels covered the Bering land bridge between Russia and Alaska, perhaps around 15,000 years ago.
The ornaments were discovered about 30 years ago at a rock shelter called Santa Elina in central Brazil. The new study is the first to analyze them extensively and rule out the possibility that humans had found and carved them thousands of years after the animals perished.
The team of researchers from Brazil, France and the United States said their analysis shows this handiwork was done within days to a few years after the animals had died, and before the materials had fossilized. The researchers also ruled out natural abrasion and other things that might explain the shapes and holes. They reported their findings Wednesday in Britain's Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal.
“We think they were personal objects, possibly for personal adornment,” said Thais Rabito Pansani, a co-author and paleontologist at the Federal University of Sao Carlos in Brazil.
Once among the largest creatures in South America, giant ground sloths were 10 to 13 feet (3 to 4 meters) in length and usually walked on all four legs, using their sharp claws to dig burrows. They weighed more than a thousand pounds (450 kg) and their skin included bony structures under their fur — somewhat similar to the bony plates of modern armadillos.
Two years ago, another team of researchers reported that fossilized human footprints found near White Sands, New Mexico, dated back to 21,000 to 23,000 years ago — though some researchers dispute these dates. Other evidence from Mexico suggests human presence around 26,000 years ago, and findings from Uruguay may suggest human occupation as much as 30,000 years ago.
Jennifer Raff, an anthropological geneticist at the University of Kansas, who was not involved in the study, said the new paper was “an important addition” to the conversation, but like any findings on the topic, it may also draw pushback.
Still, the evidence from multiple sites forces scientists to rethink old assumptions that people arrived only in one great wave of migration over the Bering land bridge, said Briana Pobiner, a co-author and paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington.
Some may have died out, "but it's very likely that multiple waves of people came to Americas,” she said.
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday night to suspend the debt limit until after the 2024 election.
The package made it out of the chamber and passed to the Senate on a bipartisan 314 to 117 vote without the support of Montana’s two representatives.
Republican Congressman Matt Rosendale, representing Montana’s eastern district, radared his intent Sunday to oppose the bill. Rosendale, a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, says it tacks trillions of additional dollars on to the national debt.
Republican Ryan Zinke, who represents Montana’s western congressional district, took to Twitter Wednesday to explain his ‘no’ vote. Zinke conceded the bill “was not all bad,” saying it contained needed updates on energy permitting reforms and negotiated spending reductions.
Like Rosendale, however, Zinke could not support the package saying it added trillions to the national debt.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the U.S. could default on its debt obligations by June 5 if lawmakers do not act in time to raise the federal debt ceiling. | 2023-06-02T01:32:58+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2023-06-01/u-s-house-passes-bill-to-suspend-debt-limit-without-support-of-mt-representatives |
Turkish voters have given President Recep Tayyip Erdogan another term in office, extending what's already been two decades of dominance that has seen him weaken the country's democracy.
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Turkish voters have given President Recep Tayyip Erdogan another term in office, extending what's already been two decades of dominance that has seen him weaken the country's democracy.
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Eight teams have punched their tickets to the second round in the South Region of the NCAA Tournament.
The battles to reach the Sweet 16 begin on Saturday, so let’s pick out some best bets as we start to get into the business end of the tournament.
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Princeton vs. Missouri odds
Odds provided by BetRivers
Spread: PRI +6.5 (-110) vs. MIZZOU -6.5 (-110)
Moneyline: PRI (+205) vs. MIZZOU (-275)
Total: Over 149.5 (-112) | Under 149.5 (-109)
Princeton vs. Missouri pick
ALT total under 151 points (-129)
Princeton vs. Missouri analysis
I was shocked to see this total opened at 152.5. Yet, after running my model, I have projections ranging from 148 to 151 points.
According to TeamRankings, both programs like to push the pace, averaging at least 70 possessions per game.
However, a closer look reveals that Princeton averages 18.1 seconds per possession which is 241st in the country per Ken Pomeroy.
And if we turn to Missouri, it ranks 45th with a possession length of 16.4 seconds.
But what’s intriguing about Princeton is its immense size; even its starting guards are at least 6 feet 4.
Princeton ranks 20th in rebounding, averaging 38.3 per game. It even bested an Arizona (39-38) team in the first round, which ranks eighth with 39.3 rebounds per game.
Missouri is much further down the list at 346 with an average of 30.2 rebounds.
If Princeton can clean the glass against Missouri, it’ll be able to have some control over the pace of the game.
You’ll likely hear the broadcasters on the telecast discuss Princeton’s high IQ, and rightfully so. After all, it’s an Ivy League program.
Thus, I think Princeton is mindful enough to avoid a run-and-shoot game with Missouri.
According to our Action Labs database, since the 2018 season, the under is 11-3-1 (78.6%) in NCAA Tournament games in which the total was bet down after opening at 152.5 or more points.
Although I’ve lost some value at the current number, I recommend buying the total up to 151 and playing the under at -129 odds.
Furman vs. San Diego State odds
Odds provided by Caesars
Spread FUR +6 (-110) vs. SD ST. -6 (-110)
Moneyline: FUR (+205) vs. SD ST. (-250)
Total: Over 138 (-110) | Under 138 (-110)
Furman vs. San Diego State pick
Furman +6
Furman vs. San Diego State analysis
San Diego State comes into this game with an NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) ranking of 14.
However, I think there are serious questions to ask, with most of their Quad 1 / Quad 2 wins coming against their Mountain West Conference opponents.
Moreover, after landing four teams in the NCAA Tournament, San Diego State is the only one in its conference still standing.
One of the Mountain West schools to bow out of the tournament was Nevada in a 98-73 blowout loss to Arizona State.
If we turn to Furman, it has an 88 NET rating primarily because it had only three Quad 1 / Quad 2 games on its schedule.
Although Furman’s victory over Virginia was its first Quad 1 win of the season, its five-point loss to Penn State is improving each day that the Nittany Lions stay alive in the tournament.
Given how the Furman Paladins shoot from the perimeter, I’m more willing to trust them in this spot.
Per TeamRankings, Furman ranks 18th with an average of 9.4 3-pointers compared with San Diego State, which is 241st with 6.7 3-pointers per game.
In the San Diego State Aztecs’ 63-57 victory over the College of Charleston, the Cougars went just 4-for-16 from behind the perimeter.
If Charleston had more success, I don’t think we’d be discussing San Diego State as Furman’s opponent in this matchup.
If the Aztecs try to slow down the game, I think it’ll only benefit a Furman team that can create all kinds of problems for them on the perimeter. | 2023-03-18T14:24:26+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/betting/college-basketball/ct-ncaa-tournament-prediction-princeton-furman-20230318-hro4bp5khvdwnfcu5aqsbh4yfi-story.html |
White House eases COVID protocols as emergency lifts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pandemic-era rules on COVID-19 testing for White House journalists are being loosened as the public health emergency declaration expires Thursday. It’s another sign of how a vast web of policies designed to limit the spread of the virus is dissipating. As part of the shift, reporters will no longer be required to get tested for COVID-19 while covering events with President Joe Biden in Washington. The rules have applied to journalists who are in the pool, a rotating group that covers the president on behalf of the press corps. In addition, the White House will no longer ask reporters whether they’re vaccinated. However, reporters will still need to take COVID-19 tests to fly on Air Force One. | 2023-05-10T00:09:57+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/news/2023/05/09/white-house-eases-covid-protocols-as-emergency-lifts/ |
10 kids hospitalized due to spicy gum used in TikTok challenge
ORANGE, Mass. (WGGB/Gray News) - Ten children at a Massachusetts elementary school were rushed to the hospital after they came into contact with spicy bubble gum, which officials say is part of a viral TikTok challenge.
Kathleen Woodard received a call Tuesday to pick up her 9-year-old son, Michael, from Dexter Park Elementary School in Orange, Massachusetts, after he ate an unknown food. She found him at the school, vomiting.
WGGB reports it was determined that several students, including Michael, were having a reaction to an extremely spicy bubble gum brought to recess by a student. The gum contains pepper extract measuring at 16 million Scoville heat units. It nearly equates eating pepper spray, according to Orange Fire Chief James Young Jr.
“It was something that you see in, like, a horror movie. Honestly, it just kind of felt like these kids had been under attack,” Woodard said. “They walked in, and kids were crying. They were just lined up down the hall in the front hall area. Their hands were red, their faces were beet red and they were crying, saying it hurt. Some of them were a deep red.”
At least 10 students were hospitalized in the incident, which officials say they have never seen before in western Massachusetts.
“Nobody knew what they were dealing with. Nobody had heard of this. The doctor[’s] fingers started burning from examining him. My arms were itching and burning,” Woodard told WGGB.
Michael wore gloves for the rest of the night until the burn wore off. He was able to return to school Wednesday.
Young said the gum “can cause skin irritation, as well as respiratory and airway inflammation.”
One parent, who did not want to be featured on camera, told WGGB her daughter was one of the six children taken to the hospital in an ambulance. She said her daughter only smelled the gum, and her cheeks were extremely red and swollen. The girl returned home from the hospital Tuesday afternoon.
“A little crazy,” said fourth grader Liam Ellis. “I got a little scared about all of it.”
Liam was not offered any of the gum, something his mother, Mallory Ellis, is grateful for.
“Liam has food allergies, so it’s a really scary thing for me that he possibly could have eaten something he wasn’t supposed to have,” she said.
The Southborough Police Department identified the gum involved as CaJohns Trouble Bubble Bubble Gum in a Facebook post. The gum is reportedly used in a TikTok challenge where contenders try to blow a bubble, despite the gum’s heat. It is sold at popular online retailers, including Amazon.
Officials say that it is important that conversations take place between parents and children about these kinds of situations.
“Kids are curious, and they are going to investigate things like this but not to bring things like this to school,” Young said. “Don’t share products amongst each other, and if you see something, say something to the adults that are in charge of the school, so they can prevent something like this from happening.”
