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DESIGNED FOR SPORTY VEHICLES, THE NEW P ZERO AS PLUS 3 OFFERS HIGH LEVELS OF COMFORT AND OUTSTANDING BRAKING FEATURES IN DIVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS.
WITH A 50,000-MILE LIMITED TREADWEAR WARRANTY, THIS NEW TIRE IS BUILT TO PROVIDE LONG LASTING PERFORMANCE.
LAS VEGAS, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pirelli today announced the introduction of the P Zero AS Plus 3, a new Ultra-High performance All-Season tire designed specifically for premium cars.
This tire combines the sporty performance of the Pirelli iconic P Zero range with the comfort and durability of the Pirelli "Plus" line which is specifically developed to meet the needs of North American drivers - in particular the demand for all season tires capable of covering many miles with great handling.
The new P Zero AS Plus 3 enriches the Pirelli lineup, tailor made for the American market, and adds to the Scorpion AS Plus 3, Pirelli's all-season tire for crossovers, sport utility vehicles, and pick-up trucks, and the P7 AS Plus 3, for sedans and coupes.
With a completely new tread pattern, compound and construction, the new P Zero AS Plus 3 is equipped with a 50,000-mile limited tread wear warranty that places it among the best in class in its category.
With the use of 3D sipe technology, combined with innovative materials such as functionalized polymers in the compounds, the new Pirelli tire is designed to deliver even wear, improved snow traction and braking, excellent performance on wet, and a comfortable ride with reduced cabin noise. This new product is the top performing all-season tire in the Pirelli range and has been developed through extensive use of virtual modeling and innovation in the field of materials.
The P Zero AS Plus 3 also offers a wide range of fitments for owners of high-end cars that want the best performance in all weather conditions and can rely on the rich Pirelli Motorsport DNA and its long relationship with the most prestigious car manufacturers in the world.
The new tire is available in 31 sizes, from 17 to 20 inches. Key fitments include the Ford Mustang, Genesis G80, BMW 3 series, and the Mercedes Benz C-Class.
"The P Zero AS Plus 3 is a testament to Pirelli's focus on the North American Region and its commitment to develop products that answer to the specific needs of this market," said Claudio Zanardo, President and CEO of Pirelli North America. "We're confident that this tire will exceed our customers' expectations, providing a great driving experience and delivering exceptional performance in all conditions."
TOP ALL SEASON CAPABILITIES, OUTSTANDING COMFORT AND MORE MILEAGE
The new P Zero AS Plus 3 is designed to deliver long-lasting performance in all weather conditions, thanks to the usage of horizontal 3D siping: the 3D sipe interlocking system is designed to increase tread pattern stiffness, resulting in superb braking on wet and snow. In addition, the new Pirelli tire features higher siping density to improve snow performance grip.
The four wide longitudinal grooves are designed for improved water displacement from the tire footprint, boosting wet performance and reducing the risk of hydroplaning.
The implementation of functionalized polymers in the tread compound offers significant advantages, resulting in enhanced rolling efficiency and reduced rolling resistance by 10%. Setting new benchmarks in performance, these remarkable benefits extend to improved fuel consumption and reduced emissions. Utilizing virtual design, the tire's performance has been simulated throughout its usage achieving a 20% increase in tread efficiency at end-of-life.
Furthermore, engineering of this new tire has focused on optimizing the pitch sequence, effectively minimizing cabin noise to ensure comfortable driving experience. Through the utilization of predictive calculation algorithms, the asymmetrical design, featuring a central helix, was fine-tuned in a specialized semi-anechoic chamber using prototypes. This allowed the design team to identify the perfect sequence with the shoulder crosspieces, resulting in 1dbB reduction in in-cabin noise. Such noise reduction positions the new Pirelli all-season tire at the forefront of its category, delivering unparalleled driving comfort.
In the development process of the new P Zero AS Plus 3, Pirelli engineers placed also great emphasis on mileage, augmenting the tire stiffness to enhance road contact – extending the mileage and improving the tire's performance.
About Pirelli
Pirelli was founded in Milan in 1872 and today stands as a global brand known for its cutting-edge technology, high-end production excellence and passion for innovation that draws heavily on its Italian roots. With 18 production plants in 12 countries and a commercial presence in over 160, Pirelli has around 32,000 employees.
Pirelli Tire North America (PTNA) includes the Modular Integrated Robotized System (MIRS) facility and research and development center at its Rome, Georgia headquarters, a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Silao, Mexico, sales and marketing offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Detroit, Montreal and Mexico City, and a prestige flagship store in Los Angeles. The company manufactures, distributes and markets original equipment and replacement tires for export and domestic car/motorcycle applications. For more information regarding Pirelli, please visit www.pirelli.com
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SOURCE Pirelli North America | 2023-06-07T13:36:32+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2023/06/07/pirelli-introduces-p-zero-plus-3-new-ultra-high-performance-tire-specifically-developed-north-american-market/ |
A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:
It has been a very bad, no good holiday season for Southwest Airline passengers. April Proveaux was one of them. The Memphis resident was traveling with her family when they got stuck last week at Denver International Airport.
APRIL PROVEAUX: It was negative 3 degrees in Denver, and our jackets were in our suitcase, and so my kids were in short sleeves. And we didn't have anything. We bought some hats and gloves at the airport.
MARTÍNEZ: Hers was among the thousands of Southwest flights scrapped since a massive winter storm started disrupting air travel last week. Democrats and Republicans in Congress have complained to the airline and the U.S. Department of Transportation for not acting sooner to protect passengers. Now, we've heard lots of explanations for the meltdown, like old technology and the airline's unusual approach to routing flights. A former employee tells NPR that she recently left Southwest because of the chaotic scheduling and mandatory overtime.
HALLY CHAUVIN: This is exactly why this is happening, is 'cause you just keep giving your employees overtime, and you'll fire them if they say no.
MARTÍNEZ: Hally Chauvin says she often worked 20-hour shifts.
CHAUVIN: I keep saying now, like, to my friends, like, this is why I quit. You know, it seemed like it wasn't really talked about. A lot of the employees there, like, can't really talk about it because it risks their jobs. They can't really, like, post about it on social media or anything.
MARTÍNEZ: In a statement, Southwest says the recent disruptions are due to crew scheduling issues, not a lack of staffing. The company says it will honor reasonable requests for reimbursement from customers whose flights were canceled or significantly delayed. But April Proveaux is still wondering whether she'll get her money back.
PROVEAUX: I feel nervous that they're going to try to not reimburse us.
MARTÍNEZ: Southwest's Chief Commercial Officer Ryan Green recently apologized for the cancellations.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
RYAN GREEN: My personal apology on behalf of myself and everyone at Southwest Airlines for all of this.
MARTÍNEZ: But even after all the hassle, April Proveaux isn't giving up on the airline.
PROVEAUX: I hope they recover. Like, we love Southwest. We've flown them for years, and we're cardholders. We used points to fly this trip.
MARTÍNEZ: Southwest says it plans to return to normal operations with minimal disruptions today. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | 2023-01-05T08:26:02+00:00 | kosu.org | https://www.kosu.org/u-s-news/u-s-news/2022-12-30/southwest-moves-toward-near-normal-operations-after-widespread-cancellations |
WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Albany NY
801 PM EDT Wed Jul 20 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 99.
* WHERE...Portions of northwestern Connecticut and east central
New York.
* WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-07-21T00:58:12+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/CT-WFO-ALBANY-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17318470.php |
Shift in Sarasota County School Board following Primary Election results
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A shift in the Sarasota County School Board will now take place following Tuesday’s primary. Going from a school board that was 3 to 2 leaning left, to a school board that will now be 4 to 1 leaning right. School board member Bridget Ziegler holding on to her seat.
“We’re ready for a change, for the school board and they showed up made their voices heard,” said Ziegler. “It’s very clear they want to focus on education and we’re going to give them that.”
Vice Chair Tom Edwards is the lone school board member left now who is on the more liberal side of issues.
“I remain committed to servicing and protecting our teachers and all of our students,” said Edwards. “It remains to be seen how the new board will unify the community and govern.”
Former Sarasota Schools police chief Tim Enos and longtime educator Robin Marinelli were on the ticket with Ziegler, and now will be the newest members of the school board.
“I am overwhelmed, my heart was full from the support of the community and parents,” said Marinelli. “It was just an overwhelming feeling of joy and I can’t wait to get to work.”
The current school board members and the newest ones say the divisiveness that has plagued the school board has to go away, and they have to work together for the students.
“I’m hoping that now we’ll have some more unification on the board and some of those issues won’t be so highlighted,” said Rex Ingerick, President of the Sarasota Classified Teachers Association. “And we can really work on the business of running a school system.”
The new school board members will be sworn in sometime in the middle of November.
Copyright 2022 WWSB. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-25T00:24:28+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/08/24/shift-sarasota-county-school-board-following-primary-election-results/ |
TORONTO, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Spin Master Corp. ("Spin Master" or the "Company") (TSX: TOY), a leading global children's entertainment company, will report its second quarter 2022 financial results after market close on Wednesday, July 27, 2022. Max Rangel, Global President and Chief Executive Officer and Mark Segal, Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call for the investment community on Thursday, July 28, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. (ET).
The call-in numbers for participants are (647) 792-1240 or (800) 437-2398. A live webcast of the call will be accessible via Spin Master's website at http://www.spinmaster.com/events.php. Following the call, both an audio recording and transcript of the call will be archived on the same website page for 12 months.
Spin Master Corp. (TSX:TOY) is a leading global children's entertainment company, creating exceptional play experiences through its three creative centres: Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games. With distribution in over 100 countries, Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals®, Rubik's Cube® and GUND®, and is the global toy licensee for other popular properties. Spin Master Entertainment creates and produces compelling multiplatform content, through its in-house studio and partnerships with outside creators, including the preschool franchise PAW Patrol and numerous other original shows, short-form series and feature films. The Company has an established presence in digital games, anchored by the Toca Boca® and Sago Mini® brands, offering openended and creative game and educational play in digital environments. Through Spin Master Ventures, the Company makes minority investments globally in emerging companies and start-ups. With over 30 offices in close to 20 countries, Spin Master employs more than 2,000 team members globally. For more information visit spinmaster.com or follow-on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @spinmaster.
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SOURCE Spin Master Corp. | 2022-07-06T13:10:01+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2022/07/06/spin-master-corp-report-second-quarter-2022-financial-results-july-27-2022/ |
WFO MEDFORD Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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FIRE WEATHER WATCH
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Medford OR
121 PM PDT Sun Aug 14 2022
...Abundant Lightning On Dry Fuels Expected Wednesday...
.Moisture will begin feeding into the region tomorrow. Instability
will build with a slight chance of thunderstorms in mostly Modoc
county Tuesday afternoon and evening. Instability increases
Wednesday, with a slight chance of isolated thunderstorms from
western Siskiyou county, northeast and up the western Cascades
foothills and across all of the east side. Scattered thunderstorms
are possible for much of fire zones 624 and 625 in Oregon, and 285
in California. Thunderstorms are expected to start dry, and
progressively become wetter. Isolated thunderstorms are possible
Thursday, from the Cascades eastward.
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR ABUNDANT LIGHTNING ON DRY FUELS FOR FIRE
WEATHER ZONES 285...624 AND 625...
The National Weather Service in Medford has issued a Fire Weather
Watch...which is in effect from Wednesday afternoon through
Wednesday evening.
* Impacts: Lightning and high fire danger will likely result in new
fire starts. Gusty, variable thunderstorm winds could contribute
to fire spread. Despite rainfall, initial attack resources could
be overwhelmed and holdover fires are possible. Thunderstorms are
expected to start dry, and progressively become wetter.
* Affected area:
In Northern CA Fire Zone....285. This includes Modoc county.
In South Central OR Fire Zones...624...625. This includes Klamath
and Lake counties.
* Wind: West 5 to 10 mph with stronger and variable winds possible
near thunderstorms.
* Thunderstorms: Possible scattered in coverage with abundant
lightning.
* View the hazard area in detail at:
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mfr/HAZARD
Precautionary/preparedness actions...
If you have not packed your evacuation kit yet, now is the time to
do so. This includes items like important documents and essentials
you cannot live without. Fill your vehicle's fuel tank. Visit
ready.gov/kit for more information.
Plan now to avoid using equipment that could cause sparks during
the period when critical weather conditions are possible. Visit
weather.gov/medford/wildfire for links to fire restrictions in
your area.
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions
are possible during the valid watch time. These conditions could
promote the rapid spread of wildfires which could become life-
threatening. Check weather.gov/medford for forecast updates and a
possible upgrade of the this watch to a Red Flag Warning.
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH
TUESDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Very hot afternoon temperatures of up to 100 to 105F
possible.
* WHERE...North Bay Interior Mountains, East Bay Interior
Valleys, Eastern Santa Clara Hills, East Bay Hills and
Mountains Of San Benito County and Interior Monterey County
Including Pinnacles National Monument.
* WHEN...From Tuesday morning through Tuesday evening.
* IMPACTS...This forecast heat will significantly increase the
potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those
working or participating in outdoor activities.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Be prepared to drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-
conditioned room, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives
and neighbors.
Young children and pets should never be left unattended in
vehicles under any circumstances. This is especially true during
warm or hot weather when car interiors can reach lethal
temperatures in a matter of minutes.
The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
San Bernardino County in southern California...
Riverside County in southern California...
* Until 200 PM PDT.
* At 121 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles southeast
of Joshua Tree, or 11 miles southwest of Twentynine Palms, and is
nearly stationary.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Lost Horse-Keys Village.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-08-14T21:36:30+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-MEDFORD-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17372946.php |
ATLANTA, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cascade Animal Sciences, an animal health start-up based in the United States and Australia, is proud to announce the launch of its first dietary supplement product "Neuro-Pro". Neuro-Pro is designed for middle-to-senior-aged dogs and dogs that require neurological support. It is added to their regular feed and contains a medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) formulation that acts as an alternative fuel source for the brain and has anti-inflammatory effects.
Thanks to modern veterinary medicine and improved home care, dogs are living longer than ever before. However, as dogs age, they can experience a decline in cognitive function, affecting their day-to-day quality of life. This reduction in quality of life can be equally distressing for owners as it is for dogs.
"Even with the growing awareness of geriatric care and neurological disorders in veterinary medicine through landmark projects like the Dog Aging Project", said Dr. Alice Edwards, Chief Veterinary Officer and a founder at Cascade "cognitive decline is still overlooked by many due to its subtle and gradual process. We hope to shine a further spotlight on this to ensure a better quality of life for dogs."
Neuro-Pro's liquid formulation leverages the latest research in biochemistry and canine nutrition, containing decanoic (C10) and octanoic (C8) MCTs, which have anti-inflammatory effects on the brain and provide it with an alternative energy source, respectivel, as demonstrated in Image 1 below. .
MCT-enriched diets have been shown to improve 5-out-of-6 measurements of cognitive decline in dogs within 30 days of commencement, with significant improvement across all measurements after 90 days.
Furthermore, studies have demonstrated the benefits of MCTs linked to energy metabolism in dogs with epilepsy. In a 2021 study that examined the cognitive abilities of dogs with epilepsy, significant improvements in spatial working memory, problem-solving abilities, and owner trainability were observed secondary to the use of MCTs. In that regard, Cascade will also work with the veterinary industry in using MCTs as a means to support the cognitive health of dogs with epilepsy and to reduce the side of effects anti-epileptic drugs.
According to Dr. Sean Hughes, a biochemist by training and Cascade's Chief Scientific Officer, "The brain is a highly energy-dependent organ that requires a constant supply of energy to function. Unfortunately, as dogs age, it is believed that their brains become less efficient at using glucose as an energy source, which can lead to a decline in cognitive function and quality of life."
Dr Hughes added, "In addition to crossing the blood-brain barrier and being metabolised, the C10 fatty acids in Neuro-Pro provide neuronal anti-inflammatory effects. Neuro-Pro's formulation also contains C8 triglycerides, which, once metabolised, provide an alternative energy source for the brain in the form of ketones. This can help support overall brain health and play a role in preserving cognitive function."
MCT-enriched diets in dogs and humans mimic some of the well-documented neurological and metabolic benefits of a ketogenic diet and fasting (such as those mentioned above). However, in contrast to MCT supplementation, ketogenic diets and fasting have inflexible, unsustainable, and sometimes dangerous requirements.
Regarding the need for easy-to-incorporate tools that are preventative and support cognitive health in dogs, Dr. Edwards noted that "Cascade's sole focus is to provide veterinarians and dog owners with a simple way to achieve better brain health - and thereby improved quality of life. We see Neuro-Pro as a game changer for dog owners as it can be easily incorporated into a dogs' preferred diet, meaning that owners do not need to overhaul their feeding regime. We are thrilled to bring this to market and to offer a new way to support both canine neurological health and quality of life, particularly for senior dogs."
About Neuro-Pro: Neuro-Pro is suitable for use in dogs of all breeds and sizes and comes in an easy-to-administer liquid formulation that is added to regular feed. It is available for sale in the USA directly from Cascade's website (www.cascadeanimalsciences.com) and to Australia and the U.K. through international shipping.
About Cascade Animal Sciences: Cascade Animal Sciences is an animal health company focused on making cognitive health in dogs more accessible, through dietary supplements such as its flagship product "Neuro-Pro".
Media Contact: Tim Gibney, Cascade Animal Sciences (+614 38078 245); tgibney@cascadevetsci.com
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SOURCE Cascade Animal Sciences | 2023-06-20T15:51:57+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2023/06/20/growing-awareness-brain-health-senior-dogs-cascade-animal-sciences-launches-neuro-pro/ |
You’ll want to relax in your backyard with these 12 summer daybeds
Summer is a season for beach trips, family vacations and relaxing in the beautiful weather. With the school year so busy, many choose to unwind at home during the summer. However, if you don’t have outdoor patio furniture, you’ll probably find yourself indoors, even when the sun is shining.
To create a backyard oasis and build a designated space to take a break during the summer, an outdoor daybed is the perfect piece of furniture. So, if you’re looking for a summer daybed that fits your needs and space, here are 12 summer daybeds that will help you relax in your backyard.
What to consider when choosing a daybed
Size and seating
Before choosing a daybed, it’s essential to determine where it will sit. If you only have a small area, a daybed is ideal. However, if you have ample space and want a daybed that’s inviting to a ton of guests, consider a daybed that seats several people at once and has sectional seating to accommodate a large number of people.
Durability
When testing durability, consider several factors, including the frame and exterior material. Steel is the toughest material for the frame and will help your daybed last for years. However, since the exterior is exposed to environmental elements, such as sun and rain, the exterior material is just as important. Also, check to see how well the exterior resists the elements. For instance, is it water-resistant, fade-resistant or UV-resistant?
Daybed features
While a basic daybed might be ideal in many situations, here are some extra features to consider.
- Cushions: The thickness of the cushions may indicate how comfortable they are and how fast they will wear down. However, the material also plays a vital role in softness and durability. For example, some material is water-resistant, fade-resistant and spill-resistant. It’s also a great idea to check to see if the upholstery covers are removable for easing cleaning and maintenance.
- Canopy: Unless you plan on being in the hot summer sun all day long, consider a daybed with a canopy. An adjustable canopy is convenient, so you can switch back and forth between sun and shade. Also, it’s essential to determine how easy it is to raise or lower the canopy.
- Reclining: While some daybeds lay completely flat, many options have a reclining feature. If you’re considering a reclining daybed, you’ll want to check how many reclining stations it has and if each side operates together or independently.
- Table: When you’re relaxing in the heat, a cold beverage is a must-have. Many daybeds have built-in tables, raising out of the middle or folding up from the side.
Best summer daybeds
M&W Round Outdoor Daybed With Retractable Canopy
Not only is this outdoor daybed large enough to seat several comfortable loungers, but the seats are also reconfigurable to suit more people sitting. It features a lift top centerpiece that you can use as a coffee table or ottoman, waterproof covers for the soft four-inch cushions and a large, retractable canopy.
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Beachcrest Home Bousquet 72” Wide Outdoor Wicker Patio Daybed
Relax in luxury on this 72-inch-wide wicker daybed with a giant cube-shaped silhouette. The powder-coated steel inner frame keeps the entire bed sturdy and durable, and the exterior is made of resin wicker rattan, which is rust and fade-resistant. If you’re hoping for privacy, it’s also lined with tall curtains made of water-resistant polyester.
Sold by Wayfair
Hampton Bay 2-Person Wicker Outdoor Patio Daybed
Beautiful and spacious, this two-person daybed is the ideal addition to any patio. It’s made with hand-woven wicker and a sturdy steel frame, which is resistant to rust and scratching. As a bonus, the included outdoor cushion is water-resistant, so you just have to lightly wipe away water droplets if it gets wet.
Sold by Home Depot
Safavieh Outdoor Collection Cadeo Cushion Daybed
Bring the beach-front resort to your home with this stylish and comfortable daybed. Included are two expansive cushions for relaxing, two large pillows to rest your head and two small throw pillows. The finished dimensions are over 52 inches wide, 62 inches deep and 27 inches high.
Sold by Amazon
Homall Outdoor Daybed With Sectional Seating
This daybed combines the versatility of a sectional sofa and a durable patio sofa in one ultra-comfortable outdoor bed. The adjustable canopy operates effortlessly with a telescopic pull rod so that you can switch from shade to sun with ease. One of the best features is the cushions, which come with machine-washable covers and stay put using a fastening buckle.
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KidKraft Wooden Outdoor Double Chaise Lounge
Let kids feel like they’re one of the adults with their own child-sized double chaise daybed. It features a canopy on three sides to keep the sun out, with tie-back window-style curtains and two cup holders to keep their drinks steady. Plus, it has a storage compartment to stow toys or towels.
Sold by Amazon
OVE Decors Sandra Gray Wicker Reclining Daybed
With adjustable backrests, lumbar pillows and two fold-down side tables, you’ll never want to leave this 360-degree swivel patio daybed. It’s made with a UV-resistant, rust-proof aluminum frame wrapped with hand-woven, all-weather wicker. As a bonus, the plush, four-inch cushions are comfortable and come with upholstery covers that are resistant to stains, mildew and fading.
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Dimar Garden Rattan Outdoor Reclining Daybed
Whether you’re low on space or just looking for a single-person daybed, this reclining option is ideal. The exterior is made using PE rattan that is UV-, heat- and water-resistant. You can adjust the backrest to lay completely flat or choose one of the four other angles for relaxing.
Sold by Amazon
Tangkula Patio Daybed With Adjustable Coffee Table
This round daybed is perfect for any outdoor space and features an adjustable table that can lay flat or elevated to hold drinks or electronics. It also features a retractable canopy that is easily adjustable. Both the canopy and the pillow are made with non-woven, weather-resistant fabric that removes for convenient cleaning.
Sold by Amazon
Arlmont & Co. Gatun 66” Wide Outdoor Wicker Patio Daybed
This daybed is 66 inches wide and can hold up to 600 pounds on the solid steel frame. The canopy is easily adjustable using an automatic pneumatic rod and is made using waterproof and windproof canvas. Plus, the connecting buckle design keeps pieces from sliding apart.
Sold by Wayfair
Great Deal Furniture Samantha Double Chaise Daybed
With quick-drying, water-resistant cushions, you can relax on this daybed without drying off from a quick dip in the pool or lake. It fits two people, and both seats adjust independently so each person can find their perfect preference. It’s also made of acacia wood with a gorgeous teak finish.
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Beachcrest Home Onika Outdoor Wicker Patio Daybed
This outdoor daybed comes with cushions that are resistant to water, fading, spills and stains. It features a collapsible canopy to relax in the shade or sun. As a bonus, the seating pieces separate to provide more seating for guests.
Sold by Amazon
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Vashti Harrison, illustrator and author of the new picture book Big, about a young Black girl's journey to self love.
Copyright 2023 NPR
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Vashti Harrison, illustrator and author of the new picture book Big, about a young Black girl's journey to self love.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-05-02T21:43:27+00:00 | wboi.org | https://www.wboi.org/2023-05-02/author-illustrator-vashti-harrison-wants-her-book-and-the-word-big-to-affirm-kids |
A townhouse in Pleasant View Communities outside Manheim caught fire on Monday night.
At least 35 units responded shortly before 9 p.m. to a fire in the 300 block of Red Oak Drive in Penn Township. A dispatcher with Lancaster County-Wide Communications said there were no reported injuries.
This is a breaking news story. It will be updated as information is available. | 2023-06-27T02:05:02+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/at-least-35-units-respond-to-fire-at-townhouse-in-pleasant-view-communities-monday-night/article_187234bc-148a-11ee-bc53-939e3ac9593d.html |
(AP) – Tick, tock, Manny Machado. Better watch that pitch clock.
Baseball’s new timing device made its big league debut Friday during a limited schedule of spring training openers and wouldn’t you know it, it was Machado, the San Diego Padres’ All-Star slugger, not a pitcher, who was called for the first violation.
Machado found out the hard way that the pitch clock works both ways. He wasn’t fully in the batter’s box and facing Seattle Mariners left-hander Robbie Ray as the 15-second clock wound under 8 seconds in the bottom of the first inning in Peoria, Arizona. Umpire Ryan Blakney called time and signaled strike one against Machado, who finished second in last season’s NL MVP race.
Machado was hardly fazed. He singled on a 2-1 pitch and then collected another single his second time up.
Machado, who batted between fellow superstars Xander Bogaerts and Juan Soto, laughed about it afterward.
“Going into the record books, at least. That’s a good one. Not bad,” Machado said. “I might just be 0-1 if I can get two hits every game.”
If Major League Baseball was looking for immediate results from the new rules designed to improve pace of play, including the pitch clock, it got them. The Mariners won 3-2 in 2 hours, 29 minutes, which is fast for any game, spring or regular season. In nearby Surprise Stadium, the Kansas City Royals beat the Texas Rangers 6-5 in 2:33.
Padres manager Bob Melvin said he walked over to MLB officials Morgan Sword and Mike Hill afterward and said: “If this is going to be the pace of these games, I’m OK with it.”
The game “felt really fast at the beginning. Guys were looking at the clock, Manny makes history with the first infraction in major league history, another feather in his cap,” Melvin quipped. “During the course of this game we acclimated a little bit. So far, so good.”
How does it work?
With the pitch clock, players will have 30 seconds to resume play between batters. Between pitches, pitchers have 15 seconds with nobody on and 20 seconds if there is a baserunner. The pitcher must start his delivery before the clock expires. After a pitch, the clock starts again when: the pitcher has the ball back; the catcher and batter are in the circle around home plate; and play is otherwise ready to resume.
Batters must be in the box and alert to the pitcher with at least 8 seconds on the clock. Batters can call time once per plate appearance, stopping the countdown.
When a pitcher doesn’t throw a pitch in time, the penalty is an automatic ball. When a batter isn’t ready in time, it’s an automatic strike.
“That time came by quick,” Machado said. “It’s definitely something we’re going to have to get used to. It kind of takes away your routine, being up there and zoning in before the pitch. The umpire gave me a little warning — ‘Hey, you got two seconds’ — but I was already late when I got in there.”
“You got 30 seconds and you got to be ready by eight. Forget about walk-up songs for real,” he added with a laugh. “It’s going to be interesting. I always tap the umpire for respect. Those things will start going out of the way.”
Batters can’t leave the box between pitches, “which I don’t mind,” Machado added. “You can just keep a foot in the box and gather yourself again.”
“Getting to the box is where it’s going to speed up guys,” Machado said. “Even pitchers, if you’re down 2-0, how are you going to catch a break and lock yourself back in without getting penalized? It’s the same thing going up there when you’re hitting.
“It’s going to be an interesting year. It’s going to be fun. Who knows where this leads? There’s going to be a lot of strategy that goes into this.”
Machado will play for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic, which won’t have a pitch clock.
“I’m going to take my time,” he said.
Padres starter Nick Martinez added that the clock will make things “a little tricky. Got to find some areas that I can save some time so I can get some time when I need it.”
Martinez said the clock will affect how pitches are called.
“Today the way to alleviate the pressure was having the PitchCom with me,” he said. “For the majority of the time (Luis Campusano) was calling the game but if I had a pitch that kind of stood out for me I just pressed it. I didn’t wait for him to call it, I was like ‘I want this one.’ I did it a few times. There are times when I like to slow the game down, so that’ll be interesting.”
Melvin said pitchers and batters will have to adjust as spring training moves along, especially those who go to the WBC and then return to MLB’s new rules.
“The one thing, guys are going to get a little bit tired working at this pace,” Melvin said. “Whether it’s starters [or] relievers throwing a lot of pitches, there’s going to be an endurance factor with this as well.”
Rangers-Royals
Texas left-hander John King was called for a pitch clock violation in the bottom of the fifth, changing the count from 1-2 to 2-2. Umpire supervisor Mike Everitt was in the press box watching to see how the umpires were implementing the new rules as well as how the clock operators were doing. “That is a big job,” Everitt said.
More pitch clock musings
New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone said he’s looking forward to the pitch clock when the Bronx Bombers open their spring schedule Saturday against the Philadelphia Phillies in Clearwater, Florida. The Yankees have had Triple-A umpires working the plate during simulated games.
“I think these last few days, grateful for the umpires that have come out here and helped us out in that regard,” he said. “I think it has been really valuable. It’s sparked more conversation around it, but now to get to start applying it in games obviously will serve us well. It’s important to get going.”
Bigger bases
Machado said the new bases, which are now 18-square inches, up from 15 inches, “weren’t too bad. I like the big base. They’ve got to be a little more consistent with how they were last year, the firmness, the grip of it. I definitely like the new ones with the bigger size.”
