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- Baidu plans to establish the world's largest fully driverless ride-hailing service area in 2023
- Baidu continues to show growth momentum as the world's largest robotaxi service provider, reaching 1.4 million orders by Q3 2022
- Baidu unveiled a series of autonomous driving technology breakthroughs including the industry's first big model built for autonomous driving, aiming to eliminate longstanding industry-wide challenges in vehicle recognition
BEIJING, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888) ("Baidu" or the "Company"), a leading AI company with strong internet foundation, today announced plans to build the world's largest autonomous ride-hailing service area in 2023. The announcement came during a celebration of Apollo Day, Baidu's autonomous driving tech event (Click to replay 2022 Baidu Apollo Day). The plan outlined a goal to expand the operation area for Baidu's fully driverless robotaxis, allowing Baidu to reach more potential customers. Additionally, Baidu revealed a series of new technology breakthroughs including an AI big model built for autonomous driving perception, high-definition autonomous driving maps, a closed-loop autonomous driving data system, and the successful end-to-end adaptation of AI chips for autonomous vehicles.
Baidu to build the world's largest fully driverless ride-hailing service area in 2023, maintaining growth momentum as the world's biggest robotaxi service provider
Since August 2022, Baidu has already rolled out fully driverless ride-hailing services (with no human drivers in the car) in the cities of Chongqing and Wuhan, with access to hundreds of square kilometers of operation area. Based on this leading position, Baidu will continue to expand its operation area next year to build the world's largest service area for fully driverless robotaxi service.
Currently, Baidu's autonomous ride-hailing platform Apollo Go covers more than 10 cities in China including all first-tier cities. In Q3 2022 alone, Apollo Go has completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year, and a 65% increase compared to last quarter. In first-tier cities like Beijing and Shanghai, each robotaxi on Apollo Go can provide 15 rides a day on average, nearly the same daily ride average of typical online ride-hailing car services. By the end of Q3 2022, the accumulated rides provided to the public by Apollo Go have reached 1.4 million. As Baidu continues to scale up its operation area of robotaxi service, it is one step closer to the goal of providing autonomous driving services to more people, while further strengthening its leading position in the global autonomous ride-hailing market.
"Backed by its solid AI technology, Baidu Apollo has created a safe, intelligent and efficient autonomous driving technology system, bringing robotaxi services from designated zones to open roads at scale," said Jingkai Chen, Baidu's autonomous driving technology expert at the event. The generalization ability of Baidu's autonomous driving technology has progressed at a more advanced pace than expected. Now, the lead time to deploy autonomous driving technology in a new city is only 20 days.
Industry's first AI big model for autonomous driving, addressing the "long tail" problem
The AV industry has long grappled with the "long tail" problem, in which an autonomous vehicle runs into a scenario it has not seen or experienced before. To address this problem, Baidu's autonomous driving technology expert Jingdong Wang has announced the industry's first AI big model for autonomous driving, a pre-trained visual-language model with weak supervision, backed by the Baidu WenXin Big Model, which recognizes thousands of objects, helping to enlarge the scope of semantic recognition. The model will enable autonomous vehicles to quickly make sense of an unseen object, such as special vehicle (fire truck, ambulance) recognition, plastic bag misdetection, and others. In addition, Baidu's autonomous driving perception model—a sub-model of the WenXin Big Model—leveraging more than 1 billion parameters, is able to dramatically improve the generalization potential of autonomous driving perception.
High-definition autonomous driving map to safeguard a smarter and more efficient autonomous driving experience
"Baidu's new generation autonomous driving map is equipped with comprehensive capabilities such as automatic production, real-time fusion, and knowledge enhancement." according to Jizhou Huang, Baidu's autonomous driving technology expert. It will be put into mass production to realize a "safe, reliable and efficient" autonomous driving experience.
- 96% automation rate for map production: With AI as the key driving force to increase efficiency and bring down the cost, the automation rate of Baidu's high precision map production has now reached 96%.
- Real-time map update to ensure driving safety: The integration of vehicle-side perception data and multi-source maps to generate online maps in real time has helped to significantly ensure the safety of autonomous driving.
- Massive data plus human driver knowledge to improve driving reliability: With more than 12 million kilometers of road networks and data accumulated on Baidu Maps, along with hundreds of millions of human drive-hours, Baidu's autonomous driving map effectively integrates these data points to improve the reliability of autonomous driving.
Closed-loop data system to further enhance the intelligence of autonomous driving
With autonomous vehicles being deployed at a larger scale, the scale of data received will also increase exponentially. This brings challenges to identifying valuable data and efficiently using data to continuously improve autonomous driving. Ang Li, Baidu's technology expert, introduced the concept of "Fine Purification, Strong Ingestion" and Apollo Loop, a closed-loop data system, to effectively identify and utilize data. To purify the data, the system leverages both on-board small AI models and cloud-based big AI model to achieve high-efficiency data mining and automated labeling. The data ingestion architecture achieves automated training with its group-optimization ability and data distribution understanding to effectively utilize data and further enhance the overall intelligence of autonomous driving.
Developing a mutually reinforcing parallel use model for L4 and L2+ autonomous driving technologies
Baidu is also actively bringing autonomous driving technology to empower advanced assisted driving products. Baidu's autonomous driving technology expert Liang Wang explained how Baidu is leveraging its decade-long experience in autonomous driving to explore a technical route through which L4 and L2+ autonomous driving can coexist. Currently, the technology stack level enables the unification of L4 and L2+ smart driving products in terms of visual perception scheme, technical architecture, map unification, data interconnection and infrastructure sharing. Baidu envisions a mutually beneficial relationship in which L4 will continue to provide advanced technology migration for L2+ smart driving products in urban use cases, while L2 data feedback will also help to improve L4 generalization ability.
Baidu's Kunlun AI chip completed end-to-end autonomous driving real-world testing
Jian Ouyang, CEO of Kunlun Chip, also revealed at today's event that Baidu's 2nd-gen Kunlun AI chip has completed an end-to-end performance adaptation for autonomous driving. This marks a major milestone further solidifying and integrating Baidu's advantages in both autonomous driving software and hardware.
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IGA Company Wins Editor's Choice Identity and Access Management
SAN FRANCISCO, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Omada A/S ("Omada"), a global leader of Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), today announced the company has won the award for Editor's Choice Identity and Access Management from Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry's leading electronic information security magazine.
As companies focus on digital transformations, moving to the cloud, and enabling their entire workforces, replacing legacy identity and access management solutions becomes a necessity. With most users now outside the reach of traditional security tools, companies are more exposed to threats, creating a massive opportunity for cyber criminals.
Omada has led the charge, delivering a unique SaaS-delivered IGA solution to meet the demands of modern businesses worldwide which can be implemented in just twelve weeks; a stark contrast to the typical IGA deployment. The cloud architected solution gives companies the ability to govern all identities across a variety of cloud and on-premises resources, as they work from anywhere. Omada Identity Cloud delivers essential identity governance functionality, including identity lifecycle management, access governance, identity analytics and more to increase security, enhance efficiencies and meet compliance.
Yan Ross, editor, Cyber Defense Magazine, said: "We scoured the globe looking for cybersecurity innovators that could make a huge difference and potentially help turn the tide against the exponential growth in cyber crime. Omada is absolutely worthy of this coveted award and consideration for deployment in your environment."
Michael Garrett, CEO, Omada, said: "This esteemed recognition provides validation for our company's efforts to enable organizations through end-to-end identity and access management for more secure, compliant and efficient administration. We're thrilled to receive this prestigious and coveted cybersecurity award from Cyber Defense Magazine. Omada is committed to our continued innovation as we help protect our customers."
A full list of winners can be found here: http://www.cyberdefenseawards.com/
Omada, a global market leader in Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), offers a full-featured, enterprise-grade, cloud native IGA solution that enables organizations to achieve compliance, reduce risk, and maximize efficiency. Founded in 2000, Omada delivers innovative identity management to complex hybrid environments based on our proven best practice process framework and deployment approach. For more information, go to www.omadaidentity.com.
This is Cyber Defense Magazine's tenth year of honoring InfoSec innovators from around the Globe. Our submission requirements are for any startup, early stage, later stage, or public companies in the INFORMATION SECURITY (INFOSEC) space who believe they have a unique and compelling value proposition for their product or service. Learn more at www.cyberdefenseawards.com.
Cyber Defense Magazine is the premier source of cyber security news and information for InfoSec professions in business and government. We are managed and published by and for ethical, honest, passionate information security professionals. Our mission is to share cutting-edge knowledge, real-world stories and awards on the best ideas, products and services in the information technology industry. We deliver electronic magazines every month online for free, and special editions exclusively for the RSA Conferences. CDM is a proud member of the Cyber Defense Media Group. Learn more about us at https://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com and visit https://www.cyberdefensetv.com and https://www.cyberdefenseradio.com to see and hear some of the most informative interviews of many of these winning company executives. Join a webinar at https://www.cyberdefensewebinars.com and realize that infosec knowledge is power.
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Talks between Porsche and Red Bull concerning a partnership in Formula 1 have come to an end without a resulting deal, Porsche announced on Friday.
Porsche said it was seeking a deal that would be “based on an equal footing,” not only regarding the supply of a new Porsche power unit but also for control of the team.
It was previously reported that Porsche was set to acquire 50% of the team.
Since a deal couldn’t be achieved, the two parties jointly decided to end the talks, Porsche said on Friday.
Porsche hasn’t abandoned its desire to enter F1 just yet. It said the new power unit regulations due to be introduced in 2026 make the series an “attractive environment” that will continue to be monitored.
The new regulations call for lower costs and the use of 100% sustainable fuels, something that has also proven attractive for fellow Volkswagen Group brand Audi. Audi announced in August it will enter F1 in 2026 when the new regulations are introduced by partnering with an existing team believed to be Sauber, which currently races as Alfa Romeo. The Sauber-Alfa Romeo deal is scheduled to end after 2023.
Like Porsche, Audi plans to develop its own power unit.
Porsche has a history in F1. It competed as a constructor in the 1950s and ’60s and then briefly as a power unit supplier in the 1980s and early ’90s. While Audi hasn’t competed in F1, it does have a history of Grand Prix racing, having dominated on racetracks together with Mercedes-Benz during the 1930s, when it was called Auto Union.
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- Ferrari F1 cars to adopt some yellow for the 2022 Italian Grand Prix | 2022-09-09T17:05:39+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/automotive/internet-brands/porsche-red-bull-f1-talks-end-without-deal/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A lawyer on Friday emailed the Indiana state’s attorney general asking him to stop spreading false or misleading information about an Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion in June on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio.
Attorney Kathleen DeLaney sent the “cease and desist” letter to Indiana Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita on behalf of obstetrician-gynecologist Caitlin Bernard, who performed a medical abortion on the girl.
The letter says Rokita’s statements Wednesday on Fox News “cast Dr. Bernard in a false light and allege misconduct in her profession.” DeLaney said the doctor could file a defamation claim against Rokita if he does not comply.
Rokita told Fox that his office was investigating whether Bernard violated medical privacy laws by talking about the victim to the Indianapolis Star, and he said she failed to notify authorities about suspected child abuse. He offered no specific allegations of wrongdoing.
Records obtained by The Associated Press and other local media show Bernard submitted the report July 2, which is within the state’s required three-day reporting period for an abortion performed on a girl younger than 16.
“We are especially concerned that, given the controversial political context of the statements, such inflammatory accusations have the potential to incite harassment or violence from the public which could prevent Dr. Bernard, an Indiana licensed physician, from providing care to her patents safely,” the letter states.
A 27-year-old man has been charged in the girl’s rape, confirming the case that was scrutinized by Republican politicians and some media outlets. Those reactions grew in intensity after Democratic President Joe Biden expressed sympathy for the girl when signing an executive order protecting some abortion access last week.
“Like any correspondence, it will be reviewed if and when it arrives. Regardless, no false or misleading statements have been made,” Kelly Stevenson, a spokesperson in Rokita’s office, said via email.
Bernard tweeted Friday that she hopes “to be able to share my story soon.”
“It has been a difficult week, but my colleagues and I will continue to provide healthcare ethically, lovingly, and bravely each and every day,” she wrote.
Dr. Diana Contreras, chief health care officer at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, issued a statement saying, “No medical provider should be harassed, intimidated, or criminalized for doing their job. It is unconscionable and unacceptable, and we condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”
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Arleigh Rodgers is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Arleigh Rodgers on Twitter. | 2022-07-16T17:19:10+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/latest/indiana-doctors-lawyer-tells-ag-to-halt-false-statements/ |
SCOTTSDALE — A Valley teenager is already making his mark in the business industry.
Paradise Valley High School senior Cooper Weissman told ABC15 he already feels like he’s been through a lot in his 17 years.
“I started businesses my whole life, pretty much all of them have failed,” he said.
In eighth grade, he started a business to help other local businesses market inside his middle school. He tells ABC15 it didn’t work out. After that, he tried to jumpstart several companies nearly every year of his high school career.
“When you’re using your birthday money to run advertisements, any loss in funds can be detrimental to a business,” he said laughing.
Luckily, Weissman's new ventures are helping him keep some money in his pockets. He started Dynamic Purchasing Solutions last year. It’s a school supply company where he gets on approved vendor lists for schools and distributes supplies when they’re needed.
The idea came about when he was in student government, getting ready for school dances and other events. He said they had trouble ordering items they needed from approved district vendors.
It’s not about trying to order paper or pens and pencils. It’s more of the creative supplies they needed. For example, a homecoming dance theme his school had was Spiderman. They needed web decoration but couldn’t buy it from any approved vendors.
“It started just at my school and now we’re approved at 43 different schools. It’s pretty exciting. The workload has started to pile up,” he said.
Weissman ended up hiring two interns from his own school recently to help with business as more districts order from him. Most of the work is done online, where he orders from other businesses to ship to the districts.
Having to juggle that while also applying for colleges and doing his schoolwork can be a lot. And he’s taking on even more.
Weissman started a blockchain development firm eight months ago called WeiDev. He says that company creates NFTS, DAO dashboards and much more.
“I have a passion for technology as well. I love solving problems. I think using technology is going to be the greatest and most effective way to solve problems in the future. Really, combining those passions is how I want to move forward,” he told ABC15.
While Weissman runs his two businesses, he’s still juggling work as a high school senior, student body president and the creator of a financial literacy club.
He says it is a “struggle” but he’s also passionate about what he’s doing.
“I think the only way to change things is to put yourself out there and do it. It;s something that inspires me. I like being the one who goes and solves problems, finds the creative solutions. It’s just where my passion lies,” he said. | 2022-11-05T02:27:05+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/news/region-northeast-valley/scottsdale/paradise-valley-hs-senior-starts-two-businesses |
Ford recalls over 634K SUVs due to fuel leaks and fire risk
Dearborn — Ford Motor Co. is recalling over 634,000 SUVs worldwide because a cracked fuel injector can spill fuel or leak vapors onto a hot engine and cause fires.
The recall covers Bronco Sport and Escape SUVs from the 2020 through 2023 model years. All have 1.5-liter, three-cylinder engines.
The Dearborn, Michigan, automaker said Thursday it's not recommending that owners stop driving the vehicles or park them outdoors because fires are rare and generally don't happen when the engines are off.
But Ford said it has received 20 reports of fires, including three that ignited nearby structures. The company also said it has four claims of fires that were noticed less than five minutes after the engines were turned off. Ford also has four injury claims not involving burns, and 43 legal claims attributed to the problem.
Repairs aren't yeta available, but once they are, owners should schedule service with a preferred dealer, Jim Azzouz, executive director of customer experience, said in a statement. Owners will be notified by letter starting Dec. 19.
Owners can take their SUVs to the dealer and get a free loaner, or they can get free pickup and delivery.
Dealers will inspect the injectors and replace them if necessary. Ford also says it's extending warranties to cover cracked fuel injectors for up to 15 years.
Dealers will update the vehicles' engine-control software so it detects a cracked injector. Drivers will get a dashboard message to get service. Also, if there's a pressure drop in the injectors, engine power will be cut to minimize risk and let drivers get to a safe location to stop and call for service, Ford said.
They'll also install a tube to drain fuel from the cylinder head and away from hot surfaces.
Ford said it's not replacing the injectors because the failure rate that causes leaks is low, an estimated 0.38% for 2020 models and 0.22% for 2021 to 2022 models. The rate is for 15 years or 150,000 miles (240,000 kilometers). | 2022-11-25T13:04:31+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2022/11/25/ford-recalls-over-634k-suvs-due-to-fuel-leaks-and-fire-risk/69676312007/ |
Arrest made in fatal shooting at Fremont Street Experience
Updated June 27, 2022 - 5:08 pm
Las Vegas police arrested a 16-year-old suspect they allege fatally shot a man and wounded a bystander earlier this month at the Fremont Street Experience.
Ruben Robles was taken into custody on Friday at an east Las Vegas neighborhood, a day before his 17th birthday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
He was being held at the Clark County Detention Center on one count each of murder, attempted murder and carrying a concealed weapon without a permit.
Gunshots erupted about 2:10 a.m. on June 19 at the tourist attraction in the heart of downtown Las Vegas.
Police said that a group got into a quarrel and that someone pulled out a gun and opened fire.
Renova, a Southern California resident, died at University Medical Center, where the bystander also was taken, police said. The bystander was expected to recover.
It was not immediately clear how police identified the teenager, but a warrant for his arrest was issued two days after the shooting, Las Vegas Justice Court records show.
Last year, Robles was charged as an adult in two separate felony cases, which have since been dismissed.
Robles faced a count of robbery with a deadly weapon for a March 2021 incident, records show. He also was charged with multiple counts of assault with a deadly weapon and shooting into an occupied structure in connection to an October incident.
An attorney who represented Robles in two felony Las Vegas cases in 2021 could not immediately be reached for comment.
Robles is next expected in court Tuesday morning.
Contact Ricardo Torres-Cortez at rtorres@reviewjournal.com. Follow @rickytwrites on Twitter. | 2022-06-28T00:16:29+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/arrest-made-in-fatal-shooting-at-fremont-street-experience-2599143/ |
Four of Chicago's Leading REALTORS © Aim to Support South Side Chicago's Real Estate Market
CHICAGO, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Keller Williams ONEChicago announced it is welcoming three new investors and promoting one of its leaders as it prepares to open a new office location on the South Side of Chicago. The forthcoming space is part of the Keller Williams (KW) commitment to creating more equitable opportunities for home buyers, sellers, and agents. A grand opening celebration is planned for the first quarter of 2023.
Four influential agents will invest in and lead the new office, team, and operations. One is a long-time Keller Williams agent and leader, and three are new to the company.
- La'Dweena Smith is the current Chief Executive Officer of Keller Williams ONEChicago, and has been with KW since 2008. She began her KW leadership journey in 2016 as a Productivity Coach and has been involved in several KW office launches. She will continue her role across all ONEChicago locations, including the South Side.
- Nate Thompson most recently served as the designated Managing Broker for the Baird & Warner South Loop and Northwest Indiana office. He was named the "2020 Managing Broker of the Year" by Chicago Agent Magazine. His role as Designated Managing Broker for KW ONEChicago will expand to include the new location. He has also been named Senior Vice President, Compliance for all locations.
- Jerome Harper began his real estate career in 2000, and most recently, he was the Assistant Manager for the Baird & Warner South Loop and Northwest Indiana office. He is also a Chicago Association of REALTORS Neighborhood Award winner. His role in the growth department will include the location. He has also been named Senior Vice President, Growth for all locations.
- Rashauna Scott has over a decade of experience in real estate. She joins Keller Williams from Kale Realty and was named "Top Producer," by the Chicago Association of Realtors, two years in a row. Rashauna is a Mega Agent and will have responsibilities for business development across the footprint of the new office.
"These core leaders showcase our enduring commitment to the growth of our diverse associates into key leadership positions across our brand," said Julia Lashay Israel, Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion , Keller Williams.
This expansion is further supported by Joe Zimmerman, ONEChicago's Principal Investor, and Dan Holt, Keller Williams Mid-America's Regional Director.
"Each of us are familiar with the South Side of Chicago, having grown up in the area, visiting loved ones who live there, and doing business in its neighborhoods," Thompson says. "The South Side is essential to the vibrancy of Chicago, and this new space is our way of making sure home buyers, sellers, and agents in the area have the real estate expertise needed for our neighborhoods to thrive."
"Real estate is the best investment for our neighborhoods," Scott adds. "Our goal is to help the community navigate through the challenges of home ownership and create generational wealth. We are honored by this opportunity to provide sophisticated service, support, and education in the communities that are near and dear to our hearts."
In 2020, Keller Williams Realty, Inc. added "Equity" to its Belief System (WI4C2TES – win-win, integrity, customers, commitment, communication, creativity, teamwork, trust, equity, and success). This includes more opportunities for agents of color and ensuring KW offers resources to support people in all areas and from all backgrounds. Holt appreciates that this new office allows diverse agents to have ownership in Keller Williams. "KW is all about investing in our people and our neighborhoods. I am excited this office will add value to more neighborhoods in our region."
"Being that Chicago is the 'birthplace of the Fair Housing Act, led by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Freedom Movement, there is no better place than Southside of Chicago to continue this important work," Israel says.
The investors' top priorities are bringing market expertise to across the south side where communities have been historically underserved.
"We are looking forward to opening the doors, but for now, we want to let everyone know we are coming. If you are passionate about this city, now is the time to join our team or reach out to our agents to assist with buying or selling," says Smith.
Keller Williams Realty Inc. recently partnered with Kaplan, Inc. to develop a new digital real estate school. Keller Williams also offers numerous financial assistance programs that allow aspiring and existing agents to take classes through the online school.
"In addition to helping clients buy and sell real estate, we are helping people build wealth and achieve their professional goals," Harper adds. "We understand that representation can be a catalyst for change and are excited to bring educational resources to the south side–including pre-licensing courses at no cost to the student. This allows us to license the next generation of real estate professionals from these communities."
Zimmerman, who will also serve as Principal Investor of the South Side office, says, "This opportunity exemplifies Keller Williams's support for our careers, its ability to attract top agents, and its commitment to buyers and sellers. All four of our new investors are eager to grow KW as we support new and prospective agents and customers alike."
Those interested in working with Keller Williams as an agent or customer, should visit https://kwONEChicago.com/ to learn more.
About Keller Williams ONEChicago:
Launched in October 2020, Keller Williams ONEChicago is comprised of nearly 400 agents from former Keller Williams Chicago Lakeview, Lincoln Park, and O'Hare brokerages. Its newest office will open in 2023.
Media Contact: La'Dweena Smith, CEO Keller Williams ONEChicago: ladweena@kw.com
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ATHENS (AP) — A much-anticipated report by the European Union's anti-fraud watchdog into the alleged involvement of the EU border agency Frontex in Greece's illegal pushbacks of migrants to Turkey has concluded that agency employees were involved in covering up such incidents in violation of peoples' “fundamental rights.”
The 120-page Olaf report was made public Thursday by the Germany-based freedom of information portal FragDenStaat together with media organizations Der Spiegel and Lighthouse Reports.
Top managers at Frontex committed “serious misconduct and other irregularities" in covering up incidents, not investigating or handling them correctly, the report found, but names were redacted.
“In doing so, they hindered the capacity of Frontex to fully comply with its responsibilities, namely ensuring for the protection and promotion of fundamental rights,” the report read.
Pushbacks, the forcible return of people across an international border without an assessment of their rights to apply for asylum or other forms of protection, violate both international and EU law.
Olaf investigators poured over information from open sources, media reports but also documents from Frontex, the European Commission and interviews with 20 witnesses to investigate accusations of possible involvement and/or covering up of illegal pushbacks and accusations of misconduct or irregularities.
“OLAF concludes, based on the evidence collected during the investigation, that the allegations are proven," the report read.
There was no immediate comment from Frontex or Greek authorities on the report.
Earlier this year Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri resigned following the Olaf report, which was concluded in February, as well as repeated media investigations that accused the agency of involvement in pushbacks. Until now, the report has not been made public.
The report details how pushback accusations and evidence of them were mishandled, often not reported or investigated accordingly to Frontex's own rules.
Frontex officers also may not have reported alleged pushbacks due to fear of repercussions from Greece, the report said. In one case, the report said the EU border agency relocated one of its planes apparently “to avoid witnessing incidents in the Aegean Sea."
EU investigators also noted that Frontex shared incorrect and biased information with EU institutions, including members of the European Commission and Parliament, responsible for holding the agency accountable, as well as Olaf investigators.
“I welcome that the OLAF report is finally public as it should have been from the very beginning,” said European Parliament lawmaker Cornelia Ernst, who confirmed the report's authenticity.
“It proves once again black on white what we have been saying for many years: Frontex is systematically involved in human rights violations and their coverup at the EU’s external borders,” she said.
Frontex coordinates search and rescue and border interception operations on behalf of the 27 EU member countries. However, the country on whose territory the operation is happening — in this case Greece — has command over what goes on.
Both Greece and Frontex have denied any wrongdoing until now but the Olaf report raises questions about whether Frontex will continue operating in Greece.
According to its own regulations, the agency's executive director should suspend or terminate its activity if they see "violations of fundamental rights or international protection obligations that are of a serious nature or are likely to persist."
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Follow all AP stories on migration at https://apnews.com/hub/migration | 2022-10-13T16:46:56+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/EU-report-Frontex-covered-up-Greek-pushbacks-of-17506903.php |
China said Wednesday it has dispatched navy ships in preparation for joint exercises with Russia’s sea forces, in a sign of Beijing’s continuing support for Moscow’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
China claims to be neutral in the conflict, but has accused the U.S. and its allies of provoking Russia and has maintained robust economic, diplomatic and trade ties with Moscow. The exercise involves more than 10 ships and 30-plus aircraft, according to China’s Xinhua News Agency.
The ministry and Xinhua gave no details, but the exercises are believed to be set for parts of the Sea of Japan in coming days.
China has reliably backed Russia in opposing U.S. condemnation of the Ukraine invasion in international forums, but says it won't provide arms to either side in the war.
The Defense Ministry said in a news release Wednesday that Chinese ships had linked up with their Russian counterparts at noon. Those included the guided missile destroyers Qiqihar and Guiyang, the guided missile frigates Zaozhuang and Rizhao and the supply ship Taihu. The Chinese ships carried four helicopters, the report said.
Russian participants included the frigates Gromkiy and Otlichnyy, which have been hosting visitors for a week in the financial hub of Shanghai, China’s largest city and biggest port.
A pair of Russian navy ships are visiting China as the countries reaffirm their military ties amid the war in Ukraine.
The joint drills focus on ship-to-ship communications, maneuvering in formation and maritime search and rescue, according to Chinese reports.
The visit follows a meeting in Beijing between China’s defense minister and the head of Russia’s navy, the first formal military talks between the friendly neighbors since a short-lived mutiny by the Russian mercenary group Wagner.
China has reassured Russia of its continued support since the uprising. Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu told Russian Adm. Nikolai Yevmenov that China hoped for increased exchanges, joint exercises and other forms of cooperation to help defense ties “reach a new level,” the Chinese Defense Ministry said.
China operates the world’s largest navy by number of hulls and vastly outstrips Russia’s navy in both size and technical ability. The countries’ fleets have held a series of exercises and joint maneuvers since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, as have their air forces. | 2023-07-19T10:43:11+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/07/19/china-russia-us-navy-ukraine-japan/5c1f2a44-2614-11ee-9201-826e5bb78fa1_story.html |
(WDTN) — Another month of record high prices; this time inflation reached 9.1% in June 2022, which is the highest in 40 years.
Gas prices rose more than 11%, while energy prices went up 7.5% and the food index went up 1% on the month. Dr. Jonathan Burson, assistant professor of finance at Cedarville University, said part of this large jump is due to high gas prices along with the ongoing war in Ukraine and supply chain problems.
“We have backups in ports on both sides of the United States, in the Atlantic and in the Pacific. And the constraints there are causing consumer prices to rise,” Dr. Burson said.
The Federal Reserve is still trying to help bring down inflation with another round of interest rate hikes expected; however, Dr. Burson said this is just one part of the solution.
“If the Fed raises interest rates, that doesn’t cause the supply to get fixed. We still have a supply problem, and so the Fed is trying to slow down the economy and bring prices back down from the demand side. The supply side still has to get fixed,” Dr. Burson said.
There is good news, though; gas prices are already starting to fall, which Dr. Burson said will help bring down costs across the board. He said we could start to see inflation level off for the rest of the summer.
“With the price of oil coming down, gas prices coming down, that will hopefully lower inflation for the overall consumer. And we have seen prices come down. Even today, prices of oil dropped significantly,” Dr. Burson said. | 2022-07-15T00:58:00+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/miami-valley-expert-talks-impact-of-inflation/ |
Sheriff: Father charged after son playing with gun kills 1-year-old
PENSACOLA, Fla. (WALA) - A father and convicted felon is facing charges after authorities say his 8-year-old son shot two young children, one fatally, while playing with his gun.
Roderick Randall, 45, is facing charges after a shooting Saturday at the Lion’s Motel in Pensacola, Florida. They are the most severe charges the previously convicted felon has faced, WALA reports.
“What we have here is a 14-time felony convict,” said Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons.
Simmons says Randall and his 8-year old son were at the motel with his girlfriend. Her twin 2-year-olds and her 1-year-old were there, too. Randall left the room while his girlfriend was sleeping. Authorities say he also left his gun in the closet.
“His 8-year-old son finds the gun because he knows where it’s hidden,” Simmons said. “He pulls the gun from the holster and starts playing with it and fires a round into the 1-year-old toddler, ultimately killing the 1-year-old.”
Simmons says the bullet also hit one of the 2-year-old girls but she is expected to be alright. Randall came back to the room shortly after the shooting.
“Roderick decides to come back, grabs the weapon and grabs what we believe is drugs, and he leaves the scene before returning back to the scene,” Simmons said.
Jail records show Randall has been in and out of jail over the past 10 years. His new charges include possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, tampering with evidence, failure to store a firearm and culpable negligence - all for a crime that Simmons says could have been prevented.
“We need these parents to step up and do a better job because the decisions that they make can cost, in this case, they can cost the lives of our most precious resource: that’s our children,” Simmons said.
Randall’s bond was set at $41,000. He made bond and was released Sunday from the Escambia County Jail. He is scheduled to be in court on July 15.
Copyright 2022 WALA via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-29T09:23:05+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2022/06/29/sheriff-father-charged-after-son-playing-with-gun-kills-1-year-old/ |
MINNEAPOLIS, M.N. (KXNET) — Xcel Energy is taking the next steps in its journey toward electric transportation by becoming the first energy company in the nation to add all-electric bucket trucks to its fleet.
These trucks are quiet, zero-emission to maintain the electric system and respond to outages after storms.
“We’re proud to be the first energy company in the United States to add all-electric bucket trucks to our fleet,” said Bob Frenzel, chairman, president and CEO of Xcel Energy, in a press release.
By adding these clean energy vehicles to its fleet, Xcel Energy says it’s demonstrating its commitment to leading the clean energy transition.
Xcel Energy says it was one of the first energy companies to put forward a plan to electrify all its light-duty vehicles and 30% of its medium and heavy-duty fleet by 2030.
The truck’s technology is being delivered two years ahead of projections.
The trucks will have two electric sources: one for the drive train and one for the lift mechanism. It has a 135-mile driving range and the ability to operate the bucket for a full workday on a single charge.
The vehicle was showcased on Monday in Williamsburg, Virginia at the Electric Utility Fleet Manager’s Conference. Xcel Energy will roll out the first truck in the Twin Cities in late June and a second truck will be delivered to its Denver fleet at the end of 2022.
Xcel Energy serves customers in eight states, including North Dakota. | 2022-06-07T22:58:36+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/state-news/xcel-energy-adds-all-electric-bucket-trucks-to-fleet/ |
This Virginia zoo really got a hippopotamus for Christmas
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Fifties' child star Gayla Peevey's plea for a "hippopotamus for Christmas" came true for one Virginia zoo.
The Metro Richmond Zoo welcomed the birth of a pygmy hippopotamus in time for Christmas, according to a December 22 news release from the zoo.
The adorable newborn was born on Dec. 6, says the release. The yet-unnamed baby was born to parents Iris and Corwin after a 7-month pregnancy.
The baby is the second pygmy hippo born ever in Virginia, according to the zoo. And she's growing rapidly. She weighed in at 16 pounds at birth, and a week later was already 24.2 pounds. As an adult, she might weigh up to 600 pounds.
The zoo described Iris as "an experienced mother and very caring of her baby." Mother and baby are currently in a private "super cozy, hay-bedded enclosure." But soon, guests will be able to spot the new addition when the pair move into the indoor pool area, says the zoo.
Pygmy hippos are categorized as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. There are less than 2,500 adult pygmy hippos left in the wild in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. | 2022-12-26T01:11:45+00:00 | kcci.com | https://www.kcci.com/article/virginia-zoo-hippopotamus-for-christmas/42335859 |
Father shoots 2 young children as they slept in bunkbeds, sheriff says
TAMPA, Fla. (Gray News) – A father in Florida is facing numerous charges after shooting his two young children in their bunkbeds while they were sleeping.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said the 5-year-old girl died and the 8-year-old boy is in critical condition.
Jermaine Bass, 30, is charged with first-degree murder, premeditated firearm discharge causing multiple wounds/death, attempted first-degree murder, and aggravated child abuse causing critical injuries.
The shooting happened Monday around 10:30 p.m. inside the family’s home.
The sheriff’s office said Bass’ wife and mother of the children kissed them goodnight and left the bedroom. Then, deputies said Bass entered the room and shot both children in the head three to four times.
A neighbor heard the shots and called 911. When deputies arrived, both children were rushed to the hospital. The 5-year-old girl was pronounced dead, and the 8-year-old boy remains in critical condition as of Friday afternoon.
According to Sheriff Chad Chronister, Bass walked out of the home carrying his 8-year-old son when deputies arrived and was cradling the boy. Chronister said Bass told deputies, “It was an accident. I don’t know how the gun went off. I accidentally shot my son.”