Woodard encourages parents to check their kids’ online search history.
“Parents really need to be OK with monitoring what their children are seeing... because they may not know. Really, any child could make any decision. Nobody deserves this. You know, they were kind of blindsided,” she said.
Police say the school is handling the investigation. In a statement, the superintendent said that appropriate disciplinary action will be taken upon the completion of the investigation.
The packaging for the gum says it was manufactured for CaJohns Foods, LLC and lists a website where the gum can be purchased.
Both the packaging and website contain warnings about the product that say, among other things, that it is extremely dangerous, should not be consumed by children and contains pepper extract that “should be handled with extreme caution.”
The gum was designed for the kind of challenge that police say it is being used for on TikTok.
Copyright 2023 WGGB via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-06T08:32:44+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/2023/04/06/10-kids-hospitalized-due-spicy-gum-used-tiktok-challenge/ |
LOGANSPORT, Ind. — A Logansport police officer and another driver were injured in a head-on crash during a pursuit Sunday afternoon. This is the third officer to be injured in a crash this weekend.
(NOTE: The video in the player above is a March 2022 report on Indiana police pursuit policies.)
The pursuit started in the 1800 block of Meadlawn Avenue at around 1 p.m. Officers were called to the area on a report of "suspicious activity," according to Lt. Brad Miller of the Logansport Police Department.
A man who was outside a home in the area saw police officers and ran into the home. Then a red car driven by 48-year-old John Marks, of Walton, pulled into a neighboring house's driveway.
When Marks saw police, he quickly backed out, running over a large rock at the end of the driveway and then speeding away on Meadlawn Avenue.
Officers chased Marks as he headed south on Meadlawn. During the chase, Marks lost control of his car, spinning it so it was facing northbound on Meadlawn.
Marks kept driving north and then crossed the center line of the road and hit a Logansport patrol car head-on, police said.
The officer who was in the car at the time of the crash was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and later released.
Marks was taken to Logansport Memorial Hospital and then flown in a helicopter to another hospital for additional treatment. At the time of publishing, Miller said the police department didn't have information on exactly what condition Marks was in.
Miller said the crash is still under investigation and that further arrests are possible.
This is the third time this weekend that a local law enforcement officer has been injured in a crash. And, in all three crashes, the other drivers were also harmed.
Friday: Deputy, driver injured in Johnson County
The first crash happened late Friday night, when Johnson County Sheriff Duane Burgess said a driver failed to give a deputy the right of way and hit the deputy's marked car.
The deputy was driving a marked patrol car toward the Greenwood area, where the deputy intended to serve a civil order, at around 10 p.m.
The deputy was at the intersection of Worthsville and Collins roads when another driver turned into the path of the deputy and the two vehicles collided.
The deputy and the driver were both injured in the crash. However, Burgess didn't have information on the extent of their injuries.
Saturday: Trafalgar officer hurt, driver killed in crash during pursuit
Less than six hours later a pickup truck driver was killed and a Trafalgar Police officer was critically injured in a crash during a pursuit in Johnson County.
The officer, identified by the Trafalgar Police Department as Officer Dustin Moody, was sitting at the intersection of State Road 135 and County Road 300 South shortly before 3:30 a.m. when a pickup truck failed to stop at the intersection.
Moody followed the truck, turning on his emergency lights in an attempt to stop the truck.
The pursuit ended at a "T" intersection where the truck and Moody's SUV were unable to stop and both vehicles crashed into an embankment.
The truck driver was pronounced dead at the scene by medics.
Moody had to be cut out of his vehicle and was flown to Eskenazi Hospital in Indianapolis with back, hip, leg and internal injuries.
He was listed in serious but stable condition, the sheriff said Saturday. The Trafalgar Police Department shared an update Sunday that said Moody is now in critical condition and requires surgery.
The Johnson County Coroner’s Office is conducting an investigation to determine the cause of death of the pickup driver.
RELATED: Trafalgar officer in critical condition, undergoing surgery after pursuit ends in deadly crash | 2022-06-26T23:59:19+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/logansport-indiana-officer-another-driver-hurt-in-crash-during-police-chase/531-5a1cfc79-337e-4bbd-ba89-1f5715b6a457 |
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – The San Francisco Police Department is investigating a fatal shooting near the tennis courts in John McLaren Park just after noon Monday, according to a press release Tuesday.
Bystanders directed officers to the victim, who was suffering from a gunshot wound in the area of Mansell Street and John F. Shelly Drive. Paramedics and officers tried to save the victims life, but he died at the scene, the press release stated.
No one has been arrested, the press release continues.
The park — the city’s third largest after Golden Gate Park and the Presidio — sits between the Excelsior and Visitacion Valley neighborhoods on the southeast side. It contains a playground and an amphitheatre.
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SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco supervisors have backed the idea of paying reparations to Black people, but whether members will agree to lump-sum payments of $5 million to every eligible person or to any of the more than 100 other recommendations made by an advisory committee won't be known until later this year.
The idea of Black reparations is not new, but the federal government's promise of granting 40 acres and a mule to newly freed slaves was never realized. It wasn't until George Floyd, a Black man, was killed in police custody in 2020 that reparations movements began spreading in earnest across the country.
The state of California and the cities of Boston and San Francisco are among jurisdictions trying to atone not just for chattel slavery, but for decades of racist policies and laws that systemically denied Black Americans access to property, education and the ability to build generational wealth.
WHAT IS THE ARGUMENT FOR REPARATIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO?
Black migration to San Francisco soared in the 1940s because of shipyard work, but racially restrictive covenants and redlining limited where people could live. When Black residents were able to build a thriving neighborhood in the Fillmore, government redevelopment plans in the 1960s forced out residents, stripped them of their property and decimated Black-owned businesses, advocates say.
Today, less than 6% of Black residents in San Francisco are Black yet they make up nearly 40% of the city's homeless population.
Supporters include the San Francisco NAACP, although it said the board should reject the $5 million payments and focus instead on reparations through education, jobs, housing, health care and a cultural center for Black people in San Francisco. The president of the San Francisco branch is the Rev. Amos C. Brown, who sits on both the statewide and San Francisco reparations panels.
WHAT IS THE ARGUMENT AGAINST REPARATIONS?
Critics say California and San Francisco never endorsed chattel slavery, and there is no one alive today who owned slaves or was enslaved. It is not fair for municipal taxpayers, some of whom are immigrants, to shoulder the cost of structural racism and discriminatory government policies, critics say.
An estimate from Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, which leans conservative, has said it would cost each non-Black family in San Francisco at least $600,000 in taxes to pay for the costliest of the recommendations: The $5 million per-person payout, guaranteed income of at least $97,000 a year for 250 years, personal debt elimination and converting public housing into condos to sell for $1.
A 2022 Pew Research Center survey found 68% of U.S. respondents opposed reparations compared with 30% in favor. Nearly 80% of Black people surveyed supported reparations. More than 90% of Republicans or those leaning Republican opposed reparations while Democrats and those leaning Democratic were divided.
HOW WILL SAN FRANCISCO PAY FOR THIS?
It's not clear. The advisory committee that made the recommendations says it is not its job to figure out how to finance San Francisco's atonement and repair.
That would be up to local politicians, two of whom expressed interest Tuesday in taking the issue to voters. San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey said he would back a ballot measure to enshrine reparations in the San Francisco charter as part of the budget. Shamann Walton, the supervisor leading the charge on reparations, supports that idea.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE OTHER REPARATIONS RECOMMENDATIONS?
Recommendations in education include establishing an Afrocentric K-12 school in San Francisco; hiring and retaining Black teachers; mandating a core Black history and culture curriculum; and offering cash to at-risk students for hitting educational benchmarks.
Recommendations in health include free mental health, prenatal care and rehab treatment for impoverished Black San Franciscans, victims of violent crimes and formerly incarcerated people.
The advisory committee also recommends prioritizing Black San Franciscans for job opportunities and training, as well as finding ways to incubate Black businesses.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
There is no deadline for supervisors to agree on a path forward. The board next plans to discuss reparations proposals in September, after the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee issues a final report in June.
WHAT ABOUT REPARATIONS FROM THE STATE?
In 2020, California became the first state to form a reparations task force. But nearly two years into its work, it still has yet to make key decisions on who would be eligible for payment and how much. The task force has a July 1 deadline to submit a final report of its reparations recommendations, which would then be drafted into legislation for lawmakers to consider.
The task force has spent multiple meetings discussing time frames and payment calculations for five harms experienced by Black people, including government taking of property, housing discrimination and homelessness and mass incarceration. The task force is also debating state residency requirements.
Previously, the state committee voted to limit financial reparations to people descended from enslaved or freed Black people in the U.S. as of the 19th century. | 2023-03-16T07:14:28+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2023/03/15/explainer-next-steps-for-black-reparations-in-san-francisco/ |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — International human rights groups on Saturday urged Sri Lanka’s new president to immediately order security forces to cease use of force against protesters after troops and police cleared their main camp following months of demonstrations over the country’s economic meltdown.
A day after President Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn, hundreds of armed troops raided a protest camp outside the president’s office in the early hours of Friday, attacking demonstrators with batons. Human Rights Watch said the action “sends a dangerous message to the Sri Lankan people that the new government intends to act through brute force rather than the rule of law.”
Two journalists and two lawyers were also attacked by soldiers in the crackdown. Security forces arrested 11 people, including protesters and lawyers.
“Urgently needed measures to address the economic needs of Sri Lankans demand a government that respects fundamental rights,” Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. “Sri Lanka’s international partners should send the message loud and clear that they can’t support an administration that tramples on the rights of its people.”
Also condemning the attack, Amnesty International said “it is shameful that the new government resorted to such violent tactics within hours of coming to power.”
“The protesters have a right to demonstrate peacefully. Excessive use of force, intimidation and unlawful arrests seem to be an endlessly repetitive pattern in which the Sri Lankan authorities respond to dissent and peaceful assembly,” said Kyle Ward, the group’s deputy secretary general.
