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Updated August 5, 2022 at 3:58 PM ET
LAUREL, Neb. — Police investigating the killings of four people in a small northeast Nebraska city have arrested a neighbor of the victims, the Nebraska State Patrol said Friday.
A police team surrounded and then entered a home in Laurel about 2:30 a.m. Friday after gathering evidence at two burned houses where the four bodies were found Thursday morning.
The Nebraska State Patrol arrested Jason A. Jones, 42, of Laurel on suspicion of homicide. He had been badly burned and was flown to a hospital in Lincoln so has not been formally charged, Nebraska State Patrol Col. John Bolduc said at a news conference.
Bolduc said Jones lives across the street from one of the burned homes.
Those killed were identified as Gene Twiford, 86, Janet Twiford, 85, and Dana Twiford, 55, who all lived in one house. The victim in the other house was identified as 53-year-old Michele Ebeling. Jones lived across the street from Ebeling and within three blocks of the Twiford home, Bolduc said.
Bolduc declined to give a suspected motive for the arrest or to say if Jones knew those who were killed.
Bolduc said officers used flash explosions as a distraction during the arrest but that Jones was arrested "without any violence." There are no more suspects but Bolduc said it was too early in the investigation to know if there would be any other arrests.
Victim autopsies were scheduled for Friday.
The arrest came a day after the discovery of the bodies in the two burning homes in the city about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Omaha.
The body of one person was found after firefighters were called to an explosion and fire. A short time later, firefighters were called to another home nearby and found the bodies of three people inside.
After examining both burned-out homes, the state patrol said that "gunfire played a part in the incident at both homes" and that both fires had started just after 3 a.m. Thursday.
On Thursday, Cedar County Sheriff Larry Koranda was asked if the community was safe, prompting him to say residents "need to be diligent" and report anything out of the ordinary to police.
On Friday, Bolduc said, "We believe the community is safe with this person in custody."
When the bodies were discovered, Laurel police recommended that the community go on a voluntary lockdown, prompting most businesses, a senior center and schools to limit access for part of the day.
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Jimmy Eat World release new song inspired by the buzz surrounding When We Were Young fest
Jimmy Eat World have released their first new song since the Before Times. “Something Loud” is available everywhere digitally and accompanied by a video, co-directed by the band and Austin Gavin.
"Something Loud" was co-produced by members of the band and Justin Meldel-Johnson, a producer best known for his work with Beck, Paramore, Nine Inch Nails, M83, Air and St. Vincent.
A guitar-driven rocker that's guaranteed to speak to fans who cut their teeth on "Bleed American," complete with an instantly contagious chorus built for massive singalongs, it finds Jim Adkins asking, “Do you still feel part of something loud?”
What inspired Jimmy Eat World's new song 'Something Loud'
It's a question he found himself asking as he witnessed the excitement over the announcement of October’s When We Were Young Festival, which triggered a period of deep reflection.
In a press release, Adkin explains, “While I thought I made the most of the early band days, I realize now I missed some stuff. You’re in such a hurry to grow out of the formidable years."
At that age, Adkins says, a lot of people just assume they'll magically get their act together when they hit whatever age they think of as how old a grownup is.
"It doesn’t work that way," he says. "But maybe the thing age and experience do reveal is that pivotal moments are hard to grasp when you are in them."
25 years of Jimmy Eat World: Jim Adkins on new music, memories and 'The Middle'
Following the path blazed by 'Bleed American'
The song is self-released, a situation their press release refers to as familiar "to the lead up to the critically acclaimed 'Bleed American'; sans-label and creatively invigorated with no one to answer to but themselves."
"Bleed American" was the Arizona rockers' mainstream breakthrough and remains their most successful album, largely driven by "The Middle," a Top 5 smash on Billboard's Hot 100.
Despite a title change after Sept. 11, 2001, for fear that "Bleed American" could be misinterpreted as "Bleed, American," the temporarily self-titled album was certified platinum in 2002.
Four singles from the album went Top 20 on Billboard's alternative chart.
It also finished ninth on a list of 40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time at Rolling Stone, which hailed it as "the album that propelled them from playing with underground bands like Mineral and Christie Front Drive to full-blown mainstream success."
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'Something Loud' video
The video for “Something Loud” was shot in black and white in their Arizona studio, showing a close-knit performance reminiscent of 2021’s Phoenix Sessions concert series.
When they started on the video, they were working on ideas with their friend Mike Gill, who co-directed “555.” The closing scene is a nod to Gill, who died before they had a chance to bring those ideas to life.
Jimmy Eat World U.S. tour starts in Cleveland
Touring will remain a priority for Jimmy Eat World in 2022, with shows overseas in June and July, followed by the Something Loud Tour across North America that begins Sept. 8 at Rock Hall Live! in Cleveland. Ticket info for all shows can be found at jimmyeatworld.com/tour.
The tour includes performances at Four Chord Music Festival in Pittsburgh, RiotFest in Chicago, Oceans Calling Festival in Ocean City, Maryland, and the When We Were Young Festival in Las Vegas.
In addition to Adkins on lead vocals and lead guitar, the band's current lineup includes rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch and drummer Zach Lind.
June concert guide:The best and biggest concerts playing metro Phoenix
Reach the reporter at ed.masley@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-4495. Follow him on Twitter @EdMasley.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — QatarEnergy, the Gulf country's state-run petroleum firm, said Wednesday it has agreed to buy a 25% stake in a massive gas project in Iraq, marking the rare entry of a major producer into a market that Western firms have pulled back from in recent years.
The Gas Growth Integrated Project, launched by French oil giant Total in 2021, aims to develop facilities to recover natural gas from several oil fields in southern Iraq. That's where it is currently being “flared” — when the natural gas released through oil production is burned and released into the atmosphere. The project also aims to treat seawater for injection into oil reservoirs to boost production.
Total maintains a 45% share of the project, while Iraq's Basra Oil Company owns 30%. QatarEnergies said the total investment in the project would be around $10 billion.
“We are pleased to be part of this significant development, which is important for Iraq’s energy sector,” Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the Minister of State for Energy Affairs and head of QatarEnergy, said in a statement.
Qatar is one of the world's biggest natural gas producers and has extensive experience in building gas infrastructure.
Iraq urgently needs to develop local gas resources to meet electricity demands, especially during the peak summer months. The country is heavily reliant on Iranian gas and electricity imports.
The World Bank estimates that Iraq flares nearly 18 billion cubic meters of gas a year, a volume that, if recaptured, could be worth more than $2 billion. Flaring is a huge source of air pollution and greenhouse gases.
Oil provides 90% of Iraq's public revenues, but the industry has been mired in corruption and mismanagement since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that established a power-sharing government in Baghdad. Sectarian-based parties bicker over government ministries, appoint loyalists to key positions and dole out public sector jobs to supporters.
The oil-rich southern Basra region is among the country's poorest and most underdeveloped, and residents say they have been sickened by the heavy air pollution caused by flaring.
ExxonMobile had been in negotiations over a similar multi-project deal, but it fell though after years of negotiations. Exxon announced in 2021 that it would be selling its shares from the West Qurna 1 oil field, and London-based BP is spinning off development of the Rumaila field, Iraq's largest. | 2023-04-05T12:45:52+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/qatarenergy-to-acquire-25-stake-in-major-iraqi-17879727.php |
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until October 31, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Azure Power Global Limited ("Azure" or the "Company") (NYSE: AZRE), if they purchased the Company's securities between June 15, 2021 and August 26, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
If you purchased securities of Azure and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nyse-azre/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by October 31, 2022.
Azure and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On August 29, 2022, the Company disclosed that its Chief Executive Officer had resigned, less than two months after his appointment and that it had "received a whistleblower complaint in May 2022 alleging potential procedural irregularities and misconduct by certain employees at a plant belonging to one of its subsidiaries." During the Company's review of these allegations, Azure "discovered deviations from safety and quality norms" and "also identified evidence of manipulation of project data and information by certain employees."
On this news, shares of Azure declined by $4.61 per share, or approximately 44.07%, from $10.46 per share to close at $5.85 on August 29, 2022.
The case is Gilbert v. Azure Power Global Limited, No. 22-cv-7432.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
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From 1953 through the '90s the record producer Creed Taylor, who died Tuesday at the age of 93, brought a regal touch to jazz, showcasing its players like aristocrats. Employed at the Verve label in the '60s, Taylor backed pianist Bill Evans with a symphony orchestra; he took bossa nova, a music created by the Rio de Janeiro elite, and gave it to the world. He packaged his artists' work in stylishly illustrated gatefold jackets that bespoke class. His death was confirmed in a statement from Verve Records.
Taylor's productions sent numerous jazz stars, including saxophonist Stan Getz and organist Jimmy Smith, onto the pop charts. "He was a visionary," says trumpeter and A&M Records co-founder Herb Alpert, who along with the Snapshots Foundation is helping to finance a forthcoming Taylor documentary.
At his own company, CTI Records (Creed Taylor Incorporated) — whose daring and grandiosity defined jazz at its most extravagant — Taylor produced impactful work by George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Wes Montgomery, Stanley Turrentine, Hubert Laws, Airto Moreira and other masters.
"I credit my career to Creed," says keyboard player Bob James, a pillar of smooth jazz and fusion; Taylor had launched him on CTI with four albums and made him a house arranger. "Every time I go anyplace to tour," James says, "I have instant credibility because I was so involved with the CTI sound."
To Herb Alpert, Taylor looked "like an accountant"; his speech was measured and soft. "But he was hands-on," notes James, "with very definite ideas about how he wanted his projects to go."
Growing up in rural Virginia, Taylor sat by the radio, addicted to late-night broadcasts from Birdland. After earning a degree in psychology he headed to New York, eager to join the jazz scene. In 1954 he volunteered to produce records for a floundering label, Bethlehem.
From there, says jazz historian Dan Morgenstern, Taylor "proceeded according to his own taste."
He gave the company a lifesaving boost when he launched Chris Connor, a frosty-voiced ex-band singer, as Bethlehem's First Lady of cool jazz. After producing other budding greats, including Charles Mingus and Carmen McRae, he moved on to a startup company, ABC-Paramount. There he spotlighted Quincy Jones as a big-band arranger and launched a historic singing trio, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. In 1960, ABC-Paramount allowed him to start a subsidiary, Impulse, where he signed John Coltrane and produced Ray Charles.
The next year, Taylor traded Impulse for Verve, where his love of Brazilian music burst forth. "Without Creed," says his colleague Arnaldo DeSouteiro, a Rio-based music producer, "the world would probably never have become aware of bossa nova." In 1962, Taylor produced Stan Getz and guitarist Charlie Byrd's Jazz Samba, America's breakthrough album of Brazilian jazz. Out of it came "Desafinado," a Grammy-winning single.
The next year, Taylor teamed the saxophonist with singer-guitarist João Gilberto, one of bossa's creators, on the album Getz/Gilberto. Taylor opted to release "The Girl from Ipanema," an unknown song in the U.S., as a single. It shot to No. 5, won a Record of the Year Grammy, and made Getz a household name. The track also brought global renown to its pianist and composer, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and to João and his wife Astrud Gilberto, whose languid, deadpan vocal epitomized the beach nymph in the song.
In 1967, Herb Alpert and his business partner, Jerry Moss, invited Taylor to launch CTI as an A&M subsidiary. Quickly he helped launch another Brazilian legend when he released Milton Nascimento's American debut, Courage.
CTI went independent in 1970, and the jazz that Taylor released there began to cross bridge after bridge. Bop trumpeter Freddie Hubbard made his fusion debut with the album Red Clay. Brazilian pianist Eumir Deodato's bombastic funk treatment of the Richard Strauss composition "Also Sprach Zarathustra" became a Grammy-winning No. 2 single. Yusef Lateef, who played world music on an array of wind instruments, recorded Autophysiopsychic — "a laid-back rap record," said Taylor. R&B/jazz singer Esther Phillips scored a disco hit with the Dinah Washington trademark "What a Difference a Day Makes." Jackie & Roy, a married jazz vocal duo whom Taylor had recorded for years, received the grandest production of their lives: Time and Love, a symphonic album whose arrangements, by Don Sebesky, quoted Debussy and Bach. But for all of its successes, CTI was hemorrhaging funds; in the late '70s the company went bankrupt and fell into messy litigation. Taylor revived the label for a few years in 1989; thereafter he devoted himself to reissues of its classics. Hip-hop artists have also brought Taylor into the present — recordings he produced have been sampled thousands of times.
Seen from a distance, Taylor's contribution becomes clearer: "He brought elegance to jazz," says Herb Alpert. "He was a soulful guy, caring about the musicians and wanting the best for them. Money wasn't the issue with him. He went with his gut."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-08-26T03:36:37+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/arts-and-entertainment/2022-08-25/creed-taylor-legendary-producer-who-guided-and-expanded-jazz-dead-at-93 |
Earlier this month, the EU Parliament voted in favor of a resolution to make abortion a fundamental right — a good sign for activists in Germany fighting to make the procedure more widely available.
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Earlier this month, the EU Parliament voted in favor of a resolution to make abortion a fundamental right — a good sign for activists in Germany fighting to make the procedure more widely available.
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Today is World Chocolate Day, a time to celebrate the culinary treasure we know as chocolate. But did you know that the delicious chocolate we enjoy today started out as a bitter beverage?
The ancient Mayans and Aztecs used to grind cacao beans and mix them with water, chili peppers, and other ingredients to make a frothy, spicy drink. It wasn’t until the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 16th century that chocolate started to evolve into something closer to what we know today. The Spaniards sweetened the bitter brew with cane sugar and cinnamon, creating a delicacy that became the toast of Europe. But perhaps one of the least known stories of chocolate is its role in the Revolutionary War. Soldiers were often paid in chocolate, and it was also used as a ration and a morale booster during tough times. So on World Chocolate Day, savor a piece of this delectable treat.
Remember, you’re not just enjoying a dessert, but a piece of history that’s as fascinating as it is delicious | 2023-07-07T15:12:33+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-day-calendar-world-chocolate-day/ |
JEFFERSON (AP) — Law enforcement in east Texas say a missing woman was rescued from a submerged vehicle, and taken to a nearby hospital.
They’re not saying much else.
The woman was found alive in the vehicle in Lake O’ the Pines near Jefferson on Friday after a fisherman reported a Jeep in the water, according to a Facebook post by the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.
“With the assistance of the wrecker service, fisherman, and Marion County deputies, a female was safely rescued from the submerged Jeep,” which was about 40 feet from shore, according to the post.
Photos show what appears to be a person being pulled into a boat with the Jeep a few feet away and another shows just the top of the vehicle visible in the lake.
The woman had been reported missing to police in Longview, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of the lake, about 130 miles (210 kilometers) east of Dallas and 70 miles (110 kilometers) west of Shreveport, Louisiana.
It’s unclear where she was taken for medical treatment or if she had suffered serious injuries.
It was not clear how the vehicle ended up in the lake and Marion County sheriff’s officials did not return phone calls for comment Wednesday.
On Tuesday officials said they didn’t know how long the Jeep had been in the lake, according to National Public Radio.
Longview Police Officer Brandon Thornton declined to answer questions about the case.
“Due details regarding this incident we are not able to release details about this incident,” Thornton said Wednesday while declining further comment. | 2023-04-12T18:19:19+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/missing-woman-rescued-from-submerged-jeep-texas-police-say/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Bill would require eligible US citizens to vote in general elections or face fine
WASHINGTON - A bill introduced this week in the House of Representatives would require eligible U.S. citizens to vote in general elections or potentially face a financial penalty.
The Civic Duty to Vote Act, written by Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., was introduced on Monday. It would require an "eligible citizen" to appear to vote in each regularly scheduled general election for federal office and for other purposes.
To be eligible, a person has to be registered to vote in the state they reside in for an upcoming election.
If a person fails to do so, there would be a $20 civil penalty. But the bill’s text allows "valid and sufficient" reasons for not appearing, which include those not registered to vote "after a good faith attempt" to do so.
Other reasons that would save them from the penalty include the inability to appear to vote due to an emergency, someone with sincerely held religious or personal beliefs, as well as if they are simply unaware of their eligibility to vote.
The bill states that a waiver would be available for citizens who cannot afford to pay the $20 penalty and instead commits them to perform an hour of community service.
If someone doesn’t pay the $20 fine, the bill’s text adds that they would not be subject "to any additional civil or criminal penalties or any denial of government benefits." Law enforcement agencies would also not be allowed to use any information provided by the person related to this act, such as their reason for not appearing to vote, in any further criminal investigations, according to the bill.
Larson, who has served as a representative for Connecticut’s first district since 1999, previously served on the Task Force on Election Reform — which was created "to develop reforms to take big money out of politics and address flaws in the electoral system," according to his website.
Larson shared a post on Facebook this week about his work on the bill, saying it would increase voter turnout and engagement.
"Democracy only works if The People exercise the civic duty to vote," the post stated in part.
The post garnered a mix of responses, including one commenter who replied: "If people want to vote they can vote. If they don’t want to vote, we live in a country where they are free to do that."
The bill’s introduction comes amid a wave of election initiatives. Many Republican-led states have tightened access to the ballot in the name of election security by passing new voting laws, many of which were inspired by former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen 2020 election.
Meanwhile, Democrats and voting rights advocates have said such laws make it more difficult for Black Americans and others to vote by consolidating polling locations, requiring certain types of identification, and ordering other changes.
Democratic lawmakers have written their own voting rights legislation which would make Election Day a national holiday, ensure access to early voting and mail-in ballots, and enable the Justice Department to intervene in states with a history of voter interference, among other changes. The legislation has stalled in Congress.
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NEW YORK — Two Chinese American businesspeople were charged Monday with funneling foreigners’ money into political donations that bought entry to an exclusive dinner with then-President Donald Trump so the duo could impress and swindle Chinese investors.
In a complex financial scheme with political tentacles, prosecutors say, Sherry Xue Li and Lianbo “Mike” Wang raised $27 million for a grandiose development plan that never got close to approval, then siphoned off millions of dollars for personal expenses.
To project the sway to keep their promises — which often included visas to live in the U.S. — they used investor money and foreign nationals’ cash to make big-dollar donations and be seen with Trump and other prominent politicians, prosecutors said in court documents.
“Together we can build a better, stronger and healthier community and ‘Make America Great Again!’” read one of their business’ press releases trumpeting that Li and Wang had attended a pre-inaugural reception featuring various figures in the incoming Trump administration.
Prosecutors didn’t allege any criminal wrongdoing by the political action committees that accepted donations from Li and Wang.
Li, 50, and Wang, 45, were being held without bail after their first appearance in a Brooklyn federal court, though their lawyers can argue for bail later on. The two are facing various federal conspiracy charges.
They weren’t asked to enter a plea, but Wang volunteered, through a Mandarin interpreter, “I did not do this thing.”
Li’s lawyer, Nora Hirozawa, declined to comment. A message seeking comment was left for Wang’s attorney, James Roth.
The naturalized U.S. citizens are business partners who share a Long Island home with some of Li’s relatives, including her 15-year-old son.
Li has been promoting plans for a development near New York’s Catskill Mountains for nearly a decade; Wang worked with her as general manager. Initially envisioned as a cultural theme park called “China City of America,” it morphed into a proposal for a for-profit college campus after local officials told Li that zoning wouldn’t allow the “Chinese Disneyland” she first planned.
The “Thompson Education Center” has never materialized, either. Local officials denied the necessary sewer service in 2015 and then told Li flat-out in 2017 that the project wasn’t approved, according to prosecutors’ court papers.
But she and Wang continued to tell investors the project was a go, sometimes sending them photos of a construction site. That site was actually a house she was having built somewhere else, prosecutors said.
Many backers had been lured with promises of investor visas, which ultimately were denied because of immigration officials’ doubts about the viability of the “Education Center” project, according to court papers.
To bolster those promises, Wang and Li sought to create an image of influence with prominent U.S. politicians.
In some cases, the image was literal.
Li and Wang solicited money from foreigners to give over $600,000 of donations — converted into Wang’s and Li’s names — to attend and bring guests to a June 2017 fundraising dinner with the then-president, prosecutors said. A photo from the event shows Li with Trump and then-first lady Melania Trump.
It is against the law for foreign nationals to contribute to American political campaigns, and prosecutors say Li and Wang knew it.
“It’s unlawful for businessmen in China to make donations. But these businessmen can invest in our company and become our shareholders. We can then arrange for them to meet with the president. Donation is definitely necessary. Our company can do that and it is legal,” Wang told a prospective investor in December 2018 after sending the photo of Trump and Li from the fundraising dinner, according to court papers.
Other investors or prospects also got brochures featuring Li or Wang with Trump and other politicians, including Democratic then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, prosecutors said.
Meanwhile, Li, Wang and unnamed co-conspirators spent at least $2.5 million of their investors’ money on jewelry, vacations, fancy dining, nannies, traffic tickets and other personal items, according to prosecutors. They said some investor money also went to the defendants’ political hobnobbing campaign, including donations and hiring a private plane to bring a Chinese national to a Trump event in October 2017.
The unusual campaign contributions by Li and Wang caught the attention of journalists in 2017 amid scrutiny of numerous donors with ties to other nations who were, at the time, trying to curry favor with the new Trump administration.
The U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, Breon Peace, said Monday his office was “committed to protecting our democratic process from those who would expose it to unlawful foreign influence.” | 2022-07-19T01:10:35+00:00 | denverpost.com | https://www.denverpost.com/2022/07/18/pair-charged-straw-donations-trump-committees/ |
Over the last several years, there’s been a considerable increase in media coverage about misinformation and conspiracy theories in politics.
The media has routinely reported on these falsehoods, making it seem like misinformation is rampant in politics. But are candidates for Congress actually sharing more misinformation in 2022 than 2020?
Yes, according to our analysis of congressional candidates’ Facebook posts. We found that politicians in the 2022 election are sharing more links to unreliable news sources than they did in 2020, and the increase appears to be driven by nonincumbent Republican candidates.
How we did our research
Measuring misinformation on social media is complicated. With billions of posts per day on platforms like Facebook and Twitter, it would be impossible to examine each one for misinformation. Instead, to approximate the level of misinformation shared by political candidates, we relied on NewsGuard, a nonpartisan organization that provides trust ratings for news sources online.
NewsGuard uses several point-based criteria to assess a site’s credibility and transparency, giving each site a score from 0 to 100 based on how well it adheres to those standards. NewsGuard considers those rated at 60 and above, which include such sources as The Washington Post, New York Times and CNN, to be reliable news sites. It considers those rated under 60, which include Breitbart and Daily Kos, to be unreliable.
We then examined the NewsGuard scores for news sources shared by Democratic and Republican primary and general election candidates for Congress in 2020 and 2022.
From January to July 2020, when Republican congressional candidates shared links to news sources, 8 percent came from sites rated as unreliable, on average each day. For Democratic candidates, the daily average was less than 1 percent.
Two years later, Republican candidates were leaning much more on unreliable news sources. From January to July 2022, on average each day, 36 percent of news that Republican candidates shared came from unreliable sites, while that was true for only 2 percent of news shared by Democratic candidates each day.
Republican nonincumbents shared the most unreliable news
What happened? When we look more closely, we find that Republican nonincumbents, or Republican candidates running to be nominated for open seats or who run against Republican incumbents, are the ones behind the increase in unreliable sources, not Republican incumbents in the Congress. Overall in 2022, Republican incumbents shared news in which a daily average of 6 percent linked to unreliable sources. Meanwhile, Republican challengers shared news that came from unreliable sources 45 percent of the time, on average daily.
Sarah Palin shares the most unreliable news
But there’s one outlier who’s throwing off the 2022 data: Sarah Palin, who is running as a Republican for Alaska’s sole House seat. As of July 12, 2022, she has shared 849 links to unreliable sources, out of 853 total, for more than 99 percent of her shared sources this year. Palin mostly shares blog posts from her own website, which NewsGuard rates as unreliable. The next closest is Rob Cornicelli, a Republican running in New York, who has shared 88 links to unreliable sources, or 65 percent of his total.
How would removing Palin’s unusually high percentages affect the overall averages? The findings remain similar though they are less stark. Without her, from January to July 2022, Republican congressional candidates shared news from unreliable sources 12 percent of the time. While that’s a significant drop from the 36 percent we found when we included Palin, it’s still a 50 percent increase from about 8 percent in 2020.
The difference between incumbent and other Republican candidates shrinks as well. Without including Palin’s averages, Republican nonincumbents share about 14 percent of their news from unreliable sources, compared to about 6 percent from incumbent Republicans.
Notably, NewsGuard has changed its rankings to rate both Fox and MSNBC as unreliable sources. That wasn’t true for the period we analyzed. But when we redo our analysis with Fox and MSNBC rated as unreliable, the changes are slight: Republicans share more unreliable news than Democrats, but the differences between incumbent and nonincumbent Republicans shrinks.
This is happening on other social media platforms
Other research suggests similar trends on other platforms as well. Since 2016, Republican members of Congress have been increasingly sharing links to untrustworthy sources on Twitter, and especially since Joe Biden’s election, according to the recent working paper of political scientist Jana Lasser, while nothing similar has happened among Democrats.
This primary season, Republicans have nominated over 80 congressional candidates who falsely say Trump won the 2020 election. Clearly, more candidates will be sharing links from unreliable news sources as we head into the general election this November. In a democratic society that allows politicians a great deal of latitude in their speech, what does it mean that candidates are increasingly spreading misinformation and lies?
Maggie Macdonald (@MG_Macdonald) is a postdoctoral fellow at New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics.
Megan A. Brown (@m_dot_brown) is a research scientist at New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics. | 2022-08-29T10:19:39+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/29/republicans-democrats-misinformation-falsehoods/ |
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MILWAUKEE- For the second presidential election cycle in a row Milwaukee will host one of the major party’s national conventions.
The Republican National Committee today voting on Milwaukee as the host city for the 2024 Republican National Convention. This will be the first RNC for Milwaukee and the second major nominating convention for the city in four years.
I am excited to announce that the RNC has voted unanimously to select Milwaukee as the host city for the 2024 Republican National Convention!
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) August 5, 2022
Milwaukee is a world-class city, and we are eager to see it shine in the spotlight come 2024.
“This gives us the opportunity to do what we weren’t when the 2020 DNC was cut short,” VISIT Milwaukee CEO Peggy Williams-Smith told WTMJ from Chicago. “We can show what a wonderful city Milwaukee is and we get to show it to the world.”
Williams-Smith is in Chicago along with a handful of other state and local dignitaries.
Just in: Former RNC Chairman Reince Priebus with first reaction to unanimous voice vote to bring 2024 Republican National Convention to Milwaukee. pic.twitter.com/djifjnJ7He
— Charles Benson (@CharlesBenson4) August 5, 2022
Dates for the convention have yet to be locked in but it will likely be in July or August of 2024.
This story will be update. | 2022-08-05T21:43:04+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/news/2022/08/05/the-rnc-comes-to-mke/ |
LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — The fire burning pine forests about 10 miles (16 kilometers) away from Priscilla Crespin’s home is the largest wildfire in the U.S. and the first to force the 81-year-old to leave the small northeastern New Mexico community where she has spent nearly all her life.
Crespin left her home in Las Vegas, New Mexico in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains on Monday because smoke from the fire wasn’t good for her asthma, her children were growing concerned and other family members who live nearby were making plans to leave.
On Tuesday, wind gusts of up to 50 mph (80 kph) were predicted to fan the blaze, making for extremely dangerous conditions and tough work for firefighters that is expected to last through the weekend.
“We are very concerned about very significant fire growth today,” said David Craft, a National Weather Service fire meteorologist in Albuquerque.
When Crespin’s daughter showed up to take her to Albuquerque, fire crews were conducting fire prevention measures to try to make Crespin’s home safer if flames approach it — cutting down trees, raking pine needles and spraying water on properties in the area near her home. She grabbed clothes, photos and essential documents.
“It’s awful. It scares you,” Crespin said as she was driven away from her hometown. “You don’t know when it’s going to get to the houses.”
Even though no evacuations were ordered for the town of 13,000 people, the blaze that has charred 228 square miles (590 square kilometers) in New Mexico’s pine-covered mountainsides and burned at least 172 homes has prompted some residents to flee. It also led to the evacuation of the state’s psychiatric hospital.
Fire crews are battling on several fronts to prevent the fire from pushing into more populated areas as its feeds on Ponderosa pine trees in the state’s drought-parched landscape.
Wildfires have become a year-round threat in the drought-stricken West and they are moving faster and burning hotter than ever due to climate change, scientists and fire experts say. In the last five years, California for example has experienced the eight largest wildfires in state history, while a destructive Colorado blaze tore through suburban neighborhoods last December.
Evacuation orders have issued for small northeastern New Mexico communities, including the small town of Mora.
And residents in some outlying neighborhoods of the town of Las Vegas were told to be ready to leave their homes as smoke choked the economic hub for the farming and ranching families who have lived for generations in the rural region. No evacuations had been ordered within the city as of Monday evening.
The county jail, the state’s psychiatric hospital and more than 200 students from the United World College have evacuated and businesses that remained open were having a hard time finding workers as more people were forced from their homes.
“We’re trying to house and feed people with skeleton crews. Hundreds of people have lost their homes. It’s an extraordinary tragedy,” said Allan Affeldt, a hotel owner in Las Vegas. He said most of his staff were evacuated from their homes and he canceled guest reservations to accommodate firefighters and emergency crews.
The 197 patients at the Behavioral Health Institute were being sent to other facilities, with some transported in secured units and others escorted by police.
Las Vegas is also home to New Mexico Highlands University and is one of the most populated stops along Interstate 25 before the Colorado state line.
Crews got a bit of a break Monday afternoon as the wind diminished and helicopters were able to make water drops in key locations. Still, flames running along the ridges above town could be seen from the discount store, an empty baseball field and other vantage points.
The fire merged last week with another blaze that was sparked in early April when a prescribed fire set by land managers to reduce fire danger by burning small trees and brush that can fuel fires escaped containment. The cause of the other fire remains under investigation.
Another New Mexico wildfire burning in the mountains near Los Alamos National Laboratory prompted evacuations over the weekend and other communities were told to get ready to evacuate if conditions worsen. That blaze has reached the burn scars of wildfires that blackened the region a decade ago when New Mexico had one of its worst and most destructive seasons.
A wildfire in 2000 forced the closure of the laboratory and left about 400 people homeless. The community was threatened again in 2011 when another blaze caused by a downed power line blackened more of the surrounding forest.
In the southern New Mexico community of Ruidoso, two people were killed in an April wildfire that destroyed more than 200 homes. That mountain community saw similar destruction from a 2012 fire.
New wildfires were reported over the weekend in Texas, New Mexico. Oklahoma and Tennessee, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. More than 3,100 wildland firefighters and support personnel are fighting fires across the country, with about one-third of them trying to prevent the big blaze in New Mexico from spreading.
More than 4,400 square miles (11,400 square kilometers) have burned across the U.S. so far this year.
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Associated Press writer Paul Davenport in Phoenix contributed to this report. | 2022-05-03T15:06:13+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/wildfire-in-northeastern-new-mexico-expected-to-keep-growing/ |
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — America’s top diplomat on Tuesday criticized a decision by FIFA to threaten players at the World Cup with yellow cards if they wear armbands supporting inclusion and diversity.
Speaking alongside his Qatari counterpart at a news conference, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it was “always concerning … when we see any restrictions on freedom of expression.”
“It’s especially so when the expression is for diversity and for inclusion,” Blinken said at Doha’s Diplomatic Club. “And in my judgment, at least no one on a football pitch should be forced to choose between supporting these values and playing for their team.”
Just hours before the first players with the armbands in support of the “One Love” campaign were to take the field on Monday, soccer’s governing body warned they would immediately be shown yellow cards — two of which lead to a player’s expulsion from that game and also the next.
No player wore the “One Love” armbands Monday though seven European teams had said they planned to wear them ahead of the tournament.
England’s Harry Kane wore a FIFA-approved “No Discrimination” armband that was offered as a compromise in the match with Iran. FIFA has tried to counter the Europeans’ campaign with its own armbands featuring more generic slogans backed by some United Nations agencies.
Asked to respond to Blinken’s comments, FIFA referred to an earlier statement about allowing the “No Discrimination” armbands at the tournament, as part of a compromise it tried to strike with soccer federations.
Blinken arrived in Qatar on Monday, where he visited a youth soccer program tied to the World Cup. He later watched the U.S. tie with Wales on Monday night.
While openly critical of FIFA, Blinken struck a more measured tone with Qatar. This energy-rich Mideast nation has been criticized ahead of the tournament over its treatment of migrant laborers and criminalizing gay and lesbian sex.
“We know that without workers, including many migrant workers, this World Cup simply would not have been possible,” Blinken said. “Qatar has made meaningful strides in recent years to its labor laws to expand worker rights.”
However, he made a point to add: “Real work remains on these issues, and the United States will continue to work with Qatar on strengthening labor rights and human rights more broadly long after the World Cup is over.”
Blinken spoke alongside Qatar’s foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, at the news conference. Asked by a Qatar-based journalist about the “media attacks” on his country, Sheikh Mohammed dismissed them.
“As for the reforms the state of Qatar, I think there were some quarters who did not take this into consideration and relied on preconceived notions,” he said. “Of course we cannot change the opinion of those who just want to attack us or distort our image.”
Blinken’s visit comes as part of a strategic dialogue with Qatar, which also hosts some 8,000 American troops at its massive Al-Udeid Air Base that’s serves as the forward headquarters of the U.S. military’s Central Command. The base was a key node in America’s chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan and evacuation of Afghan civilians.
One major issue to discuss is Iran. Nonproliferation experts say Iran now has enough uranium enriched up to 60% — a short step from weapons-grade levels — to reprocess into fuel for a nuclear weapon if it chooses to do so.
Tehran insists its program is peaceful, though it has drastically expanded it since the collapse of Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Meanwhile, Iran is being shaken by monthslong protests following the Sept. 16 death in custody of a 22-year-old woman arrested by the country’s morality police.
A crackdown by authorities and violence surrounding the demonstrations have killed at least 434 people, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that’s been monitoring the protests. Iran is playing at the World Cup as well, and will face the U.S. on Nov. 29.
“The world is rightly focused on what’s happening inside of Iran,” Blinken said. “The protests that have arisen since the killing of Mahsa Amini are something that have galvanized the world.”
Questioned about the U.S. recent decision to shield Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the lawsuit targeting him for the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Blinken said the Biden administration would “simply follow the law” in terms of granting immunity to a head of state.
Blinken added there were no plans for the crown prince to visit the U.S.
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Follow Jon Gambrell on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP. | 2022-11-22T20:46:56+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/latest/ap-top-us-diplomat-criticizes-fifa-armband-threat-at-world-cup/ |
Opposition is mounting to what would be one of the biggest wind energy projects on federal public land. A neighboring former Japanese internment camp has a constituency fighting it.
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Opposition is mounting to what would be one of the biggest wind energy projects on federal public land. A neighboring former Japanese internment camp has a constituency fighting it.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-02-25T01:42:44+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2023-02-24/a-big-proposed-wind-project-in-idaho-faces-major-local-opposition |
CA Sacramento CA Zone Forecast for Monday, March 6, 2023
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024 FPUS56 KSTO 070744
ZFPSTO
Interior Northern California Zone Forecasts for California
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
1143 PM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for today, tonight, and Tuesday.
CAZ013-070845-
Shasta Lake Area / Northern Shasta County-
Including the city of Shasta Dam
1143 PM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST WEDNESDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the morning,
then rain and snow showers early in the afternoon. A chance of
rain and snow showers late in the afternoon. Highs 27 to 41. Snow
accumulation up to 1 inch lower elevations...except 1 to 4 inches
higher elevations. Snow level 2000 feet in the afternoon.