AP freelance writers Jack Thompson, Mark Didtler and Gary Schatz contributed to this report. | 2023-02-25T14:10:40+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/padres-slugger-machado-draws-first-ever-mlb-pitch-clock-violation-going-into-the-record-books/ |
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Twitter said it removes 1 million spam accounts each day in a call with executives Thursday during a briefing that aimed to shed more light on the company's fake and bot accounts as it tussles with Elon Musk over “spam bots.”
The Tesla CEO, who has offered to buy Twitter for $44 billion, has threatened to walk away from the deal if the company can't show that less than 5% of its daily active users are automated spam accounts.
Musk has argued, without presenting evidence, that Twitter has significantly underestimated the number of these “spam bots” -- automated accounts that typically promote scams and misinformation — on its service.
Twitter said on the call that the spam accounts represent well below 5% of its active user base each quarter.
Fake social media accounts have been problematic for years. Advertisers rely on the number of users provided by social media platforms to determine where they will spend money. Spam bots are also used to amplify messages and spread disinformation.
The problem of fake accounts is well-known to Twitter and its investors. The company has disclosed its bot estimates to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for years, while also cautioning that its estimate might be too low.
Last month, Twitter offered Musk access to its “firehose” of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets, according to multiple reports at the time, though neither the company nor Musk confirmed this. | 2022-07-07T17:30:10+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/tech/2022/07/07/twitter-says-it-removes-1-million-spam-accounts-a-day/ |
(The Hill) – Two civil rights organizations are launching a campaign to pressure state governments to disqualify former President Trump from appearing on ballots in 2024.
The groups say secretaries of state are empowered by the 14th Amendment to bar Trump from running for office because of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
Starting Sunday, Mi Familia Vota and Free Speech for People will stage a week of rallies and banner drops outside the offices of the secretaries of state of California, Oregon, Colorado and Georgia.
The groups also penned a letter to Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar last month, calling on him to block Trump under what’s known as the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause.
“We’re really focusing on Nevada and California and [Oregon, Colorado and Georgia] to make sure that they are taking a stand by disqualifying Trump in those spaces, which is something that the secretary of state can do,” said Héctor Sánchez, executive director of Mi Familia Vota.
The groups are calling their campaign “Trump is Disqualified,” and are timing it to coincide with the 155th anniversary of the 14th Amendment.
The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
Secretaries of state are charged with certifying eligibility of candidates and counting the votes in their state.
Though Trump has been indicted twice and is under investigation in other cases, the groups say those are not disqualifying facts under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
However, the groups believe Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrection — for which he is also under investigation — does fit the constitutional clause’s definitions.
That clause bars from a series of public offices people who “having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.”
According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), it’s unclear whether the clause bans people from being president — an office not explicitly mentioned in Section 3 — and whether the events of Jan. 6 rise to the level of “insurrection or rebellion against” the United States.
But at least one official in New Mexico, Couy Griffin, was removed from his position as elected county commissioner for his role in the attack.
Griffin was convicted for his role before losing his job, but the CRS notes that the Constitution “does not expressly require a criminal conviction, and historically, one was not necessary.”
The groups leading the campaign believe they can convince at least some secretaries of state of their interpretation of the clause, disrupting Trump’s electoral chances.
“Trump is responsible for the January 6th insurrection, plain and simple,” said Alexandra Flores-Quilty, campaign director for Free Speech For People.
“Failing to hold him responsible not only violates the Constitution, but it also sets a dangerous precedent for permitting violent attacks on our democracy. That’s not a risk we can afford to take.”
The targeted states are mostly under Democratic control, but one, Georgia, holds a special significance in the events leading up to Jan. 6.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) was in 2020 pressured by Trump to reverse his state’s presidential vote count, which favored President Biden.
Raffensperger was interviewed by federal investigators Wednesday as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into Trump.
A disqualification for Trump from any secretary of state would be unprecedented and likely challenged in court, but the civil rights groups say they have a shot.
“We had a number of meetings with secretaries of state and we have had this discussion. So it’s a real possibility,” said Sánchez. | 2023-07-08T16:22:31+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/activists-seek-to-disqualify-trump-from-ballot-in-key-states-under-14th-amendment/ |
Partner Class is Firm's Largest Ever and Spans 12 U.S. Markets
NEW YORK, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Troutman Pepper is pleased to announce its 26 newly elected partners and six counsel, listed below by office and practice area. Partner and counsel promotions were effective January 1, 2023, and span numerous practices and 12 U.S. offices, including Atlanta, Berwyn, Boston, Charlotte, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, Raleigh, Richmond, Rochester, and Washington, D.C.
"Our new partners and counsel represent the very best of what Troutman Pepper has to offer – collaborative approaches, diverse experience, and a deep commitment to client service," said Tom Cole, managing partner at Troutman Pepper. "We congratulate them on reaching this major career milestone and look forward to their significant contributions in years to come."
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Victoria Alvarez (Charlotte | Business Litigation)
Andrew Atkins (Charlotte | Business Litigation)
Patrick Bianchi (Philadelphia | Private Fund Services)
Adrian Boddie (Charlotte | Real Estate and Finance)
Tiffany Bracewell (Atlanta | White Collar + Government Investigations)
Natalie Burke (Richmond | Multifamily Housing Finance)
Devin Catlin (Charlotte | Real Estate)
Matthew Dials (Atlanta & New York | Construction)
Julie Hoffmeister (Richmond | Privacy + Cyber)
Michael Howes (Washington, D.C. | Finance)
Brett Hubler (Charlotte | Mergers + Acquisitions)
Morgan Klinzing (Philadelphia | Tax)
Griffin Mesmer (Boston | Intellectual Property)
Allison P. Nicklin (Berwyn | Health Sciences Transactions)
Alicia M. Palladino, Ph.D. (Pittsburgh | Health Sciences Intellectual Property)
Lydia Parker (Charlotte | Employee Benefits + Executive Compensation)
Thomas Phelan (Berwyn | Tax)
Justin Platt (New York | Health Sciences Transactions)
Allison Pryor (Atlanta | State Energy Regulation)
Valerie Sirota (New York | Business Litigation)
Casselle Smith (Washington, D.C. & Raleigh | White Collar + Government Investigations)
Adrienne Thompson (Portland | Energy)
Tate Tischner (Rochester | Intellectual Property)
Laura K. Umbrecht (Philadelphia | Health Sciences Transactions)
Matthew Vaughan (Richmond | Multifamily Housing Finance)
Karl Zielaznicki (New York | Intellectual Property)
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Hailey Barnett (Atlanta | Construction)
Kimberly Coghill (Washington, D.C. | Intellectual Property)
Lindsay Henner (Atlanta | Intellectual Property)
Brian Nichilo (Berwyn | White Collar + Government Investigations)
Joel Post (New York | Tax)
Zayne Tweed (Richmond | Financial Services)
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Biden’s Selma visit puts spotlight back on voting rights
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to pay tribute to the heroes of “Bloody Sunday,” joining thousands for the annual commemoration of the seminal moment in the civil rights movement that led to passage of landmark voting rights legislation nearly 60 years ago.
The visit to Selma, Alabama, on Sunday also is an opportunity for Biden to speak directly to the current generation of civil rights activists. Many feel dejected because Biden has been unable to make good on a campaign pledge to bolster voting rights and are eager to see his administration keep the issue in the spotlight.
Biden intends to use his remarks to underscore the importance of commemorating Bloody Sunday so that history can’t be erased, while making the case that the fight for voting rights remains integral to delivering economic justice and civil rights for Black Americans, according to White House officials.
This year’s commemoration also comes as the historic city of roughly 18,000 is still digging out from the aftermath of a January EF-2 tornado that destroyed or damaged thousands of properties in and around Selma. The scars of that storm are still evident. Blocks from the stage where Biden was to speak were houses that sat crumbled or without roofs. Orange spray paint marked buildings beyond salvage with instructions to “tear down.”
Before Biden’s visit, the Rev. William Barber II, a co-chair of Poor People’s Campaign, along with six other activists wrote to Biden and members of Congress to express their frustration with the lack of progress on voting rights legislation. They also urged Washington politicians visiting Selma not to sully the memories of the late civil rights activists John Lewis, Hosea Williams and others with empty platitudes.
“We’re saying to President Biden, let’s frame this to America as a moral issue, and let’s show how it effects everybody,” Barber said in an interview. “When voting rights passed after Selma, it didn’t just help Black people. It helped America itself. We need the president to reframe this: When you block voting rights, you’re not just hurting Black people. You’re hurting America itself.”
Few moments have had as lasting importance to the civil rights movement as what happened on March 7, 1965, in Selma and in the weeks that followed.
Some 600 peaceful demonstrators led by Lewis and Williams had gathered that day, just weeks after the fatal shooting of a young Black man, Jimmie Lee Jackson, by an Alabama trooper.
Lewis, who would later serve in the U.S. House representing Georgia, and the others were brutally beaten by Alabama troopers and sheriff’s deputies as they tried to cross Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge at the start of what was supposed to be a 54-mile walk to the state capital in Montgomery, part of a larger effort to register Black voters in the South
The images of the police violence sparked outrage across the country. Days later, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. led what became known as the “Turnaround Tuesday” march, in which marchers approached a wall of police at the bridge and prayed before turning back.
President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced the Voting Rights Act of 1965 eight days after Bloody Sunday, calling Selma one those rare moments in American history where “history and fate meet at a single time.” On March 21, King began a third march, under federal protection, that grew by thousands by the time they arrived at the state capital. Five months later, Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law.
As a 2020 White House candidate, Biden promised to pursue sweeping legislation to bolster protection of voting rights, .
Biden unveiled his legislation in 2021 — naming it the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. It included provisions to restrict partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts, strike down hurdles to voting and bring transparency to a murky campaign finance system that allows wealthy donors to bankroll political causes anonymously.
It passed in the then-Democratic-controlled House, but failed to garner the 60 votes needed to win passage in the Senate. With Republicans now in control of the House, passage of such legislation is highly unlikely.
Keisha Lance Bottoms, director of the White House office of public engagement, said Biden understands civil rights activists’ anger over the lack of progress.
“He’s frustrated,” she said. “But it doesn’t mean we have to stop. It doesn’t mean we stop pushing in the way that then 25-year-old John Lewis led 600 marchers across that bridge in Selma.”
Civil rights activists say the Biden administration can do more on the issue.
Two years ago on the day of the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration, Biden issued an executive order directing federal agencies to expand access to voter registration, called on the heads of agencies to come up with plans to give federal employees time off to vote or volunteer as nonpartisan poll workers, and more.
But many federal agencies are lagging in meeting the voting registration provision of Biden’s order, according to a report published Thursday by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
Only three of 10 agencies reviewed — the departments of Interior, Treasury and Veterans Affairs — were rated on track in integrating voter registration services into their everyday interactions with the public, according to the report.
The group says if agencies fully implemented voter registration efforts laid out in the executive order, it would generate an additional 3.5 million voter registration applications annually.
“We are two years into this executive order and two years into this administration, and agencies have had plenty of time for evaluation and deliberation,” said Laura Williamson, associate director for democracy at the left-leaning group Demos.
Vice President Kamala Harris said in a statement that the administration will continue to implement the order while pressing Congress to act on broader voting legislation. “If we are to truly honor the legacy of those who marched in Selma on Bloody Sunday, we must continue to fight to secure and safeguard the freedom to vote,” Harris said.
Selma officials hope Biden will also address the January tornado that devastated the city and laid bare issues of poverty that have persisted in Selma for decades.
Biden approved a disaster declaration and agreed to provide extra help for debris cleanup and removal, a cost that Selma Mayor James Perkins said the small city could not afford on its own. Perkins said Selma still needs more help.
“I understand other communities our size and our demographics have similar challenges … but I don’t think anyone can claim what Selma has done for this nation and the contributions that we made to this nation,” he said.
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Madhani reported from Washington.
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By JOHN LEICESTER, HANNA ARHIROVA and SAMYA KULLAB
Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s leader pledged Friday to push for victory in 2023 as he and other Ukrainians marked the somber anniversary of the Russian invasion that upended their lives and Europe’s security.
It was Ukraine’s “longest day,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, but the country’s dogged resistance a year on has proven that “every tomorrow is worth fighting for.”
On a day of commemorations, reflection and tears, the Ukrainian president’s defiant tone captured the national mood of resilience in the face of Europe’s biggest and deadliest war since World War II. Zelenskyy, who has himself become a symbol of Ukraine’s refusal to bow to Moscow, said Ukrainians proved themselves to be invincible during “a year of pain, sorrow, faith and unity.”
“We have been standing for exactly one year,” Zelenskyy said. Feb. 24, 2022, he said, was “the longest day of our lives. The hardest day of our modern history. We woke up early and haven’t fallen asleep since.”
Ukrainians wept at memorials for their tens of thousands of dead — a toll growing inexorably as fighting rages in eastern Ukraine in particular. Although Friday marked the anniversary of the full-scale invasion, combat between Russian-backed forces and Ukrainian troops has raged in the country’s east since 2014. New video from there shot with a drone for The Associated Press showed how the town of Marinka has been razed, along with others.
The killing continued: Russian shelling killed another three civilians and wounded 19 others in the most recent 24-hour spell, Ukraine’s presidential office said.
Around the country, Ukrainians looked back at a year that changed their lives and at the clouded future.
“I can sum up the last year in three words: Fear, love, hope,” Oleksandr Hranyk, a school director in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, said.
Lining up in the capital, Kyiv, to buy anniversary commemorative postage stamps, Tetiana Klimkova described her heart as “falling and hurting.”
Still, “this day has become a symbol for me that we have survived for a whole year and will continue to live,” she said. “On this day, our children and grandchildren will remember how strong Ukrainians are mentally, physically, and spiritually.”
Although China on Friday called for a cease-fire, peace was nowhere in sight. Ukraine previously rejected a pause in the fighting for fear it would allow Russia to regroup militarily after bruising battlefield setbacks.
Zelenskyy gave qualified support to China’s apparent new interest in playing a diplomatic role, saying: “The fact that China started talking about Ukraine is not bad.”
“But the question is what follows the words,” he said during a wide-ranging news conference. “The question is in the steps and where they will lead to.”
A 12-point paper issued by China’s Foreign Ministry also urged an end to sanctions that aim to squeeze Russia’s economy.
That suggestion also looked like a non-starter, given that Western nations are working to further tighten the sanctions noose, not loosen it. Both the U.K. and U.S. imposed more sanctions Friday.
Ukraine is readying another military push to roll back Russian forces with the help of weaponry that has poured in from the West. NATO member Poland said Friday that it had delivered four advanced Leopard 2A4 tanks, making it the first country to hand the German-made armor to Ukraine.
The prime minister of Poland said on a visit to Kyiv that more Leopards are coming. Poland’s defense minister said contributions from other countries would help form Ukraine’s first Leopard battalion of 31 tanks.
“Ukraine is entering a new period, with a new task — to win,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said.
“It will not be easy. But we will manage,” he added. “There is rage and a desire to avenge the fallen.”
Air raid alarms didn’t sound Friday in Kyiv, alleviating concerns that Russia might unleash another barrage of missiles to pile yet more sadness on Ukraine on the anniversary.
Still, the government recommended that schools move classes online, and office employees were asked to work from home. And even as they rode Kyiv’s subway to work, bought coffee and got busy, Ukrainians were unavoidably haunted by thoughts of loss and memories of when missiles struck, troops rolled across Ukraine’s borders and a refugee exodus began a year ago.
Back then, there were fears the country might fall within weeks. Zelenskyy referred to those dark moments in a video address.
“We fiercely fought for every day. And we endured the second day. And then, the third,” he said. “And we still know: Every tomorrow is worth fighting for.”
The anniversary was also poignant for the parents of children born exactly a year ago as bombs began killing and maiming.
“It’s a tragedy for the whole country, for every Ukrainian,” said Alina Mustafaieva, who gave birth to daughter Yeva that day.
“My family was lucky. We didn’t lose anyone or anything. But many did, and we have to share this loss together,” she said.
Tributes to Ukraine’s resilience took place in other countries. The Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Colosseum in Rome was among monuments illuminated in Ukraine’s colors — yellow and blue. In Berlin, a wrecked Russian tank was put on display.
Anti-war activists in Belgrade, Serbia, left a cake covered with red icing representing blood and a skull on top on a pavement near the Russian Embassy, which police stopped them from approaching.
In Russia, media and rights groups reported more police arrests of protesters who took to streets with antiwar slogans and flowers in various parts of the country.
The war’s one-year mark kept Ukraine’s president exceptionally busy. Zelenskyy kicked off the day with an early morning tweet that promised: “We know that 2023 will be the year of our victory!”
He followed that up with his video address, in which he also pledged not to abandon Ukrainians living under Russian occupation. “One way or another, we will liberate all our lands,” he vowed. He also addressed troops on a Kyiv square and handed out honors, including to the widow and daughter of a fallen soldier, telling them: “We will never forget.” In a Kyiv hospital, he decorated wounded fighters.
Unable to fly by plane from Ukraine while its airspace is closed because of the war, Zelenskyy did the next best thing at his news conference, spending nearly 2 1/2 hours with journalists from around the world. He thanked country after country for its support.
Emotional at times and playful at others, the president offered a glimpse of the people-skills he has used in corralling world leaders to back him and his country’s cause. He pushed again for more Western weaponry, including combat aircraft flown by the Royal Air Force in Britain that its government, led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, isn’t for the moment willing to send.
“Where (are) our aircraft, Typhoon?” Zelenskyy said, switching to speaking in English. “Please ask my friend Rishi.”
The news conference was televised live, which was unusual. Generally during the war, Zelenskyy’s speeches and comments are broadcast with a delay until he has left a location, to protect him from a possible attack.
Zelenskyy argued that Ukraine cannot negotiate with Russia while its aggression continues. “Leave our territory. Stop bombing us,” he said. He also argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin should be held responsible for war crimes.
“This is not a child who broke something and can be forgiven,” he said.
Zelenskyy said one of his biggest disappointments in the invasion was seeing people who could have fought leave the country, a reference to officials who fled. He said a low point was when Russian atrocities were discovered in the recaptured town of Bucha near Kyiv.
“It was very scary,” he said. “We saw that the devil is not somewhere out there, but on Earth.”
A year on, casualty figures are horrific on both sides, although Moscow and Kyiv keep precise numbers under wraps. Western estimates suggest hundreds of thousands of killed and wounded.
In Kharkiv, Ukrainian serviceman Dmytro Kovalenko was buried Fridayin the city’s main cemetery for soldiers, which has added 15 new rows of graves this past year. Kovalenko was killed Monday in the fiercely contested eastern city of Bakhmut. Those saying final goodbyes included Andrii Zatsorenko, a friend who lay red carnations on the grave.
“I never thought I’d be giving him flowers,” Zatsorenko said.
“The war will not end soon,” he added. “We have a powerful enemy.”
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Samya Kullab reported from Kharhiv, Ukraine. Vasilisa Stepanenko in Kharhiv, Yuras Karmanau and Dasha Litvinova in Tallinn, Estonia, Joanna Kozlowska in London, Monika Scislowska in Warsaw, Poland, and Sophiko Megrelidze in Tbilisi, Georgia, contributed to this report.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine: https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2023-02-24T21:23:25+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/ap-news/2023/02/24/as-ukraine-marks-year-of-war-leader-vows-to-secure-victory-2/ |
Ten disastrous minutes separated the Chicago Cubs from the cusp of ending a season-high losing streak to their worst loss of the season.
A five-run lead entering the bottom of the eighth should have provided enough cushion for the Cubs to put away the Houston Astros. Instead they departed Minute Maid Park ahead of Thursday’s day off with a crushing 7-6 walk-off loss that raised more questions about how the Cubs bullpen can get on track.
The Cubs (19-24) head to Philadelphia, where they kick off the last leg of their three-city, nine-game trip Friday carrying a five-game losing streak.
“We’ve got to cash that win in,” manager David Ross said. “You’re trying to set guys up for success and match up things that go well, and it didn’t go well tonight. So you’ve got to look at it. Go back to the drawing board and continue to have those guys work.”
Mark Leiter Jr., pitching for the second time in 10 days, allowed two runs in the eighth and struck out three. Keegan Thompson was called on for the ninth against the Astros’ 7-8-9 hitters with a 6-3 lead.
Within three pitches, the Cubs advantage was whittled to a run courtesy of Jake Meyers’ two-run homer. A full-count walk to pinch hitter Mauricio Dubón ended Thompson’s night.
Thompson says he doesn’t feel any different from a season ago, when he posted a 1.47 ERA in 36 relief innings. As the Cubs try to maximize Thompson’s usage and how his body recovers after pitching, they have not yet been able to deploy him in the same manner.
All 12 of his 2022 relief appearances were at least two innings with the majority lasting three. Only six of his 15 outings this year have gone multiple innings.
For the Cubs bullpen to function within how it was built entering the season, they need the 2022 version of Thompson, both in usage and performance. Without his ability to take down multiple innings, an already unproven relief group is further thrust into uncertain roles.
“We’re trying to get him synced up when he’s got enough rest, it feels like something we’ve got to look at just him bouncing back a little bit better,” Ross said of Thompson "It’s got to be better.”
Traffic on the bases has been a constant problem for the right-hander, even when he tosses zeros.
Through 15 appearances, Thompson has allowed at least one baserunner in all but one game. The lone exception came in his previous appearance Sunday in Minnesota. Thompson has walked 14 and struck out 16 in 21⅓ innings while allowing 14 hits.
Thompson doesn’t believe the quality of his stuff has been an issue.
“Things aren’t going my way right now,” he said. “Just had some hard contact today. It’s a punch in my gut. It just sucks to let the team down.
“I‘ve done the exact same stuff the whole time, and some of them haven’t been working out. It’s just tough to go through some of those hard times right now.”
Ross did not waste time getting Brandon Hughes up in the bullpen. The lefty began warming up after Astros catcher Yainer Díaz’s first-pitch leadoff single in the ninth. The prompt decision highlights the urgency of the moment and Ross knowing he needed to have a lefty ready for the top of the order, in preparation for Thompson facing the minimum three-batter requirement.
“They jumped on him early with a couple pitches there and then scared him out of the zone,” Ross said. “Walked a guy, I’m not going to wait around at that point.”
Hughes surrendered a double to Jeremy Peña and intentionally walked Alex Bregman to load the bases with nobody out. After getting a force out at home, Hughes gave up Kyle Tucker’s walk-off, two-run single to center. Christopher Morel’s throw home nearly nabbed Bregman, but Yan Gomes’ tag was a fraction late. The Astros’ game-winning play at the plate underwent replay review and was confirmed.
“The boys played well enough for a win and we didn’t do our job,” Hughes said, “so it hurts.”
The blown lead squandered Drew Smyly’s stellar outing in which he limited the Astros to one run in six innings. Seiya Suzuki (two home runs) and Morel (home run) led the offense.
“This game has a way of making things spiral on you, individually and as a team, and you have to hold your belief that things will turn around, that you’re good enough, that it all evens out in the end,” Smyly said. “Right now it’s a tough stretch. But we have an off day. Hopefully we can clear our heads and try to play better in Philly.”
Thompson’s inconsistency from outing to outing is compounding Ross’ limited high-leverage options.
The Cubs’ two offseason signings for veteran relievers have not panned out well seven weeks in.
Brad Boxberger, who is going back to Chicago for further evaluation of his right forearm strain, has struggled all year and Michael Fulmer hasn’t been able to get on a roll amid some unluckiness, posting a 59 ERA+ and .375 Batting Average on Balls in Play (BABIP). Thompson hasn’t thrown enough competitive pitches around the zone. Hughes has already been on the injured list twice. Nick Burdi and Jeremiah Estrada don’t possess much big-league track experience. Michael Rucker and Julian Merryweather have a mixed track record in leverage opportunities. Adbert Alozlay’s performance could earn him more chances in big spots on top of his multi-inning flexibility; he’s surrendered an earned run in just four of his 18 appearances.
As the Cubs struggle to get on track, losers in 18 of their last 25 games, they must weigh how long they can let Thompson try to work through his struggles at the major-league level versus Triple A. They need him to get right and pitch more like the reliever they saw in 2021 and 2022.
The Cubs are in dangerous spot, squandering a strong start in what is setting up to be a winnable division could quickly put them in a bad position. If the Cubs rip off winning streaks — or at the very least play .500 for a prolonged stretch — the front office could be in sell mode again this summer.
“We’re just excited to get out of this city,” Smyly said of Houston. “We’ve seen enough of it. Ready to get home.”
() | 2023-05-18T14:10:41+00:00 | denverpost.com | https://www.denverpost.com/2023/05/18/weve-got-to-cash-that-win-in-chicago-cubs-bullpen-blows-a-late-5-run-lead-in-disastrous-walk-off-loss-to-seal-a-road-sweep/ |
AURORA, Colo. — A double shooting early Friday in Aurora left one man dead and put another man to the hospital.
The Aurora Police Department (APD) said at 12:35 a.m. Friday, officers responded to a shooting in the 10700 block of East Exposition Avenue, near South Havana Street.
When police arrived at the scene, they found two men who had been shot. The men were taken to the hospital. One of the men was later pronounced dead. The second man, who is 35 years old, was receiving emergency medical treatment on Friday morning, police said.
The identity of the deceased victim has not been released. His identity will be released by the Arapahoe County Coroner's Office after his next of kin has been notified.
Police were investigating what led up to the shooting, and detectives were actively pursuing leads. No arrests were made as of Friday morning.
Anyone with information was asked to call Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867 or visit metrodenvercrimestoppers.com. Tipsters can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a reward of up to $2,000.
Metro Denver Crime Stoppers works by assigning a code to people who anonymously submit a tip. Information is shared with law enforcement, and Crime Stoppers is notified at the conclusion of the investigation.
From there, an awards committee reviews the information provided and, if the information leads to an arrest, the tipster will be notified. Rewards can be collected using the code numbers received when the tip was originally submitted.
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This special section is one of my favorites that we do at Finance & Commerce and Minnesota Lawyer. The profiles of the Minnesota Icon honorees are aspirational and a joy to read. It reminds me that there are many paths to success that people can take in Minnesota. These Icons have built companies and legacies that will have a lasting impact for years to come.
Pairing the Icon honorees with the annual class of Rising Young Professionals is something we’re doing for a second time in 2022. These young honorees showcase the drive to find your niche in the world and start to define and build professional success.
Inside this section, you’ll find profiles of these Icons and Rising Young Professionals. These profiles feature insight from titans of Minnesota’s legal, construction and real estate professions. And they highlight the diversity of our next generation of leaders, with honorees carving out careers in real estate, the arts, hospitality and more. I think you’ll find inspiration no matter where you are in your professional journey.
Those featured in this section were feted at an awards and networking event Dec. 8 at the Lumber Exchange Event Center in Minneapolis. Congratulations to all of our Icon and Rising Young Professionals honorees.
– David Bohlander, Editor
Honorees
Bill Austin
Margo S. Brownell
Elizabeth Campbell
Bruce Engelsma
Barb Frey
Michael A. Klutho
Andrew LeFevour
William Michael Jr.
Judge Ann D. Montgomery
Barbara Nevin
Gerald L. Seck
Judge Susan Segal
Lowell V. Stortz
David L. Stowman
Pat Wolf
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New Bentley University – Gallup survey shows Democrats and Republicans sharply divided over Washington's impact
WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the midterm elections now less than two weeks away, voters are being deluged by campaign ads and candidate debates, lawn signs and robocalls. But after the campaigns end and the last ballot is cast, how much will it matter? When it comes right down to it, how effective is government at actually changing people's daily lives?
A new nationwide survey by Bentley University and Gallup finds that only 39% of people believe the federal government is effective at impacting people's lives in a positive way.
And there's a huge difference depending on which party you belong to: 57% of Democrats believe the federal government is effective at improving people's lives, compared to only 24% of Republicans.
The Bentley-Gallup Force for Good Survey of 5,757 U.S. adults also found:
- People who identify as Black are much more likely to believe the federal government can make a difference. 62 percent of Black people say the federal government is effective at impacting people's lives, compared to 33 percent of white people.
- Older people are most likely to believe in the federal government's effectiveness. Among those over age 70, 44 percent say the federal government is effective at impacting people's lives, followed by those aged 18 to 29 (42 percent).
- People aged 50 to 59 had the least faith in Washington, with only 34 percent believing that the federal government is effective at impacting people's lives.
- 75% of Democrats say companies should speak out on current events but Republicans overwhelmingly say they should stick to business. Only 18% of Republicans say businesses should give their opinion on stories in the news.
"Democrats see corporate executives as allies in recent social conflicts, but they should be careful what they wish for," said Jeff Moriarty, professor of Philosophy at Bentley. "Eventually they will find themselves on opposing sides of an issue, and then encouraging corporations to get more involved in politics will seem like a bad idea."
So if Americans are skeptical of Washington, who do they think should step in?
57% of people think businesses are effective at improving people's lives, the Bentley-Gallup poll found. Republicans believe businesses make a positive impact more than Democrats do -- 72% of Republicans say businesses are effective at making a positive impact, compared to 51% of Democrats.
The difference in people's trust in government compared to business highlights a growing trend.
"The role of business in our society is evolving. People expect more from companies than simply increasing profits and meeting shareholder goals," said Bentley President E. LaBrent Chrite. "As people's expectations expand and businesses change to meet them, businesses themselves will have a larger role in our society – everything from how we debate political ideas to how we treat the poorest among us. The impact of business in our society has never been more important."
The Bentley University – Gallup Force for Good Report is based on a Gallup Panel web survey completed by 5,757 adults, aged 18 and older, conducted June 8 to 19, 2022. The Gallup Panel is a probability-based longitudinal panel of U.S. adults whom Gallup selects using random-digit-dial phone interviews that cover landline and cell phones. Gallup also uses address-based sampling methods to recruit panel members. The sample for this survey was weighted to be demographically representative of the U.S. adult population, using the most recent Current Population Survey figures. For results based on this sample, the maximum margin of sampling error is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. Margins of error are higher for subsamples.