Wickremesinghe, who previously served as prime minister six times, was sworn in as president a week after his predecessor, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled the country. Rajapaksa later resigned while exiled in Singapore.
Sri Lankans have taken to the streets for months to demand their top leaders step down to take responsibility for the economic chaos that has left the nation’s 22 million people struggling with shortages of essentials, including medicine, fuel and food. While the protesters have focused on the Rajapaksa’s family, Wickremesinghe also has drawn their ire as a perceived Rajapaksa surrogate.
Armed troops and police arrived in trucks and buses on Friday to clear the main protest camp the capital, Colombo, even though protesters had announced they would vacate the site voluntarily.
Sri Lanka’s opposition, the United Nations, and the U.S. have denounced the government’s heavy-handed tactics.
Despite heightened security outside the president’s office, protesters have vowed to continue until Wickremesinghe resigns.
On Friday, he appointed as prime minister a Rajapaksa ally, Dinesh Gunawardena.
Wickremesinghe on Monday declared a state of emergency as acting president in a bid to quell the protests. Just hours after he was sworn in, he issued a notice calling on the armed forces to maintain law and order — clearing the way for the move against the protest camp.
The protesters accuse Rajapaksa and his powerful family of siphoning money from government coffers and of hastening the country’s collapse by mismanaging the economy. The family has denied the corruption allegations, but the former president acknowledged that some of his policies contributed to Sri Lanka’s crisis.
The political turmoil has threatened efforts to seek rescue from the International Monetary Fund. Still, earlier this week, Wickremesinghe said bailout talks were nearing a conclusion.
The head of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, told the Japanese financial magazine Nikkei Asia this week that the IMF hopes for a deal “as quickly as possible.” | 2022-07-23T18:21:11+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-international/rights-groups-urge-sri-lanka-not-to-use-unlawful-force/ |
SINGAPORE, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently Tbay, the world's leading gift card trading platform, celebrated its second anniversary. During this special occasion, Tbay has stepped up its efforts to reward all users by bringing a generous cash rebate to them. During this year's anniversary celebration, users can not only earn cash and digital assets from gift card trading in a safe, steady and efficient manner, but also obtain corresponding reward points. Each user has the opportunity to receive a maximum of 500USD rewards! A series of anniversary activities will be held in succession in the coming months.
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For clergy abuse survivors, Sinead O’Connor’s protest that offended so many was brave and prophetic
By HOLLY MEYER
Associated Press
In 1992, Sinéad O’Connor destroyed a photo of Pope John Paul II on U.S. national television. The pushback was swift, turning the late Irish singer-songwriter’s protest of sex abuse in the Catholic Church into a career-altering flashpoint.
More than 30 years later, her “Saturday Night Live” performance and its stark collision of popular culture and religious statement is remembered by some as an offensive act of desecration. But for others — including survivors of clergy sex abuse — O’Connor’s protest was prophetic, forecasting the global denomination’s public reckoning that was, at that point, yet to come. O’Connor, 56, died Wednesday.
The SNL moment stunned David Clohessy, a key early member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. In his 30s at the time, he had only recently recalled the repressed memories of the abuse he suffered. He found O’Connor’s act deeply moving. It was something he and other survivors never thought possible.
That night O’Connor, head shaved and looking straight into the camera, stood alone singing Bob Marley’s song “War” a capella. She finished the final lines, “We know we will win/ We have confidence in the victory/of good over evil,” and then moved an off-screen photo of Pope John Paul II in front of the camera.
Then O’Connor ripped it to pieces. She called out, “Fight the real enemy,” before she threw the scraps to the ground. Clohessy remembers it well.
“We were all just deeply convinced that we would go to our graves without ever seeing any public acknowledgment of the horror and without any kind of validation whatsoever,” Clohessy said. “That’s what made her words so very powerful.”
THE RIPPLES IT CAUSED
The SNL performance appalled Thomas Plante, a Catholic psychology professor at California’s Santa Clara University, and his wife who is Jewish. Plante was well aware of the issue since he was researching, evaluating and treating clerical sex offenders at the time.
“It is understandable that people would want to make strong statements about their issues with the Catholic Church, but tearing up a picture of the Pope on live TV was way over the top,” Plante said in an email. “Many people feel free to ‘throw the baby out with the bathwater’ when it comes to criticism of the Catholic Church.”
He also noted the prevalence of anti-Catholic hate, especially following the Boston Globe’s 2002 report revealing widespread abuse and cover-up by the church. Plante said the clergy abuse crisis was horrible, but people often fail to recognize that it is a problem of the 20th century and earlier — cases are extremely rare in this century, he said.
“Much progress has been made and current policies and procedures are actually working,” he said.
The quarter-century legacy of John Paul II — then pope, now a saint — has been badly tarnished by evidence he turned a blind eye to abuse even when the Vatican had copiously well-documented cases and even when bishops in the U.S., facing mounting legal liability, begged the Vatican for fast-track ways to defrock abusers in the 1980s.
Vatican officials have long excused John Paul’s attitude by arguing that he had seen first-hand how priests in his native Poland were intentionally discredited with false accusations by Communist authorities, and thus believed any accusations against clerics were mere “calumnies” intended to harm the church.
O’Connor was found unresponsive Wednesday at her home in southeast London. Saddened by her passing, Brenna Moore, a theology professor at Fordham University in New York and a big fan of O’Connor, described her as “a kind of prophetic truth-teller.”
Society, especially in the English-speaking world, is used to men taking on this role, Moore said, but when a woman does it, she’s accused of being crazy and angry. Moore, referencing O’Connor’s memoir, said the singer was more than a rebel with a shaved head.
“She sort of stands in a long line of artists and poets who have a kind of rebellious punk ability to speak truth to power in a very performative way,” Moore said. “She was a profoundly spiritual person, a profound seeker of transcendence and the truth.”
FOR SOME, THE ACT WAS COURAGEOUS AND EVEN WISE
Jamie Manson, president of Catholics for Choice, was a teen living on Long Island with her traditional Catholic Italian family in 1992; she recalled just how horrified they were by O’Connor’s protest. But for Manson, who was feeling a call to the priesthood at the time, looked at it more with curiosity.
Manson called O’Connor a visionary, especially given that neither the Irish or U.S. Catholic hierarchy had yet publicly reckoned with the pervasiveness of clergy sex abuse.
“Not many people that we would call prophetic are willing to risk everything, and she was. … And she lost almost everything as a result,” Manson said. “It is very, very scary to challenge the church in a very public way. And it takes enormous bravery and a willingness to be able to let go of everything.”
Clohessy also depicted the 1992 protest as courageous: “I think young people can’t know — and older people to some extent have forgotten — just how extraordinarily powerful the Catholic hierarchy was in those days.”
Invoking the famous Martin Luther King Jr. quote, Clohessy said that “the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice. She’s proof of that. And it bends so slowly — and it bends backwards along the way.”
Attorney Jeff Anderson, who has represented victims of Catholic clergy sex abuse in numerous cases across the U.S., connected with O’Connor around the time of her SNL appearance. In a statement, Anderson called her wise and ahead of her time.
“Sinéad saw predator priests not as a ‘couple bad apples’ but as signs and proof of a deeply corrupt and almost untouchable clerical system,” Anderson said. “It took tremendous courage for her to be one of those early, lonely voices for the voiceless.”
Michael McDonnell, interim executive director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said O’Connor “wore the anguish of victims of clergy abuse and it seems as though she knew in 1992 the horrors that hadn’t yet been revealed.
“Ultimately,” he said, “she relieved the pain for tens of thousands of victims with rebellion.”
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Associated Press correspondent Nicole Winfield contributed from Rome. AP religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. Follow AP’s Holly Meyer at http://twitter.com/HollyAMeyer | 2023-07-27T17:17:17+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/2023/07/27/for-clergy-abuse-survivors-sinead-oconnors-protest-that-offended-so-many-was-brave-and-prophetic/ |
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BOSTON, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bain & Company today launches NPSx, the first customer experience (CX) training and certification by the leader and inventors of the Net Promoter Score and the Net Promoter System (NPS). NPSx is a new Bain venture to help companies create leading customer experiences through world-class CX technology and training.
NPSx courses reflect Bain & Company's extensive client experience, including over 1,600 Net Promoter System and CX projects across regions and industries, and the best of Bain's learning approach. Each of the CX courses are online, self-paced, on-demand and interactive and take a few hours to complete. After the successful completion of a minimum of five core courses and a certification exam, participants can register to become a Bain-certified CX practitioner.
NPSx's courses enable organizations and individuals to develop deep expertise in the most critical CX disciplines including:
- CX and Net Promoter Score fundamentals
- Customer insights and analytics
- Earned growth and customer economics
- Customer experience design
- CX build and execution
As a course participant and Bain-certified practitioner, participants also get access to an extensive online community of peers and expert practitioners. These communities help participants to solve real customer challenges with the support of other CX leaders from Bain and beyond.
"We want to provide customer-obsessed individuals and brands with the very best in innovative CX and NPS training, empowering our customers to deliver great experiences for their own customers," said Darci Darnell, a Bain & Company partner and global head of its Customer practice. "Our content builds on decades of Bain's best practice cross-industry experience and follows on the tremendous success of our recent book, Winning on Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers."
"In today's world, customer expectations are changing rapidly and the CX function is evolving at the same pace," said Stanford Swinton, executive vice president and the founder of NPSx. "We want to enable practitioners and organizations to stay ahead of competition and drive growth through customer and employee advocacy. Our courses help companies build a purpose-led culture, set the right corporate standards and develop the most capable customer experience leaders in the industry."
Editor's Note: For questions or to arrange an interview, please contact Kirstin Simons at kirstin.simons@bain.com or tel. +31 20 708 6712.
NPSx offers standard or customizable packages for your teams or individual practitioners who are looking to upskill or fully certify their organization. To learn more about NPSx's Training and Certification program and register for the courses, visit NPSx.com or contact us at customersuccess@npsx.com.