Prevailing northeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the south in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Areas of Fog...locally dense in the evening. Rain and
snow showers likely. Lows 18 to 32 higher elevations...27 to
34 lower elevations. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch lower
elevations...except 1 to 6 inches higher elevations. Snow level
2000 feet. Prevailing south winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Rain and snow showers. Highs 26 to 40 higher
elevations...38 to 44 lower elevations. Snow accumulation up to
1 inch lower elevations...except 1 to 7 inches higher elevations.
Snow level 2000 feet. Prevailing south winds up to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Heavy snow showers, rain showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then heavy rain and snow
showers after midnight. Lows 18 to 33. Snow accumulation up to
1 inch lower elevations...except 7 to 13 inches higher
elevations. Snow level 2000 feet. Prevailing south winds 5 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
morning, then rain and snow showers likely in the afternoon.
Highs 28 to 42 higher elevations...40 to 48 lower elevations.
Snow accumulation up to 2 inches. Snow level 1500 feet.
Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around
25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow
showers. Lows 22 to 37.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Moderate snow accumulations possible. Highs 30 to 45.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain showers, heavy snow showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Heavy snow accumulations possible. Lows
27 to 39.
.FRIDAY...Rain showers. Not as cool. Highs 37 to 52.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Rain showers and heavy snow showers
likely. Light snow accumulations possible. Lows 24 to 38. Highs
37 to 52.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Rain showers likely. Lows 30 to 42.
Highs 37 to 52.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SHASTA DAM 40 32 42 / 80 70 90
$$
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CAZ014-070845-
Burney Basin / Eastern Shasta County-
Including the city of Burney
1143 PM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST WEDNESDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of snow showers in the
morning, then a chance of snow showers early in the afternoon.
Heavy snow showers likely late in the afternoon. Highs 31 to 41.
Snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Prevailing south winds up to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Lows
15 to 23. Prevailing south winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Snow showers likely. Highs 29 to 39. Snow accumulation
up to 2 inches. Prevailing south winds up to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Snow showers. Lows 17 to 26. Snow accumulation
of 1 to 4 inches lower elevations...except 1 to 7 inches higher
elevations. Prevailing south winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow showers likely in the morning,
then a chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Highs 29 to 39.
Snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches. Prevailing southwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow
showers. Lows 16 to 22.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs 35 to 43.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Moderate snow
accumulations possible. Lows 27 to 34.
.FRIDAY...Rain showers. Highs 40 to 48.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Rain and snow showers likely. Light
snow accumulations possible. Lows 23 to 32. Highs 38 to 46.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow
showers. Lows 28 to 36.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs
40 to 48.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
BURNEY 38 20 36 / 80 70 90
$$
=
CAZ015-070845-
Northern Sacramento Valley-
Including the cities of Redding and Red Bluff
1143 PM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the morning.
A chance of rain showers through the day. Snow showers likely
early in the afternoon. Highs 39 to 49. Little or no snow
accumulation. Northeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the
southeast around 10 mph in the afternoon. Gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of rain
showers after midnight. Lows 30 to 38. Southeast winds up to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers in
the morning, then rain showers in the afternoon. Highs 43 to 51.
No snow accumulation. South winds up to 15 mph. Gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain showers. Lows 30 to 39. South winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow showers
in the morning, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers in the afternoon. Highs 47 to 53. South winds around
10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the morning.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows around 34.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain likely and a slight chance of
snow. Highs 44 to 51.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Breezy. Lows 38 to 43.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Rain showers. Highs 51 to 61. Lows
36 to 44.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers.
Lows 41 to 47.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain showers likely. Highs 53 to 61.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
REDDING 43 33 47 / 80 70 80
RED BLUFF 44 35 50 / 60 60 40
$$
=
CAZ016-070845-
Central Sacramento Valley-
Including the cities of Chico, Oroville, and Marysville/Yuba City
1143 PM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Snow showers likely early in the morning. Rain showers
likely until late afternoon, then a chance of rain showers and a
slight chance of thunderstorms late in the afternoon. Highs 48 to
54. Little or no snow accumulation. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of rain
showers after midnight. Lows 32 to 40. Southeast winds up to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly cloudy with a
chance of rain showers. Highs 49 to 55. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
evening, then rain showers after midnight. Lows 34 to 41. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
morning. Highs 49 to 55. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to
25 mph in the morning.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows around 34.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Areas of frost.
Highs 48 to 54.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain showers. Breezy. Lows 41 to 47.
.FRIDAY...Rain showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Windy. Not as cool. Highs 57 to 63.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Rain showers likely. Lows 40 to 50.
Highs 55 to 60.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain
showers. Lows 44 to 50. Highs 58 to 63.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
CHICO 49 38 51 / 80 70 40
OROVILLE 52 38 51 / 80 80 40
MARYSVILLE/YUBA CITY 52 37 53 / 70 60 20
$$
=
CAZ017-070845-
Southern Sacramento Valley-
Including the city of Sacramento
1143 PM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely in the morning, then
a chance of rain showers in the afternoon. A slight chance of
thunderstorms late in the afternoon. Highs 50 to 55. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers and a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows 34 to 40. South winds around
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy frost in the morning. A slight chance of rain
showers. Highs 49 to 55. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers in the evening, then mostly cloudy with rain showers
likely after midnight. Lows around 38. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs 50 to 56.
South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows around 34.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Areas of frost.
Highs 48 to 56.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Rain showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Windy. Lows 44 to 50. Highs 56 to 61.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Lows 45 to 51.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain showers likely. Highs 56 to
62.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain
showers. Lows around 50. Highs 59 to 66.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SACRAMENTO 55 39 54 / 70 60 10
SAC EXEC AIRPORT 53 37 55 / 70 50 10
$$
=
CAZ018-070845-
Carquinez Strait and Delta-
Including the city of Fairfield/Suisun
1143 PM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely in the morning, then
a chance of rain showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs 50 to 56. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of
rain showers after midnight. Lows around 37. Southwest winds
around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs 50 to 55. Southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows 36 to 42.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in the
morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs around 54.
Southwest winds around 10 mph with gusts to around 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows around 35.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Areas of frost.
Highs around 53.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Rain showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Breezy. Lows around 48. Highs 57 to 63.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Lows around 49.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain showers likely. Highs 57 to
63.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain
showers. Lows around 50. Highs 61 to 67.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
FAIRFIELD/SUISUN 53 35 55 / 70 40 10
$$
=
CAZ019-070845-
Northern San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Stockton and Modesto
1143 PM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers until
late afternoon, then a chance of rain showers late in the
afternoon. Highs 48 to 57. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of rain showers and a
slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows 33 to 39.
South winds around 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers in the
morning. Highs 48 to 56. Southeast winds around 10 mph shifting
to the west in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows 33 to
39. West winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southeast after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
morning. Highs 48 to 56. Southeast winds around 10 mph with gusts
to around 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows 32 to 38.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Areas of
frost. Highs 51 to 59.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Windy. Lows 46 to 52. Highs 56 to 63.
.SATURDAY...Rain showers likely and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Highs 57 to 64.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers and
a slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows 47 to 53.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs
61 to 68.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
STOCKTON 57 36 56 / 40 30 10
MODESTO 54 36 55 / 30 30 10
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CAZ063-070845-
Mountains Southwestern Shasta County to Western Colusa County-
Including the city of Alder Springs
1143 PM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST WEDNESDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers through the day.
A chance of rain showers in the afternoon. A slight chance of
thunderstorms late in the afternoon. Highs 33 to 48. Snow
accumulation up to 1 inch lower elevations...except 1 to 4 inches
higher elevations. Snow level 2000 feet in the afternoon.
Prevailing south winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers, rain showers
and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then a
chance of rain and snow showers after midnight. Lows 15 to
29 higher elevations...26 to 32 lower elevations. Little or no
snow accumulation lower elevations...up to 2 inches higher
elevations. Snow level 2000 feet. Prevailing southwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of snow showers in the
morning, then rain and snow showers in the afternoon. Highs 25 to
40 higher elevations...39 to 47 lower elevations. Little or no
snow accumulation lower elevations...2 to 4 inches higher
elevations. Snow level 2500 feet in the afternoon. Prevailing
southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Lows 15 to 30 higher
elevations...27 to 32 lower elevations. Snow accumulation up to
1 inch lower elevations...except 5 to 10 inches higher
elevations. Snow level 2000 feet. Prevailing southwest winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of snow showers
in the afternoon. Highs 27 to 42 higher elevations...42 to
48 lower elevations. No snow accumulation lower elevations...up
to 1 inch higher elevations. Prevailing west winds 5 to 15 mph
shifting to the south in the afternoon. Gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow
showers. Lows 19 to 34.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain likely and a slight chance of
snow. Moderate snow accumulations possible. Highs 30 to 45.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain showers, heavy snow and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Breezy. Moderate snow accumulations possible. Lows
28 to 43.
.FRIDAY...Rain showers. Not as cool. Highs 38 to 53.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Rain and snow showers likely. Light
snow accumulations possible. Lows 28 to 43. Highs 37 to 52.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with rain and snow showers
likely. Lows 32 to 47.
.SUNDAY...Rain and snow showers likely. Not as cool. Highs 40 to
55.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
ALDER SPRINGS 40 21 33 / 60 50 70
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CAZ066-070845-
Northeast Foothills/Sacramento Valley-
Including the city of Paradise
1143 PM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST WEDNESDAY...
.TODAY...Rain and snow showers until late afternoon, then a
chance of rain and snow showers late in the afternoon. Highs
36 to 44. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch lower elevations...
except 1 to 4 inches higher elevations. Snow level 2000 feet.
Prevailing south winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Snow showers with possible showers and thunderstorms
likely in the evening, then rain and snow showers likely after
midnight. Lows 27 to 39. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch lower
elevations...except 3 to 5 inches higher elevations. Snow level
2500 feet. Prevailing southeast winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Rain and snow showers. Highs 35 to 47. Snow
accumulation up to 2 inches. Snow level 2500 feet. Prevailing
south winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Breezy. Lows 28 to 38.
Snow accumulation up to 1 inch lower elevations...except 2 to
8 inches higher elevations. Snow level 2500 feet. Prevailing
south winds 10 to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow showers likely in the
morning, then a chance of rain and snow showers in the afternoon.
Highs 36 to 48. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch lower elevations...
except 1 to 4 inches higher elevations. Snow level 2000 feet.
Prevailing south winds up to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the
morning.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow
showers. Lows 27 to 37.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain likely and a slight chance of
snow. Highs 39 to 49.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Rain showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Windy. Lows 33 to 45. Highs 46 to 56.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Rain showers. Lows 35 to 50. Highs
45 to 56.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
PARADISE 40 35 41 / 90 90 70
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CAZ067-070845-
Motherlode-
Including the cities of Grass Valley and Jackson
1143 PM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST WEDNESDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers until
late afternoon, then rain showers, snow showers likely and a
slight chance of thunderstorms late in the afternoon. Highs 39 to
53. Little or no snow accumulation lower elevations...up to
2 inches higher elevations. Snow level 2000 feet in the morning.
Prevailing southeast winds up to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Rain showers, snow showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Lows 27 to 37. No snow accumulation lower
elevations...3 to 5 inches higher elevations. Snow level
2500 feet. Prevailing southeast winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow showers likely in the
morning, then a chance of rain and snow showers in the afternoon.
Highs 37 to 51. Little or no snow accumulation lower elevations...
up to 2 inches higher elevations. Snow level 2500 feet.
Prevailing south winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...A chance of rain and snow showers in the
evening, then rain and snow showers after midnight. Lows 28 to
36. No snow accumulation lower elevations...up to 2 inches higher
elevations. Snow level 2500 feet. Prevailing southeast winds up
to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Heavy rain and snow showers likely in
the morning, then a chance of rain and snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs 36 to 50. Snow accumulation up to 2 inches lower
elevations...except 2 to 7 inches higher elevations. Snow level
2000 feet. Prevailing south winds up to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Lows 25 to 33.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Not as cool.
Highs 44 to 56.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Breezy. Lows 36 to 48.
.FRIDAY...Rain showers and a chance of thunderstorms. Breezy.
Highs 48 to 58.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Lows 42 to 52.
.SATURDAY...Rain showers. Highs 46 to 58.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Lows 41 to 51.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Not as
cool. Highs 50 to 64.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
GRASS VALLEY 41 29 40 / 80 90 60
JACKSON 48 34 47 / 60 80 40
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CAZ068-070845-
Western Plumas County/Lassen Park-
Including the cities of Chester and Quincy
1143 PM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST WEDNESDAY...
.TODAY...A chance of snow showers in the morning, then heavy snow
showers in the afternoon. Highs 23 to 38 higher elevations...
29 to 43 lower elevations. Snow accumulation of 1 to 7 inches.
Prevailing south winds up to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Heavy snow showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then snow showers likely after
midnight. Lows 14 to 29. Snow accumulation of 3 to 8 inches.
Prevailing south winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Snow showers. Highs 23 to 38. Snow accumulation of
1 to 5 inches lower elevations...except 1 to 6 inches higher
elevations. Prevailing south winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Heavy snow showers. Breezy. Lows 14 to 29. Snow
accumulation of 8 to 13 inches. Prevailing south winds 10 to
25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Heavy snow showers in the morning,
then a chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Highs 23 to 38.
Snow accumulation of 3 to 9 inches. Prevailing southwest winds
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow
showers. Lows 13 to 28.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with snow likely. Not as cold. Light
snow accumulations possible. Highs 29 to 44.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Heavy rain and snow showers. Windy. Heavy snow
accumulations possible. Lows 22 to 37.
.FRIDAY...Rain showers, heavy snow showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Windy. Not as cool. Moderate snow accumulations
possible. Highs 34 to 49.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Rain and snow showers. Moderate
snow accumulations possible. Lows 26 to 41. Highs 33 to 48.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
QUINCY 43 24 38 / 80 90 70
CHESTER 37 13 34 / 80 80 70
$$
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CAZ069-070845-
West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada-
Including the city of Blue Canyon
1143 PM PST Mon Mar 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST WEDNESDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers until late
afternoon, then heavy snow showers late in the afternoon. Highs
18 to 33 higher elevations...31 to 43 lower elevations. Snow
accumulation of 1 to 4 inches. Prevailing south winds 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Heavy snow showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then heavy snow showers after
midnight. Lows 9 to 24 higher elevations...23 to 31 lower
elevations. Snow accumulation of 4 to 10 inches. Prevailing
southwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Heavy snow showers in the morning, then
a chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Highs 19 to 34 higher
elevations...31 to 41 lower elevations. Snow accumulation 2 to
4 inches lower elevations...except 3 to 6 inches higher
elevations. Prevailing southwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph...except southwest 10 to 30 mph over ridges.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers.
Lows 9 to 24 higher elevations...23 to 31 lower elevations.
Prevailing south winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Heavy snow showers in the morning,
then a chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Breezy. Highs
19 to 34 higher elevations...31 to 41 lower elevations. Snow
accumulation of 5 to 11 inches. Prevailing southwest winds 15 to
25 mph decreasing to 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Gusts up to
40 mph. Over ridges...prevailing southwest winds 20 to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of snow
showers. Lows 11 to 26.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Not as cool.
Highs 32 to 47.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Heavy rain showers and heavy snow showers.
Windy. Heavy snow accumulations possible. Lows 25 to 40.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Heavy rain showers, heavy snow showers
and a slight chance of thunderstorms. Windy. Heavy snow
accumulations possible. Highs 34 to 49. Lows 27 to 42.
.SATURDAY...Rain showers and heavy snow showers. Heavy snow
accumulations possible. Highs 33 to 48.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain showers with heavy snow showers likely.
Moderate snow accumulations possible. Lows 28 to 43.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow showers.
Highs 35 to 50.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
BLUE CANYON 26 25 30 / 90 100 80
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Copyright 2023 AccuWeather | 2023-03-07T09:18:57+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/ca-sacramento-ca-zone-forecast-17823948.php |
Motorcyclist fights to keep her leg after a wrong-way hit & run driver left her for dead
AUBURN, Wash. - A local woman is in the hospital, fighting to keep her leg, after a wrong way driver knocked her off her motorcycle and left her for dead.
Now, the Washington State Patrol is looking for the person responsible. The crash happened Saturday, June 24, on a ramp in Auburn near Highway 18 and C Street SW.
Jim Hawley, Monica's husband, says the doctors told his wife that there was a 50-50 chance she could lose her left leg. He says following the crash, the driver sped off and left her to die.
"It’s difficult knowing that I can’t do anything, but I can just be there for her. I know she hurts, she’s frustrated," said Jim.
Jim says Monica has been at the hospital since the crash, and there is no timetable for her to be able to leave. He said the near-tragedy happened after a beautiful day on the road with her motorcycle club, The Litas.
"A whole lot of riders from her Litas organization, had gotten together," said Jim. "We met in Bremerton Washington, and we did a really fun and long ride along the Hood Canal. And at the end of the ride, as groups were splitting off, a group of us was going to have dinner."
After a day of cruising near the Hood Canal, Jim said Monica was heading home to let the dogs out before meeting Jim and the group again for dinner. That's when she was hit by the wrong-way driver.
"Came all the way into her lane and pretty much T-boned her all on her left side," said Jim.
Jim said she was able to call their son, who was also riding with the group that day. He alerted his father, and Jim rushed to the scene.
"I saw a lot of blood and I could see she was in pain, ran to her side, held her hand," said Jim.
He said paramedics assessed her on scene and she was flown to Harborview Medical Center due to the seriousness of her injuries.
"She was missing about 4 inches of bone below her knee, pretty bad. There was concern that she would lose her leg," said Jim.
Monica has already had a couple surgeries, another is scheduled Friday.
"There’s probably more to come but, she’s very tough. She’s a fighter," he said.
Jim says she likely won't be able to walk her beloved dogs for quite some time or ride her motorcycle. He says right now she's confined to the hospital bed as doctors try to repair her damaged leg and ankle.
"What’s funny is that she’s probably the least angry out of anybody, but It’s just difficult. I just want to make sure she knows that she’s loved," said Jim.
Friends have set up fundraisers for Monica on Cheddar Up and GoFundMe. Jim says they want to raise reward money that will lead to an arrest.
"Until this person comes forward or someone turns them in, we have someone on the road, who doesn’t care, is willing to leave someone on the side of the road. Until they turn themselves in, or someone else does, this could be someone else’s loved one. It’s scary," said Jim.
Jim says Monica has described the vehicle that was involved as being an older model, two-toned tan or beige SUV or truck with a boxy front end and lots of chrome on the front. If you know who's responsible for the hit-and-run, contact the Washington State Patrol. | 2023-06-30T13:23:31+00:00 | fox13seattle.com | https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/motorcyclist-fighting-to-keep-leg-after-a-wrong-way-hit-run-driver-hit-her-left-her-for-dead |
How to Watch the Boston University vs. Holy Cross Game: Women's Basketball Streaming & TV Channel Info for the Patriot Tournament Championship
Published: Mar. 12, 2023 at 5:13 AM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Patriot conference champion will be crowned on Sunday when the No. 1 seed Boston University Terriers (24-7) and the No. 2 Holy Cross Crusaders (23-8) meet at 12:00 PM.
Hoping to catch this game live? Below, we lay out all the details you need to watch this matchup on fuboTV.
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Boston University Women's Basketball Game Live Stream & TV Channel Info
- When: Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 12:00 PM ET
- Where: Case Gym in Boston, Massachusetts
- TV: CBS Sports Network
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Boston University vs. Holy Cross Scoring Comparison
- The Crusaders' 61.6 points per game are just 4.2 more points than the 57.4 the Terriers give up.
- When it scores more than 57.4 points, Holy Cross is 17-4.
- Boston University's record is 17-2 when it gives up fewer than 61.6 points.
- The Terriers record 69.2 points per game, 14.7 more points than the 54.5 the Crusaders allow.
- When Boston University scores more than 54.5 points, it is 22-4.
- Holy Cross is 21-5 when allowing fewer than 69.2 points.
Boston University Schedule
Holy Cross Schedule
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-12T11:38:01+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/sports/betting/2023/03/12/boston-university-holy-cross/womens-college-basketball-live-stream-tv-patriot-tournament/ |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KSNW) — Multiple people are dead after an overnight shooting Sunday at 57th and Prospect in Kansas City.
The Kansas City Police Department was called to the scene around 4:30 Sunday morning. When KCPD arrived, they located three people dead in the area.
Two men and one woman died
The victims were found outside near an unnamed business that is known for operating after hours, KCPD Chief Stacey Graves said.
“If the business knew persons would be present, without security, selling alcohol, and thwarting our laws, that business should be closed,” Mayor Quinton Lucas tweeted.
Since then, officers have located at least five other victims that took themselves to the hospital with injuries. As of now, there are eight victims in total.
KCPD is still working to figure out what led to the shooting. They are currently collecting evidence and looking at cameras. There is no suspect information at this time.
KCPD have blocked off several streets in the area and expects them to be closed for several hours.
The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with any information is asked to call the TIPS Hotline 816-474-8477. All tips are anonymous. | 2023-06-25T16:06:16+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/three-dead-five-injured-after-shooting-in-kansas-city/ |
WHL
All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: x - clinched playoff berth; y - clinched division; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Friday's results
Prince Albert 4 Brandon 3
Moose Jaw 9 Regina 5
Red Deer 2 Swift Current 0
Lethbridge 6 Calgary 4
Medicine Hat 7 Edmonton 2
Prince George 7 Victoria 1
Kamloops 5 Kelowna 2
Tri-City 3 Spokane 1
Seattle 5 Portland 2
Vancouver 3 Everett 0
Saturday's results
Saskatoon 3 Brandon 2
Regina 7 Moose Jaw 3
Winnipeg 4 Prince Albert 1
Swift Current 3 Red Deer 1
Victoria 7 Prince George 6 (SO)
Seattle 4 Portland 2
Calgary 2 Medicine Hat 0
Lethbridge 6 Edmonton 1
Tri-City 8 Spokane 2
Everett 4 Vancouver 1
Kamloops 5 Kelowna 4 (OT)
Sunday's results
Regina 4 Saskatoon 2
Calgary 4 Medicine Hat 3
Winnipeg 6 Prince Albert 1
Tri-City 5 Vancouver 2
Spokane 3 Everett 2
Tuesday's games
Edmonton at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Portland, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Moose Jaw at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Friday's games
Regina at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Spokane at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Calgary at Edmonton, 2 p.m.
Prince Albert at Regina, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Lethbridge at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Everett at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Portland at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Vancouver at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. | 2023-03-21T02:59:16+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/hko-whl-standings-17850777.php |
On Nov. 4, about a month before Jeremias Cabral allegedly kidnapped a baby and mother, Fall River police say he seriously injured an officer after dragging him with his ATV.
Fall River police arrested Cabral on Dec. 5 after they allege he was positively identified as the driver of an ATV that attempted to flee a traffic stop and in the process dragged an officer several hundred feet, according to a press release from the department.
Officers that were sent to the intersection of Declar and Robeson Streets at 7:33 p.m. on Nov. 4 found the officer, a 17-year veteran of the department, suffering from serious injuries in the middle of the road.
- Read More: Fall River man Jeremias Cabral, accused of kidnapping baby, mother, arrested following Amber Alert
The officer was taken to Rhode Island Hospital where he was treated and released.
Cabral, of Fall River, is being charged with several offenses in connection with the incident, including assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury, assault and battery on a police officer causing serious bodily injury, negligent/reckless operation of snow/rec vehicle causing serious injury and various motor vehicle offenses including unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
The police initially arrested a 17-year-old in connection with the incident after a witness misidentified the teen as the ATV’s driver.
The police clarified Tuesday that the 17-year-old had been present at the time of the incident and operating a recreational vehicle, but not the one that injured the police officer.
The teen is still facing charges, including operating an uninsured motor vehicle, unlicensed operation or a motor vehicle, unregistered motor vehicle and public way violation snow/recreational vehicle.
Just four days before his arrest in connection with dragging an officer with an ATV, Cabral was arrested in connection with the abduction of 6-month-old baby Grayson Benson and his 23-year-old mother Hannah Benson.
The arrest came less than 40 minutes after police issued an Amber Alert for the mother and child.
According to police, Hannah Benson entered Cabral’s car out of concern for the baby before Cabral fled the scene of the abduction. It is unclear if Cabral is the father of the child, police said at the time, but officials did identify him as Hannah Benson’s ex-boyfriend.
At the time of the alleged abduction, Cabral was driving a dark-colored, black or dark blue, Mitsubishi Lancer sedan bearing Massachusetts license plate 2LPT35, according to officials.
A preliminary investigation suggests that Cabral forced his way into the victims’ apartment at 1143 Tucker Rd. in Dartmouth Thursday around 11:20 a.m. During an altercation, Cabral pulled out a knife and took the child before leaving the apartment and entering the Mitsubishi car, according to police.
Fearing for the child’s safety, Hannah Benson followed Cabral as the left with the baby and entered the car herself before Cabral drove away, police said.
MassLive Reporter Tom Matthews contributed to this story. | 2022-12-07T00:07:32+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/police-fire/2022/12/weeks-before-kidnapping-baby-mother-jeremias-cabral-dragged-fall-river-police-officer-with-atv-police-say.html |
DOJ: Warren Buffett’s mortgage company redlined in Philly
NEW YORK (AP) — A Pennsylvania mortgage company owned by billionaire businessman Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway discriminated against potential Black and Latino homebuyers in Philadelphia, New Jersey and Delaware, the Department of Justice said Wednesday, in what they are calling the second-largest redlining settlement in history.
Trident Mortgage Co., a division of Berkshire’s HomeServices of America, deliberately avoided writing mortgages in minority-majority neighborhoods in West Philadelphia like Malcolm X Park; Camden, New Jersey; and in Wilmington, Delaware; the DOJ and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in their settlement with Trident. As part of the agreement with the DOJ and the CFPB, Trident will have to set aside $20 million to make loans in underserved neighborhoods.
The DOJ alleged that employees of Trident, which stopped writing mortgages in 2020, made racist comments about making loans to Black homebuyers, calling certain neighborhoods “ghettos” and one manager of Trident was photographed posing in front of the Confederate Flag.
“Trident’s unlawful redlining activity denied communities of color equal access to residential mortgages, stripped them of the opportunity to build wealth, and devalued properties in their neighborhoods,” said Kristen Clarke, an assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, in a prepared statement.
Trident also agreed to hire mortgage loan officers in impacted neighborhoods as well as pay a monetary fine of $4 million. Since Trident no longer operates, a separate company will be contracted to provide the $20 million in loan subsidies, the DOJ said.
HomeServices of America didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-27T15:57:09+00:00 | fox5vegas.com | https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/07/27/doj-warren-buffetts-mortgage-company-redlined-philly/ |
Texas historical marker recognizes greater St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - The Lubbock County Historical Commission will unveil a Texas Historical Marker on Sunday, December 11, 2022, at 12:30 p.m. recognizing the Greater St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church.
The church, beginning its second century of service, is located at 306 East 26th Street. The Texas Historical Commission (THC) has designated Greater St. Luke’s as a significant part of Lubbock and Texas history by awarding it an Official Texas Historical Marker. The Lubbock County Historical Commission welcomes the public to share in and witness this historical event.
From its beginnings in 1921, Greater St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church has been a spiritual and social center in Lubbock. Organized by Rev. Wiley and originally known as Caldonia Baptist Church, the congregation first met in the neighborhood’s Masonic Lodge at 16th Street and Avenue A. Worshippers purchased a lot at 1802 Avenue A in 1924 and met in a wooden shelter before building a frame structure. In 1950 new property on 26th Street was purchased and a brick sanctuary was dedicated in 1957.
Greater St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church, one of the earliest African-American churches in Lubbock, celebrated its centennial in the Fall of 2021. It remains an active and vibrant congregation, maintaining their historic church for future generations.
Copyright 2022 KCBD. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-05T23:42:00+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/2022/12/05/texas-historical-marker-recognizes-greater-st-luke-missionary-baptist-church/ |
(NEXSTAR) – If you’ve used Snapchat or your camera app recently, you may have noticed a green dot appear at the top of your iPhone. Or maybe it was an orange dot when you were on a FaceTime call or while recording a Voice Memo. But what do they mean?
If you’re confused by the dots, you aren’t alone.
Apple introduced the orange and green indicators when it rolled out iOS 14 in 2020. That means that, as long as your iPhone is up-to-date (we’re on iOS 16 now) or if you recently purchased a new iPhone, you have these indicators.
According to Apple, both dots serve as a security feature. You’ll find them in the top right corner of your screen, above the service, Wi-Fi/LTE, and battery indicators.
The green dot indicates when an app on your iPhone is using either the camera or the camera and the microphone, Apple explains. The orange dot means an app on your iPhone was using just the microphone.
You’ll also be prompted to give an app permission to use your iPhone’s camera or microphone the first time you use the app, Apple notes.
If you notice an orange or green dot but aren’t sure which app is using your microphone or camera, you can check in the Command Center.
To do this, swipe down from the upper right corner. Once there, you’ll see a notification at the top of your screen, like the one seen below. If you tap on that notification, you can see the app that was using the microphone or camera, and if it was collecting any other data (like your location).
Not a fan of the orange dot? You can change it to appear as a square by going to Settings, then Accessibility, then Display & Text Size. Once there, you can toggle Differentiate Without Color on. This feature only applies to the orange dot.
Neither dot will appear on your Apple Watch. You may, however, notice an orange microphone icon appear in the upper right-hand corner if your Watch is listening to your voice – this may happen when you’re talking to Siri, for example.
Because the orange and green dots are part of Apple’s privacy settings, you can’t turn either off.
Nexstar’s Scott Gustin contributed to this report. | 2023-03-03T18:50:41+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/what-do-the-orange-green-dots-on-my-iphone-mean/ |
As-Near-As-It-Gets to the Pagani Huayra R Real Driving Experience on Sim Rig
AALBORG, Denmark, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Asetek, sim racing gear innovator, along with world-renowned hypercar Atelier Pagani Automobili announced the Asetek SimSports™' Pagani Huayra R Sim Racing Pedals. Now the most passionate sim racers and car enthusiasts can virtually experience the rush of driving a real Pagani, the world's most exclusive hypercar brand, with the Pagani-branded sim racing pedal set from Asetek SimSports™.
"We are thrilled with the extreme quality, design and premium performance of these Pagani-branded sim racing pedals from Asetek," said Horacio Pagani, Founder & Chief Designer of Pagani Automobili S.p.A. "Their design combined with groundbreaking performance truly matches our overall approach and is something that represents well the Pagani Huayra R. Through our partnership with Asetek, we are pleased to bring sim racers and car enthusiasts around the world a glimpse of the emotion and the excitement of driving one of our hypercars."
The limited edition Pagani-branded sim racing pedal set includes pedal plates and pedal arms based on the exact design as used in the Atelier's latest release, the Pagani Huayra R track car, just with a very few tweaks to fit it for sim racing use. The provided elastomer is designed to give racers the feel of an actual Huayra R track car brake pedal.
Pagani Huayra R Sim Racing Pedal Set Features:
- Pedal arms and footplates based on the real-life Pagani Huayra R track car
- Unique Twin Hydraulic Opposing Rapid Piston (T.H.O.R.P.™) brake system which provides a rock hard brake pedal to mimic the feel of the Pagani Huayra R, including 2-stage racecar braking with minimum pedal travel
- Pagani tailored RaceHub™ software that enables quick and easy customization of the pedal settings. This includes calibration of the dead zones, throttle curves, and updating firmware simply and efficiently as well as support for future Asetek SimSports™ products
- Tried and tested for hundreds of hours by real-world Formula and GT drivers and sim racing pros. Lifetime tested in automated mechanical rigs for a million activations
- Customizable and configurable ARGB lighting that can be controlled with RaceHub™ software or turned off
- Asetek SimSports™ products are designed and assembled in Denmark
The Asetek SimSports™' Pagani Huayra R Sim Racing Pedal Set is currently being sold by Asetek for €1,680.00 excluding VAT ($1,999.000 excluding sales tax when available for sale in the U.S.), with shipping expected at time of this announcement. To learn more or purchase click here: https://www.asetek.com/simsports/product/pagani-huayra-r-sim-racing-pedals/
Pagani Automobili will also promote and sell the Pagani-branded sim racing products through its own channels, expanding accessibility to Pagani devotees.
"The Pagani Huayra R represents the epitome of premium hypercar track cars, accessible to only a very few. It has been exhilarating to work with Pagani to bring to market the pinnacle of sim racing products based on real Pagani technology," said André Sloth Eriksen, CEO and founder of Asetek. "We are pleased to now offer sim racers the thrill of driving a real-life Pagani track car with our Pagani Huayra R pedal set."
To learn more about Pagani Automobili, visit www.pagani.com/. To learn more about Asetek SimSports™, visit https://aseteksimsports.com.
About Pagani Automobili S.p.A.
Pagani Automobili S.p.A. is an Italian Hypercar manufacturer. The company was founded in 1998 by Horacio Pagani and is based in San Cesario sul Panaro, Modena, Italy. The philosophy driving the company embraces a concept borrowed from the Renaissance and embodied by the great Leonardo da Vinci who, over 500 years ago, once stated: "Art and Science are disciplines that must walk together hand in hand." Pagani Automobili creates in accordance with this inspirational creed, combining technique and taste, functionality and aesthetics, handcraft work and technological know-how.
About Asetek
Asetek (ASTK.OL), a global leader in mechatronic innovation, is a Danish garage-to-stock-exchange success story. Founded in 2000, Asetek established its innovative position as the leading OEM developer and producer of the all-in-one liquid cooler for all major PC & Enthusiast gaming brands. In 2013, Asetek went public while expanding into energy-efficient and environmentally friendly cooling solutions for data centers. In 2021, Asetek introduced its line of products for next-level immersive SimSports gaming experiences. Asetek is headquartered in Denmark and has operations in China, Taiwan, and the United States.
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- If approved, epcoritamab (TEPKINLY®) will become the first and only subcutaneous bispecific antibody conditionally approved as a monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) DLBCL after two or more lines of systemic therapy
- The positive CHMP opinion is supported by results from the EPCORE™ NHL-1 Phase 1/2 trial evaluating the preliminary efficacy and safety of epcoritamab in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), including DLBCL
- DLBCL is an aggressive subtype of NHL and accounts for approximately 30 percent of all global cases
NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., July 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) today announced the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion recommending the granting of conditional marketing authorization for epcoritamab (TEPKINLY®) as a monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) after two or more lines of systemic therapy. The final European Commission decision on this indication for epcoritamab is anticipated later this year.
