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Vermont-based Phish to play 2 shows to benefit flood recovery efforts
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Phish will play two special shows next month to benefit flood recovery efforts in Vermont and upstate New York.
The band, which was formed in Vermont in 1983, says on its website that it will play at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in New York on Aug. 25 and Aug. 26.
The band said 100% of net proceeds from all concert and merchandise sales will be directed to a 2023 Flood Recovery Fund that’s part of a foundation it created in 1997. Phish “will support the many victims and their families, area businesses and nonprofits.”
The band has been on tour.
“As soon as we realized the scope of the devastation, we all together said, ‘Is there anything we can do?’” Phish member Page McConnell told WCAX-TV. “The wheels started turning within the first few days of all the rain and flooding that was happening up there.”
Storms dumped up to two months’ worth of rain over a couple of days in parts of the region earlier this month.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha about how the national public health emergency for coronavirus is coming to an end May 11.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha about how the national public health emergency for coronavirus is coming to an end May 11.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Move over, Sanderson sisters from the “Hocus Pocus” movies. The Witches of West Michigan are taking over.
Initially created in August 2021 so friends could discuss “witchy things,” the Facebook group called “Witches of West Michigan” now has nearly 2,500 members.
The group was created by Erica Franke after she was talking with friends about the need for a safe space online to talk about witch-related items like crystals, herbs, moon cycles, pagan holidays and spells.
“We were expecting maybe 50-60 people, but we grew really fast,” Katrina Peshka, another of the group’s founding members, told MLive/The Grand Rapids Press.
Now, the group has expanded to divination festivals, selling witchy clothes and merchandise, supplies swaps, “witches brew” coffee meetups and more.
Though the group is geared toward women, non-binary folks and supportive male partners of witches are welcome on the page. For male-identifying people interested in witchcraft, the Men’s Magical Council of West Michigan exists too.
Being a member of the Witches of West Michigan group does not necessarily mean someone is Wiccan or pagan.
“It’s a very diverse group,” Franke said. “We have moms, people in college, all walks of life. They’re all just looking for a space online to talk about witchy things. We have Christian, Jewish and atheist witches. Witchcraft is not inherently linked to religion.”
There are different categories of witches, like kitchen witches who enjoy cooking some magic into their baking or tea, cosmic witches who gravitate toward astronomy and astrology and green witches who focus on gardening, herbs and nature. Water witches might be drawn toward taking dips in the lake and crystal witches channel energy through different minerals and gems.
What the Witches of West Michigan are not, though, is evil.
“We don’t worship Satan, this is not a coven,” Peshka said. “We’re not necessarily Wiccan, either.”
In fact, the majority of witches in the group are brand new to witchcraft, called “baby witches.” At each of the festival events hosted by Witches of West Michigan, there is some sort of workshop geared toward those baby witches like broom making, magic 101 and spell making.
“The one major thing is that it’s a nature-based path of living within the cycles of the Earth,” Peshka said of witchcraft. “It doesn’t need to be religious at all. There’s no gatekeeping in our community. We’re not about to tell anybody how to practice witchcraft.”
Witches brew and witches brunch events now happen in Grand Rapids, Holland, Muskegon, Kalamazoo, Allegan, Lowell, Alma, St. Joseph and Big Rapids.
Many of the witches brew locations are in the heart of the West Michigan Bible Belt, which Peshka said was a surprise to the group’s founding members.
“We’ve discovered that strangely enough, there are concentrations of witches in teeny tiny conservative towns,” she said. “It’s interesting going through our Facebook analytics and it’s places they must have burned the witches ages ago.”
Posts in the Witches of West Michigan Facebook group range from funny witchy memes to asking for advice on creating spells to crowdsourcing where to find supplies like herbs or crystals.
“Eighty to 90 percent of folks are really new to all this and having seasoned witches as a resource is really where we shine,” Peshka said.
Anyone interested in the Witches of West Michigan is welcome to attend its upcoming Samhain festival taking place 10 a.m-4 p.m. Oct. 23 at Little Space Studio in Grand Rapids.
The festival will include an eclectic group of vendors, book sellers, tarot card readers, a workshop on communicating with the dead and a two-hour, witch-themed drag show. Tickets are $33 and can be purchased online at eventbrite.com.
Other holidays celebrated by the witches include Yule (winter solstice), Ostara (spring equinox) and Midsummer (summer solstice). For Midsummer celebrations next June, the group is renting out an entire campground for a weekend.
“The fact that it is a place we can have these events, to have that community, it’s overwhelming,” Franke said. “When you give somebody a safe space, even if it’s just online, they can live their true lives.”
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Fewer Russians have crossed into neighbouring countries in recent days, according to local authorities, despite persistent anxiety over the partial mobilization the Kremlin launched less than two weeks ago to bolster its forces fighting in Ukraine.
The mass exodus of Russian men — alone or with their families or friends — began Sept. 21, shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the partial call-up of reservists. In Russia, the vast majority of men under age 65 are registered as reservists, so airline tickets to destinations abroad sold out within hours. Shortly after that, long lines of cars formed on roads leading to Russia’s borders.