NPSx is the latest digital venture from Bain & Company's Customer Experience practice. Other ventures include NPS Prism, a CX benchmarking platform that provides actionable insights and analysis to guide the creation of game-changing customer experiences.
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HAIPHONG, Vietnam, Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Growatt, a world-leading distributed energy solution provider, inaugurated the first phase of its manufacturing plant in Haiphong, Vietnam. The new facility will produce solar inverters, storage inverters and storage batteries with an expansion plan to achieve an annual production capacity of 500,000 units of inverters and 100,000 units of batteries.
"The opening of our Vietnam factory is an exciting milestone for Growatt as we forge ahead with our globalization strategy to expand our operations globally. We've been investing heavily in globalizing our distribution and service networks over the years, and now we move to open this factory in Vietnam to boost our production capacity and strengthen our capability to deliver reliable and quality products to customers," commented David Ding, Growatt Chairman and CEO at the opening ceremony of its new manufacturing facility.
According to the production manager of its new plant, the entire production process at the facility is made efficient and productive. By bringing its expertise in automated and digital manufacturing as well as step-by-step quality control, Growatt ensures high level of quality, reliability and performance for its products as the company ramps up production at the new manufacturing plant.
Driven by soaring electricity prices and rising government and corporate focus on renewable energy, global demand for green energy solutions has been growing and is expected to sustain its momentum, requiring manufacturing capacity expansion of the company. "With energy transition well underway, we aim to advance our technologies and expand our manufacturing capacity to enable homes, businesses and communities across the world to benefit from sustainable energy," Ding concluded.
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Sir Paul McCartney says artificial intelligence used to create 'last' Beatles song
LONDON - Sir Paul McCartney said artificial intelligence has allowed them to create the "last" record by The Beatles, which is set for release this year.
The famous singer-songwriter discussed the song during a new interview with Radio 4’s Today Programme in which he was promoting a new exhibition of never-before-seen photos taken by him years ago of the band.
McCartney revealed that AI technology allowed them to "extricate" John Lennon’s vocals from an old demo track to complete the song. He didn’t name the song, but it’s likely to be a 1978 Lennon composition called "Now And Then," according to the BBC.
"We just finished it up and it will be released this year," McCartney said in the interview, which was published on Tuesday.
"We were able to take John's voice and get it pure through this AI, so then we could mix the record as you would normally do," he added.
The rise of AI technology has already begun to revolutionize many industries, including the music world. Advances have created new songs, including one viral track called "Heart on My Sleeve" that simulates the voices of Drake and The Weeknd, leading to debate and strong reactions over the ethical and legal implications.
When asked about the explosion of AI in music, McCartney called it "kind of scary but exciting because it’s the future"
"There’s a good side to it, and then a scary side, and we’ll just have to see where that leads," he said.
RELATED: Artificial intelligence and the music industry: Harmonious or harmful?
This story was reported from Cincinnati. | 2023-06-14T05:37:42+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/sir-paul-mccartney-artificial-intelligence-beatles-song-john-lennon |
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Grant to help with utilities for Tuskegee’s first Hyundai supply plant
Tuskegee will be getting a $500,000 grant for industrial site development for a new Tier I automotive supplier plant.
The Community Development Block Grant will provide infrastructure needed for the $128 million plant being built by Samkee in Tuskegee’s Commerce Park. Samkee will serve as an automobile parts supplier to the Hyundai assembly plant in Montgomery and will hire about 170 people.
Gov. Kay Ivey made the announcement this week.
“In February, I was pleased to announce Samkee Corporation’s plans to build Tuskegee’s first auto parts manufacturer, ushering in 170 good-paying jobs,” Gov. Ivey said. “The location of Samkee in Tuskegee Commerce Park will open the door to future development in the city and in Macon County. Today, I follow that good news with more as I award a $500,000 grant to provide utility services to fully supply the needs of the plant and the industrial park.”
CDBG funds will be used to expand water and sewer service to Samkee and Tuskegee Commerce Park, both of which are located off Alabama Highway 81 and a short distance from I-85.
Samkee is a major South Korean automobile supplier, and the Tuskegee site is its first factory in the United States. Samkee will construct high-pressure, die-cast aluminum components used in automobile engines, transmissions and electric vehicles.
The Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs is administering the grant from funds made available by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Ivey notified Mayor Lawrence “Tony” Haygood that the grant had been approved. The city has pledged $88,114 in local funding for the project. | 2023-06-24T21:48:48+00:00 | waka.com | https://www.waka.com/2023/06/24/grant-to-help-with-utilities-for-tuskegees-first-hyundai-supply-plant/ |
As transgender people have increasingly gained acceptance and visibility, conservative lawmakers have zeroed in on restricting their rights: keeping transgender children off girls’ sports teams and out of certain bathrooms, and blocking them from receiving gender-affirming medical care.
In response, a growing number of Democratic-controlled states have moved to protect such rights, especially access to gender-affirming care.
In developments this week, one governor is telling lawmakers they’ll have to return for a special session if they fail to pass some restrictions, two others signed protections into law and a transgender lawmaker was barred from a Statehouse floor amid a standoff with colleagues.
THE BIG PICTURE
The push by conservatives has mushroomed over the last few years and become, alongside abortion, a major theme running through legislative sessions across the country in 2023.
Six states have laws or policies in effect barring minors from receiving puberty blockers or hormone therapy. Similar provisions have been adopted but paused by courts in three more. They’ve been signed into law but haven’t yet taken effect in at least eight more.
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THE CENTER OF DEBATE
In Missouri, the gender-affirming care battle is playing out in the Legislature and in court.
Earlier this month Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey used an emergency rule to impose restrictions on both children and adults before they can receive such care. Just before it was to take effect this week, a judge halted enforcement until at least Monday and said she could push the date back further while legal challenges are considered.
Gov. Make Parson, also a Republican, said he would call a special legislative session if lawmakers fail to pass bills that would restrict transgender rights by May 12.
The GOP-controlled Legislature is on board but not in agreement over exceptions such as whether treatment for people already receiving puberty blockers or hormones would be allowed to continue.
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BANNED FROM THE HOUSE FLOOR
Montana House Republicans barred a Democratic transgender colleague from the floor of the chamber for the rest of the legislative session as punishment.
Zooey Zephyr had told Republicans there would be “blood on your hands” — an expression frequently used in politics — if they approved a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The bill passed, though it has not yet been signed into law.
Zephyr’s situation, which echoed the ouster of two Tennessee lawmakers from that state’s Legislature for a protest over gun policy this year, has turned her into a political cause for liberals nationwide.
She spent the first day of her exile this week battling to use a bench in a Statehouse hallway.
Also in Montana, Gov. Greg Gianforte signed legislation Friday banning gender-affirming care for minors.
The measure establishes penalties for health professionals who provide such care and allows for lawsuits if a patient suffers harm. Physicians could not hold malpractice insurance against such claims. The law also prohibits public employees and property from being involved in gender-affirming treatment.
During hours of emotional hearings, opponents testified that hormone treatments and in some cases surgery are supported by numerous medical associations and can be life-saving for someone with gender dysphoria, the clinically significant distress or impairment caused by feeling that one’s gender identity does not match one’s biological sex.
Gianforte said the bill “protects Montana children from permanent, life-altering medical procedures until they are adults, mature enough to make such serious decisions.”
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THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WEIGHS IN
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s law, scheduled to take effect July 1, banning transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming care.
The federal government said “no person should be denied access to necessary medical care just because of their transgender status.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Kristen Clarke sent a letter last month to all state attorneys general warning them that federal law protects transgender youth against discrimination.
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ACCESS PROTECTED
Governors’ signatures in Minnesota and Washington on Thursday made them the latest of at least nine states with laws protecting access to gender-affirming care. Vermont lawmakers passed bills with similar provisions this week, though they haven’t been signed.
The measures aim to shield patients, health care providers and other actors from punishment or investigations into whether they violated gender-affirming care and abortion bans in states that have them.
So far, officials have not been trying to reach across state lines to enforce bans.
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DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS IN KANSAS
The Republican-controlled legislature in Kansas fell one vote short this week of overriding Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
But lawmakers overrode other vetoes of restrictions on rights for transgender people. One blocks them from using restrooms that correspond with their gender identities at schools, prisons, domestic violence shelters and rape crisis centers.
At least eight other states have bathroom restrictions, but most of them apply only at schools.
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ROLING BACK A LIBERAL CITY’S BOYCOTT
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to repeal a measure barring city staffers from making business trips to states with restrictions on abortion, voting and LGBTQ+ rights.
The 2016 policy also blocked the city government from doing business with companies headquartered in those states.
Officials said it was doing more harm than good. Instead of exerting pressure on those states, it was raising costs for San Francisco.
A final vote is expected on Tuesday. California is considering a repeal a similar measure at the state level.
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RESTRICTING DRAG SHOWS
In tandem with the push to restrict transgender rights, conservatives in several states have also lately targeted drag shows as part of what critics say is a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.
Alabama became the latest to do so after legislation was filed Thursday that would add a provision to the state’s anti-obscenity laws.
The bill by Republican Rep. Arnold Mooney would prohibit “male or female impersonators, commonly known as drag queens or drag kings,” from performing in K-12 public schools, libraries and other public places where minors are present.
The measure is pending before the House State Government Committee.
Tennessee was the first state to place strict limits on drag shows. But last month a federal judge there temporarily blocked that measure after a group filed a lawsuit claiming it violates the First Amendment. | 2023-04-29T17:30:52+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/conflict-over-transgender-rights-simmers-across-the-us/ |
Is there a water crisis happening in Manila? It depends on who you ask and from where you're getting your information. The answers, though, say a lot about the current state of Philippine media.