"As leaders in transforming standards of care, we strive to develop innovative medicines that can make an impact on patients facing aggressive blood cancers like DLBCL," said Mariana Cota Stirner, M.D., Ph.D., vice president, therapeutic area head for hematology, AbbVie. "We are pleased with the recent CHMP positive opinion for epcoritamab, as it represents an important step in our journey to develop a potential core therapy for people living with B-cell malignancies, such as DLBCL."
AbbVie's application for the approval of epcoritamab is supported by results from the pivotal EPCORE™ NHL-1 Phase 1/2 open-label, multi-center trial evaluating the preliminary efficacy and safety of epcoritamab in patients with relapsed, progressive or refractory CD20+ mature B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), including DLBCL. The primary endpoint of the study was overall response rate, as assessed by an independent review committee (63.1 percent).1 The most common treatment-emergent adverse event was cytokine release syndrome.1 Updated results were recently presented at multiple medical congresses.
"DLBCL is an aggressive and often treatment-resistant disease with limited therapeutic options for patients whose disease is refractory or who have experienced relapse after multiple lines of therapy," said Catherine Thieblemont, M.D., Ph.D., head of the hemato-oncology department, Paris University, Hôpital Saint-Louis Assistance-Publique-Hopitaux de Paris (APHP) in Paris. "Subcutaneous epcoritamab could become a promising treatment option for the DLBCL community, and I look forward to the European Commission's final decision."
DLBCL is an aggressive type of cancer that develops in the lymphatic system.2 It is the most common type of B-cell NHL worldwide and accounts for approximately 30 percent of all global cases.2 Because NHL affects B-cell lymphocytes, the disease and its subtypes, including DLBCL, are classified as B-cell malignancies.2
Epcoritamab is being co-developed by AbbVie and Genmab as part of the companies' oncology collaboration. The companies will share commercial responsibilities in the U.S. and Japan, with AbbVie responsible for further global commercialization.
About the EPCORE™ NHL-1 Trial
EPCORE™ NHL-1 is an open-label, multi-center safety and preliminary efficacy trial of epcoritamab that includes a Phase 1 first-in-human, dose escalation part; a Phase 2a expansion part; and a dose optimization part. The trial was designed to evaluate subcutaneous epcoritamab in patients with relapsed, progressive or refractory CD20+ mature B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), including large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL) and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).3 Data from the dose escalation part of the study, which determined the recommended Phase 2 dose, were published in September 2021.4 In the Phase 2 expansion part, additional patients were treated with epcoritamab to further explore the safety and efficacy of epcoritamab in three cohorts of patients with different types of relapsed or refractory (R/R) B-cell NHLs who had limited therapeutic options.3
The primary endpoint of the Phase 2 expansion part was overall response rate as assessed by an independent review committee. Secondary efficacy endpoints included duration of response, complete response rate, progression-free survival, overall survival, time to response, time to next therapy, and rate of minimal residual disease negativity. The most common treatment-emergent adverse events were cytokine release syndrome (49.7 percent; grade 1 or 2: 47.1 percent; grade 3: 2.5 percent), pyrexia (23.6 percent) and fatigue (22.9 percent). Results from the Phase 2 expansion part of the study were published in December 2022.1 More information can be found on www.clinicaltrials.gov.
About Epcoritamab
Epcoritamab is an investigational IgG1-bispecific antibody created using Genmab's proprietary DuoBody® technology. Genmab's DuoBody®-CD3 technology is designed to direct cytotoxic T-cells selectively to elicit an immune response toward target cell types. Epcoritamab is designed to simultaneously bind to CD3 on T-cells and CD20 on B-cells and induces T-cell mediated killing of CD20+ cells.5 CD20 is expressed on B-cells and is a clinically validated therapeutic target in many B-cell malignancies, including DLBCL, follicular lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.6,7
The safety and efficacy of epcoritamab remain under evaluation in the European Union (EU). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved epcoritamab-bysp (EPKINLY™) in the United States, and it is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with R/R DLBCL, not otherwise specified (NOS), including DLBCL arising from indolent lymphoma, and high-grade B-cell lymphoma (HGBL), after two or more lines of systemic therapy. Epcoritamab-bysp is approved under the FDA's Accelerated Approval program based on response rate and durability of response. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in confirmatory trials.
Epcoritamab is not approved in the EU. If approved, epcoritamab will be marketed under the brand name TEPKINLY® in all EU member states plus Liechtenstein, Norway, and Iceland. AbbVie will continue to pursue regulatory submissions for epcoritamab across international markets throughout the year.
EPKINLY™ (epcoritamab-bysp) U.S. IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Important Warnings—EPKINLY can cause serious side effects, including:
- Cytokine Release Syndrome (CRS). CRS is common during treatment with EPKINLY and can be serious or life-threatening. Tell your healthcare provider or get medical help right away if you develop symptoms of CRS, including fever of 100.4°F (38°C) or higher, dizziness or lightheadedness, trouble breathing, chills, fast heartbeat, feeling anxious, headache, confusion, shaking (tremors), or problems with balance and movement, such as trouble walking.
Due to the risk of CRS, you will receive EPKINLY on a "step-up" dosing schedule. The step-up dosing schedule is when you receive smaller "step-up" doses of EPKINLY on day 1 and day 8 of your first cycle of treatment (cycle 1). You will receive your first full dose of EPKINLY on day 15 of cycle 1. If your dose of EPKINLY is delayed for any reason, you may need to repeat the step-up dosing schedule. Before each dose in cycle 1, you will receive medicines to help reduce your risk of CRS. Your healthcare provider will decide if you need to receive medicine to help reduce your risk of CRS with future cycles. - Neurologic problems. EPKINLY can cause serious neurologic problems that can be life-threatening and lead to death. Neurologic problems may happen days or weeks after you receive EPKINLY. Your healthcare provider may refer you to a healthcare provider who specializes in neurologic problems. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you develop any symptoms of neurologic problems, including trouble speaking or writing, confusion and disorientation, drowsiness, tiredness or lack of energy, muscle weakness, shaking (tremors), seizures, or memory loss.
Due to the risk of CRS and neurologic problems, you should be hospitalized for 24 hours after receiving your first full dose of EPKINLY on day 15 of cycle 1. Your healthcare provider will monitor you for symptoms of CRS and neurologic problems during treatment with EPKINLY, as well as other side effects, and treat you if needed. Your healthcare provider may temporarily stop or completely stop your treatment with EPKINLY if you develop CRS, neurologic problems, or any other side effects that are severe.
Do not drive or use heavy or potentially dangerous machinery if you develop dizziness, confusion, tremors, drowsiness, or any other symptoms that impair consciousness until your symptoms go away. These may be symptoms of CRS or neurologic problems.
EPKINLY can also cause other serious side effects, including:
- Infections. EPKINLY can cause serious infections that may lead to death. Your healthcare provider will check you for symptoms of infection before and during treatment. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you develop any symptoms of infection during treatment, including fever of 100.4°F (38°C) or higher, cough, chest pain, tiredness, shortness of breath, painful rash, sore throat, pain during urination, or feeling weak or generally unwell.
- Low blood cell counts. Low blood cell counts are common during treatment with EPKINLY and can be serious or severe. Your healthcare provider will check your blood cell counts during treatment. EPKINLY may cause low blood cell counts, including low white blood cell counts (neutropenia), which can increase your risk for infection; low red blood cell counts (anemia), which can cause tiredness and shortness of breath; and low platelet counts (thrombocytopenia), which can cause bruising or bleeding problems.
Your healthcare provider may temporarily stop or completely stop treatment with EPKINLY if you develop certain side effects.
Before you receive EPKINLY, tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you:
- have an infection.
- are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. EPKINLY may harm your unborn baby. Females who are able to become pregnant: Your healthcare provider should do a pregnancy test before you start treatment with EPKINLY. You should use effective birth control (contraception) during treatment and for 4 months after your last dose of EPKINLY. Tell your healthcare provider if you become pregnant or think that you may be pregnant during treatment with EPKINLY.
- are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known if EPKINLY passes into your breast milk. Do not breastfeed during treatment with EPKINLY and for 4 months after your last dose of EPKINLY.
Tell your healthcare provider about all of the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
The most common side effects of EPKINLY include CRS, tiredness, muscle and bone pain, injection site reactions, fever, stomach-area (abdominal) pain, nausea, and diarrhea.
These are not all the possible side effects of EPKINLY. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects.
You are encouraged to report side effects to the FDA at (800) FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch or to Genmab US, Inc. at 1-855-4GENMAB (1-855-443-6622).
Please see the Full Prescribing Information and Medication Guide, including Important Warnings.
About AbbVie in Oncology
At AbbVie, we are committed to transforming standards of care for multiple blood cancers while advancing a dynamic pipeline of investigational therapies across a range of cancer types. Our dedicated and experienced team joins forces with innovative partners to accelerate the delivery of potential breakthrough medicines. We are evaluating more than 20 investigational medicines in over 300 clinical trials across some of the world's most widespread and debilitating cancers. As we work to have a remarkable impact on people's lives, we are committed to exploring solutions to help patients obtain access to our cancer medicines. For more information, please visit http://www.abbvie.com/oncology.
About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
AbbVie Forward-Looking Statements
Some statements in this news release are, or may be considered, forward-looking statements for purposes of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "project" and similar expressions and uses of future or conditional verbs, generally identify forward-looking statements. AbbVie cautions that these forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, challenges to intellectual property, competition from other products, difficulties inherent in the research and development process, adverse litigation or government action, and changes to laws and regulations applicable to our industry. Additional information about the economic, competitive, governmental, technological and other factors that may affect AbbVie's operations is set forth in Item 1A, "Risk Factors," of AbbVie's 2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as updated by its subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. AbbVie undertakes no obligation, and specifically declines, to release publicly any revisions to forward-looking statements as a result of subsequent events or developments, except as required by law.
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5 Engelberts et al. "DuoBody-CD3xCD20 induces potent T-cell-mediated killing of malignant B cells in preclinical models and provides opportunities for subcutaneous dosing." EBioMedicine. 2020;52:102625. DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.102625.
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7 Singh, Gupta, Almasan. "Development of Novel Anti-Cd20 Monoclonal Antibodies and Modulation in Cd20 Levels on Cell Surface: Looking to Improve Immunotherapy Response." J Cancer Sci Ther. 2015;7(11):347-358. DOI: 10.4172/1948-5956.1000373.
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ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- REGENXBIO Inc. (Nasdaq: RGNX) today announced that it will present at the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, January 10, 2023.
41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Fireside chat: 11:15 a.m. PT
Location: Westin St. Francis, San Francisco, CA
A live webcast of the fireside chat can be accessed in the Investors section of REGENXBIO's website at www.regenxbio.com. An archived replay of the webcast will be available in the Investors section of REGENXBIO's website for approximately 30 days following the presentation.
About REGENXBIO Inc.
REGENXBIO is a leading clinical-stage biotechnology company seeking to improve lives through the curative potential of gene therapy. REGENXBIO's NAV Technology Platform, a proprietary adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene delivery platform, consists of exclusive rights to more than 100 novel AAV vectors, including AAV7, AAV8, AAV9 and AAVrh10. REGENXBIO and its third-party NAV Technology Platform Licensees are applying the NAV Technology Platform in the development of a broad pipeline of candidates, including late-stage and commercial programs, in multiple therapeutic areas. REGENXBIO is committed to a "5x'25" strategy to progress five AAV Therapeutics from our internal pipeline and licensed programs into pivotal-stage or commercial products by 2025.
Contacts:
Dana Cormack
Corporate Communications
dcormack@regenxbio.com
Investors:
Chris Brinzey, ICR Westwicke
339-970-2843
chris.brinzey@westwicke.com
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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the American Depository Shares ("ADSs") of Argo Blockchain plc (NASDAQ: ARBK): (i) pursuant and/or traceable to the Offering Documents issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about September 23, 2021 (the "IPO" or "Offering"); and/or (ii) securities between September 23, 2021 and October 10, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important March 27, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Argo securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Argo class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=11508 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than March 27, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, the Offering Documents and defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Argo was highly susceptible to and/or suffered from significant capital constraints, electricity and other costs, and network difficulties; (2) the foregoing issues hampered, inter alia, Argo's ability to mine BTC, execute its business strategy, meet its obligations, and operate its Helios facility; (3) as a result, Argo's business was less sustainable than Defendants had led investors to believe; (4) accordingly, Argo's business and financial prospects were overstated; and (5) as a result, the Offering Documents and Defendants' public statements throughout the Class Period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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Which tablet accessories for toddlers are best?
Tablets can be useful tools for education and entertainment. They are a versatile tool that many parents rely on to get through long afternoons. While it can be a task to find the best tablets, it can be even more challenging to find great accessories suitable for toddlers. However, whether you are looking for educational tools or protection for the tablet, there are many options to choose from.
Best tablet accessories for toddlers
Top for teaching handwriting
Ciscle Youth Series Kids Stylus Pen
Many parents relish the use of tablets because they can be used for educational entertainment. Apps designed to teach kids how to write and read are important in a parent’s toolbox. Traditional stylus pens can be difficult for small hands to hold, but this stylus is a great alternative. It is designed like a chunky crayon and comes with a round and replaceable plastic tip to prevent damage to the tablet screen, even with extended use.
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Top headphones
Sesame Street Kids Headphones by CozyPhones
CozyPhones introduces a set of headband headphones that comfortably slide over a toddler’s ears in fun Sesame Street designs. As a bonus, these headphones are also washable so they can last for the long haul. These headphones also have a volume limit so you can protect your toddler’s hearing.
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Top wireless headphones
If you are tired of dealing with tangled cords, you may want to consider getting some Bluetooth headphones. This pair from iClever even has a built-in microphone so your child can interact with their tablet or answer calls. You can also protect the toddler’s ears with a 94-decibel volume limit. The durable headband can be twisted, turned and even completely bent without breaking.
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Tablets can be particularly useful for toddlers on a road trip. With this travel tray, they can keep all of their toys and entertainment items organized in one place. It features a stand for a tablet, a dry erase surface for arts and crafts and several pockets on the side for art supplies or snacks. The tablet stand holds technology in place, so parents don’t have to fret about the tablet falling to the floor during a sharp turn. It is also designed with rigid materials that can stand up to any toddler.
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Top over-the-seat travel organizer
Reserwa Car Backseat Organizer
If a travel tray doesn’t suit your little one, then you may want to consider a backseat organizer. This option from Reserwa attaches to the headrest of the front seats. It comes with a tablet holder, allowing your toddler to play games while the tablet rests. The organizer also has eight additional pockets for storing snacks, favorite toys and art supplies.
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Top case for protection
The OtterBox Trusty Case is specifically designed for kids with its heavy-duty construction. This case even contains a silver-based additive that helps prevent microbial growth. While it may not protect from everything, it is a great feature to have when kids are prone to developing illnesses. This case is only compatible with the iPad Mini 5th generation.
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Top tablet pillow
Whether your toddler wants to watch their favorite programs on the couch or while lounging in bed, this pillow is the perfect accessory. The Gogo pillow securely holds tablets in place with a durable polyester pillow. It also comes with a neck pillow and a separate travel pillow your child can use. The pillow also offers some protection from accidents with built-in cushioning. It is available in five different colors for your toddler to customize their experience.
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Top blue light glasses
Okany Blue Light Glasses for Kids
Blue light can be detrimental to young eyes, particularly when viewed before bedtime. It can interfere with circadian rhythms, making it more difficult for your toddler to fall asleep. Protect their eyes with these Okany Blue Light Glasses, which are available in a three-pack. These glasses are designed to be lightweight so that your child feels like they aren’t even wearing them, and there is no color distortion from the lenses. They are also flexible and durable with shock-resistant properties.
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Top headrest mount holder
iKross Tablet Mount Holder Universal Backseat Headrest
If your child has an iPad Pro 10.5, an iPad Air, iPad Mini or a Samsung Galaxy Tab, you will want to invest in this headrest mount holder from iKross. This is great if you have many children in the backseat who want to watch a show while you travel. It allows for 360 degrees of rotation so everyone can comfortably view the show. The only downside to this sturdy headrest mount is that it can take some time to install and uninstall it in your vehicle.
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Top tablet carrying case
MoKo 8-10.1 Inch Kids Tablet Sleeve Case
Taking their tablet out on the town is important, but you need to ensure your toddler is protecting their device. The MoKo 8-10.1 Inch Kids Tablet Sleeve Case offers the protection you need for their Fire tablet. It comes in four colors so your child is sure to get their favorite design. This case is made of high-quality neoprene material and is spill-proof for messy toddlers. Store important cords, cables and stylus pens in the outside pocket.
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Top screen protector
Supershieldz Designed for Fire HD 10 Tablet
Protect your investment in a new tablet with a screen protector to minimize the effects of wear and tear. The high-definition transparency film ensures that your toddler will be able to watch all of their favorite shows without interruptions due to resolution. It is made from quality Japanese PET film, so there will be no residue left behind when the screen protector is removed. Supershieldz has touch sensitivity, as well, which can ensure that your toddler gets perfect accuracy when touching the screen.
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Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis says he’d consider naming Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Junior to lead one of the nation’s health agencies.
DeSantis said in an interview Wednesday that if he’s elected he could turn Kennedy loose on the FDA, saying if he’d be willing to serve “sic him” on the FDA or the CDC.
The Florida governor indicated that he generally aligns with Kennedy’s skeptical views on COVID-19 policies and vaccines. DeSantis said those views could make Kennedy his choice to lead a federal agency with medical jurisdiction. | 2023-07-27T22:54:43+00:00 | kurv.com | https://www.kurv.com/desantis-suggests-could-pick-rfk-jr-to-head-fda-cdc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=desantis-suggests-could-pick-rfk-jr-to-head-fda-cdc |
The Dallas Mavericks need to get their situation fixed in a hurry, and the second opportunity in three days against the Charlotte Hornets comes Sunday afternoon at Charlotte, N.C.
The Mavericks (36-38) are coming off back-to-back home losses, including a major missed opportunity Friday against the lowly Hornets.
“Just understanding the talk before the game on what we’re playing for, the interest level wasn’t high,” Dallas coach Jason Kidd said. “It was awful. We can’t come out like that, especially this time of the year.”
Charlotte (24-51) won 117-109 on Friday night at Dallas despite playing without guards Terry Rozier (foot) and Kelly Oubre Jr. (shoulder strain).
Yet for the Hornets, it wasn’t a surprising result.
“These guys are good,” Charlotte coach Steve Clifford said of NBA players in general. “So even when it doesn’t appear like you have a great chance, guys play well.”
The Mavericks’ lack of a sense of urgency was evident in a 69-55 deficit to the Hornets at halftime. Dallas was 3 of 16 (18.8 percent) from 3-point range in the opening half.
The Mavericks are now outside of the play-in tournament field in 11th place in the Western Conference at the start of NBA play Saturday.
“We’ve got eight games left,” Kidd said. “We’re still in control of this. But our effort has to be a little bit better from the start.”
Home fans booed the Mavericks on Friday and Kidd didn’t object to the displeasure.
“They have a right,” Kidd said. “They pay to see a better showing. It wasn’t there.”
Dallas guard Kyrie Irving, who missed a game earlier in the week with a sore foot, scored 18 points Friday. Irving had 28 and 33 points in games earlier this season against Charlotte when he was playing for the Brooklyn Nets, before a trade to the Mavericks.
The Hornets received a combined 53 points from P.J. Washington and Gordon Hayward on Friday. They helped set the tone while the team used a makeshift roster.
“Those two guys are professional. They want to win,” Clifford said. “The fact that they were so ready that’s more a tribute to them.”
Hornets guard Dennis Smith Jr. provided key contributions against his former team with 13 points and nine assists.
“We made (lots) of 3s early, which allowed us to play from ahead,” Clifford said of his team, which went 6 of 10 from deep in the first quarter.
While the margin tightened to 97-96 with 8:30 remaining, the Hornets ended up pulling away thanks to a 10-0 run that was capped by a Smith 3-pointer with 5:56 remaining.
“We made a lot of plays at both ends of the floor when they made their run in the fourth quarter,” Clifford said. “So it’s definitely a good win and something we can grow from, hopefully.”
It was just another opportunity for the Hornets to assess their player development, with yet another Sunday.
“I think they all are,” Clifford said. “These last six, seven games, we’ve played, except for one game, it has been really meaningful for the opponent. So it has been good and it’s a good chance for guys to grow.”
The Hornets realize, though, they have the Mavericks’ attention now.
“I’d like to play Sunday, but I’d rather have a different opponent,” Clifford said.
–Field Level Media | 2023-03-25T19:45:31+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/nba-basketball/fading-mavericks-get-another-chance-vs-hornets/ |
The 2023 PGA Championship Odds & Preview: Sepp Straka
The PGA Championship is in progress, and following the second round Sepp Straka is in 10th place at E.
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Sepp Straka Insights
- Over his last 16 rounds, Straka has finished better than par five times, while also carding seven rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has carded one of the 10 best scores of the day in one of his last 16 rounds.
- Straka has posted a score within three shots of the day's best in one of his last 16 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day six times.
- In his past five events, Straka has had an average finish of 44th.
- He has qualified for the weekend in three of his past five appearances.
- Straka has finished with a score better than the tournament average in one of his past five tournaments.
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PGA Championship Insights and Stats
- Straka has an average finishing position of 72nd in his past two appearances at this event.
- Straka made the cut in each of his last two attempts at this event.
- Straka finished 78th on the leaderboard in his previous appearance at this event, in 2022.
- Oak Hill Country Club measures 7,394 yards for this tournament, 94 more than the average course on the PGA Tour inthe past year (7,300).
- The average course on the PGA Tour in the past year has played to 69.75 strokes per round and a score of -5. At Oak Hill Country Club, the scoring average is higher at +3 per tournament.
- The average course Straka has played i the last year (7,310 yards) is 84 yards shorter than the course he'll be playing this week (7,394).
- In the past year, the events he has played have had a scoring average of -4 among finishers, lower than the +3 average at this course.
Straka's Last Time Out
- Straka was rather mediocre over the eight par-3 holes at the Wells Fargo Championship, averaging par to finish in the 55th percentile of the field.
- His 4.36-stroke average on the 22 par-4 holes at the Wells Fargo Championship was below average, putting him in the third percentile of the field.
- Straka was better than 85% of the field at the Wells Fargo Championship on par-5 holes, averaging 4.33 strokes per hole, compared to the field average of 4.57.
- Straka shot worse on par 3s than the field his last time out, carding a birdie or better on one of eight par-3s at the Wells Fargo Championship (the other competitors averaged 1.5).
- On the eight par-3s at the Wells Fargo Championship, Straka recorded less bogeys or worse (one) than the field average (2.2).
- Straka's two birdies or better on par-4s at the Wells Fargo Championship were less than the tournament average of 5.0.
- At that last tournament, Straka's par-4 showing (on 22 holes) included a bogey or worse nine times (worse than the field average, 6.9).
- Straka ended the Wells Fargo Championship carding a birdie or better on four par-5 holes, equal to the field average on the six par-5s.
- The field at the Wells Fargo Championship averaged 0.7 bogeys or worse on the six par-5s, but Straka finished without one.
PGA Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: May 18-21, 2023
- Course: Oak Hill Country Club
- Location: Rochester, New York
- Par: 70 / 7,394 yards
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CHICAGO (AP) — Doug Knight’s family has owned Springfield amusement park Knight’s Action Park since 1930, himself for 43 of those years.
The pandemic was a bear — Knight fought to keep his doors open, and when they closed for COVID-19, he pushed to reopen as soon as possible. Inflation, too, has been an obstacle. From inflatable inner tubes to chlorine for the pools, prices have risen for “everything we buy,” and now a new Illinois law represents “another bump on the road” for business owners, he says.
On Monday, Illinois became one of three U.S. states to mandate paid time off “for any reason,” up to 40 hours per year for full-time employees. Small business owners in Illinois say they know the importance of taking care of their workers, but some view the paid leave requirement as a government-imposed burden.
“When you hit the big bump and go off the cliff, what does that do for ya?” Knight said.
The legislation takes effect on Jan. 1, 2024. Employees will accrue one hour of paid leave for every 40 hours worked up to 40 hours total, and can start using the time once they’ve worked for 90 days.
Knight and his brother, a co-owner, mainly employ seasonal employees not covered by the measure, but they will have to provide paid leave for 10 year-round workers. The veteran business owner said he isn’t worried and will juggle whatever comes next, though consumers will ultimately pay the difference.
But proponents argue the policy supports both business owners and workers, and that guaranteeing paid leave will foster a healthier, more productive workforce.
“When folks have the kind of paid time off they need, they’re able to stay home when they’re sick,” said Molly Weston Williamson, who tracks paid leave policy at the research and advocacy group Center for American Progress.
For business owners concerned that the law will cause added strain amid difficult economic conditions, Williamson pointed out that Chicago and Cook County have had similar ordinances in place since 2017, and fears of devastating economic consequences never panned out.
In fact, “our economy can’t afford not to provide these benefits,” Williamson said. “We can’t afford to pay for folks who are losing their job. We can’t afford to pay for folks who are getting sicker because they’re not getting the care they need. We can’t afford the impacts on our health care system.”
Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth, a Peoria Democrat who sponsored the legislation, said at Monday’s bill signing that the law in particular will help low-wage workers, who are those less likely to have paid time off and who are disproportionately Black, Latino, and women.
“Thanks to this measure, workers have the peace of mind that they can take care of themselves today without worrying about the consequences tomorrow,” Gordon-Booth said.
Christell Frausto, a co-owner of TequilaRia Wine and Spirits in Peoria, said she sees paid leave as “an investment” and hopes other business owners will too.
Frausto, 38, said she already accommodates employees needing flexibility for emergencies, illness or personal events. She opened the boutique-style store focused on specialty products including women-owned brands and organic, gluten-free or low-calorie options two years ago.
The pandemic was a clear sign that prioritizing workers is a necessary strategy for business owners, said Frausto, who hopes the lead-up to the law taking effect will give them time to budget and prepare.
“They’re part of my team,” she said of her employees. “My interest is to take care of them just as much as my customers. I have to make sure they have a balance in life and work.”
For Sandy and Dave Schoenborn, a couple who own the Lincoln Theatre in Belleville, Illinois, the state mandate is a major concern. “I’m pretty worried,” Sandy Schoeborn said. “Unless business gets better, it’s gonna be a strain.”
Paid leave is something employees should earn, not be entitled to, she said. “I can’t say no. If if I have a big event coming up and everybody decides to take off, I’m in a world of hurt.”
Knight, the Springfield amusement park owner, said he does his best to take care of his employees. “If they have a reason, they can take off a day” without pay, he said.
“Car broke down, mom’s sick, gotta take the dog to the vet… they’re all important to the staff. But you can’t close your business because everybody wants to take off cause there’s a concert,” he said.
The pandemic, inflation, utility prices — “it just all seems to be piling up,” and mandatory paid leave is now another hurdle for business owners.
“It just drives the cost up, drives the prices up, and the consumer pays the bill,” Knight said. ____
Savage is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. | 2023-03-15T16:31:58+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/mandatory-paid-time-off-a-strain-for-illinois-business/ |
Saving Santa Barbara’s Trails
from Being Loved to Death
Restoration Volunteers Turn Out in Force;
Next Event Scheduled for June
By Callie Fausey | April 20, 2023
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These trails are close to being loved to death,” said parks supervisor Steve Biddle last weekend to a crowd of more than 75 volunteers at Skofield Park.
Biddle was referencing Santa Barbara’s heavily trafficked front-country trails that were damaged by this year’s strong winter storms, with washouts, rockslides, and downed trees greatly altering their topography.
Saturday was the first large-scale volunteer day following the rains, with residents — including UCSB students and staff, families with young children, and general trail-lovers — donning bike helmets and gardening gloves to divide and conquer restoration work on Rattlesnake Canyon, Hot Springs, and Old Pueblo trails.
“Our geography in this area makes for a beautiful county where you can go from the beach to the top of a mountain in a couple hours,” Biddle said. “It also makes it really challenging for control of trails. So that’s what we’re here to do today … to keep our trails functioning.”
Equipped with hoes, rakes, pickaxes, hand saws, mcleods, garden loppers, and other tools they had “probably never seen before,” the volunteers tackled the dirty work in groups led by city, county, and U.S. Forest Service staff. Members of the Sage Trail Alliance, Los Padres Forest Association, and Montecito Trails Foundation also lent their experienced hands to the endeavor.
Much of the work focused on filling in ruts caused by water erosion. “We may be leapfrogging groups,” Biddle explained. “If you finish an area and you’re going to the next one, talk to people as you’re going by, critique their work, and tell them if they missed a spot.”
Ruby Gans and Davis Campbell said they volunteered together to show their appreciation for the trails they frequently rely on for their favorite outdoor activities.
Gans used a hoe to widen a narrow section of Rattlesnake trail, then moved the loose dirt and mud to fill in a rut nearby. “This looks like a tripping hazard,” she said, pointing at a problematic root before promptly whacking it with her tool and throwing it off to the side.
“During the closures, I really missed the trails and came to realize how much I depend on them,” Gans said. “Everyone was talking about how there was so much work that needed to be done on them, and it made me realize that I’ve taken advantage of a lot of people who’ve done great trail work out here before, and I figured I should help.”
Campbell concurred. “I’ve done a lot of mountain biking and hiking without helping out,” he said. “So I feel like it’s kind of a responsibility to jump in and help fix the trails that we recreate on.”
Biddle said the next big restoration event is scheduled for June 10, the locations for which will be announced in early May. | 2023-04-19T22:18:11+00:00 | independent.com | https://www.independent.com/2023/04/19/saving-santa-barbaras-trails-from-being-loved-to-death/ |
WILMINGTON, Del. – A Delaware judge's ruling Friday set the stage for a dramatic springtime trial on whether Fox News bears financial responsibility for airing false allegations that a voting machine company rigged the 2020 presidential election against former President Donald Trump.
Superior Court Judge Eric Davis ruled that it was “CRYSTAL clear” that none of the allegations made by Trump allies on Fox in the weeks after the election were true.
Davis said it was up to a jury to decide whether Fox acted with actual malice in airing the claims and, if so, how much money Dominion is entitled to in damages. Dominion has sued Fox for $1.6 billion.
Barring a last-minute settlement, the trial is expected to begin in mid-April.
“The statements at issue were dramatically different than the truth,” Davis said in a summary judgment ruling, which denied Fox's effort to throw out the case as well as Dominion's request for a victory without a jury. “In fact, although it cannot be attributed directly to Fox's statements, it is noteworthy that some Americans still believe the election was rigged.”
Fox's failure to reveal extensive evidence contradicting the fraud claims “indicates that its reporting was not disinterested,” the judge wrote.
In a statement issued after the ruling, Dominion said it was gratified that the court had rejected Fox’s arguments and found “as a matter of law that their statements about Dominion are false. We look forward to going to trial.”
Fox emphasized that the case is about the media’s First Amendment protections, and that it was trying to cover highly newsworthy developments — a sitting president's claim that an election was rigged.
“Fox will continue to fiercely advocate for the rights of free speech and a free press as we move into the next phase of these proceedings,” the network said in a statement Friday.
The ruling sets the stage for a trial in which Fox News stars such as Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Maria Bartiromo, as well as network founder Rupert Murdoch, could be called to the stand.
Even before the judge's ruling, thousands of pages of evidence presented in the case showed Fox executives and stars privately ridiculing the accusations and bluntly expressing opinions, like Carlson saying he hated Trump “passionately.”
During a deposition, Murdoch testified that he believed the 2020 election was fair and had not been stolen from the former president.
“Fox knew the truth,” Dominion argued in court papers. “It knew the allegations against Dominion were ‘outlandish’ and ‘crazy’ and ‘ludicrous’ and ‘nuts.’ Yet it used the power and influence of its platform to promote that false story.”
Fox aired the allegations despite the doubts of its hosts and executives, and the coverage helped feed an ecosystem of misinformation surrounding Trump’s loss in 2020 that has persisted ever since.
The documents also showed Fox feared losing viewers angered by the network's election night call of Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden, and how it didn't want to alienate viewers who backed Trump.
In methodically going through each side's arguments, Davis said neither Fox nor Dominion had presented a convincing argument for him to rule on whether or not the network acted with malice.
“These are genuine issues of material fact and therefore must be determined by a jury,” he said.
Davis denied summary judgment to Dominion on whether Fox Corp., the news network's parent company, was liable for the statements being aired — meaning the corporate executives' responsibility will have to be settled at trial.
The Trump allies had falsely claimed after the election that Dominion's machines and accompanying software had switched votes from Trump to Biden. Dominion claims it has lost millions of dollars in business because this belief spread across the country; Fox contends its claims are overblown.
“The calculation of damages is a question for the jury,” Davis said.
Davis ruled that the statements Dominion had challenged constitute defamation “per se” under New York law. That means Dominion did not have to prove damages to establish liability by Fox.
The U.S. Supreme Court limited the ability of public figures to sue for defamation in a 1964 case involving The New York Times. It ruled that plaintiffs needed to prove that news outlets published or aired false material with “actual malice” — knowing it was false or acting with a “reckless disregard” for whether or not it was true.
That has provided news organizations with stout protection against libel judgments. The nearly six-decade legal standard has come under attack by some conservatives in recent years, including Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who have argued for making it easier to win a libel case.
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Bauder reported from New York. Associated Press writer Jennifer Peltz in New York contributed to this report. | 2023-03-31T23:55:03+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/03/31/judge-dominion-defamation-case-against-fox-will-go-to-trial/ |
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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris.
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And I'm Melissa Block. We're going to begin this hour with two reports about prisons run by the U.S. military as part of the war on terrorism. In a moment, we'll hear about new documents that tell us more about the men being held at Guantanamo Bay.
First, we're going to hear about some 500 men detained by U.S. forces at Bagram Air Base, outside Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. Most of those prisoners were captured and held without being charged as enemy combatants following the U.S. invasion in 2001. Under a deal between the U.S. and the government of Afghanistan, most of those detainees will be transferred to a new Afghan- controlled prison about a year from now. But human rights advocates say the transfer raises new questions about the conditions and treatment of prisoners in the fight against terrorism.
NPR's Rachel Martin reports from Kabul.
RACHEL MARTIN: A year and a half ago, Abdul Kahar Sarwari (ph) was arrested by U.S. forces outside of Kandahar. As Sarwari tells it, someone threw grenades at an American patrol. When they couldn't find the culprits, the Americans arrested 24-year- old Sarwari and his friend, who were hanging out at a corner store nearby. The two men were interrogated in Kandahar as suspected Taliban, then blindfolded, handcuffed and flown to Bagram Air Base. Sarwari says his conditions and treatment improved with time, but the first few months at Bagram were difficult.
ABDUL KAHAR SARWARI: (Through translator) In the winter, we didn't have, you know, a heater to make us warm. And also they didn't give us time to sleep there. They kicked me. They punched me. And also they hit me with their belts. And I was praying God to either release me from there or kill me.
MARTIN: Sitting on the floor of his uncle's house in Kabul, the bearded young man recounts his year long detention with a numb detachment. His 11-year-old cousin kneels next to him, his brow furrowed as he listens to Sarwari.
KAHAR SARWARI: (Through translator) When I was there, I didn't know about anything, when I was supposed to be released or whether I will be released or not, and I didn't have any idea how long I would stay here.