Bass’ bond was set at $2.5 million.
“This is a horrific experience no parent should have to go through,” Chronister said. “This is an experience no law enforcement or first responder should ever have to witness. We, as a sheriff’s office, are struggling today. I hope that this individual feels the full weight of the criminal justice system and never sees the light of day where he can ever be in a position to harm another human being.”
Chronister said there were no previous police visits to the home in the past. The parents and the two children were the only ones inside the home at the time of the shooting.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-02T21:24:35+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/2022/09/02/father-shoots-2-young-children-they-slept-bunkbeds-sheriff-says/ |
MISSOULA — An organization dedicated to promoting Native creativity is launching a six-week online business accelerator program for Native American artists and entrepreneurs from the Salish and Kootenai tribes in Montana.
Creatives Indigenous, organized by the indigenous magazine Native Max, aims to equip participants with essential skills to elevate their businesses to new heights.
"We initiated this program two years ago in the American West, and we are thrilled to extend our support to Montana's Salish and Kootenai tribes' artists and entrepreneurs," said program manager Brenna Ortiz. "Native American groups encounter numerous hurdles and setbacks when it comes to advancing their businesses, and our aim is to provide the necessary support they need to succeed."
The curriculum includes in-depth exploration and the practical application of topics such as business opportunity analysis, business model development, leadership, team building, and managing cash flow.
It also looks to empower Native American groups by addressing the unique challenges they face in scaling their businesses, according to the organizers.
This year, the program has attracted 26 businesses from Montana. Leading the program is Kelly Holmes, a Native American woman with extensive experience in the media and fashion business.
Holmes said the program's distinctive feature lies in its strong foundation rooted in Indigenous values.
"I am excited to collaborate with our partners on this program," Holmes explained. "Our objective is to empower Native creative entrepreneurs, providing them with the confidence, knowledge, and resources necessary to generate revenue, achieve financial success, and ultimately create more employment opportunities within their communities."
The program will culminate on July 22 with a fair at the SKC campus where participants will showcase their businesses and products. The event also will serve as a platform for entrepreneurs to network, gain exposure and celebrate their achievements.
“What makes our programs unique is how we incorporate and integrate Indigenous knowledge and values into the curriculum,” said Holmes. | 2023-06-06T16:10:28+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/indiancountry/business-accelerator-boosts-montanas-native-american-entrepreneurs |
Collapsed stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia to reopen within 2 weeks, governor says
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The collapsed stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia will reopen within two weeks, Pennsylvania’s governor said Saturday, after joining President Joe Biden on a helicopter tour over the critical segment of the highway closed to East Coast traffic since last weekend.
“We are getting it done here in Philly,” Gov. Josh Shapiro said at a briefing at Philadelphia International Airport after the flyover that included members of Congress and the city’s mayor.
Biden outlined the substantial initial federal commitment and longer term support for a permanent fix for the vital roadway. “I know how important this stretch of highway is” to Philadelphia and the Northeast Corridor, he said. “Over 150,000 vehicles travel on it every day, including 14,000 trucks. … It’s critical to our economy and it’s critical to our quality of life.’’
Shapiro, offering a timeline that would be welcome news to commuters and long-haul truckers alike, said with Biden at his side: “I can state with confidence that we will have I-95 reopened within the next two weeks. We are going to get traffic moving again thanks to the extraordinary work that is going on here.”
He said “folks here in Philly have a real renewed sense of civic pride through this project” and that “there’s something special happening in our community” with people coming together.
The stretch of the East Coast’s main north-south highway collapsed early last Sunday after a tractor-trailer hauling gasoline flipped over on an off-ramp and caught fire. State transportation officials said the driver was trying to navigate a curve and lost control.
“I’ve directed my team … to move heaven and earth to get this done as soon as humanly possible,” Biden said. He said he told the governor, “There’s no more important project right now in the country as far as I’m concerned.” The president described it as an “all hands on deck” project to address a “crisis.”
“We’re with you. We’re going to stay with you until this is rebuilt, until it’s totally finished,” he said at the briefing.
Pennsylvania’s plan for the work involves trucking in 2,000 tons of lightweight glass nuggets for the quick rebuilding, with crews working around the clock until the interstate is open to traffic. Instead of rebuilding the overpass right away, crews will use the recycled glass to fill in the collapsed area to avoid supply-chain delays for other materials, Shapiro has said.
After that, a replacement bridge will be built next to it to reroute traffic while crews excavate the fill to restore the exit ramp, officials have said.
Biden said the design was “incredibly innovative in order to get this work done in record time.’’
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who visited the area Tuesday, promised that the federal government would provide the needed assistance to repair the destruction, although he warned that the wreckage will likely raise the cost of consumer goods in the short term because truckers must now travel longer routes.
Joining Biden on the presidential Marine One helicopter were Shapiro, Sens. Bob Casey and John Fetterman and Rep. Brendan Boyle and Mayor Jim Kenney, all Democrats. Later Saturday, Biden was to attend a 2024 campaign event with union workers at the convention center. | 2023-06-17T20:36:29+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/collapsed-stretch-of-interstate-95-in-philadelphia-to-reopen-within-2-weeks-governor-says-2/ |
Cold weather likely isn't going to deter people from traveling as airports nationwide are preparing for the influx of passengers set to travel for Christmas.
According to the National Weather Service, more than 50 million people ranging from Washington state to Maryland are under winter weather warnings and advisories thanks to a powerful winter storm that is set to bring various hazards, including bitterly-cold temperatures and snowfall.
But that isn't stopping Americans from traveling for the upcoming holiday season.
Transportation Security Administration officials said they expect travel near pre-pandemic numbers over the next few days.
In a news release Tuesday, officials said they expect their busiest days to be Thursday and Friday.
TSA Administrator David Pekoske said they saw its highest passenger volume during Thanksgiving, which they hadn't seen since 2019, so they expect the trend to repeat itself.
But the upcoming winter storm could put a damper on travel plans, which has put some airlines on alert.
Delta Airlines has issued a travel advisory for airports in the Atlantic, northeast, northwest mountain, and Pacific northwest regions.
United announced on its website that it waives change fees and any difference in fares on qualifying flights departing on or before Dec. 28 at many U.S. airports.
American Airlines also announced they're waiving change fees on qualifying tickets to and from the 29 listed airports in the northeast that could be affected by the winter storm.
Southwest has also issued a travel advisory for airports in the midwest. They announced on its website that those with qualifying tickets traveling Wednesday through Monday could rebook their flights "without paying any additional charge." | 2022-12-21T20:31:23+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/news/national/tsa-expecting-travel-over-holidays-to-hit-pre-pandemic-levels |
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Millions of travelers are taking to the skies and roads this holiday season. Most trips go off without a hitch, but some will inevitably hit speed bumps along the way.
The latter was true for a group of strangers trying to make their way from Florida to Tennessee last weekend.
“They didn’t have enough crew to get us there, that’s why our flight was delayed,” said Alanah Story, who was traveling with her mom and godmother when they got stuck in Orlando on Sunday night. The two were trying to get back to Knoxville, but Frontier ultimately canceled their flight.
“They [the airline] don’t fly every day, so I think our flight was canceled on Sunday night and we wouldn’t have been able to leave until Tuesday.”
Without many options, Story and her family hopped into a rented van with 15 strangers — all headed to Tennessee.
Story admits she had some reservations about the idea.
“Are we really going to do this? And is this safe?” she remembers thinking.
But after more than 10 hours in the van, these strangers said they felt like family. Story thinks that’s why the TikTok videos she made, which documented parts of the trip, went viral.
“Part of why people like this story so much is because you can literally see on paper we have nothing in common,” she said. “Like, we don’t know each other.”
Story claimed the videos also helped to bond the group during the journey.
“The TikTok experience is really what made it a fun trip,” she said. “The whole time they’re refreshing it over and over again, ‘Oh it has this many views, now this many views, look at these comments.’ They were reading all of these comments out loud in real time.”
The group finally pulled into Knoxville around 8:30 a.m. on Monday.
In the days since, Story said her unexpected experience came with some unexpected realizations.
“This, for me, really restored my faith in humanity,” Story said. “We’re total strangers and I didn’t know them, but I kind of put my trust in them a little bit and it didn’t backfire on me. … It was very restorative to see, like, people just be good to be good.”
And for those getting ready to travel this holiday season, Story has some advice.
“Go with the flow,” she said. “Things are going to happen, but if you search hard enough, you’re going to be able to find some positive outcome for things.”
Frontier, meanwhile, has issued an apology to passengers affected by last Sunday’s travel hiccups.
“We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused by the flight cancellation,” a representative for the airline wrote in a statement shared with WATE. “All customers had the option of waiting for the next available Frontier flight or receiving a full refund.” | 2022-12-10T21:14:04+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/strangers-rent-15-passenger-van-after-flight-gets-canceled-and-go-viral-on-tiktok/ |
Much of the excitement in boys volleyball this year circled around the idea of just how thin the line is that separates the contenders. A parity-ridden regular season has confirmed that and the Div. 1 state tournament field has the potential to wash away the chalk.
But ironically enough, the primary team most coaches were excited to catch up to is still unbeaten.
Contenders across both divisions flooded to play top-seeded Needham (22-0) in a rigorous regular season, but the Rockets have overcome them all to increase their win streak to 68 games.
There’s no reason to believe they can’t go the distance for a third straight year, only twice allowing a team to get two set victories against it. Two-time All-Scholastic senior Raymond Weng is one of the most elite, versatile players in the state, and pairs with All-Scholastic outside hitter Ethan McCarron to lead a collection of standouts who thrive in their respective roles.
No. 2 Lowell (19-1) is on a collision course to meet the Rockets in the final as one of the few titans Needham hasn’t faced over the last couple of years, though. Its elite setting is surrounded by exceptional athleticism, which figures to give the Red Raiders the right pieces necessary to make a highly-anticipated run to their first state final.
Much of that praise can be said about the other top members of the Bay State Conference, too. The injury bug slowed No. 7 Newton North (14-6) down a bit, but the Tigers – as one of the teams to take Needham to five sets – are another final favorite when playing their best volleyball. No. 3 Natick (14-3) only lost to Needham and Newton North, proving just as dangerous. No. 11 Brookline struggled to beat those top conference rivals but played tough to stand as a serious upset threat.
Still, the path for anyone to reach the Final Four is a tricky one. No. 4 St. John’s of Shrewsbury (15-4) has a strong chance of meeting Catholic Conference foe No. 5 St. John’s Prep (11-6) in the state quarterfinals, but that’s only if they can advance past formidable Merrimack Valley Conference powers No. 12 Haverhill and No. 13 North Andover. No. 6 Acton-Boxboro (16-1) is a legit power, but doesn’t have an easy route, either.
Watch out for Middlesex League powers No. 9 Lexington and No. 10 Winchester, which are both well-coached and have upset potential. No. 8 Cambridge, No. 15 Andover, No. 16 Methuen and No. 17 Chelmsford also add to an entertaining pool of hungry teams, while No. 14 BC High, No. 18 Lincoln-Sudbury, No. 19 New Bedford, No. 22 Revere and No. 28 Malden will be tough outs.
After a trying schedule that ran through the likes of Needham, Agawam (twice), St. John’s, Newton North, Milford and Wayland, top-seeded Westfield (19-2) looks like the team to beat again in Div. 2. Nick Maslar is as powerful as they come within a well-balanced group, and Westfield – in search of a fourth state title in five seasons – would even be a strong contender in the Div. 1 field.
While it doesn’t need to pay attention to Needham anymore, there’s still plenty left on the Bombers’ plate. No. 2 Agawam (17-2) creeps around the corner as the only other team to beat Westfield this season, and both matches they played went to five sets. The Brownies are fully capable of a deep run, and the two have a rare opportunity for an all-Western Mass. state final.
No. 3 North Quincy (17-3) looks to get back to the state final and has a good chance to do so with everyone back from that run, but star-studded No. 6 O’Bryant (16-4) is a major threat to nix that as early as the state quarterfinals. Junior-laden No. 4 Milford (13-6) impressively navigated the second-strongest strength of schedule in the state, and its 16-14 loss in the fifth set to Needham is a far cry from when it lost to Westfield and Agawam early in the year. But its difficult path potentially continues against a tough No. 29 Lowell Catholic (11-1), a heavy sleeper threat in No. 13 Wayland (8-12) and No. 5 West Springfield (13-5).
A stellar season from No. 9 Medfield (18-1) could ignite a deep run itself, and No. 7 Greater New Bedford (13-3) looks composed to surprise some teams should it survive No. 26 Billerica (6-14). No. 18 Bellingham is also a serious threat to No. 15 Ludlow. Otherwise, it’s a mostly Western and Central Mass. dominated field with 10 first-round matchups hosted by those teams.
Predictions
DIV. 1
Champion: No. 1 Needham
Runner-up: No. 2 Lowell
Final Four: No. 1 Needham, No. 2 Lowell, No. 3 Natick, No. 5 St. John’s Prep
Sleeper: No. 10 Winchester
Best First-Round Matchup: No. 16 Methuen vs No. 17 Chelmsford
Potential Upset: No. 11 Brookline over No. 6 Acton-Boxboro
DIV. 2
Champion: No. 4 Milford
Runner-Up: No. 3 North Quincy
Final Four: No. 1 Westfield, No. 2 Agawam, No. 3 North Quincy, No. 4 Milford
Sleeper: No. 6 O’Bryant
Best First-Round Matchup: No. 15 Ludlow vs No. 18 Bellingham
Potential Upset: No. 7 Greater New Bedford over No. 2 Agawam | 2023-06-01T00:30:44+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/05/31/volleyball-tournament-preview-needham-milford-are-the-picks/ |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
0-9-7-9
(zero, nine, seven, nine)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
0-9-7-9
(zero, nine, seven, nine) | 2022-11-22T05:59:03+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-game-17602876.php |
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Senate on Thursday suspended a Republican state senator in a rare move that stripped the lawmaker of all legislative power while keeping the allegations against her a secret.
Sen. Julie Frye-Mueller, who is among a group of right-wing Statehouse Republicans, told reporters earlier Thursday that she was being punished following an exchange she had with a legislative aide about vaccinations.
Sen. Michael Rohl, the Republican lawmaker who initiated the motion to suspend Frye-Mueller, said in a statement that it was based on “serious allegations” and had been made to ensure the Legislature was creating a safe work environment for employees. He likened the Senate’s suspension to the move a business owner or human resources department would make when allegations are raised.
“The Senate will operate swiftly and diligently through the process of an investigation and provide the opportunity for due process to all parties involved,” Rohl said.
The Republican-controlled Senate voted 27-6 to form a committee to investigate Frye-Mueller’s conduct and in the meantime suspend her from voting or holding other rights of an elected official. Republican legislative leaders refused to comment Thursday on the allegations that led to them suspending the Senate rules and stripping their colleague of her ability to represent her constituents.
The Senate Republican leader, Sen. Casey Crabtree said the legislative punishment was “brought after a lot of serious thought,” but offered little else on the allegations. Another high-ranking Republican, Sen. Lee Schoenbeck, said it was meant to “protect the decorum” of the law-making body.
Schoenbeck removed Frye-Mueller from two committee assignments on Wednesday.
One of Frye-Mueller’s Senate allies, Sen. Tom Pischke, spoke against the suspension, saying it was based on a “she said-she said situation” and would deprive Frye-Mueller’s constituents of their representation in the Senate.
Lt. Gov. Larry Rhoden, who serves as the Senate’s president, also opposed the move, cautioning against the precedent of suspending an elected representative without due process. But his objections were overruled in a two-thirds majority vote by the Republican-controlled Senate.
Republicans in the Legislature have become deeply divided in recent years. One of the battlegrounds between right-wing members and Republicans who support the political establishment has been over separate proposals to limit requirements for the COVID-19 vaccine and childhood vaccines.
Frye-Mueller said she did not bring up the COVID-19 vaccine during her exchange with the aide and that she has not been formally presented with the allegations against her.
“I have a right to defend myself,” Frye-Mueller said before the Senate’s vote Thursday.
After the vote succeeded, she exited the Senate chamber.
Childhood vaccines have long been celebrated as public health success stories, but vaccination rates among kindergarteners have dropped nationwide in recent years. Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that decreased confidence in vaccines is a likely contributor, as well as disruptions to routine health care during the pandemic.
Falling vaccination rates open the door to outbreaks of diseases once thought to be in the rearview mirror, experts say.
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Groves reported from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. | 2023-01-27T20:35:18+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-s-dakota-senate-suspends-lawmaker-after-vaccine-exchange/ |
As a new school year approaches, COVID-19 infections are again on the rise, fueled by highly transmissible variants, filling families with dread. They fear the return of a pandemic scourge: outbreaks that sideline large numbers of teachers, close school buildings and force students back into remote learning.
Some school systems around the country have moved to bolster staffing to minimize disruptions, but many are hoping for the best without doing much else differently compared with last year.
Even some of the districts that had the most disruptions to in-person schooling amid the spread of the highly contagious omicron variant point to few specific changes in their prevention efforts.
Among them is Baltimore County schools, where the number of days that individual schools in the district couldn't offer in-person learning added together totaled 159 in January, according to data from the private research firm Burbio, which tracks over 5,000 school districts nationwide. District officials said they did not see a need to change protocols.
“We don’t anticipate significant changes to our plan; we don’t anticipate significant disruptions,” said Charles Herndon, a Baltimore County Public Schools spokesperson. “What we’re expecting to see is waves of COVID in 2022 and 2023, and I’m sure there are going to be times when more folks are going to be absent and there will be times when everything is OK.”
Still, the district is prepared to move classes online if necessary.
“We certainly hope we don’t have to go to that extreme, but it is an option should we need to consider it,” he said.
Teacher shortages remain a major concern, even bigger than COVID-19 itself, said Dan Domenech, executive director of AASA, an association of school superintendents.
“That is the greater concern – that they will have the necessary staff to man all the classrooms, to man all the programs – which will only be made worse if there is an outbreak of COVID,” he said.
Philadelphia’s schools illustrate how disruptive surges can be. Beginning in January the virus caused 114 city schools to go remote for an average of around eight days each — a total of 920 cumulative days of remote learning, more than any other district in Burbio's data for January through June.
Amid shortages of substitute teachers, schools were forced to pull in central office staff, combine classrooms, or temporarily go remote, district spokesperson Marissa Orbanek said.
The district has switched to a new staffing agency and aims to fill 90% of substitute requests this year, said Orbanek. They also now have over 100 supplemental teachers, substitutes who show up at the same school every day in case of last-minute absences.
One parent, James Fogarty, saw his elementary school age children go back to online learning several times last year in Pittsburgh, a district that saw 46 disruptions in the second half of last year. He hopes the district and communities can identify problems earlier and work on better solutions, like identifying backup options for families.
“How do we build systems that are flexible to meet the shocks when they happen other than just like saying to families, ‘Good luck, you’re on your own and I hope you don’t get fired because you have to miss your shift job,’” said Fogarty, the executive director of A+ Schools in Pittsburgh, an organization that promotes equity in schools. “That’s not a satisfying answer for me.”
Schools cannot afford more disruptions that distract them from the critical work of helping kids catch up, said Thomas Kane, an education policy researcher at Harvard. Students at lower-income schools that were doing remote learning for more than half a year lost the equivalent of 22 weeks of learning, he said, while higher-income schools lost 13 weeks.
“We’ve experienced a historic widening in achievement gaps between Blacks and whites, between Latinx students and whites, between high- and low-poverty schools,” he said. “If we don’t get active in trying to close those gaps, they’re going to become permanent and there will be huge consequences for kids.”
Schools are hopeful disruptions will be less likely as many districts have invested in better ventilation and vaccines are available to children as young as six months old. Besides ramping up hiring of substitutes, some of the districts that were hit hardest last year have been making small changes to their protocols.
At Baltimore City schools, which is separate from the county school system, officials say expanded access to rapid tests will help schools stay open if a new variant surges in the fall. The school previously relied on slower PCR tests, and when omicron cases spiked in January, the district’s testing regimen couldn’t keep up. The switch to a faster test helped the district avoid any schoolwide closures for the rest of the spring.
“We firmly believe that with the protocols we have in place that we’re going to be able to keep in-person learning going as the virus ebbs and flows and as new variants come — pending an unforeseen variant that really changes the game,” said Cleo Hirsch, director of the district’s COVID-19 response.
The school district in Montgomery County, Maryland, had 338 cumulative days of disrupted learning in January, the second-highest of all the districts in Burbio’s data. District spokesperson Christopher Cram said that was in part because of a policy that triggered hybrid or virtual learning automatically if the COVID case rate in a school rose to 5%. It is working on an updated safety plan for the new school year, he said.
In Columbus, Ohio, where the school system saw 106 disruptions due to staff absences at the start of 2022, the district did not point to any planned changes to its policies to prepare for potential surges in the new year. “As we look toward opening schools in August, the District will continue to follow its current mitigation protocols to help keep staff, students, and families safe,” spokesperson Jacqueline Bryant said.
Lolita Augenstein, president of the Council of PTAs in Columbus, said she’s optimistic that this year will be better. The district has focused on hiring teachers and substitutes, she said, and educators are better trained to teach online if needed.
“We may not have figured it all out, and there are new variants and there are new concerns that have popped up," said Augenstein, whose daughter graduated from a district high school last school year. "But kids are resilient. ... The families are trained in going back and forth between remote and the building.”
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Associated Press writers Brooke Schultz in Harrisburg, Pa., and Arleigh Rodgers in Indianapolis contributed to this report. They are corps members for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. | 2022-07-25T12:10:08+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/health/2022/07/25/some-schools-hit-hard-by-virus-make-few-changes-for-new-year/ |
Kevin Obanor has no regrets after returning to Texas Tech, enduring difficult season
The question has been asked too many times for Kevin Obanor to remember.
“Do you regret returning to Texas Tech?”
The Texas Tech senior, who elected to return for some ”unfinished business,” expected a bit more in terms of wins and postseason aspirations. But, the Houston native admitted his final year donning the scarlet and black has been a positive learning experience all the same.
Many of those lessons have come in the form of losses and becoming a better servant leader on and off the court.
”I don’t regret coming back, even the way this season went,” Obanor said. ”Those losses, it builds endurance and makes a person resilient. There’s still hope for that.
“Just grateful these last couple of weeks, especially as it’s been hitting hard. I’m just trying to tell the young guys to appreciate it because the days are going by fast. It’s already March. Just taking it one day at time. Just embracing it.”
Putting it in God’s hands
Obanor is a religious spirit thanks to the tutelage of his parents — Johanna and Ken — both ministers.
Kevin has done his best on a daily basis to provide his personal testimony through his successes and failures on the basketball court. Win or lose, Obanor has kept the same even-keeled attitude through it all.
It’s been a calming presence for the five freshmen and two sophomores who have all been learning on the fly through the regular season.
Pop Isaacs and Robert Jennings Jr. both have said Obanor has provided advice about not panicking when shots aren’t falling, keeping the same energy on the offensive and defensive ends.
Even when playing time has been a topic of discussion, Obanor has been quick to use the phrase, ”Everyone runs their own race,” a statement Texas Tech coach Mark Adams has used to describe the process a player undergoes before developing into the finished product.
Isaacs and Jennings, along with Lamar Washington and Elijah Fisher, are well on their ways. It’s been a long process, but the team is beginning to show signs of life on offense. Lapses on defense and turnovers have been the issues throughout the season.
But there have been reasons for the struggles, according to Obanor — who is averaging a team-leading 14.7 points and 6.4 rebounds per game.
“There’s a reason for everything,” Obanor said. ”We were 1-10, we fought back to put ourselves on a four-game winning streak. And we lost these last few games, but it’s all for a reason. God works in mysterious ways.
”I mean, I could say, after those two wins, kind of got a little sloppy, a little content in practice. He had to humble all of us. It’s all for a reason, to build those good fruits that we need.”
Getting refocused
If the message was to hone in, the Red Raiders (16-14, 5-12) got the directive delivered from the coaching staff during practices leading into the regular season finale set for 5 p.m. Saturday at United Supermarkets Arena. Texas Tech needs victories, to put it lightly, as the postseason beckons.
"We know we're good enough to beat anybody," Adams said. "We just have to close that margin, that thin line between winning and losing. That involves getting loose balls, shot selection, guarding. This last game is a big one for everyone. For seeding in the Big 12 and March Madness. It's a do-or-die situation. Our guys know that. We expect them to play well. Our coaching staff is excited about their attitudes and preparation for this game."
The Cowboys (16-14, 7-10) are also looking to earn an NCAA Tournament berth, and could do so without needing to win it all in the conference tournament. On Friday, OSU and Texas Tech are listed as a ”Next Four Out” team by ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi.
It’s a key game for both squads, which have dealt with losing streaks and injuries at different times of the year. The Cowboys have adjusted to the loss of Avery Anderson, who elected to have surgery on his wrist Feb. 8 when both squads played in Stillwater, Okla. — which saw the Red Raiders drop a 71-68 decision due to not blocking out John-Michael Wright.
Kalib Boone is averaging a team-best 11.8 points per game to go with 5.1 rebounds per contest, while Bryce Thompson (11.7 points per game) and Wright (10.2 per game) have diversified the offense with their perimeter scoring and outside shooting skills.
As for Obanor, he’s not fixated on the various scenarios. Instead, he’s trying to get his teammates to have faith and focus on the next game because, if they can win four in four days — they get an automatic bid next week.
”There’s no telling where I’d be without my faith,” Obanor said. “I try to tell the young guys, even after the Kansas game — it was pretty discouraging. It’s easy for everybody to point fingers. But, you know, like I stated when we were 1-10, we’ll get in the (NCAA) Tournament.
“I’m all about the unexpected. When I was at Oral Roberts, Sweet 16. Or, last year, we had our hands full with Notre Dame and God came through. So, I have full faith that anything is possible. All you can do is be positive and expect the best to happen.”
Getting a win Saturday afternoon could be a huge confidence-booster before traveling to Kansas City, Mo.
”It’s March, this is where players become players,” Obanor said. ”This is where a whole ’nother gear comes into play. I don’t fear nobody but God. But, it’s about to be a whole ’nother, a whole different KO. I’ll break that to the team.
“May God bless Oklahoma State because it’s not going to be easy, for sure.”
TEXAS TECH VS. OKLAHOMA STATE
When: 5 p.m. Saturday
Where: United Supermarkets Arena
Records: Texas Tech 16-14, 5-12. Oklahoma State 16-14, 7-10
TV: ESPN2
Radio: FM 97.3
Fast fact(s): Texas Tech’s Kevin Obanor, the only senior on the team to have exhausted his eligibility after this season, will be honored prior to the game. Going into Saturday, the Houston native has amassed 2,118 points, 1,081 rebounds, 37 double-double and made 209 three-point shots in 153 career games.
MEN’S BIG 12 CONFERENCE STANDINGS
Team, Big 12 record, Overall record
*Kansas 13-4, 25-5
Kansas State 11-6, 23-7
Baylor 11-6, 22-8
Texas 11-6, 22-8
TCU 9-8, 20-10
Iowa State 8-9 17-12
Oklahoma State 7-10, 16-14
West Virginia 6-11, 17-13
Texas Tech 5-12, 16-14
Oklahoma 4-13, 14-16
* — Kansas clinched outright conference title
EDITOR’S NOTE: Seeding will be determined after the completion of games Saturday to set up the Big 12 tourney bracket. | 2023-03-04T13:50:56+00:00 | lubbockonline.com | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/sports/college/red-raiders/2023/03/04/kevin-obanor-has-no-regrets-after-returning-to-texas-tech-enduring-difficult-season/69965658007/ |
David Pastore finished 12 under par Wednesday to capture the 113th Massachusetts Open at TPC Boston in Norton, closing with a 70 to finish two strokes ahead of Jason Thresher.
For Pastore, who has been eyeing the Mass. Open for a while, it was an emotional finish.
“I think that’s why I was emotional, because I’ve put so much emphasis on this tournament,” the 31-year-old said. “I prepared well. I came up last week playing the course a few times, so I was comfortable with my game plan and had a really nice warm up this morning. So that kind of settled me down.”
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Pastore held off a variety of challengers, including Thresher, Nicholas Pandelena, Mike Van Sickle, and Brad Adamonis. He clinched the title on the par-5 18th with a two-putt birdie, finishing with a three-day total of 204, and adding his name to a list of other Connecticut natives to capture the title.
“It’s never easy no matter, where you are,” said Stamford native Pastore.
“To be honest I haven’t been playing great the last few weeks and months, and I really played well this week. I’m proud of the way I played. Today wasn’t as low a score as the first two days, but I really I hung in there and made some putts when I needed to with some big up-and-downs.”
In other local golf action Wednesday, 19-year-old Morgan Smith defended her New England Women’s Amateur championship in Manchester, Conn., edging her 18-year-old sister Molly Smith by one stroke.
Morgan Smith shot a final-round 72 to finish 3 under (213) for the 54-hole tournament.
Last year, Morgan Smith became the first teenager to win the event since Samantha Morrell accomplished the feat in 2010.
Christopher Price can be reached at christopher.price@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter at cpriceglobe. | 2023-06-15T01:48:09+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/14/sports/david-pastore-closes-with-kick-capture-mass-open-championship/ |
Program participants include experienced public health professionals who self-identify from underrepresented groups
ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) at Morehouse School of Medicine announced the second cohort for the leadership development program, Diverse Executives Leading in Public Health (DELPH) today. The purpose of the DELPH program is to provide participants with the opportunity to develop their leadership skills, expand their existing professional network, and create access and visibility within the public health system.
With funding from the CDC-CSTLTS office, DELPH has recruited 28 mid-to-senior-level governmental public health professionals from underrepresented groups in public health leadership and support learning, networking, and professional development opportunities to establish our second cohort of public health leaders. This program is committed to ensuring a well-prepared workforce of public health professionals, including practitioners who reflect the diversity of the jurisdictions they serve.
Program participants were selected from experienced public health professionals who self-identify from an underrepresented group including people of color, people with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ+ individuals.
"It has truly been a phenomenal year of growth for our inaugural cohort of DELPH Scholars and the Satcher Health Leadership Institute alike," says Daniel Dawes, JD, professor and executive director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine and Author of the Political Determinants of Health. "Building on this momentum, our second cohort, along with our team of experts, is ready to continue training and supporting these professionals with practical knowledge of the political determinants of health, the drivers of health inequities, and tailored mentoring experiences that will equip them with the foundational skills to address pressing issues that are impacting their community's health and wellbeing."
"The DELPH program is exciting to me because it strives to fill a longstanding gap in public health leadership," says Michael Fraser, PhD, ASTHO CEO. "If we are going to make meaningful progress on the way to achieving a truly equitable public health system, our leaders cannot only be advocates for this equity—they must understand and embody it. And I believe the DELPH program has been crucial in equipping these scholars for that role."
ASTHO's second cohort will include 28 public health professionals representing 17 state/local health departments and three island/territory health department partners. Meet them here.
The second DELPH cohort will kick-off in Atlanta, GA on Sept. 12 during the ASTHO Fall Leadership Summit 2022. This program will serve as a compliment to ASTHO's ongoing leadership development programs for state and territorial health officials and their executive leadership team members. The work is being advised by a diverse group of national experts and public health leaders, including several former state health officers and ASTHO alumni.
ASTHO is the national nonprofit organization representing the public health agencies of the United States, the U.S. territories and Freely Associated States, and Washington, D.C., as well as the more than 100,000 public health professionals these agencies employ. ASTHO members, the chief health officials of these jurisdictions, are dedicated to formulating and influencing sound public health policy and to ensuring excellence in public health practice.
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WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI – Court proceedings for a man accused of exposing himself to a woman and suspected of trying to break into several Dexter-area homes in June has been delayed for an additional month.
The preliminary examination for Isaiah Matthew Hopkins was adjourned Tuesday, Sept. 27, by Washtenaw County 14A District Judge Anna Frushour at the request of his defense attorney Lydia Fields.
Fields, along with prosecutors, said she is waiting on several lab tests to be returned that may affect his criminal case and that moving forward with the exam without the test results would not be appropriate.
The examination has since been rescheduled for Oct. 25. Hopkins remains lodged in the Washtenaw County Jail with bond set $50,000.
Related: Judge keeps $50K bond for Dexter man accused of exposing himself
Hopkins, 37, was arraigned June 21 on one felony count of aggravated indecent exposure for an incident that happened on the Border-to-Border Trail in Dexter Township.
Hopkins is currently a suspect in several home invasions in the Dexter area, as well as multiple incidents of indecent exposure, all of were expected to have charges forthcoming though police have been having difficulty in positively identifying him as the perpetrator in the other incidents, prosecutors said.
The single charge he currently faces stems from an incident that occurred June 19 on the Border-to-Border Trail in Dexter Township.
At around 10 p.m. police were called to the trail by a woman who said she was followed by a man who exposed himself, police said.
The 67-year-old woman said the man came up from behind her, exposed himself and tried to prevent her from leaving the area before she managed to get away and call 911, police said.
Using a detailed description provided by the woman, police were able to locate the man, later identified as Hopkins, and arrest him, according to the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office.
Following Hopkins’ arrest, detectives were able to link him to several previous indecent exposure cases and Dexter-area home invasions, police said.
Investigators identified Hopkins as a suspect in at least five instances of indecent exposure and are continuing to investigate others, prosecutors said.
On June 17, police were called to four attempted residential break-ins on Victoria Drive that occurred overnight, police said.
Investigators discovered that someone had cut the screens to sliding doors, but failed to get inside because the sliding doors were locked, police said.
These incidents are believed to be related to two break-ins in the same neighborhood, police said.
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German prosecutor says clues to McCann child disappearance possible at Portuguese dam site
ARADE DAM, Portugal (AP) — Police searching for clues regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the British child who went missing in 2007 in Portugal, were concentrating operations Wednesday in several areas around a dam, including one where media reports say a lead suspect in the case often stayed.