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Is there a water crisis happening in Manila? It depends on who you ask and from where you're getting your information. The answers, though, say a lot about the current state of Philippine media.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-07-07T21:39:16+00:00 | wboi.org | https://www.wboi.org/2023-07-07/the-water-crisis-and-government-influence-on-the-media-in-the-philippines |
LIVE: Biden to speak on unknown aerial objects amid review
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to deliver his most substantial account Thursday of U.S. efforts to track, monitor and potentially shoot down unknown aerial objects, following three weeks of high-stakes aerial drama sparked by the discovery of a suspected Chinese spy balloon transiting much of the country.
The president’s 2 p.m. White House remarks come after he directed National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to lead an “interagency team” to review U.S. procedures after the U.S. shot down the China balloon, as well as three other objects the U.S. now believes are most likely “benign” objects. The downing of the Chinese surveillance craft was the first known peacetime shootdown of an unauthorized object in U.S. airspace — a feat repeated three times a week later.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the team would “look how we track, look how we decide to take action, and see if there’s anything else that needs to be done.” She said there would be “updated protocols” announced this week.
The China balloon has escalated tensions between the U.S. and China. Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed a trip to China last week. Blinken travels Thursday to the Munich Security Conference amid speculation he might use the opportunity to meet top Chinese foreign policy official Wang Yi who will also be attending the conference.
Biden has remained largely silent on the issue of the three objects downed Friday off the coast of Alaska, Saturday over Canada and Sunday over Lake Huron. On Monday, the White House announced earnestly there was no indication of “aliens or extraterrestrial activity.” By Wednesday, U.S. officials said they were still working to locate the wreckage from the objects, but that they expected all three to be unrelated to surveillance efforts.
“The intelligence community is considering as a leading explanation that these could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose,” said White House national security spokesman John Kirby. No country or private company has come forward to claim any of the objects, Kirby said. They do not appear to have been operated by the U.S. government.
Still unaddressed are questions about the original balloon, including what spying capabilities it had and whether it was transmitting signals as it flew over sensitive military sites in the United States. It was believed by American intelligence to have initially been on a track toward the U.S. territory of Guam, according to a U.S. official.
The U.S. tracked it for several days after it left China, said the official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence. It appears to have been blown off its initial trajectory and ultimately flew over the continental U.S., the official said.
Balloons and other unidentified objects have been previously spotted over Guam, a strategic hub for the U.S. Navy and Air Force in the western Pacific.
It’s unclear how much control China retained over the balloon once it veered from its original trajectory. A second U.S. official said the balloon could have been externally maneuvered or directed to loiter over a specific target, but it’s unclear whether Chinese forces did so.
After the balloon was shot down, the White House revealed that such balloons had traversed U.S. territory at least three times during President Donald Trump’s administration unknown to Trump or his aides — and that others have flown over dozens of nations across five continents. Kirby emphasized Monday that they were only detected by the Biden administration.
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AP writer Nomaan Merchant contributed.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-16T19:00:28+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2023/02/16/biden-speak-unknown-aerial-objects-amid-review/ |
GENEVA — Picking Qatar to host the World Cup was a mistake 12 years ago, FIFA’s president at the time Sepp Blatter said Tuesday, again citing a meeting between Nicolas Sarkozy and Michel Platini for swaying key votes.
The 86-year-old Blatter spoke with the Swiss newspaper group Tamedia in his first major interview since being acquitted with Platini in July of financial misconduct at FIFA after a trial at federal criminal court.
“It’s a country that’s too small,” Blatter said of Qatar, the smallest host by size since the 1954 tournament in Switzerland. “Football and the World Cup are too big for that.”
The 32 teams will play 64 games in eight stadiums in and around the city of Doha which has been transformed since 2010 by massive construction projects to prepare for the World Cup.
Games start on Nov. 20 with about 1.2 million international visitors expected to arrive in Qatar during the World Cup. With limited places to stay in the host nation, some will commute in from neighboring states.
“It was a bad choice. And I was responsible for that as president at the time,” said Blatter, who has long said he voted for the United States. Its bid was beaten by Qatar in the final round of a five-candidate contest to be 2022 host.
It became part of FIFA lore that an expected U.S. victory swung toward Qatar at a meeting Sarkozy hosted in Paris in the week before the Dec. 2, 2010 vote by FIFA’s executive committee.
French soccer great Platini, then president of European soccer body UEFA and a vice president of FIFA, was invited by then-state president Sarkozy to his official residence. The crown prince of Qatar, now the Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, was also there.
Blatter on Tuesday repeated his claim that Sarkozy put pressure on Platini, and again gave his version of a telephone call Platini made to him after the Paris meeting that the World Cup voting plan had changed.
“Thanks to the four votes of Platini and his (UEFA) team, the World Cup went to Qatar rather than the United States. It’s the truth,” Blatter said of the 14-8 voting result.
In comments to the Associated Press in 2015, Platini broadly confirmed the significance of that meeting in Paris.
“Sarkozy never asked me to vote for Qatar, but I knew what would be good,” Platini told an AP reporter in Zurich seven years ago. He acknowledged that he “might have told” American officials that he would be voting for their 2022 bid.
Blatter did not specifically refer to criticism of Qatar on labor and human rights issues since 2010.
However, he did question why his successor as FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, has moved to live in Qatar for at least the past year.
Blatter noted growing calls, by rights groups and several FIFA member federations including the U.S. and England, to create a compensation fund for families of workers who died or were injured. Qatar’s government has resisted the calls and described them as a “publicity stunt.”
“What can FIFA say if its president is in the same boat as Qatar?” Blatter said of Infantino choosing to live in Doha.
FIFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the interview.
Blatter, who went to Moscow during the 2018 World Cup as a guest of Russia while he and Platini were suspended by FIFA from soccer, told the Swiss newspaper reporters he would watch games in the coming weeks on television at his apartment in Zurich. | 2022-11-08T17:14:12+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/national-sports/ct-world-cup-qatar-20221108-fqjn4su5qzdndcdkfaq4e47et4-story.html |
WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. George Santos positioned himself in a prime location for President Joe Biden's State of the Union address — an uncomfortably prominent place for the embattled new lawmaker who faces multiple investigations and has acknowledged embellishing and even lying about his life story.
Santos' presence at the center aisle to see and be seen with the arrivals was met with a stern rebuke from a fellow Republican, Sen. Mitt Romney.
“You don't belong here," the Utah Republican scolded Santos as he entered the House chamber and spotted the New York Republican on the aisle.
Words were exchanged, it was reported, though Romney said later he did not hear it all.
“He shouldn’t be in Congress, and they are going to go through the process and hopefully get him out,” Romney told reporters afterward, his office confirmed. "But he shouldn’t be there, and if he had any shame at all he wouldn’t be there.”
The exchange was an unusual lashing by the more reserved Romney, the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in 2012, but shows the discomfort Santos is bringing among traditional conservatives critical of the rightward drift of more extremist elements of the GOP.
Santos retorted with a tweet: “Hey @MittRomney just a reminder that you will NEVER be PRESIDENT!”
The arrival of Santos has been a problem for the Republicans since he won a New York congressional seat, which helped to deliver the party a slim majority, once his personal story began to unravel.
Santos has acknowledged fabricating, and at times lying, about parts of his education, work experience and even his family's own religion and history.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met privately with the congressman last week amid a swirl of potential investigations on and off Capitol Hill. Santos announced he would step aside from his committee assignments ahead of an expected House Ethics Committee probe.
McCarthy said Tuesday the situation with Santos would work its way through the House Ethics Committee. Fellow New York Republicans have called for Santos to resign from Congress. Santos faces other investigations beyond Congress.
Other Republicans heard the exchange and one Republican lawmaker who was told about it said there was widespread displeasure that Santos had situated himself in such a prominent spot. The lawmaker requested anonymity to discuss what others said about the subject.
The center aisle basically gave Santos the chance to seize the limelight by greeting the president and other prominent officials as they entered the House chamber and made their way down the aisle.
As senators entered the House in a line, it was then that Romney spotted Santos and delivered his message.
“I didn’t expect that he’d be standing there, trying to shake hands with every senator and the president of the United States,” Romney told reporters later.
Romney said that given the investigations, Santos “should be sitting the back row and staying quiet, instead of parading in front of the president and people coming into the room.”
But Santos, as is often the case, had his moment, becoming for a time the face of the GOP. | 2023-02-08T14:15:27+00:00 | niagara-gazette.com | https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/gop-on-gop-romney-scolds-santos-you-dont-belong-here/article_71cd44b0-a7b2-11ed-8331-53fc2c452525.html |
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could give state legislatures a lot of unchecked power over the results of federal elections.
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could give state legislatures a lot of unchecked power over the results of federal elections.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-07-01T09:42:24+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-07-01/the-supreme-court-could-radically-reshape-elections-for-president-and-congress |
Adams represents the latest addition to the A-GAME All-Star athlete roster which includes sports legends Johnny Damon and Bo Jackson.
ORLANDO, Fla., April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A-GAME Beverages, Inc. is proud to announce its partnership with U.S. Soccer Male Player of the Year and Leeds United midfielder, Tyler Adams. As a professional athlete, Adams understands the importance of staying hydrated and energized throughout a game. Formulated with the ideal ratio of sodium + potassium to create the ultimate hydration experience, A-GAME is the perfect choice for athletes who demand the best from their sports beverages.
"I'm excited to become a brand ambassador for A-GAME, a company that shares my values of hard work, dedication, and pushing yourself to be your best," said Adams. "As an athlete, I know the importance of staying hydrated and fueling your body with the right nutrients, and A-GAME does just that. I'm looking forward to representing the brand both on and off the field."
"We are thrilled to welcome Tyler to the A-GAME family," said Randall F. Greene, chief executive officer and co-founder, A-GAME Beverages, Inc. "He's impressive on and off the field, and embodies the qualities that we look for in our brand ambassadors - hard work, dedication, and a commitment to excellence. We can't wait to see what he will achieve with A-GAME by his side."