MARTIN: U.S. officials in Kabul have repeatedly stated that detainees are held in accordance with international standards. Under pressure from the Afghan government, the U.S. signed an agreement last year to gradually transfer detainees from Bagram and Guantanamo to a new U.S.-funded Afghan facility. The plan is to renovate part of a notorious prison outside Kabul called Pulicharki, move the detainees there, and then put them under the control of the Afghan government.
Last week, riots at the Pulicharki prison left six dead, many injured and an entire cellblock destroyed. Over the weekend, workers cleaned up the piles of broken glass and threw out tables and chairs torched by prisoners. Nadir Nadiri, with Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission, says the riots were incited partly by a group of 200 accused Taliban, who have been in prison for more than three years without being convicted. Nadiri says the plan to transfer detainees from Bagram and Guantanamo to Pulicharki will only work if the Afghan government commits itself to developing a transparent legal system that stands up to international scrutiny.
NADIR NADIRI: The concerns are that if those people are once transferred to the Afghan authority, and the Afghan authority under the domestic and international laws obligation do not provide access to court and do not provide them with — provide to have defense lawyer, then that would make a big, big problem.
MARTIN: General Abdul Salaam is the head of Afghanistan's prison system under the Ministry of Justice. He's traveling on a fact-finding mission to Guantanamo Bay in a few weeks as part of preparations for the prisoner transfer. Salaam says the Afghan government will have full control over all the detainees sent over from the U.S. military, and that each one will be tried and either convicted or set free.
ABDUL SALAAM BAKSHI: (Through translator) The Americans would not interfere in our affairs even when the Guantanamo prisoners will be transferred to Pulicharki prison. I can declare that Pulicharki will not become Guantanamo.
MARTIN: Western officials say the transfer of detainees won't happen until Afghanistan has developed a solid legal framework to handle them, their trials, their continued detention or their possible release. Meanwhile, former Bagram inmate Abdul Kahar Sarwari says these detentions have already eaten away at Afghans' faith in the U.S. operation here. What he calls his arbitrary and irresponsible detention has shaped what he, his family and his community think about America's real priorities in Afghanistan.
KAHAR SARWARI: (Through translator) We know that they want to help Afghanistan, and they want to help our people, but I cannot ever forget my being mistreated in the prison, and I will always have that in my mind.
Rachel Martin, NPR News, Kabul. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | 2022-06-01T17:12:21+00:00 | knkx.org | https://www.knkx.org/2006-03-06/united-states-plans-to-transfer-afghan-prisoners |
PARIS – Ensconced in a glass cage lined with bamboo shoots, the first panda ever born in France bid ‘’adieu’’ to the French zoo where it grew up and set off Tuesday for its new home in China.
Named Yuan Meng, the 120-kilogram (264-pound) panda peered out of the cage as staff at the Beauval Zoo south of Paris paid an emotional farewell. Its name means ‘’the realization of a wish” or “accomplishment of a dream.”
A crowd of well-wishers waved goodbye as the trailer pulling the cage rolled out of the zoo, the words “Bon Voyage Yuan Meng’’ painted on its sides.
Yuan Meng was born in 2017 to parents at Beauval on a 10-year loan from China. The mother later gave birth to twin pandas. All the offspring are meant to be eventually be sent to China.
Yuan Meng's departure was initially delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the trip was long planned, Beauval Zoo director Rodolphe Delord described the day as "heartbreaking.''
Giant pandas have difficulty breeding and so the births were particularly welcomed. There are about 1,800 pandas living in the wild in China and a few hundred in captivity worldwide.
While China for decades gifted friendly nations with its unofficial mascot as part of a policy of “panda diplomacy,'' the country now loans pandas to zoos on commercial terms. | 2023-07-26T00:10:38+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/07/25/first-panda-born-in-france-says-goodbye-and-heads-to-china/ |
SAPPORO, Japan (AP) — So much has been invested in clean energy that there can be no rolling back of moves to end carbon emissions, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said Sunday.
Kerry noted that if countries deliver on promises to phase out polluting fossil fuels, the world can limit average global warming to 1.7 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), better than the worst case scenarios but still above the current limit of 1.5 C global warming above pre-industrial levels.
“We’re in a very different place than where we were a year ago, let alone two and three years ago,” Kerry said in an interview with The Associated Press.
“But we’re not doing everything we said we’d do,” he said, after attending a meeting of energy and environment ministers of the Group of Seven wealthy nations. “A lot of countries need to step up including ours to reduce emissions faster, deploy renewables faster, bring new technologies online faster all of that has to happen.”
Kerry said the G-7 talks in northeastern Japan’s Sapporo were “really constructive” in yielding a show of unity for phasing out use of unabated fossil fuels that emit greenhouse gases.
A meeting Thursday of President Joe Biden’s Major Economies Forum, which includes leaders of 20 nations that account for more than three-quarters of global carbon emissions, offers another opportunity for committing resources to the goal of reaching zero emissions by 2050, Kerry said.
“The United States and all the developed world has the responsibility to help the developing world through this crisis,” he said. “Those countries will really determine what happens. If they will reduce, if they will take the lead, if they will start deploying the new technologies, if they will stop using unabated fossil fuels, we’ll up the chance of winning this battle.”
Kerry held out hope for cooperation with China on climate despite friction over Taiwan, human rights, technology and other issues, saying he had a “very good conversation” with his Chinese counterpart, Xie Zhenhua, just days earlier.
“We agreed that we need to get back together personally, visit and try to see what we can find to work on together to accelerate the process. Is that doable? I hope so,” Kerry said.
The Biden administration has moved aggressively to entice companies to invest in electric vehicles and other cleaner energy technologies. While the U.S. still lags some other countries in use of EVs, the market is changing as consumer preferences evolve and manufacturers invest billions.
No one person can roll back what’s happening in the climate sector, Kerry said, “because private companies have made major bets on the future and they’re not going to reverse them.”
One area where much more needs to be done is in climate financing, Kerry said, even though developed countries were close to their $100 billion goal in annual support for developing nations. In 2020, $83 billion was committed.
The annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund last week in Washington were a start, “but they’re not enough. They didn’t produce enough of a change, in our judgement, to really unleash the kind of finance support that’s necessary.
“Our hope … is that over the course over the next weeks and months more will be put on the table, more will be agreed upon and we can move faster,” he said.
The hope is to reform the structure of finance to get such multilateral development banks to lend more and at better rates.
“Anyone is going to look pretty critically at what’s going to happen with their money,” Kerry said, noting that “there’s a lot of money and it’s looking for these deals right now.”
The Inflation Reduction Act is a major step toward incentivizing climate-friendly investments, “sending a signal to the market place that there’s money to be made by transitioning and moving in the direction of clean energy technologies,” he said.
In the U.S., money will not be invested in new coal-fired power plants, because “there’s no such thing as clean coal,” Kerry said. “The marketplace is not supporting that. Investors are not supporting that.”
Some countries, including Japan, have balked at setting a clear timeline for phasing out coal-fired plants, citing energy security. And for some countries, it’s a valid concern, Kerry said, though he added, “I think energy security is being exaggerated in some cases.”
The greater imperative is to do whatever is possible to draw down carbon emissions, given the millions of people who die each year due to unclean air, extreme heat and other dire consequences of climate change.
“If we’re going to be responsible, we have to turn around and figure out how we are going to more rapidly terminate the emissions. We have to cut the emissions that are warming the planet and heading us inexorably toward several tipping points beyond which there is no reverse,” Kerry said. | 2023-04-16T19:20:45+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/science/ap-science/climate-envoy-kerry-no-rolling-back-clean-energy-transition/ |
In unusual orca sighting, tour spots at least 20 killer whales off San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An uncommonly large grouping of orcas for Northern California — roughly two dozen killer whales — were spotted by a whale watching tour off the coast of San Francisco last month, likely gathered together to celebrate a successful hunt for sea lions or seals.
“I screamed ‘orca!’” recalled Michael Pierson, a Oceanic Society naturalist leading the tour, after noticing “those distinct dorsal finds poking out of the water.”
“It was really, really special,” Pearson said in an interview Wednesday.
The big group of whales was seen on May 7 near the Farallon Islands, about 28 miles (45 kilometers) west of San Francisco. Killer whales are more commonly found around the deep ocean canyon beneath Monterey Bay — about 75 miles south of the city — and can be spotted anywhere from the coastline to just 5 miles off shore, according to Nancy Black, a marine biologist and owner of Monterey Bay Whale Watch.
It’s easier for whale-watching tours to see them in Monterey Bay because the canyon is so close to the beach, while the Farallon Islands require a miles-long boat ride from San Francisco, and the water still may not be deep enough there, Black said.
“They’re the whale that most people want to see when they go whale-watching,” she said, “you just don’t know when they’re going to be around.”
Black, who is also the director of the nonprofit California Killer Whale Project, said she’s seen larger groupings of orcas than last month’s two dozen but added that any sighting is special. As she spoke, she watched five swim together in Monterey Bay.
The Oceanic Society regularly does tours to the Farallon Islands — which include collecting data for scientists and conservationists — and spring is migration season. Pierson and the boat’s captain, Jared Davis, decided to try a different route on May 7 to head out over deeper water.
When spotted during Farallon Islands tours, the orcas are usually in a family group of three to six whales. They typically range from Baja California up the West Coast and Canada to Alaska.
Last month, however, the tour stumbled across several family groups congregating together, for a total of 20 to 24. They were likely near the islands because it’s where pregnant sea lions and seals give birth this time of year — and the mammal-eating whales had probably just feasted.
“We don’t know exactly why this particular group was so big,” he said.
While the adult males, with their distinctive 6 feet-tall (2-meter) dorsal fins, were “definitely a showstopper,” Pierson said the mothers and their calves were also a big hit.
“You could hear the coos and awws from everyone on board,” he said.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-08T14:14:58+00:00 | wsfa.com | https://www.wsfa.com/2023/06/08/unusual-orca-sighting-tour-spots-least-20-killer-whales-off-san-francisco/ |
Man steals 2 French bulldogs at gunpoint from pregnant woman in broad daylight, police say
LOS ANGELES (Gray News) – Two French bulldogs have been reunited with their owner after they were stolen from her at gunpoint in Los Angeles, police said.
To make matters worse, the dogs’ owner is nine months pregnant, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The LAPD said the woman was walking the dogs in daylight at 10 a.m. on Dec. 9 in Studio City when she was approached by an armed man.
Police said the suspect pointed a pistol at the victim and took both French bulldogs. The suspect fled the area with the dogs in a gray SUV.
Investigation led police to 27-year-old Sammeiso Lewis, a resident of Las Vegas. Police said Lewis had attempted to extort the victim after stealing the dogs.
Using witness information, police were able to conduct several search warrants and arrest Lewis on Jan. 26. He was charged with one count of robbery.
The dogs have been safely reunited with their owner unharmed.
Detectives are reminding pet owners to take precautions against being a victim of theft. They say to:
- Stay visible in public settings with significant light while walking your dog
- Utilize dog chips with GPS for your dogs
- Be a good witness by providing as much detailed information to the police
- Don’t leave your dog unattended in public
- Install security cameras around your residence to monitor your pets and intruders
- Keep current photos of your dog
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-09T23:10:11+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2023/02/09/man-steals-2-french-bulldogs-gunpoint-pregnant-woman-broad-daylight-police-say/ |
Biden administration to strengthen Obamacare contraceptive mandate
(CNN) – The Biden administration wants to make it easier for more women to get free birth control.
A new rule has been proposed by the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury.
The rule removes a Trump-era exemption to the Affordable Care Act that allows employers to opt out for moral convictions.
Employers would still be allowed to opt out for religious reasons, but a new independent pathway for those policy holders would be created for women to access contraception at no cost. Students at religious colleges would also have access to that avenue.
The Department of Health and Human Services said it expects the proposed rule would impact more than 100 employers and 125,000 workers.
It now enters a public comment period and will not become finalized for several months.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-30T22:37:49+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/2023/01/30/biden-administration-strengthen-obamacare-contraceptive-mandate/ |
Exactly 100 years after Babe Ruth christened the original Yankee Stadium with the ballpark’s first home run, a different two-way sensation went deep in the Bronx.
Yankees’ fans dreaming of Shohei Ohtani in pinstripes got an up-close look at the damage he can do at the modern Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night when the Angels’ superstar — and impending free agent — made quick use of his left-handed power in the series-opener. Ohtani lined a Clarke Schmidt hanger over the right field wall in the first inning, giving Los Angeles a near-instant lead in a 5-2 win.
The two-run homer also spelled the start of another rough night for the right-handed Schmidt.
Schmidt failed to complete four innings of work for the third time in four starts this season as the Halos tagged him for four earned runs. Schmidt struck out five and didn’t allow a walk for the first time this year, though he did hit a batter. Either way, the Angels’ six hits did enough to force another premature exit for the 27-year-old.
Schmidt also surrendered two runs in the fourth when Mike Trout doubled. Anthony Rendon singled the three-time MVP home before a Hunter Renfroe double scored another run to make it 4-0.
While Schmidt said “a number of things” contributed to his struggles, he and Aaron Boone agreed that it’s important for him to get ahead in counts. The manager also wants to see Schmidt control his heater better.
“For any pitcher, it starts with the fastball command,” Boone said. “When you’re really going to a next level, you tend to be dictating counts and controlling counts and getting yourself where you have the leverage. And that’s been the challenge for the most part.”
Added Schmidt: “I don’t think it’s necessarily a command thing. I think, early in the counts, having count leverages, is the key, especially to good hitters like they have.”
Whatever the reasons, Schmidt’s first extended stay in a major league rotation has been disappointing. One of three fill-ins due to injuries, the still-inexperienced pitcher now owns an 8.79 ERA, and Schmidt’s longest start of the season, April 12 in Cleveland, only logged four innings while he gave up three runs. Lefties have also been hard on the hurler, though Angels on both sides of the plate hurt him on Tuesday.
When Boone was asked if the Yankees can afford to let Schmidt work through his issues at the big league level, the skipper offered a simple “yeah.” But when pressed on Schmidt’s role moving forward, Boone conceded that the Yankees don’t have many options with Carlos Rodon, Luis Severino and Frankie Montas all on the injured list.
“He’s one of our starters right now,” Boone said. “We’re a little banged up in the rotation right now and he’s got to go out there and kind of find a way and get to that next level.
“We don’t really have that luxury right now.”
The Bombers’ offense, meanwhile, cut the deficit in half in the fourth inning when Oswald Peraza walked, Kyle Higashioka singled and Aaron Hicks earned his own free pass, setting Anthony Volpe up with the bases loaded and one out. He, too, drew a walk to put the Yankees on the board. Aaron Judge then drove in a run with a sacrifice fly. But the bleeding stopped there with an Anthony Rizzo strikeout, and two Higashioka errors helped the Angels score another run in the fifth on a sacrifice fly from Rendon.
The Yankees’ bullpen kept them in the game, as Greg Weissert, Ron Marinaccio, Jimmy Cordero and Albert Abreu didn’t allow an earned run following Schmidt’s departure. But the Yanks never scored after the fourth, and thus dropped the first of three games against Los Angeles.
“We had our opportunities,” Judge said, “but anytime you’re going up against guys like Trout, Ohtani, you gotta come with your best offense.”
The team and Jhony Brito will look to rebound on Wednesday in the second game of the series. Brito is coming off his first taste of big league adversity; he let up seven earned run on April 13 while recording just two outs against the Twins in a blowout loss.
Griffin Canning, who allowed two runs over five innings to the Nationals in his first start of the year on April 12, is slated to start for the Angels.
() | 2023-04-19T04:05:58+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/04/18/shohei-ohtani-goes-deep-while-clarke-schmidt-fails-to-do-so-again-in-yankees-loss/ |
If restaurant Valentine’s Day menus are to be believed, the foods that whisper “romance” are tenderloin steaks and butter-poached lobster, all perched atop gold-rimmed china. Truffles and oysters abound. And chocolate rules the dessert course like a satin-draped siren.
Chicken has a low-key reputation as an unlikely aphrodisiac. You might have heard the decades-old lore of “engagement chicken” — a lemon-stuffed bird with such bewitching properties that, when prepared for a lover, is said to prompt a marriage proposal within days. According to the story, in 1982, Glamour editor Cindi Leive shared a recipe for roast chicken with her assistant, who made it for her boyfriend. Said boyfriend proposed soon after, and the assistant passed along the recipe to three colleagues who had similar experiences.
Ina Garten helped spread the word of the magic bird, publishing her own recipe for it. In a 2010 episode of her Food Network show, the cook known as the Barefoot Contessa described first hearing about the dish at a recent party from two “incredibly beautiful girls from Glamour magazine” who told her it had worked for everyone in their office.
Garten was already an evangelist for poultry as love language: Her husband, Jeffrey, the other half of the #relationshipgoals couple, has always been famously hot for his wife’s roasted bird. In her first cookbook, Garten prefaced her recipe for “Perfect Roast Chicken” by describing how it was his favorite Friday night dinner, a dish she prepared as he made his weekly commute from the city to their home in the Hamptons. “There’s nothing like the smell of a roast chicken to make him feel that the trip was worth it,” she wrote.
The power of the roast-chicken-as-love-potion got a more recent endorsement when it made a cameo in the how-we-got-engaged story that Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex shared in interviews. The couple was enjoying a typical night in, “roasting a chicken,” Meghan recalled. “Trying to roast a chicken,” Harry interjected. The prince presumably took a break from basting to drop to a knee.
Of course, along with the heady scent of garlic and herbs, the concept of “engagement chicken” bears the whiff of antiquated notions: desperate single women performing domestic feats to snare their men, or the idea that a partner can be won through a single heroic act. But underneath those layers, there are the bones of something true to many people: Chicken conveys love.
Jacques Pépin, the legendary chef, cookbook author and TV personality, has always felt a connection between chickens and love — his 2022 book of recipes and paintings, “Art of the Chicken,” chronicled it. In an interview, he recalled making countless roast chickens for dinners with his wife, Gloria, in their Connecticut home. Sometimes it was the kind his maman made for him, served with a cream sauce seasoned with tarragon, and sometimes with the flavors of her Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage.
“It makes no difference if it’s your kid or grandmother or your lover, you express your love through your cooking,” says Pépin, who at 87 years old no longer keeps a flock of his own but instead procures eggs and the occasional bird from a friend.
In his book, he noted that the French use “chicken” as a term of endearment. “A loving husband will call his wife a cocotte [little chicken] or ma poule, or my hen,” he wrote. “Conversely, a loving wife will call her husband mon poulet, or my chicken.”
So many foods typically thought of as romantic are those thought to juice the libido (even if science doesn’t exactly agree with the marketers on those purported qualities). Legendary 18th-century lover Giacomo Casanova is said to have eaten dozens of oysters before his trysts, and ancient Romans believed strawberries were linked to Venus, the goddess of love, because of their red color and heart shape.
Others — such as pricey filet mignon or gold-leafed anything — seem to be more about conveying wealth and status, the culinary equivalent of a blingy diamond ring.
But Ashley Rodriguez, author of the “Date Night In” cookbook, says the better way to think about sexy food is the intention behind it. A chicken, she notes, requires some forethought — she likes to season her birds well before cooking them to maximize flavor — and care in preparation, which are acts of love. “It says, ‘I thought of you and this meal and this moment’” she says. “And as homey and comforting as roast chicken is, I still feel like it creates an occasion.”
Food blogger and newsletter author Adam Roberts began making roast chicken for his now-husband when they were dating. It’s become a “favorite ritual” in their relationship, he said — at first, they favored a Chez Panisse recipe with fennel seeds and cayenne pepper, but these days, it’s more likely a Thomas Keller version with roast vegetables. And even though a roast chicken might evoke a mood that’s more cozy than outright carnal, Roberts still thinks there’s something sensual about the dish.
“You can tell a lot about a person’s sexual prowess by how they tackle the bird: If they use a knife and fork, they’re a snooze in the sack,” he says. “If you see them tearing it apart with their hands, gnawing on the bone, and making a huge mess of things … that one’s a keeper.”
I can personally vouch for roast chicken as date-night food. I’ve found that it’s the kind of dish that makes dining in feel like an occasion — presenting it, hot from the oven, all brown and crisp, seems like I’m offering a gift. During the pandemic, it became even more important to my husband and me to enjoy moments at home that felt special, and Roast Chicken Night somehow did stand out from the endless string of Blurs-days. (We experimented with different preparations, but we’ve settled on a super-simple Thomas Keller recipe, too.)
Charles Hunter III, a personal chef and blogger, says the “set it and forget it” nature of a roast chicken means that you don’t have to fuss over it — instead, you can turn your attention to the person you’re cooking for. “It’s warm and cozy and inviting,” he says. “It can be the perfect date night food or for a romantic moment because it can be well executed with simple ingredients.”
The heady scent is also part of the appeal, he finds.
“It does make your home smell amazing — you want someone to walk in and take a deep inhale and know something good is going to happen. I love it when my wife walks in and asks, ‘What are you cooking?’” | 2023-02-07T14:13:24+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2023/02/07/roast-chicken-romance-engagement-love/ |
22 Los Angeles County sheriff’s recruits hit by car, 5 critical
WHITTIER, Calif. (AP) — A vehicle struck 22 Los Angeles County sheriff’s recruits on a training run around dawn Wednesday and five were critically injured, authorities said.
A total of 23 people were injured, including the driver, said Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesperson Capt. Sheila Kelliher.
In addition to the five who were critically injured, there were four with moderate injuries and 14 with minor injuries. The driver was among those with minor injuries, she said.
The crash occurred around dawn Wednesday in suburban Whittier, where the department’s STAR Explorer Training Academy is located.
TV news helicopter broadcasts showed a large response of firefighters and ambulances, an SUV with severe front-end damage straddling a toppled pole on a sidewalk, as well as numerous individuals nearby in uniform workout clothes.
A Sheriff’s Department statement said a recruit class was hit by a vehicle at about 6:26 a.m. during a training run.
“We do not have a cause,” Kelliher said. “We do not have any other information on how the driver lost control, so at this time that is the basic information that we can share with you.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-16T17:43:46+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2022/11/16/vehicle-strikes-los-angeles-county-sheriffs-recruits/ |
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday issued a terse response to the House Jan. 6 select committee’s decision to refer criminal charges against former President Trump to the Justice Department.
“The entire nation knows who is responsible for that day. Beyond that, I don’t have any immediate observations,” McConnell said in a statement reacting to the House panel voting to refer four criminal charges against Trump to prosecutors in connection to his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The committee, made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans, recommended the Justice Department investigate Trump for inciting insurrection, obstructing an official proceeding, conspiring to defraud the United States and conspiring to make a false statement.
The panel also recommended a formal ethics investigation of the role that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and several allies — Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) — played on Jan. 6 and in the days before.
McConnell’s statement responding to the action on the other side of the Capitol was bolder than those from some members of his leadership team.
Retiring Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman Roy Blunt (Mo.) said he “had no idea” of the details of the referral.
Incoming Senate Republican Conference Vice Chairwoman Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said, “I never heard of Congress instructing [the Justice Department] in that way.”
She said the committee’s work was “obviously politicized.”
McConnell denounced Trump on the Senate floor in February 2021 after the former president was acquitted on the impeachment charge of inciting an insurrection.
“There is no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day,” McConnell said, after voting to acquit the president on the technical grounds that he no longer held the office.
Since then, McConnell has regularly declined to comment when asked what responsibility Trump bore for spreading the unsubstantiated belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. | 2022-12-19T23:37:15+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/hill-politics/mcconnell-on-jan-6-criminal-referral-of-trump-entire-nation-knows-who-is-responsible-for-that-day/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — When former President Donald Trump appears in federal court Tuesday, he will be joined at the defense table by a man well-practiced in standing by his side: his valet turned alleged co-conspirator, Walt Nauta.
Nauta, a Navy veteran who fetched Trump’s Diet Cokes as his valet at the White House before joining him as a personal aide at Mar-a-Lago, now finds himself in legal jeopardy alongside the former president. He is accused of moving boxes from the White House at Trump’s direction and then lying about it to investigators.
Nauta is the latest in a series of Trump loyalists to face potential jail time after his work for the former president. Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime fixer and attorney, spent more than 13 months in prison over payouts he helped arrange during the 2016 presidential race to keep women from going public about alleged sexual encounters with Trump. Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer at the Trump Organization, just finished serving three months at Rikers Island after pleading guilty to receiving $1.7 million in unreported job perks.
“Loyalty to Donald Trump is like First Avenue in Manhattan: one way. History has shown time and again that Donald cares for no one other than himself,” said Cohen, who has since turned on Trump and eventually tried to win leniency by cooperating with prosecutors.
Nauta, according to the indictment unsealed Friday, played a crucial role in the alleged scheme with Trump, who is charged with 37 counts of illegally hoarding classified documents and obstructing the government’s efforts to get them back.
The government alleges Nauta helped pack Trump’s boxes before he left the White House and repeatedly moved them to various rooms at Mar-a-Lago in response to Trump’s requests.
At one point, the indictment alleges, Nauta discovered several boxes had fallen over in the storage room, dumping their contents on the floor. Nauta snapped and shared photographs of the scene, which included a document with a visible marking warning it was restricted to only the Five Eyes intelligence alliance of the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
Nauta was key to Trump’s investigation early on, with FBI agents grilling him about the movement of boxes inside Mar-a-Lago weeks before serving their search warrant at the property. Like other witnesses close to Trump, though, his answers to law enforcement put him in legal jeopardy.
Although prosecutors say Nauta moved boxes of documents to Trump’s residence for his review at his direction, he lied to agents by saying he wasn’t aware of that happening, according to the indictment. And when agents asked if he knew where on the property the boxes had been stored, he said, “I wish, I wish I could tell you. I don’t know. I don’t — I honestly just don’t know.”
Nauta’s attorney, Stanley Woodward, declined to answer questions about the charges or any efforts to get his client to turn on the former president, but confirmed the two would appear together.
Nauta faces six federal charges, including conspiracy to obstruct justice, corruptly concealing a document or record and making false statements. His inclusion in the indictment was met by protest from Trump, who praised Nauta as “a wonderful man” who had ”done a fantastic job!”
“They are trying to destroy his life, like the lives of so many others, hoping that he will say bad things about ‘Trump.’ He is strong, brave, and a Great Patriot. The FBI and DOJ are CORRUPT!” he wrote.
Ty Cobb, the former White House attorney who served as Trump’s lawyer during the Russia investigation, said he felt sorry for Nauta, whom he described as a dutiful worker who “nods and then does what he’s been told to do.”
“I think Walt is easy prey for the president because this is a dedicated patriot,” he said. “The proudest moment he ever had was being named valet to the president and sadly the president he got named valet for was Trump.”
Cobb recalled Nauta stopping by his home, checking in on him and fetching him club soda when he was working late. He said he remembered how Nauta noticed — after dozens of uneaten hamburgers — that Cobb didn’t eat meat and quietly began substituting salmon for his lunches.
“I think it’s really sad that people were not able to convince him of his misplaced loyalty,” Cobb said of Nauta’s decision not to cooperate with prosecutors. “He should be a witness. He shouldn’t be a defendant. But you can only dangle that opportunity for so long before you have to shoot. So I think it’s tragic.”
John Dean, the White House counsel who testified against former President Richard Nixon over Watergate and later served four months for obstructing justice, said that he would advise Nauta to turn against Trump.
“He could strike a good deal and help put it away for the government,” he said on CNN.
As for Cohen, he gave grand jury testimony over the hush money payments that led to the first-ever criminal charges against a former president. Trump was indicted in March in New York on 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection to the payouts to the women who alleged sexual encounters with him. Trump has denied the allegations and any criminal wrongdoing.
Weisselberg, who testified against the Trump Organization at his trial, said on the witness stand that neither Trump nor his family knew about the tax scheme. Prosecutors maintained Trump “knew exactly what was going on.”
Cohen said Nauta should learn from his own experience that devotion to Trump isn’t worth the consequences.
“I predict Walt will suffer the exact same outcome as the rest of us who have all been thrown under the bus for the benefit of Donald J. Trump,” Cohen said, describing “just another Trump acolyte whose life has been turned completely upside down for his misguided loyalty to a man who didn’t deserve it.”
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Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report. | 2023-06-13T12:21:03+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/walt-nauta-is-the-latest-trump-loyalist-to-face-potential-jail-time-after-working-for-him/ |
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QUEENS (PIX11) — Several dozen people came to Queens Borough Hall Monday night for a candlelight vigil honoring the memory of Tyre Nichols.
It was a ceremony marked by personal reflection, sadness, prayer and music. Attendees reflected on the life of Nichols, who was beaten to death after a traffic stop by police in Memphis.
Some at the vigil held signs demanding justice. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards became emotional when speaking to the crowd.
“We’ve been on these steps many too many times,” he said. This trauma doesn’t get easier.” | 2023-01-31T04:11:07+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/queens/queens-community-pays-tribute-to-tyre-nichols/ |
WHITEHALL, MI – After 30 years of planning a more pleasant connection between the White Lake waterfront and downtown Whitehall, the city is finally ready to make it happen.
The West Colby Promenade will be a park at the end of Colby Street that will overlook the lake and provide plenty of green space and seating to linger.
It’s been in the city’s development plan since 1989 as a way to provide a more attractive way of linking the city’s marina and Goodrich Park to downtown.
Plans are being finalized for the promenade that will require the closure of the 200 block of Colby Street to vehicular traffic. That section of street is a dead-end and primarily used for access to Big John’s Pizza.
Construction is expected to begin next spring.
The street right-of-way as well as three lots the city acquired over the last three decades will be used for the promenade, which will be one of the city’s newest parks. The other is a pocket park off Colby in downtown to be completed this summer.
It’s expected that users of the promenade will include boaters from about 400 slips that are within walking distance of downtown, Whitehall City Manager Scott Huebler told MLive/The Muskegon Chronicle.
“We’ve had a strong downtown,” Huebler said. “But we wanted to have a nice attractive entry into downtown.”
The promenade will be next to a new mixed-use development located off of Colby and Lake Street, for which groundbreaking could occur next month, Huebler said. The four-story, $8.5 million building will include 25 apartments, a restaurant and space for retail.
Related: $8.5M apartment, restaurant building planned in downtown Whitehall
“We’ve only been working on this for 30 years,” Huebler said of the promenade. “With that (development) going in, we felt it was absolutely imperative to turn the street into a promenade at this point.”
The promenade also will be adjacent to Big John’s Pizza, whose property the city tried for years to acquire. Those attempts had delayed development of the promenade park, but “it’s gotten to the point where Big John’s isn’t going anywhere,” and so the decision was made to work around it, Huebler said.
Instead, the promenade will provide a place where visitors can grab a pizza and stick around to enjoy it. Among the promenade’s features will be picnic tables, benches and seating walls along with landscaping and checkerboard game tables. The hope is to eventually add sculptures, Huebler said.
The cost of the promenade is expected to be about $570,000, he said. The city has applied for a $275,000 state Revitalization and Placemaking Program grant to help defray costs. But the project is not dependent on the grant as the city plans to use tax increment financing to pay for it, Huebler said.
The city’s relatively new Tax Increment Financing Authority (TIFA) captures property taxes from increases in property values.
The TIFA is being used to fund the walk-through pocket park in the alley between CatchMark Technologies and Bell’s Furniture. The cost for that project is estimated at $163,000.
The pocket park will provide access from Colby Street to the city’s North Mears Plaza that overlooks the White Lake and White River. That plaza, complete with seating and a fire pit, is another recent park and was partially funded by the TIFA along with donations from the Montague-Whitehall Rotary Club.
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As today's 52nd Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony begins, members of the Quartet San Francisco will be crossing their fingers. Their 2009 album QSF Plays Brubeck received nominations in two categories: Best Classical Crossover Album and Best Engineered Classical Album.
The record celebrates last year's 50th anniversary of Dave Brubeck's classic Time Out, with string quartet renditions of tunes that Brubeck wrote or made famous. It even contains several key songs from Time Out, including "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo a la Turk."
Quartet San Francisco came by NPR's Studio 4A to play some of their Brubeck repertoire. Between songs, violinist Jeremy Cohen, violinist Alisa Rose, violist Keith Lawrence and cellist Michelle Djokic spoke with host Liane Hansen. The group is known for its arrangements of tango and jazz works.
"For us, any of the music that we really resonate with, the music that we grew up with ... I've always felt, if I can walk down the street and sing these things to myself, that we should be able to respell them in strings," says Cohen, who wrote many of the arrangements on QSF Plays Brubeck.
Cohen says he remembers when, as a child, Brubeck's Time Out was released.
"We were told about the four 'B's — Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Brubeck — in my family," he says.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-31T13:03:18+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/arts-and-entertainment/2010-01-30/quartet-san-francisco-brubeck-on-strings |
Updated August 5, 2022 at 11:22 AM ET
It's been a busy few weeks for President Biden. Despite a rebounding case of COVID, he has been able to tout the killing of al-Qaida's top leader, falling gas prices, the passage of a major domestic manufacturing bill and Congress being on the cusp of finally passing a landmark health care, tax and climate package.
Those victories are coming at a crucial moment, with the November midterm elections fast approaching and Biden's approval rates at an all-time low.
An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll released in mid-July put Biden's approval rate at 36%. And it attributed that record low to a drop in support from Biden's own party, with a relatively low 75% of Democrats saying they approve of the job he is doing (for comparison, former President Donald Trump's approval within his party was never that low).
Could this recent string of wins change how Democrats feel about the president, and what they consider their options ahead of the midterms?
NPR White House correspondent Asma Khalid posed those questions on Morning Edition to two Democratic strategists: Ben LaBolt, who worked on communications for Biden and former President Barack Obama, and Chris Huntley, a former speechwriter for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
While midterms are typically historically difficult for whichever party controls the White House, LaBolt says that these tangible results and momentum in Congress are showing people that their votes mattered, and could help shift perceptions of the president and congressional Democrats.
Huntley agrees that this is a "real vivid, galvanizing moment" for many people. And he believes that others will be motivated to cast their votes not by the Democrats' success but by the threat of Republican control of Congress.
"Even though there are a lot of people who want to see the president and the administration go further on climate, go further on student debt, go further on voting rights, go further on justice. ... I think folks understand the urgency of this moment and that if we lose these key, key state races, it's a slippery slope," Huntley says.
What could Biden do to galvanize voters ahead of the midterms?
"A lot of folks, the progressive folks, are saying, 'Look, we need to do more to address the human infrastructure needs of our nation,' " Huntley says. "We have to invest in America's most valuable resource, its people."
That could include more investments in child nutrition, tuition-free community college, paid family and medical leave and other initiatives that Biden promised and championed at the start of his administration.
"The political reality just didn't match it," Huntley adds.
For example, many young voters are frustrated that Biden has not made good on his campaign pledge to forgive at least a portion of student loan debt — something that Huntley points out disproportionately impacts people of color and has "crushed an entire generation."
LaBolt says he understands why some Democrats are feeling frustrated or apathetic, having delivered votes in record numbers only to see campaign pledges go unfulfilled. But he encourages them to celebrate other wins, like Congress confirming a record number of judges and advancing major climate and health care legislation.
"A lot of these were listed as priorities during the Democratic primary, when a certain subset of America was debating what the most important issues were to them," LaBolt says of those campaign promises. "Well, the American people today, the broad electorate, are telling us that the cost of living matters most to them. And that's exactly where the president and Congress are focused today."