The latest search for clues regarding the disappearance started Tuesday following a request by German authorities. Some 30 Portuguese, German and British police are taking part in the operation at the Arade dam, which is located about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the resort of Praia da Luz, where the 3-year-old girl was last seen 16 years ago.
In Germany, Braunschweig prosecutor Christian Wolters told German public broadcaster NDR, “We have indications that we could find evidence there. I don’t want to say what that is exactly, and I also don’t want to say where these indications come from.
“The only thing that I would clarify is that it doesn’t come from the suspect — so we don’t have a confession or anything similar now, or an indication from the suspect of where it would make sense to search, " Wolters said, adding that “it was other indications that prompted us to conduct this search.”
But Wolters appeared to calm expectations of what might be found, saying, “We never said that the girl disappeared where we are now searching.”
Police on Tuesday were studying an area where Portuguese and Spanish media say the suspect stayed around the time that Madeleine went missing.
Officers could be heard using a motor saw to clear trees and bushes in the zone, which is located on the far side of the reservoir from the base camp that police set up Monday.
Police have given no details on the progress of the searches so far, but leading Portuguese daily Expresso said Wednesday that the first day ended with no significant results, adding that police had collected some objects including fabrics and garments. It said that in places where the sniffer dogs signaled, the soil was dug up, possibly indicating that biological traces were also being sought.
The search is expected to end Wednesday or Thursday.
Detectives from the three countries are still trying to figure out what happened on the night when the toddler disappeared from her bed in the southern Portuguese resort on May 3, 2007. She was in the same room as her twin brother and sister, who were 2 at the time, while her parents had dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant.
Portuguese media say this is the fourth search for McCann, following the initial one in 2007 in the Algarve area and further efforts in 2013 and 2014. Another search was held in Germany in 2020.
In mid-2020, German officials said that a 45-year-old German citizen, identified by media as Christian Brueckner, who was in the Algarve in 2007, was a suspect in the case. Brueckner has denied any involvement.
Brueckner is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for raping a 72-year-old woman in Portugal in 2005.
He is under investigation in the McCann case, but hasn’t been charged. He spent many years in Portugal, including in Praia da Luz, around the time of Madeleine’s disappearance.
The reservoir is currently less than half full owing to a drought affecting Portugal and neighboring Spain. Much of the area being searched would be below water level in years of normal rainfall.
Madeleine’s parents aren’t commenting because of the active investigation, according to an email response from the website set up for the search for the child, findmadeleine.com.
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Ciarán Giles in Madrid, and Geir Moulson in Berlin, contributed to this report.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-24T11:06:57+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/2023/05/24/german-prosecutor-says-clues-mccann-child-disappearance-possible-portuguese-dam-site/ |
LYMAN, Ukraine (AP) — Covered head-to-toe in protective suits, forensic workers pulled several bodies wrapped in black plastic from a mass grave Tuesday in Ukraine’s devastated city of Lyman, part of an arduous effort to piece together evidence of what happened under more than four months of Russian occupation.
Ten body bags lay beside a roughly 100-foot (30-meter) trench from which authorities said 32 bodies have been exhumed so far in the city in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
The bodies were Ukrainian soldiers who had been buried together in a mass grave, the head of the Donetsk region’s military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said in Lyman on Tuesday.
Another 22 civilians have been exhumed from individual graves at the burial site, located on the edge of a cemetery in a forested area on the outskirts of Lyman. Further exhumations are planned.
The burial site was the second found in Lyman so far, Kyrylenko said, adding that initial investigations suggested the bodies had been buried by local residents and not by Russians.
“We have already found more than 50 bodies of soldiers and civilians,” he said. “We have one long trench or mass grave … We are finding bodies and parts of bodies here.”
Lyman was liberated by Ukrainian forces at the end of September as part of a rapid Ukrainian counteroffensive which recaptured swaths of the Donetsk, Kharkiv and Kherson regions from Russian control.
As Ukrainian authorities entered the city, they found that many civilian residents had been killed by shelling. Others, mostly older people, had died during the Russian occupation because of a lack of food and medicine, Mark Tkachenko, communications inspector for the Kramatorsk district police of the Donetsk region, told The Associated Press last week.
The destruction in Lyman, a key rail and transit hub, is so widespread that large portions of the city have been completely destroyed. Ukrainian authorities are now working to restore basic infrastructure and investigate how civilians lived and died during the Russian occupation.
Forensic investigators on Tuesday lifted a black plastic bag from the trench and unzipped it to reveal a decomposed body in a bloody uniform of the Ukrainian armed forces. The remains were briefly inspected by investigators, then placed in another body bag and set among several others beside the trench.
Authorities said children have been found among the dead, and that most victims appeared to have died as the result of the heavy shelling that besieged the city for months.
They were cautious in describing whether any of the bodies exhumed Tuesday showed signs of having been executed or subjected to torture, emphasizing that the investigation was still in its early stages.
Other towns in Ukraine liberated from Russian occupation — such as Bucha, northwest of the capital of Kyiv, and Izium in the Kharkiv region — are now the sites of war crimes investigations.
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Follow all AP stories on the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine. | 2022-10-12T12:05:53+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/ap-general/ap-bodies-exhumed-from-mass-grave-in-ukraines-liberated-lyman/ |
A cold front is crossing the state and it will usher in a much cooler air mass with temperatures dropping 20 degrees. Expect valley temperatures to fall through the 50s this afternoon. Our sky will stay partly cloudy and the breeze has shifted to the northwest and will blow 10-20 mph this afternoon.
Tuesday night will feature a cooler night with an overnight low in Boise of 37. On Wednesday there will be a decent amount of sunshine with a brisk northwest breeze of 10-20 mph and an afternoon high temperature of 55 degrees.
In the mountains, melting snow has caused rivers to rise with all but a few rivers and creeks staying below flood stage. Cooler temperatures will slow the snow melt and creeks, streams, and rivers will be lowering.
High temperatures in the valley will stay in the 50s for the rest of the week with Friday reaching 57.
Over the weekend I expect lots of sunshine and warmer temperatures with Saturday reaching 65 and Sunday 72!
Stay connected here or to my Facebook Page for updates to my forecast. | 2023-04-11T20:50:05+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/weather/cooler-weather-moves-in-for-the-rest-of-the-week |
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Nearly four dozen migrants were found dead in an overheated tractor trailer on an industrial road in south San Antonio Monday. Many of them had been sprinkled with steak seasoning in a possible attempt by smugglers to ward off authorities, law enforcement officials said.
The sheer scale and disturbing details, including migrants who apparently tried to escape the suffocating triple-digit temperatures inside the truck by jumping to their deaths along several city blocks, were horrific.
Large numbers of fatalities along the most heavily trafficked northbound path from Mexico and Central America, for decades the route of those seeking the American dream, are not unusual or unprecedented. Still, the staggering amount Monday, more than any in recent memory, stunned law enforcement and migrant advocates alike.
The magnitude may reflect more migrants seeking increasingly dangerous pathways to come here as enforcement policies along the border — both by the Biden administration and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — have strengthened. Biden has kept in place a pandemic-era regulation from the Trump administration that expels many migrants immediately without asylum hearings.
Immigration officials have recorded a record number of apprehensions at the southwest border under the Biden administration, with most single men and some families sent back to Mexico. People caught crossing repeatedly have also peaked under the administration’s policies, which effectively curtail many asylum-seekers.
As the prospect of being able to stay in the U.S. and seek that protection has become more difficult, deaths have risen. At least 650 migrants died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021, more than in any other year since the International Organization for Migration, a part of the United Nations, began tracking the data in 2014.
“The border is more closed down now than almost any time in history,” said Allison Norris, a supervising attorney for immigration legal services for the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington. “This has led folks to increasingly seek out smugglers and engage in more dangerous ways of getting across the border.”
She said most of her clients would prefer to turn themselves into official ports of entry at the border and seek asylum rather than crossing illegally, which is usually much more dangerous and involves risky journeys through thick Texas brush or deserts and ruthless smugglers.
But under the Trump and Biden administrations’ policies of expelling migrants or keeping them in Mexico to wait for their asylum hearing, that was more difficult, she said.
Before Monday, the worst smuggling-related mass fatality in recent Texas history came in 2003, when 19 people died after being trapped in an unrefrigerated dairy truck for hundreds of miles.
Authorities later estimated that the temperature rose above 170 degrees as the desperate migrants inside tried to claw their way out of the insulated trailer. The Houston-bound truck stopped in Victoria, where the driver unhitched the trailer and drove off.
Seventeen people were found dead in the trailer, and two later died. The driver was ultimately tried on federal charges and sentenced to 34 years in prison.
San Antonio was the scene of another mass tragedy in 2017, when 39 people were found in a truck trailer in a Walmart parking lot. Eight died in the truck, and two later at a hospital. The driver of the vehicle was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
In 1987, 19 men died after being left locked in a boxcar on a railroad siding near Sierra Blanca in far West Texas in what a Border Patrol official at the time called “a tragic series of errors and misjudgments.”
The men had crossed into the United States near El Paso, and were herded by a smuggler into a heavily insulated boxcar with massive thick floors and walls. The Dallas-bound car sat on a siding for hours as the temperature inside soared.
The men tried to escape, but the floors were too thick, a lone survivor later told authorities.
The use of commercial vehicles to smuggle people into the United States from Mexico, or move undocumented individuals already in the country, is a decades-long problem. There is little evidence the problem has lessened with the enhanced presence of National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers along the Texas-Mexico border this past year as part of Abbott’s controversial border security program, Operation Lone Star.
Earlier this month in Corpus Christi, a 24-year-old Mission resident pleaded guilty to federal smuggling charges for trying to transport 73 people in a tractor-trailer. He was arrested at the Border Patrol checkpoint near Falfurrias after a search of his vehicle found dozens of people inside from Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Mexico and El Salvador.
Last January, a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper found 28 migrants hidden inside a tractor-trailer’s sleeping cab. The driver has been charged with 28 counts of human smuggling and evading arrest.
DPS through the governor’s Operation Lone Star efforts has tried to highlight how its efforts are working to stop illegal immigration, even as the number of migrants crossing the border into Texas have surged nearly every month.
On the agency’s Facebook site, videos show arrests including one from March in Carrizo Springs, where 76 migrants were discovered inside a commercial truck.
Not all commercial vehicles used are large 18-wheelers. In April 2016, a Michigan man was arrested trying to illegally transport 10 undocumented individuals inside a padlocked Penske rental truck. The defendant told Border Patrol agents that he had picked up the truck in Laredo and was driving it to Corpus Christi. The driver had no key to the truck’s rear cargo area and temperatures were already in the 90s. An X-ray of the truck revealed the truck driver’s human cargo
In recent years, Mexico has stepped up its own policing of smuggling under pressure from the United States. In 2019, more than 200 migrants were discovered hidden in secret compartments in various trucks by an X-ray scanner used by Mexico border officials.
U.S. transportation officials have long waged a public relations campaign against human smuggling via commercial ground vehicles. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration offers training on how to spot smugglers.
The more than a dozen migrants, including children, who remain hospitalized from Monday’s tragedy in San Antonio might qualify for a visa providing legal residency in the United States for migrants who are crime victims or cooperating witnesses, said Norris, the attorney with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington.
But some qualifying migrants could have a harder time tapping this immigration benefit because of Title 42, the pandemic health order the Trump and Biden administrations have used more than 2 million times since March 2020 to immediately expel a majority of recent border crossers, including asylum-seekers.
Taylor Levy, an immigration attorney in California, said it’s likely that the surviving migrants could be held in federal custody during the investigation and ultimately kicked out of the country.
“Unfortunately, we have seen in the past that being victimized by one’s smugglers is oftentimes insufficient to protect from being deported,” Levy said.
Terri Langford contributed to this report.
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The competition is trying, but Kia has retained its crown in the large three-row crossover SUV segment.
Refreshed for 2023, the Kia Telluride outranks every one of its competitors with a TCC Rating of 7.2 out of 10. That includes the new 2023 Honda Pilot, the refreshed 2023 Toyota Highlander, and even Kia’s updated cousin, the 2023 Hyundai Palisade.
I spent a week with the top-spec 2023 Kia Telluride SX-Prestige X-Pro to see why it’s so far ahead of the competition.
Pro: Telluride’s still a stunner
When Kia unveiled the refreshed Telluride at the 2022 Los Angeles auto show in November I questioned the automaker’s decision to ditch the distinctive amber LED daytime running lights on top-spec SX models. Kia updated the front end with white vertical LED daytime running lights that in person look less derivative and more distinctive. I was wrong to question it.
Con: Telluride comes in limited build configurations
Kia builds the Telluride with 14 different interior color and material options, which is an outlier in the mainstream three-row segment. But most Tellurides can only be had with one, or maybe three interior color options. Lower trim LX models can only be ordered in four exterior color options and one interior color. And you’ll need to like black or dark wheels, because every single Telluride now comes with dark or black wheels with no choice to upgrade to a silver, chrome, or lighter wheel color. A brass color would be nice, Kia. While limiting all the build configurations makes it easier to produce Tellurides quickly, it also makes it so everyone has the same car.
Pro: Telluride features value-priced luxury interior
The interior of my loaded $55,365 Telluride SX-Prestige X-Pro punched way above its price tag and class. No Honda Pilot, Toyota Highlander, or Nissan Pathfinder is this nice. From nappa leather to heated and cooled seats in both the front and second row, this Telluride is pushing into luxury territory in terms of fit, finish, and features. The grab handles mounted to the center console are wrapped in a leather-like material with fake stitching, which looks and feels great.
Con: Telluride isn’t electrified
Every Telluride is still powered by a 291-hp 3.8-liter V-6 hooked to a smooth-shifting 8-speed automatic transmission. Front-wheel drive is standard, but all-wheel drive with a locking center differential is available. The V-6 is smooth and I appreciate its power delivery over a peaky turbo-4, but the world is moving on and EPA fuel economy ratings of 18 mpg city, 24 highway, and 21 combined are average at best for this competitive set. In chilly spring weather I averaged a middling 16.6 mpg in mixed suburban driving over the course of 190 miles. The Toyota Highlander Hybrid wipes the floor with the Telluride in terms of efficiency. At least the electric Kia EV9 three-row crossover SUV is coming as a Telluride companion.
Pro: Telluride gets upgraded technology
The old 10.0-inch touchscreen that looked like an iPad rising from the dashboard has been replaced. Every Telluride now features a 12.3-inch digital gauge cluster and 12.3-inch touchscreen all mounted under one single pane of curved glass. While I miss the pre-refresh model’s more intricate-looking analog gauge cluster, this new screen setup gives the Telluride the visual tech-focused pop lacking in competitors such as the Honda Pilot.
Con: Telluride’s still missing features
Despite the technology upgrades the Telluride still puzzles me by the lack of wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. While the Jeep Grand Cherokee L and Nissan Pathfinder both feature a touch-to-unlock function on the rear door handles (a clutch feature for families with kids), the Telluride requires someone to reach out and tap the front door handles. Welcome to first-world problems in 2023.
Pro: Telluride available with self-leveling rear suspension
Mid- to upper-trim models such as the SX X-Line, which costs $50,450, feature a self-leveling rear suspension system. Aside from the Jeep Grand Cherokee’s rear load-leveling or four-corner air suspension, no other competitors have this feature. The system makes levels out the crossover SUV when there’s a trailer hooked to the rear end or a heavy load in the cargo area. Tellurides are rated to tow up to 5,000 pounds, while X-Pro trims tow up to 5,500 pounds thanks to upgraded cooling.
Despite costing $2,300 more for 2023, the Telluride is priced inline with the competition while continuing to punch above its class and price tag.
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2023 Kia Telluride SX-Prestige X-Pro
Base price: $37,255, including destination
Price as tested: $55,365
Powertrain: 291-hp V-6, 8-speed automatic, all-wheel drive
EPA fuel economy: 18/24/21 mpg
The hits: Stunning good looks, premium materials, upgraded technology, self-leveling rear suspension
The misses: Limited build configurations, lacks electrification, missing notable features
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Quick Draw Midday" game were:
02-03-04-05-06-09-11-15-19-27-28-31-32-34-42-48-64-67-75-76, BE: 67
(two, three, four, five, six, nine, eleven, fifteen, nineteen, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-four, forty-two, forty-eight, sixty-four, sixty-seven, seventy-five, seventy-six; BE: sixty-seven) | 2022-08-16T19:11:36+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Quick-Draw-Midday-game-17377199.php |
If Anne Heche's life were a movie, she knew just who to put in the lead role. In a posthumously-released podcast interview clip, Heche opened up about the possibility of putting her life on screen and which actresses she'd want to play a younger version of herself.
"Miley Cyrus or Kristen Bell. I've already thought about it," she said on the Behind the Velvet Rope podcast in a video released on Monday.
Heche said that "the two of them share a personality ability to face the world in a way that ... I feel like I have, and I would want portrayed."
The Wag the Dog star called Cyrus "a great f***ing actress" and said she was particularly enamored with her Hannah Montana portrayal, while noting that she also began working at a young age doing dinner theater in New Jersey.
"I've seen her Hannah Montana. To be able to do that, to be able to express that, to be able to be as bold as she's been -- going from Disney into, you know, 'Wrecking Ball,'" Heche gushed, "the way she moves, the way she sings, her voice, her compassion -- she f**king loves everyone. Her ability to get out on stage and sing a cappella! That would be the way that I would see a pure artist engaging with the world."
As for Bell, she and Heche previously shared the screen in the 2004 Lifetime movie, Gracie's Choice.
"Kristen Bell gave me my second Emmy nomination," Heche said of the collaboration, in which the pair played mother and daughter. "Kristen, again, felt like a reflection to me ... Her ability to tell story, do it through joy, do it with her personality, charm, gorgeous timing, and humor -- I see myself a lot in her. I don't think it's any mistake that I played her mom, and now I want her to play me."
A lightbulb practically lit up in real time as Heche mused that she could now play her own mother in the hypothetical film. "Ooh, b***!" she exclaimed. "That would get some ratings."
Heche talked extensively about writing a follow-up to her 2001 memoir, Call Me Crazy, with a new book, Call Me Sane, which would chronicle her journey of moving beyond trauma and abuse while helping others to do the same.
"You go, 'OK, how can I get into a system of reclaiming my identity, helping others to find theirs, and giving us some steps and some processes and practices that could help us reidentify with ourselves more quickly, with a little less pain, and with support around you that can answer some questions?'" she said. "That's who I am."
Calling it "the flip side" of Call Me Crazy, she explained, "It's the practice of how to get over abuse and how to start the process of living in love with yourself that engaged with others, and living in love with kindness so you can bring yourself to others in a full capacity."
The interview comes shortly after Heche's Men in Trees co-star, Emily Bergl, paid a touching tribute to the actress -- who was declared dead on Friday, a week after a fiery car crash. In a lengthy post on her Instagram, Bergl honored Heche, who was often described as “crazy.”
“You worked with crazy Anne Heche?” “So how crazy was she?” I worked with Anne Heche for two years on the TV show Men in Trees, and this line of questioning was usually the first out of people’s mouths,” the 47-year-old wrote next to a photo of the late actress.
“She elicited more curiosity than any other famous person I’ve ever worked with. I’d like to give you the answers to the questions I most received about Anne, answers that I gave many, many times. Anne was not only a genius, but one of the most astoundingly focused and prepared actors I’ve ever worked with. I don’t think I ever saw her miss her mark. I imagine she may have called for her line once or twice but I can’t recall her ever needing it."
She shared stories of their time together on set, concluding with a poignant sentiment about Heche's memoir.
“It’s no wonder Anne titled her brilliant memoir Call Me Crazy, she beat everyone to the punch. She was talking about mental health before it was acceptable to talk about those struggles,” the actress added. “She was raped by her father, her brother killed himself, and her mother told her she would burn in Hell for loving a woman. But despite a sometimes harrowing life, she was so much fun to be around. She was insouciant, joyous, insightful.”
Bergl ended her tribute, “We so rarely investigate the abuse, the gaslighting, the misogyny, the homophobia that drives people to finally take up the 'crazy' mantle that’s been placed upon them. I would tell you to read Call Me Crazy, but it’s now $200 on Amazon. I paid it because I want to read it again. She was a true genius, and I miss her. #ripanneheche.”
The post prompted loving responses from Heche's former partner, James Tupper, Amanda Seyfried, and more.
On Aug. 5, Heche was rushed to the hospital with severe burns after she crashed her blue Mini Cooper into a home, shortly before 11 a.m. P.T.
Heche was declared dead on Friday at the age of 53. On Sunday, a rep confirmed to ET that the actress was "peacefully" taken off life support, as her organs found recipients for transplants. In the week following her accident and death, Heche was flooded with tributes from her former co-stars, friends and Tupper -- who is the father of her 13-year-old son, Atlas.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
7-3-4
(seven, three, four)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
7-3-4
(seven, three, four) | 2022-06-30T05:00:52+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17275770.php |
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, November 24, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in League City has extended the
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northeastern Harris County in southeastern Texas...
* Until 545 PM CST.
* At 418 PM CST, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 4 and 6 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are
possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Pasadena, northwestern Baytown, Deer Park, South Houston,
Channelview, Highlands, Cloverleaf, Barrett, northern Clear Lake,
northeastern South Belt / Ellington, Greater Hobby Area, Golfcrest
/ Bellfort / Reveille, San Jacinto State Park, Houston Ship
Channel, Ellington Field, Meadowbrook / Allendale and Edgebrook
Area.
This includes the following Low Water Crossings...
Genoa Red Bluff Road at Armand Bayou, Woodford Street at Carpenters
Bayou, Garth Road at Goose Creek East Fork, Evalyn Wilson Park Road
at Berry Bayou, Market Street at Tributary of Carpenters Bayou, West
13th St (Greenshadow Drive) at bridge, SH 134 (Independence Pkwy) at
Lynchburg Ferry and Edgebrook Drive.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
Stay away or be swept away. River banks and culverts can become
unstable and unsafe.
...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
Wind speeds have dropped to 15 to 20 mph across the northern South
Plains and southwestern Texas Panhandle. The wind advisory is no
longer in effect.
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How major US stock indexes fared Thursday 9/15/2022
Stocks closed lower on Wall Street, putting major indexes deeper in the red for the week.
The S&P 500 fell 1.1% on Thursday. The benchmark index is down for the week following the biggest pullback for the market in more than two years on Tuesday.
Railroad operators were mostly higher after a tentative labor agreement was reached, averting a strike across the country that could have been devastating to the economy. Software maker Adobe fell sharply after announcing a $20 billion acquisition of a design company and issuing a disappointing revenue forecast for the current quarter.
On Thursday:
The S&P 500 fell 44.66 points, or 1.1%, to 3,901.35.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 173.27 points, or 0.6%, to 30,961.82.
The Nasdaq fell 167.32 points, or 1.4%, to 11,552.36.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 13.23 points, or 0.7%, to 1,825.23.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is down 166.01 points, or 4.1%.
The Dow is down 1,189.89 points, or 3.7%.
The Nasdaq is down 559.95 points, or 4.6%.
The Russell 2000 is down 57.61 points, or 3.1%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is down 864.83 points, or 18.1%.
The Dow is down 5,376.48 points, or 14.8%.
The Nasdaq is down 4,092.61 points, or 26.2%.
The Russell 2000 is down 420.08 points, or 18.7%.
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Twins vs. Royals: Odds, spread, over/under - July 4
The Minnesota Twins (43-43) and the Kansas City Royals (25-60) will match up on Tuesday, July 4 at Target Field, with Kenta Maeda getting the nod for the Twins and Zack Greinke taking the mound for the Royals. The first pitch will be thrown at 2:10 PM ET.
Oddsmakers list the Twins as -190 moneyline favorites, while giving the underdog Royals +155 moneyline odds to win. An 8.5-run over/under is listed in the contest.
Twins vs. Royals Time and TV Channel
- Date: Tuesday, July 4, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV: BSN
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Venue: Target Field
- Probable Pitchers: Maeda - MIN (1-5, 6.23 ERA) vs Greinke - KC (1-8, 4.74 ERA)
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- The Twins have won 32, or 61.5%, of the 52 games they've played as favorites this season.
- The Twins have a 5-6 record (winning 45.5% of their games) when playing as moneyline favorites of -190 or shorter.
- Minnesota has a 65.5% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
- The Twins have a 3-2 record across the five games they were a moneyline favorite in their last 10 matchups.
- In its last 10 outings, Minnesota and its opponents combined to go over the total three times (all 10 games had set totals).
- The Royals have been underdogs in 72 games this season and have come away with the win 22 times (30.6%) in those contests.
- The Royals have a win-loss record of 7-18 when favored by +155 or worse by bookmakers this year.
- In 10 games as underdogs over the last 10 matchups, the Royals have a record of 4-6.
- In the last 10 games with a total, Kansas City and its opponents have failed to hit the over three times.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
4-5-4
(four, five, four)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
4-5-4
(four, five, four) | 2022-08-01T02:48:40+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17342024.php |
SAN DIEGO, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH) has been named one of the nation's Best and Brightest Companies in Wellness for 2022 by the National Association for Business Resources (NABR). The distinction recognizes companies that promote employee wellbeing, worksite health, and wellness. The company's San Diego office had earned six consecutive regional wellness wins in prior years; this marks ASH's first national win for this wellness award.
"It is a great privilege to be named one of the nation's leaders in employee health and wellness, especially this year, on the 35th anniversary of our company," said co-founder, Chairman, and CEO George DeVries. "Over the years, we have been able to develop a team of over 1,500 employees. I am so grateful for each of our employees. Together, we've been able to grow the company year after year, staying true to our longstanding guiding principles and a strong spirit of innovation."
ASH was grown into a $600+ million national company dedicated to providing musculoskeletal health programs, fitness programs, and health management solutions for health plans, insurance carriers, employers, and others.
"This national recognition is quite an honor," said Vice President of Human Resources Kristin Bragg. "It's especially meaningful given the work we have done to successfully transition a large part of our workforce to remote work amidst the COVID-19 pandemic."
In the early weeks of COVID-19, ASH rapidly adapted to ever-evolving changes to equip employees to work from home. The company also established monthly, virtual all-staff meetings with regular updates to ensure team members felt connected, while prioritizing their safety.
"We took a strong, proactive stance early on by protecting our most valuable resource – our people," DeVries said. "And, along the way, we found that the new workplace model better served our employee's needs, and that we were still able to thrive despite obstacles presented by the pandemic. Now, more than 87% of our 1,500-plus employees continue to work remotely, with the remainder of employees working a schedule that allows most of them to work a hybrid arrangement where they work from both home and the office as needed.
The National Best and Brightest in Wellness company winners will be honored during NABR's Illuminate Business Summit, taking place November 7-10, 2022.
American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH) is one of the nation's premier independent and privately-owned specialty health organizations offering technology-enabled benefits management services, including musculoskeletal health provider networks and programs, fitness center networks and exercise programs, and well-being solutions for health plans, insurance carriers, employers, and others. With offices in Carmel (Indianapolis), IN, San Diego, CA and Fort Worth, TX. ASH has more than 1,500 employees. For more information, visit ASHCompanies or call 800-848-3555. Follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter at @ASHCompanies.
The Best and Brightest in Wellness®, a program of the National Association for Business Resources, celebrates the companies that are making their businesses flourish, the lives of their employees better, and the community a healthier place to live. The 2022 Best and Brightest National winning companies were evaluated by an outside survey and examined statistically for quantitative and qualitative data. Each survey was scored on a point system based upon criteria to benchmark and improve wellness program effectiveness. Visit www.thebestandbrightest.com for more information.
Contact:
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American Specialty Health
310-422-9200
lisaf@ashn.com
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DULUTH — I can't see the Southern Cross from my house. Not by a long shot. Chances are you can't see it either. Unless you live or travel south of 25 degrees north latitude it never pokes a beam above the horizon. That's not to say it's invisible from the U.S. In Key West, just 2,008 miles from my front door, the kite-shaped constellation, formally called Crux, stands upright and highest around midnight in mid-April.
High is a relative term. Acrux, the bottom-most star in the cross, hunkers down in the haze just 2.5 degrees above the horizon, so low that distant clouds can block it from view. But on an ideal night, when a soft Gulf breeze ruffles your hair, and the sky shimmers with stars, Crux and the southern Milky Way that garbs it are captivating sights.
Of the 88 constellations the Southern Cross is the smallest. But that doesn't mean it takes a back seat. Three of the four stars that outline its iconic shape shine at first magnitude and pack a lot of visual punch. Also, the cross sits smack in the middle of two even-brighter stars — Alpha and Beta Centauri — and the Eta Carina Nebula. Like the Orion Nebula, Eta Carina is a massive stellar nursery but much larger and more luminous. It looks like a bright, fuzzy "star" with the naked eye.
The ancient Greek astronomers of circa 300 B.C. knew about Crux but instead of a cross they pictured it as the hind legs of Centaurus the centaur rather than a unique constellation. Due to the slow wobble of Earth's axis called precession — the same wobble that causes the polestar to change over thousands of years — Crux slowly slipped southward in that era. By around the year 800 A.D. it was no longer visible from mid-northern latitudes and consequently forgotten.
Crux was rediscovered during the Age of Exploration (1400-1600s), when Europe navigators set sail across the globe. Those who saw it likened the compact group to a cross and used it as a navigational aid — Crux points to the south celestial pole and polestar the same way the two stars in the bucket of the Big Dipper point to Polaris.
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Crux first appeared on celestial globes created by Dutch cartographers in 1598 and 1600. English explorer Robert Hues, who saw the cross on two southern voyages in the late 1500s, came to realize that the figure's stars were the same the Greeks assigned to the centaur's hind legs. With this knowledge in hand, astronomer Johann Bayer drew the outline of the cross in his 1603 Uranometria atlas but placed the stars in Centaurus.
Crux was first listed as a separate constellation called "De Cruzero" in a Dutch catalog that same year, but it wasn't until 1624 that it finally appeared in a printed atlas with its own unique identity as the Southern Cross. In the modern era the iconic form has become symbolic of the southern hemisphere and appears on the flags of five nations — Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Samoa and Papua New Guinea.
Crux and the neighboring southern Milky Way are a focal point for southern observers the same way Orion and the Summer Triangle are beloved in the northern hemisphere. Five stars of magnitude 1 or brighter shine in a small patch of sky not far from the sky's brightest nebula and also one of its darkest, a prominent "hole" in the Milky Way called the Coalsack Nebula. The Milky Way in the Crux-Carina region is not only bright and chunky-looking with the naked eye but full of star clusters, some of which are easily visible in binoculars.
Just writing about the Southern Cross makes me want to get down to Florida ASAP. Or better, go a little further south to the Caribbean or South America to witness its full glory unfiltered by low-altitude haze. When I traveled to Antarctica and the Falkland Islands a year and a half ago, Crux along with Alpha and Beta Centauri were my touchstone stars. They helped me get my bearings in a sky filled with new constellations that seemed to move in the "wrong" direction.
If you're like me and can't hop on a plane just this moment, we can at least picture where Crux will be the next clear night. Face south around 10 p.m. local time. High up you'll spot Leo the lion and the star Regulus. If you lower your gaze and look southeast you'll see another bright star. That's Spica in Virgo. Just to the lower right of Spica look for a small trapezoid of stars. That's Corvus! I encourage you to familiarize yourself with this part of the spring sky so you can be ready when the time comes to fly south. | 2023-04-16T22:11:21+00:00 | duluthnewstribune.com | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/lifestyle/astro-bob/astro-bob-2-008-miles-to-the-southern-cross |
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks on Wall Street finished higher Tuesday after a report showed inflation cooled more than expected last month, cementing expectations that the Federal Reserve is about to dial down the size of its interest rate hikes.
The encouraging inflation data raised hopes for easing pressure on the economy ahead of an interest rate policy update on Wednesday from the Fed. Stocks initially surged, driving the Dow Jones Industrial Average more than 700 points higher, but then pared their gains as analysts cautioned investors not to get carried away by hopes for an easier Fed, as they have in the past.
The S&P 500 ended 0.7% higher. An early-morning burst of 2.8% nearly vanished by lunchtime. It had already climbed 1.4% a day earlier, with much of that gain coming in the last hour of trading on anticipation of the inflation data.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average flipped briefly to a loss before ending 0.3% higher, while the Nasdaq composite rose 1% after shedding most of a 3.8% gain.
The source of all the action was data showing that U.S. inflation slowed to 7.1% last month from 7.7% in October and more than 9% in the summer. Even though inflation remains painfully high, and shoppers continue to pay prices well above levels from a year ago, Tuesday’s report offers hope that the worst of inflation really did pass during the summer.
More importantly for markets, the slowdown bolstered investors’ expectations that the Federal Reserve will downshift to an increase of 0.50 percentage points when it announces its next hike to short-term rates on Wednesday.
“The market’s hanging onto what the Fed does,” said Michael Antonelli, market strategist at Baird, adding that Wall Street will be watching whether Fed officials acknowledge the latest evidence of declining inflation.
“Will that be part of their language?” he said. “And if they say, ‘yes, we see it, but that doesn’t change our mind at all,’ then they’ve told us that they still think they need to hike or that they need to stay at higher rates for longer.”
Such increases slow the economy by design, in hopes of cooling conditions enough to get inflation under control. But they also risk causing a recession if rates go too high, and they push down on prices for stocks and all kinds of other investments in the meantime. Smaller hikes to interest rates would mean less added pain to both the economy and to markets.
A hike of 0.50 percentage points would usually be a big deal because it’s double the typical move. But with inflation coming off its worst level in generations, it would be a step down from the four straight mega-hikes of 0.75 percentage points the Fed has approved since the summer.
Expectations for an easier Fed meant some of Wall Street’s wildest action Tuesday was in the bond market, where yields fell sharply immediately after the inflation report’s release.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans, fell to 3.51% from 3.62% late Monday. The two-year yield, which more closely tracks expectations for the Fed, dropped to 4.22% from 4.39%.
Other central banks around the world, including the European Central Bank, are also likely to raise their own rates by half a percentage point this week.