Known for his relentless commitment to excellence and for being a leader on and off the field, Adams started his soccer career with the New York Red Bulls and quickly rose to the top of the soccer world. His most recent achievement was his appointment as the captain of the United States men's national team at the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Adams was the youngest captain at the tournament and the youngest USMNT captain at the World Cup since 1950.
As part of the partnership, Adams will be featured in A-GAME advertising campaigns and will also work with the company on community outreach initiatives. Together, A-GAME and Adams will promote healthy lifestyles and active living to inspire others to be their best selves. Adams' recognition of the importance of proper hydration and nutrition makes him an ideal spokesperson for A-GAME.
With Adams as its newest brand ambassador, A-GAME is poised to continue its trajectory toward becoming the go-to sports drink for athletes of all levels who demand the best. This partnership builds on the brand's existing sports relationships with the US OPEN Pickleball Championships and the A-GAME 200 NASCAR Xfinity Series held at Dover Motor Speedway.
About A-GAME Beverages, Inc.
A-GAME is an innovative beverage designed to help the body refuel, rehydrate and recover after a workout, bringing out the best in every athlete. It is made with 8 essential vitamins, sea salt for natural electrolytes, honey for natural sweetness and flavor, pure Icelandic glacier water, and is available in a variety of delicious, innovative flavors. Backed by All-Star athletes and partners Johnny Damon, Major League Baseball All-Star, chairman and co-founder of A-GAME Beverages, Inc., Bo Jackson, Major League Baseball All-Star and NFL All-Pro, A-GAME investor and Board of Directors member, NASCAR driver Ryan Sieg, platinum-selling recording artist Ryan Cabrera and professional water skier and two-time world champion Thomas Degasperi, A-GAME is on a mission to equip athletes of all levels with the highest quality hydration beverages.
For more information or to find A-GAME near you, visit www.drinkagame.com.
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LONDON (AP) — Entertainer Paul O’Grady, who achieved fame as drag queen Lily Savage before becoming a much-loved comedian and host on British television, has died. He was 67.
O’Grady’s partner Andre Portasio said he died “unexpectedly but peacefully” on Tuesday evening.
“He will be greatly missed by his loved ones, friends, family, animals and all those who enjoyed his humor, wit and compassion,” Portasio said in a statement.
Born in Birkenhead, near Liverpool, in 1955, O’Grady was working as a local-authority care worker when he began performing as Savage, a tart-tongued Liverpudlian drag queen.
Savage became a fixture as a standup and talent-show host at London’s Royal Vauxhall Tavern, a landmark gay venue. O’Grady used his platform to speak out about LGBT rights at the height of the AIDS crisis, a time when the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was passing anti-gay laws.
Lily Savage moved into television in the 1990s, including a stint hosting talk show “The Lily Savage Show.”
Later, as Paul O’Grady, he hosted talk shows and gameshows including “The Paul O’Grady Show,” “Blind Date” and “Blankety Blank,” as well as a long-running program on BBC radio.
An animal lover, he also presented “For the Love of Dogs,” which profiled the work of an animal rescue charity. Camilla, the queen consort, was a guest on the show last year.
Veteran gay-rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said O’Grady “wasn’t just a brilliant comedian and broadcast personality but a much admired campaigner for LGBT+ equality and animal rights.”
“Paul was one of the loveliest people you could ever meet,” Tatchell said. “Everyone whose lives he touched will miss him greatly, as will those who enjoyed his wit and admired his compassion.”
O’Grady is survived by Portasio, whom he married in 2017, and by a daughter from a previous relationship. | 2023-03-29T09:07:41+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/entertainment/article/british-comedian-and-tv-star-paul-o-grady-dies-at-17866011.php |
TAMPERE, Finland (AP) — Mikko Rantanen scored three goals in his native country and the Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 6-3 on Friday night in the NHL’s second visit to Europe this year.
Cale Makar had a goal and an assist, Logan O’Connor and J.T. Compher also scored and Nathan MacKinnon contributed four assists for the Avalanche, who stopped a two-game skid.
Colorado blew a three-goal lead in its previous game, a 5-4 loss to the New York Islanders on Saturday, and allowed Columbus to tie it after taking a 3-0 advantage this time. But Rantanen put the Avs ahead for good in the third period with his second goal.
“Two points are obviously the biggest thing,” Rantanen said, but he added of the hat trick, “I was obviously happy with that too.”
Patrik Laine had a goal and an assist for the Blue Jackets in front of a sellout crowd of 12,882 in his hometown, Jakub Voracek scored Columbus’ first power-play goal of the season and Sean Kuraly also scored for the Blue Jackets, who dropped their fourth straight.
The teams will play again Saturday at Tampere’s Nokia Arena as part of the league’s Global Series. Nashville swept two games from San Jose last month in Prague to kick off the regular season, the first NHL games in Europe since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rantanen made it 4-3 with a one-timer from the right circle on the power play at 8:54 of the final period. He completed his hat trick with an empty-netter, his seventh goal of the season, to the delight of the fans chanting his name.
“The crowd chanting that was pretty cool. I had chills on the bench,” he said.
MacKinnon assisted on the empty-netter.
“I knew he was probably gonna pull up and maybe look for me so I was skating up there,” Rantanen said. “It was a good pass from him for an assist, it tells how good of a player he is and a nice guy, I’d say.”
Alex Newhook fed O’Connor to score the opening goal with a snap shot past goaltender Elvis Merzlikins 1:36 into the game. Compher doubled the lead on the power play with by deflecting Devon Toews’ shot from the blue line into the net with 7:36 to go as Avalanche dominated the opening period, outshooting Columbus 16-7.
Rantanen made it 3-0 just 35 seconds into the middle period.
Voracek reduced the Avalanche’s lead to 3-1 a minute after Rantanen’s goal on power play.
Laine got the Blue Jackets within one from the left circle at 7:16 of the period for his second of the season.
It was his fifth NHL goal in Finland after four in two regular-season games for the Winnipeg Jets against the Florida Panthers in their 2018 series in Helsinki, most of all NHL players in games outside North America.
“I think satisfied is the wrong word, but I feel like we had some good looks,” Laine said. “Especially after the stretch we’ve had, we were really happy the way we were moving. We got a lot of chances and could have easily had a couple more, but it wasn’t bouncing our way. We can’t wait and hope for the bounces. We have to create our own luck and work harder and bury next time.”
Kuraly tied it 2:32 into the final period. The Blue Jackets outshot the Avalanche 39-36, but Alexandar Georgiev stopped 36 of those shots.
“It was an exiting game for the fans but the coaches would disagree a little bit, maybe too many penalties and scoring chances against, but Georgiev was really good in the net again and made some key saves at the key times again,” Rantanen said.
This is the ninth season the NHL has played in Europe in hopes of connecting with hockey-mad fans. Colorado played Ottawa in Stockholm in 2017, while the Blue Jackets played overseas for the first time since 2010, when they faced San Jose in Stockholm.
NOTES
It was the 31st regular-season game played in Europe, the eighth in Finland and the first in Tampere, and the 37th NHL game contested outside North America. … Avalanche leading scorer Valeri Nichushkin (lower body) did not play for the third straight game. … Captain Boone Jenner returned from an illness to play his 600th game for Columbus, moving past Nick Foligno for third-most in franchise history.
UP NEXT
The teams complete the series on Saturday night.
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More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-11-05T20:55:01+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-rantanens-hat-trick-leads-avs-past-blue-jackets-in-finland/ |
Company to Provide Preliminary 2022 Financial Results and 2023 Guidance Pre-Market on January 9
CHANHASSEN, Minn., Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. ("Life Time" or the "Company") (NYSE: LTH) today announced that the Company plans to provide select preliminary unaudited 2022 fourth quarter and full year results and introduce 2023 guidance before the market opens on January 9, 2023, in advance of its participation that day at the ICR Conference.
Life Time Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bahram Akradi, and Chief Financial Officer, Bob Houghton, will participate on behalf of the Company, including in a fireside chat discussion at the conference on January 9 at 4:30pm ET.
The fireside chat will be webcast at: LTH Fireside Chat at ICR.
The fireside chat may also be accessed, along with any related presentation material, on the Company's Investor Relations website at ir.lifetime.life, where it will be archived for approximately 90 days.
About Life Time®
Life Time (NYSE: LTH) empowers people to live healthy, happy lives through its portfolio of more than 160 athletic country clubs across the United States and Canada. The company's healthy way of life communities and ecosystem address all aspects of healthy living, healthy aging and healthy entertainment for people 90 days to 90+ years old. Supported by a team of more than 30,000 dedicated professionals, Life Time is committed to providing the best programs and experiences through its clubs, iconic athletic events and comprehensive digital platform.
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SOURCE Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. | 2023-01-03T12:27:03+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2023/01/03/life-time-participate-2023-icr-conference-january-9-2023/ |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two-time All-Star guard Ja Morant was welcomed back Wednesday night with a standing ovation and cheers throughout the arena in his first action after missing nine games — eight because of an NBA suspension.
Morant, who was not in the starting lineup against the Houston Rockets, entered the game after a timeout with 3:05 left in the first quarter, replacing starter Tyus Jones. The cheers began to build as Morant rose from the bench and made his way to the scorer’s table, adjusting the specially fit mask from a previous nasal fracture.
The standing ovation and the cheers reached their peak even before Morant was announced as entering the game.
Morant ended up playing 24 minutes and finished with 17 points on 6-for-13 shooting overall and 5 for 6 from the line as the Grizzlies beat the Rockets 130-125. Morant added five assists and four rebounds.
The first cheers came when Morant emerged from the locker room for pregame warmups.
Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins said the decision for Morant to come off the bench was a collaborative one after discussions with Morant and the team’s medical personnel. The Grizzlies are making sure Morant is building up to game shape. Memphis also went 6-3 during Morant’s absence contributing to the decision.
“This was something he brought to the table as well as it’s been on my mind,” Jenkins said before the game. “So, we collectively thought this was the best strategy at least for the first one or two games. Then we will kind of reevaluate after that.”