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Arts and Entertainment Colleen Oakley's grandma inspired the intergenerational friendship in her new novel Published March 28, 2023 at 3:16 PM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 7:59 NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with writer Colleen Oakley about her new book "The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise." Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-03-28T21:49:17+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/arts-and-entertainment/arts-and-entertainment/2023-03-28/colleen-oakleys-grandma-inspired-the-intergenerational-friendship-in-her-new-novel |
Disney has chosen to donate 100% of proceeds from the 2022 collection to LGBTQIA+ organizations supporting youth and families, according to the official Disney Parks Blog website.
You can learn more about these organizations and their impactful work by clicking here.
This year's collection is a notable change from years past, which were previously known as the Rainbow Disney Collection, and includes big brands and franchises such as Star Wars, Marvel, and Pixar.
The merchandise is now available at Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resort.
Disney is the parent company of ABC and this station. | 2022-05-17T16:46:03+00:00 | abc30.com | https://abc30.com/disney-pride-lgbtq-collection/11860998/ |
Attorney for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is ‘confident’ prisoner swap with US will happen
CNN
By Chandelis Duster, CNN
An attorney for notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout said Monday he is “confident” the proposed prisoner swap of his client for Americans Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan is going to happen.
“I do have some information about the progress of how things are going … But that information comes from the Russian side as opposed to the American side,” Bout’s attorney Steve Zissou told CNN’s John Avalon on “New Day.” “I’m confident this is going to get done.”
Zissou continued, “Look, it’s no secret they’ve been wanting him back for several years now. They’ve been trying to get him back for decades. That’s not something they’ve ever kept secret.”
The US has offered Bout, who is serving a 25-year US prison sentence, as part of a potential deal to secure the release of Griner and Whelan. But Russian officials have requested that Vadim Krasikov, a former colonel from the country’s domestic spy agency, be included in the US’ proposed swap of Bout for Griner and Whelan, multiple sources familiar with the discussions have told CNN.
Krasikov was convicted in December of murdering a former Chechen fighter, Zelimkhan “Tornike” Khangoshvili, in Berlin’s Kleiner Tiergarten in 2019 and sentenced to life in prison.
The request was seen as problematic for several reasons, the sources told CNN, among them that Krasikov remains in German custody. As such, and because the request was not communicated formally but rather through a FSB backchannel, the US government did not view it as a legitimate counter to the US’ offer which was first revealed by CNN on Wednesday.
National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby in an earlier interview on “New Day” called the Russian’s request a “bad faith attempt” and said the country should accept the US’ offer.
“This so-called, you call it a counteroffer, we would call it a bad faith attempt to avoid what is a serious proposal already on the table. And oh, by the way Brianna, has been on the table now for several weeks,” Kirby told CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Monday. “Holding two Americans who have been wrongfully detained hostage for a convicted murderer in a third country is just — we don’t consider that a serious counteroffer at all. It is nothing more than a bad faith attempt by the Russians publicly to avoid what is a serious proposal, one that we are not making detailed in public and has been on the books for several weeks and we urge the Russians to accept it.”
On Friday US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Russian Foreign Minster Sergey Lavrov for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year.
Blinken said he “pressed the Kremlin to accept the substantial proposal that we put forth on the release of Paul Whelan and Brittney Griner.” At a press conference on Friday he declined to say whether he thought Russia was more or less likely to move on the proposal following the conversation, nor would he describe how Lavrov responded.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement following the call that Lavrov “strongly suggested” to Blinken that the United States should return to a mode of “quiet diplomacy” regarding a possible prisoner exchange “without any dubious media leaks.”
Prior to the call between Blinken and Lavrov, US officials had expressed frustration at Moscow’s lack of substantive response to the proposal to free Whelan and Griner. State Department spokesperson Ned Price on Thursday acknowledged “this has not moved to the extent we would like.”
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(KHON) – Victoria Lee, a mixed martial arts prodigy and younger sister of current ONE Championship champions Angela and Christian Lee, has died at the age of 18.
Lee’s death, which occurred on Dec. 26, 2022, was announced on Angela Lee’s personal Instagram account on Saturday morning. The cause of death was not disclosed at the time of the announcement.
As a wrestler at Mililani High School, Lee won an HHSAA championship in the 117-pound weight class in 2020. She signed her first professional mixed martial arts contract later that year at the age of 16, joining her two older siblings at ONE.
Lee went 3-0 as a professional, winning all three of her fights in 2021. All three fights were finished by Lee using different methods.
Her pro debut was a victory over Sunisa Srisan via rear-naked choke on Feb. 26, 2021. She followed that with an armbar submission over Wang Luping in the first round of a fight that took place on July 30, 2021. Lee then finished off a dominant 2021 with a TKO over Victoria Souza in the second round of a Sept. 24 bout. All three of her ONE fights took place in Singapore.
After not fighting in 2022, Lee was set to take on Zeba Bano on Jan. 14, 2023, at ONE on Prime Video 6 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Lee seemed to be on a fast track to MMA stardom, a path that was cultivated by her parents, Ken and Jewelz, as well as siblings Christian, younger brother Adrian, and Angela and her husband, Bruno Pucci, who also competes in ONE Championship.
At her young age, Victoria Lee was considered to be an MMA phenom. She finishes her career undefeated, though it ended far sooner than fans of the sport thought it would. | 2023-01-10T13:38:50+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/mixed-martial-arts-prodigy-victoria-lee-dies-at-18/ |
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Power Integrations Inc. (POWI) on Monday reported fourth-quarter net income of $22.8 million.
The San Jose, California-based company said it had net income of 40 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 48 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 46 cents per share.
The maker of integrated circuits used for power conversion posted revenue of $124.8 million in the period, which missed Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $126 million.
For the year, the company reported profit of $170.9 million, or $2.93 per share. Revenue was reported as $651.1 million.
For the current quarter ending in March, Power Integrations said it expects revenue in the range of $100 million to $110 million.
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Four astronauts fly SpaceX back home, end 5-month mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four space station astronauts returned to Earth late Saturday after a quick SpaceX flight home.
Their capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico just off the Florida coast.
The U.S.-Russian-Japanese crew spent five months at the International Space Station, arriving last October. Besides dodging space junk, the astronauts had to deal with a pair of leaking Russian capsules docked to the orbiting outpost and the urgent delivery of a replacement craft for the station’s other crew members.
Led by NASA’s Nicole Mann, the first Native American woman to fly in space, the astronauts checked out of the station early Saturday morning. Less than 19 hours later, their Dragon capsule was bobbing in the sea as they awaited pickup.
Earlier in the week, high wind and waves in the splashdown zones kept them at the station a few extra days. Their replacements arrived more than a week ago.
Mann, a member of Northern California’s Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, said she couldn’t wait to feel the wind on her face, smell fresh grass and enjoy some delicious Earth food.
Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata craved sushi, while Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina yearned to drink hot tea “from real cup, not from plastic bag.”
NASA astronaut Josh Cassada’s to-do list included getting a rescue dog for his family. “Please don’t tell our two cats,” he joked before departing the space station.
Remaining behind at the space station are three Americans, three Russians and one from the United Arab Emirates.
Wakata, Japan’s spaceflight champion, now has logged more than 500 days in space over five missions dating back to NASA’s shuttle era.
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The accelerating probe into former President Trump’s involvement in a hush-money scandal has a new face, one eager to hit the airwaves ahead of any potential criminal charges.
Joe Tacopina made the rounds on TV this week, enthusiastically defending the former president in the court of public opinion as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be wrapping up his presentation to a grand jury reviewing a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Trump himself on Saturday said his arrest could come Tuesday, lashing out at New York authorities.
“Protest, take our nation back!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social, calling on supporters to protest his potential arrest.
Tacopina’s style has drawn comparison to that of his client, dismissing the probe as one that should prompt “a healthy dose of disgust from the bar, the legal community, prosecutors, defense lawyers alike.”
He’s defended Trump for falsely saying he was unaware of the payment — “Of course it’s not the truth,” he said on MSNBC this week — and claimed that the exchange in no way violated campaign finance laws, the very charge former Trump fixer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to.
Tacopina’s flashy entrance comes amid a flurry of activity in the probe.
The grand jury this week heard from Cohen, while Daniels met with prosecutors in what she said was part of her “continuing fight for truth and justice.”
Trump has denied having a relationship with Daniels, but a potential case would largely center on the former president’s role in directing the payment and whether doing so just days before the 2016 election violated campaign finance laws. Trump’s company labeled Cohen’s reimbursement of the payment as a legal expense and did not disclose them in campaign finance reports.
Tacopina, a former Brooklyn prosecutor, has made national television appearances that stretch back decades as he racked up a client list including celebrities such as Michael Jackson, A-Rod, Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky and Don Imus.
“The guy is just made for television,” Phil Griffin, MSNBC’s former president, told Westport Magazine in 2002. “He’s got the looks, he’s got the voice, that all plays into it, but it’s really his authority and his honesty that are so refreshing. There are guests who fill the time with banter, and there’s Joe, who’s like, ‘You’re wrong!'”
Tacopina did not respond to questions from The Hill.
He has also represented Trump allies in the past, including Bernard Kerik, a former New York police commissioner who also aided Rudy Giuliani’s team in investigating purported voter fraud in the 2020 election. Tacopina served as Kerik’s attorney in a case where he ultimately pleaded guilty to tax fraud and other charges in 2007, later being pardoned by Trump.
But Kerik’s relationship with Tacopina soured. The former police commissioner tapped Tim Parlatore, now an attorney representing Trump in matters before special counsel Jack Smith, to launch a suit alleging malpractice after Tacopina spoke to federal authorities about the case. The suit, however, was later dismissed.
Beyond the hush-money probe, Tacopina has also represented the former president in a civil sexual battery lawsuit from author E. Jean Carroll, whose claims Trump also denies.
Tacopina told CNN in 2018 that he briefly consulted with Daniels on the hush-money agreement, a detail that could become an issue if prosecutors file charges against Trump. Tacopina largely declined to discuss the matter at the time, saying “there is an attorney-client privilege that attaches even to a consultation.”
Although he has represented many celebrities and politicians, he is now adding Trump ahead of what could be the first criminal indictment of a former U.S. president.
After Manhattan prosecutors invited Trump to testify before the grand jury hearing evidence in the probe, usually a signal that charges are likely, Tacopina reportedly huddled last weekend at Mar-a-Lago with other Trump aides to discuss their next steps.
By Monday morning, Tacopina began taking to the airwaves to vociferously defend his client, making appearances on ABC, Fox News and MSNBC.
It began with an interview on “Good Morning America,” where he described Trump as a victim of extortion and rejected the notion that the hush money could be caught up in campaign finance violations.
“I don’t know since when we’ve decided to start prosecuting extortion victims,” Tacopina told host George Stephanopoulos. “He’s vehemently denied this affair, but he had to pay money because there was going to be an allegation that was going to be publicly embarrassing to him — regardless of the campaign.”
But Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor who served as one of the lead attorneys on the Mueller investigation, said the claim is itself problematic.
“That is an admission he paid $ (which he had been denying) and the $ was not for legal fees (the cover story). Because the NY criminal case reportedly focuses on the crime of making false business records — his ‘defense’ is an confession,” Weissmann wrote on Twitter.
Things got heated the following day, when Tacopina sat down with MSNBC host Ari Melber, who played a 2018 clip of Trump indicating he had no knowledge of the Daniels payment, calling that a lie.
Tacopina acknowledged it wasn’t true, but pushed back, saying Trump couldn’t violate the terms of the confidential settlement.
He grabbed a paper in Melber’s hand that seemed to contain notes about the statement, saying, “Put the paper down. Put the paper down, let me answer. We don’t need that.”
During prime time on Wednesday, Tacopina joined Fox’s Sean Hannity for a more friendly interview. Tacopina said the legal system had become “completely weaponized.”
Tacopina’s rounds — both in affect and in substance — prompted other criticism as well, with late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel joking that Tacopina “seems to have been born in the ashtray of Rudy Giuliani’s Lincoln Continental.”
Cohen, who spent a little over a year in prison as well as another year and a half in home confinement due to his connection with the Daniels payoff, also made comparisons to Giuliani, saying Tacopina was following in “Rudy ‘Colludy’s’ steps.”
“To be honest, I was embarrassed for him. I was actually embarrassed for our profession,” Cohen said.
He added that journalists challenged Tacopina’s arguments in real time, making it difficult for the attorney.
“You’re not playing to a party of one when you’re sitting across the desk from Ari Melber. And he wasn’t going to just accept whatever answer that Joe Tacopina decided to put out there. He was going to challenge him. And sadly, it’s not the first time. George Stephanopoulos did the exact same thing and schooled him. He’s making Trump look even worse, if that’s possible.” | 2023-03-19T13:08:16+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/hill-politics/in-hush-money-probe-trumps-lawyer-is-anything-but-quiet/ |
A metro-Atlanta resident who was trafficking methamphetamine through the Middle District of Georgia from an Atlanta source when he attempted to flee police on Interstate 75 was sentenced to serve more than 17 years in federal prison this week for his crime.
WASHINGTON – Five individuals have been sentenced for conspiring to defraud the U.S. Department of Education’s financial aid programs of more than $12 million in federal funds.
According to court documents, from around August 2010 through May 2018, the defendants created and ran an elaborate sham university: the Columbus, Georgia, satellite campus of Apex School of Theology (Apex Columbus). Anderson, the former director of Apex Columbus, enrolled hundreds of individuals who were not qualified and who had no desire to obtain a theological education to pose as students. The defendants and their co-conspirators then worked together to fraudulently complete financial aid applications in students’ names and to complete students’ homework and exams.
After falsely ensuring that the sham students would receive federal financial aid, the defendants either stole student financial aid refund checks or required students to cash their aid checks and provide a portion to the co-conspirators. During the course of the conspiracy, the Department of Education issued approximately $12 million in fraudulently procured financial aid.
Those sentenced include:
-- Sandra Anderson, 63, of Hampton received 108 months in prison, three years of supervised release;
-- Yolanda Brown Thomas, 51, of Columbus received 63 months in prison and three years of supervised release;
-- Kristina Parker, 35, of Stone Mountain received four years in prison, three years of supervised release;
-- Erica Montgomery, 49, of Fort Mitchell, Ala., received 51 months in prison and three years of supervised release;
-- Leo Frank Thomas, 56, of Phenix City, Ala., received three years in prison, hree years of supervised release.
All five defendants were also ordered to pay, jointly and severally, $11,821,022 in restitution to the Department of Education.
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Peter D. Leary for the Middle District of Georgia; Special Agent in Charge Keri E. Farley of the FBI Atlanta Field Office; Special Agent in Charge Reginald J. France of the Department of Education Office of Inspector General, Southeastern Regional Office; and Special Agent in Charge James E. Dorsey of the IRS Criminal Investigation made the announcement.
The FBI, ED-OIG, and IRS-CI investigated the case. Assistant Chief Leslie S. Garthwaite and Trial Attorneys Siji Moore, Spencer Ryan, and Matt Kahn of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section prosecuted the case, with assistance from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia. | 2022-12-19T22:49:08+00:00 | albanyherald.com | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/five-sentenced-for-financial-aid-fraud-scheme/article_9f0fdde8-7fdf-11ed-87ab-db62971d1e6b.html |
As solar panels continue to grow in popularity for U.S. homeowners, a viral Reddit post claims the sun once powered one of the most famous homes in the world.
In early October, a Reddit user claimed former President Jimmy Carter unveiled solar panels on top of the White House during his administration, but they were later removed by former President Ronald Reagan.
Google search data also show people are asking whether Carter put solar panels on the White House.
THE QUESTION
Did President Jimmy Carter install solar panels on the White House that President Ronald Reagan later removed?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House that President Ronald Reagan later removed.
WHAT WE FOUND
President Jimmy Carter identified the environment as a priority issue during his 1976 presidential campaign and later worked to reform national energy policy while in office.
In 1977, amid natural gas shortages and unrest in the Middle East, Carter signed a law creating the U.S. Department of Energy. The government agency officially activated on Oct. 1 of that year.
But Carter’s commitment to energy policy didn’t end there. In the summer of 1979, he had 32 solar panels installed on the roof of the West Wing of the White House, according to the National Museum of History and the White House Historical Association. The panels heated water at the White House until Carter’s successor, President Ronald Reagan, removed them in 1986 during the resurfacing of the White House roof.
The solar panels remained in a government storage facility for about five years after Reagan removed them.
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In 1991, the unused White House solar panels were moved from storage to Unity College in New Gloucester, Maine. The school refurbished 16 of the 32 panels and placed them on top of the school’s cafeteria where they were used to power the water heater.
Unity College says the panels were removed from the cafeteria roof in 2010 “when they reached their useful lifespan.” The college donated at least one of the solar panels to the National Museum of American History.
Though Carter was the first U.S. president to install solar panels at the White House, two others followed suit.
In 2002, during President George W. Bush’s administration, the National Park Service oversaw the installation of solar panels to power the White House’s central maintenance building. Solar power also warmed the president’s hot tub and outdoor swimming pool, the White House Historical Association said.
President Barack Obama announced that he would install solar panels and a solar hot water heater on the White House in 2010, a plan that came to fruition nearly three years later in August 2013.
VERIFY reached out to the White House for comment about whether solar panels are still installed on the building, but didn’t hear back at the time of publication. | 2022-10-14T21:02:41+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/jimmy-carter-installed-white-house-solar-panels-ronald-reagan-removed-them-fact-check/536-96ca9272-3d04-447b-99e9-a03337680a56 |
Student shuttle buses further reduce Vanderbilt's carbon footprint.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Electrada, an electric fuel solutions company, today announced that Vanderbilt University continues to reduce its carbon footprint through Electrada's complete electric fuel solution, leading to the private research institution's VandyRide shuttles fleet's transition to all EVs. With the electric VandyRide shuttle buses in service for the Fall 2023 semester, Vanderbilt continues to contribute to its carbon neutrality.
"Vanderbilt is committed to lowering its carbon footprint, so switching to electric vehicles in our shuttle fleet is a top priority," said Lindsay Ganson, assistant director of mobility at Vanderbilt University. "We're so excited to have our shuttles in action before the fall semester begins and are looking forward to working with Electrada on our electric fuel needs."
Electrada's 360 Charging-as-a-Service (CaaS) offers fleet operators across multiple vehicle classes and sectors a fully capitalized and performance-contracted electrification solution that simplifies the transition to electric vehicles. This unique approach to fleet electrification provides a predictably priced contract that eliminates the upfront capital investment, technology and energy cost risks that often prevent organizations from adopting a robust EV program.
Key to Vanderbilt's decision to launch its electrification strategy was the collaborative approach provided through Electrada's partnership with Holman, a global automotive service organization, which provides EV fleet management to Vanderbilt. Holman and Electrada have previously provided integrated electrification solutions in the logistics and telecom sectors, where like at Vanderbilt, asset performance and predictable electric fuel pricing are critical factors.
"Universities around the country have instituted sustainability goals to reduce or eliminate their carbon footprint. Fleet electrification is a visible, ROI-based means to materially advancing these objectives. We're proud to support Vanderbilt's unique FutureVU efforts as a national leader in higher education," said Kevin Kushman, Electrada's CEO. "Our 360 CaaS model presents the integrated electric fuel solution required across both local and national footprints, where use cases, duty cycles, utilities and energy prices call for a strong and knowledgeable partner."
For more information about Holman and Electrada's innovative electrification partnership, visit Holman.com or Electrada.com.
About Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a globally renowned research university located in Nashville, Tennessee. Ranked No. 13 among national universities, Vanderbilt offers an immersive living-learning undergraduate experience, with programs in the liberal arts and sciences, engineering, music, education and human development. The university also is home to nationally and internationally recognized graduate schools of law, education, business, medicine, nursing and divinity, and offers robust graduate-degree programs across a range of academic disciplines. Vanderbilt is committed to inclusive excellence, drawing the world's brightest students, faculty and distinguished visitors from across all cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds and provides a collaborative atmosphere of discovery that drives positive change in the world. Learn more at www.vanderbilt.edu.
About Electrada
Electrada is a Cincinnati-based developer, owner, and operator of electric vehicle infrastructure and related energy assets, serving multiple transportation segments using its unique 360 Charging-as-a-Service solutions. Electrada partners with fleets to expertly design and build a 100% tailored EV charging solution, then invests all the capital required to deliver a complete electric fuel program for a decade or longer at an electric-fueled cost per mile that's lower than liquid fuel from day one. Electrada clients only pay for their electric fuel needs – with no disruption to their operations. Electrada, founded in 2020 by energy, mobility, and utility experts, is a BlackRock Climate Infrastructure portfolio company established to build and support high-performance EV infrastructure across North America.
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Father plans to take legal action against Bayville, NV school’s administration after daughter Adriana Kuch died by suicide
By ALI BAUMAN
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BAYVILLE, New Jersey (WCBS) — A wake was held Friday for a 14-year-old girl in New Jersey who took her own life after being bullied at school.
The child’s father told CBS2’s Ali Bauman he plans to take legal action against school administration.
Students — kids — are trying to process the death of their friend Adriana Kuch.
“She was a really nice girl,” friend Gerald Gibbs said.
“She always knew how to light up a room,” friend Janece Cullison said.
“I was really mad because I know she didn’t just do it for no reason. She did it ’cause the people bullied her,” friend Lance Jones said.
The 14-year-old girl, a freshman at Central Regional High School in Bayville, died by suicide last week, just two days after a disturbing video was posted on social media. It shows a group of students brutally attacking Adriana in the school hall.
“The students are a symptom. The school and their leadership is a cancer,” father Michael Kuch said.
Kuch says bullies tormented his daughter online after she was beaten and claims the school district lied to him about the extent of the fight. He believes administrators should have called police and taken her to the hospital.
“They asked Adriana not come back to school because her face was so beaten that they didn’t want her getting bullied the next day and people making fun of her,” Kuch said.
The superintendent told CBS2 that four students were suspended on the day of the incident.
Since then, the Ocean County prosecutor’s office has charged three girls with third-degree felony assault and another with disorderly conduct.
Adriana’s classmates tell us they feel the administration does not properly address bullying.
“I genuinely think that the problem is Central Regional. It’s just the district,” friend Amari Lopez said.
“The school gave her no support system, and I feel like if she had that, this wouldn’t have happened,” Janece said.
Adriana’s father vows he will not let his daughter die in vain.
“I’m not gonna stop until everything is changed. I want that whole administration gone. I want the whole school board gone,” Kuch said.
School officials did not respond to our questions Friday but called Adriana’s death “horrible.”
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Employees at a Trader Joe’s supermarket in Massachusetts on Thursday became the latest workers at a major company to approve a labor union.
The store in Hadley, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) west of Boston, is the first Trader Joe’s with an employees union, although workers at two other company locations have initiated unionization efforts.
The union vote, counted by National Labor Relations Board agents in front of witnesses from management and employees, passed 45-31 with one void. Eighty-one store workers — called crew members or merchants in company lingo — were eligible to vote.
The union, Trader Joe’s United, said in a Twitter post “We won!”
“This victory is historic, but not a surprise,” the tweet said. “Since the moment we announced our campaign, a majority of the crew have enthusiastically supported our union, and despite the company’s best efforts to bust us, our majority has never wavered.”
The company has seven days to file an objection. A company spokesperson did not indicate whether there would be one. The company already has among the best package of pay, benefits, and working conditions in the grocery store business, the spokesperson said.
“We are prepared to immediately begin discussions with union representatives for the employees at this store to negotiate a contract,” the statement from Nakia Rohde said. “We are willing to use any current union contract for a multi-state grocery company with stores in the area, selected by the union representatives, as a template to negotiate a new structure for the employees in this store; including pay, retirement, healthcare, and working conditions such as scheduling and job flexibility.”
Organizers at the store launched the effort in May in an open letter to company CEO Dan Bane citing concerns about pay, benefits and safety.
Now that the union has been approved, the next step is putting together a negotiating committee to hammer out a contract with the California-based company, which has about 530 stores nationwide.
“We must embrace this challenge head on, together, and negotiate a contract that reflects the values Trader Joe’s has long claimed to espouse,” the union said in its tweet.
Trader Joe’s United is an independent union and not affiliated with a larger existing union, although organizers have received administrative and legal help from established unions, 18-year Trader Joe’s employee Maeg Yosef said.
Workers from at least two other Trader Joe’s locations have initiated unionization efforts. Employees at a Minneapolis location have a union vote scheduled for Aug. 11 and 12, while the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 on Tuesday filed a union election petition with the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of crew members at a Boulder, Colorado store.
The Trader Joe’s workers are part of a nationwide wave of employees at major companies who have or are attempting to unionize in an effort to secure a bigger say in their work conditions and compensation.
Workers at multiple Starbucks coffee shop locations across the country, as well as employees at Amazon, Apple and REI are among those who have joined unions in the past year.
During the first nine months of the 2022 fiscal year, from Oct. 1 until June 30, union representation petitions filed at the National Labor Relations Board have increased 58% compared to the first three quarters of the previous fiscal year, the agency said this month.
Before the vote took place, Trader Joe’s management engaged in what Yosef called “classic union-busting” tactics, including hiring a law firm specializing in fighting unionization to try and talk employees out of approving a union.
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This story has been corrected to reflect that Trader Joe’s has about 530 stores, not about 550. | 2022-07-29T12:01:31+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/union-vote-to-wrap-up-at-trader-joes-store-in-massachusetts/ |
Velociraptor statue heist ends with 3 arrests in South Dakota
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Police have hunted down a velociraptor that was stolen from outside a South Dakota arts and science center. Sioux Falls police Sgt. Aaron Benson said Friday that a security officer spotted three people carrying the statue away from the Washington Pavilion and called police just after midnight. The Argus Leader reports that surveillance video then helped officers track the statue to a nearby apartment. The three suspects were detained on charges of grand theft. Benson said one was 18, another 19 and the third a juvenile. | 2023-06-17T23:43:38+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/2023/06/17/velociraptor-statue-heist-ends-with-3-arrests-in-south-dakota/ |
CA Las Vegas NV Zone Forecast for Friday, March 24, 2023
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National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
1246 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
This is an automatically generated product that provides average
values for large geographical areas and may not be representative
of the exact location that you are interested in. For a more site
specific forecast...please visit weather.gov/lasvegas and either
(1) Select a location from the dropdown menu above the map or
(2) Click a location on the map. You can refine your selection by
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CAZ519-251100-
Eastern Sierra Slopes-
Including Aspendell and Whitney Portal
1246 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY EVENING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 9 to 19. West winds 5 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of snow showers in
the afternoon. Highs 21 to 31. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 6 to 16. West winds 15 to
25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 20 to 30. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 6 to 16. West winds 5 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, breezy. Not as cold. Highs around 39.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Not as cold. Lows around
30.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Windy. Chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Snow may be heavy at times in the afternoon. Highs
around 43. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Breezy. Mostly cloudy with snow
showers likely. Snow may be heavy at times. Accumulations are
possible. Lows around 24. Highs 36 to 43. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with chance of snow showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows around 24.
Chance of snow 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs around 38. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 25.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 43.
$$
CAZ521-251100-
White Mountains of Inyo County-
Including Westgard Pass and Bristlecone Pine
1246 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 17 to 27. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of snow showers in
the afternoon. Highs 27 to 37. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 14 to 24. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 26 to 36. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 25. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 40.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 30.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Breezy. Chance of snow showers and rain
showers in the afternoon. Highs around 46. Chance of
precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance
of snow showers. Lows around 28. Highs 39 to 46.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with chance of snow showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows around 29.
Chance of snow 30 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs around 41.
Lows around 29.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 44.
$$
CAZ520-251100-
Owens Valley-
Including Bishop, Independence, Lone Pine,
and Olancha
1246 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 30 to 33. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of snow showers in
the afternoon. Highs around 50. North winds 5 to 10 mph shifting
to the northwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 30. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 45 to 48. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 30. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 54.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 37.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Breezy. A 50 percent chance of rain
showers in the afternoon. Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance
of rain showers and snow showers. Lows around 35. Highs 55 to 58.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with chance of snow showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows around 34.
Chance of snow 40 percent.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs around 54.
Lows around 35.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 58.
$$
CAZ522-251100-
Death Valley National Park-
Including Furnace Creek, Stovepipe Wells,
and Shoshone
1246 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 30 in the
mountains...around 51 at Furnace Creek. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A trace to no accumulation. Highs 40 to
43 in the mountains...around 71 at Furnace Creek. North winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. A
trace to no accumulation. Lows 26 to 29 in the mountains...around
49 at Furnace Creek. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 40 to 43 in the mountains...around 69 at
Furnace Creek. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 30 in the mountains...
around 47 at Furnace Creek. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Not as cool. Highs around 49 in the mountains...
around 71 at Furnace Creek.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Windy, warmer. Lows
around 36 in the mountains...around 51 at Furnace Creek. Highs
51 to 54 in the mountains...74 to 77 at Furnace Creek.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy with chance of rain
showers and snow showers in the evening, then partly cloudy with
chance of snow showers after midnight. Lows around 35 in the
mountains...around 54 at Furnace Creek. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs around 48 in the mountains...around 72 at
Furnace Creek. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 35 in the mountains...around 51 at
Furnace Creek.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs around 49 in
the mountains...around 72 at Furnace Creek. Lows around 35 in the
mountains...around 51 at Furnace Creek.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 53 in the mountains...around 75 at
Furnace Creek.
$$
CAZ523-251100-
Western Mojave Desert-
Including Barstow, Daggett, and Fort Irwin
1246 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 38. West winds 5 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 55 to 58. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 38. West winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 54 to 57. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 37. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 62.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 44.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Windy. Lows around 44.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Highs around
61. Lows 41 to 44.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 41. Highs
62 to 65.
$$
CAZ524-251100-
Eastern Mojave Desert-
Including Baker, Mountain Pass,
and Mitchell Caverns
1246 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. North winds 5 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 55 to 58. North winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts
up to 30 mph in the morning.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 38. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 55 to 58. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 38. North winds 5 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 65.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 44.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 74.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows around
47. Highs around 70.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 41.
Highs around 63.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 42. Highs
63 to 66.
$$
CAZ525-526-251100-
Morongo Basin-Cadiz Basin-
Including Morongo Valley, Yucca Valley,
Twentynine Palms, and Vidal Junction
1246 AM PDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 42 to 45 in Twentynine
Palms...36 to 39 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 63 to 66 in Twentynine Palms...56 to
59 around Yucca Valley...around 60 near Joshua Tree. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 41 to 44 in Twentynine
Palms...35 to 38 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 63 to 66 in Twentynine Palms...56 to
59 around Yucca Valley...around 60 near Joshua Tree. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 41 to 44 in Twentynine Palms...