Is it too early to be thinking about 2024?
Given these accomplishments, Khalid asks, why is it that so many Americans don't want Biden to run for president again? A CNN poll released last week, for example, found that 75% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters want the party to nominate someone else.
Huntley acknowledges that the political process moves slower than many people would like, but encourages them to focus on the issues at stake, like freedoms that are at risk.
LaBolt agrees, adding the focus should be on the midterms of 2022, not on the presidential election of 2024.
"People love to focus on presidential elections because it's the highest-profile form of politics that we practice," he says. "But there are plenty of presidents from President Obama to President Clinton that got through tough midterm elections. And then when the American people were presented with the alternative, which was Republican control of Congress, they realized that's not something that they wanted and that Republicans weren't focused on their priorities."
How can Biden take bold action without being divisive?
LaBolt says it's more so a question of where Biden channels his political energy to get the most effective outcomes, given the constraints (for example, that two Democratic senators don't support changing the filibuster).
Despite those challenges, LaBolt says Biden has been taking action where he can, like addressing voting rights through the Justice Department and moving toward taking climate action through the Environmental Protection Agency.
"This is a president who has worked in government nearly his entire career," LaBolt says. "He understands that Congress has some levers to pull. The executive has some levers to pull. The levers that the executive pulls are constrained by what the courts will do with those executive actions. And so I think they've studied very closely what executive actions they can take, where they can be effective in a way that it won't be tossed out by the courts, but continue to show momentum on these important priorities."
At the end of the day, given Biden's platform and track record, Huntley says there are "only so many different ways in which he's going to approach embracing progressive policy." That makes it even more important for voters to speak up, he adds.
"It's on us, I believe, to make sure that we hold our leaders accountable ... so that when we do make a stand for student debt cancellation, when we do call for advances in health care, when we do call for more robust investments in climate change, there's a cloud of witnesses that join us and it's not seen as a minority idea," Huntley says. "It's seen as what the will of the people is."
This interview was conducted by Asma Khalid, produced by Nina Kravinsky and David West and edited by John Helton and Kaity Kline.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-08-05T16:49:43+00:00 | iowapublicradio.org | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/news-from-npr/2022-08-05/what-bidens-low-approval-ratings-and-high-profile-wins-could-mean-for-the-midterms |
At approximately 9:00p.m. on Tuesday, December 20, 2022, Bossier City Police officers were dispatched to the Parkland Villa Apartment complex located in the 3000 block of Shed Road in reference to a shooting.
Officers arrived to find a female suffering from a gunshot wound.
She was transported to Oschner LSU Health Shreveport where she was pronounced deceased.
Detectives with BCPD are currently on scene and the investigation is ongoing. No other information is available at this time. | 2022-12-21T10:44:16+00:00 | bossierpress.com | https://bossierpress.com/bcpd-responds-to-tuesday-night-shooting/ |
Move will broaden investment solutions for insurance companies and other institutional investors
CHARLOTTE, N.C. and SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company ("MassMutual") and Barings, one of the world's leading investment managers and subsidiary of MassMutual, today announced plans to transition MassMutual's Direct Private Investments ("DPI"), a leading fund finance provider, and MassMutual Asset Finance ("MMAF"), an equipment finance company, to Barings. The transition, which will occur in the second quarter of 2023, will enable the businesses to scale their investment strategies with access to additional third-party institutional investors through Barings' global platform, while enabling Barings to provide a broadened set of complementary investment solutions to its clients.
"We are excited to welcome DPI and MMAF to Barings as we continue to expand our multi-strategy capabilities across public and private asset classes to meet the unique needs of insurance companies and other institutional investors," said Mike Freno, Chairman and CEO of Barings. "We will continue to partner closely with MassMutual to seek out opportunities to create scale, develop our offerings, and unlock value across our platform."
DPI provides customized proprietary secured loans to private capital managers and funds backed by a range of private capital assets. The team has originated more than $35 billion in private direct investments since inception and will continue to serve its borrowers with the same standards of confidentiality. MMAF originates, underwrites, funds, and manages large ticket capital equipment transactions throughout the United States. Since inception, MMAF has funded more than $20 billion in new equipment purchases.
"Both the DPI and MMAF teams have seen tremendous growth and success in the market with differentiating asset strategies," said Eric Partlan, incoming Chief Investment Officer of MassMutual. "By joining Barings and having access to its institutional-quality platform, these teams will be better positioned to continue sourcing high-quality assets and expanding their offerings to third-party investors, ultimately bolstering MassMutual's efforts to generate long-term value for our policyowners."
DPI and MMAF will report to Barings' President, Eric Lloyd, who oversees a diverse set of organizations, including cross-asset investment teams. The structure will enable the businesses to leverage the experience, capabilities, and relationships across the Barings platform, while remaining a separate business unit.
About Barings
Barings is a $347+ billion* global investment manager sourcing differentiated opportunities and building long-term portfolios across public and private fixed income, real estate, and specialist equity markets. With investment professionals based in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, the firm, a subsidiary of MassMutual, aims to serve its clients, communities and employees, and is committed to sustainable practices and responsible investment.
*Assets under management as of December 31, 2022
About MassMutual
MassMutual is a leading mutual life insurance company that is run for the benefit of its members and participating policyowners. Founded in 1851, the company has been continually guided by one consistent purpose: we help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. With a focus on delivering long-term value, MassMutual offers a wide range of protection, accumulation, wealth management and retirement products and services. For more information, visit www.massmutual.com.
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Opinion | Campus dining needs to embrace plant-based food
April 5, 2023
We all want to be good people and we all want to help save the planet, but it seems like most people forget that come mealtime.
If you aren’t already vegetarian or vegan, you should consider eating more plant-based meals. It can be a difficult transition, but a plant-based diet has endless benefits.
We all recognize that animals have emotions, that they dislike pain and prefer life over death. There’s a reason we’ve passed laws forbidding animal cruelty — laws that almost always have carve-outs to avoid protecting farm animals.
Our society has managed to classify farm animals as beings not deserving of any moral consideration, objectifying them before they are literally objectified and consumed. The level of abject cruelty factory farms subject hundreds of millions of animals to every year is without exaggeration hellish.
Animals are shredded alive in industrial grinders, live their entire lives without seeing sunlight, and are confined in cages so small they can’t even turn around.
If we can all agree it is fundamentally wrong to cause unnecessary suffering, then factory farms are one of the modern day’s greatest moral crimes. Despite this, refusing to participate is still an aberration, something that must be accommodated or even corrected.
For example, when a nine-year-old girl became emotionally attached to a goat she raised and refused to sell it to be butchered, fully grown adults felt justified in driving hundreds of miles to steal and slaughter a little girl’s pet.
Setting aside the moral arguments against eating meat, animal agriculture is an environmental disaster. The raising of livestock alone is responsible for 15% of greenhouse gas emissions.
The world shifting to plant-based diets would allow us to both reduce the amount of land dedicated to food production by 75% and reduce the amount of freshwater used annually by around 27%.
If you’re interested in being more environmentally conscious and causing less suffering, you should consider joining the UA Veg Club. Club president Megan Neville, a sophomore majoring in sport management, described it as a “student org for all the campus vegans, vegetarians and veg-curious.”
The Veg Club was originally called UA Vegan Voices until a couple informal polls this year revealed the club actually only had a handful of vegan members.
Its vegetarian, vegan, flexitarian and pescatarian members cite a diverse range of ethical, environmental, health and personal reasons for their dietary choices. Many Veg Club members are also active members of the Environmental Council.
The Veg Club holds biweekly get-togethers for its members, usually potlucks or group trips to vegan restaurants, and their GroupMe is a forum to talk about everything plant-based eating in Tuscaloosa.
No one at their most recent potluck, an “Appetizers and Activities” themed picnic outside Lloyd Hall, was overly fond of Bama Dining’s vegetarian and vegan options.
“I’d rather not eat than go to the dining hall,” Neville said.
One common complaint is the relative monotony and scarcity of vegetarian offerings at Fresh Foods, which includes an unending onslaught of baked sweet potatoes and watery hummus.
Stuart Rachels, an associate professor of philosophy at the University, said the University should take into account ethical considerations when setting menus for UA dining options.
“We shouldn’t support or cooperate with animal cruelty in our business decisions just as we shouldn’t support slave labor, child labor, environmental mismanagement, gender-biased hiring practices, and so on,” Rachels said.
Luckily, despite Bama Dining’s insufficiencies, it is still easier than ever to eat ethically and sustainably.
Restaurants like the recently opened The Veganish Market (try their plant-based ice cream!) have made being vegetarian and vegan in Tuscaloosa much easier. The rise of plant-based meat companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, and their partnerships with fast food chains, means that making your favorite foods vegetarian or vegan is a cakewalk compared to just a few years ago.
For those wanting to try vegetarian and vegan food on-campus, the jackfruit and tempeh options at Sola in the Lakeside Dining Hall are a rare highlight. If you want to try cooking plant-based, the Publix on University Boulevard, just off-campus, has a decent selection of vegetarian and vegan products.
Neville suggested picking one meal, such as breakfast, lunch or dinner, to try plant-based first, and to focus on easy swaps for everyday food items, such as trading dairy milk for almond milk.
Making these small individual changes are the first steps towards a better future, a future both more moral and more environmentally conscious. However, we should also follow students at other universities in pushing for the University and Bama Dining to emphasize plant-based options and provide healthy and varied choices for the entire student body. | 2023-04-07T13:24:29+00:00 | thecrimsonwhite.com | https://thecrimsonwhite.com/109338/opinion/opinion-campus-dining-needs-to-embrace-plant-based-food/ |
Sioux Falls School District names George Hawkins as Teacher of the Year
George Hawkins, a U.S. History and AP Government teacher at Jefferson High School, was named the 35th Annual Dr. John W. Harris Teacher of the Year on Monday night in the Sioux Falls School District..
This is Hawkins’ 11th year as a teacher. He student-taught in college and changed career course to be an attorney at first, with some of his cases benefiting children, but he said he felt he would have a bigger impact on children as an educator.
He said he “jumped into” New Tech High School in its third year in 2012, and has loved teaching ever since, because he gets to work with children, see their growth and see them become who they’re meant to be.
Hawkins’ favorite memory as an educator is seeing a student, who transferred from Brandon Valley High School and was struggling a little bit, later take to the educational model at NTHS and go on to become the graduation speaker as a senior.
“I’m humbled beyond words,” Hawkins said of winning the district’s 35th Annual award. “I can’t fathom it. I was moved to tears.”
Last year's winner:Sioux Falls School District names Pettigrew fifth grade teacher 2022 Teacher of the Year
He said he’s not sure what he’ll do with his $4,000 in winnings yet, but is sure his students will have some ideas of how they’d like him to use it. The $4,000 check Hawkins won was provided by Vern Eide Motorcars.
Hawkins also received a plaque and a collection of rocks painted by local students to go with the theme of this year’s award, “Teachers are the rocks and foundation that build the future.”
Hawkins’ nominator, Jason Currie-Olson, said Hawkins is one of the most accomplished, well-rounded teachers he’s ever worked with and called him innovative, caring, inspiring, dedicated, passionate and consistent.
“You know what you’re going to get with George Hawkins every single day,” Currie-Olson said. “Day in and day out, he is prepared, he has thought of something new and fun, and he really does a great job of getting kids to understand content in a way that really transcends what they think they can understand.”
In presenting the award to Hawkins, Superintendent Jane Stavem said judges learned his best qualities were as follows: “Organized and methodical, possessing an encyclopedic knowledge, engaging, unique and fun, purposeful and passionate, nationally-recognized, an unparalleled researcher, (and) someone students just love to be around.”
Laura Wiebelhaus, another finalist for the Harris award and a kindergarten teacher at Eugene Field Elementary School since 2013, won the second annual Distinguished Educator Award in the district, which included $2,000 in winnings from One American Bank.
Wiebelhaus’ nominator, parent Andrea Boerigter, said she’s had two boys in her class who are very different from one another and that Wiebelhaus gave them all the tools they needed to succeed regardless of how differently they needed to learn.
She is “probably the most patient human I’ve ever met,” Boerigter said, and “has the respect of not only all the children, but her colleagues. Her passion is to work with the kids, and all of them have such wonderful things to say about her.”
In presenting the award, school board vice president Carly Reiter said Wiebelhaus is “treasured and trusted, passionate yet patient, role model, supportive ally and loving human.”
Other finalists for the Teacher of the Year award were Kim Bogart, Tammy Ramstad, Nicole Schilmoeller and Jason Stahlberg. There were 68 total nominees this year. | 2023-03-01T01:34:09+00:00 | argusleader.com | https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/education/2023/02/28/sioux-falls-schools-name-35th-dr-john-w-harris-teacher-of-the-year/69954079007/ |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge has barred enforcement of an executive order signed by Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney last week banning guns and deadly weapons from the city’s indoor and outdoor recreation spaces, including parks, basketball courts and pools.
Common Pleas Judge Joshua Roberts on Monday ordered Philadelphia “permanently enjoined” from enforcing the order after a legal challenge, citing Pennsylvania state law that prohibits any city or county from passing gun-control measures, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
The Gun Owners of America, on behalf of several state residents, filed a lawsuit immediately after Kenny’s order, the latest attempt by Philadelphia officials to regulate guns inside city limits. Attorneys for the city had cited its role as a property owner managing its facilities, saying that distinguished the order from previous legislation passed by the city council and struck down in court.
Andrew Austin, who represents the plaintiffs, said in a statement that he was gratified by the court’s quick action. But he said it was “in large part because the law is so explicit: The city is not allowed to regulate possession of firearms in any manner.”
“It is unfortunate that the mayor and city are willing to waste their time and taxpayer money on these type of ‘feel-good’ measures,” Austin said. “This was nothing more than a press release, and would not have — in any way — addressed the crisis of crime in our city.”
Kenny spokesperson Kevin Lessard said officials were reviewing the decision and were disappointed by the outcome that “prevents city employees from making the reasonable request that anyone with a firearm or deadly weapon leave a recreation facility.”
“The mayor’s executive order was intended to prevent the senseless violence that is interfering with the safety of children, families and staff in what must be safe places,” he said.
Roberts said his ruling was based “purely on legal questions.” But he also quoted two opinions strongly suggesting a need to revisit a 1996 state Supreme Court decision that state lawmakers have the authority to preempt local gun-control laws. Roberts said he “shares, echoes, and amplifies” the sentiments of those opinions.
The ceremonial signing came a day after Kenney spoke at the funeral for Tiffany Fletcher, a 41-year-old mother of three shot and killed earlier in the month outside of the city recreation center where she worked. A 14-year-old, who was firing at another group of teens, has since been charged in Fletcher’s shooting death.
Hours after the signing, five shooters ambushed a group of teenagers outside a northwest Philadelphia high school after a football scrimmage, killing a 14-year-old and wounding four others.
The city had just passed 400 homicides for the year, only slightly behind the pace of last year’s toll that ended up being the highest in at least six decades. | 2022-10-05T10:45:05+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/ap-judge-bars-enforcement-of-ban-on-guns-at-city-parks-pools/ |
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WASHINGTON — Mattel is celebrating Emmy-winner Laverne Cox with her own Barbie doll.
The actress and LGBTQ activist is the first transgender person to have a Barbie doll designed in her likeness.
The Laverne Cox doll is part of Barbie's "Tribute Collection," which has also honored Lucille Ball and designer Vera Wang. Queen Elizabeth II also recently got her own Barbie, to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
"As a four-time Emmy-nominated actress, Emmy-winning producer, and the first transgender woman of color to have a leading role on a scripted TV show, Laverne Cox uses her voice to amplify the message of moving beyond societal expectations to live more authentically," the product description on Mattel's website explains.
Cox's acting breakthrough came on the hit Netflix series "Orange is the New Black."
In an interview released by Mattel, Cox described how she wasn't allowed to have a Barbie when she was a child so to have one designed in her likeness now is "incredibly meaningful."
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She told PEOPLE that in a time where hundreds of pieces of anti-trans legislation have been introduced in state legislatures across the U.S., that this honor can be "a celebration of transness" and a reminder for transgender kids that "there's hope and possibility for them to be themselves."
The doll was released on Wednesday, ahead of Cox's 50th birthday on Sunday, May 29. | 2022-05-28T17:51:02+00:00 | king5.com | https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/actress-laverne-cox-first-transgender-barbie-doll-mattel/507-4242052e-2e9b-4a79-ba53-ce15cd89b484 |
CXL memory bandwidth and capacity expansion boost OLTP benchmark results
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MemCon -- MemVerge®, pioneers of Big Memory software, is attending MemCon to demonstrate the capacity and performance benefits of Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) memory. The demo features a server running an online transaction processing (OLTP) benchmark, with Memory Machine™ software from MemVerge that provides tiering for system DIMM and E3.S CXL memory expansion from Micron. Adding CXL memory boosted transactions per second by 15%, with the addition of Memory Machine software boosting performance another 12%.1 The results highlight the potential to close the gap between CPU and memory performance due to memory capacity and performance per core limitations — known as the "memory wall" problem — by supplementing DIMM bandwidth and capacity with CXL expansion memory.
"CXL allows capacity and bandwidth expansion to address the memory wall. It also adds a new paradigm to Memory Tiering," says Raj Narasimhan, senior vice president and general manager of Micron's Compute and Networking Business Unit. "Our collaborative demo with MemVerge at this week's MemCon event showcases that the capacity and bandwidth unlocked by CXL translates to significantly better application performance."
Additionally, CXL memory expansion will improve workload performance while keeping costs down and creating new data center system architectures through the application of memory and storage hierarchies. These results will enable greater flexibility in data center design and use to support data-intensive workloads.
According to Charles Fan, CEO and co-founder of MemVerge, application transparency will be crucial to the success of CXL. "Our configuration running at MemCon demonstrates the ability of the CXL ecosystem to deliver tiered memory systems that can be deployed without modification to apps."
About MemVerge
MemVerge is pioneering Big Memory Computing in the cloud and on CXL for big data that needs to be processed quickly. The company's Memory Machine™ product is the industry's first commercial memory virtualization software and introduced the world to memory tiering, pooling, and snapshot-based, in-memory data management. MemVerge is the only company to win the Best of Show People's Choice award at Bio-IT World Europe and both Editor's Choice and People's Choice awards at Bio-IT World Boston. Bioinformaticians at leading organizations such as Analytical Biosciences, Penn State University, SeekGene, and TGen are using Memory Machine software to accelerate time-to-discovery and increase application availability to unlock important new scientific breakthroughs. Learn more about MemVerge, Memory Machine, and CXL by visiting www.memverge.com.
1 Improved performance results were obtained with a CXL-enabled 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ processor. The test system also used Micron 256GB CXL memory modules that ran at Gen5 speed in conjunction with the MemVerge Memory Machine memory tiering software solution on the Linux operating system.
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mountains. Highs in the mid to upper 20s. Northeast wind 5 to
15 mph, except northeast 15 to 25 mph in the mountains. In the
mountains, gusts up to 60 mph decreasing to 35 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 10 to 15.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 5 to 13.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows
8 to 12. Highs in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog.
Lows 10 to 17. Highs in the 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 13 to 19. Highs
in the 30s.
$$
WAZ031-071200-
Northeast Blue Mountains-
Including the cities of Anatone and Peola
1132 PM PST Sun Nov 6 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Rain and mountain snow. Mountain snow
accumulation up to 1 inch. Snow level 4000 feet. Lows in the
lower 30s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow in the
morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s to
lower 40s. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon, Gusts up
to 30 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow.
Highs in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 19 to 25.
Highs in the upper 20s to upper 30s.
$$
WAZ035-071200-
Upper Columbia Basin-
Including the cities of Ritzville, Grand Coulee, Odessa, Wilbur,
and Coulee City
1132 PM PST Sun Nov 6 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST MONDAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Rain or snow. Snow accumulation up to
2 inches. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Southeast wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow in the
morning, then mostly sunny with a chance of snow in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s to lower 40s. Southeast wind
5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow in the evening.
Lows 16 to 23. Windy. Northeast wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts up
to 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 30s. Brisk.
Northeast wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 12 to 18. Northeast wind
5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog.
Lows 10 to 18. Highs in the upper 20s to upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 17 to 19. Highs
in the 30s.
$$
WAZ034-071200-
Moses Lake Area-
Including the cities of Moses Lake, Ephrata, Othello, and Quincy
1132 PM PST Sun Nov 6 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Rain. Lows in the lower 30s. South wind 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation
90 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
the upper 30s to mid 40s. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Lows
in the lower to mid 20s. Breezy. Northeast wind 10 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 30s. North
wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.
Lows 17 to 24. North wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s
to mid 30s. Lows 13 to 22.
$$
WAZ038-071200-
Okanogan Highlands-
Including the cities of Republic, Inchelium, and Wauconda
1132 PM PST Sun Nov 6 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST MONDAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow
accumulation of 2 to 5 inches valleys and 3 to 7 inches in the
mountains. Lows in the 20s. Northeast wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph, except east 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph in
the mountains. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Snow in the morning, then a chance of snow in
the afternoon. Snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches valleys and
3 to 6 inches in the mountains. Highs in the mid 20s to lower
30s. Northeast wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, except
east 5 to 15 mph in the mountains. In the mountains, gusts up to
40 mph decreasing to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation 80 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow in the evening.
Lows 9 to 18. Northeast wind 5 to 15 mph overnight. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Very cold. Partly cloudy. Lows 4 to 14.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog.
Lows 8 to 18. Highs in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 14 to 22. Highs
in the lower to mid 30s.
$$
WAZ041-071200-
Wenatchee Area-
Including the cities of Wenatchee, Chelan, Entiat, and Cashmere
1132 PM PST Sun Nov 6 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Rain or snow. Snow accumulation up to
2 inches. Snow level 1500 feet. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Lows in
the lower to mid 20s. Gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 14 to 20.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog.
Lows 14 to 22. Highs in the mid 20s to mid 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 18 to 22. Highs
in the 30s.
$$
WAZ044-071200-
Waterville Plateau-
Including the cities of Waterville and Mansfield
1132 PM PST Sun Nov 6 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST MONDAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Rain or snow. Snow accumulation of 1 to
3 inches. Lows in the upper 20s. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the upper 20s to mid 30s. East wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up
to 25 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow. Lows 17 to 22.
Blustery. Northeast wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
North wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 11 to 17. North wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog.
Lows 9 to 18. Highs in the lower 20s to lower 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 16 to 18. Highs
in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
$$
WAZ043-071200-
Okanogan Valley-
Including the cities of Omak, Okanogan, Brewster, Bridgeport,
Oroville, and Nespelem
1132 PM PST Sun Nov 6 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST MONDAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow
accumulation of 3 to 6 inches. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
Northeast wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
precipitation near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Snow likely in the morning, then a chance of
snow in the afternoon. Snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches. Highs
in the upper 20s to mid 30s. East wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up
to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow. Lows
15 to 20. Northeast wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
North wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 15.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog.
Lows 9 to 18. Highs in the mid 20s to mid 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 16 to 20. Highs
in the lower to mid 30s.
$$
WAZ047-071200-
Central Chelan County-
Including the cities of Leavenworth, Plain, and Lake Wenatchee
1132 PM PST Sun Nov 6 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Snow. Snow accumulation up to 2 inches valleys
and 2 to 4 inches in the mountains. Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Gusts up to 20 mph in the
afternoon. In the mountains, gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Lows
18 to 21.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 12 to 22.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog.
Lows 13 to 23. Highs in the upper 20s to upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 16 to 24. Highs
in the 30s.
$$
WAZ048-071200-
Western Chelan County-
Including the cities of Stevens Pass, Holden Village,
and Stehekin
1132 PM PST Sun Nov 6 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Snow. Snow accumulation up to 2 inches valleys
and 2 to 4 inches in the mountains. Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Snow
accumulation up to 2 inches valleys . Highs in the upper 20s to
lower 30s. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph in
the afternoon. In the mountains, south wind 10 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow. Lows 15 to 20.
East wind 5 to 15 mph in the evening, becoming light and
variable. In the mountains, east wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 24.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog.
Lows 16 to 26. Highs in the lower 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 20s.
Highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s.
$$
WAZ049-071200-
Western Okanogan County-
Including the cities of Mazama, Winthrop, Twisp, Methow,
and Conconully
1132 PM PST Sun Nov 6 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST MONDAY...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow
accumulation of 4 to 8 inches valleys and 4 to 9 inches in the
mountains. Lows in the 20s. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.MONDAY...Cloudy. Snow likely in the morning, then a chance of
snow in the afternoon. Snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Highs
in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Lows
16 to 20. Gusts up to 20 mph overnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 8 to 17.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog.
Lows 9 to 19. Highs in the upper 20s to upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 15 to 21. Highs
in the 30s.
$$
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After a 5-7 debut season, Bielema guided the Illini to an 8-5 record last fall, their first winning season since 2011. Read more here.
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Along with Miru, a Japanese restaurant in the St. Regis Chicago hotel, openings include Birrieria Zaragoza, Bronzeville Winery and The Bellevue. Read more here.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has highlighted efforts by Republican governors and statehouses across the country to embrace proposals limiting the rights of transgender people. Read more here.
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Are tolls in Florida still suspended?
ORLANDO, Fla. - Last month, Governor Ron DeSantis suspended tolls in several areas along the Gulf Coast and in Central Florida as Hurricane Ian was getting ready to make landfall in the state. The order went into effect on Sept. 27, according to the Florida Department of Transportation.
But over two weeks later, are tolls still suspended?
Although Hurricane Ian is long gone, officials say tolls remain suspended and no date to reinstate them has been announced. Electronic signs over several toll roads still read "Tolls Suspended by Order of Governor."
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The Central Florida toll roads where drivers do not have to pay include:
- Apopka Expressway
- Beachline Expressway
- Central Florida GreeneWay
- East-West Expressway
- Florida Turnpike Mainline
- Goldenrod Road extension
- I-4 Express
- Osceola Parkway
- Poinciana Parkway
- Seminole Expressway
- Southern Connector Extension
- SR 453
- Wekiva Parkway
- Western Beltway | 2022-10-13T15:35:32+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/are-tolls-in-florida-still-suspended |
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
15-30-34-42-49, Cash Ball: 2
(fifteen, thirty, thirty-four, forty-two, forty-nine; Cash Ball: two)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
15-30-34-42-49, Cash Ball: 2
(fifteen, thirty, thirty-four, forty-two, forty-nine; Cash Ball: two) | 2022-10-09T02:20:56+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash4Life-game-17496498.php |
Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley, was hospitalized Thursday after suffering cardiac arrest, TMZ reports.
Presley, 54, was rushed to a hospital from her home in Calabasas, California after paramedics performed CPR, helping her regain a pulse, according to TMZ.
The cause of the cardiac arrest was unknown and Presley’s condition was not immediately available.
Presley, the daughter of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, is a musician herself with her 2003 debut album “To Whom It May Concern” reaching No. 5 on the Billboard charts and earning a gold certification.
She also is known for her high-profile marriages to actor Nicolas Cage — a rabid fan of her father’s — Michael Jackson and musical companions Danny Keough and Michael Lockwood.
Her son, Benjamin Keough, died by suicide in 2020 at the age of 27.
Check back for updates to this developing story. | 2023-01-12T22:02:29+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/entertainment-news-news/lisa-marie-presley-hospitalized-after-going-into-cardiac-arrest-tmz/ |
SEATTLE — City public utility crews alongside Seattle police worked to clear an RV encampment in SODO.
It's a move that critics often say displaces a vulnerable population without addressing the root problem. Though for Austin Coil, Thursday’s move represents a new start.
“I haven’t really had a plan because everything is so in flux. I don’t what they’re going to come up with tomorrow,” Coil said.
Coil is in the process of moving out of an RV and into a tiny home in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood. He’s one of five people to accept some form of shelter ahead of Thursday’s clean up. This comes after he’s lived on this street for more than three years.
Between the train horn and the stress of living on the street he hasn’t had a good night sleep in years.
“Now we’ve come back out and they’ve pushed us out again. We’re running out of places to go,” Coil continued.
Andrea Suarez, founder of the nonprofit We Heart Seattle, has seen this scenario play out again and again.
“Unfortunately, a lot of these folks were not given a tiny house. They were simply relocating Beacon Hill over to Third Avenue or really just across the street from where we're here standing,” Suarez said. “One by one by one these long-established RV camps are getting broken up."
City crews tow trailers, the trash is picked up but the problem isn’t addresses rather relocated.
For Suarez, it’s progress nonetheless.
“I think that moving people along, if they’re not willing to accept service, at least cleans the area. And even if they are going to a new area until we have safe lots or enough housing for everybody, then I think they’re a good thing,” Suarez said.
The City of Seattle said its outreach workers connected with ever person living in the encampment – notices were placed on RV’s Monday. By Thursday afternoon, Seattle Public Utility crews working to clear the piles of debris left behind.
In total, five vehicles were towed including, one boat and four cars, according to the city.
Vehicles are subject to towing if they violate the city's 72-hour parking rule – if someone is living in the vehicle, they must be provided information about assistance, but a vehicle will be towed as a “last resort.” | 2023-02-10T02:11:59+00:00 | king5.com | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/rv-encampment-seattle-sodo/281-b26a2ffd-78dd-4ed1-b79d-9c524c2c3e6b |
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Americans are less concerned now about how climate change might impact them personally — and about how their personal choices affect the climate — than they were three years ago, a new poll shows, even as a wide majority still believe climate change is happening.
The June Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, which was conducted before Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act on Friday, shows majorities of U.S. adults think the government and corporations have a significant responsibility to address climate change. The new law will invest nearly $375 billion in climate strategies over the next decade.
Overall, 35% of U.S. adults say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about the impact of climate change on them personally, down from 44% in August 2019. Another third say they are somewhat concerned. Only about half say their actions have an effect on climate change, compared with two-thirds in 2019.
Black and Hispanic Americans, women and Democrats are especially likely to be strongly concerned about the impact of climate change on them personally and about how their personal choices affect the climate.
Many climate scientists told The Associated Press that the shifts are concerning but not surprising given that individuals are feeling overwhelmed by a range of issues, now including an economy plagued by inflation after more than two years of a pandemic. In addition to being outpaced by other issues, climate change or the environment are mentioned as priorities by fewer Americans now than just a few years ago, according to the poll.
Diane Panicucci in West Warwick, Rhode Island, believes climate change is happening and that it needs to be addressed. But for her, it’s a lower priority compared with other issues, including inflation and food and drug costs.
“There’s so much unrest in this country right now,” the 62-year-old said. “People are suffering.”
Panicucci added solar panels to her house, and she’s cut back on driving. She thinks individuals should do what they’re told will help, but “it doesn’t start with little ol’ me. It has to be larger scale,” she said.
While the climate crisis will require an “all of the above approach,” it’s “reasonable” that individuals don’t feel they have the bandwidth to tackle climate action “on top of everything else,” said Kim Cobb, director of the Institute at Brown University for Environment and Society.
Roughly two-thirds of Americans say the U.S. federal government, developed countries abroad and corporations and industries have a large responsibility to address climate change. Fewer — 45% — say that of individual people.
Jack Hermanson, a 23-year-old software engineer, feels strongly that corporations are the “major culprits” of emissions and that the government is complicit in that behavior.
“I don’t know if that makes sense to say that individuals should have to work and fix the climate,” the Denver resident said. “I would say my individual actions hardly mean anything at all.”
U.S. household greenhouse gas emissions are not as much as those from cars, trucks and other transportation, electrical power generating and industry. A 2020 University of Michigan study of 93 million U.S. homes estimates that 20% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions comes from home energy use, with wealthier Americans’ per capita footprints about 25% higher than low-income residents.
But like many others that spoke to the AP, that difference hasn’t stopped Hermanson from trying. He’s been a vegetarian for four years, and he tries to bike or take public transportation, buy products with less packaging and recycle.
Among Americans who believe in climate change, 70% say it will be necessary for individuals to make major lifestyle changes to combat the issue. Most think individuals have at least some responsibility.
Individuals can believe they personally don’t have a direct impact while also recognizing that collective action is essential to combatting climate change, said Shahzeen Attari, who studies human behavior and climate change at Indiana University.
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The poll shows about 6 in 10 Americans say they have reduced their driving, reduced their use of heat or air conditioning and bought used products instead of new ones. Nearly three-quarters are using energy efficient appliances. Among those who are taking those steps, most say the main reason is to save money, rather than to help the environment.
Fewer — roughly a quarter — say they use an electricity supplier that gets power from renewable sources, and only about 1 in 10 live in a home with solar panels or drive a hybrid or electric car.
Brad Machincia, a 38-year-old welder, said he wouldn’t switch from his gas car to an electric vehicle. While he said he grew up in a West Virginia household that used renewable energy sources, he hasn’t adopted those practices for his family in Christiansburg, Virginia. Climate change used to be a concern for him, but at this point, he feels like it’s “beating a dead horse.”
“There’s nothing we can do to fix it,” he said.
Individuals should feel empowered to make climate-driven decisions that not only help reduce emissions but also improve their lives, said Jonathan Foley, executive director at climate nonprofit Project Drawdown. Foley thinks the findings show that efforts to engage Americans need to shift away from doomsday scenarios, include diverse messengers and focus on the ways climate solutions can intersect with Americans’ other priorities.
Julio Carmona, a 37-year-old financial clerk, said he recently transitioned his home in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to solar energy because the switch will help reduce his carbon footprint and his expenses, even if modestly.
“I thought that it was just something smart for us to do long term,” he said. “I just kind of wanted to do my part, whether or not it’s gonna make a difference.” | 2022-08-15T13:20:29+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-aud-nw-climate-change-20220815-ekjq57ooorghdnskvvnbj2v4py-story.html |
VANCOUVER, BC, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - RYU Apparel Inc. (TSXV: RYU) (OTCQB: RYPPF) (FWB: RYA) ("RYU" or the "Company"), creator of award-winning urban athletic apparel, has filed its earnings for the quarter ending March 31, 2022. Overall revenue increased 175% over the same period last year while gross profit doubled. This uptick is attributed to a strategic shift toward ecommerce and wholesale activity plus cost-reductions from retail store closures and looser Covid-19 restrictions.
- Revenue hit $347,938, up from $198,825 during the same period last year.
- Sales grew 49% compared to Q1 2021, from $175,243 to $261,319.
- Gross profit increased from 12% in Q1, 2021 to 25% in Q1, 2022.
- Lease obligations decreased with the closure of two retail locations (Toronto, ON and Brooklyn, NY).
Much of the quarterly growth can be attributed to the company's ecommerce and wholesale strategies, which have been bolstered by strategic new hires. Zachary Beers was tapped as Marketing Director in January to lead the company's omni-channel marketing efforts and support their 4-pillar growth strategy. In March, DJM Sales Consulting joined the team to lead global sales and oversee the company's wholesale strategy, in addition to Caraway & Company who serves as RYU's wholesale representative across the US, helping to scale the business through nationwide premium brand partners and volume retail partnerships.
To keep the positive momentum going for the rest of 2022 and beyond, RYU will continue investing in digital marketing strategies that focus on storytelling to build brand awareness and increase product demand. Concurrently they are approaching wholesale partners in three specific categories: traditional (brick + mortar and ecommerce), clearance (premium clearance partners) and drop ship (partners who sell RYU products on their ecommerce storefront).