This is Morant’s first action since the Grizzlies lost March 3 at Denver. Hours after the game, Morant live-streamed himself at a Denver-area strip club showing himself briefly brandishing a gun.
That earned Morant a sit-down with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and $669,000 in pay for the suspension in which the league ruled his conduct was “detrimental to the league.”
Morant’s suspension ended with Saturday’s game against Golden State. He did not play in Monday’s game against Dallas, as the team allowed him to work on conditioning before returning to action.
That came Wednesday night. Jenkins said the star guard probably would play between 20 and 25 minutes.
“We want to be really smart, not just over the first couple of game, but the first week to two.” Jenkins said. “We want to be smart with that layoff that we’re not doing anything to jeopardize his health as well.”
In his first comments since his suspension, Morant said Tuesday that he went to counseling at a Florida facility during his suspension to deal with the stress of becoming one of the NBA’s most popular players.
His enthusiastic play, with high-scoring and jaw-dropping dunks, have led to endorsements and rising uniform sales. Asked about whether the short period in counseling was enough to resolve his issues, Morant said it’s an ongoing process.
Jenkins emphasized that Morant being used in a reserve role is simply a focus on transition.
“Eventually, Ja will be our starter,” Jenkins said, drawing a laugh from reporters.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-03-24T01:27:35+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/sports/ap-sports/morant-returns-to-action-coming-off-the-bench-for-grizzlies/ |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — No charges are expected to be filed against a former CATS bus driver following a shootout with an armed passenger, CMPD confirmed on Wednesday.
Police said the decision was made after consultation with the DA’s Office.
“In consultation with the DA’s Office, CMPD does not anticipate charges against the CATS bus driver at this time,” the department said to Queen City News in a written statement.
Video released from CATS to Queen City News in late May shows multiple shots fired between the driver and a passenger on the bus, with at least two shots near innocent bystanders.
The shootout started when the passenger asked to get off the bus between designated stops. Footage showed the CATS bus driver declining the passenger’s request. The passenger is then observed yelling and, at one point, telling the bus driver “to touch him so he could claim self-defense.”
The shooting occurred on Thursday, May 18, just after 11:00 a.m. near the Charlotte Premium Outlets. The passenger and suspect, identified as Omarri Tobias, 22, is seen walking from the back of the CATS bus to ask the driver to get off between stops.
The bus driver, identified as David Fullard by CATS, declined, and that’s when the argument began. When Fullard asked Tobias to stand behind the yellow line for safety reasons, that’s when Tobias is seen in the released video pulling out a gun from his pocket.
Watch a portion of the incident below here:
Tobias is observed stepping back over the line, and the two men start shooting at each other on the CATS bus. Fullard gets out of the driver’s seat, where the confrontation continues.
Fullard also fired one more shot outside the CATS bus as Tobias ran away. To date, Fullard has been terminated from CATS, and no criminal charges have been filed against him.
Tobias was issued a $250,000 bond in this case and was charged with the following:
- Assault with a deadly weapon
- Serious injury
- Carrying a concealed weapon
- Communicating threats | 2023-06-22T14:32:35+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/no-charges-anticipated-against-former-bus-driver-in-shootout-with-passenger-north-carolina-police-say/ |
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Drew Timme scored 22 of his season-high 35 points as part of Gonzaga’s first-half scoring outburst, and the No. 10 Bulldogs raced past Pepperdine 111-88 on Saturday in the West Coast Conference opener for both.
Gonzaga (12-3, 1-0 WCC) won its 27th consecutive WCC opener and extended its home win streak to 74 games. The last time the Zags lost their first conference game of the season was 1996, when they fell to Santa Clara.
It was also Gonzaga’s 44th straight win over the Waves, the last loss coming during the 2001-02 season.
Timme led an offensive onslaught by the Zags in the first half in which Gonzaga led 56-40 at the break, shot 63%, scored 40 points in the paint and added 20 points on the fastbreak. Timme made 10 of 12 shots and the team's 56 points were the second-most scored in a first half this season by the Zags.
Timme made 15 of 19 shots for the game and his jump-hook in the lane with 4:37 left pushed Gonzaga to the century mark in points for the fifth time this season. Timme posted the seventh 30-point game of his college career and finished two points off his career-high of 37 points set last season against Texas.
Julian Strawther added 22 points and Gonzaga finished with six players in double figures. Malachi Smith added 15, Rasir Bolton scored 14, Anton Watson 11 and Ben Gregg 10. Gonzaga shot 61%.
Maxwell Lewis led Pepperdine (7-8, 0-1) with 20 points in just 23 minutes, and was limited by major foul trouble in the first half. Lewis had seven points, three rebounds and two assists in the first six minutes for the Waves, before sitting nearly the rest of the half with foul trouble. Lewis picked up his second foul with about 14 minutes left in the half, returned with 5:39 left and was called for his third foul 15 seconds later.
He ended up being a spectator for most of Gonzaga’s 20-4 run to close the half. Pepperdine pulled even at 36-36 on Jevon Porter’s basket, but the Zags made nine of their final 13 shots to close the half.
Porter and Carson Basham added 17 apiece for the Waves.
BIG PICTURE
Pepperdine: The Waves lost for the first time this season when scoring at least 80 points. Pepperdine shot 52%, but was outscored 70-46 in the paint and 30-5 on the fastbreak.
Gonzaga: Timme continues his climb up the Gonzaga's scoring record book. Timme moved into fourth place on Gonzaga’s all-time scoring list with 1,861 points. He moved past Elias Harris and within six points of Adam Morrison for third.
UP NEXT
Pepperdine: The Waves host Santa Clara on Thursday.
Gonzaga: The Zags begin a three-game road trip at San Francisco on Thursday.
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AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 2023-01-01T00:29:12+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Drew-Timme-scores-35-No-10-Gonzaga-tops-17687790.php |
TX Amarillo TX Zone Forecast for Saturday, April 22, 2023
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Zone Forecast Product for The Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
TXZ012-017-240000-
Potter-Randall-
Including the cities of Amarillo, Bushland, Buffalo Lake, Canyon,
and Umbarger
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of light rain early, then
mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the morning, then, becoming southeast
10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Breezy. Highs in the upper 60s. South winds 15 to 25 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Showers likely in the evening, then a chance of
showers after midnight. Breezy. Lows in the mid 40s. South winds
15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning,
then showers likely and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. A chance of thunderstorms in the
evening, then a slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers in the morning, then showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Cooler. Highs in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of rain showers after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
30s. Highs in the upper 60s.
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TXZ317-240000-
Palo Duro Canyon-
Including the city of Palo Duro Canyon State Park
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Cloudy, then becoming partly cloudy in the morning, then
becoming mostly sunny. A slight chance of light rain early, then
a slight chance of rain showers in the morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 40s. South
winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning,
then showers likely and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. A chance of thunderstorms in the
evening, then a slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers likely. A slight chance of thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Cooler. Highs around 60. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in
the upper 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40. Highs
in the upper 60s.
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TXZ001-006-240000-
Dallam-Hartley-
Including the cities of Dalhart, Ware, Conlen, Hartley, Channing,
and Romero
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
slight chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows in the mid
30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s.
South winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of
thunderstorms. A chance of showers in the evening, then a slight
chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. South
winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then showers likely and a slight chance of thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers and a chance of thunderstorms. Lows in
the mid 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the morning, then rain showers in the afternoon. Cooler. Highs in
the lower 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows
in the upper 20s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Warmer. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows
in the lower 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
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TXZ002-240000-
Sherman-
Including the city of Stratford
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy, then becoming partly cloudy in the
morning, then becoming mostly sunny. Highs around 60. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
South winds around 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Breezy. Highs in the upper
60s. South winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Showers likely in the evening, then a chance of
showers after midnight. Lows around 40. South winds 10 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning,
then showers likely and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers. A chance of thunderstorms in the
evening, then a slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Cooler. Highs in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
evening. Lows around 30. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
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TXZ007-240000-
Moore-
Including the cities of Dumas, Four Way, and Masterson
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Breezy. Highs in the upper
60s. South winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Showers likely in the evening, then a chance of
showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. South winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning,
then showers likely and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers. A chance of thunderstorms in the
evening, then a slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers, cooler.
Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
evening. Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the mid
30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
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TXZ003-240000-
Hansford-
Including the cities of Spearman and Gruver
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy, then becoming partly cloudy in the
morning, then becoming mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds around 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Breezy. Highs in the mid 60s.
South winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely and a slight chance
of thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Breezy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the morning, then showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Cooler. Highs around 50. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
evening. Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the mid
30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
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TXZ008-240000-
Hutchinson-
Including the city of Borger
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the morning, then a
chance of showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Breezy. Highs in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to
20 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Showers likely in the evening, then a chance of
showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the morning, then showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 80 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms in
the evening, then showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Cooler. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of rain showers after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the upper
30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ004-240000-
Ochiltree-
Including the cities of Farnsworth, Perryton, Wolf Creek Park,
and Waka
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Showers likely in the morning, then a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Breezy. Highs in the upper 50s. South
winds 10 to 20 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. A slight chance of thunderstorms
in the evening, then a chance of thunderstorms after midnight.