35 to 38 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 69 in Twentynine Palms...around
61 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 47 in
Twentynine Palms...around 42 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua
Tree. Highs 72 to 75 in Twentynine Palms...64 to 67 around Yucca
Valley and near Joshua Tree.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50 in
Twentynine Palms...around 43 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua
Tree. Highs 71 to 74 in Twentynine Palms...63 to 66 around Yucca
Valley and near Joshua Tree.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 45 in Twentynine
Palms...around 37 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 70 in
Twentynine Palms...59 to 62 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua
Tree. Lows around 46 in Twentynine Palms...around 40 around Yucca
Valley and near Joshua Tree.
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After opening in phases since 2021, The Londoner Macao is now complete, fulfilling Las Vegas Sands founder Sheldon G. Adelson's vision for the Cotai Strip and deepening the company's commitment to Macao
MACAO, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Londoner® Macao was thrilled to host a grand celebration tonight to honor the completion of the integrated resort's ambitious redesign and usher the Cotai Strip into a new chapter.
A bold, British-themed reimagining of the Sands® Cotai Central integrated resort, The Londoner Macao has been refined over the past two years in anticipation of an influx of visitors, now that Macao is once again open to the world.
The event, themed "The Journey Begins," also commemorated the start of a new 10-year gaming concession for Sands China Ltd. As it embarks on this new era, the company has reaffirmed its commitment to Macao, its people and its economy, pledging to invest US$3.7 billion (MOP 30.2 billion) in the city over the next decade.
Sands China rolled out the red carpet to welcome international celebrities and VIPs for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began. David Beckham, UK soccer icon and Sands global ambassador, was among the guests of honor, as were Macao's top officials and business leaders.
Brilliant performances were given by China's globally renowned piano virtuoso Lang Lang, Hong Kong singer-songwriter G.E.M., and famous Chinese musical theatre artist, vocalist and actor Ayanga. Continuing the festivities, The Londoner Macao showcased the "Be My Guest" campaign. Afterward, guests enjoyed an intimate gala dinner, featuring a superb performance by British jazz vocal legend Jamie Cullum.
The grand celebration marked the culmination of Sheldon G. Adelson's vision of the Cotai Strip as one of the world's most spectacular leisure destinations. The late Chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp. saw Cotai's enormous potential and invested in its development. The Londoner Macao, along with all of Sands China's other resorts in Cotai, has realized that vision while raising the benchmark for hospitality, entertainment and gourmet experiences in Macao.
A new jewel in Cotai's crown
Offering a global take on English style, tradition and hospitality, The Londoner Macao comprises five lavish hotels – including the award-winning all-suite flagship, The Londoner Hotel, and the ultra-luxurious Londoner Court – with nearly 6,000 rooms and suites in total.
On site are three spas, four health clubs, more than 20 dining options, boutiques from 150 world-renowned brands, and state of-the-art conference facilities, including the new 6,000-seat The Londoner Arena.
Uniting the lavish complex is a British design aesthetic, inspired by everything from Mayfair clubs to Cool Britannia chic. Among the highlights are:
- An imposing façade modeled after the Palace of Westminster and Houses of Parliament that comes to life in the evenings with the Londoner Light and Sound Spectacular;
- A life-size replica of London's iconic Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) that chimes every hour;
- A costumed "Changing of the Guard" performance inspired by the daily ceremony at Buckingham Palace;
- A glass-covered porte-cochère entrance, modeled after a similar feature at London's Victoria Station;
- The Crystal Palace atrium – a version of the Victorian design icon in glass, iron and marble with an intricate, 10-story-high ceiling; and
- A full-scale reproduction of the famed Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain with its Anteros Statue in London's Piccadilly Circus.
With refurbishments and additions costing approximately US$2 billion (MOP 16 billion), The Londoner Macao is seamlessly connected to The Parisian® Macao, The Venetian® Macao, and The Plaza® Macao. The result is a resort city where the grandeur of Europe playfully meets the pulsating life of Cotai – a combination that delights visitors to Macao.
"Sands China has delivered on Sheldon Adelson's vision through the ongoing development of Cotai. Where 250 acres of empty reclaimed land once sat, we have built one of the world's leading tourist destinations with an incredible future ahead of it," said Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Robert G. Goldstein.
Goldstein added that the launch of the iconic The Londoner Macao and additional investments in non-gaming infrastructure would play an increasingly visible role in the future growth of Cotai. "We are excited to fully support the Macao government in its vision to develop a highly diversified tourism industry through enhanced MICE offerings, new sporting and cultural event programming, enhancements to Macao's reputation as a global City of Gastronomy, and an embrace of the city's unique cultural heritage."
Investing in the local community
The presence of several representatives from community groups at The Londoner Macao's grand celebration underscores Sands China's ongoing commitment to making the city a better place to live for all.
The company is actively involved in corporate giving, volunteerism, hardship alleviation, conservation and outreach through the many programs run under Sands Cares, the global corporate citizenship program of Las Vegas Sands. These include the Family Health and Wellness Series, the Accelerator program to support nonprofits, and the Ambassador program for team member volunteerism.
Sands China also runs the Art Talent Development Showcase and Sands Performing Arts Program and operates Sands Gallery, which promote both established and emerging artists. The company recently launched the Sands Resorts Incubation Centre, which will identify promising young tech innovators and startups and offer them the opportunity to develop their products.
"Like our other properties, The Londoner Macao is a hub through which we can give back to local residents," said Sands China Ltd. President Dr. Wilfred Wong.
"Our team members will continue building on the great community work they have been doing, and The Londoner Macao's grand celebration signals a new chapter for our social impact projects as well as an opportunity to deepen relationships with our local partners. Our gratitude goes to the central and Macao governments for their continual support and guidance, our community partners for their collaborations, and our team members for their dedication as we strive to continue contributing to Macao's development as a world center of tourism and leisure."
Officiating guests at tonight's grand celebration were Mr. Edmund Ho Hau Wah, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; Mr. Lei Wai Nong, Representative of the Chief Executive of the Macao SAR and Secretary for Economy and Finance; Dr. Miriam Adelson, Co-founder of Las Vegas Sands Corp.; Mr. Robert G. Goldstein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp.; Mr. Patrick Dumont, President and Chief Operating Officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp.; Mr. David Beckham, Sands Global Ambassador; Ms. Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Director of the Macao Government Tourism Office; Dr. Wilfred Wong, President of Sands China Ltd.; Mr. Grant Chum, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of Sands China Ltd.; and Mr. Dave Sun, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sands China Ltd. and Managing Director of Venetian Macau Limited.
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About Sands China Ltd.
Sands China Ltd. (Sands China or the Company) is incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability and is listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEx: 1928). Sands China is the largest operator of integrated resorts in Macao. The Company's integrated resorts on the Cotai Strip comprise The Venetian® Macao, The Plaza® Macao, The Parisian Macao and The Londoner® Macao. The Company also owns and operates Sands® Macao on the Macao peninsula. The Company's portfolio features a diversified mix of leisure and business attractions and transportation operations, including large meeting and convention facilities; a wide range of restaurants; shopping malls; world-class entertainment at the Cotai Arena, The Venetian Theatre, The Parisian Theatre, the Londoner Theatre and the Sands Theatre; and a high-speed Cotai Water Jet ferry service between Hong Kong and Macao. The Company's Cotai Strip portfolio has the goal of contributing to Macao's transformation into a world centre of tourism and leisure. Sands China is a subsidiary of global resort developer Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS).
For more information, please visit www.sandschina.com.
About The Londoner® Macao
The Londoner® Macao is an integrated resort that invites visitors on a journey through the best of British history and culture. It incorporates five celebrated hotel brands – the The Londoner Hotel and Londoner Court, alongside existing Conrad Macao, Sheraton Grand Macao and The St. Regis Macao. The Londoner Macao presents visitors to Cotai with an expanded offering of affordable luxury available nowhere else in Macao, with over 6,000 hotel rooms and suites, and 1.2 million square feet (111,000 square metres) of retail, entertainment, dining and meetings and convention space. With over 150 retail outlets, Shoppes at Londoner joins Shoppes at Venetian and Shoppes at Four Seasons, alongside Shoppes at Parisian. Together they offer a selection of approximately 850 luxury duty free stores – the most in any one single location in Macao. With three spas, four health clubs and over 365,000 square feet (34,000 square metres) of uniquely themed gaming space, The Londoner Macao provides a new level of luxury and accessibility to the Cotai Strip.
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials are investigating after a park employee spotted part of a foot, in a shoe, floating in a hot spring in the southern part of the park, officials said Thursday.
Tuesday’s discovery at Abyss Pool led to the temporary closure of the West Thumb Geyser Basin and its parking lot. The area has since reopened.
The park did not have any other information about the investigation to make public on Thursday, park spokesperson Morgan Warthin said.
Abyss Pool, located west of the West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake, is 53 feet (16 meters) deep and the temperature is about 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 Celsius), park officials said. It is on the south side of the southern loop through the park.
In such hot springs, superheated water cools as it reaches the surface, sinks and is replaced by hotter water from below. The circulation prevents the water from reaching the temperature needed to set off an eruption like happens with geysers in the park, according to the park’s website. | 2022-08-20T07:27:49+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/part-of-a-foot-in-a-shoe-spotted-in-yellowstone-hot-spring/ |
(The Hill) — Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech have submitted an application asking the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of their omicron-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccine as the third shot in a three-dose series for children ages 6 months through 4 years, the companies announced Monday.
If authorized, the children would still receive two doses of the original vaccine, and then a third dose that specifically targets the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
The bivalent omicron vaccine targets the BA.4/BA.5 omicron strains, as well as the original strains of COVID-19. The vaccine is authorized for use as a booster dose only in adults and children over the age of 5.
“With the high level of respiratory illnesses currently circulating among children under 5 years of age, updated COVID-19 vaccines may help prevent severe illness and hospitalization,” the companies said in a statement.
Respiratory illnesses like flu, RSV and COVID-19 are spiking early this year, overwhelming hospitals across the United States.
The monovalent shot, which the FDA still requires as the primary series before getting the omicron-specific shot, targets the original strain of the virus.
BA.5 was the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the U.S. over the summer but is now fading away. | 2022-12-05T19:26:21+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/pfizer-seeks-fda-authorization-for-omicron-vaccine-in-kids-under-5/ |
Rangers vs. Royals Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - April 12
Published: Apr. 12, 2023 at 1:41 PM CDT|Updated: 22 hours ago
Wednesday's contest between the Texas Rangers (7-4) and the Kansas City Royals (3-9) at Globe Life Field has a projected final score of 5-2 based on our computer prediction, with a favored Rangers squad securing the victory. Game time is at 8:05 PM ET on April 12.
The probable starters are Nathan Eovaldi (1-1) for the Texas Rangers and Brad Keller (1-1) for the Kansas City Royals.
Rangers vs. Royals Game Info & Odds
- When: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 8:05 PM ET
- Where: Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas
- How to Watch on TV: BSSW
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- Total Prediction: Under 9 runs
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- This season, the Rangers have been favored seven times and won five of those games.
- Texas has entered three games this season favored by -165 or more, and won each of those games.
- The implied probability of a win from the Rangers, based on the moneyline, is 62.3%.
- Texas is among the highest-scoring teams in the majors, ranking third with 66 total runs this season.
- The Rangers' 3.40 team ERA ranks fifth among all league pitching staffs.
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MONTREAL (AP) — Sean Bérubé said he thought it was a joke when he was first asked to help assemble a team of Ukrainian preteen refugees, displaced by war and spread out across Europe, to play in a renowned Quebec City hockey tournament.
Bérubé, a businessman from the Quebec City region, was having a beer in Bucharest last March with Evgheniy Pysarenko, whom he played hockey with in Ukraine as a teenager.
The businessman — with the help of Pysarenko — had just traveled to Ukraine to help his former Ukrainian hockey coach and the coach’s family flee the Russian invasion. To show his gratitude, Bérubé said he owed Pysarenko a beer.
“Then he (Pysarenko) said, ’No, I’ve got a different thing to ask you. I have a different favor.’”
That favor morphed into a mission, culminating with travel visas to Canada for a group of 11- and 12-year-olds from Ukraine to play in the Quebec International Peewee Hockey Tournament, which has hosted greats such as Wayne Gretzky and Guy Lafleur.
The Ukrainian team is scheduled to take to the ice at the Videotron Centre on Feb. 11 to play the Junior Bruins from Massachusetts.
“My thrill is to see them smile after all the mess and all the trouble they’ve been through for the last few months,” Bérubé said this week before heading to Europe.
The biggest obstacle to getting them in Canada was the paperwork, Bérubé said. The boys were living with their mothers in various European countries, while their fathers were on the front lines fighting the Russian invasion.
“So to get the signature for their mother — that was the easy part,” Bérubé said. “But the most difficult part was to get the signature from the fathers … (they) are all on the battlefield … so we had through a courier service to get them to sign.”
Pysarenko, speaking from Romania, said he searched for Ukrainian coaches and put together a list of potential players before he contacted Bérubé, who put up his own money to bring the kids to Quebec.
As of this week, Bérubé was still finalizing tickets and travel insurance and making sure families in Quebec City are ready to host the boys.
“I want to give back to Ukraine,” Bérubé said. “You know, I had such a great time when I went there as a teenager, so I feel it’s my duty.”
Tryouts were held over Christmas in Romania. Pysarenko said some of the boys knew each other, either as former teammates or opponents. They will gather again in Romania later this week, traveling from places like Latvia, Germany, Slovakia and Hungary, before they fly to Montreal on Feb. 1 and ultimately travel to Quebec City.
“The first goal is to show these kids that anything is possible, that dreams can come true even if it’s a difficult time back home and it’s war,” Pysarenko said. “They need to believe in a better future, and they can be an example for other people all over the world.”
Bérubé was heading to Europe to pick up four players at the Ukraine-Romania border. Two kids are originally from Kherson, which spent months under Russian occupation, and two others from Odesa, which has also been bombed.
At least one player has lost his father to the war. In preparing a player’s visa application, Bérubé noticed that only his mother’s signature was included.
“I asked her if she has a divorce certificate or something and she didn’t say a thing to me and just sent me back the death certificate for the father. I looked at it and it just happened a few months ago,” Bérubé said.
Pysarenko played in the Quebec tournament in 1993, a couple of years after Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union.
“It wasn’t such an easy life for us, but it was very, very important to go to Canada, take a big step, see the world, see hockey,” Pysarenko recalled.
Patrick Dom, general manager of the Quebec tournament, which runs from Feb. 8-19, said he could have never imagined the type of response generated by the Ukrainian team’s participation. The presales for Feb. 11 — when the Ukraine team first hits the ice — have broken records, he said.
“If for the time that they’re going to be here, they just can forget what’s going on over there and where they live … that’s what we want,” Dom said.
“They will remember this for the rest of their life.”
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Man who stabbed man sleeping outside bank had 36 prior felony arrests, police say
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) – Police in Florida arrested a man they said stabbed another man who was sleeping on the ground outside a bank.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said its detectives arrested 54-year-old David Vazquez after they used surveillance video to help identify him.
Officials said the sleeping man was attacked shortly after 2 a.m. on April 8 outside a Bank of America in Deltona.
The victim was reportedly a 73-year-old homeless man. In a Facebook post, the sheriff’s office said the man was sleeping near the entrance of the bank when he woke up to the suspect, wearing a mask, stabbing him.
Officials said the victim suffered a stab wound to his chest as well as injuries to his hands and forearms as he grabbed the knife’s blade and fought off his attacker.
The victim was able to call 911, and first responders arrived a few minutes later. Deputies were able to help the victim stop bleeding before setting up a perimeter around the area and searching for the suspect with the help of a K-9 unit.
Authorities said the man was able to give them a description of the suspect after he saw the man’s face when he wrestled him to the ground and briefly removed the suspect’s mask.
The suspect was startled and fled the scene shortly after.
The victim said he did not know why someone would attack him before he was taken to an area hospital. Officials said the man’s injuries were significant but not life-threatening.
Detectives said they obtained video surveillance from the store which captured the suspect.
Using the video, detectives identified Vasquez as the suspect along with a black 2012 Dodge Journey as the vehicle in question.
Deputies located Vasquez driving the vehicle in Deltona on Friday and took him into custody on unrelated charges.
When they executed a search warrant at Vasquez’s home later that day, detectives said they found a pair of jeans inside a washing machine that matched those worn by the suspect in the stabbing. They also said there were noticeable blood spatters on the pants.
Detectives said they found a jacket with a blood stain in the home, as well as a beanie/ski mask and several knives.
Officials said Vasquez denied attacking the 73-year-old victim. They also said he had 36 felony arrests before the stabbing occurred.
Detectives said no motive has been determined for the stabbing, but that Vasquez often had sudden outbursts.
Authorities charged Vasquez with attempted murder and placed him in the Volusia County Branch Jail with no bond.
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CDC: 2 dead, over 200 patients may be at risk of meningitis after surgeries in Mexico
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Federal officials say more than 200 patients could be at risk of fungal meningitis after having surgical procedures at clinics in a Mexico border city.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it is collaborating with the Mexican Ministry of Health and U.S. state and local health departments to respond to the outbreak among patients who traveled to Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas.
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Officials have identified and closed two clinics linked to the outbreak, River Side Surgical Center and Clinica K-3.
The Mexican Ministry of Health sent the CDC a list of 221 U.S. patients who might be at risk for meningitis based on their recorded surgical procedures at either clinic from January to May 13.
Three additional patients not on the list have also been identified, bringing the total of people in the United States known to have potential exposure to 224, the CDC said.
The CDC is working with more than two dozen state and local health departments to contact people with potential exposure and urge them to go to their nearest medical facility for testing. Meningitis testing includes an MRI and a lumbar puncture, also called a spinal tap.
Last week, the CDC issued a warning to U.S. residents to cancel surgeries in Matamoros, saying five people from Texas who had procedures there developed suspected cases of fungal meningitis. One of them died. A second person with a suspected case has also died, the CDC said Wednesday.
Meningitis is the swelling of the protective covering of the brain and spinal cord and should be treated urgently. Symptoms include fever, headache, a stiff neck, nausea, vomiting, confusion and sensitivity to light. Cases of meningitis can be caused by viruses, bacteria, trauma or fungi.
Patients in the Texas cases started showing symptoms three days to six weeks after surgery in Matamoros.
People leaving the U.S. for prescription drugs, dental procedures, surgeries and other medical treatment — also known as medical tourism — is common, experts say. Mexico, Canada, India and Thailand are all popular destinations. | 2023-05-25T17:56:46+00:00 | fox10phoenix.com | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/cdc-2-dead-hundreds-possible-risk-meningitis |
Sleep — it's something most American adults don't get enough of. Less than a third of Americans are getting those zzz's and achieving restorative sleep.
A new study out of Germany found that while humans technically don't hibernate in the cold months, we do something else — we sleep longer. Researchers found for most people, REM sleep is 30 minutes longer in the wintertime than any other season.
"One has heard over the years that people do sleep more in the winter," said University of Pennsylvania Director of Chronobiology and Sleep Institute Amita Sehgal. "And I don't think it's because they have more sleep need. I think it's that they have more sleep opportunity."
RELATED: Studies show most Americans are sleep deprived
The sleep expert says we're sleeping more in the winter time because we're catching up from sleep deprivation during warmer months. The sunlight, great weather and fun activities during the summer are distracting us from that much-needed beauty rest.
"By all means, sleep as much as you can in the winter," Sehgal continued. "Catch up on all the sleep you've lost, but try to do that in the summer as well."
A study by mattress company Zoma found Americans were ranked 14th when it comes to sleep time compared to the other 36 countries it examined.
SEE MORE: Getting less than five hours of sleep raises risk of chronic diseases
"Some would argue that because of this new study, maybe schools, societies or work should time things a little bit better for the average person," Cat Sandoval of Scripps News said.
"So we've been saying that for years. The school time is way, way too early for high schoolers because adolescents are always delayed in their circadian rhythms. So, they have a tendency to stay up late, or at night go to bed late. And so, for them to be going to school so early, they are losing a lot of sleep," Sehgal said.
"Sleep is not dispensable. People seem to think that that's the one thing they can cut out of their lives and be more productive. But it is going to affect your function. It's going to affect your health," Sehgal said. | 2023-02-23T00:33:47+00:00 | krtv.com | https://www.krtv.com/news/national/winter-is-a-great-time-to-get-more-sleep |
DELTONA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man was arrested Saturday after a father reported he repeatedly catcalled his daughter and harassed neighbors over a period of several months.
According to a post on the Volusia Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, Mark Greenburg, 55, was arrested in Deltona on a warrant for aggravated stalking. Deputies sought the warrant after the girl’s father claimed Greenburg walked to his driveway and made several inappropriate comments toward the girl as she played outside.
Deputies said the alleged comments included “words to the effect of ‘I’m going to make you famous’ and ‘I’m going to turn you into a woman’ or a ‘big girl.'” Several witnesses reportedly corroborated the story, with some claiming Greenburg said he was “going to pick her up and take her to Disney World.”
“The arrest followed a series of complaints from close to a dozen witnesses who have reported his behavior, including at least 11 incidents reported to the Sheriff’s Office over the past 8 months,” the sheriff’s office wrote. They said these alleged incidents include Greenburg yelling at his neighbors with a megaphone and filming their children playing outside.
The father reportedly told deputies that the alleged harassment was getting progressively worse and his daughter is now afraid to go outside. The family said they suspect Greenburg followed the girl to her grandmother’s house, where he allegedly parked outside twice in two days and took photos.
Deputies said they attempted to contact Greenburg on Friday, but he refused. They then obtained a warrant for his arrest. Greenburg faces charges of aggravated stalking of a person under 16. | 2022-09-05T17:02:50+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/im-going-to-turn-you-into-a-woman-florida-man-55-accused-of-stalking-6-year-old-girl/ |
Margaritaville at Sea offers free paradise cruise for military, first responders and educators
(Gray News) - A popular cruise line says it’s honoring frontline workers by helping cover their select cruise fare to the Bahamas.
The Margaritaville at Sea cruise line recently announced a “Heroes Sail Free” program.
According to a news release, the program provides one free cruise to the Bahamas for U.S. military service members, police, emergency medical service workers and educators.
“Welcome aboard, heroes, with a big thank you for your service,” said singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. “Now, we feel honored to serve you at sea.”
The cruise line said the three-day, two-night getaway starts from the Port of Palm Beach and sails to Freeport in the Bahamas aboard its Margaritaville at Sea Paradise cruise ship.
According to the company, its flagship vessel features several gourmet foods and beverage options, spa treatments and much more.
“To show our sincere gratitude for their ongoing service, we wanted to offer these frontline heroes a chance to kick off their boots and work shoes and flip flop into a relaxing getaway,” said Kevin Sheehan, Jr., CEO of Margaritaville at Sea.
The cruise program is a partnership between Margaritaville at Sea and GovX.com, the largest military and government e-commerce site.
The cruise line said the program is running through Dec. 29, 2023.
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An automated filter system can identify and filter out invasive Pacific salmon to prevent them from overwhelming and wiping out Norway's wild Atlantic salmon.
OSLO, Norway, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei and local partner Berlevåg Jeger-og Fiskerforening (BJFF) have successfully deployed an AI-powered filtering system in Norway's Storelva River that allows Atlantic salmon to pass upstream and filters Pacific salmon – an invasive species – into a holding tank.
Pacific salmon – also known as humpback salmon – were introduced into Russia's White Sea in the 1950s. Quickly making their way down Norway's coast, they began wreaking havoc on the local ecosystem. Alongside introducing new diseases, the invader's rapid reproduction cycle and aggressive competition for food threatens to overwhelm Atlantic salmon in hundreds of rivers along Norway's coastline.
In June 2022 under Huawei's TECH4ALL initiative, Huawei and BJFF deployed the filtering system to prevent Pacific salmon from entering the upstream channel of Norway's river system. A mechanical gate allows local Atlantic salmon and Arctic red-spotted salmon to continue upstream to complete their migratory spawning process. The invasive species is diverted to a holding tank for subsequent removal.
"This is a unique innovation, both in Norway and globally. With this high-tech solution, we have complete control of the river. Local river managers and local and central administrations along the coast have also shown great interest in the project," said BJFF President Geir Kristiansen.
The demand for a solution was urgent, and one shared by the community, government departments, regulators, river owners, and the aquaculture industry – wild Atlantic salmon are an integral part of Norway's identity, culture, and economy. In recent years, however, the number of Pacific salmon caught in Norway's rivers by sports anglers has skyrocketed. In 2019, 13,900 were caught, jumping to a record-breaking 111,700 in 2021 – 57% of all salmon caught in Norway. While almost all were in Troms and Finnmark, Pacific salmon catches have been recorded in every county.
In contrast, numbers of the native wild salmon have declined by a quarter from peak levels. The invasive species is largely responsible, with escaped and less genetically diverse farmed salmon exacerbating the problem by weakening the Atlantic salmon's genome after interbreeding.
"Norway's wild salmon are threatened by other species, including humpback salmon and escaped farmed salmon. The monitoring system using AI is helping to stop this and enable future-proof river management," said BJFF Administrator Tor Schulstad.
The data collected can also reveal accurate patterns of migratory behavior, monitor different types of fish populations, provide information for further research, and help develop measures to stop overfishing.
"Installing a diversion system in a turbulent river is an extremely challenging task. I was impressed with the efforts of our partners, BJFF, and the local community. Here, people aspire to prove the role that good management has in saving rivers from environmental disasters," said Vegard Kjenner, Technical Director at Huawei Norway.
As a world first, the solution had to be designed from scratch. In early 2021, algorithms were designed based on Huawei's machine vision technology to identify different fish species. Then in July 2021, Huawei and BJFF deployed a monitoring station equipped with an underwater camera in Storelva River. Providing a continuous video stream, the hardware coupled with the algorithm identifies Atlantic salmon with an accuracy of 91% and cuts manual labor requirements by 90%. Traditional methods are labor-intensive, relying on volunteers to stand in the river and identify Pacific salmon with the naked eye, mainly by the spots on their tails. This makes it hard to quantify the threat – many fish are missed and their sex is impossible to determine.
The next step is to deploy the solution in Norway's salmon farms to reduce the environmental harm caused by escaped farmed fish.
About TECH4ALL
TECH4ALL is a long-term initiative and action plan that Huawei launched to promote digital inclusion. Its primary goal is to ensure that no one is left behind in the digital world. Huawei works with customers and partners to promote digital inclusion and sustainable development in four domains – education, environment, health, and development.
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CHELSEA, MI -- Chelsea’s upcoming Hometown Holiday will bring a month packed with holiday celebrations this December.
“You can feel the energy and the excitement around the holiday season,” Terris Ahrens, Chelsea Area Chamber of Commerce executive director, said. “I think having it run for the entire month is just a little bit better way to embrace the holiday spirit.”
Hometown Holiday compiles a list of events put on by either the Chelsea Area Chamber of Commerce or other city organizations.
“I think you’d find that most towns probably have different events happening all through the holiday season, (but) they just don’t have an organization taking the time to consolidate them all into a list for everybody so it’s easier for people to keep track of,” Ahrens said.
Here are some events happening in December. To find a complete list and to learn more about any of these events, visit the Chelsea Area Chamber of Commerce’s website.
Thursday, Dec. 1
Special Needs Christmas Bazaar
Chelsea First United Methodist Church hosts its Special Needs Christmas Bazaar at 4:30 p.m. at 128 Park St.
The event is dedicated to people who may need a quieter shopping experience to purchase their holiday presents. To sign up to participate, register here.
Friday, Dec. 2
Chelsea Tree Lighting Ceremony
From 5 to 6:30 p.m. Chelsea is hosting its annual tree lighting ceremony at Pierce Park, 851 S. Main St. Santa will be there ready to kick off the holiday season, and there’s free Jet’s Pizza and free Lakehouse Bakery hot cocoa while supplies last.
Saturday, Dec. 3
All the Trimmings Holiday Artisan Show
This free artisan show takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Chelsea Community Fairgrounds Service Building, 20501 Old U.S. 12.
It features vintage and antique Christmas decorations, collectables, handmade teddy bears, jewelry, wood carvings, stationery and more.
Another bazaar is happening from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Chelsea First United Methodist Church. The 14th-annual event is designed to give children ages 4 to 12 a chance to purchase holiday gifts for their loved ones.
The bazaar will have handcrafted items for sale ranging anywhere from $1 to $5. All profits made through the event will be given to Faith In Action to support families during the holiday season. Visit here to reserve a 30 minute shopping appointment.