"2021 was a year of transition for us, and our performance reflected that," says RYU CEO and Chairman, Cesare Fazari. "2022, however, is off to a much better start. With a new brand campaign, re-invigorated product lines and growing list of wholesale partners, I couldn't be happier about the direction we're headed."
RYU Apparel will host its Annual Generals Meeting (AGM) on June 24th at 10:00am Pacific Standard Time. The AGM will be held in Vancouver at the registered corporate headquarters located at 1745 West 4th Ave.
RYU Apparel (TSXV: RYU, OTCQB: RYPPF), or Respect Your Universe, is an award winning urban athletic apparel and accessories brand engineered for active lifestyles. Designed without compromise for fit, comfort, and durability, RYU exists to facilitate optimal human performance. For more information, please visit the RYU website at: http://ryu.com
This news release contains forward-looking information that involves various risks and uncertainties regarding future events. Such forward-looking information can include without limitation statements based on current expectations involving a number of risks and uncertainties and are not guarantees of future performance of RYU, such as statements regarding, but not limited to, RYU's future, long-term growth and success; rebuilding RYU into an omni-channel business positioned to compete on a global scale; the Company's belief about opportunities to overachieve in RYU's newly-launched wholesale division; and RYU's plans to continue to invest in wholesale and digital marketing to build awareness, resulting in higher product demand and a positive return to shareholders. There are numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and RYU's plans and objectives to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking information, including, without limitation, adverse market conditions and such other factors beyond the control of the Company and which are more fully described in the Company's annual and quarterly management's discussion and analysis and other filings made by the Company with Canadian securities regulatory authorities under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com. Actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information. These and all subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements are based on estimates and opinions of management on the dates they are made and are expressly qualified in their entirety by this notice. Except as required by law, RYU does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) _ FirstCash Holdings, Inc (FCFS) on Thursday reported third-quarter earnings of $59.3 million.
On a per-share basis, the Fort Worth, Texas-based company said it had net income of $1.26. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $1.30 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.19 per share.
The pawn store posted revenue of $672.1 million in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $670.4 million.
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SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. — Florida’s Gulf Coast has been a top retirement destination for the middle class for decades, providing affordable living options in “over 55” mobile home communities.
But Hurricane Ian has made some retirees question whether the risks and the rising costs of a Florida lifestyle are worth it.
For decades Florida was marketed as an affordable paradise
“The clean, clear air. The miles of blue water. The look of sparkling brightness everywhere you go,” said a booming narrator’s voice in a 1960s video posted on the State Archives of Florida website.
“We really have a ball down here, with our boating and our fishing and our clam bakes,” said a senior citizen interviewed for the promotional film, which was aimed at attracting retirees to the Sunshine State.
“We saw PT Barnum level hucksterism, of just trying to lure people down,” said AARP Florida State Director Jeff Johnson.
Johnson said generations of seniors flocked to Florida, seeking good weather and affordable housing often found in “over 55” mobile home communities.
“Good, solid middle-class folks from the Midwest and the Northeast would move down, and mobile homes were actually the affordable housing option,” Johnson said.
But today’s reality in Englewood is far from sparkling brightness.
According to the U.S. Census, Englewood is a community where 58% of residents are 65 and older.
The median household income is 30% below the national average.
Complete devastation in mobile home communities
“There’s complete devastation here. I think there’s probably 80, 85% of the homes have major damage,” said Steve West, who has lived in an Englewood mobile home community since 1998 after moving to Florida from Massachusetts.
Hurricane Ian crumpled carport covers.
Roofs are missing, and water-logged cabinets, furniture, and carpet have been hauled to the curb.
“It’s no longer the Florida it was 10 years ago when I moved down,” said Kim Lopez, a transplant from Indiana who said her finances were stretched by rising costs before Hurricane Ian arrived.
Lopez believes Ian’s destruction will make it even worse for seniors in Florida.
“They’ve already said that insurance will be canceled. They will not insure,” she said. “No insurance for my mobile home.”
License plates in mobile home parks come from lots of states.
We saw plates from Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Maine and New York within a few hours.
“They all come down here for one reason… to enjoy the rest of their life,” West said.
But the price of paradise has skyrocketed, even for decades-old mobile homes in flood zones.
“A month ago, these places were selling for $280,000 to $300,000,” West said.
Linda Gibson, from northern Indiana, said mobile homes in her community were worth more than a four-bedroom house in her hometown.
She said buyers from high-cost-of-living places like New York have been driving up prices.
“It’s less expensive than where they live,” Gibson said.
Alan Kruthas, who did snow removal for an Illinois public works department for forty years, moved to Englewood in 2017.
“We were lucky to find this place, but a lot of people aren’t so lucky,” Kruthas said.
Hurricane Ian’s destruction likely to drive up prices
With thousands of homes destroyed, lower inventory could push prices and rents even higher.
“A lot of folks down here aren’t living on a huge nest egg of retirement savings. They’re living on a fixed income of pension and Social Security,” Johnson said.
Some over 55 parks will likely be sold to developers.
Some owners are already considering walking away, believing the risk is no longer worth the reward.
“Some people already made that decision,” West said.
All about the weather and water
Johnson of the AARP believes the damage from Hurricane Ian will slow down the rate of people moving to Florida, but he doesn’t expect the slow-down to last long.
“I think Florida remains irresistible to a lot of people and that a few years down the road, you’ll start to see Florida’s numbers of new retirees start to tick back up,” he said.
“I’m gonna rebuild and stay. I’m not going anywhere,” Lopez said.
“It’s all about weather and water,” Kruthas said.
The very things that lure people to Florida and can also drive them away.
This article was written by Adam Walser for WFTS. | 2022-10-13T18:57:02+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/hurricanes-floods-and-rising-rents-drive-up-costs-for-florida-retirees |
BEIJING, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On 1st August 2022, Carbonstop, China's first carbon emissions management software and consulting solutions provider, completed a round B of financing worth 100 million yuan ($14.82 million), led by Sequoia China and followed by its original shareholders GL Ventures and Matrix Partners. This funding will be used for the research and development of carbon management software products and the expansion of consulting, marketing, and business teams.
Carbonstop: Pioneer of China's Carbon Management Industry
Carbonstop was founded in 2011, it has been developing with the philosophy of always pursuing " There is no management without reasonable quantification ", adhering to science and technology, data and products as the driving force, promoting enterprises and institutions in various industries to carry out carbon emission calculation, management, emission reduction, and eventually towards carbon neutrality.
Over the past 11 years, Carbonstop has cooperated with more than 1200 customers including Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, Meituan,JD.com, KFC, Starbucks, SKP, Dow, CNOOC, China Airport Construction Group, Dubai World Expo, Hillhouse, Centurium Capital, China Construction Bank, Mastercard, Porsche, SINO JET, etc.
In the past five years, Carbonstop has shown rapid growth, with an annual compound growth rate of more than 100%. In the first half of 2022, under the dual challenges of the harsh capital environment and COVID-19, Carbonstop had a nearly 300% year-over-year growth rate in revenue, highlighting its business toughness.
More than 10 years of brand building, 10 years of perfecting the world's largest carbon emission factor database, thousands of top customers' best practices, industry-leading carbon management SaaS products, and carbon neutrality methodology "CREOS" have jointly cast a solid barrier on Carbonstop.
A Wave Is Rising, carbon neutrality boosts carbon management market
Since September 22, 2020, the Chinese central government has been pursuing the twin goals of achieving a national carbon peak in 2030 and full neutrality by 2060.
With the continuous promotion of these goals, not only high-energy-consuming enterprises such as electricity and cement companies have begun to manage their own carbon emission data, but also internet enterprises, financial institutions, consumer brands and real estate groups. Such firms that were not required to manage emissions have successively put forward their own carbon neutrality goals to control their emission data internally.
Tsinghua University and China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC) predicted previously that in the next 30 years, China's investment in carbon neutrality will reach about 140 trillion yuan ($20.748 trillion).
With the continuous penetration of carbon neutrality goal, apart from key GHG emitters starting to manage their carbon emissions, Internet companies, financial institutions, consumer brands, and real estate groups have also announced their own carbon neutrality goals and begun to manage their carbon emissions.
Judging from the fact that hundreds of thousands of enterprises will carry out carbon management and make commitments to carbon neutrality goals, the carbon management market potential is huge.
Continuous innovation, creating an efficient and compliant digital carbon management platform
Over the past eleven years, Carbonstop has taken "let every product show its carbon footprint" as its mission, and its innovation in carbon management technology has never stopped.
Regarding products, Carbonstop initially launched carbon management software CAMP, which started the latest attempt of the digitalization of carbon management, then launched SaaS carbon management platform "Ccloud."
As China's first one-stop Carbon Management Platform, Ccloud includes a series of functional modules, such as carbon accounting, carbon asset management, product carbon footprint, carbon intelligence, carbon account, and online carbon neutralization service. The mission of Ccloud is to make carbon in every place be measured, visualised and create values and impacts.
Also, Carbonstop established the world's largest Carbon Emission Factor database to scientifically guide various industries to calculate carbon emissions.
Sound connectivity, building an open ecosystem in the carbon-neutral era.
Carbonstop has established system-level ecological cooperation with the China National Institute of Standardization, and internationally renowned LCA database EcoInvent in recent years.
Also, Carbonstop has accumulated a carbon emission factor database containing more than 150,000 pieces of data from more than 200 countries around the world, and it will gradually be opened globally to all users.
Meanwhile, Carbonstop is building the London Innovation Center and the North American Innovation Center not only to support Chinese enterprises in the carbon footprint compliance of export and overseas, but also to enhance the competitiveness of international brands.
Next decade, continuing to do the right but difficult things
The mission of Carbonstop is to make every product show its carbon footprint. In the future, customers can select products with carbon labels in shopping malls, which encourages enterprises to produce more goods in low-carbon emmission and provide more low-carbon services.
Lu Hui Yan, the founder of Carbonstop stressed, "We are committed to driving 1 to 2 billion people to reduce carbon emissions and reducing 1 to10 billion tons of carbon emissions in the future.
With the B series funding and support of top investment institutions, Carbonstop can devote to the long-term value, not be trapped by short-term interests, which reminds us to remain committed to doing the right things even when the industry is in the strong tailwind, to create long-term value for our clients and the society.
Meida contact: Xuehong Jiang, +86-010-50973498, xuehong@carbonstop.net
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MIAMI — Just before noon Sunday, in the visitors’ clubhouse at LoanDepot Park, a low-hanging television showed the National League East and wild-card races. The Washington Nationals, readying in that room for a series finale with the Miami Marlins, were 43 games back of the division lead and not listed in the wild-card hunt. If they ever had a mathematical shot at the playoffs, it faded quietly and swiftly in May or June.
Their record was 52-99, still the worst in the majors despite an uptick in quality of play across the past six weeks. But even with their struggles on the screen — with all of this losing boiled down to a few two-digit numbers — no one looked up. Shortstop CJ Abrams walked from the kitchen to the batting cage, bobbing his head to whatever played through his headphones. Victor Arano sat at his locker and stared at his iPhone. Jordan Weems tied his shoes.
And a few hours later, after the Marlins announced Manager Don Mattingly would not return in 2023, the Nationals avoided 100 losses, at least for another day. Washington beat Miami, 6-1, with Aníbal Sánchez, Erasmo Ramírez and Hunter Harvey teaming for seven scoreless innings before Carl Edwards Jr. was tagged with a late homer.
Joey Meneses smacked a two-run homer in the first and singled in the fifth, raising his on-base-plus-slugging percentage to .943. Abrams added three hits, stole a base, scored two runs and drove in one with an eighth-inning single.
Next is three with the Atlanta Braves, four with the Philadelphia Phillies and three at the New York Mets to finish the season.
“It’s been tough because I do love to win,” Manager Dave Martinez said of likely reaching 100 losses for the third time since the club moved to Washington. “... But I understand where we’re at. I understand the process of this whole thing, and … I didn’t know we were that close. I really didn’t. I’m focused on getting these guys better and having these guys being ready to compete next year.”
Full truth or not, baseball players and coaches are adept at putting on blinders. Take Sánchez, a 38-year-old righty who is using the twilight of a lost season to revive his career. In his past seven starts, including one shortened by rain in Philadelphia, Sánchez has yielded just five runs in 34⅓ innings. That’s good for a 1.31 ERA, shaved further by his five scoreless against the flatlining Marlins on Sunday.
The win, though, wasn’t without quirks. With two in the second, Victor Robles dropped down a safety squeeze and Abrams dashed for home. But after Abrams slid and stumbled past it, umpire Bill Miller made no signal, believing Abrams never touched the plate. Marlins catcher Nick Fortes jogged to the Nationals’ dugout and tagged Abrams at the top of the steps. Washington challenged, but the call stood.
“On the replay you can see my cleat kind of bounced up off the plate,” said Abrams, who made an error in the sixth but responded with some sharp plays. “But it is what it is. Kept playing. We won the game; that’s cool.”
Two innings later, once Miami starter Edward Cabrera exited with an ankle injury, the Nationals pulled off a double steal with Robles on first and Abrams on third. Fortes threw a rocket to second base with no one covering. The ball hit Robles’s left hand and trickled to the outfield, allowing Abrams to trot home with no protest. Then in the ninth, the Nationals tacked on an insurance run when Jerar Encarnacion overran Luis García’s single in right.
In the end, the Nationals’ young hitters thrived at the plate, their oldest pitcher thrived on the mound, and the Marlins … well, the Marlins didn’t thrive much at all. And yet the season series settled at 15-4 in Miami’s favor.
“The preparation for the game is the key for every successful game that I’ve had in the last two months,” said Sánchez, who has declared his intentions to pitch in 2023. “Executing everything that I’ve worked for has helped me to have the kind of game that I had today.”
Who will pitch for the Nationals against Atlanta? Cory Abbott on Monday, Paolo Espino on Tuesday and Josiah Gray on Wednesday, with Gray finally announced as a starter Sunday morning. For the past few weeks, the Nationals have waffled on how to manage Gray’s innings down the stretch. He is at 142⅔ after throwing six in Friday’s loss. His career high was 130 in 2019. But Gray, 24, will have at least one more outing before the season ends.
“A couple things,” Martinez said of deciding to pitch Gray again. “One, he still is strong. He’s still throwing the ball well. And two, we don’t know what’s going to happen with [Patrick] Corbin yet. Corbin is going to skip a start [because of back spasms].
“But I like the way [Gray] threw the ball. A big thing is he threw a lot more change-ups, and we want to continue to see him develop his change-up. So we’re going to give him another start and we’ll go from there. He deserves it. He’s learning; he’s developing.” | 2022-09-25T22:17:03+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/09/25/nationals-avoid-sweep-100th-loss-with-6-1-win-over-marlins/ |
SEOUL, South Korea , Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- P&C Solution, an XR (extended reality) specialist, announced the concurrent launch of its new product, "METALENSE" in the Korean and overseas markets on October 4, 2022. In Korea, P&C Solution plans the product launch at the Korea Electronics Show (KES) 2022 to be held at COEX, Seoul for four days from October 4 (Tue.) to 7 (Fri.). The product will also be concurrently launched overseas through the distribution of a promotional article across North America, Europe, and Asia.
P&C Solution won recognition of its technological power by receiving the Innovation Awards presented only to innovative products at the KES. KES is Korea's top-tier exhibition of IT convergence products. KES is a large-scale event, so a number of overseas buyers as well as domestic companies will attend (participate in) this exhibition. In addition, KES 2022 will showcase a variety of items including various electronic equipment and ICT, IoT, AR, and XR solutions and also offer the related side events.
P&C Solution provides a wide range of services based on the AR, XR, and digital twin technologies. As key services, the company proposes AR glasses and a differentiated XR solution to handle issues caused by communication errors between administrators and operators, and recognition errors of operators in industrial sites. The products can not only be used in industrial sites, but also be customized for application to various fields including logistics, construction, manufacturing, military, medicine, education, and culture.
METALENSE, a new product to be unveiled at the exhibition, was created by upgrading the optical part and AR engine functions of the existing AR glasses. Through lens offering high resolution and clarity, it provides a huge sense of immersion, enabling users to experience mixed reality more realistically.
The company is preparing to demonstrate remote cooperation solution and AR drawing using METALENSE at the exhibition. "We look forward to introducing our new AR glasses model and service at the KES 2022," said a P&C Solution official. He expressed great expectations for the company's participation in the event by saying, "We will make thorough preparations to make the event a meaningful opportunity to announce the launch of our new product, METALENSE."
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Americana
Fresh off a tour of Texas, the Front Range Americana outfit The River Arkansas celebrates the release of the band’s new EP with a show at 7 p.m. Friday, along with openers Hunter Burnette and Golden Brown, at the Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder; $15-$18; axs.com.
Soul rock
Dubbed as “redemptive rock ‘n soul,” Pittsburgh-based band The Commonheart take the stage at eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, at 7 p.m. Friday; $23-$38; etown.org.
Party
Four days of food, music, and so much more fun take place through Monday during the annual Boulder Creek Festival, centered at Boulder’s Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder. Visit bouldercreekfest.com for a full schedule of events.
WEEKEND
Tribute band
Guitarists Gregg Hansen and Darren Skanson specialize in their own arrangements of Beatles covers and more, and the duo, billed Skanson and Hansen, perform live at 7 p.m. Sunday at Nissi’s, 1455 Coal Creek Dr., Lafayette; $25-$30; nissis.com.
Improv
The members of Motus Theater’s Playback Improv group invite you to share your stories — from humorous to poignant — and watch as they reenact them on the spot at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $15-$20; thedairy.org.
Folk
Brooklyn-based band Damn Tall Buildings has musical influences that include bluegrass, swing, ragtime and other jazz. The trio’s been called the “Carter Family for the millennial generation,” by Boston Globe. Catch the group for a free show at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Gold Hill Inn Beer Garden, 401 Main St., Gold Hill; goldhillinn.com.
FUTURE
Comedy
Funny man and Emmy Award-winner David Cross (“Arrested Development,” “Mr. Show”) performs his one-man comedy at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder; $50; axs.com.
FREE
Concert series
The summertime weekly music show Rock & Rails is back with Motown/R&B act Girls on Top, performing at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Whistle Stop Park, Murray St. and 1st Ave., Niwot; free; niwot.com.
KIDS
Tiny dancers
Kids can be inspired and see what they’re missing when the students from the Boulder Ballet perform their Spring Showcase at noon and 3 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday, at the Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $15; thedairy.org. | 2023-05-26T15:09:54+00:00 | dailycamera.com | https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/05/26/inside-track-river-arkansas-commonheart-and-damn-tall-buildings-take-area-stages/ |
Alpine will enter the U.S. in 2027 with a fully electric lineup, the French performance marque announced on Monday.
Alpine was founded in 1955 by Jean Rédélé as a motorsports company that later launched its own sports cars using components from Renault. It became a part of Renault in 1973 and continued to launch its own sports cars with a focus on the European market.
Alpine was made a standalone business in 2021, the year it replaced Renault in Formula 1. Alpine will lean on its F1 exposure ahead of expanding to the U.S. and possibly China, two markets where F1’s popularity is growing strongly. Alpine also competes in the World Endurance Championship, where beginning next year it will field an LMDh race car in the premier Hypercar class.
Alpine said on Monday it is working with investment firm RedBird and dealer group AutoNation on its global expansion. Renault CEO Luca de Meo in February said Alpine could partner with AutoNation to sell cars in the U.S. In other markets, it will rely on Renault’s dealer network.
On the racing side, RedBird, together with Otro Capital and Ryan Reynolds-backed Maximum Effort Investments, will invest 200 million euros (approximately $218 million) to purchase a 24% stake in the Alpine F1 team. The deal will value the team at around $900 million, Alpine said.
Alpine’s sole road-going car at present is the A110, a mid-engine sports car launched in 2017 and whose sales total just a few thousand units annually. For its entry in the U.S., Alpine is readying two vehicles targeting the market, which are thought to be SUVs in the same segments as the Porsche Cayenne and Macan. Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi said earlier this year that platforms for these models may be sourced from another company. He pointed to Zhejiang Geely as being a natural fit, as the Chinese auto giant is already working with Renault on several joint projects.
Alpine is also developing its own platform and other proprietary technologies for its future sports cars. Known as the Alpine Performance Platform (APP), the electric sports car platform will underpin a redesigned A110 to be offered in coupe and convertible body styles. It will also underpin a four-seat coupe to be called the A310. Previously, Alpine planned to work with Lotus on its sports car platform.
Also in the pipeline is a compact crossover and an A290 subcompact hot hatch, both of which will use platforms from the Renault Nissan Mitsubishi Alliance. The A290 was previewed with a concept car in May and is confirmed to start sales in 2024 as the first of Alpine’s new EVs. The compact crossover will follow in 2025 and the redesigned A110 in 2026. The first of the U.S. models will arrive in 2027, with the second likely to follow around 2028. Timing for the A310 wasn’t mentioned.
In addition to EV technology, Alpine is investigating the use of internal-combustion engines fueled by hydrogen. The technology, which eliminates carbon emissions, was previewed by Alpine with its 2022 Alpenglow concept.
“Our goal is to expand from a niche segment brand to a fully fledged global brand,” Rossi said in a statement. “By combining a larger range with international expansion, we target an operating margin over 10% by 2030, and thereby put our business model on a permanent footing.”
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — A judge put South Carolina's new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy on hold Friday until the state Supreme Court can review the measure, giving providers a temporary reprieve in a region that has enacted strict limits on the procedure.
Judge Clifton Newman's ruling that put the state's abortion law back at roughly 20 weeks came about 24 hours after Gov. Henry McMaster signed the bill into law without any notice, which had left dozens of people seeking abortions in limbo and created the potential for a legal abortion becoming illegal as a doctor performed it.
"It's extraordinarily difficult not only for the women themselves, but for their doctors — not just the doctors at Planned Parenthood — but hospitals all across the state who need to understand what to do in an emergency," said Vicki Ringer, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood in South Carolina.
The developments in South Carolina are a microcosm of what has played out across the country since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade a year ago, allowing states to decide their abortion laws and leaving patients scrambling to find care wherever they can in situations where weeks or even days can make a huge difference.
The South Carolina measure joins stiff limitations pending in North Carolina and Florida, states that had been holdouts in the South providing wider access to the procedure, threatening to further delay abortions as appointments pile up in the region.
The state has seen the number of abortions climb sharply as other Southern states passed near-total bans. Before the overturn of Roe, less than 1 in 10 abortions in South Carolina were performed on people who lived out of state. Now, that figure is near 50% and the number of abortions each month has at least tripled, according to state health data.
The law passed Tuesday by the General Assembly is similar to a ban on abortion once cardiac activity can be detected that lawmakers passed in 2021. The state Supreme Court decided in a 3-2 ruling that the 2021 law violated the state constitution's right to privacy.
Legislative leaders said the new law makes technical tweaks that should sway at least one justice to change his mind.
But Newman said it wasn't his role to figure out if that would be successful.
"The status quo should be maintained until the Supreme Court reviews its decision," Newman said. "It's going to end up there."
Planned Parenthood immediately sued after the law went into effect Thursday, saying South Carolina's abortion clinics were flooded with canceled appointments from patients further along in their pregnancies and doctors were forced to carefully review the new regulations on the fly.
The abortion rights group said the new law was so similar to the old one that clinics and women seeking treatment would be harmed if it were allowed to stay in effect until a full court review.
Nearly all of the 75 women with appointments for abortions over the next several days appeared to be past six weeks, Planned Parenthood attorney Kathleen McDaniel said.
"There is irreputable harm. It is happening. It has already happened," McDaniel said.
The majority opinion in the South Carolina Supreme Court ruling striking down the 2021 law said that although lawmakers have the authority to protect life, the privacy clause in the state constitution ultimately gives women time to determine whether they want to get an abortion and most women don't know they are pregnant six weeks after conception.
Justice Kaye Hearn wrote the opinion. She has since had to retire because she turned 72 and was replaced by a man, making the South Carolina's the only high court in the country without a woman on the bench.
"I would say that nothing in the law has changed," McDaniel said. "The only thing that has changed is there is no longer a woman on the Supreme Court."
The changes in the new law are directed at another justice in the majority, John Few, who wrote his own opinion saying the 2021 law was poorly written because legislators didn't show it did any work to determine if six weeks was enough time for a woman to know she was pregnant.
Few suggested he would have found an even stricter full ban on abortion constitutional, saying that if a fetus had all the rights of a person, then a ban would be like child abuse or rape laws that don't violate privacy rights.
Lawyers for the state leaned on the hope Few will change his vote
"We would strongly encourage the court to review that decision very carefully, to understand it focuses on one law, the 2021 act," state assistant attorney general Thomas Hydrick said. But, he said, the new law is a good faith attempt to correct flaws lawmakers saw in how the justices interpreted the 2021 law.
Newman said that's outside his role as a lower court judge. "Am I being asked to overrule the Supreme Court?" he asked.
Lawmakers continued to say they are confident they wrote a bill that will stand up to the high court's scrutiny this time.
"While I respect Judge Newman's decision, I remain convinced that the heartbeat bill is constitutional and that the Supreme Court will agree," Republican state Senate President Thomas Alexander said in a statement.
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DALLAS, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OrangeGrid, LLC ("OrangeGrid"), and Timios, Inc. ("Timios") announced a strategic partnership making Timios the preferred provider of title, escrow, valuation and asset management services within OrangeGrid's GridReady default management ecosystem. Additionally, Timios has made a significant equity investment in OrangeGrid to increase distribution capacity, and the companies will collaborate on a number of co-marketing initiatives to accelerate market adoption of the solution. Mortgage servicers who are GridReady customers will be able to seamlessly order title, escrow and valuation products and track fulfillment by Timios through the GridSource vendor management component of the ecosystem.
"The GridReady ecosystem is poised to disrupt default management by making modern workflow technology - which spans the business processes of both mortgage servicers and their vendors – easily accessible and rapidly deployable. Timios is excited to join OrangeGrid at the forefront of the digitization of mortgage servicing, enabling our servicing clients to experience the power of process integration that only OrangeGrid can provide," said Ray Davison, CEO of Timios.
"We're thrilled to welcome Timios as our first GridSource strategic partner and as an investor in our Company. This equity investment will enable us to significantly scale our product delivery resources to meet spiking demand from the rise in default-related activity, and the addition of Timios, a first-rate nationwide provider of title, valuation, asset management, and escrow services, will further enhance the value of GridReady for our mortgage servicing customers," said OrangeGrid CEO Todd Mobraten.
Mortgage servicers interested in learning more about the GridReady ecosystem and the Timios title and escrow services within GridSource should contact Dominic Baglio, SVP of Solutions Management at OrangeGrid (dominic.baglio@orangegrid.com) or Matt Golden, President of Timios (mgolden@timios.com).
About OrangeGrid, LLC
Dallas-based FinTech OrangeGrid is a developer and vendor of no/low code software technologies which improve the operational efficiency and effectiveness of financial institutions and their service providers. Learn more at www.orangegrid.com.
About Timios, Inc.
Westlake, California-based Timios provides a full suite of national title and settlement services, including a robust end to end suite of default services, Loan Modification, Foreclosure, REO Asset Management, BPO, Valuations, and Appraisal. Timios combines a knowledgeable and experienced team with innovative technology to deliver a holistic, best-in-class experience for its customers. With branch offices throughout the nation, Timios' unwavering approach to elevated client service levels has led them to become a preferred choice for many of the nation's top lending firms, as well as one of the fastest growing title and settlement firms in the real estate industry today.
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Auburn football picks up DL Malik Autry, first commitment to the class of 2025
AUBURN — It may be National Signing Day for the class of 2023, but that isn't stopping Auburn football from building toward the future.
The Tigers picked up their first commitment in the class of 2025 on Wednesday in defensive lineman Malik Autry, he announced via Twitter. Autry is currently unranked by the 247Sports Composite, but he was on campus for Auburn's Junior Day on Jan. 28 and posted later that day saying he had been given an offer by the new staff.
Rivals and 247Sports do not yet have a ranking for Autry, but On3 has him listed as a four-star recruit.
Autry, who is listed at 6-foot-6, plays for Opelika High School.
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Autry's primary recruiter, according to his 247Sports profile, is defensive line coach Jeremy Garrett, whom Freeze brought to the Plains from Liberty in December.
The commitment from Autry may just be the first domino to fall for the Tigers on Wednesday as 2023 running back Jeremiah Cobb out of Montgomery Catholic is expected to sign with Auburn. Jayden Lewis, a four-star cornerback in the class of 2024 who was at Junior Day, announced Monday that he would be committing Wednesday, too.
Richard Silva is the Auburn athletics beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. He can be reached via email at rsilva@gannett.com or on Twitter @rich_silva18. | 2023-02-01T18:56:43+00:00 | montgomeryadvertiser.com | https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/auburn/2023/02/01/malik-autry-auburn-football-commits-2025/69863173007/ |
WUHAN, China and SAN DIEGO, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurophth Therapeutics, Inc. ("Neurophth") announced today that the last patient has been enrolled in the Phase III clinical trial for the treatment of Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) in China. It marks the completion of patient enrollment of the Phase I/II/III, multi-center, two-parts study aimed at evaluating the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of NR082 in LHON patients with ND4 mutations.
Milestones of NR082
- September 24, 2020 - NR082 (rAAV2-ND4, NFS-01) was granted an orphan drug designation (ODD) by the U.S. FDA for the treatment of Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON) associated with ND4 mutation. It marks China's first self-developed orphan drug granted by the U.S. FDA.
- March 30, 2021 - The Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved Neurophth's Investigational New Drug (IND) application of NR082. It marks the first AAV2 gene therapy IND application approval in China.
- June 28, 2021 - The first patient has been dosed in G.O.L.D. clinical trial for the treatment of LHON.
- January 18, 2022 - Neurophth received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance of its investigational new drug (IND) application on the NR082, the first of its kind in China, for the treatment of LHON associated with ND4 mutation.
- January 24, 2022 – The European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) granted the orphan drug designation for NR082. NR082 is China's first self-developed in vivo gene therapy that has been granted orphan drug designation by EMA.
- May 25, 2022 - Neurophth has successfully completed an EOP2 meeting with The Center for Drug Evaluation and reached an agreement on the design of the Phase III clinical trial.
- July 15, 2022 - The Center for Drug Evaluation of China National Medical Products Administration has granted a Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) to NR082.
- September 27, 2022 – The first patient has been dosed in Phase III clinical trial. Wenbin Wei, vice president of Beijing Tongren hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, completed the first dose.
- February 22, 2023 – NR082 has completed the patient enrollment of the Phase III clinical trial.
"We are extremely excited to announce the completion of the last patient visit in this Phase III study, which marks a significant advancement for NR082 as well as a minor step toward the commercialization of China's self-developed ocular gene therapy. It often takes a decade to develop an innovative drug, and Chinese ophthalmic gene therapy drug costs much more than that." said Professor Bin Li, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Neurophth, "We would like to express our gratitude to all clinical investigators, trial participants and their families for their time and commitment, and also the excellent teamwork of the entire company to complete the Phase III clinical trial within 5 months. We are confident that the company will live up to our promise to commercialize Chinese in vivo gene therapy soon and make it available to patients."
"The design of the NR082 clinical trial and the selection of the optimal dose were based on multiple successful previous studies and in accordance with the CDE. Neurophth and CRO collaborated closely to overcome the challenges of COVID-19 and complete the enrollment of all patients successfully." said Dr. Xiaoning Guo, Chief Medical Officer of Neurophth, "We are optimistic about the outcome of this clinical trial. If the study meets the pre-defined endpoints, we will submit a New Drug Application as soon as possible for the early launch of NR082 in China and in the meantime, advance the progress of clinical trial in the U.S. to offer a direly needed treatment for LHON patients."
About Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON)
Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a maternally inherited blinding bilateral optic atrophy with a prevalence of around 1 in 31,000 to 1 in 54,000 particularly in young adult males. There are three mitochondrial DNA point mutations account for about over 90% of all LHON cases, namely, G3460A in ND1, G11778A in ND4 and T14484C in ND6, with G11778A mutation in NADH-dehydrogenase subunit 4 (ND4) gene causing a ND4 subunit arginine to be incorrectly replaced by a histidine and reducing the activity of NADH dehydrogenase by 50-80% as being the most common mutation worldwide. These mutations affect complex I subunits of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, impairing mitochondrial function and increasing the production of reactive oxygen species. The retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) appear to be selectively vulnerable to mitochondrial dysfunction resulting in apoptotic cell death, optic nerve degeneration, and the development of optic atrophy. Thus, the pathophysiology of LHON is characterized by selective loss of RGCs and their axons, which leads to rapidly progressive bilateral vision loss. There is currently no approved effective treatment for LHON and the current treatment remains limited.
About NR082
Investigational NR082 (rAAV2-ND4), a novel recombinant adeno-associated viral vector, serotype 2, containing a mitochondria codon-optimized NADH-dehydrogenase subunit 4 (ND4) gene under the control of the cytomegalovirus promoter and enhancer, is a novel gene therapy product that is being developed for the treatment of Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) associated with mtND4 mutations. NR082 can deliver the correct genes to the patients' damaged optic ganglion cells through introvitinreous injection, thus repair the mitochondrial biological respiratory chain, and restore the vitality and visual function of optic ganglion cells.
About Neurophth
Neurophth is China's leading in-vivo gene therapy company for ophthalmic diseases. With subsidiaries in China (Wuhan, Shanghai, and Suzhou) and US (San Diego, California), Neurophth, a fully integrated company, is striving to discover and develop genomic medicines for patients suffering from genetic diseases globally. Our validated AAV platform, which has been published in Nature - Scientific Reports, Ophthalmology, and EBioMedicine, has successfully delivered proof-of-concept investigator-initiated trials data of 186 subjects with investigational gene therapies in the retina. Our most advanced investigational gene therapy drug candidate, NR082 (rAAV2-ND4), in development for the treatment of mtND4-mediated LHON, has been granted orphan drug designation (ODD) by the U.S. FDA and EMA. After the IND clearance by the China NMPA in March 2021 and the U.S. IND by FDA in January 2022, Neurophth has completed patient enrollment for Phase III clinical trial in China. Recently, our second gene therapy drug candidate NFS-02, has been granted IND clearance from U.S. FDA. The pipeline also includes autosomal dominant optic atrophy, optic neuroprotection, vascular retinopathy, and five other preclinical candidates. Neurophth has scaled up in-house manufacturing capability in Suzhou facility utilizing single-use technologies to support future commercial demand. To learn more about us and our growing pipeline, visit www.neurophth.com.
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DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Friday signed off on a fund for more than 1,000 people who said they were sexually assaulted by a University of Michigan doctor, an order that allows victims to start collecting a portion of a $490 million settlement negotiated with the school.
“The University of Michigan offers its heartfelt apology for the abuse perpetrated by the late Robert Anderson. We hope this settlement helps the healing process for survivors,” said Paul Brown, chairman of the school’s governing board.
Anderson died in 2008 after working at the university for nearly 40 years. He was director of the campus Health Service and a physician for multiple sports teams, including football.
Former athletes, students and others who had no connection to the university — mostly men — said they were molested by Anderson during routine physicals or other visits.
The settlement was announced in January, but the final details took months to wrap up. The university said the deal recently got approval from 98% of claimants.