Breezy. Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in
the lower 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
morning, then a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs
around 50. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of rain showers after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the mid
30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
TXZ009-240000-
Roberts-
Including the cities of Codman, Lora, and Miami
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds
around 5 mph, becoming west in the morning, then, becoming
southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Showers likely in the morning, then a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Breezy. Highs around 60. South winds
10 to 20 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the evening, then showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.TUESDAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in
the upper 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers. A chance of thunderstorms in the
evening, then a slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. A chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Cooler. Highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 70. Lows
in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the upper
30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ005-240000-
Lipscomb-
Including the cities of Booker, Higgins, and Follett
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Showers likely in the morning, then a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Breezy. Highs in the mid 50s. South
winds 10 to 20 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely and a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then showers likely and a chance of
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs
around 60. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. A chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of rain showers after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the upper
30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ010-240000-
Hemphill-
Including the cities of Canadian, Glazier, and Lake Marvin
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming northwest in the morning, then, becoming
southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Showers likely in the morning, then a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Breezy. Highs in the mid 50s. South
winds 10 to 20 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. A slight chance of thunderstorms
in the evening, then a chance of thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in
the mid 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers. A chance of thunderstorms in the
evening, then a slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. A chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in
the upper 30s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the upper
30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ011-240000-
Oldham-
Including the cities of Vega, Wildorado, and Boys Ranch
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds around
5 mph, becoming west in the morning, then, becoming south 10 to
15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of
thunderstorms. A chance of showers in the evening, then a slight
chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. South
winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then showers likely and a slight chance of thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming north 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. A chance of thunderstorms in the
evening, then a slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers likely. Cooler. Highs in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the mid
30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Warmer. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
$$
TXZ016-240000-
Deaf Smith-
Including the cities of Dawn, Hereford, and Bootleg
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of light rain early,
then mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Breezy. Highs in the upper 60s. South winds 10 to 20 mph,
becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Breezy. Lows in the mid 40s.
South winds 15 to 25 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph after
midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Showers likely in the evening, then a chance of
showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Cooler. Highs in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
30s. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ013-240000-
Carson-
Including the cities of Panhandle, Pantex, White Deer,
and Skellytown
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy early then clearing. Highs in the lower
60s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming east in the morning,
then, becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. South
winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely in the morning, then a
chance of showers in the afternoon. Breezy. Highs in the lower
60s. South winds 10 to 20 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Showers likely in the evening, then a chance of
showers after midnight. Breezy. Lows in the mid 40s. South winds
15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and a slight chance
of thunderstorms in the morning, then showers likely and a chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms in
the evening, then showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Cooler. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ018-240000-
Armstrong-
Including the cities of Claude, Washburn, Wayside, and Goodnight
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy, then becoming partly cloudy in the
morning, then becoming mostly sunny. A slight chance of light
rain early, then a slight chance of rain showers in the morning.
Highs in the upper 50s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Showers likely in the morning, then a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds
10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Showers likely in the evening, then a chance of
showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and a slight chance
of thunderstorms in the morning, then showers likely and a chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. A chance of thunderstorms in the
evening, then a slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers likely. A slight chance of thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Cooler. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in
the upper 30s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40. Highs
in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ014-240000-
Gray-
Including the cities of Kingsmill and Pampa
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 60. South winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast in the morning, then, becoming
southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Showers likely in the morning, then a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Breezy. Highs in the upper 50s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers. A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
morning, then a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms in
the evening, then showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers. A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ019-240000-
Donley-
Including the city of Clarendon
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy early in the morning then clearing. A
slight chance of light rain early, then a slight chance of rain
showers in the morning. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Showers likely in the morning, then a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Showers likely in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. A slight chance of thunderstorms in
the morning, then a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers likely. A slight chance of thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Cooler. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and a
slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight
chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ015-240000-
Wheeler-
Including the cities of Briscoe, Wheeler, Lela, Shamrock,
and Twitty
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. West winds around
5 mph, becoming north in the morning, then, becoming southeast
10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Showers likely in the morning, then a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds 10 to
20 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers. A slight chance of thunderstorms in the
morning, then a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms in
the evening, then showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms
after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers in the morning, then showers likely and a
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and a
slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight
chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ020-240000-
Collingsworth-
Including the cities of Lutie, Wellington, Dozier, and Samnorwood
235 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy early in the morning then clearing. A
slight chance of light rain early, then a slight chance of rain
showers in the morning. Highs around 60. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Showers likely in the morning, then a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds
10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. A slight chance of thunderstorms in
the morning, then a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Showers in the morning, then showers likely and a
slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 80 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and a
slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight
chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
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Growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, Devendra Banhart remembers flipping on the television and watching the failed coup attempt led by Hugo Chávez in 1992.
"There it was, these two people holding [firearms] and saying, 'We're taking over the country,' " he says.
Banhart moved to the U.S. not long after, and went on to become a musician and visual artist dabbling in psychedelic folk, tonadas llaneras, synth rock and salsa — some of which, he says, is a satirical interpretation of variety shows like Súper Sábado Sensacional, which he watched on TV as a child and included lots of "syrupy strings and people in tuxedos covered in sweat and makeup."
While Banhart leaned into his creative pursuits away from his home country, the situation in Venezuela took a turn. In 1998 Chávez was elected president, a position he held — except for a brief period in 2002 — up until his death in 2013. His successor, Nicolás Maduro, is still backed by the Venezuelan military today; though more than 50 countries, including the United States, recognized opposition leader Juan Guaidó as Venezuela's interim president in 2019.
The political instability has contributed to a socioeconomic crisis of food and medicine insecurity, violence and deteriorating public services that's pushed more than 7 million Venezuelans to leave the country, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
Banhart, who still has family living in Venezuela and would visit throughout the years, paints that reality earnestly in his music. In the song "Abre las Manos" from his 2019 record Ma, he sings:
"Mira la fila, veinte mil horas" (Look at the line, twenty-thousand hours long)
"Ahí está mi tía esperando su pan" (There's my aunt, waiting for her bread)
"Qué porcentaje de gente con hambre" (What percentage of people going hungry)
"Es necesario pa' que algo cambie" (Is necessary for something to change)
It's a situation that's impacted all Venezuelans and made things difficult for artists trying to keep a creative scene in the country alive.
"My experience is that it's been over 20 years, and every year, we're playing Caracas," says Banhart. "And it gets really close, and right at the last minute, it falls apart."
That is, until this past December, when he took the stage at Cusica Fest. "My experience [in Venezuela] was survival," he says. "And what I saw on this trip was celebration."
Cusica Fest welcomed over 10,000 attendants on the campus of Universidad Simón Bolívar, nestled in between Caraca's misty mountains, on Dec. 17 and 18.
But the festival actually originated in 2014 first in the form of an e-commerce platform in bolívares — the local currency — when people struggled to buy music on iTunes in Venezuela because of a fixed-exchange rate regime. (Spotify didn't begin operating in the country in 2021.)
"We basically created an e-commerce portal so people could legally support national bands," says Cusica co-founder Maria Fernanda Burbano.
Soon, Burbano and her partners launched Cusica+, a website publishing music news and reviews; not long after, they started operating a venue in El Hatillo. As they produced more and more live shows and their following grew, they knew they wanted to eventually launch a larger-scale festival. In 2019, that dream came true with the first iteration of Cusica Fest — but they were forced into a pandemic hiatus until 2022.
"What we wanted was to give that knock on the table like, 'Hey, we're here. Venezuela is still a spot, even though the situation can be complicated,' " Burbano explains. "We're still here, and always thinking of the artist and audience first."
Their strategy has several main goals: first, to bring Venezuelan artists who built their careers abroad, like Banhart and Simon Grossmann, to play on their native stage. Burbano says she feels like oftentimes, it's hard for artists in that position to grasp just how much support they have back home, and that it's crucial for Cusica to provide a space where they can actually see and experience that connection with the audience firsthand.
For Banhart, that audience included much of his family watching him play live for the first time ever — so he did so wearing a dress.
"I started singing that way in Caracas. My mom would leave and I'd put on one of her dresses and sing," he remembers. "And so to sing again that way ... I think little 8-year-old me would've been proud of me."
Also performing alongside Banhart at Cusica Fest was Rawayana, a band with a melange of rock, reggae, funk and Caribbean rhythms in its music.
Rawayana started as a bit between a group of friends in Caracas over a decade ago, says lead singer Beto Montenegro. They posted ironic songs as a joke on MySpace that eventually went viral throughout Venezuela and started to take music more seriously, eventually sharing stages with renowned pop acts like Chino & Nacho and Servando y Florentino.
In 2015, around the height of the crisis, Rawayana's members made the difficult decision — like so many other Venezuelans — to leave the country, relocating between Mexico City and Miami. But the bureaucracy back home still affects them, says Montenegro, adding extra hoops to jump through for things other artists might not struggle with as much, like obtaining visas and passports needed to tour.
Rawayana's music grew internationally alongside the mass exile of Venezuelan citizens, he explains, because people took it with them to the places they moved to. In diaspora, Rawayana's shows become a way to reconnect with other Venezuelans.
"In Spain, for example," he says, "A Rawayana concert is like an excuse to meet your community."
The band's music also became more political in nature. Its 2021 album, Cuando Los Acéfalos Predominan, takes a direct shot at the polarization taking hold in Venezuela and much of the rest of the world, eschewing the right-left dichotomy so many systems are caught up in.
"For me, there's no reason to be one side or the other because it's very clear that going to the extreme left or extreme right — it's not the way," says Montenegro.
So he says he feels a bit on edge, given the politically-charged environment of the country, when he's back in Venezuela to perform publicly for the first time in six years, at Cusica Fest.
But he knows it's worth it when a young fan approaches him, the day after Rawayana's set, and gushes about how he has a band that can hopefully play with Rawayana in a few years. It's a reminder, he says, that big festivals like Cusica are showing younger generations of Venezuelans that there's still a creative path forward — that they can still express themselves regardless of the country's situation.
"In a way, that's our responsibility," says Montenegro.
Burbano feels that commitment, too. Under the guidance of bigger Latin American festivals, like Estéreo Picnic in Colombia, she hopes Cusica can turn Venezuela into a destination for live music again, not just for national bands but for international acts, too.
"It's double the work," she says, of putting together a festival amidst an ongoing socioeconomic crisis. "But it's always about moving forward and making things better."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-01-14T17:11:01+00:00 | kosu.org | https://www.kosu.org/music/music/2023-01-14/how-cusica-fest-is-trying-to-rebuild-the-venezuelan-music-industry |
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