Tween & Teen Homemade Gifts for the Holidays
Chelsea District Library, 221 S Main St., is hosting its annual event where tweens and teens ages 10 to 17 can make their own homemade gifts from 1 to 3 p.m. To register for this event, visit Chelsea District Library’s website.
Light Parade
The annual Hometown Holiday Light Parade begins at 6 p.m. and runs along Main Street from Old U.S. 12 to Jackson Street. Any organizations, businesses or group that wants to participate in the parade can apply here.
Sunday, Dec. 4
Public Shopping Bazaar
Chelsea First United Methodist Church is hosting another shopping bazaar from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., but this one is open to everyone.
Friday, Dec. 9
Hometown Holiday Concert for Three Men and a Tenor
Hometown Holiday is presenting Three Men and a Tenor starting at 7 p.m. in Chelsea High School’s auditorium, 740 N. Freer Road. Tickets for general admission are $25 and the event’s proceeds will go to the Chelsea Rotary Club’s Chelsea High School Scholarship fund.
Anyone interested can click here to order concert tickets online.
Chelsea Robotics Wrap-A-Palooza
Need some help wrapping Christmas presents? Chelsea Robotics Wrap-A-Palooza is the place. Gifts will be wrapped for free from 3:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, at the Chelsea Robotics Center, 500 Washington St.
The group is also wrapping presents from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec 10, and Sunday, Dec. 11.
Saturday, Dec. 10
Doughnuts and Selfies with Santa
Take a selfie and enjoy a free doughnut with Santa from 10 a.m. to noon at Smokehouse 52 BBQ, 125 S. Main St.
Santa’s visiting the Distillery
All ages can come and take photos with Santa from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Ugly Dog Distillery, 218 S. Main St.
Some events happening all month long
Gingerbread House Display
Custom-made gingerbread houses are being displayed in different downtown merchant windows from Dec. 1-30. Anyone interested in registering their own gingerbread houses for the display can apply here.
Main Street Light Poles
Check out and vote for decorated light poles downtown from Dec. 2-29. Any businesses, organizations or groups interested in creating their own poles must register by Monday, Nov. 21. To register for the event, visit the webpage.
Santa Mail
Children can send their Christmas wish lists to Santa at Chelsea’s Santa mail box from Nov. 25 to Dec. 16. The mailbox at Palmer Commons on Main Street is located across the street from Chelsea’s city offices and police department.
All letters must be received by Dec. 16, and parents are asked to include a self-addressed, postage-paid envelope for a return letter.
Toys for Tots and Teens at Palmer Auto Service
Donate gift cards or new unwrapped toys before noon Tuesday, Dec 13 at Palmer Auto Service, 222 S. Main St., either during its normal business hours or at its after-hours drop box. All items donated will be given out locally through Faith In Action.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in May that it is investigating a multistate salmonella outbreak that may be tied to recalled Jif peanut butter products. Now, another potential foodborne illness outbreak is leading to concerns for some shoppers.
VERIFY viewer Amanda texted the team to ask if strawberries have been linked to Hepatitis A cases. Google Trends data show that others are also searching for information about a potential link between organic strawberries and a recent outbreak of the virus.
THE QUESTION
Have some brands of organic strawberries been linked to a Hepatitis A outbreak?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, some brands of organic strawberries have been linked to a Hepatitis A outbreak. The FDA says people who purchased organic strawberries branded as FreshKampo and HEB from March 5-April 25, 2022, and then froze them, should throw them away.
WHAT WE FOUND
Fresh organic strawberries sold as FreshKampo and HEB brands, and purchased between March 5-April 25, are a “likely cause of illness” in a multistate Hepatitis A outbreak, the FDA announced. The agency is investigating the outbreak with the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and state and local partners.
Hepatitis A is a liver infection caused by the highly contagious Hepatitis A virus (HAV). The virus is spread when someone unknowingly ingests it through contact with an infected person or by eating contaminated food or drink, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“The traceback investigations show that [Hepatitis A] cases in California, Minnesota, and Canada report having purchased fresh organic strawberries branded as FreshKampo or HEB prior to becoming ill. Illness onset dates range from March 28 – April 30, 2022,” the FDA wrote in its announcement of the investigation.
There have been a total of 17 U.S. cases reported, with 15 of those in California, one in Minnesota and one in North Dakota. Twelve people have been hospitalized, but no deaths have been reported. The last illness onset was reported on April 30.
The strawberries that are potentially impacted were branded as FreshKampo and HEB, and sold at Aldi, HEB, Kroger, Safeway, Sprouts Farmers Market, Trader Joe’s, Walmart, Weis Markets and WinCo Foods.
According to the FDA, the strawberries are past their shelf life, but anyone who purchased them from March 5-April 25, 2022, and then froze them, should not eat them.
The Public Health Agency of Canada is also investigating a Hepatitis A outbreak likely linked to fresh organic strawberries. There have been 10 confirmed cases in the country in two provinces, and four people have been hospitalized. People became ill between early-to-mid April 2022, the public health agency said.
FreshKampo, a strawberry supplier, confirmed in a statement that the potentially affected strawberries are “out-of-season and no longer being shipped to the marketplace.” The company said it is working with the FDA to gather information that will aid in the investigation to “trace the product and determine where the problem may have occurred.”
HEB, a grocery store chain in Texas, said on May 29 that “all strawberries sold at HEB are safe,” and no illnesses from strawberries related to the FDA investigation have been reported at HEB or in Texas. The chain said it has not received or sold organic strawberries from FreshKampo since April 16.
Those who are unsure of what brand of strawberries they purchased or when they purchased them prior to freezing should throw them away.
If a person who isn’t vaccinated against Hepatitis A purchased the strawberries from March 5-April 25 and ate them in the last week, they should consult with their health care provider to determine whether post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is needed, according to the FDA.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends the two-dose Hepatitis A vaccine for all children aged 12-23 months. Children should get the first dose when they are 1 followed by the second dose six months later. The public health agency says children and adolescents aged 2 to 18 who were not previously vaccinated for Hepatitis A should get the vaccine.
The vaccine is also recommended for people at high risk of developing Hepatitis A, including men who have sex with men, people with HIV or chronic liver disease, people experiencing homelessness, and people who have an occupational risk for infection, the CDC says.
Hepatitis A symptoms typically don’t appear until a person has had the virus for a few weeks, and not everyone with the virus develops symptoms, according to the Mayo Clinic. Symptoms can include fatigue, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain or discomfort, clay-colored bowel movements, dark urine, yellowing of the skin and white of your eyes, and intense itching, among others. | 2022-06-01T21:14:17+00:00 | wfmynews2.com | https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/verify/food-verify/hepatitis-a-outbreak-linked-fresh-organic-strawberries-freshkampo-heb/536-5902052b-8a4f-4292-831a-0bf004e6f226 |
Could this be a potential trade this offseason?
As many deals loom, the Chicago Tribune’s Paul Sullivan imagined a possible New York Yankees-Chicago Cubs trade.
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He pitches that the Cubs should go after infielder DJ LeMahieu, and that it’s a deal the Yankees could be interested in: ”With the Yankees trying to re-sign Aaron Judge, they’ll need to cut salary elsewhere, and LeMahieu could be available for a relatively low cost.”
If the clubs were to work something out, this would be LeMahieu’s second stint with the Cubs. The 34-year-old was picked by Chicago in the second round of the 2009 MLB Draft, making his debut in 2011. However, he was traded to the Colorado Rockies before the 2012 season and went on to win three Gold Gloves, two All-Star selections, and the 2016 National League batting title with the Rockies.
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Bridget Hyland may be reached at bhyland@njadvancemedia.com. | 2022-11-14T17:06:47+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/yankees/2022/11/mlb-columnist-pitches-yankees-cubs-trade.html |
LANCASTER, Calif. – Aaron Carter, the singer-rapper who began performing as a child and had hit albums starting in his teen years, was found dead Saturday at his home in Southern California. He was 34.
Representatives for Carter’s family confirmed the singer’s death. His fiance, Melanie Martin, asked for privacy as the family grieves.
“We are still in the process of accepting this unfortunate reality,” Martin said in a statement Saturday. “Your thoughts and prayers are greatly appreciated.”
Carter, the younger brother of Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, performed as an opening act for Britney Spears as well as his brother’s boy band, and recorded several hits including “Aaron's Party (Come Get It)” and “I Want Candy.”
Deputies responded around 11 a.m. following reports of a medical emergency at the home in Lancaster, a desert city about 70 miles (112 kilometers) north of downtown Los Angeles, said Deputy Alejandra Parra with the LA County Sheriff's Department.
Parra said the deputies found a deceased person at the residence, but she could not immediately confirm it was Carter. Authorities later said a house sitter found a man in the bathtub in the home and resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful.
Carter opened for the Backstreet Boys tour in 1997 — the same year his gold-selling debut self-titled album released. He reached triple-platinum status with his sophomore album, 2000's “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It),” which produced hit singles including the title song and “I Want Candy." His videos received regular airplay on Disney and Nickelodeon.
The singer earned acting credits through his appearance on television shows including “Lizzie McGuire.” He starred alongside his brother, Nick, and their siblings B.J., Leslie and Angel Carter on the E! unscripted series “House of Carters” in 2006.
Carter made his Broadway debut in 2001 as JoJo in the musical “Seussical.” In 2009, he appeared on the ABC competition show “Dancing with the Stars,” finishing in fifth place with partner Karina Smirnoff. He was featured on the Food Network cooking show “Rachel vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off” in 2012.
In 2017, Carter opened up about his substance abuse on an episode of “The Doctors.” He was in rehab that same year after he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and marijuana charges. He checked himself in for treatment on a few occasions in an effort to regain custody of his son Prince.
Carter's fifth and final studio album, “LOVE,” was released in 2018.
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Rancilio reported from Detroit. Entertainment Writer Jonathan Landrum Jr. contributed to this report. | 2022-11-06T07:40:36+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/entertainment/2022/11/05/singer-rapper-aaron-carter-dies-in-california-at-age-34/ |
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Denny Dalliance had long worried about what would happen if he fathered a child because his job as a truck driver keeps him away from home most of the week.
But after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, the 31-year-old Independence, Missouri, man decided it was time to take action — and jumped at the chance to sign up for a free vasectomy.
“These are grim circumstances under which I made this decision," he said as he drove a load of cardboard boxes through Kansas this week.
The vasectomy he is scheduled to get next month is part of an effort that involves Planned Parenthood and a physician with a mobile vasectomy clinic. Sixty vasectomies will be offered over three days in and outside Planned Parenthood clinics in St. Louis, Springfield and Joplin to uninsured patients during the first week of November amid what the clinics say is a surge in demand for the procedure.
Dr. Esgar Guarin then plans to take his mobile clinic — a vehicle decorated with large images of sperm that his friends have jokingly dubbed the “Nutcracker" — on the road the following week to offer 40 more free vasectomies in several towns across Iowa.
Guarin also plans to offer discounted vasectomies that month at his regular clinic in the Des Moines area.
The efforts are part of World Vasectomy Day, originally a single-day event that now includes a year-round focus and a host of activities in November.
“It’s a very particular moment in reproductive rights in the United States. And we need to talk about it,” he said, adding that vasectomies are performed far less often than the tubal ligation method of female sterilization, even though they are cheaper, have a shorter recovery time and require local, rather than general, anesthesia.
Guarin, who serves on the medical advisory board for World Vasectomy Day, helped offer vasectomies last year at the Planned Parenthood in St. Louis to raise awareness about the procedure. The effort was so popular that the decision was made to expand it to other cities even before the toppling of Roe sent demand soaring.
In July alone, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri performed 42 vasectomies, compared with 10 in the same month last year. Female sterilizations rose to 18 that month from just three in July 2021.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has been hearing similar reports from across the country that more patients are seeking tubal ligations. It is too early for any post-Roe national numbers on permanent sterilization, said Laura Lindberg, a professor at Rutgers University’s School of Public Health in New Jersey.
Planned Parenthood, for instance, doesn't have national sterilization numbers available for this year yet. However, its national web page has seen a 53% increase in vasectomy information searches over the past 100 days, a spokesperson said.
Data from Google Trends shows that searches about vasectomies briefly spiked after the leak of the draft majority opinion in the Dobbs case but then reached their highest level in the days after the Supreme Court released its decision in late June.
Dr. Doug Stein, a urological surgeon in the Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida, area, said patient registrations for his practice tripled immediately after the Dobbs decision, with many patients under the age of 30.
“I think everybody is busier since the Dobbs decision,” said Stein, who co-founded World Vasectomy Day.
Dr. Arnold Bullock, a St. Louis urologist who does about 35 vasectomies a month, said that before the Supreme Court decision, patients waited about a month for the procedure while the wait now is two to three months.
In Texas, Dr. Koushik Shaw said his Austin Urology Institute saw a spike when the state enacted a strict abortion law last year and another, larger one after the U.S. Supreme Court decision, so that it's now doing 50% more procedures. He said many are for men who don't want children and saw access to abortion as another option should birth control not work as planned.
“It really pushed family planning to the forefront of people's thoughts,” he said of the loss of abortion access.
Lawmakers are responding to the growing demand. A California law that will take effect in 2024 will make vasectomies cheaper by allowing patients with private insurance plans to get the procedure at no additional cost other than what they pay for their monthly premiums.
Dr. Margaret Baum, the medical director of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, will be partnering with Guarin to provide the free vasectomies. She has had many conversations with patients about permanent sterilization in recent months and said there is a sense of urgency.
“I think people are afraid, No. 1, about abortion not being accessible, which is a very real and legitimate fear and in the reality for a large part of folks in our country. And then I think people are also really afraid that what else might be next," she said.
A vasectomy involves cutting and sealing the tube that carries sperm, preventing it from entering ejaculate fluid. Baum said she chats with patients to keep them calm, sometimes turning on a playlist that includes “Great Balls of Fire” and “The Nutcracker Suite.” Most patients are fully recovered in a couple of days.
Dalliance, the truck driver, said he didn't want to place the responsibility of birth control on partners anymore, especially with abortions harder to get. His home state of Missouri was among the first in the country with a trigger law in effect to ban abortions at any point in pregnancy.
“I don’t want to come off as though I’m like unhappy to be doing this, but this is a situation where my hand kind of got forced with regards to the Roe v. Wade decision," he said.
“I feel like that, with the extreme cost involved with having a child in the United States, I kind of got priced out," he said. “And so this is me cashing out my chips as it were. It’s the right ethical decision for me, but it’s not one that’s made lightly.” | 2022-10-13T19:47:48+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/clinics-offer-free-vasectomies-citing-a-surge-in-demand |
The initiative will increase book access in Indigenous and tribal communities to help improve literacy outcomes and ignite a love of reading
SAINT PAUL, Minn., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Little Free Library® (LFL) nonprofit organization is thrilled to announce the launch of its Indigenous Library Program, which grants Little Free Library boxes and books where needed most in Indigenous communities and on tribal lands in the U.S and Canada. Working with Indigenous community leaders, LFL provides book-sharing boxes to locations where book access is key to improving literacy.
The initiative is led by LFL Program Manager Talia Miracle (Ho-Chunk tribe of Winnebago) and supported by an advisory group that includes Valarie Janis of the Lakota College Woksape Tipi Library (Bay Mills Anishinaabe), LFL board member Margaret Wood (Navajo and Oklahoma Seminole), and others who belong to or serve Indigenous communities.
"Little Free Library book-sharing boxes on Indigenous land in the U.S. and Canada can be significant to enhancing the education of Indigenous students and residents," said Wood. "Indigenous reserves and reservations are huge 'book deserts'.... Having access to books year 'round will be a game changer for residents of Indigenous lands."
The Little Free Libraries and books are granted through an application process, with priority given to those with long-term ties to Indigenous communities. Although LFL has granted libraries to Indigenous communities in the past, today's launch initiates an expanded commitment to making Little Free Libraries available in high-need locations serving Indigenous people.
"We are aiding in literacy efforts within our communities one book at a time," said Janis, who stewards 11 Little Free Library boxes throughout the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Reading Native Voices
Studies show that book access is vital to improving literacy, and reading culturally relevant books can be equally important. The Indigenous Library Program grant packages come with two starter sets of books, one with 25 titles specifically focused on the Indigenous experience.
"Story and storytelling have always been honored and celebrated by the Indigenous peoples of this continent, but only now are our children and teens seeing young heroes like themselves respectfully reflected in books," said author Cynthia Leitich Smith, curator of the Heartdrum imprint at HarperCollins Children's Books. "We couldn't be more delighted that Little Free Library is welcoming our kids into the world of readers by making available an excellent array of resonant, page-turning titles to be shared with Native families and communities."
LFL's Talia Miracle invites everyone to participate in the Indigenous Library Program launch. "Together we can create much-needed book access in Indigenous communities and celebrate books about the Indigenous experience."
How to Get Involved
- Apply for an Indigenous Library Program grant if you live in or serve an Indigenous community in the U.S. or Canada.
- Support Indigenous readers by making a donation to the program.
- Share books by Indigenous authors in Little Free Libraries; find one with LFL's mobile app.
- Enter the giveaway to receive a selection of Indigenous titles provided by Heartdrum/ HarperCollins; or a gift basket from Birchbark Books.
ABOUT LITTLE FREE LIBRARY
Little Free Library® (LFL) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that builds community, inspires readers and expands book access for all through a global network of volunteer-led Little Free Library book exchanges. There are more than 160,000 registered Little Free Libraries worldwide in all 50 states and 120 countries. LFL has received the World Literacy Award plus honors from the Library of Congress, National Book Foundation and others. LittleFreeLibrary.org
Media Contact: Margret Aldrich / 715-690-2488 x805 / maldrich@littlefreelibrary.org
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SOURCE Little Free Library | 2023-06-06T12:47:00+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2023/06/06/little-free-library-announces-indigenous-library-program/ |
FLINT, Mich. – A Flint man has been arrested for terroristic threats he made against McLaren Hospital in Flint, state police announced Friday.
61-year-old Edvin Pendleton Williams of Flint was arraigned April 4 on six counts, including terrorism, for calls he made to the hospital last weekend.
Troopers responded to McLaren Hospital on April 1 to investigate threats made against the hospital during two separate phone calls that a McLaren staff member received that day.
Investigation revealed that Williams was upset about the medical care that he was provided by the hospital in the weeks prior.
He called the hospital and threatened to “shoot up the place,” and also drive his truck through the front doors.
Williams was arrested at his residence and then lodged at the Genesee County Jail. During his arrest, troopers discovered that he is a convicted felon.
His residence was searched, and troopers found a pistol and ammunition which he was not allowed to be in possession of due to his felony status.
No injuries were reported in this incident.
ABC12 is working to learn more. | 2023-04-08T00:13:26+00:00 | abc12.com | https://www.abc12.com/news/crime/flint-man-arrested-for-terroristic-threats-he-made-towards-mclaren-in-flint/article_5df422c4-d593-11ed-9d3b-cf3c6d206769.html |
TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stressed the importance of communication during a stopover Thursday in Tokyo, calling it unfortunate that his Chinese counterpart is refusing to meet him at an upcoming annual security conference in Singapore, which both men are attending.
On the way to the annual Shangri-La Dialogue Asian security summit this weekend, Austin held talks with Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada. Noting China’s increasingly assertive military actions in international airspace and waterways in the region, he told a joint news conference in Tokyo, “The provocative intercepts of our aircraft and also our allies’ aircraft, that’s very concerning, and we would hope that they would alter their action.”
The United States military said Tuesday that a Chinese fighter jet flew aggressively close to a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea, forcing the American pilot to fly through the turbulent wake.
“I’m concerned about at some point having an incident that could very, very quickly spiral out of control,” Austin said. “I would welcome any opportunity to engage with leadership. I think defense departments should be talking to each other on a routine basis or should have open channels for communication.”
Although Beijing said there will be no meeting between Austin and his Chinese counterpart at the security summit, Hamada is expected to attend and meet with Chinese Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu on the sidelines.
Japan and China set up a defense hotline in March to improve communication and avoid accidental encounters in the tense region, and Hamada and Li recently held their first telephone talks on the hotline.
Washington and Beijing have yet to hold such a talk, and when Austin phoned their crisis line in February, the call went unanswered.
“We need to strengthen our cooperation of Japan-U.S., and Japan-U.S.-South Korea,” Hamada said Thursday. The two criticized North Korea’s failed rocket launch Wednesday for using ballistic missile technology that’s prohibited under United Nations’ Security Council resolutions, and affirmed further cooperation between them and with South Korea in case of another launch attempt.
Ties between Japan and South Korea have improved rapidly in recent months under Washington’s pressure in the face of growing regional threats from China, North Korea and Russia. Tokyo and Seoul are also discussing real-time sharing of North Korea’s missile launch data.
Austin said the United States stands with Japan and South Korea in the face of Pyongyang’s provocations and that “the United States will take all necessary measures to secure to ensure the security of our homeland in the defense of our allies.”
Austin and Hamada agreed to strengthen extended deterrence for Japan, which includes U.S. nuclear weapons.
“I am here to reaffirm America’s unwavering commitment to Japan. This includes extended deterrence and provided by the full range of U.S. conventional and nuclear capabilities,” Austin said.
The two ministers also agreed to step up and expand their defense industries and strengthen multinational formats, including with South Korea, Australia, the Philippines and India to reinforce their Indo-Pacific security cooperation.
At a meeting later Thursday with Austin, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Japan wants to further strengthen its deterrence and response capabilities by working with the United States, especially focusing on Japan’s use of strike capability.
Under its new security strategy issued in December, Japan pledged a military buildup that includes strike capabilities and doubling defense spending — a break from its postwar self-defense-only principle. | 2023-06-01T23:19:20+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/us-defense-chief-calls-chinas-refusal-to-meet-unfortunate-during-visit-to-tokyo-for-talks/ |
American forward Ricardo Pepi scored his 12th goal in 26 league games this season but it wasn't enough to prevent Groningen from getting relegated from the Eredivisie with a 1-1 draw at Go Ahead Eagles on Sunday.The 20-year-old Texan, a member of the U.S. World Cup roster, put the visitors ahead in the sixth minute, tapping in Oliver Antman's cross with his left foot.Willum Thór Willumsson scored a tying goal in the 30th minute.Pepi was loaned to Groningen for the season on Aug. 31 by Augsburg after failing to score for the German club in 16 matches over eight months.Groningen has four wins, 21 losses and six draws with three matches left and is 17th in the 18-team league. Last-place Cambuur also will drop to the Eerste Divisie.Groningen had not been in the Dutch second tier since 1998-99.___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer [https://apnews.com/hub/soccer] and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports [https://twitter.com/AP_Sports] | 2023-05-08T01:37:47+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/pepi-s-12th-goal-not-enough-groningen-relegated-18084800.php |
Citadel Bulldogs (5-6) at North Carolina Central Eagles (5-7)
The Bulldogs are 2-3 in road games. Citadel has a 3-4 record in games decided by 10 points or more.
TOP PERFORMERS: Justin Wright is shooting 43.2% and averaging 15.2 points for the Eagles. Brendan Medley-Bacon is averaging 10.8 points over the last 10 games for North Carolina Central.
Ash is shooting 36.4% from beyond the arc with 3.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Bulldogs, while averaging 15.5 points and 5.3 rebounds. Stephen Clark is averaging 15.8 points, 6.3 rebounds and 1.7 blocks over the last 10 games for Citadel.
LAST 10 GAMES: Eagles: 5-5, averaging 80.5 points, 30.1 rebounds, 17.7 assists, 9.1 steals and 2.2 blocks per game while shooting 50.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 66.7 points per game.
Bulldogs: 5-5, averaging 70.8 points, 33.1 rebounds, 12.9 assists, 5.3 steals and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 43.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.2 points.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2022-12-19T08:15:14+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/ash-leads-citadel-against-north-carolina-central-after-27-point-game/2022/12/19/3614ead6-7f71-11ed-8738-ed7217de2775_story.html |
CALGARY, Alberta — Andreas Athanasiou scored twice, and the Chicago Blackhawks stopped an eight-game slide by topping the desperate Calgary Flames for a 4-3 victory on Tuesday night.
Noah Hanifin had a goal and an assist for Calgary (36-27-15), which had won four in a row. Tyler Toffoli got his team-leading 34th goal, and Mikael Backlund also scored.
With four games left in the Flames’ regular season, Calgary remains two points back of Winnipeg for the second wild card in the Western Conference. The Jets, who host the Flames on Wednesday, have a game in hand and also own the tiebreaker.
Petr Mrazek made 33 stops for Chicago. He improved to 9-21-3.
Jacob Markstrom made 19 saves for Calgary. Starting for the 16th time in the last 17 games, he dropped to 22-21-10.
Tied 2-2 after 40 minutes, Chicago took its third lead of the night 1:42 into the third period. Calgary center Nazem Kadri had the puck stolen off his stick by Athanasiou, who raced past him and finished a give-and-go with Lukas Reichel.
Athanasiou has four goals in his last three games and 18 in his first season with the Blackhawks.
The Blackhawks then opened a 4-2 lead when a bouncing puck hopped past Rasmus Andersson inside the Chicago end, resulting in another 2-on-1. This time, Wagner kept the puck himself, toe-dragging around sliding defenseman MacKenzie Weegar, and firing a shot past Markstrom.
Backlund’s goal at 13:09 that caromed off Chicago defenseman Ian Mitchell got the Flames back within one, but the Blackhawks held on.
TANEV MAKES IMPRESSION IN RETURN
Calgary welcomed veteran defenseman Chris Tanev (upper-body injury) back to its top four on the blue line after he missed six games. Playing on a pairing with Hanifin, Tanev got a roar from the Saddledome crowd in the first period when he threw a heavy open-ice hit on Jason Dickinson.
CHICAGO DOMINANCE
In addition to sweeping the season series, Chicago improved to 9-2-4 in its last 15 games against the Flames.
UP NEXT
Blackhawks: At Vancouver on Thursday night.
Flames: At Winnipeg on Wednesday night.
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New survey finds patients are seeking support for social determinants of health in managing their complete health
BOSTON, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey of more than 2,000 patients by leading digital therapeutics company Medisafe shows receiving support for mental health conditions is the biggest challenge among nearly all patient segments. The survey aimed to collect data on what health concerns continue to dominate patients' lives in a digitally engaged healthcare environment. Fifty one percent of patients cited mental health support as their primary need.
In addition to mental health support, patients also noted a variety of other concerns. Thirty-nine percent say lack of time and motivation is a chief concern in managing their health. Additional survey results found that nearly 300 patients say clinical support and medication guidance is a top need to stay consistent on their medications.
"These survey results demonstrate the complex concerns of modern patients and point to the need for holistic care and guidance to support both better physical and mental health," said Omri Shor, Medisafe Chief Executive Officer and co-founder. "New digital tools can play an important role in addressing both mental and physical health while connecting patients to the care they need, and helping patients achieve better outcomes with their medication journey. In addition, this survey concludes that the age of 'one-size-fits-all' medicine is over. Digital solutions are an accessible way to provide patients a personalized access to healthcare."
The survey also found health equity elements are among chief concerns for patients of various age groups. Patients aged 25-34 say access to support services such as financial support and transportation are needed most; while patients aged 35-44 say lifestyle elements such as nutrition counseling and childcare are their most urgent need. Patients 55+ say their health is creating a negative impact on their job and retirement plans, more so than mental health concerns.
Survey results also identified health concerns related to race/ethnicity as well as socioeconomics. Social support (such as family engagement, chat services, etc.) is the biggest concern for the Black community, whereas access to support services is the biggest challenge for the Latino community. Middle eastern patients rate affordability as a main concern in maintaining proper health, compared to all other groups who rated mental health as their main concern.
Socioeconomic status impacted patients' needs, and survey results found that rising inflation and spending is creating concerns for patients. Patients with lower income status say access to support services is their biggest barrier to improved health. As a result, they want more guidance (via health coaching) to support their health and medication journey. Higher earners report better control over their health, but still struggle with mental health concerns.
Medisafe's survey was conducted within its digital platform between September 3 - 23, capturing the viewpoints of nearly 2,000 patients who use the digital drug companion to help manage one or more medications in conjunction with a medical condition. The full report and methodology are available at https://www.medisafe.com/survey/health-concerns-2022.
Medisafe is the leading evidence-based digital therapeutics company providing medication management solutions across the healthcare continuum, a $300 billion problem in the US alone. Medisafe supports patients' journeys with AI driven technology that dynamically engages patients during their treatment based on each patient's regimen, condition and specific circumstance. Medisafe fosters collaboration among patients, their loved ones and healthcare professionals, and partners with the healthcare ecosystem, from pharma companies to payers and providers, to improve outcomes. Ten million patient and caregiver users registered on Medisafe's platform with over four billion successful medication doses on their iOS and Android smartphones and tablets and contributed 350,000 user reviews that average 4.7 out of 5 stars in the App Store and Google Play stores.Medisafe is a HIPAA and GDPR compliant solution and ISO 27001:2013 certified. For more information, please visit www.medisafe.com.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Tage Thompson had three goals and three assists for a career-high six points to lead the Buffalo Sabres to an 8-3 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Monday night.
Rasmus Dahlin, Jack Quinn, Dylan Cozens, Jeff Skinner and Rasmus Asplund also scored for the Sabres, who won for the sixth time in nine games. Eric Comrie had 15 saves.
Buffalo had its highest scoring output since a nine-goal effort against Ottawa on Nov. 3, 2018.
“It’s fun watching the guys working for it,” Sabres coach Don Granato said. “We’re trying to convince all of our guys to score some of the ugly ones and the pretty ones will just fall in there. We’ve been guilty of trying to pass the puck into the net. We got more direct.”