Technology stocks helped push the S&P 500 higher. The benchmark index added 29.09 points to close at 4,019.65. The Dow rose 103.60 points to 34,1087.64. The Nasdaq gained 113.08 points to finish at 11,256.81.
Small company stocks also gained ground. The Russell 2000 index rose 13.75 points, or 0.8%, to 1,832.36.
Despite the encouraging data, analysts cautioned that the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation — and its hikes to interest rates — still has further to go. Even if the Fed is moving at smaller increments each time, it may still ultimately take rates higher than markets expect.
“That downshift should not be conflated with a pivot,” said Jake Jolly, senior investment strategist at BNY Mellon Investment Management. “It’s going to be a bumpy, long slog and probably going to take most of next year.”
Some investors continue to bet the Fed will cut interest rates in the latter part of 2023. Rate cuts generally act like steroids for stocks and other investments, but the Fed has been insisting it plans to hold rates at a high level for some time to ensure the battle against inflation is won.
And even if inflation is indeed firmly on its way down, the global economy still faces threats from the rate increases already pushed through. The housing industry and other businesses that rely on low interest rates have shown particular weakness, and worries are rising about the strength of corporate profits broadly.
Still, such caution wasn’t enough to erase all of the relief that washed through Wall Street as economists called the inflation data “cool” in more ways than one.
A measure of fear among stock investors, which shows how much they’re paying for protection from upcoming swings in prices, eased by more than 9%.
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AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed from Bangkok and AP Business Writer Matt Ott contributed from Washington. Veiga reported from Los Angeles. | 2022-12-14T03:50:26+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-asian-shares-mostly-higher-ahead-of-fed-rate-hike-decision/ |
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is reverting to using its historical name for Kaliningrad, the Russian city and administrative region that sits on its border.
From now on, it will be designated on Polish maps as Krolewiec, based on the recommendation of the government commission for geographic names abroad.
The Kremlin has reacted angrily: spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called it a “process bordering on insanity,” going beyond Russophobia.
The city, formerly known as Koenigsberg, was ceded from Germany to the Soviet Union after World War II. In 1946, it was renamed Kaliningrad, after Mikhail Kalinin, one of the leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution.
The Polish authorities point out that Kalinin was one of six Soviet officials who ordered the execution of more than 21,000 Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and elsewhere in 1940.
They said the current name was artificial, lacking any connection to the city or the region, but the centuries-old name of Krolewiec was part of Poland’s cultural heritage.
There has been some talk in Russia about changing the city’s name back, but there are no such plans currently.
The war in neighboring Ukraine has added to the long-standing tensions between Russia and Poland, an ally of Kyiv which has been supplying Ukraine’s military with weapons and pressing for more international backing for Ukraine.
Recently, Poland has been the target of incendiary statements by Russian politicians and some public figures.
Russia’s ambassador to Poland, Sergey Andreev, was summoned to Poland’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday over an incident last week in the Black Sea region in which a Russian fighter jet performed dangerous maneuvers near a Polish plane which was on patrol for the European border and coastal guard, FRONTEX.
On May 9, celebrated as Victory Day in Russia, Andreev was prevented by Ukrainian and Polish activists from laying a wreath at a monument in Warsaw to the Soviet soldiers killed fighting the Nazis. | 2023-05-11T03:18:56+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/poland-reverts-to-historic-name-for-russias-kaliningrad/ |
The last two plays of Sunday’s game against the Lions could very well summarize the entire afternoon and the entire season.
The Jets were trailing late and Zach Wilson, back on the field a few weeks after he was banished to the bench for his poor play, threw a ball that seemed up for grabs. And then receiver Elijah Moore seemed to materialize out of nowhere, catching the ball and getting it to the edge of field goal range. Barely. The Jets called timeout with one second left. They needed a 58-yard field goal to force overtime.
Kicker Greg Zuerlein has that kind of range. He made a 60-yarder two weeks ago in Minnesota to set the franchise record. But this time, as the ball left his foot, the silence in MetLife Stadium told the story of the game and of the season.
Close. But not good enough.
The Lions beat the Jets 20-17 as Zuerlien’s kick sailed with wide left as time expired. The Jets, who were in great position to end their 11-season playoff drought a few weeks ago at 7-4 are now teetering on the abyss after losing three straight.
And Wilson’s future is no more certain now than it was before the game after an up-and-down performance. Wilson made some huge plays, including throwing the go-ahead touchdown with less than five minutes to go. But he also continued to miss easy throws and he threw a bad interception that cost the Jets three points.
Wilson finished 18-of-35 for 317 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.
And still all the Jets needed to do to win this game was get one last stop from their defense, which was tremendous for the first 55 minutes. They held the Lions, one of the top offenses in the league, without a touchdown. But on fourth-and-1 from the Detroit 49 with 1:49 to go, they didn’t cover tight end Brock Wright who caught Jared Goff’s pass and took it 51 yards for the game-winning touchdown.
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Wilson didn’t get the easiest reintroduction: the defense stopped the Lions on fourth-and-goal on the opening drive, so Wilson had to start from his own two-yard line. And it was a shaky start. He threw two quick incompletions under pressure and the Jets were forced to punt.
And that immediately put Wilson in the offense in a hole, because Braden Mann’s punt was returned 47 yards by Kalif Raymond for a touchdown.
But after another drive stalled at midfield, with Wilson under pressure nearly every time he dropped back and with the run game unable to get anything going.
He finally got some positive momentum on the first play of the second quarter, when he rolled out and hit Garrett Wilson with a perfect pass for a 33-yard gain. On the next snap, Zach Wilson rolled out again and threw a bomb to tight end C.J. Uzomah who shed a defender and scored a 40-yard touchdown. It was Uzomah’s first touchdown since he signed with the Jets as a free agent in March. And it was Wilson’s first passing touchdown since Week 9.
Wilson led another impressive scoring drive at the end of the first half, going 65 yards in 25 seconds for a field goal that tied the game at 10-10 going into the break.
But the second half started nightmarishly for Wilson, who tried to find Elijah Moore down the left sideline but didn’t see the deep defender behind the receiver. Cornerback Jerry Jacobs intercepted it easily and returned it deep into Jets territory.
The defense held the Lions to another field goal, but Wilson’s problems continued. The crowd grew progressively more restless over the next two drives late in the third quarter and early in the fourth as Wilson missed some throws and the Jets had to punt. Receiver Braxton Berrios did him no favors, dropping a perfect throw that would have been a first down late in the third.
And when Wilson started the fourth quarter missing a wide-open Garrett Wilson by a wide margin, getting booed by the crowd as the receiver angrily went to the sideline, it seemed that Zach Wilkson’s return was doomed to be a nightmare.
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But when the Lions missed a 54-yard field goal with about eight minutes left in the game, and then Wilson found Garrett Wilson with a deep bass down the right sideline for a 33-yard gain to put the Jets on the doorstep of the red zone, everything changed. Wilson found Uzomah again for a one-yard touchdown to give the Jets a 17-13 lead with 4:41 left.
The Jets just needed their defense to stand up one more time. But it proved to be too much to ask.
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BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group has denounced as "baseless lies" reports that one of Syria’s most well-known drug dealers, who was killed earlier this week in an airstrike near the Jordanian border, was linked to the Iran-backed group.
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's televised speech on Friday came four days after the rare strike that some Syrian opposition activists claimed was carried out by Jordan’s air force. The activists and a war monitor said the amphetamine Captagon kingpin killed Monday was among the most wanted by Jordanian authorities for drug smuggling across the border with the backing of a small militia.
Syrian activists say Merhi al-Ramthan, who was killed with his wife and six children, worked closely with militias linked to Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Western governments estimate that Captagon has generated billions of dollars in revenue for Assad, his Syrian associates and allies. Damascus has denied the accusations.
“Had we been making billions of dollars it would have been noticed,” Nasrallah joked about the charges. Speaking about linking al-Ramthan to Hezbollah, Nasrallah said “these are lies and unjust charges.”
Nasrallah added that had it not been for Hezbollah’s help, the Lebanese state would not have been able to carry out raids against drug dealers in Lebanon. Hezbollah enjoys wide influence in northeast Lebanon, a region that for decades has been a center of drug production.
Monday’s strike in southern Syria that killed al-Ramthan and another that destroyed a factory came a day after Arab governments reinstated Syria to the Arab League following the country’s suspension for its crackdown on protests that ultimately led to a lengthy civil war.
As Arab governments gradually restore ties with Damascus, one of the key topics of discussion has been Syria’s illicit drug industry, which has flourished during the ongoing conflict — especially the illegal amphetamine Captagon.
“These are baseless lies. For us Captagon and other types of drugs are religiously prohibited,” said Nasrallah, a Shiite Muslim cleric and major political figure in Lebanon.
Speaking about reconciliation between Syria and oil-rich Arab countries, Nasrallah said anti-Syrian politicians in Lebanon are “disconnected from reality” and are working to keep Beirut’s relations with Damascus cold.
“It is in Lebanon’s interest to fix relations with Syria,” Nasrallah said, adding that the Lebanese government should send a high-ranking delegation to Damascus to discuss ways to address the refugee crisis that has pushed hundreds of thousands of Syrians to flee into in Lebanon.
Sentiments against Syrian refugees have been rising in Lebanon since the country’s massive economic meltdown that started in 2019 that has left three quarters of the Lebanese population living in poverty.
Hezbollah sent thousands of fighters to battle alongside Syrian government forces during the 12-year war, helping tip the balance of power in Assad’s favor. | 2023-05-12T19:03:58+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/hezbollah-leader-denies-reports-linking-the-18096533.php |
Woman turns 7-Eleven stop into $10 million Powerball prize
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Gray News) - A Florida woman turned a trip to the convenience store into a multimillion-dollar payday.
The Florida Lottery announced that Laura Barnes, 55, of St. Petersburg, is $10 million richer after she purchased a winning Powerball ticket from a 7-Eleven north of the downtown area.
Lottery officials said Barnes hit the jackpot while playing Powerball with Double Play. Her winning ticket matched all five white balls and the Powerball number from the Double Play drawing held on July 6.
According to the Florida Lottery, Double Play is an add-on feature that gives players a chance to win up to $10 million in an additional drawing after the Powerball drawing for $1 per play.
Officials said Barnes claimed her winnings at lottery headquarters in Tallahassee.
According to The Associated Press, the current Powerball jackpot has climbed to $800 million after no one matched all six winning numbers drawn Wednesday. The next drawing will be held Saturday night.
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WFO LAKE CHARLES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 10, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
433 PM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Cameron
and southwestern Calcasieu Parishes, northeastern Jefferson,
southwestern Newton, southeastern Hardin, Orange and southeastern
Jasper Counties through 515 PM CDT...
At 433 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Pinehurst, or over Orange, moving south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Beaumont, Port Arthur, Orange, Nederland, Groves, Port Neches,
Lumberton, Vidor, Bridge City, Silsbee, West Orange, Vinton,
Deweyville, Central Gardens, Starks, Mauriceville, Rose City, Pine
Forest, Lakeview and Weiss Bluff.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 10 in Texas between mile markers 880 and 842.
Interstate 10 in Louisiana between mile markers 1 and 11.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3037 9368 3024 9351 2994 9357 2993 9376
2997 9376 2999 9379 2999 9380 3000 9379
2998 9383 2999 9385 2999 9386 2997 9384
2997 9386 2996 9386 2996 9387 2993 9387
2992 9424 3034 9425
TIME...MOT...LOC 2133Z 016DEG 13KT 3012 9380
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Take 2: Commuter rail ordinance back on the Gilbert agenda at the request of mayor
Gilbert Town Council could once again vote on a commuter rail ordinance at Tuesday’s meeting, for the second time in as many weeks. This time at the request of Mayor Bridgette Peterson.
Peterson is introducing a watered down version of what council members Chuck Bongiovanni, Bobbi Buchli and Jim Torgeson pushed for during a February council meeting that wanted to restrict town staff time, funds and anything of value to study or construct any light rail or commuter rail stations.
That version of the commuter rail ordinance was shot down by the rest of the council who worried it would prohibit the town from making informed decisions about town-owned land near existing freight rail lines.
The council is set to discuss the newly introduced ordinance during a public hearing on Tuesday, March 7. The ordinance digs in on prohibiting the town from assessing a new fee or tax for the construction, maintenance or repair of rail lines or trains for either commuter rail or light rail.
However, it doesn’t not make reference on the use of town funds to study or construct a commuter rail station.
Residents will be able to address council on about their stance during the public hearing portion of the meeting.
Commuter rail systems use railroad lines to move passengers across metro regions like the Valley. Maricopa Association of Government’s studies identified two stops in Gilbert, the first at Cooley Station and the second in the Heritage District, as part of a proposed x-shaped network connecting suburbs in the East and West Valleys with central Phoenix.
Reporter Maritza Dominguez covers Mesa/Gilbert and can be reached at maritza.dominguez@arizonarepublic.com or 480-271-0646. Follow her on Twitter @maritzacdom. | 2023-03-03T00:26:34+00:00 | azcentral.com | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/gilbert/2023/03/02/gilbert-council-to-revisit-commuter-rail-ordinance-on-tuesday/69964836007/ |
Cruisin’ The Coast chosen as nation’s best car show
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - For the fourth time, Cruisin’ The Coast was chosen as America’s best car event by USA Today’s 10Best.com.
In a public online vote, Cruisin’ received the most votes for the car show category in 2022′s USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards, as announced on their website Friday.
“We have won this award before, but it is great to know that so many of the people who know about Cruisin’ The Coast still think this highly of us,” said CTC Executive Director Woody Bailey. “Hospitality and friendliness have been a part of our event from day one. This, I think, is a reflection of years of hard work done by so many Coastians, our volunteers, board of directors, and staff.”
“We won’t get a trophy or a plaque,” Bailey said. “But knowing we are number one is enough for us.”
Cruisin’ The Coast started in 1996 with 374 registered vehicles, mostly from the Gulf Coast region. In 2022, the event registered 9,618 vehicles from 44 states, along with Canada and the UK.
Cruisin’ The Coast 2023 is set for October 1-8. It will feature events in 12 cities located in our three coastal counties. Details and a complete schedule can be found at www.cruisinthecoast.com.
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Winter Weather Advisory issued March 28 at 2:27PM MDT until March 30 at 9:00PM MDT by NWS Pocatello ID
* WHAT…Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 12 to 18
inches in the mountains above 6500 feet MSL and 6 to 12 inches
in the valleys below.
* WHERE…Stanley, Ketchum, Sun Valley, Galena Summit, and Copper
Basin.
* WHEN…From 3 AM Wednesday to 9 PM MDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS…Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous
conditions could impact the morning or evening commute.
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
The latest road conditions can be obtained by calling 5 1 1 or by
visiting 511.idaho.gov. | 2023-03-28T23:12:02+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/weather/alerts-weather/2023/03/28/winter-weather-advisory-issued-march-28-at-227pm-mdt-until-march-30-at-900pm-mdt-by-nws-pocatello-id/ |
Top Player Prop Bets for Nuggets vs. Lakers Western Conference Finals Game 2 on May 18, 2023
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Nuggets vs. Lakers Game Info
- Date: Thursday, May 18, 2023
- Time: 8:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Location: Denver, Colorado
- Venue: Ball Arena
NBA Props Today: Denver Nuggets
Nikola Jokic Props
- Thursday's over/under for Jokic is 28.5 points. That's 4.0 more than his season average of 24.5.
- Jokic has averaged 11.8 rebounds per game, 1.7 less than his prop bet in Thursday's game (13.5).
- Jokic has averaged 9.8 assists per game this season, 0.7 less than his prop bet on Thursday (10.5).
- Jokic's 0.8 made three-pointers per game is 0.7 fewer than his over/under in Thursday's game (1.5).
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Jamal Murray Props
- Jamal Murray is putting up 20 points per game this season, 5.5 fewer than his points prop on Thursday.
- He collects 3.9 rebounds per game, 0.6 fewer than his prop bet on Thursday.
- Murray averages 6.2 assists, 0.7 more than Thursday's prop bet (5.5).
- He makes 2.6 three-pointers per game, 0.1 more than his over/under on Thursday (2.5).
Aaron Gordon Props
- Aaron Gordon is averaging 16.3 points during the 2022-23 season, 2.8 higher than Thursday's prop total.
- Gordon has grabbed 6.6 boards per game, 1.1 more than his over/under for Thursday's game.
- Gordon averages three assists, 0.5 more than his over/under for Thursday.
- Gordon has connected on 0.9 three-pointers per game, which is more than his over/under on Thursday (0.5).
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Anthony Davis Props
- The 25.9 points Davis scores per game are 1.4 more than his prop total on Thursday.
- Davis averages the same number of rebounds as his over/under for Thursday's game (12.5).
- Davis averages 2.6 assists, 0.1 more than Thursday's over/under.
- Davis averages 0.3 made three-pointers, which is less than his over/under on Thursday (0.5).
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- The 25.5-point total set for LeBron James on Thursday is 3.4 fewer points than his per-game scoring average.
- James has averaged 1.2 fewer rebounds per game (8.3) than his prop bet total in Thursday's game (9.5).
- James has averaged 6.8 assists per game this season, 0.3 more than his prop bet for Thursday (6.5).
- James has averaged 2.2 made three-pointers per game, 0.3 less than his over/under in Thursday's game (2.5).
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NEW YORK — Aaron Hicks didn’t play Sunday vs. the Red Sox or Tuesday against the Rays. He got a lone pinch-hitting at-bat Wednesday and he was out of the lineup again Thursday to start a series against the Blue Jays.
Recently called up prospect Estevan Florial has been taking Hicks’ reps in the outfield, and it sounds like it might continue for the foreseeable future. | 2022-08-18T23:39:09+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/yankees/2022/08/sounds-like-the-yankees-are-moving-away-from-aaron-hicks.html |
Sophomore Noah Plenn is both talented and young enough to think this playing-the-hero thing in the state tournament comes easy.
But the attackman is also smart and respectful enough to know that just isn’t so. His chance to be a hero again was facilitated by a lot of sweat, toil and, yes, even some tears.
Working from X against a long pole, Plenn drove frontside to the right pipe and stuck a lefthanded shot with 3:57 remaining to rally third-seeded and second-ranked St. Augustine past fourth-seeded and third-ranked Delbarton, 5-4, for the program’s first Non-Public A championship Wednesday afternoon at Hopewell Valley in Pennington.
Old hat for Plenn, who steered his Hermits (16-1) into the final by sinking the game-winner last Saturday against second-seeded Seton Hall Prep in the semis, 9-8. His Hemits now move on to its first Tournament of Champions in the final year of the format.
“No, I know this hasn’t been easy for us, not at all,” Plenn said. “This was a lot of work from my team and my coaches, a lot of sacrifices, and I couldn’t be happier.”
This victory, incidentally, came exactly 11 years to the day that St. Augustine appeared in its last Non-Public A final, a 10-4 loss to Delbarton was seeking its 18th state title
Junior Billy Hughes scored two goals, senior Gennaro Petrongolo contributed one goal and three assists, amd Ryan Demato and Luke Scarpello each scored once for St. Augustine. Delbarton (15-6) got two goals from Joe Leone and one apiece from Gray Doyle and David Link.
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Movies & TV 'Biosphere' takes a mostly comic look at a friendship between the last men on Earth By Bob Mondello Published July 7, 2023 at 1:40 PM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:56 In Mel Eslyn's film Biosphere, the last two men on Earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity... or play video games. Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-07-07T21:19:46+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/movies-tv/movies-tv/2023-07-07/biosphere-takes-a-mostly-comic-look-at-a-friendship-between-the-last-men-on-earth |
2 dead, 3 hurt in Mississippi shooting, officials say
Published: Nov. 3, 2022 at 5:17 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM/Gray News) - Two people were killed and three people were injured in a shooting that happened Wednesday night, authorities said.
The individuals pronounced deceased by Forrest County Deputy Coroner Lisa Klem were identified as Ricardo Hollingsworth, 48, and Sherry Strickland, 57, both of Hattiesburg, WDAM reported.
Three other people are being treated at a hospital for their injuries.
Officers said that when they arrived on the scene at around 7 p.m., they found multiple people suffering from apparent gunshot wounds.
The investigation into this incident is still ongoing.
Copyright 2022 WDAM via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-03T11:23:23+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2022/11/03/2-dead-3-hurt-mississippi-shooting-officials-say/ |
NPR's Frank Browning reports from Barcelona on the 14th International AIDS Conference. Former presidents Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela addressed the conference on Friday. They warned that though the epidemic is growing faster in developing nations, the spread of HIV also threatens industrial nations.
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URBANA — A former OSF HealthCare employee says she was fired for speaking up about practices allegedly jeopardizing patients’ health, safety and legal rights — among them the handling of certain deceased patients’ bodies — at OSF hospitals in Urbana and Danville.
A lawsuit against Peoria-based OSF HealthCare was filed Tuesday in federal court in Urbana by Lisa Comrie, a registered nurse for more than 25 years who last oversaw risk management for OSF’s eastern region that includes OSF Heart of Mary Medical Center, Urbana, and OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center, Danville, along with OSF urgent care centers and medical office buildings.
The 54-year-old Comrie, of Catlin, had worked as regional director of risk management for OSF’s predecessor in Urbana and Danville, Presence Health, starting in 2017, and then worked for OSF after OSF acquired the two hospitals in Urbana and Danville in 2018.
She was fired last March.
Currently, “she is still looking for a job,” said her attorney, David Fish of Fish Potter Bolanos of Naperville and Chicago.
“We’re proud of her for standing up and being a whistleblower,” Fish said. “She’s obviously taking a lot of risk by coming forward and by filing this lawsuit and is going against a massive employer and health care organization, but she feels very strongly in her claim.”
OSF HealthCare was contacted by The News-Gazette about the lawsuit, and said it’s unable to comment on pending litigation.
Comrie contended she was fired, in part, for handling an event that had occurred in October 2021 at OSF Sacred Heart in which an obese COVID-19 patient had died and was too large to fit through the door of the hospital morgue.
The suit states Comrie called area funeral homes and found one with a morgue that could accommodate the patient, but because the funeral home lacked manpower to transport the patient’s remains from the hospital, Comrie and the hospital president assisted in transporting the body.
The suit also states Comrie complained to her boss, Becky Robinson, that OSF allegedly lacked a clear process for disposing of the bodies of indigent patients or unclaimed bodies once they were moved to the hospitals’ morgues.
“As a result of this failure, deceased patients’ remains languished in OSF hospitals’ morgues for months,” the suit states. “The corpses would begin to liquify, allowing malodorous smells to leak outside the morgue due to neglect and delay.”
The suit states Comrie obtained cost-efficient bids from local funeral homes to take the unclaimed bodies within her region but that Robinson dismissed her complaints and efforts.
“OSF terminated Comrie for her opposition to its abhorrent treatment of deceased patients’ remains and for her resolution of the incident with the obese patient,” the suit goes on to state. “Had plaintiff stood by and refused to take the actions she did, the deceased patient’s body described above would have remained in the ICU outside of cold storage for hours and likely days.”
The lawsuit further contends Comrie was also fired for repeatedly complaining about how OSF handled adverse health care events in Urbana and Danville, “which she reasonably believed that OSF was at fault and where patients suffered preventable, and in some instances, catastrophic results.”
One example mentioned in the lawsuit claims that on or about June 19, 2021, a patient who came to the emergency room at the Urbana hospital was told he was ready for discharge.
“The patient pleaded to staff stating he could not leave because he could not walk. Emergency department staff physically picked him up and put him in a wheelchair and wheeled him out of the emergency department ramp where he was assisted from the wheelchair and placed on the sidewalk,” the suit states.
“Staff then instructed him to get up and leave the premises or the police would be called for trespassing. After the patient did not get up and leave, police were contacted,” it goes on to state.
Police who came to the hospital became concerned about the patient’s condition as they talked to him and asked the nursing staff to come and check on him because he didn’t appear to be breathing, the lawsuit states. CPR was started and the patient was brought back into the hospital and died the same day.
Among some of the other allegations in the 22-page lawsuit:
- A patient who came to the Danville hospital after suffering a stroke was allegedly transferred to the wrong hospital, resulting in a delay in care. While the patient was eventually taken to the right hospital in Chicago, Comrie contended her request for a “root cause analysis” following an adverse health care event was denied.
- OSF allegedly “repeatedly” failed to comply with reporting and court-filing requirements related to the involuntary commitment of mental-health patients.
- During her employment, “Comrie repeatedly complained to Robinson and others in management that OSF was improperly billing Medicare or altering such bills for claims being submitted to Medicare for reimbursement. OSF lacked standardization of process when it came to adjusting patients’ bills,” the suit states.
- OSF also stated Comrie was fired because she met with a patient’s family without authorization after the death of their child and that she uploaded photos of the event, and those statements were false.
- That Robinson had allegedly indicated she needed more males on the risk management team and that Comrie was also terminated because she is female.
The suit is asking the court to reinstate Comrie to her job and/or to award money damages of an unspecified amount. | 2023-02-02T12:10:42+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/news/fired-nurse-whistleblower-suing-osf-healthcare/article_81c2cecd-e23e-561a-8560-6b2cd846b68e.html |
Last week was a turning point in Russia’s war on Ukraine. Kyiv’s astonishing gains will continue, and it is possible to envision a Ukrainian victory, so long as its Western supporters don’t lose their nerve.
After staging sham referendums at gunpoint in four occupied Ukrainian regions, Vladimir Putin announced Friday that residents had “chosen” to rejoin their “historic (Russian) motherland.” At a televised pop concert Friday in Red Square, he celebrated the forced annexation and led the chant of “Russia, Russia,” shouting exuberantly, “Welcome home!”
The very next day, Saturday, Ukrainian forces made stunning advances in the east and south, taking back land within the “annexed provinces” and breaking through Russian lines as they had in Kharkiv province earlier in September. Suddenly, over the weekend, the tightly controlled Russian airwaves that only broadcast Russian “victories” featured talk show debates over how to stem Russian losses.
Yet once again, Putin is hinting he might use nukes if desperate. Some of his acolytes are calling on him to use “tactical nuclear weapons.”
So where does Putin’s war go from here? Here are a few of the key questions and how I size up where things stand.
They are demonstrating that they can win — if Western support remains strong and new weapons arrive in time.
Putin’s imperialist call to restore the “unity” of “great historic Russia” revealed a total misunderstanding of the Ukrainian people. He conveniently ignored the fact that, in 1991, in a genuine referendum, every region of Ukraine voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union (the four Putin annexed voted in 1991 by margins of 90%, 90%, 83% and 83%). Even Crimea voted 54% to join an independent Ukraine.
So Ukrainians rightly believe they are waging an existential battle for their freedom, while many Russian conscripts are unsure why they are fighting. As Secretary of State Antony Blinken put it succinctly, “If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends.”
Russian troops are demoralized. The Russian military system has become so disorganized that new troops are told to bring their own sleeping bags and food, and sent in with little or no training. Resistance is growing in Russia to Putin’s new, unjust mobilization of at least 300,000 new forces, from which hundreds of thousands are fleeing abroad.
New precise Western long-range multiple rocket systems with a range of 50 miles, especially the U.S.-built weapons known as HIMARS, have enabled Ukraine to disrupt Russian supply lines and command centers behind the front lines. The U.S. just announced it will send four more HIMARS to Ukraine; it should also expedite the arrival of long-range munitions for the launchers. Sending as much vital weaponry as possible before winter, and before the arrival of newly mobilized Russians, is key.
However, Russia still holds more than 15% of Ukrainian land, and its missiles and rockets are destroying civilian infrastructure across the country. “They are killing ordinary families and children every night in our cities,” I was told on WhatsApp by former parliament member Yehor Soboliev, who volunteered for military service. “We will win in any case, but we will meet many more deaths,” he said.
Kyiv military sources tell me their greatest need right now is for air-defense systems to protect their cities, and for tanks (where are those Leopard tanks, Germany?) to roll back fortified Russian positions as Ukrainian troops move forward on the flat steppe lands of the east and the south.
I am still skeptical that this will happen.
In military terms, it makes no sense. These weapons, with a much smaller payload than the Hiroshima bomb, are meant for the battlefield. But as the Institute for the Study of War, one of the best think tanks closely following the fighting, puts it: “The Russian military in its current state is almost certainly unable to operate on a nuclear battlefield even though it has the necessary equipment. Exhausted contract soldiers, hastily mobilized reservists, conscripts and mercenaries … could not function in a nuclear environment. Any areas affected by Russian tactical nuclear weapons would thus be impassable for the Russians, likely precluding Russian advances.”
Moreover, the wind could blow radiation back onto Russian troops or even inside Russia. And if a tactical nuclear weapon were dropped on a city, killing, say, 5,000 to 10,000 civilians, Russia would become a global outlaw, even to India and China. And the Ukrainians would keep fighting.
That said, the U.S. and its allies must leave Putin in no doubt that there would be “catastrophic consequences for Russia” — as national security adviser Jake Sullivan put it on ABC News — if Russia breaks the post-World War II taboo against nuclear weapons, plunging the world into a new nuclear era. That doesn’t necessarily mean a nuclear response, but it should mean military strikes by NATO members on Russian bases inside Ukraine, Russian ships in the Black Sea, and possibly on Russian bases in the homeland. It should also finally trigger a NATO invitation to Ukraine.
“Putin has to know it would be a suicide weapon for them,” I was told by H.R. McMaster, a former national security adviser in the Trump administration. Yes, indeed.
In a historic first joint visit to Pennsylvania Monday, a large group of ambassadors from European Union countries insisted that Europe would hold firm in support for Ukraine, despite the pain of skyrocketing gas prices, and despite far-right gains in Swedish and Italian elections. Speaking to the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, Stavros Lambrinidis, the EU ambassador to the United States, said: “Putin cannot win this. It is existential to all of us. This is not a war against Russia. It is a battle for values. You don’t invade to wipe countries off the map.”
Ukrainian courage and strategic skills, combined with Western intelligence-sharing, have opened the way for a Ukrainian victory before winter. All now depends on whether Western allies have the guts to match their Ukrainian compatriots with vital weapons and a united front against Putin. Kyiv is fighting not just for Ukraine’s freedom, but to prevent Putin from threatening Europe and, inevitably, the United States. | 2022-10-07T16:37:45+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/if-u-s-support-stays-strong-kyiv-can-win/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Advanced technologies and real-time data power risk mitigation solutions
WORCESTER, Mass., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE: THG), a leading property and casualty insurance company, today announced the launch of its Hanover i-on Sensor Program, which offers a robust set of technology-based services to help business and organization owners prevent workplace injuries, property damage, theft, and other losses offered through strategic partnerships. The IoT technology solutions enable business leaders to monitor facilities, property, and employee safety to proactively manage risk.
The Hanover Risk Solutions' team takes a proactive and collaborative approach to risk management, designed to help keep businesses of all sizes as safe as possible. The Hanover i-on Sensor Program offers businesses solutions from expert partners for an array of risks, including:
- Hanover i-on Sensors for Property – Undetected water leaks can quickly cause extensive damage. This program provides water sensors that leverage the power of technology to monitor water flow and alert our customers to leaks quickly, helping to minimize damage to property and business.
- Hanover i-on Fleet Telematics – Understanding how drivers operate corporate vehicles can help prevent significant damage and eliminate the impact of shipping delays or repair costs from minor accidents. The telematics program leverages app-based technology to monitor drivers, helping combat distracted driving and identify risky driver behaviors to help prevent accidents and manage fleet safety.
- Hanover i-on Workplace Ergonomics – Preventing workplace injuries keeps workers on the job and reduces exposure to workers' compensation claims. Wearable sensors can help assess the risks of manual handling injuries to businesses and identify solutions using sensor technology and data insights.
- Hanover i-on Heavy Equipment Tracking – Stolen or lost equipment can cause project delays and costly replacement expenses. The sensor-assisted asset tracking capability helps locate stolen heavy equipment so you can be sure these costly tools are in the right place at the right time
"Many of the advanced technology solutions enable businesses to proactively monitor and manage key risks from virtually anywhere and in real-time so they can focus on their core business," said Richard W. Lavey, president, Hanover Agency Markets. "As a result, business owners and managers can focus on running their businesses, confident their property and their teams are well-protected. This powerful program supports our mission to provide innovative products for our agent partners and customers, leading to superior customer experiences."
Hanover policyholders are already experiencing the benefits of this technology and have effectively reduced their business risks through this program. The University of Finlay, for example, installed Hanover i-on Sensors for Property to protect the university's art museum, which contains millions of dollars worth of illustrations. When a pipe in the mechanical room above the museum started to leak, the water sensors detected the issue and alerted museum management almost immediately. The automated notification enabled the facilities department to stop water from leaking into the vault below, preventing costly damage to the museum collection and protecting irreplaceable treasures.
"Examples like The University of Finlay showcase the power of technology to assist in the early detection of issues that can cause major damage," said Christina Villena, vice president of Risk Solutions at The Hanover. "When organizations experience the advantages of risk mitigation through The Hanover's unique offerings, they understand the importance of implementing solutions that provide peace of mind for asset protection."
The Hanover i-on Sensor Program was developed to bring together a variety of technology-based service solutions, making them easy to leverage for policyholders. The program addresses key areas of risk to help minimize business exposures while providing advanced protection to take some of the burdens off business owners. To learn more about the Hanover i-on Sensor Program please click here.
The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. is the holding company for several property and casualty insurance companies, which together constitute one of the largest insurance businesses in the United States. The company provides exceptional insurance solutions through a select group of independent agents and brokers. Together with its agent partners, The Hanover offers standard and specialized insurance protection for small and mid-sized businesses, as well as for homes, automobiles, and other personal items. For more information, please visit hanover.com.
All products are underwritten by The Hanover Insurance Company or one of its insurance company subsidiaries or affiliates ("The Hanover"). Coverage may not be available in all jurisdictions and is subject to the company underwriting guidelines and the issued policy. This material is provided for informational purposes only and does not provide any coverage. For more information about The Hanover visit our website at www.hanover.com.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Walt Disney World has picked a developer to construct and operate an affordable housing development on 80 acres of land donated by the entertainment company, company officials said Wednesday.