“It’s been a long road,” said Richard Schulte, a lead negotiator for Anderson’s victims. “I’m very happy for the survivors and glad I could get it across the finish line.”
The university will have no role in how the money is distributed. Six percent, or $30 million, of the settlement will be set aside for people who step forward later with claims.
U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts approved creation of the fund and appointed Houston-based Archer Systems LLC as the claims administrator.
“The process is completely confidential, but we’re hopeful distribution should take place this fall,” Schulte said.
The scandal emerged publicly in 2020, two years after Tad DeLuca, a wrestler in the 1970s, made a complaint that triggered a police investigation, though Anderson was long deceased.
That triggered a wave of men who stepped forward to say they, too, had been assaulted by Anderson; some allegations stretched back decades. Lawsuits followed.
The university, meanwhile, hired law firm WilmerHale to conduct an investigation. The results were devastating: Anderson harassed, abused and assaulted patients on “countless occasions” during his 37-year career.
Coaches, trainers and other staff in the athletic department did not question Anderson’s status, despite complaints, rumors and even jokes among athletes about his behavior, according to the report.
The report said complaints were made to athletic director Don Canham and legendary football coach Bo Schembechler but no action was taken. Both are deceased.
Anderson also was certified by the federal government to give physicals to pilots and air traffic controllers in southeastern Michigan, some of whom count themselves as victims.
“We consider this settlement just one of the steps we have taken in a process we began more than two years ago to fully understand what happened, make amends and enact reforms,” Brown said. “Our work is not done until U-M is considered the leader in creating a campus environment that is safe for everyone.”
Not everyone was satisfied. Richard Goldman, a student broadcaster and Anderson victim in the early 1980s, said Schembechler referred him to Canham but the powerful athletic director didn’t intervene.
“Seriously, fake apologies are not accepted,” Goldman said of Brown’s remarks.
The settlement is one of several by universities following sex abuse scandals. Michigan State University paid $500 million to settle claims from more than 300 women and girls who said they were assaulted by Larry Nassar, a campus sports doctor and a doctor for USA Gymnastics.
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Follow Ed White at http://twitter.com/edwritez | 2022-09-17T22:44:41+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-judge-signs-off-on-fund-for-u-michigan-doctors-victims/ |
For the past two months the Miami Heat have gone from a destination of choice for Kevin Durant, to a team on the outside looking when it came to a potential trade, to the Heat themselves making it known they were prepared to move forward with the roster in place.
Now it appears the eight weeks of scuttlebutt have landed Durant, the Brooklyn Nets and the Heat back where the process started, with nothing having changed or to change.
At least that appears to be the latest fallout from the soap opera that has dominated the NBA offseason since Durant’s trade request first became public on June 30, just hours before the start of free agency.
Tuesday, the Nets released a statement that addressed previous reports of Durant seeking from team owner Joseph Tsai either the dismissal of Brooklyn General Manager Sean Marks and coach Steve Nash, or a trade with four seasons remaining on his contract.
A statement from Marks, the former Heat center, released through the team read, “Steve Nash and I, together with Joe Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai, met with Kevin Durant [and Durant business manager] Rich Kleiman in Los Angeles yesterday. We have agreed to move forward with our partnership. We are focusing on basketball, with one collective goal in mind: build a lasting franchise to bring a championship to Brooklyn.”
While the Heat initially stood atop Durant’s relocation wish list, the Heat made clear an unwillingness to part with center Bam Adebayo, who last summer teamed with Durant to deliver Olympic gold to Team USA.
Still, with the names of Heat players such as Tyler Herro, Duncan Robinson and Kyle Lowry swirling in such rumors, the team last month stressed that management and ownership were content moving forward with a roster that lost only power forward P.J. Tucker from the core that advanced within one victory of the 2022 NBA Finals.
The Heat’s 2022-23 roster then appeared to be finalized, barring a trade, with the Sunday announcement by team captain Udonis Haslem that he will return for a 20th season. While Haslem’s return brings the roster to 14, one shy of the NBA regular-season limit, it puts the Heat hard up against the punitive luxury tax. The Heat also will carry two players on two-way contacts, with those salaries not counting against the salary cap or luxury tax.
The Heat, however, continue to be linked to a possible trade of Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell, with Herro mentioned as the potential linchpin of such a deal. However the Heat do not appear to have the desired draft capital being sought by Jazz executive Danny Ainge.
For now, the Heat stand with a potential opening-night roster of Adebayo, Jimmy Butler, Dewayne Dedmon, Haslem, Herro, Haywood Highsmith, Nikola Jovic, Lowry, Caleb Martin, Victor Oladipo, Robinson, Max Strus, Vincent and Omer Yurtseven, with Darius Days and Marcus Garrett on two-way deals.
The Heat open training camp the final week of September, with their regular season opening October 19 against the Chicago Bulls at FTX Arena.
The Heat’s first scheduled meeting against the Nets, and now likely Durant, is a preseason game on Oct. 6 at Barclays Center. The Heat’s first regular-season game against the Nets is Jan. 8 at FTX Arena.
Should Durant remain with the Nets, and should Brooklyn back off a potential trade of mercurial guard Kyrie Irving, who has been linked to the Los Angeles Lakers, it would leave them with a formidable roster of Durant, Irving, Ben Simmons, Joe Harris, Seth Curry, Patty Mills, Nic Claxton, T.J. Warren and Royce O’Neale, among others.
Listed with 18-to-1 odds for the 2023 NBA championship by Caesars Sports Book ahead of Tuesday’s announcement, the Nets were then moved to 9-to-1, sixth in the odds beyond only the Boston Celtics, Golden State Warriors, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Clippers and Milwaukee Bucks. The Heat continued to be listed at 14-to-1, as the No. 8 choice, behind the Nets and Los Angeles Lakers.
The uncertainty with Durant had brought the NBA free-agent market to a crawl in recent weeks, with potential moves now likely to resume. Among those remaining unsigned is forward Markieff Morris, who spent last season with the Heat.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jurors who will determine whether three men are guilty in the fatal shooting of rap star XXXTentacion outside a Florida motorcycle store in 2018 heard widely divergent stories during opening statements Tuesday — a robbery gone awry or detectives catching the wrong men through a failure to investigate other suspects, including the rapper Drake.
For prosecutor Pascale Achille, the case is straightforward. She told jurors that defendants Michael Boatwright, Trayvon Newsome and Dedrick Williams, plus a fourth man who has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge, Robert Allen, set out June 18, 2018, to commit armed robberies and went to Riva Motorsports in suburban Fort Lauderdale to buy masks.
There, they happened upon XXXTentacion, who was there with a friend to buy a motorcycle. They recognized him and seized upon the opportunity, deciding to rob him as he left, she said. Williams cut off the rapper’s BMW sports car with their SUV, Achille said, and Boatwright and Newsome jumped out with guns to rob him. A struggle ensued, they got the $50,000 XXXTentacion had in a designer bag and then Boatwright shot him several times “without any provocation,” she said.
To varying degrees, they are linked to the shooting by surveillance video and cellphone locations, and all are implicated through Allen’s expected testimony, Achille said. Then there are the social media photos of some of the men flashing the money posted that night, she said.
“They go on social media and start bragging that they have this influx of cash,” Achille said. “They flash it like it’s Christmas Day.”
To the men’s attorneys, the defendants are victims of Robert Allen’s lies and the failure of detectives to investigate XXXTentacion’s feud with the Canadian rapper Drake — XXXTentacion once said on social media that if he ever wound up dead, Drake would be the cause. He later retracted that. Another rapper had also made threats against XXXTentacion.
They said that with the rapper’s slaying coming just four months after the murder of 17 people at nearby Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the Broward Sheriff’s Office was under extreme political pressure to solve the case quickly.
“For Broward County, for everyone involved, this was a nightmare,” said Mauricio Padilla, Williams’ attorney.
That’s why they wanted no part with investigating a celebrity, he said.
Prosecutors say there is no evidence linking Drake to the shooting, and Williams is clearly seen in the store’s surveillance video, recognizable through his distinctive facial tattoos. He was also identified by one of the clerks. Padilla conceded Williams was present in the store but didn’t say how he would explain that.
Joseph Kimok, Boatwright’s attorney, also pointed the finger at a third man as the possible shooter — a friend Williams was seen talking to inside the motorcycle store just before the shooting who has the same build as his client. He alluded that the friend could have gotten into the car Williams was driving outside the view of surveillance cameras. He said the evidence will show that Boatwright was asleep at the home he shared with his grandmother at the time of the shooting.
“At no point (in the surveillance videos) will you see Mr. Boatwright, because he wasn’t there,” Kimok said.
Yes, a cellphone linked to him was near the store — but that was a community phone used by several men, he said. And yes, he “very stupidly posed” with money that night — but that money was Allen’s, not Boatwright’s, Kimok said.
Boatwright, 28, Williams, 26, and Newsome, 24, would all receive life sentences if convicted of first-degree murder. They also are charged with armed robbery.
Allen, 26, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last year.
The victim, whose real name was Jahseh Onfroy, pronounced his stage name “ex-ex-ex-ten-ta-see-YAWN.” He was a platinum-selling rising star who tackled issues including prejudice and depression in his songs. He also drew criticism over bad behavior and multiple arrests, including charges that he severely beat and abused his girlfriend. | 2023-02-07T22:11:38+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-prosecutor-xxxtentacions-accused-killers-set-out-to-rob/ |
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii lawmakers failed to pass a bill that would have made tourists help pay for the protection of the state’s forests and wildlife even though the idea has widespread public and political support.
Lawmakers in the Democratic-controlled House and Senate did not resolve their differences over the measure’s details in time for a deadline at the end of this year’s legislative session, which concludes Thursday.
The measure would have required tourists to pay for a yearlong license or pass to visit state parks and trails. Revenue would have paid for the maintenance and protection of parks, coral reefs, forests and wildlife such as dolphins.
About 10 million visitors come to Hawaii each year, while the state’s population numbers just 1.5 million. Many travelers like to hike in the state’s forests, snorkel over its coral reefs and view wildlife, all of which stress the environment.
A bill that passed in the Senate would have set the license fee for tourists at $50, but the House deleted the dollar amount. During the past week, lawmakers discussed appropriating $360,000 for five full-time state employees to implement the plan but failed to reach a final agreement.
Testimony overwhelmingly favored a bill. The governor and House and Senate leaders backed the concept. A 2022 public opinion survey conducted by the Hawaii Tourism Authority showed broad support for charging visitors to access state parks and trails.
Democratic state Sen. Chris Lee said the bulk of the discussion at the Legislature had to do with how to have visitors pay for upkeep, improvements and protection of parks and natural resources but not whether to do so.
“I don’t think the bill failed to pass on the merits of the legislation and of the idea that we ought to be leveraging visitors to pay for these things,” Lee said. “I think it was more the question of how and when.”
He expects the bill to come up for consideration again next year and for lawmakers to come together to pass it. He said there’s an appetite for steps that will reduce the effects of tourism on the environment and cut costs for residents.
A spokesperson for Democratic Gov. Josh Green said his administration views the bill’s failure as an opportunity to have a more comprehensive discussion on managing tourism.
“With all the feedback we’ve received from this year’s legislation, we are optimistic that we can develop a detailed bill for the next session that will ensure a more sustainable future for our keiki,” said Makana McClellan, using the Hawaiian word for children.
Carissa Cabrera, project manager for the Hawaii Green Fee, a coalition of nonprofit groups supporting a fee, said the bill got farther this session than previous iterations have in the past and had more support than ever before.
“Just because the bill has died, the idea is not dead,” she said. | 2023-05-03T21:27:29+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/ap-us-news/hawaii-lawmakers-fail-to-pass-annual-park-fee-for-tourists/ |
Target claims ‘biggest Black Friday sale ever’ as Thanksgiving nears
MINNEAPOLIS - As shoppers prepare for the holidays, Target announced it will have its "largest" Black Friday sale yet.
According to the company, the deals will be available between Nov. 20 and Nov. 28 online and in stores and will feature deals including up to 50% off electronics, toys, video games, kitchen appliances and more.
The retailer said it will also debut new deals on Thanksgiving Day through the holiday weekend, and for Cyber Monday on Nov. 27-28.
People shop at the Herald Square Macy's Flag ship store for the early Black Friday sales on November 22, 2018 in New York City. Known as 'Black Friday', the day after Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season, with many retailer
"We know our guests are looking forward to Black Friday for big savings across all of their holiday needs, and we’re planning to deliver for them with our biggest Black Friday sale ever," said Christina Hennington, Target’s executive vice president and chief growth officer.
Target deals will include:
- Buy one, get one 50% off on top toy brands like exclusively-at-Target FAO Schwarz, plus Barbie, Marvel, Our Generation and more
- Up to 40% off LEGO
- Buy an Xbox Series S Console and get $50 off plus a $50 Gift Card (reg. $299.99)
- Save $300 on Element 65-inch Smart TV (sale $329.99, reg. $629.99)
- Save $100 on Beats Solo 3 Wireless Headphones (sale $99.99, reg. $199.99)
- Top Nintendo Switch Games at $29.99
- Save $70 on PowerXL Vortex Pro 8qt Air Fryer (sale $59.99, reg. $129.99)
- Save $200 on KitchenAid Professional 5qt Stand Mixer (sale $249.99, reg. $449.99)
- Save $150 on Dyson V8 Origin Vacuum (sale $279.99, reg. $429.99)
- Save $105 on iRobot Roomba 675 Vacuum (sale $174.99, reg. $279.99)
Target previously announced that all of its stores would be closed on Thanksgiving Day. Most stores will reopen at 7 a.m. local time on Black Friday, Nov. 25.
But Target isn’t the only store pulling on all the stops for the holidays. Stores such as Amazon, Walmart and Best Buy have already started releasing some of their Black Friday deals.
Top toys for 2022
In August, Walmart released its list of the top toys for 2022, with more than half the toys on the list under $50 and many under $25.
Some of the top toys rolling out this holiday season are highlighted by major brands including LEGO, Cocomelon, Jurassic World, Hot Wheels, L.O.L. Surprise, Paw Patrol, Barbie, and Magic Mixies.
RELATED: Walmart releases 2022 Top Toy List to kick off holiday shopping season
"We know our customers are shopping early, and finding the lowest prices on toy gifts is a priority for many families this year," Laura Rush, senior vice president, Electronics, Toys and Seasonal, Walmart U.S., said in a statement. "We’re excited to help our customers as they start their holiday shopping by announcing our Top Toy List today and providing them with a fantastic selection of toys in stores and on Walmart.com at low prices only Walmart can deliver."
See the complete list here.
Record shopping expected Thanksgiving weekend
According to a new survey by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics, an estimated 166.3 million people are planning to shop from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday this year. This figure is almost 8 million more people than last year and is the highest estimate since NRF began tracking this data in 2017.
"While there is much speculation about inflation’s impact on consumer behavior, our data tells us that this Thanksgiving holiday weekend will see robust store traffic with a record number of shoppers taking advantage of value pricing," NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay said. "We are optimistic that retail sales will remain strong in the weeks ahead, and retailers are ready to meet consumers however they want to shop with great products at prices they want to pay."
This story was reported from Los Angeles. | 2022-11-18T22:37:22+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/target-claims-biggest-black-friday-sale-ever-as-thanksgiving-nears |
which heating pad is best?
Back in the day, people could only relieve their muscle pain with a hot water bottle and Epsom salt baths. But heating pads have come a long way, and advancements in technology provided plenty of new features for this wellness tool. Hot water bottles became less popular after the first electric heating pads came along, which gave users sustained relief from aches and pains without the mess.
Today, there are all kinds of heating pads you can choose from. If you want a high-quality heating pad, check out the iReliev Far Infrared Heating Pad. It heats 112 natural jade and tourmaline wellness stones to reduce aching, soothe muscles and relieve pain.
What to know before you buy a heating pad
Types of heating pads
There are several types of heating pads, all of which have their pros and cons. A hot water bottle is a rubber bladder with a threaded cap. If you want some substantial head for a smaller area, you can save money with these heating pads. However, they don’t hold heat as long as other methods.
You can also take a look at microwave heating pads, which are fabric bags filled with grains or microbeads. Consider this type if you want a pad for relaxation, muscle tensions, and occasional pain relief from cramps.
Chemical heating pads are small gel packs that heat up when you trigger a chemical reaction by shaking them or exposing them to the air. These are a great option if you need portable heat in a short amount of time.
Electric heating pads are perfect for those with chronic soreness in muscles and joints. These allow users to adjust the temperature and get the relief they want and include other features like timers, automatic shut-off and more.
What to look for in a quality heating pad
Temperature control
Hot water bottles, microwavable heating pads and chemical heating pads all have their drawbacks. You cannot adjust the temperature, and they inevitably cool down. An electric heating pad allows you to choose exactly how much heat you want for a sustained period. Budget electric heating pads might have only a few settings, while better electric heating pads have multiple options.
Automatic shut-off
The warm, toasty feeling you get from a heating pad can make you drowsy, which may cause you to fall asleep. Heating pads with automatic timers shut off after an hour or two. This is useful if you drift off to sleep or accidentally leave the heating pad unattended. It also saves you money.
Cord length
Some heating pads have very short power cords. Look for heating pads with long cords to avoid the hassle of wrangling an extension cord every time you want to use it.
Size
Each manufacturer has a different idea of what labels like XL and XXL mean. The best way to make sure your heating pad is the right size for your needs is to check the dimensions and not the label. Remember bigger is better, especially if you plan on using your pad on multiple areas.
How much you can expect to spend on a heating pad
Small electric heating pads and some microwavable pads cost $10-$20. If you want something with a few more size options, features and controls, you can expect to spend $25-$40. High-tech full-body heating pads cost as much as $2,500.
Heating pad FAQ
What setting should I use?
A. Therapists recommend you start at the lowest setting on your heating pad and gradually increase the heat as needed. The lower the setting, the longer the time you can use your heating pad.
How long can I use my heating pad in a single session?
A. Most manufacturers recommend using the highest temperature setting for no more than 15 or 20 minutes.
What’s the best heating pad to buy?
Top heating pad
iReliev Far Infrared Heating Pad
What you need to know: Far infrared wavelengths permeate deeper into the upper and lower back, hamstrings, shoulders and arms.
What you’ll love: Far infrared rays help increase blood circulation and improve energy. This flexible unit has a 10-foot power cord and measures 24 inches by 16 inches. It heats all-natural jade and tourmaline wellness stones that release negative ions to reduce aching, inflamed muscles and relieve pain. The timer lasts for up to five hours.
What you should consider: The 10-inch cord is very short and you will likely need to use this product with an extension cord.
Where to buy: Sold by iRelieve and Amazon
Top heating pad for the money
iReliev Weighted Moist/Dry Heating Pad
What you need to know: Consider this gently weighted heating pad which calms and soothes.
What you’ll love: This three-pound heating pad is clinically proven to reduce muscle tension by increasing blood flow to targeted regions of your body. It has an ultra-soft microfiber heating pad that is machine washable. It heats in seconds and has a two-hour auto shut-off timer.
What you should consider: There are only three heat settings.
Where to buy: Sold by iRelieve and Amazon
Worth checking out
Pure Enrichment PureRelief XXL Electric Heating Pad
What you need to know: At 24 inches by 20 inches, this ultra-wide heating pad is large enough to wrap around your limbs or drape over your shoulders like a cape.
What you’ll love: This machine-washable microfiber heating pad is 60% larger than standard heating pads and has an extra-long nine-foot cord. The digital LCD controller has six heat settings to accommodate your personal comfort level and comes with a moist heat therapy option.
What you should consider: Some users don’t feel this heating pad gets hot enough.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The federal Health and Human Services Department often failed to perform required background checks on workers at emergency holding centers for migrant children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border alone during a surge in 2021, the agency's internal watchdog has found.
The inspector general's report released Thursday raises questions about how better prepared authorities will be for the next emergency, especially with coronavirus pandemic-related asylum restrictions scheduled to end this coming week and expected to result in more arrivals.
The report, based on a sampling, found that 200 workers did not have background checks for child abuse or neglect and only 29 did, though 20 of those were not done in a “timely manner.”
Investigators found 174 did not have FBI fingerprint background checks while 55 did, but 25 of those were not done in a “timely manner.” Checks against the Justice Department's sex offender registry, which were required less often, were not done on 42 workers and were performed on 36, though 11 were not in a “timely manner.”
Criminal background checks based on publicly available records were done more often, but still on far less than half of new hires.
The review focused on 10 of 14 contracted “emergency intake sites,” including convention centers in San Diego and Long Beach, California, a county fairgrounds near Los Angeles and two military bases in Texas. It included a department-run overflow site in Carrizo Springs, Texas, which also often failed to perform required checks.
HHS expanded holding capacity to 13,500 beds by the spring of 2021 but was unprepared for increased flows that occurred shortly after President Joe Biden took office, forcing authorities to ask the military and local governments for help opening emergency shelters for up to six months.
The department's Office of Refugee Resettlement "must address the shortcomings we identified to ensure that similar issues do not recur during future influxes." the report concluded. "Effective oversight of facility operations and clearly communicating background check requirements are critical to ensuring the safety of children."
HHS agreed with the watchdog's seven recommendations. January Contreras, assistant secretary for children and families, said the report covered “one of the most challenging periods" in its history of caring for migrant children and noted that the surge occurred amid the pandemic.
Under federal law, HHS takes custody of children who cross the border alone — generally within 72 hours of arrest — and places them with family or other sponsors while their cases wind through immigration courts.
The department received more than 122,000 children in the 2021 budget year, compared with about 19,000 the previous year, Contreras said.
The Border Patrol held children for days, even weeks, in 2021 until the health agency was prepared to take custody. The Border Patrol once held more than 4,000 people, largely unaccompanied children, at a facility in Donna, Texas, that was designed for 250 with COVID-19 restrictions.
In a response to the inspector general, Contreras wrote that HHS “continues to search for more efficient ways to reduce barriers to the timeliness of background check adjudication, has made progress, and is working in real time to improve its processes."
U.S. authorities recorded the highest number of crossings by children traveling on along on record in March 2021, when nearly 19,000 were taken into custody. For this past March, the latest publicly available data, about 12,500 were taken into custody. | 2023-05-04T20:59:27+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/politics/article/us-often-didn-t-screen-workers-at-migrant-18079424.php |
Photography News: Sony's latest R-series camera, the a7R V, features AI-assisted focusing, a 4-axis multi-angle LCD, and 8K recording
Sony a7R V Mirrorless Camera Pre-Order starts at 10/27/22 – 10:00am EST
NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- B&H is excited to announce the Sony a7R V mirrorless camera. This high-resolution mirrorless standard adds the power and intelligence of an evolved image processor, a 4-axis multi-angle LCD monitor, 8K video recording, and a laundry list of internal and external improvements appealing to photo and video shooters alike. With integrated AI-assisted autofocusing capable of real-time subject recognition from humans to insects, eight stops of image stabilization, dual CFexpress slots, and a 9.44 mil dot EVF, there is no shortage of reasons to love this new camera. A devout fan of its predecessor, I tried out the a7R V in the studio and on location to see how it compared.
- 61MP Full-Frame Exmor R BSI CMOS Sensor
- BIONZ XR & AI Processing Unit
- AI-Based Real-Time Tracking AF System
- 8K 24p, 4K 60p, FHD 120p 10-Bit Video
- 4K 16-Bit Raw Output; S-Log3/S-Cinetone
- 9.44m-Dot EVF with 120 fps Refresh Rate
- 3.2" 4-Axis Multi-Angle Touchscreen LCD
- 10 fps Shooting with AF/AE Tracking
- 8-Stop 5-Axis Image Stabilization
- Dual CFexpress Type A/SD Card Slots
Headlining the new release is a BIONZ XR processor, endowed with what Sony calls Artificial Intelligence. While the camera didn't sprout legs and take photos for me, I did notice improved speed and accuracy locking onto human and bird eyes when using the 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II and 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS lenses. For human subjects, the camera can focus on bodies, heads, and eyes using a "human pose estimation" algorithm. Per Sony, the new camera boasts a 60% improvement in Eye AF performance over the a7R IV. It rarely missed when I used it. Beyond people, there are dedicated modes for animal, bird, animal/bird, insect, car/train, and airplane subjects. When photographing a heron, its AF worked as smoothly as it did with my human model.
The a7R V's real-time tracking leans on 693-point high density phase detection AF, which covers 79% of full-frame and 100% of APS-C capture. If, like me, you are afraid of AI taking better photos than you, full-time DMF lets you switch seamlessly from AF to manual focusing at any time. However, as much of a neurotic advocate of manual focusing as I am, I found myself kicking back and letting the AF do its thing nearly the entire time I spent with the a7R V. I have no regrets. Even when shooting in an all-black environment lit by strobes, it locked onto my model's eyes for nearly every single shot.
The Sony a7R5 keeps the 61MP sensor that made the a7R IV a pixel-peeper's dream. It has a native ISO range of 100-32,000—expandable to 102,400: the highest resolution at low sensitivity in a Sony camera to date. Fifteen stops of dynamic range work to secure smooth tonal gradations in nearly any lighting environment. Still life and product photographers will appreciate the addition of focus bracketing capabilities to accompany the hard-drive-devouring Pixel Shift Multi-Shooting mode from its previous model.
For action junkies, the Sony a7R V is capable of shooting 10 fps mechanical bursts of up to 583 compressed raw files, or more than 1,000 jpegs. When I tested this feature, the camera gracefully rattled off shots, content to fill a memory card without breaking a sweat. Speaking of raw files, you have more types to choose from with the a7R V: uncompressed raw, lossless compression raw, or compressed raw. Be kind to your storage media when working with such massive files.
The body of the a7R V shares much in common with its predecessor with one major upgrade: a 4-axis, multi-angle 3.2" LCD screen with 2.095m-dot resolution and touch capabilities. I found myself using this feature far more than expected. Whether shooting down from a ladder or up from the ground, it is hard to deny the benefits that this articulation brings when trying to capture unconventional angles. For those recording video, it also provides the invaluable ability to watch oneself on camera in real time. By pushing away from the camera body, you are granted full access to the side ports when rotating the screen.
The menu system of the a7R IV has been updated to the format of Sony's more recent models.
An improved 9.44 m-dot QXGA EVF with 120 fps refresh rate provides sharp, bright, and seamless viewing during capture.
Up top, an S&Q (Slow and Quick) dial setting has been added for easily changing to this setting to capture time lapse or slow motion. Overall, the layout of the a7R V should feel familiar in the hands of Sony mirrorless veterans. S/L dials are customizable and the C1 button and Record buttons have been swapped. The two SDXC slots of the a7R IV are now complemented by a pair of CFexpress type A slots for when you need to maximize processing power, whether shooting bursts or recording video footage at high resolutions.
While the R-series has historically been thought of in still image terms, its latest iteration has significantly beefed up video capabilities. Most notably, it can record up to 8K at 24/25 fps with full AF and AE support. Full frame 4K recording provides a full sensor readout with no cropping up to 30 fps, while 4K/60 and 8K capture results in a 1.2x crop. The a7R V can capture 8K footage up to 10-bit 4:2:0, and 4K 10-bit 4:2:2. XAVC-HS is available for 8K and 4K recording in addition to HD. For subjects demanding a high frame rate, it can record up to 120 fps at 1080p.
Like noted above for still images, AI-assisted tracking keeps a wide range of subjects in focus when recording. In terms of color, the a7R V offers S-Log3, S-Cinetone, and HLG and HDR recording. Finally, updated 5-axis body optical image stabilization and improved camera-lens communication provide up to eight stops of stability for handheld capture with Sony's OSS lenses.
The a7R V brings the R-series' connectivity options into the future. First, it can act as a UVC webcam for content creators streaming in 4K up to 15p. For workflows that demand lightning-fast turnaround, FTP file transfer via 2x2 MIMO is capable of transferring 3.5x more data than the a9 II. Additionally, files can be transferred via wireless LAN, wired LAN (via adapter), or USB-C.
The a7R V builds on the strengths of its predecessor in nearly every aspect of its design. While its features and capabilities have been substantially expanded, it did not feel foreign in the hands of a photographer accustomed to the a7R IV.
Hans on Sony a7R V Mirrorless Camera – First Look
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian media report rockets being fired into Israel; Israeli military says warning sirens sounding in the south.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian media report rockets being fired into Israel; Israeli military says warning sirens sounding in the south. | 2023-02-23T03:40:13+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/politics/article/alert-palestinian-media-report-rockets-being-17800261.php |
Ethisphere recognizes companies demonstrating exceptional leadership and a commitment to business integrity through best-in-class ethics, compliance, and governance practices
OAKLAND, Calif., March 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Shield of California has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies in 2023 by Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices.
For 11 of the past 12 years – the nonprofit health plan has received this designation. In 2023, Ethisphere recognized 135 organizations spanning 19 countries and 46 industries.
"Blue Shield of California's ongoing commitment to ethical behavior is the foundation for our company's values of being human, honest, and courageous," said Venetia Marshall, vice president, chief risk, and compliance officer at Blue Shield of California. "It is how our more than 7,800 employees focus on 'doing the right thing' in serving our members, customers, and communities."
Blue Shield is a nonprofit health plan driven by its mission of providing access to quality health care that's sustainably affordable for everyone. The company and its employees also continue to be at the forefront of responding to major health and social issues.
Ethisphere's World's Most Ethical Companies assessment considers more than 200 questions on culture, environmental and social practices, ethics and compliance activities, governance, diversity, and initiatives to support a strong value chain. The process serves as an operating framework to capture and codify the leading practices of organizations across industries and around the globe.
"Ethics matters. Organizations that commit to business integrity through robust programs and practices not only elevate standards and expectations for all, but also have better long-term performance," said Erica Salmon Byrne, CEO of Ethisphere. "We continue to be inspired by the World's Most Ethical Companies honorees and their dedication to making real impact for their stakeholders and displaying exemplary values-based leadership. Congratulations to Blue Shield of California for earning a place in the World's Most Ethical Companies community."
The full list of the 2023 World's Most Ethical Companies can be found here.
About Blue Shield of California
Blue Shield of California strives to create a healthcare system worthy of its family and friends that is sustainably affordable. Blue Shield of California is a tax paying, nonprofit, independent member of the Blue Shield Association with over 4.7 million members, over 7,800 employees and more than $22.9 billion in annual revenue. Founded in 1939 in San Francisco and now headquartered in Oakland, Blue Shield of California and its affiliates provide health, dental, vision, Medicaid and Medicare healthcare service plans in California. The company has contributed more than $192 million to Blue Shield of California Foundation in the last five years to have an impact on California communities.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Giancarlo Stanton homered into an especially sweet spot in his Dodger Stadium homecoming at the All-Star Game, putting his name alongside some of the sluggers he loved watching from the left field seats as a kid.
Byron Buxton followed with another drive and the American League won its ninth straight Midsummer Classic, beating the National League 3-2 on Tuesday night.
AL manager Dusty Baker reminded his team of the winning streak before the game.
“We had to hold it down for him and keep it going,” Stanton said.
Fans rooting for a tie score after nine innings so they could see a first-time home run derby decide the winner instead of extra innings didn’t get their wish.
Instead, the back-to-back homers in the fourth inning were the difference as the AL boosted its overall edge to 47-43-2.
Facing 11-game winner Tony Gonsolin of the Dodgers, Stanton’s impressive 457-foot, two-run shot landed in the left-field pavilion.
“He smokes them,” NL manager Brian Snitker said. “Big, strong kid.”
Stanton and his father, Mike, would sit out there after buying tickets off scalpers for whatever price they could afford.
“My Pops took me to my first Dodger game, showed me how to have love for this game and now we’re here,” the New York Yankees slugger said. “Look at us, it’s just incredible.”
Despite his love for the home team, Stanton thrilled at seeing the visiting sluggers.
“It was really the big boppers when they came into town,” he said. “I wanted to see (Mark) McGwire, (Sammy) Sosa and (Barry) Bonds, even if it was two at-bats. All that wraps around full circle.”
Stanton was chosen the game’s MVP, receiving a glass bat engraved with his name from two-time MVP Steve Garvey and Billie Jean King, part of the Dodgers ownership.
“It hasn’t fully sank in,” he said. “It’s going to be an amazing memory for all of our lives.”
The homer ended Stanton’s career 0 for 7 skid in the game and at 111.2 mph, it was the hardest-hit homer in an All-Star Game tracked by Statcast. Also scoring was José Ramírez, tying the game 2-all.
Four pitches later, Buxton went deep to give the AL a 3-2 lead against a clearly frustrated Gonsolin, who took the loss.
Nine-time All-Star Clayton Kershaw got the first start of his career for the NL in his home ballpark, with the Dodgers hosting for the first time since 1980. Los Angeles Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani got the game’s first hit on Kershaw’s first pitch.
Framber Valdez of Houston got the win, tossing a scoreless third inning.
AL starter Shane McClanahan of Tampa Bay gave up two runs and four hits. The first-time All-Star, who owns an MLB-leading 1.71 ERA, had allowed four hits or fewer in his last seven starts.
McClanahan combined with 10 other pitchers on the five-hitter. Cleveland closer Emmanuel Clase put on quite a show, striking out the side in the ninth to earn the save.
Austin Riley’s single in the eighth was the NL’s only hit after the first inning.
Ohtani led off for the AL as the designated hitter. Interviewed moments before the start, the Japanese superstar said, in English, he was going to swing. He cracked a 91-mph fastball into center field on the first pitch.
“I was definitely swinging a hundred percent,” Ohtani later said through a translator. “Kershaw has really good command.”
His hit snapped an 0 for 8 streak as a hitter against Kershaw. Last year, Ohtani was the starting pitcher and led off as the DH in the AL’s 5-2 win at Denver. He didn’t pitch this year so he can start Friday in the Angels’ first game after the break at Atlanta.
“I mean, you can’t throw the first pitch of an All-Star Game as a breaking ball,” Kershaw said. “You kind of had to give him a heater there, I think just for everything. Had to do it.”
But the three-time NL Cy Young Award winner had the last word. Kershaw fired a pickoff throw to first that caught Ohtani off the bag.
“Honestly, I didn’t know quite know what to throw yet. Sometimes I throw over there for a second to be convicted with the pitch,” Kershaw said. “I wasn’t trying to pick him off. I was trying to delay the game for a bit, but it worked out.”
Then the Yankees’ Aaron Judge, who leads the majors in home runs, went down swinging. After Rafael Devers walked, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. grounded into a fielder’s choice, and Kershaw walked off to applause from the appreciative crowd.
“I tried to take a minute at the beginning to take it all in and look around, which I usually never do,” Kershaw said. “It kind of calmed everything down for me and then I had a lot of fun.”
The NL wasted no time in taking its first 2-0 lead in 10 years. Styling in yellow spikes and alternate yellow and red sleeves, Ronald Acuña Jr. led off the bottom of the first with a ground-rule double to left and scored on Mookie Betts’ single. Paul Goldschmidt hit a solo homer with two outs.
In between runs, Guardians second baseman Andrés Giménez made a defensive stop on Manny Machado and followed with a dazzling behind-the-back toss to shortstop Tim Anderson, who threw to first to complete the double play.