Dylan Larkin, Olli Maatta and David Perron scored for the Red Wings, who have lost three of their last four games. Alex Nedeljkovic finished with 38 saves.
“We didn’t show up and they showed up,” Larkin said. “No matter what level of hockey you play, you don’t show up it’s going to be embarrassing.”
Thompson is quickly building off a breakout campaign last season, when he had a career-high 38 goals. The forward has six goals and six assists in nine games this season.
“He’s a guy who can sort of take over a game and dominate,” Skinner said. “He did that.”
Thompson opened the scoring on a blast from the left circle with 3:08 remaining in the first period. Jeff Skinner set up Thompson’s one-timer with a cross-ice pass.
Maatta tied it 1:26 into the second period on a one-timer from the slot.
Quinn put Buffalo ahead four minutes later on a quick shot just under the crossbar following a nice setup by Thompson. It was the second career goal for Quinn, the eighth overall pick in 2020.
Skinner made it 3-1 with his 300th career goal after Thompson found him all alone in front of the Detroit net. The veteran was patient before picking out an opening on the glove side.
Thompson picked up his second of the evening on the power play with 1:30 left in the second. Seconds after hitting the post, Thompson froze both Red Wings defensemen with a toe drag before firing a wrist shot.
Perron got one back for Detroit with one minute remaining in the second, and the Red Wings briefly got back in it when Larkin cut Buffalo’s lead to 4-3 on a short-handed rush 4:19 into the third.
The Sabres then scored four times in a 6 1/2-minute stretch to pull away.
Dahlin made it 5-3 with a power-play goal with 7:07 remaining, and Cozens made it 6-3 nearly two minutes later.
Thompson picked up the hat trick with 4:02 remaining on another highlight-reel effort, maneuvering his way around defenseman Gustav Lindstrom and then Nedeljkovic.
Asplund capped the scoring in the final minute.
LYUBUSHKIN STILL OUT
Sabres defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin missed his second game in a row with a lower-body injury. Lyubushkin played through the injury in three games before being taken out of the lineup.
SABRES MOVES
With the Sabres short-handed on defense due to injuries, the team recalled Jeremy Davies from Rochester of the AHL. Forward Riley Sheahan cleared waivers and was assigned to Rochester.
UP NEXT
Red Wings: Host Washington on Thursday night.
Detroit: Host Pittsburgh on Wednesday night to complete a four-game homestand.
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MINNEAPOLIS, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Metavention, Inc. has received US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approval to initiate its RADAR Pivotal IDE study to determine the safety and efficacy of their Integrated Radio Frequency (iRF) Renal Denervation System, for the treatment of hypertension. RADAR Pivotal is a randomized, double-blinded, sham-controlled study, that will allow up to 300 patients to be enrolled at 50 participating centers.
Overactive sympathetic nerves in the kidneys can contribute to high blood pressure. Renal denervation of the kidneys (RDN) is a minimally invasive procedure which inhibits sympathetic nerve overactivity. Metavention's iRF Denervation System provides an important distinction to RDN procedures in that it requires only a single ablation cycle per kidney. With the emergence of RDN as a potential treatment option in the care continuum of hypertension, the iRF Denervation System intends to simplify these procedures and reduce the overall burden on patients undergoing RDN.
Todd Berg, CEO of Metavention commented, "The benefits of renal denervation for the treatment of uncontrolled hypertension has been meticulously studied for over a decade, the procedure could represent a new frontier in hypertension management for interventionalists. This pivotal study of the iRF Denervation System is a tremendous opportunity to bring next-generation capabilities to this emerging field."
About Metavention, Inc.
Metavention, Inc. is a privately held medical device company headquartered in Minneapolis Minnesota, and the developer of the iRF Denervation System, a catheter-based, minimally invasive renal denervation procedure, intended for the treatment of hypertension.
The iRF Denervation System uses an integrated multi-RF electrode balloon with a cooling circuit to provide renal denervation in a single ablation cycle. By requiring only one ablation per kidney, the iRF System is intended to significantly simplify and standardize the denervation procedure.
The iRF Denervation System is an investigational device, limited to use in studies only, and is not currently approved in any geography.
About Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
High blood pressure is a common condition in which the force of blood pressure against the artery walls is great enough that it may eventually cause serious health problems. Potential complications of uncontrolled hypertension include heart attack, stroke, aneurysm, and heart failure. Hypertension is the leading preventable cause of premature death worldwide. Hypertension has historically been treated with lifestyle modifications and medication but the prevalence of patients suffering from uncontrolled hypertension continues to increase.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Being homeless in Los Angeles and struggling with addiction is hard enough, but Rachel Niebur couldn't imagine enduring it without her dog Petey.
Niebur credits her constant companion, an energetic black and white chihuahua mix, with helping her keep off drugs and giving her a reason to get up in the morning.
“She needs me. She gives me my focus. I have to feed her. I have to walk her. It's a real relationship,” said Niebur, before following Petey to the small, fenced-in dog park on the grounds of the shelter in the Venice neighborhood where the inseparable pair have lived for about two years.
Traditional homeless shelters have long been off limits to pets, leaving animal owners who want to get off the streets with a difficult choice. But as homelessness surges across the U.S., those working toward a solution are increasingly recognizing the importance pets have for vulnerable populations and are looking for ways to keep owners and pets together.
When given the choice between getting shelter or giving up their pet, unhoused people will almost always choose to remain on the streets, said Tim Huxford, the associate director of the Venice facility now home Niebur and Petey.
“So we always want to reduce the amount of barriers that we have for people in bringing them off the street,” he said. “We realize that pets are like family to people.”
The Venice shelter operated by the nonprofit People Assisting the Homeless, or PATH, was the first of its kind in Los Angeles County to allow residents to bring animal companions, Huxford said.
Thanks to a state grant, PATH has a budget for food, crates, toys and veterinary services under an initiative called the Pet Assistance and Support program. In 2019, the pilot program provided $5 million to nonprofits and local jurisdictions, and that amount was doubled the following year. Now pending legislation would make the grant program permanent, while expanding it across the state.
State Sen. Robert Hertzberg, who wrote the bill that would expand the program, estimates that about 10% of homeless Californians have pets. And the reason many shelters don't accept animals is simply because they don't have resources to care for them, said Hertzberg, a dog owner.
He called pets “our comfort” and cited research that found animals provide companionship and a sense of purpose to people who don’t have housing.
The Democrat from Los Angeles said it's just “raging common sense” to give nonprofits and other caregivers the budgets they need to feed and house pets, especially considering how much California already allocates to address the statewide homelessness crisis.
“We're spending a billion dollars over here to get people off the street; why can't we spend a few dollars over there to put together veterinary services and dog food and crates? These are grants of between $100,000 and $200,000, so it's not a ton of money in the grand scheme of things,” Hertzberg said.
The money would come the state's general fund, so it's not cutting into any existing funding, Hertzberg said. The measure, SB513, unanimously passed the state Senate in January and now awaits consideration in the Assembly.
The California law is part of a larger national recognition of the issue.
In Arizona, for example, there are several organizations that take care of animals for residents who are struggling to get back on their feet.
A nonprofit no-kill shelter called Lost Our Home provides up to 90 days of pet care for homeless people while they search for a permanent place to live following a crisis like eviction, domestic violence or medical treatment.
Don Kitch manages one of several shelters operated in the Phoenix area by the nonprofit Family Promise, among the few that allow people to keep their pets at a separate area for the animals at the site. He said his shelter was currently housing four dogs, two cats and a Guinea pig.
“Unfortunately, there are very few facilities around here that will accept pets,” said Kitch.
He said many shelters do allow service animals, and less frequently emotional support animals.
Kitch said the Arizona Humane Society takes in pets for 90 days to allow their owners time to find stable housing, while the Sojourner Center allows domestic violence victims to keep their pets at the shelter.
Kitch said Family Promise used a grant from PetSmart to get started with its program to house pets. He said he'd welcome a law like California's, because “anything to defray the cost would be ideal for a nonprofit homeless shelter like ours.”
The national nonprofit Best Friends Animal Society has joined forces with Catholic Charities USA to push for programs that keep homeless people and their pets together. The group Feeding Pets of the Homeless organizes veterinary clinics and donation drives for pet food and supplies.
The ASPCA and other animal care groups are urging the California bills' passage.
“The ASPCA believes that financial circumstances alone are not reliable indicators of the capacity to love and care for a companion animal and that pets are incredible source of support and companionship in our lives, especially during times of stress and uncertainty," said Susan Riggs, the ASPCA's Senior Director of Housing Policy.
One of Petey's canine companions at the Venice PATH facility is Champ, a pit bull mix that his owner Ro Mantooth calls “the mascot” of the shelter.
“He's really my best friend. I don't know what I'd do without him,” Mantooth, 29, said of Champ. “I'm lucky to have him. Not a lot of places are going to take animals, you know?”
In addition to Petey and Champ, there are eight other dogs and one cat at the Venice shelter. Huxford said another PATH facility has a parrot in a cage. Technically there are no rules about what animals can be admitted, he said, but that hasn't been tested yet.
“If someone came in with an elephant, I guess we'd have to see,” he said.
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Associated Press reporter Anita Snow in Phoenix contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Dow Jones Indices will make the following changes to the S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600 effective prior to the opening of trading on Thursday, December 1:
- Nexstar Media Group Inc. (NASD:NXST) will replace Sabre Corp. (NASD:SABR) in the S&P MidCap 400, and Sabre will replace Flagstar Bancorp Inc. (NYSE:FBC) in the S&P SmallCap 600. S&P MidCap 400 constituent New York Community Bancorp Inc. (NYSE: NYCB) is acquiring Flagstar Bancorp in a deal expected to be completed soon pending final conditions. Sabre has a market capitalization more representative of the small-cap market space.
- S&P SmallCap 600 constituent PBF Energy Inc. (NYSE:PBF) will replace Nu Skin Enterprises Inc. (NYSE:NUS) in the S&P MidCap 400, and Nu Skin Enterprises will replace PBF Energy in the S&P SmallCap 600. PBF is more representative of the mid-cap market space, and Nu Skin is more representative of the small-cap market space.
Following is a summary of the changes that will take place prior to the open of trading on the effective date:
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David Ortiz Children's Fund teams up with Brave Gowns with a goal of providing 3,400 custom-designed hospital gowns to children by 7/24
BOSTON, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- While on the road to Cooperstown, some of David "Big Papi" Ortiz's nearest and dearest have launched a touching fundraising campaign to honor and celebrate his on-field and off-field accomplishments. Teaming up with Brave Gowns – magical gowns that empower patients to battle any illness – the goal, by July 24, is to have supporters gift 3,400 gowns to pediatric patients at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital and Cedimat Hospital (Santo Domingo, D.R.), three partner hospitals of the David Ortiz Children's Fund which provides lifesaving heart surgery, care and support to children and families in New England and the Dominican Republic.
The vivid, ultra-soft gowns – baring Ortiz's signature on the sleeve – have been designed by Ortiz's daughter, Alexandra Ortiz, and nine-year-old "heart warrior," Avery Nigrelli (Weston, MA), who was born with a heart defect. The daughter of Andrew and Jessica Nigrelli – longtime supporters of the David Ortiz Children's Fund and founders of the "Pediatric Cardiac Care Family Support Network" at MassGeneral Hospital – designed a gown that says "I Love You" in 20 different languages. Ortiz's daughter created a bright tie-dyed version with "I AM STRONG" written in graffiti.
The hospital gowns – fittingly priced at $34 each – are available to gift online now with the hope of providing 3,400 gowns to 3,400 hospitalized children before Papi's Hall of Fame induction on July 24, 2022.
For more information on the David Ortiz Children's Fund, please visit www.davidortizchildrensfund.org.
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NPR's A Martinez talks to former Pentagon official Christopher Skaluba about NATO as it seeks new members amid threats from Russia, and an increasing challenge from China.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Country Music Association Awards will open this year’s show with a tribute to the late country queen Loretta Lynn, who died this month at the age of 90.
Other announced performers for the Nov. 9 show include co-host Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Carly Pearce and Morgan Wallen.
Kelsea Ballerini will team up with Kelly Clarkson and Pearce for a performance of her song “YOU’RE DRUNK, GO HOME,” while leading nominee Lainey Wilson will perform a duet with HARDY. Zac Brown Band will perform with Jimmy Allen and blues rocker Marcus King.
Bryan is co-hosting 56th annual CMA Awards with football star Peyton Manning. The show airs live on ABC and the next day on Hulu.
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BLAINE, Minn. , July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Suncast Corporation's sponsored golfer Sam Bennett will compete this weekend in the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities course in Blaine, MN. Playing alongside Hideki Matsuyama and Nicholas Lindheim, Bennett will tee off on Thursday at 10:46 AM EST and Friday at 3:11 PM EST.
As an official PGA TOUR stop and part of the FedEx Cup series, the 3M Open brings the world's best golfers and elite competition to the Twin Cities.
When asked about the upcoming tournament, Bennett said, "Really looking forward to this week at TPC Twin Cities. The course is in great shape. The greens are running true. I hope to get off to a good start tomorrow in the morning round."
With six tournaments under his belt as a professional, Bennett is continuing to build momentum and finding ways to improve as he continues through his three weeks of tournament golf.
You can watch the 2023 3M Open online with PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ and Paramount+ PGA Tour Live will stream exclusive coverage of the event on Thursday and Friday beginning at 7:45 a.m. ET and Saturday and Sunday starting at 8 a.m. ET, including featured group coverage all four days of the tournament.
"As always, I and the entire Suncast Corporation wish Sam the best of luck as he competes at the 3M Open." said Tom Tisbo, owner and executive chairman of Suncast Corporation.
Sam Bennett was raised in Madisonville, Texas, before joining the golf team at Texas A&M in 2018. In June of 2023, he turned pro. For the latest updates on information on Sam's impressive golf career, follow him on Instagram @sambennettgolf.
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Suncast continues to be a leader in the design and manufacture of high-quality resin products made in the U.S.A. for over 35 years. The Suncast® brand is the market share leader in hose reels, outdoor storage, and snow tools. These products are sold through over 25,000 retail outlets in the United States and Canada, primarily through big box, hardware, clubs, and specialty retail chains as well as major e-commerce providers.
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BEIJING (AP) — From the snowcapped peaks of Tibet to the tropical island of Hainan, China is sweltering under the worst heatwave in decades while rainfall hit records in June.
Extreme heat is also battering Japan, and volatile weather is causing trouble for other parts of the world in what scientists say has all the hallmarks of climate change, with even more warming expected this century.
The northeastern provinces of Shandong, Jilin and Liaoning saw precipitation rise to the highest levels ever recorded in June, while the national average of 112.1 millimeters (4.4 inches) was 9.1 % higher than the same month last year, the China Meteorological Administration said in a report Tuesday.
The average temperature across the nation also hit 21.3 degrees Celsius (70.34 Fahrenheit) in June, up 0.9 C (1.8 F) from the same period month last year and the highest since 1961. No relief is in sight, with higher than usual temperatures and precipitation forecast in much of the country throughout July, the administration said.
In the northern province of Henan, Xuchang hit 42.1 C (107.8 F) and Dengfeng 41.6 C (106.9 F) on June 24 for their hottest days on record, according to global extreme weather tracker Maximiliano Herrera.
China has also seen seasonal flooding in several parts of the country, causing misery for hundreds of thousands, particularly in the hard-hit south that receives the bulk of rainfall as well as typhoons that sweep in from the South China Sea.
China is not alone in experiencing higher temperatures and more volatile weather. In Japan, authorities warned of greater than usual stress on the power grid and urged citizens to conserve energy.
Japanese officials announced the earliest end to the annual summer rainy season since the national meteorological agency began keeping records in 1951. The rains usually temper summer heat, often well into July.
On Friday, the cities of Tokamachi and Tsunan set all-time heat records while several others broke monthly marks.
Large parts of the Northern Hemisphere have seen extreme heat this summer, with regions from the normally chilly Russian Arctic to the traditionally sweltering American South recording unusually high temperatures and humidity.
In the United States, the National Weather Service has held 30 million Americans under some kind of heat advisory amid record-setting temperatures. The suffering and danger to health is most intense among those without air conditioning or who work outdoors, further reinforcing the economic disparities in dealing with extreme weather trends. | 2022-07-05T10:15:45+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/hooked-on-science/ap-science/china-sees-record-rains-heat-as-weather-turns-volatile/ |
Here & Now hosts Scott Tong and Peter O’Dowd talk about the week in politics, including President Biden’s foreign policy challenges in Ukraine and China, with NPR’s Ron Elving and the AP’s Darlene Superville.
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif., May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcohol Justice has just released its eNews Spring Edition. The quick-read eNews highlights some of the year's more interesting stories to date about alcohol industry shenanigans and public health and safety advocates' responses.
Top Story:
Whether due to stress, fear, or industry deregulation, the COVID pandemic triggered an avalanche of alcohol-related deaths. The Shadow Epidemic: Precipitous Spike in Alcohol Deaths During COVID-19
"There are so many ways in which people are hurting during the pandemic, and it's cruel to ignore some just because they might make some people money," said Cruz Avila, Alcohol Justice executive director. "So many alcohol harms are preventable with good policy, compassionate care, and simply paying attention. We need to get our leaders to see it and say it: 99,000 dead is also an epidemic."
In the AJ Doghouse:
Coca-Cola launches itself into the realm of Big Alcohol with an expanding line of youth-oriented, minority-targeted alcopops. Coca-Cola's Alcopop Gambit Helps It Join the Ranks of Big Alcohol
"The ease with which Coca-Cola has jumped-in to become Big Alcohol's newest gorilla should terrify us. They know how to get away with selling lethal products, they know how to make the youngest kids drink their drinks, and they know how to extort a legislature," stated Carson Benowitz Fredericks, Alcohol Justice research director. "The first recourse we have is to make sure everyone who will listen hears our message: Coke sells disease, Coke targets the vulnerable, Coke brings death."
"What's next, Sackler Vodka? Exxon-a-Ritas? Marlboro Red Rosé?"
California Bad Bill Opinion:
San Francisco State Senator Scott Wiener's attempt to "modernize" alcohol licensing in over-concentrated cities would exacerbate hardships on low-income, working-class neighborhoods and "bring down from above a smothering blanket of silence on their communities." Boozy Blanket of Silence: SB 980's Push for Secret Bar Openings Steals Community Voice
"SB 980 does not 'modernize' California's alcohol licensing process, it seeks to expedite proliferation of alcohol dependency under the guise of supporting 'small business' and 'redevelopment,'" said Mayra Jimenez, Advocacy Manager, California Alcohol Policy Alliance (CAPA) "Supporting this bill enables a toxic culture of depending on alcohol consumption at the expense of community, heedless of research that clearly shows proximity and excess of alcohol outlets to be a risk factor for California residents.
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NEW YORK (AP) — McSweeney’s has raised just over $300,000 — exceeding its goal by $25,000 — in the two months since announcing it was buying back The Believer, the acclaimed literary publication that nearly went out of business last year.
Around 1,500 people gave money for the Kickstarter campaign, averaging roughly $200 per contribution.
“Work like ours requires an engaged group of supporters and readers who believe in what we’re doing and stand behind it,” McSweeney’s’ publisher and executive director, Amanda Uhle, said in a statement Wednesday.
The money will help McSweeney’s, an independent publisher based in San Francisco, pay for staffing, operations and contributing writers, according to Uhle.
The Believer, launched by McSweeney’s in 2003, has published works by Anne Carson, Nick Hornby, Leslie Jamison and many others. After McSweeney’s sold the magazine in 2017 to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), The Believer endured financial struggles, an editor-in-chief’s departure amid allegations that he exposed himself, its near closure in 2021 and the sale to a digital marketing company, that at one point included an article — the subject of much internet anger — titled “25 Best Hookup Sites for Flings, New Trysts, and Casual Dating” on The Believer’s website.
In May, McSweeney’s repurchased the magazine from Paradise Media and its CEO Ian Moe. | 2022-07-13T22:51:54+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/publisher-of-the-believer-raises-300000-exceeding-goal/ |
Tourists are waiting more than two hours to visit the Acropolis in Athens. Taxi lines at Rome’s main train station are running just as long. And so many visitors are concentrating around St. Mark’s Square in Venice that crowds get backed up crossing bridges — even on weekdays.
After three years of pandemic limitations, tourism is expected to exceed 2019 records in some of Europe’s most popular destinations this summer, from Barcelona and Rome, Athens and Venice to the scenic islands of Santorini in Greece, Capri in Italy and Mallorca in Spain.
While European tourists edged the industry toward recovery last year, the upswing this summer is led largely by Americans, boosted by a strong dollar and in some cases pandemic savings. Many arrive motivated by “revenge tourism” — so eager to explore again that they’re undaunted by higher airfares and hotel costs.
Lauren Gonzalez, 25, landed in Rome this week with four high school and college friends for a 16-day romp through the Italian capital, Florence and the seaside after three years of U.S. vacations. They aren’t concerned about the high prices and the crowds.
“We kind of saved up, and we know this is a trip that is meaningful,” said Gonzalez, who works at a marketing agency. “We are all in our mid-20s. It’s a (moment of) change in our lives. … This is something special. The crowds don’t deter us. We live in Florida. We have all been to Disney World in the heat. We are all good.”
Americans appear equally unperturbed by recent riots in Paris and other French cities. There was a small drop in flight bookings, but it was mainly for domestic travel.
“Some of my friends said, ‘It’s a little crazy there right now,’ but we thought summer is really a good time for us to go, so we’ll just take precautions,” Joanne Titus, a 38-year-old from Maryland, said while strolling the iconic Champs-Elysees shopping boulevard.
The return of mass tourism is a boon to hotels and restaurants, which suffered under COVID-19 restrictions. But there is a downside, too, as pledges to rethink tourism to make it more sustainable have largely gone unheeded.
“The pandemic should have taught us a lesson,” said Alessandra Priante, director of the regional department for Europe at the U.N. World Tourism Organization.
Instead, she said, the mindset “is about recuperating the cash. Everything is about revenue, about the here and now.”
“We have to see what is going to happen in two or three years’ time because the prices at the moment are unsustainable,” she said.
The mayor of Florence is stopping new short-term apartment rentals from proliferating in the historic center, which is protected as a UNESCO heritage site, as mayors of Italy’s other art cities call for a nationwide law to manage the sector.
Elsewhere, the anti-mass tourism movements that were active before the pandemic have not reappeared, but the battle lines are still being drawn: graffiti misdirected tourists in Barcelona away from — instead of toward — the Gaudi-designed Park Guell.
Despite predictable pockets of overtourism, travel to and within Europe overall is still down 10% from 2019, according to the World Tourism Organization. That is partly due to fewer people visiting countries close to the war in Ukraine, including Lithuania, Finland, Moldova and Poland.
In addition, Chinese visitors have not fully returned, with flights from China and other Asia-Pacific countries down 45% from 2019, according to travel data company ForwardKeys.
Tourism-dependent Greece expects 30 million visitors this year, still shy of 2019’s 34 million record. Still, the number of flights are up so far, and tourist hotspots are taking the brunt.
The Culture Ministry will introduce a new ticketing system for the Acropolis this month, providing hourly slots for visitors to even out crowds. But no remedy is being discussed for the parking line of cruise ships on the islands of Mykonos and Santorini on busy mornings.
Spain’s tourism minister, Héctor Gómez, called it “a historic summer for tourism,” with 8.2 million tourists arriving in May alone, breaking records for a second straight month. Still, some hotel groups say reservations slowed in the first weeks of summer, owing to the steep rise in prices for flights and rooms.
Costs are growing as flights from the U.S. to Europe are up 2% from 2019 levels, according to ForwardKeys.
“The rising appetite for long-haul travel from America is the continued result of the ‘revenge travel’ boom caused by the pandemic lockdowns,” said Tim Hentschel, CEO of HotelPlanner, a booking site. “Big cities within these popular European countries are certainly going to be busy during the summer.”
Americans have pushed arrivals in Italian bucket-list destinations like Rome, Florence, Venice and Capri above pre-pandemic levels, according to Italy’s hotel association, Federalberghi.
They bring a lot of pent-up buying power: U.S. tourists in Italy spent 74% more in tax-free indulgences in the first three months of the year, compared with same period of 2019.
“Then there is the rest of Italy that lives from Italian and European tourism, and at the moment, it is still under 2019 levels,” Federalberghi president Bernabo Bocca said.
He expects it will take another year for an across-the-board recovery. An economic slowdown discouraged German arrivals, while Italians “are less prone to spending this year,” he said.
And wallets will be stretched. Lodging costs in Florence rose 53% over last year, while Venice saw a 25% increase and Rome a 21% hike, according to the Italian consumer group Codacons.
Even gelato will cost a premium 21% over last year, due to higher sugar and milk prices.
Perhaps nothing has encouraged the rise in tourism in key spots more than a surge in short-term apartment rentals. With hotel room numbers constant, Bocca of Federalberghi blames the surge for the huge crowds in Rome, inflating taxi lines and crowding crosswalks so that city buses cannot continue their routes.
In Rome and Florence, “walking down the street, out of every building door, emerges a tourist with a suitcase,” he said.
While Florence’s mayor is limiting the number of short-term rentals in the historic center to 8,000, no action has been taken in Venice. The canal-lined city counts 49,432 residents in its historic center and 49,272 tourist beds, nearly half of those being apartments available for short-term rental.
Inconveniences are “daily,” said Giacomo Salerno, a researcher at Venice’s Ca’ Foscari University focusing on tourism.
It difficult to walk down streets clogged with visitors or take public water buses “saturated with tourists with their suitcases,” he said.
Students cannot find affordable housing because owners prefer to cash in with vacation rentals. The dwindling number of residents means a dearth of services, including a lack of family doctors largely due to the high cost of living, driven up by tourist demand.
Venice has delayed plans to charge day-trippers a tax to enter the city, meant to curb arrivals. But activists like Salerno say that will do little to resolve the issue of a declining population and encroaching tourists, instead cementing Venice’s fate as “an amusement park.”
“It would be like saying the only use for the city is touristic,” Salerno said.
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Rowdy Tellez Player Prop Bets: Brewers vs. Rockies - May 4
Published: May. 4, 2023 at 10:24 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
On Thursday, Rowdy Tellez (.647 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including three home runs) and the Milwaukee Brewers face the Colorado Rockies, whose starting pitcher will be Connor Seabold. First pitch is at 3:10 PM ET.
He had a one-hit performance in his last game (1-for-4) against the Rockies.
Rowdy Tellez Game Info & Props vs. the Rockies
- Game Day: Thursday, May 4, 2023
- Game Time: 3:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Coors Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Rockies Starter: Connor Seabold
- TV Channel: SportsNet RM
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -238)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +300)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +115)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -125)
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Rowdy Tellez At The Plate
- Tellez leads Milwaukee with 24 hits, batting .258 this season with 12 extra-base hits.
- Among the qualifying hitters in MLB action, he ranks 84th in batting average, 71st in on-base percentage, and 17th in slugging.
- Tellez will look to extend his six-game hitting streak. He's batting .368 in his last outings.
- Tellez has picked up a hit in 70.4% of his 27 games this season, with at least two hits in 18.5% of those games.
- He has hit a long ball in 25.9% of his games in 2023 (seven of 27), and 7.5% of his trips to the dish.
- Tellez has had an RBI in 13 games this season (48.1%), including five multi-RBI outings (18.5%). He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- He has scored at least once 11 times this year (40.7%), including three games with multiple runs (11.1%).
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Rockies Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Rockies has a collective 7.8 K/9, the fifth-worst in MLB.
- The Rockies' 5.07 team ERA ranks 26th among all league pitching staffs.
- Rockies pitchers combine to surrender 39 total home runs at a clip of 1.3 per game (to rank 19th in baseball).
- Seabold starts for the first time this season for the Rockies.
- The 27-year-old right-hander pitched in relief in his last outing this season, one of seven appearances so far.
- He has a 5.27 ERA and 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings while opponents are batting .310 against him over his seven appearances this season.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Before fleeing North Korea in 2014, Jeon Jae-hyun kept U.S. dollars as a store of value and used Chinese yuan to make everyday purchases at markets, restaurants and other places. He used the domestic currency, the won, only occasionally.
“There were not many places to use the won, and we actually had little faith in our currency,” Jeon said during a recent interview in Seoul. “Even the quality of North Korean bills was awful as they often ripped when we put them in our pockets.”
North Korea has tolerated the widespread use of more stable foreign currencies like U.S. dollars and Chinese yuan since a bungled revaluation of the won in 2009 triggered runaway inflation and public unrest.
The so-called “dollarization” helped ease inflation and stabilize exchange rates, enabling leader Kim Jong Un to establish a stable hold on power after he inherited that role in late 2011. But the trend poses a potential threat to Kim as it has undermined his government’s control over money supply and monetary policies.
The isolation of the pandemic badly hurt the North’s economy but still gave Kim a chance to solidify social controls by restricting market activities and limiting influence from capitalist, democratic South Korea. Now, observers say Kim is trying to roll back use of the dollar and yuan to tighten his grip on power as the North grapples with pandemic-related hardships, longstanding U.N. sanctions and tensions with the U.S.
“He has no other choice but to strengthen the command economy as he’s been locked in confrontations with the U.S. while maintaining a border shutdown,” said Lim Eul-chul, a professor at Kyungnam University’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Seoul. “The current direction of the North’s economy is controlling markets in a stronger manner so there are still limits in demands for dollars.”
It’s unclear what Kim would do, since banning use of dollars and yuan could backfire by just confusing and angering the public, experts say. North Koreans are likely resisting attempts by authorities to take their foreign currency given the low level of public trust in the government’s economic policies, said Choi Ji-young, an analyst at Seoul’s state-funded Korea Institute for National Unification.