The Michaels Organization will build, own and operate the 1,300-unit development meant to ease the housing market for service workers in metro Orlando, where it has become increasingly difficult for lower-wage workers to find places to live.
The units will be available to qualified applicants who are Disney employees or members of the public. Disney announced the plans for the development earlier this year but released new details Wednesday. Disney, the metro area’s largest employer, will own the land, and the development will be owned by The Michaels Organization.
Housing prices in metro Orlando, as well as other parts of Florida, have soared in recent years.
Crosstown rival Universal Parks and Resorts also recently announced plans to build a 1,000-unit mixed-income community that offers tuition-free preschool and medical care on site. | 2022-11-17T11:06:09+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/business/ap-business/ap-disney-picks-developer-for-affordable-housing-project/ |
A new episode of the police procedural drama series, “Blue Bloods,” will air on CBS on Friday, October 14 at 10 p.m. ET on CBS.
“Blue Bloods” is led by Frank Reagan, played by Tom Selleck, who heads both the police force and the Reagan brood, a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. The show will air on CBS at 10 p.m. ET on CBS. Viewers looking to stream the premiere of the 13th season can do so with fuboTV, DirecTV Stream and Paramount+. All three streaming services offer seven-day free trials. Paramount Plus subscriptions start at just $4.99 a month.
According to a description of “Blue Bloods” on CBS, “It’s a drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner, and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.”
In episode 2 of season 13 titled “First Blush,” “Frank announces he will not endorse Erin’s run for district attorney, Danny and Baez investigate a bloody crime scene at a hotel and Jamie begins a new job as a field intelligence sergeant that requires him to keep secrets from his family,” according to a description from fuboTV. Here is a look at the new episode of “Blue Bloods” from the “Blue Bloods” YouTube channel:
How can I watch “Blue Bloods” without cable?
Viewers looking to stream the premiere of the 13th season can do so with fuboTV, DirecTV Stream and Paramount+. All three streaming services offer seven-day free trials. Paramount Plus subscriptions start at just $4.99 a month. | 2022-10-14T23:21:11+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/tv/2022/10/how-to-watch-new-episode-of-blue-bloods-on-cbs-for-free.html |
Startup builds momentum as it prepares for summer product launch
CHICAGO, May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Speede Fitness, a Chicago-area strength training startup that is launching a revolutionary fitness machine in summer 2022, has announced that it has raised $2.5 million in funding in its seed round—oversubscribed from $2 million—and signed on new partners from the NFL, NBA, UFC and the business world.
"When I first trained with Speede, I knew right away it was something different," said UFC fighter Michael Chandler, who has joined the company as an equity holder and brand ambassador. "I started in-depth conversations with the engineers and founders because I've never been able to get that good of a pump in such a short period of time. I did five reps of bicep curls and felt like I'd been doing curls for hours."
The company's new machine, the Speede Challenger, is the first connected fitness machine to combine isotonic, isokinetic, and max eccentric training for an intense, efficient workout that leads to faster strength gains. Speede's hyper-efficient workouts have earned praise from athletes across major sports leagues, including Justin Fields, Cole Kmet and Jaylon Johnson from the Chicago Bears, Justin Simmons from the Denver Broncos, Marquez Valdes-Scantling from the Kansas City Chiefs, and Mason Plumlee from the Charlotte Hornets, all of whom have become equity holders in the company.
"Speede is intense, crazy and unbeatable," said Simmons, a two-time Pro Bowler who's entering his seventh season with the Broncos. "With this machine, it doesn't take long before you're putting in your maximum effort. I felt like I completed a 45 minute workout in just a few minutes. The Speede Challenger is going to change the game."
In addition to pro athletes, Speede has also partnered with major players in the business and social media spaces. Equity holders include David Meltzer—an entrepreneur, speaker and podcaster who previously served as CEO of the Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment agency, the inspiration for Jerry McGuire—and entrepreneur and speaker Ed Mylett, the fastest-growing business personality in the history of social media.
"From high achievers to elite athletes, people are recognizing that Speede's effective and efficient workouts are going to completely reimagine strength training and health," said Greg Tepas, Speede's co-founder. "We're not just releasing a product, we're starting a movement. And we can't wait to share the Speede Challenger with the world this summer."
Learn more about Speede Fitness at http://speede.fit, or on Instagram at @speede.fit.
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NANJING, China, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InxMed Co., Ltd, a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing innovative therapies targeting drug resistance for hard-to-treat solid tumors, is pleased to announce that the clinical data from an open-label, phase Ib trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of IN10018, a highly potent and selective oral inhibitor of focal adhesion kinase (FAK), alone or in combination with cobimetinib (Cobi, an approved mitogen-activated protein kinase [MEK] inhibitor from Roche) in patients with Uveal Melanoma (UM) and NRAS-mutant melanoma. The clinical data is being presented in the form of poster at the Society for Melanoma Research (SMR) 19th International Congress from October 17-20, 2022 (Abstract #: P-141). The released data showed that IN10018 in combination with Cobi demonstrated promising antitumor activities and acceptable safety profile in patients with metastatic melanoma. InxMed has entered into a global clinical collaboration with Roche to evaluate IN10018 in combination with Cobi before.
This phase Ib study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and antitumor activities of IN10018 alone or in combination with Cobi in patients with UM or NRAS-mutant melanoma. The study is ongoing at 8 centers (US/AUS). As of Jun 30, 2022, a total of 45 patients with UM or NRAS-mutant melanoma were enrolled, and 93% of them had prior immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) treatment. IN10018 100 mg QD either as monotherapy or in combination with Cobi 60 mg per label was determined as the recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D).
IN10018 in combination with Cobi showed an acceptable safety profile and promising antitumor activities in patients with UM or NRAS-mutant melanoma. In patients with UM, a median progression-free survival (mPFS) of 2.73 month was reported in 10 efficacy evaluable patients for IN10018 monotherapy. For IN10018 in combination with Cobi, a mPFS of 6.52 months was reported. In patients with NRAS-mutant melanoma, a mPFS of 2.79 months was observed in 7 efficacy evaluable patients with 1 PR for patients treated with IN10018 monotherapy. For IN10018 in combination with Cobi, a total of 5 PRs and 5 SDs were reported in 13 evaluable subjects. The ORR was 38.5% (5/13), the DCR was 76.9% (10/13), and the mPFS was 5.45 months. Notably that 93% of all enrolled patients have received prior immune related therapy.
FAK is a non-receptor tyrosine kinase that plays an important role in cell adhesion, migration, and regulation. It's expression is up-regulated in multiple tumor types. Researchers have found that inhibiting the FAK signaling pathway in preclinical models can effectively reverse previously failed chemotherapy and targeted therapy caused by drug resistance and enhance the response and efficacy of immunotherapy against solid tumors.
InxMed started the global clinical development program for IN10018, as one of the most advanced FAK inhibitors. Clinical trials currently underway in the US, China and Australia with multiple hard to treat indications. IN10018 received fast track designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in August 2021, and breakthrough designation from China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA).
InxMed is going to initiate a triple combination of IN10018, Cobi and atezolizumab for treatment of Nras melanoma. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04109456, enrollment is ongoing. For more information, please visit http://en.inxmed.com/
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BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland police lieutenant won't be prosecuted in the death of a Black man he shot in the back during an exchange of gunfire in October, officials said Monday.
The shooting happened about 2 a.m. on Oct. 11 after Baltimore County police officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at a Woodlawn-area convenience store, according to a report from the Independent Investigations Division of the attorney general’s office.
The report said the robber fled, crashed about a mile away and ran. Lt. Gregory Mead, who is white and has been with the department since 1996, responded to the area of the crash and saw Jovan Singleton, who was Black and resembled the description of the robbery suspect, the report states.
In a written statement, Mead said he asked Singleton to sit on the curb, but he took off and Mead followed. Seconds later, Mead said Singleton turned and Mead saw a muzzle flash, heard a gunshot and with a second muzzle flash, Mead fell to the ground in pain, feeling like a crow bar hit his knee cap. He said Singleton moved toward him and he fired.
About five hours later, Singleton’s body was found about 173 feet (53 meters) from the shooting scene and 50 feet (15 meters) from a firearm under a car, according to the report. Mead suffered an “incapacitating knee injury,” but was not shot, the report states.
An autopsy found that Singleton was shot in the back, indicating that he had turned away when Mead fired the shot that struck him and contradicting Mead’s account that Singleton was advancing, according to the report.
Mead had a body-worn camera, but did not activate it, the report states. In a written statement Mead said only that he left the precinct “while trying to plug the body camera cord into the battery.”
State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger said in a release Monday that his office determined that the shooting was justified “based upon all of the facts and statements provided in the interview and the investigation,” The Baltimore Sun reported.
The investigative report is the first on a police-related death released since the division took over such investigations in the state on Oct. 1, according to Raquel Coombs, a spokeswoman for the attorney general. | 2022-04-25T23:24:46+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Maryland-officer-won-t-be-prosecuted-in-fatal-17125883.php |
NORTH LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former “Dances With Wolves” actor who faces at least five felonies for allegedly sexually abusing Indigenous girls is scheduled to face a judge for the first time in the case on Thursday.
The possible charges against Nathan Chasing Horse, 46, include sex trafficking and sexual assault, according to court records. Clark County prosecutors have not said when they will formally charge him or whether more charges will be filed.
Las Vegas police arrested Chasing Horse this week following a monthslong investigation into alleged abuse that authorities said spanned two decades.
He remained held at a Clark County jail without bail Wednesday evening on the sexual assault charges. A judge on Thursday is expected to address his custody status and could set bail.
Known for his role as young Sioux tribe member Smiles a Lot in the Oscar-winning Kevin Costner film, Chasing Horse gained a reputation among tribes across the United States and in Canada as a so-called medicine man who performed healing ceremonies.
He is believed to be the leader of a cult known as The Circle with a strong following of people who believed he could communicate with higher powers, according to an arrest warrant.
Police said he abused his position, physically and sexually assaulting Indigenous girls and women, taking underage wives and leading the cult. He was arrested outside the home he shares with his five wives near Las Vegas.
Chasing Horse was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, which is home to the Sicangu Sioux, one of the seven tribes of the Lakota nation.
A 50-page search warrant obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press claimed Chasing Horse trained his wives to use firearms, instructing them to “shoot it out” with police officers if they tried to “break their family apart.” If that failed, the wives were to take “suicide pills.”
He was taken into custody as he left his home in North Las Vegas. SWAT officers were seen outside the two-story home in the evening as detectives searched the property.
Police found found firearms, 41 pounds (18.5 kilograms) of marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms and a memory card with multiple videos of sexual assaults, according to an arrest report released Wednesday.
Additional charges could be filed in connection with the videos of the underage girls, the report said.
There was no lawyer listed in court records who could comment on his behalf and Las Vegas police said Chasing Horse was “unable” to give a jailhouse interview Wednesday.
Las Vegas police said in the search warrant that investigators identified at least six sexual assault victims, including one who was 13 when she claims to have been abused. Police also traced sexual allegations against Chasing Horse to the early 2000s in Canada and in multiple states including South Dakota, Montana and Nevada, where he has lived for about a decade.
One of Chasing Horse’s wives was offered to him as a “gift” when she was 15, according to police, while another became a wife after turning 16. He also is accused of recording sexual assaults and arranging sex between victims and other men who paid him.
His arrest comes nearly a decade after he was banished from the Fort Peck Reservation in Poplar, Montana, amid allegations of human trafficking.
Fort Peck tribal leaders voted 7-0 to ban Chasing Horse in 2015 from stepping foot again on the reservation, citing the alleged trafficking and accusations of drug dealing, spiritual abuse and intimidation of tribal members, Indian Country Today reported.
Angeline Cheek, an activist and community organizer who has lived on the Fort Peck Reservation most of her life, said she clearly remembers the tensions that arose inside the council’s chambers when Chasing Horse was banished.
“Some of Nathan’s supporters told the members that something bad was going to happen to them,” Cheek told the AP. “They made threats to our elders sitting in the council chambers.”
Cheek said she remembered Chasing Horse visiting the reservation frequently when she was growing up, especially during her high school years in the early 2000s when she would see him talking with her classmates.
Cheek, now 34, said she hopes Chasing Horse’s arrest will inspire more Indigenous girls and women to report crimes and push lawmakers and elected officials across the U.S. to prioritize addressing violence against Native people.
But she said she also hopes the cultural significance of medicine men doesn’t get lost in the news of the crimes.
“There are good medicine men and medicine women among our people who are not trying to commercialize the sacred ways of our ancestors,” she said. “They’re supposed to heal people, not harm.” | 2023-02-02T15:28:01+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-dances-with-wolves-actor-due-in-court-in-sex-abuse-probe/ |
WA Seattle WA Zone Forecast for Monday, December 12, 2022
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300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Areas of fog until late afternoon. Highs
in the lower 40s. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. Lows in the
30s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Light
wind becoming north around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to mid
30s. North wind around 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower to mid 40s. North wind 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 30.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 30.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow in
the morning, then a chance of rain and snow in the afternoon.
Snow level near 300 feet. Highs near 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Snow level near 400 feet. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Snow
level near 300 feet. Highs in the mid to upper 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows in the
mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the lower
to mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bremerton 40 33 40 / 10 10
$$
WAZ507-140000-
Everett and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Everett, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Marysville,
and Arlington
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. East wind
to 10 mph in the morning becoming light.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s. Light
wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Light
wind becoming northwest to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower
30s. North wind to 10 mph becoming east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
Northeast wind to 10 mph becoming north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow
level near 200 feet. Highs near 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Snow level near 300 feet. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Snow
level near 200 feet. Highs in the mid to upper 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows in the
lower to mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the lower
to mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Edmonds 41 35 42 / 10 10
Everett 40 33 40 / 10 10
$$
WAZ509-140000-
Tacoma Area-
Including the cities of Tacoma, Lakewood, Puyallup, and Sumner
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Areas of fog until late afternoon. Highs
in the lower 40s. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s. Light
wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in
the lower 40s. Light wind becoming north around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower
30s. North wind to 10 mph becoming northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Snow level near
500 feet. Highs near 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a chance of rain and snow after midnight. Snow level near
200 feet after midnight. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Snow
level near 200 feet. Highs in the mid to upper 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows in the
lower to mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the lower
to mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Puyallup 42 30 42 / 10 10
Tacoma 41 30 42 / 10 10
$$
WAZ556-140000-
Bellevue and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, and Issaquah
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Areas of fog until late afternoon. Highs
near 40. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s. Light
wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower
30s. Light wind.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Light
wind becoming north to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow
level near 400 feet. Highs near 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Snow level near 400 feet. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Snow
level near 200 feet. Highs in the mid to upper 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows in the
lower to mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the lower
to mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bellevue 42 32 42 / 10 10
$$
WAZ555-140000-
East Puget Sound Lowlands-
Including the cities of Gold Bar, Enumclaw, North Bend,
and Buckley
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Areas of fog in the morning. Highs near
40. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Light
wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Light wind becoming north to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
Light wind becoming east to 10 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
Northeast wind to 10 mph becoming north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow
level near 500 feet. Highs near 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then a chance of snow after midnight. Snow level near
400 feet. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the mid
to upper 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows in the
lower 20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the lower
30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Gold Bar 42 29 43 / 10 10
Enumclaw 40 27 41 / 10 10
North Bend 42 29 42 / 10 10
$$
WAZ503-140000-
Western Whatcom County-
Including the cities of Bellingham, Blaine, and Lynden
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
Northeast wind to 10 mph becoming east in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. East wind to 10 mph
becoming northeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 40. Northeast wind to 10 mph
becoming north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower
30s. Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Northeast wind to 10 mph becoming north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of snow in the afternoon. Snow level near
sea level. Highs in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Snow level near 200 feet. Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of snow in the afternoon. Snow level near
sea level. Highs in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows 16 to
20.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the upper
20s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bellingham 40 27 41 / 10 10
Sumas 38 25 40 / 10 10
$$
WAZ506-140000-
Western Skagit County-
Including the cities of Mount Vernon, Anacortes, Sedro-Woolley,
and Burlington
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 40. East wind to 10 mph
becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
Southeast wind to 10 mph becoming east after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 40. Northeast wind to 10 mph
becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower
30s. North wind 10 to 15 mph becoming east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph becoming north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow
level near sea level. Highs near 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Snow level near 200 feet. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Snow
level near 200 feet. Highs in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows in the
lower to mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the lower
30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Anacortes 42 33 41 / 10 10
Mount Vernon 41 29 41 / 10 10
$$
WAZ001-140000-
San Juan County-
Including the cities of Friday Harbor, Eastsound,
and Roche Harbor
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Light
wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 30s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Northeast wind around 10 mph becoming north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 30s. North wind
10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. North
wind 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow in
the morning, then a chance of rain and snow in the afternoon.
Snow level near 500 feet. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Snow level near 400 feet. Lows in the 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of snow in the afternoon. Snow level near
200 feet. Highs in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows in the
lower to mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow. Highs in the lower
to mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Friday Harbor 42 34 43 / 10 10
Eastsound 40 34 39 / 10 10
$$
WAZ510-140000-
Admiralty Inlet Area-
Including the cities of Port Townsend and Port Ludlow
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Southeast
wind to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 30s. Southeast wind to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Light
wind becoming north 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to mid
30s. North wind 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. North
wind to 10 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 30.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 30.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow
level near 200 feet. Highs near 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Snow level near 300 feet. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of snow in the afternoon. Snow level near
200 feet. Highs in the mid to upper 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows in the
lower to mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the lower
to mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oak Harbor 42 32 42 / 10 10
Port Townsend 42 33 42 / 10 10
$$
WAZ511-140000-
Hood Canal Area-
Including the cities of Hoodsport and Brinnon
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Areas of fog until late afternoon. Highs
near 40. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 30s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Light wind becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to mid
30s. Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph becoming north after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Northeast wind to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 30.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow
level near 500 feet. Highs near 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Snow level near 400 feet. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Snow
level near 300 feet. Highs in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows in the
lower to mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the lower
to mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Shelton 41 30 42 / 10 10
$$
WAZ504-140000-
Southwest Interior-
Including the cities of Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, Centralia,
and Toledo
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Areas of fog until late afternoon. Highs
in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. Lows in the
upper 20s to mid 30s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in
the lower to mid 40s. Light wind becoming north to 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower
30s. North wind to 10 mph becoming northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Northeast wind to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of rain and snow in the
afternoon. Snow level near 500 feet. Highs near 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Snow level near 1000 feet decreasing to 200 feet after midnight.
Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow in the morning, then a
chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow level near
200 feet. Highs in the mid to upper 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows in the
lower to mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the lower
to mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Chehalis 42 30 42 / 10 10
Olympia 42 30 42 / 10 10
$$
WAZ512-140000-
Lower Chehalis Valley Area-
Including the city of Montesano
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Areas of fog until late afternoon. Highs
in the lower to mid 40s. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. Lows near
30. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Light
wind becoming east to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 30. East wind to
10 mph becoming northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Northeast wind to 10 mph becoming
east in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
afternoon. Snow level near 1500 feet. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Snow level near 1000 feet decreasing to 500 feet after midnight.
Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Snow
level near 400 feet. Highs in the mid to upper 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows in the
lower to mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the mid
30s.
$$
WAZ514-140000-
Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca-
Including the cities of Sequim and Port Angeles
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Light
wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s. Light
wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Wind variable to 10 mph
becoming light in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s to lower
30s. Light wind becoming variable to 10 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Light wind becoming variable to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 30.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow
level near 500 feet. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then a slight chance of rain and snow after midnight.
Snow level near 400 feet. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of snow in the afternoon. Snow level near
sea level. Highs in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow. Lows
in the lower 20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the lower
30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Port Angeles 43 33 43 / 10 10
Sequim 43 31 43 / 10 10
$$
WAZ515-140000-
Western Strait of Juan De Fuca-
Including the cities of Joyce and Clallam Bay
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 40. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 30s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 40. East wind 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to mid
30s. East wind 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 40. East wind 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 30.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow in
the afternoon. Snow level near 1500 feet. Highs near 40.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and
snow. Snow level near 500 feet. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of snow in the morning,
then a chance of snow in the afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid
30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows in the
lower to mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs near 30.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Sekiu 43 36 42 / 10 10
$$
WAZ517-140000-
Central Coast-
Including the cities of Hoquiam, Aberdeen, Westport,
and Ocean Shores
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Areas of fog in the morning. Highs in the
lower to mid 40s. East wind to 10 mph in the morning becoming
light.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 30s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. East
wind to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to mid
30s. East wind to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph after
midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. East
wind 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 30.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 30.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain and snow after midnight. Lows near
30.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Snow
level near 400 feet. Highs in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Snow level near sea level. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Snow
level near sea level. Highs in the mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Hoquiam 45 35 44 / 10 10
$$
WAZ516-140000-
North Coast-
Including the cities of Neah Bay, La Push, and Forks
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. East wind
to 10 mph in the morning becoming light.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the 30s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. East
wind 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to mid
30s. Northeast wind to 10 mph becoming east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 40s. East wind 10 to 15 mph with
gusts to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 30.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow in
the afternoon. Snow level near 1500 feet. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and
snow. Snow level near 1000 feet. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of rain and snow in the morning,
then a chance of snow in the afternoon. Snow level near sea
level. Highs in the mid to upper 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows in the
mid 20s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs in the mid
30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Forks 45 32 45 / 10 10
$$
WAZ513-140000-
Olympics-
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 3000 feet increasing
to 5000 feet in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Freezing level near 4000 feet decreasing to 3000 feet
after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 4000 feet increasing to
5500 feet in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 5000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 5000 feet increasing to
7000 feet in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 6000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 8000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 6000 feet.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
afternoon. Snow level near 1000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and
snow. Snow level near 500 feet.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a slight chance of snow in the afternoon. Snow
level near 200 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow in the morning, then a
slight chance of snow in the afternoon.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Hurricane Ridge 29 24 29 / 10 10
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WAZ567-140000-
Cascades of Whatcom and Skagit Counties-
Including the cities of Marblemount and Concrete
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 1500 feet increasing
to 2500 feet in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Freezing level near 2000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 2000 feet increasing to
3500 feet in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 3000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 3000 feet
increasing to 4500 feet in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 2500 feet.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 5000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 3000 feet.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of rain and snow. Snow level
near 300 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Snow level near sea level.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a slight chance of snow in the afternoon. Snow
level near sea level.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mount Baker 30 22 32 / 10 10
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Cascades of Snohomish and King Counties-
Including the cities of Snoqualmie Pass, Darrington, and Index
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 2000 feet. Afternoon
pass temperatures near 30. Light wind in the passes.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 2000 feet. Light
wind in the passes.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 2000 feet increasing to
4000 feet in the afternoon. Afternoon pass temperatures in the
lower 30s. Light wind in the passes.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 3500 feet.
East wind in the passes to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 3000 feet
increasing to 4500 feet in the afternoon. Afternoon pass
temperatures near 30. East wind in the passes around 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 2000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 5000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 4000 feet.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow
level near 500 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then a chance of snow after midnight. Snow level near
300 feet.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Snoqualmie Pass 30 20 33 / 10 10
Stevens Pass 27 19 30 / 10 10
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WAZ569-140000-
Cascades of Pierce and Lewis Counties-
Including the cities of Randle, Packwood, Ashford, and Morton
300 AM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 2000 feet increasing
to 3000 feet in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 3500 feet
decreasing to 2500 feet after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 2500 feet increasing to
4500 feet in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 4000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 4000 feet increasing to
5500 feet in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 2500 feet.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 6000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 5500 feet.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of rain and snow in the
afternoon. Snow level near 500 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then a chance of snow after midnight. Snow level near
1000 feet in the evening.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow in the morning, then a
chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow level near
200 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow.
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Atlantic Journalists Will Lead Conversations about the Future of Our Planet with Scientists, Doctors, Historians, Computer Scientists, Futurists and Ethicists
STOCKHOLM, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ) (Nasdaq Capital Market: WAVE) ("Eco Wave Power" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Inna Braverman, the company's Founder and CEO, will speak at The Atlantic's upcoming event – The Next Scientific Revolution, billed as an examination of this rare moment in human history where "the world is on the cusp of the next great leap in scientific understanding" and innovation.
Braverman will join scientists, doctors, historians of science, computer scientists, futurists, and ethicists in conversation with Atlantic journalists during the June 28 event in New York. You can register for the virtual event here: https://www.theatlantic.com/live/next-scientific-revolution-2022-atlantic-event/. Registration is free and open to the public. The event will also be livestreamed via the AtlanticLIVE homepage starting at 10:00am ET (www.theatlantic.com/live/).
Braverman will join BlocPower CEO Donnel Baird; and Rebecca Isacowitz, Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; for a panel discussion entitled "The Power Plan: Energy for a Greener Tomorrow," led by Atlantic Staff Writer Derek Thompson.
"We are currently experiencing scientific breakthroughs and technological advances at a faster rate than ever before in our history, and it is exciting to be a part of a worldwide discussion about how we can implement those advances to make life better for everyone on the planet," said Braverman, whose focus will be on wave energy and the promise it holds to provide clean, renewable power.
The event, underwritten by General Electric, will include a variety of panel discussions and networking opportunities – both in-person and virtual. See the entire agenda here: https://hopin.com/events/next-scientific-revolution#schedule
"It is so critical that we bring people together to talk about cooperative and collaborative ways in which we can harness science and technology to create a brighter future for all of us, and I am excited to participate with an incredible collection of innovators and scientists to continue this discussion," Braverman said.
About Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ)
Eco Wave Power is a leading onshore wave energy technology company that developed a patented, smart and cost-efficient technology for turning ocean and sea waves into green electricity. Eco Wave Power's mission is to assist in the fight against climate change by enabling commercial power production from the ocean and sea waves.
Eco Wave Power is recognized as a "Pioneering Technology" by the Israeli Ministry of Energy and was labelled as an "Efficient Solution" by the Solar Impulse Foundation. Eco Wave Power received funding from the European Union Regional Development Fund, Innovate UK and the European Commission's Horizon 2020 framework program. The Company has also received the "Global Climate Action Award" from the United Nations.
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(NEXSTAR) – Once again, Americans will gather with friends and family for a COVID-19 pandemic-era Thanksgiving, only this year there are two additional viruses on the minds of many – RSV and the flu.
So if you’re feeling anxious about inadvertently having invited others to a super spreader event, don’t forget the following precautions, experts say.
Masks, vaccines and tests
“COVID, influenza, and other bacteria and viruses haven’t left us, so before you plan that Thanksgiving get-together, be sure that you’re immunized and all of your friends and family who can be immunized are so as well,” advised Neha Vyas, MD, family medicine physician for Cleveland Clinic.
Thanksgiving is just days away, but it’s not too late, experts say.
“I realize that many people are thinking that it’s too late to get vaccinated before Thanksgiving because the vaccines need time to be effective,” Los Angeles County health officer Dr. Muntu Davis told the Los Angeles Times. “While protection does ramp up over one to two weeks after you are vaccinated, this doesn’t mean that you will have zero protection until this point. You still have some protection, and you will be prepared for future events.”
Testing for COVID-19 close to the time of the event is another precaution the host and guests can take.
Wearing a mask is also still an effective way to decrease the transmission of droplets carrying viruses such as RSV and the flu, so if you’re anxious about being around so many people, or want to help protect the very young or immunocompromised, you may want to don a face covering while not eating.
Setting up the party
Ventilation can be tough in colder regions of the U.S., but increasing airflow and hanging out outside whenever possible will reduce the risk of virus transmission.
In Minnesota, for instance, where the high on Thanksgiving is around 34 degrees, an outside party may not be practical. However, a high-quality air filter and cracking windows and doors can help, experts say.
Dr. Vyas also suggested having hand sanitizer readily available and providing multiple towels in the bathroom so guests don’t have to use the same one.
The meal
As host, another strategy to consider is to create space between place settings and keep everyone from cramming into the same room.
While a buffet-style set up is standard for many big gatherings, you may want to change it up to keep people from having to touch the same serving utensils. One way of doing that is to plate the meals.
For hosts and guests alike, regular hand washing is more important than ever this year. While COVID may largely be passed through the air, RSV, for instance, can live for many hours on hard surfaces, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
Lastly, Vyas reminds hosts not to neglect properly cooking the food as well – thoroughly wash produce, heat dishes to the correct temperature and make sure leftovers are properly stored.
Additional cause for concern this year
As Americans head into the holiday season, a rapidly intensifying flu season is straining hospitals already overburdened with patients sick from other respiratory infections.
More than half the states have high or very high levels of flu, unusually high for this early in the season, the government reported Friday. Those 27 states are mostly in the South and Southwest but include a growing number in the Northeast, Midwest and West.
This is happening when children’s hospitals already are dealing with a surge of illnesses from RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, a common cause of cold-like symptoms that can be serious for infants and the elderly. And COVID-19 is still contributing to more than 3,000 hospital admissions each day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In Atlanta, Dr. Mark Griffiths describes the mix as a “viral jambalaya.” He said the children’s hospitals in his area have at least 30% more patients than usual for this time of year, with many patients forced to wait in emergency rooms for beds to open up.
“I tell parents that COVID was the ultimate bully. It bullied every other virus for two years,” said Griffiths, ER medical director of a Children’s Health Care of Atlanta downtown hospital.
With COVID-19 rates going down, “they’re coming back full force,” he said
The winter flu season usually doesn’t get going until December or January. Hospitalization rates from flu haven’t been this high this early since the 2009 swine flu pandemic, CDC officials say. The highest rates are among those 65 and older and children under 5, the agency said.
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In the latest Fortune/Deloitte CEO Survey, CEOs share more modest growth expectations over the next 12 months, fine-tuning strategies around talent, workplace, and technology models to adapt to new conditions.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Key takeaways
- CEOs share more modest growth expectations over the next 12 months and remain optimistic about company performance despite uncertainty.
- Inflation and labor/skills shortage again topped the list of external issues that CEOs expect to influence or disrupt their business strategy within the next 12 months.
- The majority of CEOs (62%) anticipate increases in inflation-adjusted wages, and the majority (71%) believe the overall talent shortage will continue.
- To increase employee engagement, most organizations (87%) are allowing more flexibility and predictability in hours and location for work. However, half of CEOs (54%) believe hybrid workplace models lead to lower employee engagement and loyalty.
- Over the next 12 months, almost all CEOs (91%) anticipate investing in AI, indicating that it has the potential to differentiate their organization by accelerating insights, improving decision-making, and increasing speed to execution.
Why it matters to CEOs?
The Fortune/Deloitte CEO Survey series tracks the perspectives and actions of CEOs from the world's largest and most influential companies. The survey gives key insights into CEOs' priorities, challenges, and expectations across more than 15 industries, including technology, finance, and health care.
Overview
CEOs continue to adapt to a dynamic environment, including rising inflation, global conflicts, and geopolitical instability and polarization. The ongoing war for talent remains top of mind for CEOs working to identify new ways to engage and attract employees. Despite consistent headwinds, CEOs remain positive about their company's growth and expect inflation to decrease by year-end.
CEOs' expectations for growth moderate
Over the next twelve months, the vast majority of CEOs (76%) shared a pessimistic outlook for the global economy as they continue to grapple with significant external disruptors, including inflation, labor and skills shortages, and increased geopolitical instability. Yet, CEOs maintain expectations for growth at more moderate levels. While 85% continue to expect modest, strong, or very strong growth, down only 6% from June 2022 (91%) and 13% from January 2022 (98%), expectations for very strong or strong growth continue to decline as expectations for modest growth increase. Only 34% of CEOs expect very strong or strong growth compared to 49% in June 2022.
Uncertainty, inflation, and the economy are top-of-mind
CEOs are managing to keep positive despite never-ending headwinds. Inflation continues to be named as one of the biggest challenges CEOs face today, despite the recognition that inflation will likely decrease by year end, to, on average, 7%. Three-quarters (74%) of CEOs ranked inflation as their top external concern, down 8% from June 2022 (82%), when asked what would disrupt their business strategy within the next 12 months.
Once again, labor/skills shortage ranked second behind inflation as external issues that CEOs expect to influence or disrupt their business strategy within the next 12 months. Compared to June 2022, when 59% of CEOs ranked labor/skills shortages as a top concern, 50% expressed the same concern in this survey. Geological instability came in third with 48%, down 1% from the last survey. Other sources of financial instability, while only mentioned by a third of CEOs (34%), is on the rise, up from 23% in June 2022. Overall, the top disruptors in this survey are consistent with June 2022 findings, yet CEOs are expressing decreasing concern around several top issues including supply chain disruption and the pandemic.
Key quote
"CEOs' outlook on the broader economy worsened significantly, but by and large they remain cautiously optimistic that their own organizations can continue to perform well in the midst of uncertainty and change. CEOs remain committed to prioritizing investments in key strategic areas including talent and digital transformation."
- Joe Ucuzoglu, Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte US
"CEOs are preparing for a significant economic slowdown, yet their hunger for top talent remains unrelentingly strong. We've talked about 'jobless recoveries' for years. Now, the evidence suggests we are facing a 'jobful recession.' More CEOs cited 'talent' as their biggest challenge in our new survey than mentioned inflation or recession."
- Alan Murray, Chief Executive Officer, Fortune
Talent shortages remain a top concern
As CEOs rethink and reshape many of the key levers that define their organizations, they're also focused on providing an element of safety and stability and a path forward for their people, balancing how to keep their people positive and engaged during uncertain times. While more than half (54%) of CEOs believe hybrid workplace models will lead to lower employee engagement and loyalty, 43% of CEOs don't feel they can mandate employees return to the office, given the tight labor market. To attract in-demand talent, 96% state that their organizations will continue to focus on the employee experience, with 80% planning to develop new tools to drive engagement and loyalty that don't depend on co-location.