A sellout crowd of 52,518 filled Dodger Stadium two years after the third-oldest ballpark in the majors was supposed to host before the game was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
HERE’S TO YOU, MS. ROBINSON
Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts, with all of the other All-Stars bunched behind him, led the crowd in sending out 100th birthday wishes to Rachel Robinson. On his 1-2-3 count, the crowd and players shouted “Happy birthday, Rachel!” The widow of Jackie Robinson didn’t travel from her home in Connecticut. She visited Dodger Stadium in April on Jackie Robinson Day to mark the 75th anniversary of her husband breaking baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Jackie Robinson’s achievement was honored with on-field comments by Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington and a presentation on the video boards.
FIRST PITCH
Backed by a mariachi band, Dodgers great Fernando Valenzuela tossed out the ceremonial first pitch. Fittingly, first-time All-Star Alejandro Kirk of Toronto served as catcher. Kirk and Valenzuela were both born in Mexico. Fernandomania gripped the Dodgers in 1981, when the left-hander won Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award in helping LA win the World Series.
FASHION CRITICS
The reviews were mostly negative for the second straight year on the All-Star uniforms. The AL wore dark gray uniforms that blended into the plate umpire’s black shirt and dark gray pants. The NL wore all-white uniforms. Both had gold lettering. Fans were critical on social media, with “atrocious” a frequent critique. Last year, MLB went away from wearing traditional jerseys, which met with heavy online criticism.
MIC’ED UP MANOAH
Alek Manoah, Toronto’s expressive right-hander, wore a microphone and earpiece while pitching the second inning, engaging in an entertaining conversation with Fox analyst and Hall of Famer John Smoltz. “How hard am I throwing?” Manoah asked early. He also sought scouting reports on Joc Pederson and Acuña Jr. Manoah did fine, striking out three and also plunking Jeff McNeil with a pitch. A lot of players were mic’ed up. Fans heard Judge and Stanton talking back and forth while playing the outfield, and Yankees batterymates Nestor Cortes and Jose Trevino talking while working together.
THE SHIFT IS STILL ON
Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman batted in the third to the now familiar chants of “Freddie! Freddie!” Even in the exhibition game, an extreme shift was on and he was thrown out from right field. Home Run Derby champion Juan Soto got thrown out by the third baseman playing much closer to second base to end the fifth. Next season, the shift is likely going away in the majors.
TAKING IT EASY
Hall of Fame announcer Vin Scully, the voice of the Dodgers for 67 years before retiring in 2016, watched the game from his Los Angeles home. The Bronx-born 94-year-old began calling games when the franchise was located in Brooklyn and followed the team out West ahead of the 1958 season.
UP NEXT
The regular season resumes with six games on Thursday, including Stanton, Judge and the Yankees playing a doubleheader at Houston. The Yankees own the best record in the majors at 64-28. Jose Altuve, Yordan Alvarez and Baker’s Astros have the second-best mark in the AL at 59-32.
“I just regret that we have to play him a doubleheader on Thursday,” Baker said. “But for today, we’re on the same side.”
Also, it will be Freeman, Betts, Trea Turner and the Dodgers, topping the NL at 60-30, hosting the Giants.
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Buchheister to assume duties March 1, 2023 and will work with Mike Kaplan on transition through the end of the 2023 season
ASPEN SNOWMASS, Colo., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aspen Snowmass names Geoff Buchheister as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Buchheister will lead Aspen Snowmass's Mountain Division and will begin work March 1, 2023. Geoff's first priority will be to spend the next two months learning and transitioning responsibilities from Mike Kaplan who officially retires on April 30, 2023, after working for Aspen Skiing Company for the past 30 years. Geoff joins Aspen Snowmass from his current role as Chief Operating Officer at Whistler Blackcomb, the largest resort in North America, where he has been since 2019.
"While this process took longer than expected, we firmly believe it was worth the wait. In the end, we found the ideal candidate to lead our ski and summer-time mountain operations into the future," says Jim Crown. "Geoff has a long history in the industry, a true passion for the sport and understands the importance of long-term planning, community relations, and the vital role employees play in delivering guests a world-class experience."
Buchheister has nearly 25 years of overall ski industry experience, primarily gained at Park City where he spent 16 years in various leadership roles. He joined Vail Resorts in 2014 when they acquired Park City Mountain Resort, and then was appointed to lead the company's urban ski areas: Afton Alps, Minnesota, Mt. Brighton, Michigan, and Wilmot, Wisconsin. In 2017 he was named general manager of Keystone, Colorado before taking on his current role at Whistler Blackcomb.
"Geoff and I connected on so many levels," says Mike Kaplan, president and CEO, Aspen Snowmass. "He has a deep understanding of the business, but just as important, he is a lifelong skier and has a deep tie to the mountain lifestyle. He worked his way up through the industry and understands the importance of building a solid team and putting employees first."
Buchheister is a Colorado native who grew up in Winter Park, Colorado where his father was a ski resort executive for 44 years and was instrumental in starting the National Sports Center for the Disabled and became the organization's first CEO. Geoff attended the University of Colorado at Boulder where he was a three-time NCAA All-American racer on the ski team. His wife Tina grew up ski racing in Slovenia and was a NCAA All-American for the University of Utah. They have two children, a 16-year-old daughter, Stella, who skis for Team Summit Colorado and is on the national development group for the U.S. Ski Team and a 13-year-old son, Luka who has been racing with the Whistler Mountain Ski Club in British Columbia.
"I'm incredibly excited to be returning to Colorado and joining the Aspen Skiing Company team," says Buchheister. "I feel a strong connection to the values that the Crown family brings to this organization, and I look forward to being part of this team. Aspen has such deep history, built by a community that loves and celebrates its unique mountain culture. I'm humbled to have the opportunity to listen and learn as I integrate into the company and the community."
About Aspen Snowmass
Established in 1946, Aspen Snowmass owns and operates the four mountains of Aspen Snowmass – Aspen Mountain, Snowmass, Aspen Highlands and Buttermilk. www.aspensnowmass.com. Aspen Snowmass's hospitality division, Aspen Hospitality, is comprised of The Little Nell and Limelight Hotels. www.thelittlenell.com, www.limelighthotels.com. Most recently, Aspen Snowmass introduced ASPENX, a contemporary retail and experience brand, offering elevated retail, premium rental equipment, and exceptional food and wine experiences both on- and off-mountain. www.aspenx.com.
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BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centrus Energy Corp. (NYSE American: LEU) ("Centrus" or the "Company") today reported second quarter 2022 results.
Highlights
- Net income of $37.4 million on revenue of $99.1 million in Q2 2022, compared to net income of $11.6 million on $62.4 million in revenue in Q2 2021
- Long-term order book valued at approximately $1.0 billion as of June 30, 2022, and December 31, 2021
- Secured more than $135 million in new sales contracts and commitments in 2022
- Continued to meet all milestones under the DOE HALEU contract
Centrus Energy Corp. today reported net income of $37.4 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, compared to net income of $11.6 million for the second quarter of 2021. The net income allocable to common stockholders in the second quarter of 2022 was $37.4 million, or $2.56 (basic) and $2.51 (diluted) per common share.
"This was a strong quarter for Centrus, driven by our LEU Segment. We are grateful to our customers for placing new, multi-year orders with us that increase the value of our order book," said Centrus President and CEO Daniel B. Poneman. "Moreover, industry, Congress, and the Administration now share the same sense of urgency about the need to restore America's domestic nuclear fuel supply chain to support both new and existing reactors. Centrus is uniquely positioned to meet the growing demand for U.S.-origin Low-Enriched Uranium ("LEU") and High-Assay, Low-Enriched Uranium ("HALEU"). We are licensed to produce LEU and have the only U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to produce HALEU, as well as the only deployment-ready enrichment technology that is suitable for national security missions."
Financial Results
Centrus generated total revenue of $99.1 million for the second quarter of 2022 compared to $62.4 million in the second quarter of 2021.
Revenue from the Low Enriched Uranium segment was $85.5 million and $45.2 million in the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, an increase of $40.3 million. The increase for the three months was attributable to an increase in the average SWU price, which was partially offset by a decrease in the volume of SWU sold, largely due to the variability in timing of utility customer orders and related contracts.
Revenue from the technical solutions segment was $13.6 million and $17.2 million in the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, a decrease of $3.6 million. The decrease in revenue in the three months was primarily related to a $2.9 million decrease in revenue generated by the HALEU Contract and a $1.0 million decrease in revenue generated by the X-energy contract.
Cost of sales for the LEU segment was $26.1 million and $27.0 million in the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, a decrease of $0.9 million. The decrease for the three months was attributable to decreases in both SWU sales volume and the average SWU unit cost. Cost of sales for the three months ended June 30, 2022, included $5.5 million for the revaluation of obligations for SWU borrowed in 2018-2022.
Cost of sales for the technical solutions segment was $12.1 million and $18.3 million in the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, a decrease of $6.2 million. The decrease of $6.2 million in the three months is related to a reduction in costs of approximately $5.6 million associated with the HALEU Contract and a reduction in costs of approximately $1.0 million associated with the X-energy contract, partially offset by new contract work of approximately $0.4 million.
Gross profit for the Company was $60.9 million and $17.1 million in the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
HALEU Update
Centrus recently completed conceptual design for a commercial-scale HALEU cascade that would have 120 centrifuges and a much larger output than the 16-centrifuge demonstration cascade. Each 120-machine commercial cascade could produce approximately 6 metric tons of HALEU per year at 19.75 percent U235 or greater quantities at lower enrichment levels. Subject to the availability of funding by the government and/or other financing, Centrus could scale up the Piketon facility to accommodate whatever level of HALEU production is required and could also produce Low-Enriched Uranium for existing reactors if needed. The Piketon facility is large enough to accommodate thousands of centrifuges.
New Sales Contract and Commitments
Prices in the global uranium enrichment market have risen significantly over the course of 2022, giving Centrus the opportunity to make long-term sales at higher prices and margins. In the first half of 2022, Centrus secured more than $135 million in new sales contracts and commitments. These sales include deliveries of SWU and uranium from 2022 through 2026.
About Centrus Energy Corp.
Centrus Energy is a trusted supplier of nuclear fuel and services for the nuclear power industry. Centrus provides value to its utility customers through the reliability and diversity of its supply sources – helping them meet the growing need for clean, affordable, carbon-free electricity. Since 1998, the Company has provided its utility customers with more than 1,750 reactor years of fuel, which is equivalent to 7 billion tons of coal. With world-class technical and engineering capabilities, Centrus is also advancing the next generation of centrifuge technologies so that America can restore its domestic uranium enrichment capability in the future. Find out more at www.centrusenergy.com.
Forward-Looking Statements:
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. In this context, forward-looking statements mean statements related to future events, may address our expected future business and financial performance, and often contain words such as "expects", "anticipates", "intends", "plans", "believes", "will", "should", "could", "would" or "may" and other words of similar meaning. Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain.
For Centrus Energy Corp., particular risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in our forward-looking statements include but are not limited to the following which are, and will be, exacerbated by the novel coronavirus ("COVID-19") pandemic and subsequent variants, and any worsening of the global business and economic environment as a result; risks related to the war in Ukraine and geopolitical conflicts and the imposition of sanctions or other measures imposed by either the U.S. or foreign governments, organizations (including the United Nations, the European Union or other international organizations), entities or persons, that could directly or indirectly impact our ability to obtain or sell low enriched uranium ("LEU") under our existing supply contract with the Russian government-owned entity TENEX, Joint-Stock Company ("TENEX"); risks related to the refusal of TENEX to deliver LEU to us if TENEX is unable to identify an unsanctioned bank to which we can send payments for the separative work units ("SWU") contained in the LEU, or to make other payments under our supply contract with TENEX; risks related to natural and other disasters, including the continued impact of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan on the nuclear industry and on our business, results of operations and prospects; risks related to financial difficulties experienced by customers or suppliers, including possible bankruptcies, insolvencies or any other inability to pay for our products or services or delays in making timely payment; risks related to pandemics and other health crises, the impact and potential extended duration of the current supply/demand imbalance in the market for LEU; risks related to our ability to sell the LEU we procure pursuant to our purchase obligations under our supply agreements including those imposed under the 1992 Russian Suspension Agreement as amended, international trade legislation and other international trade restrictions; risks related to existing or new trade barriers and contract terms that limit our ability to procure LEU for, or deliver LEU to customers; pricing trends and demand in the uranium and enrichment markets and their impact on our profitability; risks related to the movement and timing of customer orders; risks related to our dependence on others, such as our transporters, for deliveries of LEU including deliveries from TENEX, under our commercial supply agreement with TENEX and deliveries under our long-term commercial supply agreement with Orano Cycle ("Orano") or other suppliers; risks associated with our reliance on third-party suppliers and service providers to provide essential products and services to us; risks related to the fact that we face significant competition from major producers who may be less cost sensitive or are wholly or partially government owned; risks that our ability to compete in foreign markets may be limited for various reasons; risks related to the fact that our revenue is largely dependent on our largest customers; risks related to our sales order book, including uncertainty concerning customer actions under current contracts and in future contracting due to market conditions and our lack of current production capability; risks related to whether or when government funding or demand for high-assay low-enriched uranium ("HALEU") for government or commercial uses will materialize; risks and uncertainties regarding funding for continuation and deployment of the American Centrifuge technology; risks related to (i) our ability to perform and absorb costs under our agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy ("DOE") to deploy a cascade of centrifuges to demonstrate production of HALEU for advanced reactors (the "HALEU Contract"), (ii) our ability to obtain contracts and funding to be able to continue operations and (iii) our ability to obtain and/or perform under other agreements; risks that (i) we may not obtain the full benefit of the HALEU Contract and may not be able or allowed to operate the HALEU enrichment facility to produce HALEU after the completion of the existing HALEU Contract or (ii) the HALEU enrichment facility may not be available to us as a future source of supply; risks related to uncertainty regarding our ability to commercially deploy competitive enrichment technology; risks related to the potential for further demobilization or termination of our American Centrifuge work; risks that we will not be able to timely complete the work that we are obligated to perform; risks related to our ability to perform fixed-price and cost-share contracts such as the HALEU Contract, including the risk that costs could be higher than expected; risks related to our significant long-term liabilities, including material unfunded defined benefit pension plan obligations and postretirement health and life benefit obligations; risks relating to our 8.25% notes (the "8.25% Notes") maturing in February 2027; the risks of revenue and operating results fluctuating significantly from quarter to quarter, and in some cases, year to year; risks related to the impact of financial market conditions on our business, liquidity, prospects, pension assets and insurance facilities; risks related to the Company's capital concentration; risks related to the value of our intangible assets related to the sales order book and customer relationships; risks related to the limited trading markets in our securities; risks related to decisions made by our Class B stockholders regarding their investment in the Company based upon factors that are unrelated to the Company's performance; risks that a small number of holders of our Class A Common Stock, par value $0.10 per share ("Class A Common Stock") (whose interests may not be aligned with other holders of our Class A Common Stock), may exert significant influence over the direction of the Company; risks related to (i) the use of our net operating losses ("NOLs") carryforwards and net unrealized built-in losses ("NUBILs") to offset future taxable income and the use of the Rights Agreement (as defined herein) to prevent an "ownership change" as defined in Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code") and (ii) our ability to generate taxable income to utilize all or a portion of the NOLs prior to the expiration thereof and NUBILs; failures or security breaches of our information technology systems; risks related to our ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to the potential for the DOE to seek to terminate or exercise its remedies under its agreements with the Company; risks related to actions, including reviews, that may be taken by the United States government, the Russian government or other governments that could affect our ability to perform under our contractual obligations or the ability of our sources of supply to perform under their contractual obligations to us; risks related to our ability to perform and receive timely payment under agreements with the DOE or other government agencies, including risks and uncertainties related to the ongoing funding by the government and potential audits; risks related to changes or termination of agreements with the U.S. government or other counterparties; risks related to the competitive environment for our products and services; risks related to changes in the nuclear energy industry; risks related to the competitive bidding process associated with obtaining contracts, including government contracts; risks that we will be unable to obtain new business opportunities or achieve market acceptance of our products and services or that products or services provided by others will render our products or services obsolete or noncompetitive; risks related to potential strategic transactions that could be difficult to implement, disrupt our business or change our business profile significantly; risks related to the outcome of legal proceedings and other contingencies (including lawsuits and government investigations or audits); risks related to the impact of government regulation and policies including by the DOE and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; risks of accidents during the transportation, handling or processing of hazardous or radioactive material that may pose a health risk to humans or animals, cause property or environmental damage, or result in precautionary evacuations; risks associated with claims and litigation arising from past activities at sites we currently operate or past activities at sites that we no longer operate, including the Paducah, Kentucky, and Portsmouth, Ohio, gaseous diffusion plants; and other risks and uncertainties discussed in this and our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including under Part I, Item 1A - "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and under Part II, Item 1A - "Risk Factors" in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022.
These factors may not constitute all factors that could cause actual results to differ from those discussed in any forward-looking statement. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as a predictor of actual results. Readers are urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures made in this report and in our other filings with the SEC that attempt to advise interested parties of the risks and factors that may affect our business. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this press release except as required by law.
Contacts:
Investors: Dan Leistikow at LeistikowD@centrusenergy.com
Media: Lindsey Geisler at GeislerLR@centrusenergy.com
CENTRUS ENERGY CORP.
ADJUSTED NET INCOME PER SHARE RECONCILIATION TABLE
The Company measures Net Income and Net Income per Share both on a GAAP basis and on an adjusted basis to exclude deemed dividends allocable to retired preferred stock shares ("Adjusted Net Income" and "Adjusted Net Income per Share"). We believe Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Net Income per Share, which are non-GAAP financial measures, provide investors with additional understanding of the Company's financial performance as well as its strategic financial planning analysis and period-to-period comparability. These metrics are useful to investors because they reflect how management evaluates the Company's ongoing operating performance from period-to-period after removing certain transactions and activities that affect comparability of the metrics and are not reflective of the Company's core operations.
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Society has given Lewis Black plenty of new material as of late.
The “King of Rant” has gained popularity over the decades with his trademark rants and animated mannerisms, which target current affairs and everyday situations that make the news.
Regarding what he finds funny, Black said, “Initially for me, what made me laugh was headlines. This isn’t a headline, it’s a punchline.”
Yet, this era of affairs is a different sort of crazy, and Black referenced the ’60s as a comparison, but it’s still not the same.
“What’s occurring now is beyond my comprehension, it really is,” he said. “Every time I think we’ve reached appalling, we find another place to go with it.”
Black returns to New Mexico on Thursday, Sept. 29, and will perform at the Albuquerque Journal Theatre at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. It’s a change of pace from his usual stops at casinos, but before he played on the outskirts of town, he remembered his days performing in Downtown Albuquerque.
“I used to play at a comedy club there, and I loved that, and I thought it was just a nifty … city. It’s got a great mix,” he said.
Black took over a year off due to the pandemic, but has consistently been on the road since midway through 2021. He admitted that being confined during the pandemic was tough on him and his creative process.
“I lost my mind,” he said. “It really wasn’t until I went back on the road that my brain started to get back to some sort of normalcy.”
He is currently on his “Off The Rails” tour, and will be discussing politics, inflation, the climate, guns and any other absurdity that irks the established comic. However, it’s been a process finding the best and most relevant timing for issues during his act as society keeps giving him new topics to discuss.
Due to his strong opinions and delivery, there is some audience pushback on specific issues, and Black has noticed that it has been going on for a while.
“Nothing I’ve ever said has changed anyone’s mind,” he said. “It’s about trying to get a laugh; I’m not interested in flaws. … Comedy’s subjective, if you don’t like it, don’t worry, the world’s not gonna end.”
What he’s doing is working. Earlier this year, Black taped his latest special, which will be his 15th. He has made appearances on countless late-night talk shows and guest spots on news stations, and has had a segment on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” since 1996. In addition, he has also earned a Sports Emmy for his time on “Inside the NFL,” and a 2007 Grammy for his comedy album “The Carnegie Hall Performance.”
Black, who is also involved in numerous charities, has had a lucrative career thus far and his talents expand beyond the camera and through the pen. He has written over 40 plays and authored multiple books, something he hopes to focus on more in the future, he says.
He said he will continue touring “as long as I still feel like I’m learning something.”
Though his style appears overexerting, Black says being on stage is what relaxes him – it’s an outlet.
“We all need an outlet. … We’re all frustrated by what’s going on, on one level or another,” he said, noting the tone, and stressing that everything will be a lot funnier in-person.
While in Albuquerque, Black said he will be doing his “Rant is Due” part of his show. People are encouraged to submit their own rants and he will select some to read and comment on after his set. | 2022-09-22T00:57:19+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2534304/society-has-given-lewis-black-plenty-of-new-material-of-late.html |
The indictment of a think tank leader charged with acting as an unregistered agent of China has inflamed an already heated debate over the Department of Justice (DOJ), with Republicans rallying around Gal Luft and arguing the charges against him are further evidence of politicization.
Luft, co-director of the Maryland-based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, is accused of recruiting and paying an unnamed former high-ranking U.S. government official on behalf of principals based in China in 2016 without registering as a foreign agent, as is required by U.S. law. He also faces arms trafficking and sanctions violations for trying to broker illicit arms deals.
But just a week prior, Luft claimed in a video first published by the New York Post that he was arrested to prevent him from testifying before the House Oversight Committee on shady Biden family business dealings.
He also claims he shared allegations against the Biden family with FBI and DOJ officials during a March 2019 meeting, which he said they covered up. That made him “patient zero of the Biden family investigation,” he said in the video.
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the Oversight and Accountability Committee, called Luft a “very credible witness on Biden family corruption” in a tweet last week. Comer and other Republicans have heralded Luft as a whistleblower in the Hunter Biden laptop probe.
On Wednesday, Comer requested that FBI Director Christopher Wray provide the Oversight Committee with an unredacted copy of the FBI’s report after allegedly meeting with Luft in March 2019, when Luft supposedly shared his allegations. The ask followed a House Judiciary Committee hearing where Wray was grilled on the agency’s purported politicization.
“To be clear, the Committee takes no position regarding the federal charges against Luft,” Comer wrote in a letter to Wray. “Instead, the Committee requests narrowly tailored information he allegedly provided the DOJ and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in March 2019 regarding his interactions with the Chinese company, CEFC.”
For some Republicans, the indictment has lent new credence to claims from within the party that the Biden administration has turned the DOJ into a weapon and pointed it at the political right — especially surrounding a purported double standard between conservatives and the Bidens.
The president’s son is at the heart of GOP complaints.
Last month, Hunter Biden took a plea deal with DOJ prosecutors, agreeing to plead guilty to misdemeanors for failing to pay income taxes in 2017 and 2018. He also said he would enter a pretrial diversion program for possessing a firearm while being an unlawful user or addicted to a controlled substance.
In response to the deal, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters it perpetuates the perception of a “two-tier system” of justice in America. Other top Republicans, including Comer and Senate Republican Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) made similar remarks.
“If you are the president’s leading political opponent, the DOJ tries to literally put you in jail and give you prison time. But if you are the president’s son, you get a sweetheart deal,” McCarthy said, referring to former President Trump, who faces a slew of legal woes.
Trump called the younger Biden’s plea deal a “mere traffic ticket.” The former president faces New York charges alleging he falsified business records and federal charges alleging he violated the Espionage Act and obstructed justice in taking classified records from his presidency and not returning them.
When FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida last year in relation to the classified documents probe, Republicans threatened to “defund” the agency, accusing it of unfairly targeting the former president for political reasons.
Those threats reemerged Wednesday at a GOP-led House Judiciary hearing, during which Wray faced relentless questioning from Republican members over his leadership of the investigative agency.
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) accused the FBI of acting as a “political tool of the Biden administration,” pointing to the Mar-a-Lago search as proof of “the homes of conservative political opponents being raided.”
Leaders of the House Judiciary, Oversight and Accountability, and Ways and Means committees have opened a joint investigation into the federal Hunter Biden case.
The Ways and Means Committee, led by Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), released a transcript from an IRS whistleblower alleging the DOJ slow-walked its investigation into the younger Biden days after his DOJ deal was made public.
Biden attorney Abbe Lowell wrote in a 10-page letter to Smith that ever since the GOP assumed a majority in the House in 2023, its leaders and committees ignored protocol to feed their “obsession with attacking the Biden family.”
Jordan’s domain included Wray’s testimony before the Judiciary Committee. The Ohio Republican has also asked the Justice Department to turn over information about special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump.
And Comer’s probe is tied to Luft, the indicted think tank leader. A dual citizen of the U.S. and Israel, Luft was arrested Feb. 17 in Cyprus but fled after being released on bail and remains a fugitive, the Justice Department said in a press release. His indictment was unsealed Monday.
“The timing is always coincidental, according to the Democrats at the Department of Justice,” Comer told Fox News host Laura Ingraham Monday night.
In light of the charges against Luft, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee asked the GOP to turn over information detailing its interactions with him. Luft has played a key role in Comer’s probe of Biden family business dealings and whether Biden and his son, Hunter, accepted a bribe.
“We are concerned that an official committee of the House of Representatives has been manipulated by an apparent con man who, while a fugitive from justice, attempted to fortify his defense by laundering unfounded and potentially false allegations through Congress,” ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) wrote in a letter alongside Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.)
Those allegations — and Luft’s indictment — were notably not mentioned during the House Judiciary Committee hearing, where lawmakers asked questions of the FBI director for nearly six hours.
House Republicans have given no indication they’re weakening their focus on the Justice Department’s operations, calling on Democrats Wednesday to join in the fight.
“I hope (Democrats) will work with us in the appropriations process to stop the weaponization of the government against the American people and in this double standard that exists now in our justice system,” Jordan said. | 2023-07-13T12:48:26+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/indictment-of-think-tank-leader-inflames-doj-politicization-debate/ |
DULUTH — Former Minnesota Duluth captains Anna Klein and Sydney Brodt spent the 2022-23 season playing for the Minnesota Whitecaps in the Premier Hockey Federation, and both planned to return to that team and league in 2023-24.
Brodt, the Whitecaps captain, had just signed a two-year extension with the Twin Cities franchise earlier this month and Klein was in the process of renegotiating her original two-year deal that was signed a year ago after the league doubled its salary cap for next season.
Now, both are out of a job and their professional hockey careers hang in the balance following Friday’s announcement that the PHF — which was known as the National Women’s Hockey League from 2015-2021 — had been acquired by a new professional hockey league that is being organized by Billie Jean King, the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association and others.
The PHF is ceasing operations immediately and the players contracts will be void on July 10. The new league plans to begin play in January 2024.
“It is crazy to think that we've been talking about this for so long,” said Brodt, who was a member of the PWHPA in 2020-21 before playing in Sweden in 2021-22 and the PHF a year ago. “Women's hockey needs one, true, professional league. It's definitely bittersweet because I was very excited for the Whitecaps season next year. Our team was just finishing up coming together and I was really looking forward to that, but at the same time, it's an exciting, exciting time. Once we get over the uncertainty of it, it'll be really, really cool to see what happens going forward.”
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Former Bulldogs signed with PHF for 2023-24:
Anneke Linser — Metropolitan Riveters
Naomi Rogge — Metropolitan Riveters
Katerina Mrazova — Metropolitan Riveters
Emma Soderberg — Connecticut Whale
Catherine Daoust — Montreal Force
Elizabeth Giguere — Montreal Force
Maggie Flaherty — Minnesota Whitecaps
Sydney Brodt — Minnesota Whitecaps
Sidney Morin — Minnesota Whitecaps
Anna Klein — Minnesota Whitecaps
Ashleigh Brykaliuk — Minnesota Whitecaps
Jessica Healey — Buffalo Beauts
Former Bulldogs in PWHPA in 2022-23:
Jocelyn Larocque
Brigette Lacquette
Maddie Rooney
Demi Crossman
Iya Gavrilova
The uncertainty for players like Brodt and Klein comes from that fact that very little has been made public or shared with players at the moment about this new professional hockey league.
No teams have been announced. No locations are known. No salary information has been provided. Will players be able to sign anywhere they choose as free agents like in the PHF, or will there be a draft? How long will seasons last, and how many games will they play?
The league doesn’t even have a name yet.
Much of what has been reported comes from anonymous sources, like the new league featuring six teams — the PHF had seven — with 23 players each.
All the new league has revealed six months before it will supposedly drop the puck is it will be led in part by King and supported financially by Mark and Kimbra Walter, who own a controlling stake in Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers and the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks. The Walters also have interests in the NBA’s L.A. Lakers and Chelsea Football Club of the Premier League in England.
The Walters and their new league have acquired all of the PHF’s assets — including the Minnesota Whitecaps — and are negotiating a collective bargaining agreement with the PWHPA, which since the dissolution of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League in 2019 has been boycotting all North American women’s hockey leagues, including the NWHL/PHF.
“I have always believed that professional sports should bring the highest levels of performance and organization, and this new league will have the backing and resources it needs to represent the very best of women’s hockey,” Mark Walter said in an release from the PHF on Friday.
PHF players were called into a town hall-style meeting via Zoom on Thursday evening where they were informed that the league had been acquired and their contracts had been voided.
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According to Klein, players are being offered a severance package, and a pool of $1 million is being set aside for players who do not continue their professional hockey careers in the new league, or elsewhere, such as Europe.
Klein said her professional hockey career could very well be over after one season, making her be eligible for that pool, depending on how things transpire. She is attending pharmacy school at the University of Minnesota while playing professional hockey — the PHF had a 24-game regular season schedule in 2022-23. She has three years of school remaining.
If there isn’t a franchise in Minnesota — something circulating through the rumor mill at the moment — or she would get drafted by a team elsewhere, Klein said she could not quit pharmacy school to continue on in the tumultuous world of women’s professional hockey.
“I am not going to put a hold on my pharmacy school. I need to be in the state of Minnesota. It just would not work out for me. So as of now, it looks not good for me,” said Klein, who helped lead the Bulldogs to the NCAA title game as a senior in 2021-22 via 19 goals and 31 assists while playing alongside Elizabeth Giguere (who signed this offseason with the PHF’s Montreal Force) and Gabbie Hughes.
“It's super sad and it's sad to just have it end randomly,” Klein said of the PHF. “But at the same time, I do think that this will, in the end, benefit women's hockey. Looking at it from that perspective, I think is important.”
Klein reiterated that sentiment a number of times, that the end of the PHF stings, but the future of women’s hockey is exciting. The timing of everything is what has her baffled, she said.
For the past two-plus months, the PHF has been signing new and returning players to one and two-year contracts, some worth over $100,000. The Whitecaps announced two, two-year contracts just this week — Ohio State’s Paetyn Levis on Monday and Natalie Snodgrass on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the new league won’t begin playing until January 2024, with the 2024 IIHF Women’s World Championship looming in April. The PHF season was slated to begin around October, meaning even those who stand to benefit from the new league will need to find a way to stay afloat until then.
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That includes Brodt, who still believes she made the right choice coming to the PHF a year ago.
“At the time I just felt super good about the stability and how we’re going to be financially compensated,” Brodt said of the PHF. “It was a real league, and I felt like I was growing hockey in Minnesota. I just felt that the PHF was the best league to play in last season, and I still believe it was.” | 2023-07-01T21:39:15+00:00 | duluthnewstribune.com | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sports/bulldogs-hockey/former-bulldogs-captains-react-to-shake-up-of-womens-pro-hockey |
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury in Oregon on Monday found the electric utility PacifiCorp responsible for causing devastating fires during Labor Day weekend in 2020, ordering the company to pay tens of millions of dollars to 17 homeowners who sued and finding it liable for broader damages that could push the total award into the billions.
The Portland utility is one of several owned by billionaire Warren Buffett’s Omaha, Nebraska-based investment conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway. The property owners, suing on behalf of a class of thousands of others, alleged that PacifiCorp negligently failed to shut off power to its 600,000 customers during a windstorm, despite warnings from then-Gov. Kate Brown’s chief-of-staff and top fire officials, and that its power lines were responsible for multiple blazes.
There has been no official cause determined for the Labor Day fires, which killed nine people, burned more than 1,875 square miles (4,856 square kilometers) in Oregon, and destroyed upward of 5,000 homes and structures. The blazes together were one of the worst natural disasters in Oregon history.
In a written statement, lawyers for the plaintiffs called the decision historic and said it “paves the way for potentially billions of dollars in further damages for the class members.”
PacifiCorp immediately said it would appeal.
“Escalating climate change, challenging state and federal forest management, and population growth in the wildland-urban interface are substantial factors contributing to growing wildfire risk,” PacifiCorp said in an emailed statement after the verdict. “These systemic issues affect all Oregonians and are larger than any single utility.”
The Multnomah County Circuit Court jury awarded more than $73 million to 17 homeowners who sued PacifiCorp a month after the fires, with each receiving between $3 million and $5.5 million for physical damage to their property and emotional distress.
The jury also applied its liability finding to a larger class including the owners of nearly 2,500 properties damaged in the fires, which could push the price tag for damages well into the billions of dollars. Those damages will be determined later.
The jury heard testimony Monday afternoon over whether to make PacifiCorp pay punitive damages. Nick Rosinia, an attorney for plaintiffs, told the jurors they should award punitive damages totaling five times what they have already been awarded for the harm PacifiCorp caused.
“For its reckless and outrageous action on Labor Day, it’s the only way they will truly get your message,” Rosinia said.
Doug Dixon, an attorney for the power company, insisted no punitive damages were warranted. The company keeps working on safety and was not recklessly negligent, he said. And while lawyers for the property owners described PacifiCorp as deep-pocketed, the company is $9 billion in debt.
Among those in court for the verdict was Rachelle McMaster, whose home in the town of Otis near the Oregon coast was destroyed in the fires. Wearing a tie-dye T-shirt that read “keep Earth awesome,” she wiped her eyes and clasped her spouse’s hand after it was read.
The seven-week trial wrapped with closing arguments last Wednesday, Oregon Public Radio reported.
The plaintiffs alleged PacifiCorp was negligent when it didn’t shut off its power lines despite extreme wind warnings over the holiday weekend.
“They have no real response to any of this,” plaintiffs’ attorney Cody Berne said during closing arguments. “(PacifiCorp) started the fires. They destroyed the evidence. And now they have come before you and are asking not to be held accountable.”
Jurors were to determine PacifiCorp’s responsibility in four of those blazes: the Santiam Canyon fires east of Salem; the Echo Mountain Complex near Lincoln City; the South Obenchain fire near Eagle Point; and the Two Four Two fire near the southwest Oregon town of Chiloquin.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs said utility executives kept the power on even as the company’s line workers took calls about damaged electrical equipment. The same executives, attorneys said, took no responsibility at the trial, saying it was front-line workers who make de-energization decisions, the news outlet reported.
In his closing arguments, Dixon said “alleged power line fires” in Santiam Canyon, where more than half the class members live, could not have spread to plaintiff’s homes. Plus, PacifiCorp does not have equipment in some areas where they were accused of causing damage, he said.
The risk of wildfires is increasingly fraught for power companies in the West. Pacific Gas & Electric declared bankruptcy and pleaded guilty to 84 counts of manslaughter after its neglected equipment caused a fire in the Sierra Nevada foothills in 2018 that destroyed nearly 19,000 homes, businesses and other buildings and virtually razed the town of Paradise, California.
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Johnson reported from Seattle. Mark Thiessen in Anchorage contributed. | 2023-06-13T13:30:32+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/national/ap-us-news/jury-finds-electric-utility-pacificorp-liable-in-devastating-oregon-wildfires/ |
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