The shift to using dollars and yuan came amid economic turmoil and a famine in the 1990s that crumbled the state rationing system, prompting the emergence of capitalist-style markets.
The 2009 revaluation of the won led to even wider use of foreign currencies. To try to reassert control over nascent markets, authorities limited the amount of old bills that citizens could exchange with new North Korean won, wiping out much of their household savings. Realizing the local currency was unreliable, many began storing their savings in dollars and yuan.
Jeon, a former official from the northern North Korean city of Hyesan, had two boxes of North Korean won notes totaling 2 million won at his house in 2009, about what it would cost then to buy 60-80 smuggled, second-hand Japanese TVs. Most of that money became worthless since the authorities only allowed residents to exchange up to 200,000 won (about $60-70 at the time) per household in old bills for new money.
“My money was all gone. I was extremely frustrated and embarrassed but couldn’t do anything in protest,” Jeon said. “I saw many people crying and heard others fled to South Korea.”
The yuan has since become the most-used and preferred currency for savings in areas near the North’s border with China. The dollar has emerged as the most saved currency and the second most-used currency after the won in southern regions, according to surveys of defectors.
Jeon said he used the yuan to buy clothes, rice and other daily necessities, eat out or pay bribes to bosses. Most of his savings were stored in yuan and dollar bills. He kept a small amount of North Korean won for occasions like donating money to village campaigns to support military units.
Paek H.O, who defected from the northeastern North Korean town of Musan in 2018, said she used the yuan to buy expensive goods and the won for cheap items such as sodas, vegetables and bread sold at markets. About 50 professional money changers operated in Musan, she said.
“Using foreign currency is officially illegal but few ran into troubles or got arrested for using it,” said Paek, 47. She asked that her first name be identified using initials, citing worries for the safety of relatives in North Korea.
There are two exchange rates for the won -– an artificially high one set by the government and another set by the market that experts say more clearly reflects actual economic conditions in the country.
The won had stabilized at around 8,000 per dollar since 2012-2013 but suddenly sharply strengthened in 2020 when North Korea sealed its borders to guard against COVID-19. According to North Korea monitoring groups, the won was trading on the street at about 6,700-7,000 per dollar in late 2020; 4,600-7,200 in 2021; and 5,200-7,500 in the first half of 2022. Later in 2022 it dropped back to about 8,000 won per dollar.
The won’s value soared during the pandemic likely because demand for dollars and yuan fell due to the border closures and tighter controls on use of foreign currency. Such controls appear to have been enforced inconsistently though a lack of information from the secretive North makes it virtually impossible to get clear details.
Jeon said his relatives in Hyesan told him in phone calls that they weren’t allowed to use foreign currency in 2021 but could last year. Paek said her sisters in Musan told her last year that they were using the yuan.
Kang Mi-Jin, a defector who runs a company analyzing North Korea’s economy, said people in nearly 20 regions across North Korea voluntarily stopped using foreign currency in 2021 during a campaign against “anti-socialist elements” due to worries about possible punishment. Citing her contacts inside North Korea, Kang said the North Koreans also held onto foreign currency as a safe haven.
The return of exchange rates to pre-pandemic levels likely reflects revived demand for foreign currency amid speculation North Korea might soon lift its COVID-19 restrictions. But many experts say less foreign currency is in circulation and the government is likely intervening to control exchange rates in markets.
“Dollarization can’t be a long-term government policy as it’s like relinquishing sovereignty over monetary policy, though it’s still true that it helped the North’s economy stabilize and grow for the (earlier) years of Kim Jong Un’s rule,” said Lim Soo-ho, an analyst at the Institute for National Security Strategy, a think tank run by South Korea’s spy agency.
He said Kim’s government is likely “very carefully” examining whether to fully reopen the borders since an abrupt, full-fledged resumption of imports would push the value of the dollar against the won sharply higher, making imported goods more expensive.
Son Kwang Soo, an analyst at the Seoul-based KB Research in Seoul, said the North may be trying to keep the exchange rate in a narrow band of around 8,000 won per dollar.
Defectors say an attempt to end use of dollars and yuan would likely just cause chaos.
“Kim Jong Un will eventually leave ‘dollarization’ as it used to be. If he bans the use of foreign currency by ordinary citizens, the country’s monetary circulation would be disrupted,” Kang said. “My contacts in North Korea told me it’s even hard to find some North Korean bills now.” | 2023-06-09T11:23:37+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/international/ap-international/dollarization-of-north-korean-economy-once-vital-now-potential-threat-to-kims-rule/ |
Caroline Frith to help shape next era of the CRE industry through cove's innovative Proptech solutions
DALLAS, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- cove, a technology solution that integrates the tenant experience ("TeX") and building operating systems ("building OS") for commercial real estate (CRE), announced Caroline Frith as Chief Strategy Officer to shape the next era of the commercial real estate (CRE) industry through its innovative Proptech solutions.
Caroline Frith joins cove with an impressive 20-year background in CRE, investment banking and data analytics technology. Frith's most recent role was the Head of Strategy and Innovation for the Asset Services Technology division of Cushman & Wakefield where she established herself as a trusted advisor to clients seeking to discover investment opportunities in Proptech and increase the value of their real estate portfolio.
"Requirements for flexible office space will continue to increase significantly and cove is addressing a permanent hybrid-work solution," stated Frith. "I've had a bird's-eye view of every Proptech option available for years and I was very impressed with cove's technology and approach. They are solving challenges in the market by addressing the real needs of tenants and property teams through a centralized platform; more so, cove is doing it with the highest caliber of engineers and great vision from leadership. I'm looking forward to what we will achieve together in positively setting a new standard for technology in the future of work."
Frith also previously served as the Global Program Manager for London-based HSBC, a financial services organization covering 63 countries and territories, held management positions with Thomson Reuters, where Caroline was a key member of the technology team building Reuters flagship market data and research product, and at IBM, where she led multiple high-visibility, high-risk projects for IBM's largest Australian client.
The appointment of Frith comes on the heels of cove's funding round that closed in late spring of this year led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, and included funding from access control provider Kastle Systems. Both joined existing investor Second Century Ventures. As Chief Strategy Officer, Frith will lead innovation that will grow the cove platform and further solidify it as the Proptech category leader.
"Caroline (Frith) is a proven leader in delivering transformative results in the Proptech sector by staying ahead of emerging technologies and demands," said Adam Segal, Founder and CEO of cove. "We are shaping the future of work and Caroline will help to drive our product strategy, lean into our technology partnerships, expand into the occupier market, enhance the tenant experience, and further our sustainability initiatives."
For more information, visit www.cove.is.
At cove, we are on a mission to build software and enable experiences that transform the way people engage with their physical environment. We do this by partnering with real estate owners and operators to put the experience in everyone's hands. Since opening the doors of our first neighborhood co-working space in 2013, our vision has always been to create great spaces, provide great service, and use technology to make everything easier. With operations in our DNA, we have built a dynamic tech platform to connect the physical and digital worlds deployed with some of the most innovative real estate owners and operators — creating a building's tech stack to bring people and experiences to the forefront. Visit us at www.cove.is.
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European Central Bank expected to slow pace of rate hikes
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank is expected to slow the fast and furious pace of its interest rate increases aimed at fighting inflation — but not by much as high energy prices driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ravage consumer finances and threaten a recession in Europe.
Analysts foresee a still-sizable rate hike of a half-percentage point at Thursday’s meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, following record increases of three-quarters of a point in July and October. That would echo the U.S. Federal Reserve, which made a half-point increase Wednesday, following four straight hikes of three-quarters of a point.
The Swiss central bank also raised by a half-point Thursday, when a similar hike is expected from the Bank of England. Inflation has eased in the United Kingdom, U.S. and Europe but is still painful as food, energy and housing costs squeeze households.
The ECB will consider how inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro currency unexpectedly fell to 10% last month from 10.6% in October. It was the first drop since June 2021 but still far above the ECB’s goal of 2%.
Despite the decrease, it’s “too early” to say inflation has peaked, the ECB’s chief economist, Philip Lane, said in an interview with the Milano Finanza newspaper.
“I would be reasonably confident in saying that we are close to a peak in inflation,” he said, but cautioned that the journey back to 2% “will take time.”
Bank President Christine Lagarde is expected to stick to a strong anti-inflation message during a news conference after the decision, with a three-quarter-point rate increase not absolutely ruled out. Analysts say rate hikes are likely to continue into next year, and Lagarde’s remarks will be watched for hints on how high rates might go.
Analysts at Pictet Wealth Management said the prospects for inflation remaining above target for some time mean that Lagarde “at a minimum … should lean against the idea of a pause any time soon.”
One reason for sticking to the tough anti-inflation message: the growth outlook for the European economy has improved, to mere shallow recession from possible disaster.
Despite energy prices surging after Russia cut off most natural gas shipments, the European Union succeeded in largely filling underground storage for the winter heating season. That has eased concern about running low on gas, which is used for heating, industry and power generation, and reduced fears of rolling electricity blackouts and industrial shutoffs.
Interest rate increases are central banks’ chief tool to fight inflation. Higher benchmarks are soon reflected in higher market borrowing costs for consumers looking for mortgages and businesses needing credit to operate or invest in new facilities. More costly credit reduces demand for goods, and, in theory, also reduces price increases.
The flip side is that higher rates can slow economic growth, and that has become a concern in the U.S. and Europe. The slightly improved, or at least less disastrous, outlook for growth in the eurozone is seen as a green light for Lagarde and the ECB to keep their focus firmly on inflation.
Bank officials say getting tough now prevents inflation from becoming chronic and requiring even more painful medicine.
The ECB’s benchmark rate for lending to banks stands at 2%, and its rate on deposits left overnight by commercial banks is 1.5%.
Between the July and October meetings, the bank raised both benchmarks by 2 percentage points in just three months, the fastest pace since the founding of the shared euro currency in 1999 and covering ground that took 18 months in early rate-raising cycles.
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BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Germany raided the offices of Deutsche Bank and its subsidiary DWS on Tuesday following claims that it was exaggerating the sustainable credentials of some of the products it sold.
German news agency dpa quoted Frankfurt prosecutors saying the probe focused on allegations of investment fraud, but no specific suspects had been identified yet.
A former manager in charge of sustainability at DWS has claimed that the asset management firm exaggerated the environmental and climate credentials of certain funds — referred to as “greenwashing.”
DWS said in a statement that it is cooperating with “all relevant regulatory authorities” on the issue, dpa reported. | 2022-05-31T11:56:56+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Deutsche-Bank-subsidiary-raided-over-17209034.php |
Lawsuit Charges Caragum and Farbest with Deceiving Customers and Providing Fraudulent Beverage Additives
CLINT, Texas, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- T&R Chemicals, Inc., sole U.S. distributor for a leading global producer of wood-rosin-based beverage additives, has filed a complaint in California court charging competitors Caragum International (Marseille, France) and Farbest Brands (New Jersey) with false advertising and unfair competition in knowingly and intentionally labeling, selling and distributing their glycerol-ester beverage additive. T&R's lawsuit alleges that Caragum and Farbest fraudulently claim that the wood-rosin glycerol ester they sell in the United States is in fact a different product that is less expensive and not approved for use in most countries in the world.
"By making false and deceptive claims about the product they are selling, Caragum and Farbest are deceiving their customers, creating an unfair playing field and destroying the integrity of the rosin industry," said Vasilios Fotopoulos, president of T&R. "Customers should get what they pay for, and T&R must have a fair opportunity to compete and provide high-quality, genuine wood-rosin glycerol ester to its customers."
T&R is the sole U.S. distributor for Resinas Sintéticas (Morelia, Mexico), which produces two types of glycerol esters of rosin that help emulsify flavoring oils in beverages: glycerol ester of wood rosin (GEWR) and glycerol ester of gum rosin (GEGR). The two products provide the same functionality and are equally safe, but they are produced using different methods. They are distinct products in the marketplace, with different pricing and different national and international regulatory approvals. The wood rosin in GEWR is capital-intensive and more expensive to produce. GEWR is more widely approved for use, including in the U.S. and in the European Union and by WHO's CODEX/JECFA. The gum rosin in GEGR is more abundant worldwide, and less expensive to produce. It is approved for use in the United States, but not in Europe.
T&R's lawsuit charges Caragum and Farbest with selling GEGR that is intentionally mislabeled as GEWR, which allows them to sell their mislabeled product for less than T&R can profitably sell its genuine GEWR. The complaint says this false and deceptive practice has resulted in windfall profits for Caragum and Farbest, and lost sales of more than $4.5 million for T&R since 2020.
T&R's charges are based on knowledge of wood rosin production and global manufacturing practices, Caragum's own videos which depict and outline GEGR production while claiming to be GEWR production, customer descriptions of the Caragum-Farbest product and other investigative measures.
The complaint further states that T&R seeks to prevent Caragum and Farbest from continuing the fraudulent practice and seeks damages based on lost revenues from prospective customers who purchased the fraudulent product based on the false and misleading advertising and misrepresentations.
"It is wrong and unfair for Caragum and Farbest to deliberately mislead customers. They must be stopped and penalized for their ongoing fraudulent business practices," Fotopoulos said.
About T&R Chemicals, Inc.
Established in Texas in 1973, T&R Chemicals Inc. is one of the world's leading producers of pine oil while also distributing the rosin derivatives of Resinas Sintéticas, including glycerol ester of wood rosin and glycerol ester of gum rosin. These glycerol esters are unique in their ability to provide emulsion stability and are commonly used as weighting agents in the flavor and beverage industries.
Contact: Claire Parker
claire@cbcommunicationsllc.com
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TANZANIA – The U.N. chief on Tuesday decried the “terrible truth” that the world is failing to live up to its commitments to protect a growing number of civilians caught in conflicts. The International Committee of the Red Cross, the guardian of treaties enshrining those commitments, lamented that countless civilians are experiencing “a living hell.”
From Ukraine and Sudan to Africa’s Sahel and the Mideast, civilians are scrambling to evade missiles and explosives and to find food and medicine — and the humanitarian situation is deteriorating.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the Security Council should urge countries to respect the rules of war.
“Governments with influence over warring parties should engage in political dialogue and train forces on protecting civilians,” he said. “And countries that export weapons should refuse to do business with any party that fails to comply with international humanitarian law.”
His recent report on the protection of civilians in conflicts in 2022 points to over 100 conflicts worldwide and an average duration of more than 30 years. Last year, though, saw new highs for the number of people forcibly displaced and a 53% increase in U.N. recorded civilian deaths to nearly 17,000, including almost 8,000 in Ukraine.
Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, said during recent visits to Africa, Europe and the Mideast she saw a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation with “entire regions trapped in cycles of conflict without an end in sight.”
Spoljaric said many of the conflicts are compounded by climate shocks, food insecurity and economic hardship. She issued an urgent call to countries to protect civilians and critical infrastructure in urban areas, pointing to large-scale destruction in Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen. She also urged that food be provided to all civilians in conflict areas and for access to be given to humanitarian workers.
“We need to break the pattern of violations, and this can be done through strong political will and sustained action,” she said.
Switzerland, which is serving its first two-year term on the Security Council, chose the protection of civilians in conflict as its showcase event. Representatives from over 80 countries were scheduled to speak, a reflection of widespread concern.
Swiss President Alain Berset, who chaired Tuesday's meeting, said that as the depository state for the Geneva Conventions and the home of the Geneva-based ICRC, respect for international humanitarian law was a long-standing priority for the country.
The number of people facing acute food insecurity rose to 258 million last year, which he noted was "30 times the population of New York City. More than two-thirds of them live in conflict zones, including in Congo, Sudan, the Sahel, Somalia, Myanmar and Afghanistan, or in countries where violence is widespread such as Haiti, Berset said.
He urged all countries to implement a 2018 Security Council resolution against the use of starvation as a method of warfare and unlawfully denying humanitarian access and life-saving supplies to civilians, and a 2021 resolution condemning unlawful attacks that deprive civilians of essential services.
The meeting saw clashes between Ukraine’s Western supporters and Russia, as the council has seen at many sessions since Moscow’s Feb. 24, 2022, invasion of its neighbor.
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the increase in civilian deaths shows the human toll of the war. She also accused Russia of pushing millions of people in Africa and the Middle East into food insecurity by using “food as a weapon of war in Ukraine,” including blocking Ukrainian grain shipments for months.
She said the agreement allowing the shipment of Ukrainian grain from Black Sea ports, which was extended for two months on May 17, was a “beacon of hope to the world.”
Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia claimed very little of the more than 30 million tons of grain shipped under the Black Sea deal has gone to developing countries, and that the shipment from Russia of ammonia — a key ingredient of fertilizer — that was supposed to be part of the July 2022 deal “has effectively not even begun.” | 2023-05-23T21:51:03+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2023/05/23/un-world-is-failing-to-protect-millions-of-civilians-caught-in-conflicts/ |
(AP) — Created in 1872 as the United States was recovering from the Civil War, Yellowstone was the first of the national parks that came to be referred to as America’s best idea. Now, the home to gushing geysers, thundering waterfalls and some of the country’s most plentiful and diverse wildlife is facing its biggest challenge in decades.
Floodwaters this week wiped out numerous bridges, washed out miles of roads and closed the park as it approached peak tourist season during its 150th anniversary celebration. Nearby communities were swamped and hundreds of homes flooded as the Yellowstone River and its tributaries raged.
The scope of the damage is still being tallied by Yellowstone officials, but based on other national park disasters, it could take years and cost upwards of $1 billion to rebuild in an environmentally sensitive landscape where construction season only runs from the spring thaw until the first snowfall.
Based on what park officials have revealed and Associated Press images and video taken from a helicopter, the greatest damage seemed to be to roads, particularly on the highway connecting the park’s north entrance in Gardiner, Montana, to the park’s offices in Mammoth Hot Springs. Large sections of the road were undercut and washed away as the Gardner River jumped its banks. Perhaps hundreds of footbridges on trails may have been damaged or destroyed.
“This is not going to be an easy rebuild,” Superintendent Cam Sholly said early in the week as he highlighted photos of massive gaps of roadway in the steep canyon. “I don’t think it’s going to be smart to invest potentially, you know, tens of millions of dollars, or however much it is, into repairing a road that may be subject to seeing a similar flooding event in the future.”
Re-establishing a human imprint in a national park is always a delicate operation, especially as a changing climate makes natural disasters more likely. Increasingly intense wildfires are occurring, including one last year that destroyed bridges, cabins and other infrastructure in Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California.
Flooding has already done extensive damage in other parks and is a threat to virtually all the more-than 400 national parks, a report by The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization found in 2009.
Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state closed for six months after the worst flooding in its history in 2006. Damage to roads, trails, campgrounds and buildings was estimated at $36 million.
Yosemite Valley in California’s Yosemite National Park has flooded several times, but suffered its worst damage 25 years ago when heavy downpours on top of a large snowpack — a scenario similar to the Yellowstone flood — submerged campgrounds, flooded hotel rooms, washed out bridges and sections of road, and knocked out power and sewer lines. The park was closed for more than two months.
Congress allocated $178 million in emergency funds – a massive sum for park infrastructure at the time – and additional funding eventually surpassed $250 million, according to a 2013 report.
But the rebuilding effort once estimated to last four to five years dragged out for 15, due in part to environmental lawsuits over a protected river corridor and a long bureaucratic planning and review process.
It’s not clear if Yellowstone would face the same obstacles, though reconstructing the road that runs near Mammoth Hot Springs, where steaming water bubbles up over an otherworldly series of stone terraces, presents a challenge.
It’s created by a unique natural formation of underground tubes and vents that push the hot water to the surface, and would be just one of many natural wonders crews would have to be careful not to disturb, said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity.
Along with the formation itself, there are also microbes and insects that thrive in the environment found almost nowhere else. And the park will need to avoid damaging any archaeological or cultural artifacts in the area with a rich Native American history.
“They’ll have to look at all the resources the park is designed to protect, and try to do this project as carefully as possible, but they’re also going to try to go fairly quickly,” Hartl said.
Having to reroute the roadway that hugged the Gardner River could be an opportunity to better protect the waterway and the fish and other species that thrive there from oil and other microscopic pollution that comes from passing vehicles, Hartl said.
“The river will be healthier for it,” he said.
The Yosemite flood was seen by the park as an opportunity to rethink its planning and not necessarily rebuild in the same places, said Frank Dean, president and chief executive of the Yosemite Conservancy and a former park ranger.
Some facilities were relocated outside the flood plain and some campgrounds that had been submerged in the flood were never restored. At Yosemite Lodge, cabins that had been slated for removal in the 1980s were swamped and had to be removed.
“The flood took them all out like a precision strike,” Dean said. “I’m not going to say it’s a good thing, but providence came in and made the decision for them.”
Yellowstone’s recovery comes as a rapidly growing number of people line up to visit the country’s national parks, even as a backlog of deferred maintenance budget grows into tens of billions of dollars. The park was already due for funding from the Great American Outdoors Act, a 2020 law passed by Congress that authorizes nearly $3 billion for maintenance and other projects on public lands.
Now it will need another infusion of money for more pressing repairs that Emily Douce, director of operations and park funding at National Parks Conservation Association, estimated could hit at least $1 billion.
The southern half of the park is expected to reopen next week, allowing visitors to flock to Old Faithful, the rainbow colored Grand Prismatic Spring, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and its majestic waterfall.
But the flood-damaged northern end may not reopen this year, depriving visitors from seeing Tower Fall and Lamar Valley, one of the best places in the world to see wolves and grizzly bears. Some days during the high season, an animal sighting can lead to thousands of people parked on the side of the road hoping to catch a glimpse.
Whether some of these areas are reopened will depend on how quickly washed-out roads can be repaired, downed trees can be removed and mudslides cleared.
Maintaining the approximately 466 miles (750 kilometers) of roadway throughout the park is a major job. Much of the roadway originally was designed for stagecoaches, said Kristen Brengel, senior vice-president of public affairs for the National Parks Conservation Association.
“Part of the effort of the last couple of decades has been to stabilize the road to make it safe for heavier vehicles to travel on it,” she said.
Located at a high elevation where snow and cold weather is not uncommon eight months of the year and there are many tiny earthquakes, road surfaces don’t last as long and road crews have a short window to complete projects. One recently completed road job created closures for about two years.
“I think it’ll probably be several years before the park is totally back to normal,” Hartl said. | 2022-06-18T20:31:02+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/yellowstone-flooding-rebuild-could-take-years-cost-billions/ |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Xcel Energy Inc. (XEL) on Thursday reported first-quarter earnings of $418 million.
The Minneapolis-based company said it had profit of 76 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 74 cents per share.
The utility posted revenue of $4.08 billion in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $3.85 billion.
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4 Investigates: Patients impacted by Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital troubles
GALLUP, N.M. – A billboard for Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital a few miles out of Gallup makes a promise: “Your health is our priority.”
Many say it is a promise not kept. Over the past year, the labor and delivery unit closed, patients have dealt with broken air conditioning and fickle phones, while the hospital dealt with lawsuits, investigations, and constant financial uncertainty. Patients say they have paid the price.
“All of a sudden, I just started shaking, and sweating and got the chills,” said a patient whose symptoms prompted him to go to the emergency room at RMCH in February.
The man–who did not want to be identified–told KOB 4 that staff put him in a dirty room and told him to pull himself together.
“My arm put me in excruciating pain, brought me to tears,” he said. “I was crying, and she told me, ‘Stop crying, it’s mind over matter, man up.’”
After a few hours, he said RMCH staff tried to discharge him, and security kicked him out after he demanded to speak to a doctor. A day later, he learned he was having a heart attack.
“He goes, ‘Babe, I lost my sight. I can’t see. Everything is white,’” his wife said, recalling her terrifying drive toward Albuquerque the next morning. “I started panicking. I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’ He goes, ‘I can’t see, I can’t see.’ I say, ‘Well, I don’t think we’re going to make it. I don’t think we’re going to make it to Albuquerque, please hold on.’”
The man and his wife barely made it to the hospital in Grants, one hour away.
“I blamed myself,” the man said. “Because I didn’t listen to her or my mom to just go to Grants. If I died, it would have been my fault.”
After a heart bypass, William Joe Henderson said he went to RMCH with no feeling in his legs.
“They just gave me a shot and sent me home,” he said.
Two days later, Henderson said his vascular doctor at UNMH in Albuquerque rushed him in for a second emergency bypass.
“’There’s no blood flow or nothing going into your legs,’” Henderson recalled what his doctor told him before he went under. “They said they were going to have to cut my legs off, if I didn’t have emergency surgery right away.”
Both men said they are hesitant to go back to RMCH.
“I’m going to lose my legs or my life,” Henderson said. “I just hope the hospital gets better.”
The hospital’s CEO insisted financial struggles have not affected care. Instead, he pointed to the hospital’s location.
“Unfortunately, in rural America, that’s often the case is that when people come to a facility that we either don’t, as I said, we don’t have the specialty services or the we don’t have equipment or the things that are needed to care for them, and need to transfer them to another facility,” Robert Whitaker said.
McKinley County’s recent $6.78 million purchase of the three remaining hospital properties brings new cash and new hospital board leadership. KOB 4 asked RMCHCS Board Chairman Bill Lee what role the board plays in making sure people get the care they need moving forward.
“We are certainly responsible for overlooking and overseeing that the quality is there,” he said. “With the ever-increasing inflation and higher cost of goods and services, all of that begins to snowball and catch up with you, especially when you’re already in a tenuous situation. And so, these are the challenges that we have really been kind of laser-focused on as a board of directors, and trying to find some remedies and some resources to help the hospital continue to provide the services that the community needs.”
“We’ve got some miles to cover and some ground to cover and some hard work to do still,” he added. “But if our community is behind us, what I can say about this, is that Gallup’s community has never let something fail that they care deeply about.”
The county plans to gradually become new management for the hospital as well, giving the Community Health Action Group in Gallup hope, something they thought was long gone.
“This really feels like a turning point,” said local physician and the group’s lead organizer Dr. Connie Liu. “I think the county in particular is trying to walk a fine line between deliberate and making good decisions with the best information that they have, but they’re also trying to move swiftly to ensure that the hospital has what it needs in order to move forward.”
RMCHCS officials encourage patients who are not satisfied with their care, or have questions or concerns of any kind, to call their patient experience expert at 505-863-7000.
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- RMCH deal complicated by debt to city | 2023-04-13T05:03:56+00:00 | kob.com | https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/4-investigates-patients-impacted-by-rehoboth-mckinley-christian-hospital-troubles/ |
NAPA, Calif. – Rickie Fowler began his 15th professional season Thursday. From clubs to coach to caddie, just about everything is new for the five-time PGA Tour winner.
Fowler, whose last victory was the 2019 Waste Management Phoenix Open, enjoyed immediate success.
He shot a 5-under 67 and was among nine players who finished their rounds four shots behind leader Justin Lower at the Fortinet Championship.
Lower, beginning his second PGA Tour season, concluded his career-low, 9-under 63 in the early evening at Silverado Resort and Spa. He held a two-shot cushion over defending champion Max Homa and a three-shot lead over Byeong Hun An, S.H. Kim and J.J. Spaun at the fog-delayed PGA Tour season opener.
Lower, whose career-best finish in 28 PGA Tour starts dating to 2013 was a tie for eighth in July at the Barbasol Championship, had a bogey-free round.
“I’ll take it. I birdied half the holes, so that’s always a good start, I guess,” Lower said. “I’m honestly just happy to be in the position I am having I guess, full status.”
Homa, finishing just before play was called because of darkness, birdied two of the last three holes for his 65.
Fowler, who had a bogey-free round, has only four top-10 finishes in the past three seasons. He recently began using a new putter and this week is also using a new set of irons.
Once ranked as high as No. 4 in the world, Fowler is now 176th. With his new clubs, Fowler hopes to rekindle his career with the assistance of a new caddie and new coach.
On the bag is friend and veteran PGA Tour caddie Ricky Romano. Butch Harmon, who has worked with Fowler in the past, replaced John Tillery, who was Fowler’s swing coach for the past three years.
“Yeah, I always like it when there’s a bogey-free round in there,” Fowler said. “For the most part, there wasn’t an issue today other than having to make a 15-footer when I hit it into the bunker. Other than that, it was a fairly simple day.”
An, a three-time PGA Tour runner-up who regained his card via the Korn Ferry Tour, had seven birdies and one bogey en route to his 66.
Kim, a PGA Tour rookie, had eight birdies and two bogeys in the opening round of the PGA Tour’s new season — its final time using a wraparound schedule.
Two groups were on the course Thursday morning when play was suspended for 90 minutes because of fog. There were 35 players left on the course when darkness halted play at 7:20 p.m. PDT. Among those, Robby Shelton had the best round going at 5 under through 13 holes. The first round was to resume Friday morning.
Fowler missed the FedExCup playoffs for the first time in his career in 2021. He got into the first playoff event this past season, the FedEx St. Jude Championship in August, but did not advance.
“I’ve had some good weeks in the past few years, but it shouldn’t just be a few weeks in those years, there needs to be more,” Fowler said. “I’m just trying to get to be more consistent.”
Greyson Sigg, Nick Taylor, Sahith Theegala, Scott Harrington, Matti Schmid, Emiliano Grillo, Sung Kang and Brice Garnett all matched Fowler's 67. Grillo won the event in 2015 and had two runner-up finishes last season.
Fowler hadn’t played in the event since 2010 when it was played at CordeValle.
“Well, not going to the playoffs and not being on a Presidents Cup team, that’s been really the only reason I haven’t been to Napa yet,” Fowler said. “I’ve always heard good things about the event, so not to say thanks to bad play or anything, but that’s kind of the reason we’re able to be here this week.”
Fowler was pleased with his overall play, particularly off the tee.