CEOs look to invest in and leverage AI
The majority (91%) of CEOs said they plan to invest to some degree in AI over the next 12 months. CEOs are looking to AI-enabled technologies to differentiate their organization and increase competitiveness in the marketplace, with (63%) looking to AI to accelerate intelligent insights. Additionally, half of CEOs (53%) indicated AI could differentiate them by improving decision-making, increasing speed to execution (50%), and reducing costs (48%). While the opportunities to leverage AI capabilities varied, a small number of respondents stated they didn't think AI would help differentiate their organization (6%) or help increase market competitiveness (5%).
Survey methodology
Fielded between Sept. 28 – Oct. 6, 2022, 121 CEOs representing more than 15 industries shared their perspectives, expectations, thoughts, and priorities for the next 12 months. Those leaders surveyed include Fortune 500 CEOs, Global 500 CEOs, and select CEOs in the global Fortune community.
Check out the full report here. The Fall 2022 survey is the eighth edition of the Fortune/Deloitte CEO Survey series. Information on previous surveys is available here.
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One thing is certain coming out of spring practice in the Big Ten: Jim Harbaugh likes his Michigan team a lot. There’s much less clarity across the rest of the conference.
Ohio State still hasn’t determined the successor to C.J. Stroud, Purdue’s Ryan Walters is finding his way in his first head coaching job, Wisconsin’s move to coordinator Phil Longo’s Air Raid offense under Luke Fickell has been challenging and Nebraska’s Matt Rhule is trying to turn around a name-brand program that hasn’t had a winning season since 2016.
Michigan, meanwhile, is well set to make a run at a third straight Big Ten championship and another College Football Playoff appearance.
“As we sit here April 1, 2023, it doesn’t mean it’s going to be the best team, but it’s the best version of a Michigan football team on April 1, 2023, that we’ve ever had,” Harbaugh said at a pep rally before the spring game. “A great roster, players, tremendous coaches all pulling in the same direction. That doesn’t mean we’re not gonna have a letdown as the months go on, but this is the best version of football I’ve seen since I’ve been here the last eight years.”
The Wolverines bring back 84% of their offensive production. Quarterback J.J. McCarthy and running backs Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards will work behind the nation’s best offensive line. The defense is loaded, especially in the front seven, and linebackers Ernest Hausmann (Nebraska) and Josaiah Stewart (Coastal Carolina) are transfers who showed this spring they’re capable of making big impacts.
QUARTERBACK QUESTIONS
As many as six quarterback competitions will continue into the fall. The battles: Kyle McCord vs. Devin Brown at Ohio State, Brendan Sorsby vs. Tayven Jackson at Indiana, Payton Thorne vs. Noah Kim and Katin Houser at Michigan State, Jeff Sims vs. Casey Thompson at Nebraska, Brendan Sullivan vs. Ryan Hilinski at Northwestern and Gavin Wimsatt vs. Evan Simon at Rutgers.
Eight teams appear set at quarterback: McCarthy at Michigan, Cade McNamara at Iowa, Luke Altmyer at Illinois, Taulia Tagovailoa at Maryland, Athan Kaliakmanis at Minnesota, Drew Allar at Penn State, Hudson Card at Purdue and Tanner Mordecai at Wisconsin.
Jackson (Tennessee), Sims (Georgia Tech), McNamara (Michigan), Altmyer (Mississippi), Card (Texas) and Mordecai (SMU) are transfers.
INHERITING A WINNER
Purdue’s Walters, the former Illinois defensive coordinator, is the rare head coach who takes over a winning team.
The Boilermakers won the West Division last season, were 36-34 and went to four bowls in six seasons under Jeff Brohm, who left for Louisville.
“Yeah, it’s not a rebuild, right?” Walters said. “I’m trying to elevate and really dive into it and understand the tradition and the standard here. It will be my job to raise that standard and continue to race and win championships.”
Among Purdue’s starters in the Big Ten championship game, seven on offense and four on defense were on the spring roster.
GROUND TO AIR
Wisconsin made the most dramatic change, scrapping the bruising pound-the-ground offense and installing Longo’s version of the “Air Raid.”
Tanner Mordecai put up huge numbers at SMU the past two seasons and should be a great fit. But the Badgers’ open practice, called “The Launch,” showed change is never easy. Mordecai threw interceptions on the No. 1 offense’s first three series and finished with four.
POSITION CHANGES
Purdue’s Tyrone Tracy Jr., a promising receiver at Iowa before transferring in 2022, is bidding to be the top running back behind Devin Mockobee.
Nebraska’s AJ Rollins, a reserve tight end last season, is now a defensive lineman and played with the No. 1 defense in the spring game.
Ohio State’s Chip Trayanum was a running back at Arizona State before agreeing to play linebacker when he transferred to the Buckeyes last year. He began dabbling at running back again in October and got 15 carries for the season. The 230-pounder raised eyebrows with his 65-yard touchdown burst in the spring game.
TO THE PORTAL
Notable Big Ten entrants to the transfer portal during the 15-day open period that ends Sunday: Illinois LBs Calvin Hart Jr. and Shammond Cooper; Indiana DB Trevell Mullen; Maryland OL Coltin Deery; Michigan KR A.J. Henning and S RJ Moten; Purdue OL Eric Miller and DB Jah’Von Grigsby; Nebraska QB Logan Smothers; Ohio State WR Caleb Burton; Penn State CB Storm Duck.
SEASON OPENERS
The Rhule era at Nebraska opens Aug. 31 with a visit to Minnesota, which has won four straight against the Cornhuskers.
Sept. 1: Central Michigan at Michigan State. Sept 2: Buffalo at Wisconsin; East Carolina at Michigan; Fresno State at Purdue; Northwestern at Rutgers; Ohio State at Indiana; Toledo at Illinois; Towson at Maryland; Utah State at Iowa; West Virginia at Penn State.
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Las Vegas man accused of attacking bus driver for not taking daughter to school
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5/Gray News) - A Las Vegas man is accused of attacking a Clark County School District bus driver after he refused to take his daughter to school.
The suspect identified as Otis Tanner, faces multiple charges after the Aug. 18 incident.
According to CCSD Police, the incident occurred around 6:34 a.m. as Valley High School Students were being taken to school.
According to CCSDPD, the bus driver was on his route when a man walked onto the bus.
The driver reportedly told the suspect to exit, but he refused.
The suspect reportedly positioned his body in the aisle, telling the bus driver, “make me, make me,” when he was told to exit the bus.
The bus driver reportedly grabbed the suspect’s arm, which led to him hitting the driver in the face multiple times with a closed fist, the arrest report said.
The suspect also reportedly kicked the driver from the bus to the ground outside and continued punching him, according to the report.
The bus driver told CCSDPD that he feared for his life and the lives of the students, according to the report.
Eventually, the driver pulled out a tire iron from the bus for self-defense.
The suspect then told the driver he was now a “mark” and that he “will be watching for him,” CCSDPD said in the report.
The altercation stemmed from an incident on Aug. 17, after the suspect’s daughter was not on the student list to be transported on his bus, so the driver refused to take her.
The bus driver reported feeling dizzy and sore after the altercation, causing him to request medical treatment because he thought he was going to vomit, CCSDPD said.
Multiple students had videos of the incident, according to CCSDPD.
Videos showed the bus driver grabbing the suspect’s arm to remove him from the bus before he started hitting the driver, the report said.
The suspect was arrested Aug. 19 near his home.
He told police he knew why he was stopped and admitted to hitting the driver multiple times, the report said.
He will face charges of burglary, battery on a protected person, and threat to a school employee.
According to court records, his bail was set at $25,000. His next court appearance was set for Sept. 27.
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With a reputation for its filmmaker focus and intimate atmosphere, the Magnolia Independent Film Festival in Starkville, embarks on its 26th year with a lineup both international and state-specific, along with a welcome that embraces returning alums, fresh voices, emerging creatives and experimental forays.
The festival takes place from Feb. 23 to Feb. 25 this year at UEC Hollywood Premier Cinema (101 Hollywood Blvd., Starkville), with a workshop and panel on the afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 25, at Hobie’s on Main (217 E. Main St.) — formerly the State Theatre — in downtown Starkville.
Mississippi’s first and oldest film festival, known as The Mag for short, has come a long way since its initial outing in 1997 in West Point, Miss., when audiences huddled in jackets and under blankets in the cold auditorium of Central School, with only shared enthusiasm and space heaters to warm the room. The festival got its start when Chicago-born poet, journalist, and filmmaker Ron Tibbett moved to West Point in the 1990s and discovered the dearth of outlets in the state.
“He realized there were no film festivals in Mississippi, or even in the surrounding states, really,” Michael Williams, board president for the Magnolia Film Festival, says. Tibbett decided to found one in West Point, where he lived. The event grew from there, moved to Starkville within a few years, and still considers itself the Golden Triangle’s film festival, serving the Columbus-Starkville-West Point area.
“He actually helped start the Tupelo Film Festival and the Oxford Film Festival, and he helped out with the Indie Memphis Film Festival,” Williams says of Tibbett, who died in 2004. “We always try to keep Ron’s legacy as part of the film festival because he was very much a filmmaker lover, and he loved having the audience interaction. So, we always make sure that our festival feels very intimate, very filmmaker-friendly.”
Challenging cinema is another festival hallmark. “It’s not things that you would typically see in Mississippi,” the board president says. “There’s queer films; there’s films that are political. We are not afraid to show things, as long as we feel like it’s a story worth telling.”
“That was something that Ron really pioneered,” Williams adds. “He wanted to make sure that they weren’t just showing films he knew Mississippi would like — maybe it was films Mississippi needed to see, and filmmakers whose voices needed to be heard.”
‘The Mississippi Experience’
Nearly 50 filmmakers are expected for the weekend event this year, festival director Chris Misun says — a nice bump up from previous years, particularly after COVID-19 swept the world in 2020. “A lot of these filmmakers are bringing larger groups. … This year, I think people are excited to get back out, go and promote their films.”
“I think the reputation of The Mag is also a part of that,” Misun says. “We have several alumni coming back, and we have a reputation for being a very hospitable and fun festival.”
“We bring people from all over the country and a lot of the international filmmakers come as well,” Williams says. “We like to bring them to Mississippi, show them the Mississippi experience, and by the time they leave, everyone is friends. That’s our goal every year.”
Selected films are shown on a single screen on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights and on Saturday morning during the festival’s run, with music videos, animated films, documentaries, shorts and feature films in the mix. That single-screen focus means films will not be competing for blocks, which lets everybody see one another’s works without having to pick and choose.
The craft of filmmaking is one theme at work at this year’s festival. “We really tried to find a variety of different films that highlight different crafts, different animation styles,” Misun says, such as filmmaker Nate Dorr’s A.I.-created music video “Algorithmia,” adding, “It’s very trippy. I thought something was wrong with my computer screen when I first started watching it.”
Stories centered around struggle are another connecting thread among many featured films. Clint Till’s comedy, “The Milky Way,” relays a tale about a husband and wife navigating their way through breastfeeding, and films such as “The Wheel” and “Murder Tongue” demonstrate difficulties faced in Turkey and Pakistan, respectively, during the 1990s.Till, who first screened a short film at The Mag in 2020, says in an email that he was impressed with the festival from start to finish, from its programming to its professional feel. “It’s very well organized, full of wonderful, genuine people that care a lot about the films they screen and the filmmakers they host,” he writes.
Kurt St. Thomas, another festival alum (and a winner at The Mag in 2000), is back this year with “D.O.A.,” a loose remake of the 1950 film noir classic. “(My first screening) was a crazy experience. It was the first time I felt like a filmmaker,” St. Thomas says over email. “I can’t express how excited and honored (I am) to be invited back to one of my favorite film festivals.”
‘This Whole Other World of Films’
Dozens of films are slated for festival screenings this year. On Thursday night, The Mag will screen Jason Osborne’s documentary “Love Languages,” set in an Afro-Caribbean barber shop in the United Kingdom that serves as a hub and safe space for men to talk about life, love and personal struggles. Friday’s nighttime highlight will be “Unpacking” from directors Alexandra Clayton and Michal Sinnott, a feature film about six women whom a social-media influencer and guru convinces to travel to Bali for vacation, wherein they messily confront their issue.
Saturday morning showcases family-friendly films. For a closer look at and background on some of the films featured at The Mag this year, follow the Magnolia Independent Film Festival on Facebook and Instagram.
On Saturday afternoon, the workshop and panel discussion in downtown Starkville at Hobie’s on Main are free and open to the public. Writer and producer Jeremy Burgess hosts a workshop at 1 p.m. on “The Production Value of Collaborative Screenwriting,” a crash course in boosting a script’s chances of getting made into a final product.
At 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Eyevox Studios’ Rick Moore, makeup artist and actress Casey Heflin, filmmaker Ben Powell, and director-cinematographer Antonio Tarrell weigh in during a panel on the topic of making a living in the film industry in Mississippi and beyond. An RSVP is requested, to anticipate a headcount and receive any updates.
Saturday evening will feature a slew of projects with Mississippi connections. The night’s lineup begins with a music video, “Insolitude,” from Mississippi State University graduate Chase Lee.
Then, attendees can tune into three finalist projects from The Mag’s 48-hour film competition last fall: Ron Negron’s “The Gift”; Jon Tackett, Dylan Scott and Adam Maddox’ “Stache”; and Angeliki Efantis and David Hintz’ “The Wind and I.” The documentary “XIII,” which James Parker directed and produced at MSU, follows this trio of short films. Parker’s work follows the story of two MSU graduates who were pivotal in the design and craft of the object used to save the astronauts in the Apollo 13 mission.
Misun points to awareness as a key lasting legacy of the festival.
“There’s this whole other world of films that aren’t the ones being advertised during the Super Bowl, and so they get this opportunity to see other amazing work being done that’s under the radar,” he says. “And they don’t have to go to Sundance to see it. … We are bringing some amazing films, just to Starkville and the Golden Triangle area. That’s a really important thing that we need to continue doing.”
From a filmmaker’s perspective, “Honestly, it changes lives, and it builds careers,” Williams says of the festival. He began attending The Mag in 2007, and one of his films had been featured in nearly every year’s festival until he became the board president.
“That was where I created the most impactful connections that I’ve ever had at any film festival,” Williams says, citing The Mag’s intimate atmosphere, its parties and filmmaker retreat luncheon that all foster easy social contacts and fast friendships.
“By the end of the festival, you’ve made great networking connections, you’ve made friends, and they’re the people whom you’ll either support their careers along the way, or you’ll end up collaborating and making films together,” he continues.
“Sometimes at those bigger festivals, you kind of lose that intimacy, where you may not get to meet everyone, or you might only have brief encounters with people,” Williams adds. “But The Mag, it’s almost like summer camp. You get to make lifelong friends in just a few days.”
To learn more about the Magnolia Independent Film Festival or to purchase tickets to its events and screenings, visit magnoliafilmfest.com. Tickets will also be available at the venue during the festival. | 2023-02-19T19:05:28+00:00 | djournal.com | https://www.djournal.com/lifestyle/arts-entertainment/mag-film-fest-showcases-filmmakers-in-golden-triangle/article_37db30cf-ac65-5169-8e02-75ef95c34654.html |
Republican officials in an Arizona county voted Monday to hold up certification of local results in this month’s midterm elections, reflecting an expansion of partisan battles into obscure elements of the election system and largely uncharted legal territory.
The Cochise County board of supervisors refused to certify the results, although members cited no issues with the count or problems in the vote. In Mohave County, Republican supervisors delayed a vote to certify the election, but then backtracked and certified the vote Monday.
The move is unlikely to significantly stall the final results of this year’s elections; state officials have said that if necessary they will pursue legal action to force the board’s certification. But it represents a newfound willingness by some Republican officeholders to officially dispute statewide election results they dislike, even when the local outcomes are not in doubt.
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“Our small counties, we’re just sick and tired of getting kicked around and not being respected,” said Peggy Judd, one of two Republican supervisors in Cochise who voted to delay the certification of county results until Friday.
Judd described the move as a protest over the election in Maricopa County, where Republican candidates have claimed — with no evidence — widespread voter disenfranchisement, largely as a result of ballot printing errors.
Similar actions have taken place in Pennsylvania, where activists have sued to block certification in Delaware County, and Republican election officials in Luzerne County voted against certification, forcing a deadlock on the county election board after one of the three Democratic board members abstained from voting.
In Arizona and Pennsylvania as in most states, elections are run by county governments, which must then certify the results. The act was regarded as little more than a formality until the 2020 election.
Since then, local Republican officials aligned with the election denier movement have occasionally tried to use their position to hold up certification. The tactic has become more widespread this year and earned encouragement from Republican candidates and right-wing media personalities.
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“People were suppressed and disenfranchised,” Charlie Kirk, a conservative pundit, said on his radio show this month. Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, which is based in Phoenix, cheered on Cochise and Mohave officials in their efforts: “We’re not going to let this one go.”
These actions have mostly unfolded in heavily Republican counties and have only rarely been prompted by suspicions about local elections. More often, local Republican officials and activists have described the actions as an effort to complicate or at least protest the certification of elections elsewhere that they claim have been compromised.
In Cochise County, a heavily Republican and largely undeveloped desert and mountain area southeast of Tucson, Monday’s vote followed more than a month of efforts by Judd and Tom Crosby, the other Republican on the county’s three-member board of supervisors, to audit or otherwise review the election results. Crosby did not respond to requests for comment Monday.
After a judge blocked a plan to hand-count all of the county’s ballots, which both the county attorney and county elections director had believed was illegal, Judd and Crosby briefly pursued their own lawsuit. On Nov. 18, they voted for the first of two delays on the county’s certification to date.
As justification, they have publicly cited an elaborate theory that claims that many voting machines in the state are technically illegal — which has been debunked by federal elections officials and rejected by the state’s Supreme Court.
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But in an interview shortly after Monday’s vote, Judd acknowledged that this was mostly a pretext for a certification delay that was intended as a protest of Maricopa County’s own certification.
“It’s the only thing we have to stand on,” she said, referring to the voting machine claim.
While still rare, such actions by Republican county officials are a new frontier in the politicization of elections, according to Richard L. Hasen, an election law scholar and law professor at UCLA.
“I don’t think we’ve seen this in modern times before the 2020 election,” he said in an email. “It all goes back to Trump and election denialism.”
In November 2020, two Republican members of the canvassing board in Wayne County, Michigan’s largest county, briefly refused to certify the election results there, deadlocking the four-member board and drawing encouragement from President Donald Trump as he spread false claims about a stolen election.
The unexpected move was short-lived — they withdrew their objections several hours later. But this year local Republican officials with connections to the election denier movement have gone further.
In New Mexico in June, the state Supreme Court ordered Republican officials in Otero County to certify the county’s primary election results after they had refused for weeks to do so, citing uncertainty about the integrity of elections. (A partisan audit of the election results in the county had found no evidence of fraud.)
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Election law experts say the same thing would most likely happen in Arizona if Cochise County were to withhold certification. Last week, Arizona’s secretary of state, Katie Hobbs, wrote a letter to the county supervisors warning that if they did not certify the results by Monday, she would take “all available legal action” to make them do so. On Monday, she filed a lawsuit.
Such action in effect amounts to Hobbs, a Democrat who won this month’s governor’s race, asking the state Supreme Court to certify her own victory. Kari Lake, a 2020 election denier who lost to Hobbs, has tried to make a campaign issue out of Hobbs’ role as the state’s top elections authority.
“Katie Hobbs is in charge of the certification process,” Caroline Wren, a spokesperson for Lake, told Steve Bannon on his “War Room” podcast this month, “and so she’s going to fight this every way. But I would hope that the courts end up stepping in to fight with us as well.”
Lake won Cochise County by 18 percentage points.
The focus on certification is in part a reflection of election deniers’ other tactics failing to get traction. Right-wing activists have spent much of the past two years unsuccessfully pursuing audits of election results at the state level or in large urban counties and organizing on behalf of sympathetic Republican candidates who largely failed to win statewide offices this month.
Increasingly, activists have turned to local Republicans who they believe have the power to build momentum behind major changes to the election system, or, as in the case of certification, at least momentarily disrupt its operation.
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This year, Republican officials in both Cochise and Nevada’s Nye County tried to institute hand-counted audits of the machine-tabulated ballots cast, which activists view as a step toward getting rid of the machines entirely.
Judd said the effort in Cochise was inspired by Jim O’Connor, a member of the state corporation commission. O’Connor wrote a letter in August to county supervisors across the state urging them to “act immediately to secure our November election by use of paper ballots processed by hand count.”
In the letter, O’Connor said he had been convinced of the need to do so by the Moment of Truth summit, a conference hosted that month by Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO and prominent election denier.
Activists have also packed county government meetings in Arizona and Pennsylvania, criticizing and in some cases leveling wild accusations at local officials over certification.
At a meeting to consider certification in Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County, a member of the public was ordered to leave after calling Audrey Serniak, a Democratic member of the election board who voted to certify the results, a “liar” and a “communist.”
In Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, the board of supervisors Monday voted unanimously to certify that county’s election results after a rowdy and heated meeting.
Over the course of two hours, speakers, including several out-of-state activists and right-wing media personalities, brought up conspiracy theories about elections and complained about the process. Echoing the Lake campaign, many claimed that Maricopa County voters were unable to vote because of a printer problem on Election Day.
Several speakers evoked violence, with one suggesting that members of the board were “traitors” who may have committed treason “punishable by the death penalty.”
“This is a war between good and evil and you all represent evil,” said one activist, Chris Hamlet, as he pointed at members of the board.
After many of the activists left the hearing room, elections officials gave a presentation that addressed the activists’ points and debunked each of them. The officials said the county had backup systems that ensured that every vote was counted.
Lake and her campaign posted video clips of the activists’ testimonies on social media, but as of Monday afternoon had not posted any of the county officials’ rebuttals.
In Cochise County, Ann English, the lone Democratic supervisor, who has consistently opposed the delay tactics, has been similarly berated during recent public meetings. In an interview after Monday’s vote, she expressed weariness with her colleagues’ efforts to withhold certification.
“I think they’re trying to breed chaos and discontent,” she said.
Judd would not say whether she will vote to certify the results Friday, and seemed uncertain of what would most likely happen if she and Crosby again refused.
“What I’ve heard is that the Legislature will just have to take over,” she said, citing messages posted on Telegram, the social media platform, by a group associated with the 2021 partisan audit in Maricopa County.
In reality, the matter would be adjudicated by the state courts. In her letter to the county officials this month, Hobbs warned of a scenario in which the county’s votes would simply not be counted — an outcome that could tip the state’s race for attorney general, which appears headed to a recount.
In the letter, Hobbs derided the claims that several election deniers had made on behalf of blocking certification as “baseless conspiracies.”
Judd countered: “The secretary of state calls them conspiracy theorists, but a theory is just a fact to be proven. So maybe they’ll be conspiracy facts one day.” | 2022-11-29T04:58:01+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/28/nation/gop-controlled-county-arizona-holds-up-election-results/ |
MIAMI (WSVN) - South Florida is sending support to the Caribbean.
Members of Miami-Dade Fire Urban Search and Rescue were deployed to Puerto Rico, Monday.
They will support local responders looking for and helping storm victims, help integrate teams coming into the area and assist in logistics.
The team travels all over the world responding to natural disasters.
Copyright 2022 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. | 2022-09-19T22:43:36+00:00 | wsvn.com | https://wsvn.com/news/local/miami-dade/miami-dade-fire-urban-search-and-rescue-team-sent-to-puerto-rico-to-assist-people-on-the-island/ |
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced a plan Wednesday to cancel up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt for millions of Americans, with double the help available for Pell Grant recipients.
Details are still coming out, but only borrowers making less than $125,000 a year would be eligible.
If you're eligible, you might be in a hurry to apply -- but that's not possible yet.
Do I need to apply for student loan forgiveness?
The Biden administration says nearly 8 million people may be able to have their debt forgiven automatically "because relevant income data is already available to the U.S. Department of Education."
When can I apply for student loan forgiveness?
If the Department of Education doesn't have your data, or you're not sure, the administration says it will "launch a simple application in the coming weeks." It promised that the application will be up and running by Dec. 31, when the yearslong pause on federal student loan repayments ends.
You can also be notified when the application launches. To sign up, go to the Department of Education's subscription page, enter your email address and check the box marked "Federal Student Loan Borrower Updates." You'll need to consent to the department's data privacy policy and click "Next."
So when will eligible borrowers get relief?
It's not clear yet, especially as legal challenges are likely. The Justice Department says the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act lets the Education secretary "reduce or eliminate the obligation to repay the principal balance of federal student loan debt" in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some conservative groups were still considering legal challenges, and it's unknown how this could affect the timeline. | 2022-08-24T19:52:22+00:00 | ktvb.com | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/apply-for-student-loan-forgiveness/507-3c706980-128d-43d4-8c83-d463c019b23a |
Going into his last tennis match of the school year, high school senior Lorris Nzouakeu knew he might get knocked out in straight sets. He was scheduled for one of the first matches of the day during the regionals competition in western Maryland, against a student from another school who'd won the championship last year.
"So it wasn't really looking good at the start," he laughs. "My goal was definitely to continue rallies and maintain pace and also just have fun."
"Fun" is sometimes hard to find in high school sports. Gunning for college athletic scholarships, many students and families go all in – focusing on one sport and even one position from elementary school. It's also big business – the whole youth sports industry is worth $19 billion dollars, more than the NFL.
For a lot of kids of all ages, sports are not working for them. Less than half of kids play sports at all, and those that do only stick with it for about three years and quit by age 11. That's a whole lot of kids missing out on some of the huge benefits of sports, including spacial awareness, physical activity, and team skills.
Increasingly sports educators, health researchers and parents are pushing back against this trend and arguing that playing sports should be for all kids.
During the last few pandemic years, physical activity fell, while obesity rates and mental health challenges grew, note Tom Farrey and Jon Solomon of the Aspen Institute Sports & Society Program in a 2022 handbook for reimagining school sports. At the same time, interest in sports has grown, which "presents an historic opportunity for schools to reimagine their approach to sports," they write.
But schools can create space for more types of students in sports. One example of what this looks like in practice is Nzouakeu's high school – Tuscarora High in Frederick County, Md. This school transformed its athletics program to prioritize including kids of all ability levels in sports. It's a model for handling youth sports, argues author and athlete Linda Flanagan, who highlighted the school in her book about youth sports entitled Take Back the Game.
Here's how Tuscarora High does things – plus some guiding principles for how schools can help include more kids in the fun of sports.
Offer a variety of sports to appeal to all tastes and talents
Tuscarora is a fairly big school with about 1,600 students – 40% white, a quarter Hispanic, a quarter Black. A third of students get free or reduced lunch.
Half of these students play a school sport, well above the national average of 39% participation. "That's awesome," beams Tuscarora's coordinator of athletics and facilities Chris O'Connor. "That speaks to the number of sports that we offer."
Frederick County schools, including Tuscarora, offer 17 different sports, including golf, swimming and lacrosse, and starting next year, girls flag football. It also has three unified teams, in which students with and without disabilities play together – Tuscarora's unified bocce team won Maryland's state championship this year.
Variety is key because not everyone loves playing football, basketball or baseball, notes Brian Culp, professor of health and physical activity leadership at Kennesaw State University.
"What can happen is that if you're in a school system where you, for instance, have a high amount of African-American students, and you say, 'Well, I'm going to provide basketball and I'm going to provide football,' – you've basically designed their destiny," he says. If a student isn't good at either of these sports or doesn't like it, he explains, they might feel like there's no place in sports for them.
Offering options like fencing or gymnastics can help students find what clicks. "There are things that impact what type of choices people make: Are they skiers? Are they swimmers? Are they runners?" Culp says he himself didn't play a varsity sport until his senior year, when he ran cross country.
Don't force kids – even star players – to specialize
Variety is also important for athletically gifted students to help them branch out, notes Flanagan.
"There's no end to the specializing," she says, of the trend in sports today. A parent may go beyond specializing their child in hockey, she says, to asserting: "My child's a goalie, and don't deviate from that because that's where you're going to make your mark."
She thinks this way of approaching sports robs them of the fun, while also increasing the risks of repetitive stress injuries and potentially limiting a child's identity. In her book she advises: no sports specializing before puberty.
Tuscarora's O'Connor agrees that specializing is a problem. "I think that's what's wrong with youth sports right now in America," he says. "I'm from the mindset that you should do as many different sports as possible because you don't know what you're going to like."
Give kids of varying skill levels opportunities to play
The school system today is geared toward channeling the top-performing young athletes toward collegiate and professional goals, says Flanagan. "If you're at a giant school and you're trying to make the basketball team, you are competing against four grades [worth of students] for five spots," she says. "So where does that leave the kid who's just like, 'Okay, I want to play, but I'm not fantastic'?
"The arms-race nature of it has really had such a terrible impact on kids who might ordinarily grow into it if they had space, they had time," she adds.
Not every family has the resources to develop kids' athletic talents when they're younger, and some kids don't discover an interest right away. For students like this, Tuscarora has low-key, non-competitive sports that students can play during the school day, explains O'Connor — and that have meets every few weeks.
"It's providing that opportunity for the student-athlete in the school day to just have some fun with the sport and be around an adult who knows something about it," he says.
Official school sports also help students who come in as beginners stick with it and get better, says Nzouakeu, the Tuscarora tennis player. He started as a sophomore, and his game has improved steadily, he says. "I know that when I play out there, I can definitely find out which skills I need to practice more and I can take that time to continue getting better."
Use school space and time creatively
School sports are often jammed in after a long day of sitting in classrooms. That's not the only way to do things, notes Flanagan.
"In Finland, after every 45 minutes, they have 15 minutes of recess," she says. "Just this idea of moving your body to clear your head – it's well-established in science that this is so essential for clear thinking and for emotional well-being, too."
She says recess isn't the only way to get physical activity during the school day – intramural and club sports can offer that same kind of outlet, if schools think creatively about space.
"Most gym and field space is not occupied all the time – field space in particular is typically for sports after school," she points out. Why not use that field during a flex period? Or get students scrimmaging in the gym?
To do this, says Culp, you need "a principal, a district that actively promotes physical movement as a part of the school day." He notes decades worth of research showing the benefits of physical activity for kids. "A physically, actively engaged child is a better learner in school," he says "Their self-esteem is high, their self-confidence is high, and their ability to actually deal with challenges in the world is better."
PE classes have a good ratio of teacher to student
One challenge for students who aren't confident in their sports skills is that it can be intimidating to try to join in, says Culp, especially if there are a lot of students and only one teacher or coach.
It's like being in a city waiting for a subway. "That train comes through and you're just like, 'I don't know if I want to get on that subway car because it's packed,'" he says. If there are too many other students, some kids may feel they won't get enough support from the coach.
School leadership and school boards can support physical movement, Culp says, by instituting a manageable ratio of educators to students. This can encourage students without a lot of skills (or even reluctance) to feel like they can join in.
Keep things in perspective
Yes, there are benefits to sports, says Flanagan, but they are not for everyone. With children, "you can't force them to like school or like to read or when to do sports," says Flanagan. "They have to come to it on their own."
Modeling low-key outdoor play and enjoying sports is an important thing parents can do, she says. But Flanagan – who has coached cross country and track and seen the intensity some parents bring to their children's athletic endeavors – says it's important to let kids quit when they want to.
"I don't think forcing kids to play sports is a good idea," she says. "We have this distorted notion here about grit. Obviously grit is important. But I think we shouldn't make children stick with things just because it's a virtue to stick with things and who cares how miserable you are."
That includes young people who never really took to sports at all, and talented athletes who played seriously for years and then decide they've had enough.
And maybe if you give kids a choice, and let them play without having to be the best, they'll discover a life-long love of sport. Lorris Nzouakeu, who just graduated from Tuscarora High, lost his regionals tennis match 6-0, 6-0, but that didn't bother him too much. He says next year in college, he may play on an intramural tennis team, or just recreationally.
"I'd like to continue tennis in college because not only do I think of it as a great pastime, but I also think that it's something that I can just continue doing for myself," he says. "Something I can de-stress with as I continue living my life."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-06-07T09:19:43+00:00 | iowapublicradio.org | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/2023-06-07/kids-cant-all-be-star-athletes-heres-how-schools-can-welcome-more-students-to-play |
DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — Central Park in Decatur was lit up blue on Saturday night for Blue the dog.
Blue and his 4 siblings were left outside in below-freezing temperatures at the hands of their owners. For some, remembrance is just one way to spread awareness about animal cruelty.
Beth Wallace, an animal advocate, was heartbroken after hearing Blue’s story. She organized the candlelight vigil that nearly 50 people attended.
“He touched my heart deeply even though I never met him,” Wallace said.
She wants to send a message about animal cruelty.
“I’m hoping it will push some of our local government officials to realize there is a serious problem out here,” Jim Henderson said.
That message is one Deb and Jim Henderson strongly support.
“It’s something we take very seriously and we want to make sure that if you’re even considering getting a dog you’re willing to put in the time,” said Jim, “you’re willing to make that dog feel like he is part of your family.”
Blue was an 11- year-old pitbull. His owners had four other dogs.
The Macon County Sheriff’s Office rescued them after their owners left them in below-freezing temperatures.
“How can people be so cruel, but people are the cruelest thing on the planet,” Deb said.
Deb says they recently rescued a pitbull and were heartbroken to hear someone treated an animal the way Blue was.
“We would never put her outside or make her go through what Blue and his four siblings went through,” Deb said.
Following Blue’s death, his siblings were taken to the shelter. Their owners were both charged with animal cruelty and neglect. | 2023-02-06T16:39:25+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/decatur-community-gathers-to-remember-11-year-old-pitbull/ |
NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marpai, Inc. ("Marpai" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: MRAI), a deep learning technology company transforming third-party administration (TPA) in the self-funded health insurance market, will host a conference call and webcast on Thursday, August 11 at 8:30 a.m. ET to answer questions about the Company's operational and financial highlights for its second quarter in 2022. The Company will report its second quarter results after the close of trading on Wednesday, August 10, 2022.
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2023 Women's World Cup is here: Everything you need to know
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP - The 2023 Women's World Cup is finally here.