“I set the round up by driving it fairly nicely, especially the second half of the day,” Fowler said. “And I was just able to keep moving forward. There weren’t many times where I had to play too defensively.”
Matt Kuchar, whose 2019 win at the Sony Open was the last of his nine PGA Tour titles, was among several players at 4 under.
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Gift to develop exhibit at future Discovery Center in honor of longtime Minot florist
MINOT, N.D.- As the Magic City Discovery Center continues to build its new facility, they’ve announced a sponsorship a children’s farmer’s market exhibit.
It’s in honor of a longtime florist in the Minot community.
The $100,000 gift to set up the market is in honor of James Lowe, who died in 2018.
In the farmer’s market... Children will be able to “pretend purchase” things such as flowers, produce, and bakery items.
Some inspiration has been drawn from North Dakota products since farmer’s markets are part of the local area.
“James Lowe was known for his floral designs and we’re really honored that the family chose the Magic City Discovery Center for his legacy to live on,” says Wendy Keller, Executive Director.
The new Discovery Center on Minot’s North Hill is expected to open later this year.
We’ll have more on the farmer’s market tonight at 10.
Copyright 2022 KFYR. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-01T23:54:19+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2022/06/01/gift-develop-exhibit-future-discovery-center-honor-longtime-minot-florist/ |
Doja Cat is opening up about the criticism directed at her for shaving her head and comparing it to when Britney Spears did the same in 2007.
In an interview with Variety, the 27-year-old singer revealed she was going to play with her hairdo more down the road. It's currently a buzz cut and two-toned: half natural color and half blonde. And, while discussing her hair, the singer opened up about the massive online debate people had, comparing her shaving her head and eyebrows back in August to Spears' 2007 spontaneous moment.
Suffice it to say, the comparison disturbed Doja Cat.
"It's so incredibly disrespectful for people to be minimizing what Britney went through and make a joke out of something that was very serious and a big deal in her life. Every time I see a comment like that, I can’t compute what’s happening, other than it’s just an awful thing, Doja says. "But other than that, when I shaved my eye-brows off and I shaved my head, I remember thinking, ‘Get this s*it off of me,’ because I needed to change something. I wasn’t working out and wasn’t really taking care of myself in the way that I wanted to. I was like, ‘I need to do something,’ so I just chopped it all off. And I could see the shape of my head. I could see my whole face. I can see my ears, now that I don’t have a wig that’s glued to my forehead."
The singer, who clapped back at critics after shaving her head, also revealed she's no stranger to wigs, though she's not quite used to them.
"I’ve been doing wigs for years," she says, "and I haven’t gotten used to it. You wake up in the morning and it’s in your mouth and in your eyes -- it doesn’t feel good. It’s stressful if you want to work out, and then it slides off your head while you’re in a public gym. So now you have another responsibility other than taking care of your body. So, yeah, it’s the best choice I’ve ever made, and I’ve never felt more beautiful."
She continues, "And you know what? I still wear wigs, and they look better now because I don’t have so much hair. Now I have a f**king hair hat -- a shake-and-go -- and I just slap it on and it’s cute and I look like a little Pulp Fiction girl."
Back in 2019, the documentary Britney Spears: Breaking Point aired on the U.K.'s Channel 5, and in it, tattoo artist Emily Wynne-Hughes said she saw Spears moments after the extreme haircut and got her to explain why she did it.
"I wasn’t sure what was happening, if there was a riot outside, and then the flashes came. The door opened slowly and a hooded figure walked in the door," recalled Wynne-Hughes, remembering Spears walking into the Sherman Oaks, California, tattoo shop that evening. "I noticed [Britney’s] hair was gone. I remember asking her, 'Why did you shave your head?' And her answer was a bit weird."
Wynne-Hughes continued, "It was, you know, ‘I just don’t want anybody touching my head. I don’t want anyone touching my hair. I’m sick of people touching my hair.'"
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Dawn Staley has South Carolina six wins away from finishing off a historic season.
The Gamecocks are looking to become the 10th women’s basketball team to go undefeated for an entire season as the they enter the NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 overall seed.
Staley’s squad has been challenged a few times this year but has always pulled through. The defending national champions will play Norfolk State in the first round of the tournament, the NCAA selection committee revealed Sunday night.
“It didn’t take a loss for us to learn from the lessons of a close game,” Staley said. “Now we found ourselves in a position where we can’t afford to lose.”
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While the Gamecocks, led by star Aliyah Boston, have been a lock to be the top seed for most of the season, several schools were vying for the other No. 1s, including Iowa, Indiana, Virginia Tech, Stanford, and Utah. The Hawkeyes, led by electrifying guard Caitlin Clark, have been a top seed twice before, in 1988 and 1992.
The committee ultimately chose the Hoosiers, Hokies, and Cardinal. Indiana and Virginia Tech are first-time No. 1 seeds. Stanford has been a top seed 13 times now, including in the last three tournaments.
“We spent a lot of time on a variety of things. certainly the number one line and the right teams hosting,” selection committee chair Lisa Peterson said.
The tournament begins Wednesday with two First Four games. The full madness starts with 16 games Friday and 16 more the next day.
South Carolina may have the easiest path to the Final Four in Dallas as it won’t have to go far from home. The Gamecocks, who are the 18th team to reach the NCAA tourney unbeaten, will play their first two games on campus before potentially heading 90 minutes away to Greenville, S.C., for one of the two regionals. The Gamecocks just won the Southeastern Conference Tournament at that site.
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“It’s great. When we got shipped out to Stockton [California, in 2017], we thought it was a drag, but we end up winning the national championship. So there are blessings in all types of situations,” Staley said. “We’re blessed that Greenville was a region. We’re blessed that we did enough to get to sent to this region and we have to make it work for us. We know it won’t be easy.”
The NCAA changed its format this season and is having two regional sites for the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight rounds. Greenville hosts one and Seattle the other. Once again the top four teams in each region will host the opening two rounds.
The other top teams in South Carolina’s bracket are No. 2 seed Maryland, No. 3 Notre Dame, and No. 4 UCLA. The Gamecocks beat both Maryland and UCLA this season.
“I like it. Some familiarity. Take care of Norfolk State, then see where that takes us,” Staley said. “I don’t want to put the cart before the horse. Sometimes when you’re in a tournament setting like this it’s always a good thing to have played someone.”
Indiana is the other top seed in Greenville. Utah is the 2 seed with LSU third and Villanova fourth.
UConn, which was the last team to go unbeaten and win the title in 2015-16, is looking to extend its own history and reach the Final Four for the 15th consecutive year. The Huskies had a difficult year with injuries but finally started to get healthy heading into March. Star guard Azzi Fudd, who missed 22 games with a knee injury, returned for the Big East Tournament and helped the Huskies win it.
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Geno Auriemma’s team, which has won a record 11 national championships, is a No. 2 seed in Seattle. The Hokies are the top seed in that part of the bracket. Ohio State is the 3 seed and Tennessee the 4. The Lady Volunteers have been in every NCAA Tournament since it started in 1982.
The Cardinal are the No. 1 in the other Seattle regional. Iowa is the No. 2, Duke the 3 seed, and Texas 4.
The Atlantic Coast Conference has eight teams in the tournament with the Big Ten, SEC, and Pac-12 each having seven. The Big 12 has six and the Big East five.
Four teams will be making their first appearance in the tournament: Southern Utah, Southeastern Louisiana, Sacramento State, and Saint Louis. | 2023-03-13T01:49:18+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/12/sports/no-1-ranked-undefeated-south-carolina-earns-top-overall-seed-ncaa-womens-basketball-tournament/ |
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE: NBR) invites you to join Anthony G. Petrello, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer, and William Restrepo, Chief Financial Officer, Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time for a discussion of operating results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022. Nabors will release earnings after the market closes on Tuesday, October 25, 2022.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Already armed with a defense that ranked No. 1 overall a year ago, the San Francisco 49ers surprisingly used the NFL draft to strengthen the depth of that unit, taking defensive players with five of their nine picks.
With an early run on offensive linemen by other teams, however, the pickings were slim when the 49ers got to work. General manager John Lynch said the 49ers weren’t going to draft an offensive lineman just to draft one, and coach Kyle Shanahan agreed.
The next best thing was to find available talent wherever it was.
“We would have loved to have taken an O-lineman but the draft didn’t work out that way,” Shanahan said.
A day after using third-round picks on a safety, kicker and tight end, all of whom could play pivotal roles over the next few years, the 49ers — armed with six picks over the final three rounds — continued to focus primarily on defense Saturday.
In the fifth round, San Francisco selected South Alabama cornerback Darrell Luter Jr. with the No. 115 pick and edge rusher Robert Beal Jr. from Georgia with pick No. 173. The Niners took speedy TCU linebacker Dee Winters at No. 216 in the sixth round.
With three picks in the seventh round, San Francisco chose Oklahoma tight end Brayden Willis (No. 247), Michigan wide receiver Ronnie Bell (No. 253) and Purdue linebacker Jalen Graham (No. 255).
“We have a good team that does have some depth, and our first goal is that we hope that these draft picks can make our team, which isn’t easy to do,” Shanahan said.
Luter can play outside cornerback or down in the box covering the slot.
“I got the strength, I’ve got the physicality, I’ve got the mental part of the game,” Luter said. “Coming into the NFL, that’s something I take pride in.”
Luter had only five interceptions in three seasons at South Alabama but was a first team All-Sun Belt Conference selection in 2021, when he had four picks and deflected 10 passes.
His selection came on the heels of San Francisco taking safety Ji’Ayir Brown from Penn State with the 87th overall pick Friday.
Later in the fifth round, the 49ers added Beal to an already strong pass rush that produced 44 sacks last season. Beal had 6 1/2 sacks in 2021 when the Bulldogs won the national championship. His production dipped to 3 1/2 sacks in 15 games last year.
The 6-foot-4-inch, 247-pounder has the size and skillset to play down as a lineman or standing up as an outside linebacker. He ran a 4.48-second 40-yard dash at the combine and has a wingspan of nearly 7 feet.
“(The 49ers) were like my favorite team growing up,” Beal said. “Growing up, it was between the 49ers and the Falcons but it was 49ers before the Falcons. It is crazy how it comes full circle. I’m just thankful for the opportunity.”
Winters, who has 4.49 speed, had 7 1/2 sacks, 14 1/2 tackles for loss and a pick-6 last season.
San Francisco added a second tight end in Willis, who can also play fullback. A second team All-Big 12 Conference pick in 2022, Willis had seven touchdowns as a senior and will compete with fellow draftee Cameron Latu (No. 101 overall) for playing time in Shanahan’s offense alongside perennial Pro Bowl tight end George Kittle.
Bell showed some playmaking abilities at Michigan with 62 catches for 889 yards and four touchdowns in 2022 while also doubling up as a punt returner. He was the team’s offensive rookie of the year in 2018 but missed all of 2021 with a torn ACL.
“He’s a guy that the more we watched, the more we liked,” Lynch said. “He did it at the right times, too. So Ronnie was a great addition.”
Graham had 169 tackles and two sacks over four seasons at Purdue, then skipped the Citrus Bowl as a senior to prepare for the draft.
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2023-04-30T02:51:35+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nfl/2023/04/29/nfl-draft-49ers/eba11b7c-e6fa-11ed-9696-8e874fd710b8_story.html |
WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
703 PM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM EDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL DELAWARE AND NORTHWESTERN SULLIVAN COUNTIES...
At 703 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Roscoe, or 16
miles southeast of Walton, moving east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Rockland, Fremont, Jeffersonville, White Sulphur Springs, Stalker,
Hazel, Livingston Manor, Roscoe, Peabrook and Callicoon Center.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-07-13T23:39:24+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/NY-WFO-BINGHAMTON-Warnings-Watches-and-17303611.php |
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) — A bear and a motorcycle collided on a Colorado interstate Saturday, leaving the bear dead.
Colorado State Patrol received a call at 9:17 p.m. of a collision on I-25 northbound near mile point 156.
A motorcyclist collided with a bear that was on the interstate. Due to the crash, three lanes were blocked off while officers investigated.
The motorcyclist and a passenger that was on the bike were both injured. Both riders were transported to the hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
The bear was killed on scene, Colorado authorities said.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife said their officers responded after the crash to retrieve the bear carcass.
The agency is reminding everyone to expect aggressive behavior from wildlife this time of year as mothers defend their young.
As the weather begins to warm up, bears are starting to emerge from hibernation and are bringing their babies out into the world. Breeding season for black bears begins in June.
CPW is reminding Coloradans to never feed bears or cubs. Bears can smell food for miles, even if it is locked in a car.
They also ask all drivers on big interstates to pay extra attention to wildlife wandering on the roads from dusk to dawn. To avoid a collision, drive slowly and scan ahead for any movement along the roadway. | 2022-06-05T23:34:56+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/bear-killed-after-colliding-with-motorcycle/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of military veterans on Wednesday hand-delivered letters to top Republicans in the U.S. House, calling on them to publicly condemn political violence as the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol approaches.
Former Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone wrote the letter, which was signed by more than 1,000 military veterans, active duty members, law enforcement officers and military families. Fanone, who was beaten and tased during the attack on the Capitol, delivered a copy to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s office. While the GOP leadership remains unsettled, the groups behind the effort consider the Georgia representative one of the de facto leaders of the new Republican majority in the House.
Veterans also delivered letters to GOP Reps. James Comer of Kentucky, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, Elise Stefanik of New York and Kevin McCarthy of California, who is trying to become House speaker.
Wednesday’s visit to the Capitol was organized by the groups Common Defense and Courage for America to bring attention to violent rhetoric they say remains a threat to American democracy. They want top Republicans in the House not only to condemn political violence but to hold accountable those who spread violent and hate-filled messages.
The visits come at a tumultuous time on Capitol Hill. A core of conservative House Republicans has rejected McCarthy’s attempts to be named speaker on multiple votes Tuesday and Wednesday. The GOP’s failure to elect a new speaker has put House business on hold, including the swearing in of its members and naming of committee chairs.
In the letter, Fanone calls on House Republicans to issue a public statement condemning all forms of political violence and “promise to hold members of your conference accountable for endorsing violence or espousing violent rhetoric towards those who disagree with them politically.”
The letter notes several incidents of politically motivated violence, including the attack on an FBI office in Ohio following the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and the attack on the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as well as threats and comments calling for her execution.
Fanone was one of dozens of law enforcement officers injured during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, when a mob marched to the Capitol at Trump’s urging and attacked it in an attempt to halt the certification of the 2020 presidential election. Fanone told the House committee that investigated the insurrection that the assault on him, which stopped only when he said he had children, caused him to have a heart attack.
In an interview, Fanone said he had been looking for an organization that expressed his values and concerns over the future of the country, and that led him to Courage for America, a progressive group created after Republicans won the House majority in November. Common Defense, a progressive grassroots organization of veterans, was formed during the 2016 election.
“I think we’re still in grave jeopardy,” Fanone said, despite this year’s midterm elections in which a number of Trump acolytes were rejected by voters. “I was like, yeah, Democracy won — by a fraction of a percent in a lot of places.”
Although many candidates who denied the results of the 2020 presidential election were defeated, “a lot of those races were a hell of a lot closer than they should have been,” he said.
Lies about the 2020 election have spread widely and penetrated the Republican electorate. As recently as October, 58% of Republicans did not think President Joe Biden’s election was legitimate, according to an AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll.
Veterans who have joined the groups share Fanone’s concerns about extremism in the U.S. and believe it creates a situation “that is really opposition to the oath that we took in enlisting in the military,” said Naveed Shah, an Army veteran who is the political director for Common Defense and spokesman for Courage for America.
“The insurrection was neither the end nor the beginning of this kind of slow-moving coup,” he said. ”I’m not going to try predict what’s going to happen in the future, but what I can say is that you know political violence of all forms needs to be condemned.”
Once the groups finish in Washington, Shah said members will travel the country to talk to representatives in their districts about the need to condemn political violence and the language that stokes it.
Dozens of people charged in the Capitol attack have military backgrounds, including some associated with far-right extremist groups who are facing the most serious charges. Others arrested in the riot include an Army reservist who wore a Hitler mustache to his job at a Navy base and an active-duty Marine Corps officer seen on camera scuffling with police and helping other members of the pro-Trump mob force their way into the Capitol.
Alex Babcock, an Army veteran from Florida, started out as a Republican, but what he saw during the 2016 election — when Trump was claiming widespread fraud even before his victory over Hillary Clinton — led him to Common Defense.
He said veterans have a strong voice in defending American democracy because they have been willing to sacrifice their lives for it. He said it was important to call out politicians who try to cloak their messaging.
“There aren’t a lot of people that are outright saying, ‘I want to go hurt that guy,'” Babcock said. “But there are people who speak a language that is clear enough if you’re listening.”
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Associated Press writer Alanna Durkin Richer in Boston contributed to this report. | 2023-01-05T14:16:00+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-groups-urge-gop-house-leaders-to-condemn-political-violence/ |
Wife says she watched husband catch fire in hospital oxygen explosion
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A Tennessee woman says she watched her husband’s face catch fire after oxygen exploded in his hospital room on Thanksgiving Day. He died a short time later.
Kathy Stark’s husband of 35 years, Bobby Ray Stark, was waiting for foot surgery in a hospital room last Thursday at TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. She says he was hooked up to an oxygen tank when his blood pressure dropped dramatically. She remembers one of the 10 nurses in the room called a crash cart.
That’s when a fire sparked, and his oxygen tank, a life-saving device, became life-taking.
“I was sitting in the chair, and it blew up. You could smell the smoke. It was terrible,” Kathy Stark said. “It burned off his beard. He got burned on his chest, his hands, his head and his back, I think.”
She says she also looked into her husband’s mouth and saw it was burnt, WSMV reports. She believes the fire scorched his throat and lungs.
“I just went into shock,” she said. “I’d never seen anything like that, and I said that. And they (hospital staff) said that.”
Bobby Stark was sent to Tristar Skyline’s burn unit, where he died, Kathy Stark said. As her husband’s sole caretaker for seven years, she didn’t expect to lose him in seconds.
“I just wonder what happened and don’t want it to happen again,” she said.
Hospitals worldwide are paying closer attention to this rare but potentially deadly issue.
Brandon Bass, an injury lawyer with The Law Offices of John Day, says fires happen in operating rooms around the world over 600 times a year and can be deadly.
“OR fires, they happen, but they’re not supposed to,” he said. “There’s a bunch of protocols put in place to prevent that from occurring.”
Bass says it takes three components to light up oxygen: fuel – like plastic tubes, oxygen itself and a spark.
“Once it occurs, where’s the oxygen? Where’s the fuel going?” Bass questioned. “It’s deliberately going down and into the person’s lungs.”
The Starks said they are working to hire an attorney and take the case to court. They have also started a GoFundMe for their family, who depended on Bobby Stark’s social security.
HCA Healthcare, which operates several hospitals in the Nashville area, released a statement extending sympathies to the Stark family.
“While we cannot discuss specifics, we are reviewing the care provided to the patient and the functionality of the equipment. The death of a loved one is always very difficult, and our hearts go out to this family,” read the statement in part.
Copyright 2022 WSMV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-01T09:01:47+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/2022/12/01/wife-says-she-watched-husband-catch-fire-hospital-oxygen-explosion/ |
Yankees fourth. Aaron Judge grounds out to third base, Matt Chapman to Cavan Biggio. Anthony Rizzo walks. Gleyber Torres singles to center field. Anthony Rizzo to second. Joey Gallo strikes out swinging. Isiah Kiner-Falefa singles to shortstop. Gleyber Torres to second. Anthony Rizzo to third. Aaron Hicks doubles to right field. Isiah Kiner-Falefa scores. Gleyber Torres scores. Anthony Rizzo scores. Jose Trevino hit by pitch. Marwin Gonzalez grounds out to second base, Santiago Espinal to Cavan Biggio.
3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Yankees 3, Blue jays 0.
Yankees sixth. Gleyber Torres doubles to deep left field. Joey Gallo flies out to deep center field to George Springer. Gleyber Torres to third. Isiah Kiner-Falefa doubles to left field. Gleyber Torres scores. Aaron Hicks flies out to right center field to Teoscar Hernandez. Isiah Kiner-Falefa to third. Jose Trevino grounds out to first base to Cavan Biggio.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Yankees 4, Blue jays 0. | 2022-06-18T22:58:19+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/N-Y-Yankees-Toronto-Runs-17251226.php |
Kentucky reached another stage in developing an electric vehicle battery sector Tuesday, with groundbreaking for a $2 billion plant by a Japanese company that will create 2,000 full-time jobs.
The Envision AESC factory at Bowling Green in south-central Kentucky will produce battery cells and modules that will power electric vehicles produced by multiple automakers.
“The EV batteries will be in vehicles all around the world, and we’re pretty proud they’re going to be made right here in Kentucky,” Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said at the groundbreaking event with state and local officials.
Envision AESC U.S. Managing Director Jeff Deaton said the state and local support reflects a “shared ambition to be national leaders in the e-mobility transformation in the United States.”
The Bowling Green operation is expected to power up to 300,000 vehicles annually by 2027.
Kentucky House Speaker David Osborne, a Republican, said Tuesday that the project strengthens the Bluegrass State’s place in the emerging electric vehicle market.
Envision AESC announced it had picked the fast-growing college town last April. The sprawling factory will be built at the Kentucky Transpark at Bowling Green.
Warren County Judge-Executive Mike Buchanon called the groundbreaking a “monumental event.” At full employment, the project will generate more than $233 million in new spending in the community annually, he said.
The project represents one of the largest economic development investments ever in Kentucky and followed an even larger battery production announcement last year.
Ford and its battery partner, SK Innovation of South Korea, will build twin battery plants outside Glendale in central Kentucky. That $5.8 billion megaproject in Hardin County will create 5,000 jobs to produce batteries for the automaker’s next generation of electric vehicles.
The emerging EV battery segment will “reverberate” across many Kentucky communities, as battery producers attract suppliers opening plants in the state, Beshear said Tuesday. Deaton said the Envision AESC factory will provide “a catalyst for further investment in the local supply chain.”
The sector’s development already is paying dividends elsewhere, the governor said.
Last week, Advanced Nano Products, a supplier of carbon battery nanomaterials used in EV battery production, said it will locate a plant in Hardin County to supply EV battery plants throughout the region. The project will create 93 jobs.
Ascend Elements Inc., a producer of advanced battery materials made from recycled lithium-ion batteries, said recently it will invest $310 million and create 250 full-time jobs in Christian County in western Kentucky. Ascend’s Kentucky operation will serve a range of EV-related customers.
Beshear is expected to make his management of the state’s economy a cornerstone of his reelection campaign message in 2023. Kentucky last year posted records for job creation and investments and has posted record low unemployment rates for four consecutive months.
Kentucky’s ability to land projects like the Envision AESC factory show that despite policy disagreements, the governor and legislature “pull together in the same direction when it comes to delivering economic opportunities for the commonwealth,” Osborne said. Republicans have supermajorities in both legislative chambers.
Osborne and Republican Senate Pro Tem David Givens also pointed to GOP-backed measures they said helped fuel the state’s economic growth: state tax code changes, reduced regulations and the so-called “right-to-work” measure that prohibits requiring workers to join unions or pay union dues as a condition of employment.
Based on the company’s investment and employment projections, Envision AESC is eligible for a performance-based, forgivable loan from the state up to $116.8 million, the governor’s office said in a news release. The company also is eligible for training funds. | 2022-08-31T11:21:41+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/business/ap-business/ap-groundbreaking-advances-emerging-vehicle-battery-production/ |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Carpe Diem Cafe, a new nonprofit, will employ people struggling to find and keep a job.
Work, including construction projects, needs to be finished before they can start serving the community.
Using the power of imagination, Perry Warden, the founder, envisions what Carpe Diem Cafe will look like.
Right now, it’s still a work in progress.
“Seizing the day is grab what you’ve got; if you don’t have it, make it,” said Warden.
A clear calling, using his experience teaching special education
“I have a lot of kids that want to work, can work, but because they sounded different, maybe looked a little different, people wouldn’t give them jobs,” said Warden.
Before customers, workers are ready to roll up their sleeves.
“I am ready for anything,” said Dave Wilson, a future employee at Carpe Diem Cafe.
Wilson will do everything, from serving coffee to greeting customers.
“I am valuable, I can work, I am a good worker, and the people being in here seeing that changes their perception,” said Warden.
A labor of love, with a focus, not just on the served but those doing the serving too.
Carpe Diem Cafe also plans to employ abuse survivors.
Three Ways to Support:
- Donate
- Volunteer
- Inquire about work cafe@carpediemwichita.com
If you have a nonprofit you would like to see highlighted, email Julia Thatcher at julia.thatcher@ksn.com. | 2023-02-09T15:44:04+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/community/here-for-you-spotlight/wichita-nonprofit-cafe-needs-help-before-serving-customers/ |
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Antonio Reeves scored 22 points and Oscar Tshiebwe pulled down 25 rebounds in an overpowering display, helping Kentucky beat Providence, 61-53, in Friday night’s first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Tshiebwe’s rebounding work was the second-most in the tournament since 1973, and 11 of his rebounds came on the offensive glass — a big factor in the sixth-seeded Wildcats (22-11) staying in control as both offenses grinded to a halt after halftime.
With the two-time Associated Press All-American grabbing just about every loose ball, Kentucky finished with a 48-31 rebounding advantage, controlling the offensive glass (plus-10) and dominating in second-chance points for an 18-2 edge.
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On a day when neither team shot well after halftime, that boardwork was vital to sending Kentucky on to face the Montana State-Kansas State winner Sunday in the East Region — a big turnaround from last year’s surprising first-round exit against 15th-seeded Saint Peter’s.
Reeves hit five 3-pointers to lead the offense, and Jacob Toppin had his own big game with 18 points. Tshiebwe managed 8 points, but he was still an indomitable force that the 11th-seeded Friars (21-12) just couldn’t manage.
When it was over, Tshiebwe emerged from a TV postgame interview by gleefully skipping his way off the court toward the locker room.
Kentucky won while shooting just 36.5 percent.
Ed Croswell scored 16 points for Providence, which shot just 36.2 percent, making 5 of 24 3-pointers.
The game set up a reunion between Providence star Bryce Hopkins and the Kentucky program he left behind as a transfer in search of a bigger role. Hopkins came in averaging 16.1 points, but finished with just seven on 2-for-9 shooting in a tough night while being chased primarily by Toppin. | 2023-03-18T02:21:06+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/17/sports/providence-cant-match-kentucky-boards-bows-out-mens-ncaa-tournament/ |
Average long term mortgage rates jump above 7% this week
WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates topped 7% for the first time in more than two decades this week, a direct result of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes intended to tame inflation not seen in some 40 years.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average on the key 30-year rate jumped to 7.08% from 6.94% last week. The last time the average rate was above 7% was April 2002, a time when the U.S. was still reeling from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but six years away from the 2008 housing market collapse that triggered the Great Recession.
Last year at this time, rates on a 30-year mortgage averaged 3.14%.
The Fed has raised rates five times this year, including three consecutive 0.75 percentage point increases that have brought its key short-term borrowing rate to a range of 3% to 3.25%, the highest level since 2008. At their last meeting in late September, Fed officials projected that by early next year they would raise their key rate to roughly 4.5%.
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Alex Veiga reported from Los Angeles.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-27T14:41:31+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/10/27/average-long-term-mortgage-rates-jump-above-7-this-week/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Evening" game were:
6-3-6, SB: 6
(six, three, six; SB: six)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Evening" game were:
6-3-6, SB: 6
(six, three, six; SB: six) | 2022-10-12T04:08:49+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Three-Evening-17503157.php |
SALT LAKE CITY (KTVX) – A mom-to-be in Utah managed to get Carrie Underwood to help with a surprise reveal earlier this month at a concert in Salt Lake City.
Sydni Ledbetter had planned to “ask” Carrie Underwood for her help during her Nov. 17 tour stop at the Vivint Arena. She even made a sign to hold up during the show, reading, “Carrie, help me announce my gender reveal.”
But while waiting in line, Ledbetter realized signs weren’t allowed inside the venue.
“I was like, ‘Ah, [but] we came too far.’ Like, you know, we made this cute sign. You can’t just throw it away,” Ledbetter said.
Instead, Ledbetter folded up the sign and tucked it into the back of her jacket.
“So, yeah, I kind of broke the rules there a little bit,” she said.
Shortly after the concert started, a security guard caught Ledbetter and made her get rid of the sign, but not before Underwood managed to see it. Ledbetter was also able to give Underwood a sealed envelope given to her by a nurse, which listed the baby’s sex.
“Congratulations, you are having a girl,” Underwood announced from the stage.
The day after the concert, however, Ledbetter and her husband Josh found out that the nurse had gotten the paperwork wrong. They were actually having a boy.
Ledbetter said she was disappointed about the mix-up, but now says it makes for an even better story.
The concept of a “gender reveal,” meanwhile, has been criticized in recent years for being outdated and inaccurate, as these ceremonies reveal only the baby’s sex — male or female — and not the baby’s gender identity, which may not be reflective of its sex upon birth.
In fact, the woman credited with popularizing gender-reveal parties has since come to regret it, telling NPR that her own views on gender had changed since her own viral 2008 gender-reveal party.
“I know it’s been harmful to some individuals … we don’t need to get our joy by giving others pain,” Jenna Karvunidis told the outlet in 2019.
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Karvunidis also slammed the trend of over-the-top gender-reveal parties, like the one that sparked a wildfire that burned over 46,000 acres in Arizona in 2017, calling them “a bit of a nightmare.” | 2022-11-27T04:32:54+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/entertainment/carrie-underwood-helps-utah-woman-with-surprise-reveal-during-concert/ |
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