The United States will be playing for an unprecedented three-peat at the Women’s World Cup. It won’t be easy for the No. 1 team in the world.
Co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, the quadrennial tournament for international soccer’s most coveted trophy kicks off July 20 and features an expanded field of 32 teams, up from 24. There are 64 matches during the tournament.
That means more competition for the two-time defending World Cup champion U.S., which won the 2015 event in Canada and the 2019 tournament in France. The Americans have won four titles overall, most of any nation.
WHAT’S THE WORLD CUP SCHEDULE AND WHERE IS IT LOCATED?
The 32 teams are divided into eight groups of four teams. Each team plays a three-game, round-robin group stage, running from July 20 to Aug. 3.
The top finishers advance to the round of 16 from Aug. 5-8. The quarterfinals are set for Aug. 11-12 and the two semifinal matches will be played Aug. 15-16. A third-place game is set for Aug. 19 in Brisbane ahead of the final in Sydney.
The final will air at 6 a.m. ET (1000 GMT) on Aug. 20 in the United States.
The broadcast schedule is complicated by the time difference. The United States is playing in Group E with Vietnam, the Netherlands and Portugal. The opening match is against Vietnam on July 22 in Auckland, which, because of the time difference, will air in the U.S. on July 21 at 9 p.m. ET.
A rematch of the 2019 final against the Netherlands is set for July 27 in Wellington, airing at 9 p.m. ET on July 26 in the U.S. The last group game against Portugal is set for Aug. 1, airing at 3 a.m. ET that same day.
HOW TO WATCH THE FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
Fox holds the English-language media rights in the United States for the Women’s World Cup. Telemundo holds the Spanish-language rights.
Fox will broadcast a record 29 matches over the air on its main network and the rest of the games will be aired on FS1. All matches will be streamed on the Fox app.
FIFA struck a collective deal with the European Broadcasting Union in mid-June, ending a standoff with a broadcasters in five major European television markets. The deal guarantees the games will air in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Britain.
PLAYERS TO WATCH
There are two distinct groups of players to watch at this World Cup: Veteran superstars and talented youngsters.
Canada’s Christine Sinclair leads a group of veterans that includes Brazil’s Marta, Australia’s Sam Kerr, France’s Wendie Renard and American Alex Morgan.
Sinclair, who is 40 and likely playing in her final World Cup, is international soccer’s all-time leading scorer, among women or men, with 190 goals.
Megan Rapinoe, set to appear in her fourth World Cup, says that this one will be her last. The 38-year-old forward for the United States plans to retire from soccer at the end of this year.
Young stars include 22-year-old U.S. forward Sophia Smith, 21-year-old Jody Brown of Jamaica and 19-year-old Melchie Dumornay of Haiti. American-born Casey Phair, 16, was named to South Korea’s squad.
Smith doubled up last year as both the U.S. Soccer Player of the Year and the National Women’s Soccer League’s Most Valuable Player.
TEAMS TO WATCH
The United States is ranked No. 1 in the world in the latest FIFA rankings. The Americans are a strong team despite recent injuries, but their dominance in international play will be challenged at this World Cup.
Germany, ranked No. 2, won back-to-back World Cups in 2003 and 2007. Third-ranked Sweden knocked the United States out of the 2016 Olympics in the quarterfinals. Seventh-ranked Canada won the gold medal at the Tokyo Games.
Considered a contender, England has been hit by injuries to top players including Beth Mead, Fran Kirby and captain Leah Williamson. All three will miss the World Cup. France switched coaches in March after some players threatened to skip the tournament.
Australia can’t be counted out as co-host. The Matildas will be boosted by Kerr, one of the world’s best players.
BETTING GUIDE
The United States is a +240 favorite to win the World Cup, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. England is next at +430, followed by Spain at +550.
There’s also a big group of teams the oddsmakers say have little chance of lifting the trophy, including Jamaica, Vietnam, Argentina, Zambia, Nigeria, Costa Rica, Morocco, Philippines, South Africa, Haiti and Panama. All are at +43,000.
POWER RANKINGS — July 19
- United States: The favorite for a reason and motivated to make it three in a row.
- Spain: Packed with talent and innovation, and a genuine force; no midfield unit is better.
- England: Was staking a claim as the top team in the world until the injury bug hit.
- Germany: Has never failed to reach the quarters, will be looking for even more.
- Australia: Spurred by Sam Kerr, this team won't be scared of anyone on home soil.
- France: The golden generation has gone, can coach Herve Renard be the wild card?
- Canada: The Olympic champ has been through off-field turmoil, but is battle-tested.
- Brazil: Marta is still going, but the biggest impact might come from coach Pia Sundhage.
- Netherlands: The 2019 finalist hasn't progressed as much as it would have liked.
- Japan: Always solid and professional, but desperately in need of a star striker.
- Sweden: Poor recent form might affect confidence despite an Olympic silver.
- China: Spent years in the doldrums until a stirring Asian Cup triumph. Not to be overlooked.
- Norway: Early pioneers of women's soccer hoping for a resurgence in 2023.
- Denmark: First task is to survive a tricky group.
- Italy: Still looking for a breakthrough at the top level.
- New Zealand: Needs a strong start to stir local interest.
- Ireland: Nerves will be tested by opener against hosts Australia.
- Portugal: First appearance comes courtesy of a resilient backline.
- Switzerland: Impressed by reaching round two in 2015.
- South Korea: Has a 1-8-1 record in its three World Cups.
- Colombia: Highly competitive in South American qualifying, and Linda Caicedo is electrifying.
- Jamaica: Strength in depth will be tested in a viciously tough group.
- Nigeria: An African powerhouse, coached by American Randy Waldrum.
- Argentina: Looking to secure its first victory at a World Cup.
- Zambia: Fast-improving and a popular pick for causing a shock.
- South Africa: African Nations Cup champ but struggling for form.
- Haiti: An inspirational team that will have many neutrals on its side.
- Vietnam: Tough early challenge against the reigning champ.
- Morocco: Hard to know what to expect from this rapidly improving team.
- Costa Rica: Current form is a worry, as is being in such a difficult group.
- Philippines: Impressive effort in qualifying will give hope.
- Panama: Facing a big step up in quality. | 2023-07-20T06:07:50+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/2023-womens-world-cup-everything-you-need-to-know |
CLARKSBURG, W.Va (WBOY) – The unusual weather and warm temperatures north central West Virginia saw Thursday will transition back to more winter-appropriate temperatures on Friday, bringing snow and ice with it.
A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for Harrison, Taylor, Barbour, Randolph, Webster, Western Pocahontas, Braxton, Upshur, Lewis, Gilmer, Ritchie, Wirt, Pleasants, and Doddridge counties from 4 a.m. Friday through Saturday at 7 a.m. Slippery road conditions are expected to cause issues on the morning and evening commutes.
Rain, which most of the state has experienced throughout the day on Thursday, is expected to transition into a wintry mix and eventually to snow through the morning Friday, as a cold front moves into the region. Light snow accumulation will mainly be seen along hilltops during the early hours while, the heaviest snow will move into the region during the evening hours Friday into the overnight hours, dying down early Saturday morning.
Along the lowlands (mainly west of I-79), expect a light dusting, up to an inch of snow accumulation. In the higher elevations, snow accumulations increase with 1-3 inches expected for most locations east of I-79 and 2-5 inches possible through much of Randolph, Tucker, Webster and Pocahontas counties.
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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Thrive Bioscience Inc., an innovative provider of automated live cell imaging instruments and software, debuts a new integrated suite of unique and exciting capabilities, including Release 4.0 of its CellAssist software, that significantly advances the field of live cell imaging.
Thrive's CellAssist family of networkable instruments now provides unprecedented new capabilities for researchers to automatically capture thousands of time-series images with 100+ focal planes on 1 to 50 cell culture plates within a controlled environment. Imaging modes include phase contrast and bright-field at 4x, 10x, and 20x in 6-well to 384-well round bottom and flat bottom plates.
The CellAssist family includes a benchtop model, a robotic 50-plate model, and advanced software that produces comprehensive databases of high-quality images, metrics, and documentation that provide researchers groundbreaking insights into cell and tissue dynamics.
New CellAssist family product hardware and software capabilities include:
- Imaging a 4mm z-range with 100+ focal planes, each 2 µm to 50 µm apart (user-selectable)
- 40% faster image capture rates (gigabytes of images in minutes)
- Image correction for physical variations in cell culture plates
- Imaging in round bottom 6-well to 384-well plates
- Spheroid area and volume calculation toolkit
"The CellAssist family of products, including and software Release 4.0, offer unique imaging capabilities that will vastly improve organoid imaging, IVF imaging, viral plaque assays, gene editing (CRISPR), and stem cell production for researchers," explained Thomas Farb-Horch, CEO of Thrive.
Thrive unveiled these new capabilities at the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening's annual meeting in San Diego, February 26 – 28, 2023, and the family of products is set to be launched following the conference.
About Thrive Bioscience
Thrive Bioscience, located in the Boston area, is an innovative provider of instruments with integrated software tools for live cell, stem cell, and tissue imaging, analytics, and automation. Thrive's instruments enable reproducible cell culture imaging and breakthrough insights into cell dynamics by integrating microscopy and robotics to automatically capture and build databases of terabytes of data. Additional information: www.thrivebio.com.
Thrive Bioscience and CellAssist are registered trademarks of Thrive Bioscience, Inc. Copyright © 2023 Thrive Bioscience, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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President Biden on Wednesday went after former President Trump and other Republicans who continue to tout 2020 election lies, warning democracy is on the ballot just six days before the midterms and following the violent attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband.
“American democracy is under attack because the defeated former president of the United States refused to accept the results of the 2020 election,” Biden said. “He refuses to accept the will of the people, he refuses to accept the fact that he lost. He has abused his power and put the loyalty to himself before loyalty to the Constitution. And he’s made a big lie an article of faith of the MAGA Republican Party, the minority of that party.”
The president, speaking at a Democratic National Committee event at Union Station near the Capitol, warned the public that the country faced a crossroads in next week’s election that could upend democracy.
The speech came less than a week after an alleged assailant broke into the speaker’s home and attacked her husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer. Biden focused briefly on the attack at the start of the speech, but his broader message was for Americans to reject political violence, voter intimidation and election denialism as hundreds of GOP candidates are on the ballot next week for various offices who have refused to say if they will accept the results should they lose.
“There’s a lot at stake in these midterm elections … but there’s something else at stake: democracy itself,” Biden said.
The speech carried echoes of Biden’s address in early September in Philadelphia, when he said Trump and his allies, so-called MAGA Republicans, posed a threat to American democracy.
The president on Wednesday argued Americans should be able to agree on three things: That the right to vote is sacred, that political violence should be condemned, and that they believe in democracy.
“We don’t settle our differences in America with a riot, a mob, or a bullet or a hammer. We settle them peacefully at the ballot box,” Biden said, alluding to the Pelosi attack.
The speech comes six days before an election that will determine who controls Congress and after millions of Americans have already cast their ballots. Biden has repeatedly stressed that the midterms should not be viewed as a referendum on his job performance, but as a choice between two distinctly different visions for the country.
While some in the Democratic Party believe the focus should be on kitchen table issues like bringing down the cost of gas, groceries and energy, Biden has been clear that the differences between the two parties extend to the fate of democracy itself.
Biden argued Republicans aligned with Trump would look to “succeed where they failed in 2020” by trying to “suppress the right of voters and subvert the electoral system itself.”
Biden acknowledged that the outcome of the midterm elections might not be decided for a few days after Election Day, calling on Americans to be patient.
“It’s always been important for citizens in a democracy to be informed and engaged. Now it’s important for citizens to be patient as well. That’s how it’s supposed to work,” he said.
He said that there’s been no election in U.S. history other than the 2020 election that Americans can be more certain of the results because legal challenges and recounts were brought up, which all proved the results were accurate.
“It was an enraged mob that had been whipped up into a frenzy by a president repeating over and over again the big lie that the election of 2020 had been stolen. It’s a lie that fueled the dangerous rise in political violence and voter intimidation over the past two years,” he said.
“Silence is complicity,” he said, saying there is an “alarming rise” of people in the U.S. who condone political violence.
When he opened his remarks detailing the attack on Paul Pelosi, he noted that the attacker said “where’s Nancy,” which echoes words shouted by the mob on Jan. 6, some of whom stormed and ransacked the Speaker’s office.
Paul Pelosi was attacked early Friday morning in the couple’s San Francisco home and underwent surgery for a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands.
Biden decided to deliver Wednesday’s remarks because of the “alarming number” of Republican officials who have said they won’t accept the results of the midterm elections, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said earlier on Wednesday. The attack on Paul Pelosi also factored into the president’s decision to make the speech, according to Jean-Pierre. | 2022-11-03T00:57:23+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/hill-politics/biden-goes-after-trump-lies-in-democracy-speech-after-pelosi-attack/ |
By KELVIN CHAN
AP Business Writer
LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk said Friday that Twitter plans to relaunch its premium service that will offer different colored check marks to accounts next week, in a fresh move to revamp the service after a previous attempt backfired.
It’s the latest change to the social media platform that the billionaire Tesla CEO bought last month for $44 billion, coming a day after Musk said he would grant “amnesty” for suspended accounts and causing yet more uncertainty for users.
Twitter previously suspended the premium service, which under Musk granted blue-check labels to anyone paying $8 a month, because of a wave of imposter accounts. Originally, the blue check was given to government entities, corporations, celebrities and journalists verified by the platform to prevent impersonation.
In the latest version, companies will get a gold check, governments will get a gray check, and individuals who pay for the service, whether or not they’re celebrities, will get a blue check, Musk said Friday.
“All verified accounts will be manually authenticated before check activates,” he said, adding it was “Painful, but necessary” and promising a “longer explanation” next week. He said the service was “tentatively launching” Dec. 2.
Twitter had put the revamped premium service on hold days after its launch earlier this month after accounts impersonated companies including pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co., Nintendo, Lockheed Martin, and even Musk’s own businesses Tesla and SpaceX, along with various professional sports and political figures.
It was just one change in the past two days. On Thursday, Musk said he would grant “amnesty” for suspended accounts, following the results of an online poll he conducted on whether accounts that have not “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam” should be reinstated.
The yes vote was 72%. Such online polls are anything but scientific and can easily be influenced by bots. Musk also used one before restoring former U.S. President Donald Trump’s account.
“The people have spoken. Amnesty begins next week. Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk tweeted Thursday using a Latin phrase meaning “the voice of the people, the voice of God.”
The move is likely to put the company on a crash course with European regulators seeking to clamp down on harmful online content with tough new rules, which helped cement Europe’s reputation as the global leader in efforts to rein in the power of social media companies and other digital platforms.
Zach Meyers, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform think tank, said giving blanket amnesty based on an online poll is an “arbitrary approach” that’s “hard to reconcile with the Digital Services Act,” a new EU law that will start applying to the biggest online platforms by mid-2023.
The law is aimed at protecting internet users from illegal content and reducing the spread of harmful but legal content. It requires big social media platforms to be “diligent and objective” in enforcing restrictions, which must be spelled out clearly in the fine print for users when signing up, Meyers said.
Britain also is working on its own online safety law.
“Unless Musk quickly moves from a ‘move fast and break things’ approach to a more sober management style, he will be on a collision course with Brussels and London regulators,” Meyers said.
European Union officials took to social media to highlight their worries. The 27-nation bloc’s executive Commission published a report Thursday that found Twitter took longer to review hateful content and removed less of it this year compared with 2021.
The report was based on data collected over the spring — before Musk acquired Twitter — as part of an annual evaluation of online platforms’ compliance with the bloc’s voluntary code of conduct on disinformation. It found that Twitter assessed just over half of the notifications it received about illegal hate speech within 24 hours, down from 82% in 2021.
The numbers may yet worsen. Since taking over, Musk has l aid off half the company’s 7,500-person workforce along with an untold number of contractors responsible for content moderation. Many others have resigned, including the company’s head of trust and safety.
Recent layoffs at Twitter and results of the EU’s review “are a source of concern,” the bloc’s commissioner for justice, Didier Reynders tweeted Thursday evening after meeting with Twitter executives at the company’s European headquarters in Dublin.
In the meeting, Reynders said he “underlined that we expect Twitter to deliver on their voluntary commitments and comply with EU rules,” including the Digital Services Act and the bloc’s strict privacy regulations known as General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR.
Vera Jourova, the European Commission’s vice president for values and transparency, tweeted Thursday evening that she was concerned about news reports that a “vast amount” of Twitter’s European staff were fired.
“If you want to effectively detect and take action against #disinformation & propaganda, this requires resources,” Jourova said. “Especially in the context of Russian disinformation warfare.”
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Dear Amy: My husband and I have been together for 16 years, during which time he has always been obsessed with having his back rubbed. More specifically, it is his back, his legs (if we’re sitting on the couch), and even his neck while riding in the car.
I am a people-pleaser. I did this to show him I loved him, and it just became the norm.
Fast-forward to two kids, a house to run, and a full-time teaching job, and I can’t stand that during our down-time together he asks me to constantly rub his back and legs.
We have other problems in our relationship that I am working on with a counselor.
I had thought once those problems were fixed, I wouldn’t hate the idea of being my husband’s in-home masseuse.
However, after telling him no today – and watching him pout yet again – I realize I am just done performing this act of service for him.
I want to enjoy sitting next to him again without the rage that I feel when he asks me to do this for him.
My husband says that this “time together” is what makes him feel loved.
If that’s the case, am I doing a disservice to my marriage to refuse to spend our time together massaging his back?
– Burnt Out Wife
Dear Burnt Out: If being your husband’s “in-home masseuse” is the act of service that makes him feel loved, then what is his act of service that makes you feel loved? I assume it might be something as simple as him allowing you to sit quietly in proximity without requiring you to do anything in particular – in short, letting you do and act however you please.
There is no question that people in intimate partnerships serve one another, and it is helpful to recognize those things your partner might do – oftentimes without being asked – that make you feel loved.
The demand, expectation, and pouting (on his part) and rage (on yours) makes this seem less like an act of service, and more like a toll to be paid. You do this to avoid a negative reaction, rather than to inspire a positive one.
It might be helpful for you to ask your husband if he can name some other things you do that make him feel loved.
You should both read Gary Chapman’s “The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts” (2015, Northfield Publishing).
Dear Amy: With cellphones holding thousands of photos, I have found myself being held hostage by people searching their phones for photos.
These are the people who, in the middle of a conversation, get excited to show a particular picture.
Oftentimes, they need to scroll and scroll and scroll to find it. When they finally do, they shove their phone at your face without asking if you’d even like to see their photos.
This is not only disruptive to the conversation, but also very annoying to stand there and watch as they search and fumble.
How can I stop being an unwilling participant in this phone photo-pushing ritual?
Smiling and glancing at one photo only serves to inspire them to search for more.
– Tired
Dear Tired: I think of these enervating interruptions as “The Dead See Scrolls.”
You might say, “Hey, why don’t you text that photo to me later … that way we can keep talking.”
Readers might have better suggestions. I’ll happily run them.
Dear Amy: The question from “Twin Mom” really resonated.
We’re elders now, but as children, my identical twin brother and I fought at least once every day.
We were constantly arguing over who got which portion of food, and who got “cheated.”
Mom’s solution was pretty simple. For fighting, unless there was blood, she didn’t want to hear about it: “You two work it out.”
If there was blood, she patched up the injured twin and asked the other to explain and apologize.
For food portions, she said, “You two take turns. One of you divides the food, and the other one picks which portion he wants.”
Ask Amy
– Problem solved.
By the way, my brother became a vascular surgeon, and I became a lawyer and later a judge.
We have been best friends all our lives.
– Paul Conaway
Dear Paul: I have enjoyed the dozens of responses addressing the dilemma of the battling twins, but your story of the future vascular surgeon and the judge (with the very wise mother) puts all of it into perspective.
(You can email Amy Dickinson at askamy@amydickinson.com or send a letter to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or Facebook.)
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WESTMINSTER, Colo. (KDVR) — The masks wrestlers wear during lucha libre matches can be a real showstopper.
They dazzle and mesmerize. The masks are covered with sparkly sequins and are adored by millions of Mexican wrestling fans around the world and in Colorado. They are worn by Mexican lucha libre superheroes.
Now, there’s a move to bring more of that type of colorful, freestyle wrestling to Denver.
FOX31 attended a packed match that took place in Westminster. In the crowd was 10-year-old Jay Noah Lopez. The child wore his mask the whole time, supporting his favorite wrestler, the Red Viper.
“Who do you think is going to come out today, dad? I hope he (Red Viper) comes out first,“ Jay said.
This kid is beyond excited to be at the match. It was like little Jay was meeting a god.
“Aye, yi yi. Wow, mom,” Jay said.
In lucha libre wrestling, ‘the mask is everything’
Lucha libre, which is a form of freestyle wrestling, has been a deep part of Latino culture for decades. And those masks wrestlers wear are sacred.
“You will not catch a mascarada (masked wrestler) without a mask because the mask is everything,” professional wrestling manager Hugo Savinovich said.
The masks create an aura of mystery. They can also make the wrestlers seem like warriors and bigger than life.
“The mask is everything. It’s what drives lucha to another level,” Savinovich said.
Savinovich wrestled for 20 years. He’s now trying to make the sport a mainstay in Colorado.
“What I’m trying to do make Denver the place where this lucha culture becomes not just a small success but big success,” Savinovich said.
Lucha libre attracts entire families, including grandmothers and grandfathers. Little Jay loves the thought of more lucha libre coming to Colorado.
“I think it’s great, yeah. It’s perfect,” Jay said.
With kids like Jay, the tradition is sure to stay for at least another generation. | 2022-09-23T14:50:00+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/lucha-libre-celebrates-mexican-tradition/ |
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (AP) — A 27-year-old man rescued from a collapsed trench in suburban Chicago later died, authorities said Tuesday.
Nikodem Zarembra of Elmwood Park was buried for more than an hour and stopped breathing while in the trench Monday evening, the Buffalo Grove Fire Department said.
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Fire officials were notified before 5:30 p.m. and removed Zaremba at 6:35 p.m. He was transported to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Zaremba worked for Rooter Solutions of Burr Ridge, which was issued a sewer repair permit for the property.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the cause of the accident, fire officials said.
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The trench was about 13 feet (3.9 meters) long, 9 feet (2.7 meters) wide and 8 feet (2.4 meters) deep, OSHA said.
“It appears there was no cave-in protection in the excavation while they were performing the work,” an OSHA spokesman said in a statement.
Someone answering a telephone call for comment Tuesday to Rooter Solutions hung up on the call. | 2022-12-13T23:00:04+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Man-dies-after-being-buried-rescued-from-17651914.php |
The Associated Press
Here are the highest paid male and female CEOs in the S&P 500 index for 2021, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm.
The AP’s compensation study covered 340 executives at S&P 500 companies who have served at least two full consecutive fiscal years at their respective companies, which filed proxy statements between Jan. 1 and April 30. Some companies with highly paid CEOs do not fit these criteria.
Pay for chief executives rose to a median of $14.5 million last year, including salary, stock and other compensation. Median means half the CEOs in the survey made more, and half made less.
Compensation often includes stock and option grants that the CEO may not receive for years unless certain performance measures are met. For some companies, big raises occur when CEOs get a stock or option grant in one year as part of a multi-year grant.
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Top Male CEOs:
1. Peter Kern
Expedia Group
$296.2 million
Change from last year: 6,592%
His pay vs typical company worker: 2,897 times, up from 53
Overall ranking: No. 1
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2. David Zaslav
Warner Bros. Discovery
$246.6 million.
Change from last year: 554%
His pay vs typical company worker: 2,972 times, up from 565
Overall ranking: 2
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3. William McDermott
ServiceNow
$165.8 million.
Change from last year: 560%
His pay vs typical company worker: 709 times, up from 120
Overall ranking: 3
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4. Tim Cook
Apple
$98.7 million.
Change from last year: 569%
His pay vs typical company worker: 1,447 times, up from 256
Overall ranking: No. 4
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5. Jamie Dimon
JPMorgan Chase
$84.4 million.
Change from last year: 167%
His pay vs typical company worker: 917 times, up from 395
Overall ranking: No. 5
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Top female CEOs:
1. Lisa T. Su
Advanced Micro Devices
$29.5 million.
Change from last year: 9%
Her pay vs typical company worker: 230 times, up from 228
Overall ranking: No. 22
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2. Mary T. Barra
General Motors
$29.1 million.
Change from last year: 25%
Her pay vs typical company worker: 420 times, up from 201
Overall ranking: No. 23
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3. Phebe N. Novakovic
General Dynamics
$23.6 million.
Change from last year: 24%
Her pay vs typical company worker: 254 times, up from 174
Overall ranking: No. 38
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4. Adena Friedman
Nasdaq
$20 million.
Change from last year: 27%
Her pay vs typical company worker: 202 times, up from 126
Overall ranking: No. 80
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5. Kathy J. Warden
Northrop Grumman
$19.5 million.
Change from last year: -1%
Her pay vs typical company worker: 166 times, down from 205
Overall ranking: No. 89
___ | 2022-05-26T13:58:12+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/26/how-much-the-top-paid-male-female-ceos-made-in-2021/ |
A consumer class action lawsuit filed Tuesday claims Delta Air Lines inaccurately billed itself as the world’s “first carbon-neutral airline” and should pay damages. The complaint in federal court in California alleges the airline relied on carbon offsets that were largely bogus.
Companies around the world buy carbon credits to cancel out their carbon releases with projects that promise to absorb carbon dioxide out of the air, or prevent pollution that would’ve happened. But they’ve been under the spotlight in recent months with claims their benefits are exaggerated.
Delta is a big customer, purchasing credits from projects including wind and solar projects in India and an Indonesian swamp forest, the lawsuit says.
The airline did not respond to a request for comment.
The case, filed by Glendale, California resident Mayanna Berrin, claims to act on behalf of anyone who flew Delta while living in the state since March 2020. It says benefits from the offsets are likely to be temporary and would have happened even without the firm’s investment. For a carbon credit to be valid, it must provide a benefit that would not have happened otherwise.
Delta announced three years ago it would go carbon neutral, which means releasing no more climate-changing pollution into the air than it absorbs. It can also mean paying to guarantee it is absorbed elsewhere.
Berrin argues this enabled the firm to gain market share and charge higher prices. A writer for Nickelodeon, Berrin told The AP she is about to enter her thirties and climate anxiety is pronounced in people her age.
“I felt comfortable paying more because I was neutralizing when I needed to travel for work or to see my family,” she said. She said she felt frustration and regret when she began having doubts about Delta’s offsets.
“They can’t just claim neutrality if that’s not factually accurate,” she said. “Lawsuits in general are very scary, and there are a lot of people who echo my frustrations who may not know their rights or the impact they can make by speaking up.”
Her attorney Jonathan Haderlein believes it’s the first such case against a major American airline, and one of just a handful of “greenwashing” cases in the U.S. based on consumer protection law.
The case number is 2:23-cv-04150.
In 2021 aviation made up more than 2% of global CO2 emissions, according to the International Energy Agency.
Earlier on Tuesday, Delta, based in Atlanta, Georgia, had 672 flights in the air globally, according to FlightRadar24, which tracks GPS data pinged to satellites and receivers.
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Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives support from several private foundations. See more about AP’s climate initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | 2023-05-31T15:07:30+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/ap-delta-air-lines-hit-with-lawsuit-over-claims-of-carbon-neutrality/ |
Tuesday’s slate of games features two local-against-local matchups.
United and United South have had completely different starts to district play. The Longhorns are perfect while the Panthers are still winless. The two will meet in a 7:30 p.m. matchup at United Tuesday.
The Longhorns have opened District 30-6A play strong, beating the likes of Del Rio, LBJ and Alexander. And they defeated the Wolves and Bulldogs both by double digits.
United has cruised through its early district schedule thanks to its defense and sharing the ball. The Longhorns have held their district opponents to 44.7 points per game. Then offensively, they have been led by a handful of players such as Luis Arzuaga, Ramon Chavez and Diego Saldana — all who can score in double digits.
After a strong non-district outing, United South has struggled to begin district action, losing to Alexander, Eagle Pass and LBJ, respectively. Last Friday against the Wolves, the Panthers were up early but crumbled throughout the game. A win might be desperately needed for United South’s playoff chances.
The other local-against-local matchup Tuesday features Martin visiting Cigarroa for a 7 p.m. contest. The Tigers won the first game between the two, 65-49, back on Jan. 3.
Martin enters the matchup after picking up a convincing 64-56 victory over La Joya Palmview last Friday. As for Cigarroa, it enters after claiming back-to-back district wins.
The Nixon Mustangs have claimed six-straight district wins. They look to make it seven-straight victories as they travel to take on Roma in a 7:30 p.m. matchup. Nixon has been led by the likes of Ian Tovar, Julius Garcia and Richard Garcia as of late.
The Alexander Bulldogs suffered a tough loss last Friday as they fell to United at home. They look to bounce back as they will travel to take on Eagle Pass in a 7:30 p.m. matchup. Alexander will look toward Robert Eads and Edgar Zuniga to hopefully help it bounce back Tuesday.
The LBJ Wolves aim to build on last Friday’s win over United South as they will host Del Rio in a 7 p.m. matchup. Juan Navarro — who has powered LBJ all season long — dropped 20 points in last Friday’s win.
St. Augustine will be off Tuesday. However, the Knights will return to the court on Thursday as they will travel to take St. Mary’s Hall.
garrett.kroeger@lmtonline.com | 2023-01-23T23:38:19+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Longhorns-set-to-host-Panthers-17735967.php |
Renowned Norwegian architecture and design company Snøhetta appointed to design project
Swire Hotels' "The House Collective", a leading contemporary luxury hotel brand, makes Japan debut
TOKYO and GREENWICH, Conn., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tokyu Corporation, a conglomerate that is the main part of Tokyu Group, L Catterton Real Estate ("LCRE"), the real estate investment and development arm of L Catterton, the largest global consumer-focused private equity firm, and Tokyu Department Store, Tokyu Group's retail company, today unveiled plans for the Shibuya Upper West Project, a landmark, high quality, mixed-use project in Tokyo's vibrant Shibuya district.
Located at the intersection of the affluent residential areas of Shoto and Yoyogi, the cultural neighborhoods of Kamiyamacho and Tomigaya, and the lively Shibuya district, Shibuya Upper West Project (currently Tokyu Department Store's flagship store) will feature high quality retail, a small luxury hotel, and rental residences. The concept of the project is "Tokyo's Urban Retreat", an enclave of relaxation combined with art and culture through a collaboration with the cultural powerhouse Bunkamura. Targeting completion in fiscal year 2027, the Shibuya Upper West Project will become the 'super-connector' of these communities, with prime access to large parks and public transportation.
The ground-breaking project leverages Tokyu Group's deep roots in Shibuya and expertise in mixed-use developments, retail, hospitality, and culture, and LCRE's extensive experience designing prominent destinations and curating world-class brands. To lead architectural design, the partnership has retained internationally acclaimed Snøhetta, which specializes in designing sustainable spaces fusing conceptual form with landscape and nature. The House Collective, a contemporary luxury brand by Swire Hotels, a subsidiary of Swire Properties, brings a unique, art-conscious offering to a wide fan base across Asia and beyond, marking the first true luxury hotel in Shibuya. Environmental and sustainability objectives are central to the project with the goal of securing international certifications.
Tokyu Corporation President and Representative Director Kazuo Takahashi commented:
"In the year of Tokyu's Group's 100th anniversary, we are honored to announce our partnership with luxury real estate investor L Catterton Real Estate, a strong partner with deep experience in creating iconic mixed-use projects who brings a strategic relationship with LVMH and Agache, global design firm Snøhetta and leading contemporary luxury hotel brand Swire Hotels. Snøhetta's heritage rooted in Norway, one of the most sustainable countries in the world, places social and environmental sustainability at the heart of every project. The House Collective creates elevated luxury experiences with distinctive character and a sense of style. Located at the site of Tokyu Department Store's flagship store, the new development expects to welcome diverse audiences. With its synergy with the adjacent cultural facility Bunkamura, we believe that the project will play a key part in our vision for "Entertainment City Shibuya" and pave the way for Tokyu Group's continued growth over the next 100 years."
L Catterton Real Estate Managing Partner, Mathieu Le Bozec commented:
"We are excited to work with world renowned and likeminded partners, Snøhetta and Swire. This project solidifies our commitment to creating value by developing next-generation, sustainable, world class destinations in key neighborhoods of global cities. In Snøhetta, we partner with a design architect that creates striking architecture and are thrilled to see their building debut in Japan become an important flagship to Shibuya. In Swire and The House Collective, we work with one of Asia's most sophisticated and luxurious hoteliers and are delighted to introduce a new standard of contemporary hospitality to Tokyo. Together with our partner Tokyu Group, we look forward to seeing this project take shape and cement its position as the intersection of history, tradition, and urban lifestyle in one of the world's most vibrant cities."
Robert Greenwood, Partner and Managing Director of Asia at Snøhetta commented:
"We have imagined a new 24-hour vision for Shibuya with this hybrid urban development that combines Landmark and Landform – a bridge between the city and the streets that extends itself into the skyline – connecting Shibuya to Shoto. The design is formed as a single gesture, moving from the horizontal ground plane to the vertical skyline, symbolizing the energy of the area in a single stroke. It is an homage to the duality of Tokyo – a modern city that is steeped in tradition."
Toby Smith, Deputy Chairman of Swire Hotels commented:
"Witnessing the growth of The House Collective is an extremely proud moment as we venture into new cities to bring our distinctive design and people-first approach to Tokyo. Our partners Tokyu Group and LCRE share our vision of creating a new and vibrant guest experience which, with the opening of our new House, will offer world-class hospitality for both locals and visitors to the city."
About Tokyu Corporation
Tokyu Corporation is a conglomerate that is the main part of Tokyu Group, which as of March 2022 consists of 224 companies and five other institutions and foundations. With the slogan "Toward a Beautiful Age," Tokyu has been promoting business in areas closely related to the daily lives of customers mainly along the Tokyu Railway lines, while leveraging "town planning" centered around the railway business as the foundation of the business. In Shibuya, with the aim of realizing "Japan's most visited city" and "Entertainment City Shibuya," Tokyu is developing and operating a large number of complex facilities and working to improve the attractiveness of the Greater Shibuya Area. For more information about Tokyu Corporation, please visit tokyu.co.jp/global/
About Tokyu Department Store (TDS)
As Tokyu Group's retail company, TDS operates department stores, shopping centers, and specialty stores mainly in Shibuya and other areas along the Tokyu Railway lines. In Shibuya, TDS operates the "Shibuya Hikarie ShinQs" store in the landmark "Shibuya Hikarie" project, the prominent and well-visited "Shibuya Tokyu Food Show" and several other key projects in the area. By employing a multi-commercialization strategy that TDS calls "Integrating Retailer" and leveraging their expertise and curation know-how developed through their department store business, TDS aims to continually push the boundaries of enriching the customer experience. For more information about TDS, please visit https://www.tokyu-dept.co.jp/translation/eng.html
About L Catterton Real Estate
With more than $33 billion of equity capital across its fund strategies and 17 offices around the world, L Catterton is the largest global consumer-focused private equity firm. Leveraging deep category insight, operational excellence, and a broad strategic network of relationships, L Catterton's team of nearly 200 investment and operating professionals support management teams around the world in building strong, category-leading brands. Since 1989, the firm has made approximately 250 investments in consumer businesses.
L Catterton Real Estate seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns by developing high-quality, luxury retail-driven, mixed-use real estate in premium locations globally, building close and long-term partnerships with premier local developers. LCRE provides differentiated operating and strategic support to its partners, all focused on enhancing value and investment returns to the benefit of all stakeholders. Some notable projects include Ginza SIX in Ginza Tokyo, the Miami Design District in Miami, and the Amazing Brentwood in Burnaby, British Colombia. For more information about L Catterton, please visit lcatterton.com.
About Snøhetta
For more than 30 years, Snøhetta has designed some of the world's most notable public and cultural projects, including the new library in Alexandria, Egypt, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo and the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the World Trade Center in New York City, among many others.
Since its inception, Snøhetta has maintained an original transdisciplinary approach, and integrates architecture, landscape, interior, art, product, graphic and digital design across their projects. The practice has a global presence, with offices spanning from Oslo, Paris, and Innsbruck, to New York, Hong Kong, Adelaide and San Francisco representing a multitude of different cultural and national origins with over 350 employees. While having an international approach, Snøhetta still has a strong and unified culture that is well-rooted within the Nordic model, where equality, openness, generosity and sustainability are translated into their projects.
About Swire Group and Swire Properties
The Swire Group is a highly diversified global corporation, with businesses encompassing property, beverages and food, aviation, marine, as well as trading and industrial activities. Its core businesses are mainly focused in Asia, with its key operations in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland. Within Asia, Swire's activities primarily come under the Group's publicly quoted arm, Swire Pacific Limited (HKSE: 00019/00087), which is the largest shareholder in two Hong Kong listed companies: Swire Properties and Cathay Pacific Airways. Swire Properties develops and manages commercial, retail, hotel and residential properties, with a particular focus on mixed-use developments in prime locations at major mass transportation intersections.
About The House Collective
The House Collective by Swire Hotels is a group of refined, highly individual properties that defy comparison. Each uniquely imagined, The Opposite House in Beijing, The Upper House in Hong Kong, The Temple House in Chengdu and The Middle House in Shanghai were designed for seasoned travellers who seek a different, intimate and personalised experience in luxury travel. Each House is a sophisticated, singular piece of design, created by talented architects and designers, that reflect the unique qualities of their surroundings.
Visit The House Collective's website at www.thehousecollective.com.
Business Overview and Location (scheduled, may be subject to change)
The two key features designed into the project are:
The Hive: a vibrant and lively atrium anchoring the heart of the project
The Sanctuary: a healing cultural space for visitors to engage in activities
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Tokyu Corporation, Corporate Affairs Headquarters, Public Relations Group
Press Contact: prd-t@tkk.tokyu.co.jp
L Catterton Real Estate
Press Contact: Julie Hamilton / +1-203-742-5185 / julie.hamilton@lcatterton.com
Tokyu Department Store, Public Relations Department
Press contact: kouho@tokyu-dept.co.jp
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Airstrikes targeting Palestinian militants in a crowded residential area. Armored bulldozers plowing through narrow streets, crushing cars and piling up debris. Protesters burning tires. A mounting death toll.
Israel’s large-scale military raid into the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Monday had undeniable similarities with the second Palestinian uprising of the early 2000s — a period that claimed thousands of lives.
But the current fighting is also different from those intense years of violence. It’s more limited in scope, with Israeli military operations focused on several strongholds of Palestinian militants.
It’s also a symptom of a conflict with no foreseeable end. The Palestinian leadership is weakened, and the Israeli government has been accelerating the expansion of settlements that have eroded any chance of Palestinian statehood.
WHAT IS AN INTIFADA?
The word that means “shaking off” in Arabic was coined to describe an uprising against Israel’s military occupation that erupted in 1987. It ended in 1993 with an agreement of mutual recognition between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
What became known as the first intifada was marked by widespread Palestinian protests and a fierce Israeli response. In the second uprising, which began in 2000, Palestinian militants carried out deadly suicide bombings on buses and at restaurants and hotels, eliciting crushing Israeli military reprisals.
The second uprising pitted Palestinian militant groups against a far more powerful Israeli military. Over 4,000 people died, including vast numbers of civilians. Roughly three times as many Palestinians as Israelis were killed.
Israeli crackdowns upended Palestinian lives, including placing tight restrictions on movement that choked the fledgling economy. For Israelis, especially during the frequent bombings of the second intifada, stepping onto a bus or going out to a restaurant was terrifying.
Those events were initially fueled by widespread participation. Many Palestinians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem — areas captured by Israel in 1967 and claimed by the Palestinians for their state — joined in the protests.
The protests were also driven by the Palestinian leaders, including President Yasser Arafat, whom Israel accused of encouraging and abetting militants. The intifada petered out after Arafat died in 2004 and the current Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, took power.
WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW?
In the spring of 2022, a spate of Palestinian attacks against Israelis prompted Israel to launch near-nightly raids into Palestinian areas of the West Bank.
Israel said the raids were meant to stamp out militant networks. But Palestinian attacks have continued, and the death toll on both sides has risen, making last year one of the deadliest for Palestinians in the West Bank since the second intifada.
The violence has only intensified since Israel’s current far-right government, which is made up of hard-line ultranationalist settlement supporters, took power late last year.
The Palestinian death toll this year in the West Bank and east Jerusalem stands at more than 135, according to a tally by The Associated Press, nearly matching the death toll for all of 2022. Hundreds of Palestinians have been arrested. Some 24 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks against Israelis.
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
The region has not seen such a sustained cycle of violence since the second uprising, which lasted about five years. More recent periods of bloodshed have not lasted this long or involved such a strong show of force by the military.
The tactics seen Monday, with airstrikes, armored bulldozers and a brigade of troops, were a mainstay of the second uprising.
But analysts say that’s where the similarities end.
For one, a monthlong Israeli operation in 2002 that was seen as the peak of the fighting during the second intifada involved an intense clampdown on most cities in the West Bank. Israel’s raids over the last year have been smaller in scale. Israel’s targets are also more limited to local armed groups and militant cells.
Other differences, analysts say, include the weakened Palestinian leadership and the lack of popular participation. While protests have erupted in response to the raids, they have not engulfed the entire West Bank.
“Intifada is a people’s uprising. It’s a society that fights,” said Amir Avivi, president and founder of Israel Defense and Security Forum, a hawkish group of former military commanders. Avivi, who served as a battalion commander in the northern West Bank during the 2002 operation, claimed that the current fighting is dominated by militant groups that are funded by Israel’s archenemy, Iran.
Ziyad Abu Zayad, a Palestinian analyst and former Cabinet minister, said the fighting is best described as “waves” of Palestinian anger, not an uprising.
“The problem is not security, but rather political. And as long as there is no political solution, these waves will continue,” he said. “People, mainly young people, want to live in freedom and dignity. They see no future for themselves, and they only see oppression from the occupation.”
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
There is no end in sight to the fighting. The military raids have tended to fuel more attacks that prompt even more raids.
As attacks against Israelis have mounted, including one that killed four settlers last month, government members have called for a harsher response. They have also intensively advanced settlement building, further dimming hopes for a negotiated solution to the conflict.
The last 16 months, including Monday’s large-scale raid, showed Israel lacks a long-term vision for how to deal with the Palestinians, said Michael Milshtein, a former military official and head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University.
“We need to start thinking strategically about the Palestinian issue,” he said. “We can’t just keep plastering over it.”
Abu Zayad, the Palestinian analyst, said Israel’s government is instead pushing the Palestinians “toward more extremism and violence.”
“If there is opposition to the idea of a Palestinian state, these waves are likely to remain for long periods to come.”
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Associated Press writers Julia Frankel and Josef Federman contributed to this report from Jerusalem. | 2023-07-04T13:02:23+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-international/ap-a-year-of-fighting-between-israel-and-the-palestinians-just-escalated-is-this-an-uprising/ |
How to watch UConn vs. Marquette in Big East Tournament semifinal originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
March Madness is well underway at Madison Square Garden.
The famed New York City venue is playing host to the men’s Big East Tournament once again. The tournament may not feature all the famed rivalries from the conference’s heyday, but college hoops fans are in for a treat with the first semifinal on Friday.
Top-seeded Marquette (No. 6 nationally) will face fourth-seeded UConn (No. 11 nationally) with a berth in the Big East title game on the line. The Golden Eagles escaped a major upset alert by beating St. John’s in overtime on Thursday, while the Huskies fended off Providence.
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Before Marquette and UConn tip off in the Big Apple, here’s what to know for Friday’s contest:
When is the UConn-Marquette Big East Tournament Game?
UConn-Marquette is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. ET on Friday, March 10.
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Where is the UConn-Marquette Big East Tournament Game?
The matchup will take place at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
What TV channel is UConn-Marquette on?
Fans can watch the game on FS1.
How to stream UConn-Marquette
UConn-Marquette can be streamed on FOXSports.com or the FOX Sports app.
Who will the winner of UConn-Marquette play in the Big East Tournament Championship Game?
The UConn-Marquette winner will face the winner of the second semifinal, which also features two nationally ranked teams. Second-seeded Xavier (No. 15 nationally) will square off against third-seeded Creighton (No. 24 nationally) soon after the UConn-Marquette game ends.
Saturday’s championship game will begin at 6:30 p.m. ET on FOX. | 2023-03-10T16:13:32+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/how-to-watch-uconn-vs-marquette-in-big-east-tournament-semifinal/3091276/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Bondi, an 8-month-old toy poodle, had just returned from a walk when he began stumbling. His head wobbled and soon he could barely stand, so his owner, Colleen Briggs, rushed him to the vet.
The good doctor quickly made a diagnosis: Bondi was stoned.
On his walk, a sniff must have led Bondi to a discarded joint, which he ate.
“He was just doing his usual — exploring everything, sniffing everything,” said Briggs, who began to notice the pot shops sprouting up around New York City, the frequent whiffs of marijuana while circling her Manhattan neighborhood and the unfinished joints now littering sidewalks.
In places like New York City, where the first legal recreational pot dispensary opened last year, users can smoke it in the open. As a result, more dogs are coming across — and eating — discarded joints and edibles, prompting alarm among veterinarians and pet owners who blame the steep rise in poisonings on smokers oblivious to the harm they can do by littering.
Marijuana poisonings, which are almost never fatal, were once rare among pets, even when medical dispensaries started opening, according to Dr. Amy Attas, a New York City veterinarian. Until recently, many occurred at home, when pets got into their owners’ stashes.
“The reason we’re seeing so many cases is that people are using marijuana on the street and then discarding the unwanted ends of their joints,” Attas said. “And that’s a real problem because dogs will eat those.”
In the first three months of the year, she had already seen six cases, which is about the same number she’s treated over the past three decades. Multiply that by the number of vets working in New York City, she said, and the result underscores the widening problem.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said cases are rising nationwide. Last year, there was an 11% increase from the roughly 6,200 cases reported in 2021, and over the past five years, there has been a 300% increase.
“To me, it is unbelievable how prevalent this now is,” said Attas.
Twenty-one states have legalized the recreational use of cannabis, and in large urban areas like New York, there’s no escaping the whiff of pot in public.
In many cases, owners are unaware that their dogs have eaten a leftover joint until they begin showing signs of toxicity. Even then, owners might not understand what is ailing their pets.
Sue Scott was in a panic when her 9-month-old fawn pug, Circe, collapsed after a recent walk. Circe’s paws splayed out on the floor, her head shook to-and-fro and she drooled.
“A million things were running through my head,” said Scott, 68. Marijuana poisoning was not among them. “I would never had thought that,” she said.
Scott made a video call to Dr. Attas, who said Circe was showing all the signs of being high. She now keeps Circe on a shorter leash, mindful of where she pokes her nose.
“I don’t know if you know pugs — they’re constantly on the lookout for their next morsel,” said Scott, who has owned four other pugs, none of whom ever returned home stoned. “But sometimes it’s pretty tough to control them because they are so fast. They’ll just dart at something.”
Although dogs rarely die from marijuana poisoning, treatment can be expensive, sometimes requiring a trip to the animal emergency room, a stomach pump and intravenous fluids.
The stress on the patient and its owner is also enormous.
Bondi has been poisoned three times, the first time last fall, said his owner, Briggs.
Even as Briggs grew more vigilant when walking her pup, she acknowledged that she must have gotten distracted when Bondi became sick a second time. That time, she let Bondi ride out his high.
“Walking him … it’s just a really intense situation. So I’m always looking on the ground, and it’s just everywhere now,” she said of the spent joints that she and Bondi come across on walks.
“One time,” Briggs said, “I caught him and grabbed it out of his mouth.” | 2023-05-02T13:10:58+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/ruff-trip-discarded-joints-pose-a-danger-for-dogs/ |
Which range hoods are best?
Anyone who cooks knows the annoying screech of the smoke detector when the kitchen fills with smoke that rises to the ceiling. Some people open windows, others turn on fans and still others simply take the batteries out of the smoke detector.
Try installing a range hood instead. It filters the air to remove smoke and odor and vents them away safely. If you are looking for a range hood that automatically turns on the fan and light when the burners come on, take a good look at the Samsung Stainless Steel 30 Inch Under Cabinet Hood.
What to know before you buy a range hood
All range hoods are made to remove smoke, grease and cooking fumes from the air in your kitchen and home. The type and style best for you depends on how your kitchen is laid out and what appearance you prefer.
Ducted vs ductless range hoods
Ducted range hoods pipe the fumes and odors to the outside of the home through a venting system. Ductless range hoods pull the heat, smoke and odors away from the cooking surface, filter it and push clean air back into the kitchen. The downside is the smoke and odors never leave.
Under-cabinet range hoods
Under-cabinet range hoods mount to the underside of cabinets above your range. This type of range hood is built to duct smoke and odors to the outside. You will need enough space between the cooking surface and the bottom of your kitchen to keep the hood well above the stove top.
Downdraft range hoods
Downdraft range hoods are purpose-built for installation over kitchen islands. They push smoke and odors to the floor where ducting is used to take everything outside the home. Downdraft range hoods are not as effective as other configurations.
Wall-chimney range hoods
Wall-chimney range hoods are the glamor hoods that you see in the finest kitchens. They are meant to stand out as design elements and not to blend in with their surroundings. Wall-chimney range hoods take up a lot of space that could be otherwise used for over-the-stove cabinets or microwave ovens.
To learn even more about range hoods, take a look at the full range hood buying guide from Best Reviews.
What to look for in a quality range hood
Size
You want a range hood that covers as much of the cooking area as possible. For maximum efficiency, choose a range hood that is wider than your cooktop.
Flow rate
One measurement of the efficiency of a range hood is how many cubic feet of air it can move in one minute. When it comes to CFM, the bigger the number, the more air the range hood takes in, filters and exhausts.
Fan speed
Fan speed is closely tied to CFM because it is the fan that does most of the work. Pricier models have as many as six fan speeds. Some say that is overkill and that a range hood with one high speed and one low speed is adequate for most applications.
How much you can expect to spend on a range hood
Prices vary widely according to style, CFM and add ons like lighting and smart technology. You will find range hoods available for anywhere from $40-$7,000. Many well-made range hoods can be found for around $1,000.
Range hood FAQ
Why should I buy a ductless range hood that just pushes air around instead of removing it?
A. Ducted range hoods are more effective, but not everyone has existing ductwork to tie into and installing ductwork from your stove to outside can be expensive. Yes, ductless hoods push the air around, but only after they filter it, which removes most of the smoke, grease and odors from the air.
Do all range hoods need to be professionally installed?
A. Unless you are a skilled DIYer, professional installation can save you many headaches.
What’s the best range hood to buy?
Top range hood
Samsung Stainless Steel 30 Inch Under Cabinet Range Hood
What you need to know: A range hood that strikes a nice balance between sleek good looks, optimum functionality and convenience.
What you’ll love: When the stove top burners come on, this Bluetooth connection on this range hood automatically turns on the four speed fan and bright LED light. The on-hood controls include a digital clock and timer. This unit ventilates 390 CFM, and you can control this Wifi-connected range hood from your smartphone.
What you should consider: Some people are disappointed this model does not have a charcoal filter.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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Broan-NuTone Stainless Steel Energy Star Certified Range Hood BCSEK130SS
What you need to know: The Broan Captur System combines advanced blower design with new filter technology.
What you’ll love: This 250 CFM range hood is designed with smooth flow technology that is quiet and efficient. This unit removes 97% of smoke and odor to protect your home and family from airborne cooking pollutants. This range hood comes in 24 inch, 30 inch and 36 in widths in four different color finishes. DIYers using the included EZ1 system can install this range hood in half the time of comparable range hoods.
What you should consider: Only one level of brightness is available and no filters are included.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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FOTILE 30 Inch Side Draft Range Hood
What you need to know: This 30 inch range hood has a beautifully designed tempered glass surface and powerful, quiet dual motors.
What you’ll love: The touch screen control of this 18 inch deep range hood has three speeds that are suitable for all cooking styles and screen lock and time delay functions. The special design automatically opens to a 90 degree angle to cover 6 square feet of range space. The side draft technology achieves 92% separation of grease and fumes, and the grease tray and oil filter are easy to remove. This unit has a 380 CFM rating.
What you should consider: The fan is a bit noisy and the airflow could be stronger.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is bracing for a rapid exodus of up to 100,000 people from subsidized Medicaid health care next year as the federal government phases out special pandemic-era spending and eligibility for the program, the state's top health official told lawmakers Wednesday.
State health and welfare officials say the federal government appears likely but not certain to declare an end to its COVID-19 public health emergency in January, curtailing enrollment in Medicaid and leaving a $167 million annual gap in state general fund finances.
A legislative panel on Wednesday met to weigh the consequences. The Biden administration plans to give states 60-days notice before making the move.
At that point, Health and Human Services Secretary David Scrase said between 85,000 and 100,000 residents are no longer likely to qualify for Medicaid because of increased earnings as they rejoin the workforce. He said a reduction in supplemental assistance for food may also drive people back into the workforce and off Medicaid.
“We knew this would be coming some day and now it is becoming a part of our budget,” Scrase said.
State insurance regulators are preparing to help residents make the transition to insurance policies on the state's health insurance exchange with a plan to waive the first monthly charge, according to a policy briefing from the Legislature’s accountability and budget office.
The state has a new stream of tax dollars dedicated to underwriting health-exchange insurance offerings for low- and moderate-income individuals, along with employees at small businesses.
It comes from a new 2.75% tax on health insurance premiums — the upfront payments made on behalf of an individual or family to keep insurance active.
New Mexico residents flocked to Medicaid insurance — for people living in poverty or on the cusp — during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the federal government temporarily boosted reimbursements to medical providers and extended eligibility for patients.
New Mexico officials say the state has the nation's highest rate of enrollment in Medicaid, and its companion Children’s Health Insurance Program, with a June 2022 caseload of roughly 970,000 people out of 2.1 million state residents.
New Mexico is among the states around the country that have made it easier for new moms to keep Medicaid in the year after childbirth, a time when depression and other health problems can develop.
Scrase said the state hopes to soon provide continuous Medicaid enrollment for qualified children, to avoid intermittent lapses in enrollment that can interfere with regular medical checkups and immunizations. He said New Mexico would be the second state to adopt the practice. | 2022-09-22T00:24:39+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/New-Mexico-braces-for-exodus-from-Medicaid-17458127.php |
Have you noticed that many of your friends are suddenly fairy princesses or space travelers? Is your Instagram feed overrun with Renaissance-style paintings of people who were definitely born in the ‘90s? If so, you are entitled to an explanation of what exactly is going on here (and it’s not time travel).
In the past week, users have flocked to Lensa AI, an app that uses your selfies and artificial intelligence to create portraits in a variety of styles. Created by the company Prisma Labs, the app is generating images — and controversy.
What is Lensa AI?
Even if you haven’t heard of Lensa AI, you’ve possibly seen its work this week. As of Wednesday, it was the most popular iPhone app in the United States in Apple’s app store. Lensa takes your selfies, studies them and churns out original, computer-generated portraits of you — or anyone whose photos you feed it.
Do I have to pay for it?
You do. Right now, you can get 50 avatars — 10 images in five styles — for $3.99 during a one-week trial period. (For $35.99 you can subscribe to Lensa AI for the year, which gets you a 51% discount on future avatars.) “Magic Avatars consume tremendous computation power to create amazing avatars for you,” according to Lensa’s checkout page. “It’s expensive, but we made it as affordable as possible.” Fair warning: Prices have been fluctuating as the app has gotten more and more popular and may have changed since this article was published.
How does it work?
After downloading the app, you’ll upload a bunch of selfies. (Do yourself a favor and don’t include any where your hands are touching your face unless you want to pay money to get back a mess of images with phantom phalanges hanging from your mouth.) Select a gender — male, female or other — and walk away from your phone for around half an hour, and when you return, presto. Your face, or something like it, has been stretched and squeezed across a suite of 50 to 200 — depending on what package you purchase — A.I.-generated images with themes including “cosmic,” “fairy princess” and “anime.”
OK, but how does it really work?
Lensa uses Stable Diffusion, which is when all the horses in a barn spread out to give each other a little space. Just kidding: Stable Diffusion is a “really powerful” AI-based image generator, said Subbarao Kambhampati, a professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State University. Similar to DALL-E 2 and Midjourney, Stable Diffusion uses image prompts (like your selfies) and text prompts (like “fantasy,” one of Lensa AI’s categories) to generate high-quality images that sometimes get “trippy,” Kambhampati said. “It’s showing you pictures that nobody took; it’s just able to stitch them up from all the other images that it has seen.”
Cool
It is cool! It’s fun to see yourself rendered as a painting or an anime character or a little woodland elf with eyes of two very different sizes and only one hand, even if you have two IRL. (Not every image is going to be perfect.) Some users, particularly transgender and gender-nonconforming people, are even finding that using Lensa to create can offer a sense of gender euphoria.
I think some people are mad about this? Should I be mad about this, too?
There are a couple of reasons that some users are bristling at the images Lensa AI is spitting out. The first is that many users are reporting that the art is sexualizing them. When we tested the app, several of the images we received after uploading selfies and selecting “female” included full-body renderings, despite the fact that users are specifically instructed to upload only close-up selfies. One image featured our avatar in a metallic bikini à la Princess Leia in “Return of the Jedi.” Another included only half a face atop a scantily clad body.
Prisma Labs states on its FAQ page that “occasional sexualization is observed across all gender categories.”
Thus, it’s fairly simple to use the app to create lewd images of anyone you want. This week, Tech Crunch was able to create topless avatars of celebrities using images of an actor’s head edited onto topless bodies. “It turns out the AI takes those Photoshopped images as permission to go wild, and it appears it disables an NSFW filter,” Tech Crunch reported. Now imagine that same experiment, but through the lens of someone who is angling to make revenge porn. It gets murky in a hurry.
Andrey Usoltsev, Prisma Labs’ CEO and co-founder, told TechCrunch that using Lensa AI to engage in “harmful or harassing behavior” was a breach of its terms of use.
What are users saying about the app?
Yasemin Anders, 29, decided to use Lensa AI after seeing it on social media and was particularly excited to see herself recreated into an ethereal fairy.
She was, however, ultimately disappointed to see that Lensa had given her a thinner body and a slimmer face and neck. “If it’s smart enough to turn you into either a fairy or a manga figure, you would think there was some sort of smart enough software behind it to detect fat people, too,” said Anders, who lives in Berlin and works in marketing.
“Even if I imagine myself as a fairy, as like an idealized fantasy version of myself, I would still want to look like myself,” she added. “And I have always been fat. I’ve been a fat kid. I’ve been a fat teenager, and I’m a fat adult now. So why would I want to imagine an ideal version of me that doesn’t even look like me?”
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Other users are reporting that the app is making their skin appear lighter or whiter and is markedly altering their facial features, which Kambhampati said was an ongoing issue with generative AI tools, including Snapchat’s face lenses. “If most of the images you fed the system were of white faces, then it’s not surprising that when it tries to make an image that looks supposedly ‘better,’ it just makes it whiter,” he said.
How do artists feel about Lensa?
Stable Diffusion was trained on the creations of many artists who did not explicitly consent to the use of their work for Prisma Labs’s profit, Kambhampati said, adding, “If van Gogh was alive today, you’d probably need to pay van Gogh some licensing fee to make your pictures be in van Gogh’s style.” That is not what has happened here.
“To a lot of people, having our art stolen, they don’t view it as anything personal — like, ‘Oh, well, you know, it’s just a style; you can’t copyright a style,’ " said Jonathan Lam, a storyboard artist who works in video games and animation. “But I would argue that for us, our style is actually our identity. It’s is what sets us apart from each other. It’s what makes us marketable to clients.” Lam, who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, is one of many artists who have since spoken out on social media about the app.
He also noted that some of the works being generated by Lensa include what appear to be renderings of artists’ signatures. (Several of our own Lensa-generated images had scribbles where a signature might go on an IRL painting.) “All these tech enthusiasts are saying that these generators are creating something new, but if the artist’s signature is still there, it’s not something new,” Lam said. “It’s just generating something based on the data it was fed.”
“I think the general public is under the assumption that it is a program that has just learned to draw by itself in a vacuum, and they don’t realize the greater implication of the exploitation of data,” he added. “When you’re starting to see these things becoming monetized and real people being exploited and abused, it’s quite scary. And it’s even scarier when it’s disguised as a pretty application.”
Has Prisma Labs responded to these concerns?
Prisma Labs wrote in a Twitter thread that AI “will not replace digital artists” and pushed back against the characterization that Lensa was ripping off artists’ work. “The AI learns to recognize the connections between the images and their descriptions, not the artworks,” the company wrote. “As cinema didn’t kill theater and accounting software hasn’t eradicated the profession, AI won’t replace artists but can become a great assisting tool.”
Are there any privacy concerns?
“I doubt that the whole business model is, ‘Give us $10 or $15 and we’ll send you back an AI glam shot,’ " said Jen King, the privacy and data policy fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University. Lensa AI’s privacy policy claims that “face data” is deleted within 24 hours after it has been processed and is not used to identify any individual user — but it also states that your photos and videos can be used to further train Lensa’s algorithms. Would King use Lensa AI? “No.” | 2022-12-08T15:31:40+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-aud-nw-ai-selfies-20221208-l6ssxkikuvep7cqb7wjr3x2pbq-story.html |
The Pittsburgh Pirates face the Milwaukee Brewers in an MLB regular season game on Friday, June 30, 2023 (6/30/23) at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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What: MLB regular season
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When: Friday, June 30, 2023
Where: PNC Park
Time: 7 p.m. ET
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Here’s a recent MLB story from the AP:
Apple TV+ will begin its second season of “Friday Night Baseball” on April 7. The Chicago Cubs will host the Texas Rangers in a day game, followed by the San Diego Padres facing the Atlanta Braves.
Apple will carry twin bills over 25 weeks with no local blackout restrictions. In a change from last year, when there were doubleheaders on the East and West coasts, both games will be going on simultaneously most weeks.
Fans in 60 countries will be able to access the games, which were available in only 12 last season. An Apple TV+ subscription is required, unlike last season.
The biggest broadcast change fans will notice is a two-person booth instead of three. Wayne Randazzo will team with Dontrelle Willis for one of the crews with Alex Faust and Ryan Spilborghs pairing for the other. Heidi Watney and Tricia Whitaker will be field reporters.
Apple heard criticism last year that the three-person booth was not focusing enough on the games.
With plenty of rules changes this season, including the banning of shifts and a pitch clock, former umpires Brian Gorman and Dale Scott have been hired to be rules analysts during games.
Pregame and postgame coverage will be hosted by Lauren Gardner, along with Siera Santos. Xavier Scruggs, Matt Joyce and Russell Dorsey will be analysts.
Apple and MLB have announced the game schedule through late June. The Milwaukee Brewers have the most appearances with four while the Braves, Los Angeles Angels, Chicago White Sox, Minnesota Twins, Seattle Mariners and Pittsburgh Pirates will each be on three times.
The defending World Series champion Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees have two appearances.
Baseball was the first live sport that Apple carried last year. It since has added Major League Soccer.
Restaurants, bars, hotels and other commercial establishments that have DirecTV for Business will be able to carry the Apple TV+ games on their satellite equipment. DirecTV for Business also has the same arrangement with MLS for its Season Pass package as well as Amazon Prime Video for NFL “Thursday Night Football.”
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Ryan Novozinsky may be reached at rnovozinsky@njadvancemedia.com. | 2023-06-30T21:10:35+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/sports/2023/06/pittsburgh-pirates-vs-milwaukee-brewers-free-live-stream-63023-watch-mlb-on-apple-tv-time-tv-channel.html |
MARTHA'S VINEYARD, Mass. — About 50 migrants arrived by plane in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Wednesday on a flight paid for by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and that originated in San Antonio, Texas.
The migrants touched down at about 3:15 p.m. local time. Later Wednesday, a spokesperson for DeSantis sent a statement to NPR and other news outlets confirming that the migrants were transported by Florida under a state program that was funded by the legislature earlier this year. The statement reads in part: "States like Massachusetts, New York and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration."
The Florida statement refers to two planes, but local officials at Martha's Vineyard say there was only one.
However, a number of migrants told NPR their flight originated in San Antonio, and that they were being transported to Boston.
NPR confirmed that a plane originated in San Antonio, made a stop in Florida and then another stop in South Carolina before flying on to Martha's Vineyard. But apart from that layover, the migrants NPR interviewed had not spent time in Florida.
The unannounced flight drew anger from Massachusetts officials.
"We have the governor of Florida ... hatching a secret plot to send immigrant families like cattle on an airplane," said state Sen. Dylan Fernandes, who represents Martha's Vineyard. "Ship them women and children to a place they weren't told where they were going and never alerted local officials and people on the ground here that they were coming. It is an incredibly inhumane and depraved thing to do."
NPR was able to interview three of the migrants late Wednesday. "They (the migrants) told us they had recently crossed the border in Texas and were staying at a shelter in San Antonio," NPR's Joel Rose said on today's Morning Edition.
The migrants said a woman they identified as "Perla" approached them outside the shelter and lured them into boarding the plane, saying they would be flown to Boston where they could get expedited work papers. She provided them with food. The migrants said Perla was still trying to recruit more passengers just hours before their flight.
Andres Duarte, a 30-year-old Venezuelan, said he had recently crossed the border into Texas and eventually went to a shelter in San Antonio.
"She (Perla) offered us help. Help that never arrived," Andres said. "Now we are here. We got on the plane with a vision of the future, of making it." He went on to explain why he boarded the plane with so little information in hand. "Look, when you have no money and someone offers help, well, it means a lot."
In Martha's Vineyard, the migrants are staying at a church shelter while local authorities and nonprofit organizations figure out what's going to happen next. Lisa Del Castro, who runs a homeless shelter on the island, said resources were initially scarce.
"Everything from beds to food to clothing to toothbrushes, toothpaste, blankets, sheets. I mean, we had some of it ... but we did not have the numbers that we needed."
Most of the arrivals spoke little or no English, and Spanish-speaking high school students were pressed into service as interpreters.
Edgartown Police Chief Bruce McNamee said many of the migrants were confused.
"We have talked to a number of people who've asked, 'Where am I?' And then I was trying to explain where Martha's Vineyard is."
The Wednesday flight extends a tactic by Republican politicians in primarily southern states have used to send migrants to Democrat-controlled cities in the north. Republican leaders have used this step to protest the rise in illegal immigration during President Biden's time in office, and the issue figures to be prominent in November's midterm elections.
Martha's Vineyard has a reputation as a destination for the progressive elite, and DeSantis has been regularly bringing up the island enclave at his press conferences. Republican governors in Texas and Arizona have also been transporting migrants from the border to northern cities at taxpayer expense.
Democrats and immigrant advocates say those governors are essentially using migrants as political pawns. But the governors say are simply calling attention to a very real problem.
The U.S. Border Patrol is on pace to record 2 million apprehensions in a fiscal year for the first time ever.
Del Castro, who runs the Martha's Vineyard shelter where the migrants spent the night, said the group is resilient.
"There's some really sad stories. And then some people, the only thing they were expressing is how grateful they are to be here, and to be safe, and cared for, right? And, you know, their needs are immense right now."
NPR spoke with Yesica, a migrant who gave only her first name because of her undocumented immigration status. She said she was uncertain about her future.
"Oh, goodness. I don't know what is going to happen to us," Yesica said, speaking in Spanish. "The truth is I am worried. It will be whatever God wishes, no? We're here now and there's nothing we can do."
"Not even," she added, "to take a step back."
Eve Zuckoff is a reporter at WCAI.
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