Over 194,000 Russians had entered Kazakhstan, Georgia and Finland by Tuesday. It wasn’t possible to discern how many of them fled the military call-up and how many traveled for other reasons, but the numbers were much higher than those before the call-up.
According to officials from all three countries, by the end of the week the influx had decreased. It was not clear if this was related to the temporary military recruitment centers that Russian authorities hastily set up along land borders or to the policy of turning men away from the borders, citing mobilization laws.
Finland on Friday barred Russians with tourist visas from entering the country, and only 1,688 Russians were able to cross by land into the Nordic country that day, compared to 5,262 on Thursday and over 8,000 each day the previous weekend, according to the Finnish Border Guard.
Georgia saw fewer Russians entering, too: only 6,109 between Thursday and Friday, compared to 9,642 between Wednesday and Thursday, the country’s Interior Ministry reported.
The decrease of the flow of Russians to Georgia, which together with Kazakhstan comprised two most popular destinations for those crossing by land, also may have to do with restrictions. On Wednesday, officials in Russia’s southern region of North Ossetia, where the only land crossing checkpoint to Georgia is located, restricted cars from other regions from entering in an effort to stem the exodus.
But officials in Kazakhstan noted a decrease in numbers as well, even though no official restrictions have been enforced on either side of its border with Russia.
The Kazakh Interior Minister Marat Akhmetzhanov on Saturday pointed to a “persistent downward trend” in the number of Russians entering the country: only 22,500 entered on Thursday, and even fewer — 14,100 — crossed into Kazakhstan on Friday. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the numbers to drop.
The Kremlin has said it plans to call-up some 300,000 people, but Russian media reported that the number could be as high as 1.2 million, a claim that Russian officials have denied.
Russia’s Defense Ministry has promised to only draft those who have combat or service experience, but according to multiple media reports and human rights advocates, men who don’t fit the criteria are also being rounded up, including protesters.
The official decree on mobilization, signed by Putin, is concise and vague, fueling fears of a broader draft.
In an apparent effort to calm the population, Putin told Russia’s Security Council on Thursday that some mistakes had been made in the mobilization and said Russian men mistakenly called up for service should be sent back home.
Other efforts to tamp down the national panic included promises of high pay and social benefits to those mobilized.
Russian authorities have also started turning some men away from the border, citing mobilization laws that prohibited leaving the country to certain categories of men. They also set up several draft offices at border checkpoints, threatening to serve call-up papers to those seeking to leave.
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BOGALUSA, La. (AP) — The home that served as the base of operations for the Bogalusa Civil Rights Movement is now recognized with a marker along the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail.
Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser and the Louisiana Office of Tourism on Thursday dedicated the seventh marker on the trail at the Robert “Bob” Hicks House in Bogalusa.
“We are proud to tell the extraordinary story of Robert ‘Bob’ Hicks and the importance of his house," Nungesser said. “It's a privilege to honor Mr. Hicks, his family and all those from Bogalusa who strived to make rights real in Louisiana.”
The house was a regular meeting place for the officers of the Bogalusa Civic and Voters League and the local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, Nungesser's office said in a news release.
“The house was a safe place for civil rights workers and served as an emergency triage station. The breakfast room became the communications center for the Bogalusa chapter of the Deacons of Defense and Justice, an armed self-defense group who protected civil rights workers from violence,” the news release said.
Hicks founded the Deacons of Defense and Justice chapter in Bogalusa and later served as president of the BCVL. Hicks joined with civil rights activists A.Z. Young and Gayle Jenkins to help lead the Bogalusa-to Baton Rouge March in 1967. The march grew from 25 to 600 people over the course of its 105-mile (170-kilometer) journey and required protection from National Guardsmen and police. Last August, a similar marker was installed at A.Z. Young Park in Baton Rouge honoring those who participated in that march.
Hicks' house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
The markers are placed in cities and towns across the state to depict the state's role in shaping the country during the 1950s and 60s, including one at Little Union Baptist Church in Shreveport, Dooky Chase's Restaurant in New Orleans and Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum in Pineville. | 2022-08-12T23:06:20+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Homebase-for-Louisiana-city-s-civil-rights-17370499.php |
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has named its 2023 committee chairs and vice chairs. The NAIC also assigned members to its standing committees and named its 2023 task force chairs and vice chairs based on requirements established by the NAIC Bylaws.
"As regulators, we govern our mission by collaborating, providing innovative solutions to industry challenges, and by quickly adapting to meet the needs of the consumer," said Chlora Lindley-Myers, NAIC President and Director of the Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance. "I look forward to seeing the work that the eight standing committees will produce and the lasting impact their work has on state-based regulation and the industry overall."
The 2023 NAIC committee leadership assignments are as follows. Click on the underlined names to view their official biographies on the NAIC website:
Life Insurance and Annuities (A) Committee
Chair: Judith L. French, Director, Ohio Department of Insurance
Vice Chair: Carter Lawrence, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance
Health Insurance and Managed Care (B) Committee
Chair: Anita G. Fox, Director, Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services
Co-Vice Chairs: Jon Pike, Commissioner, Utah Insurance Department, and Mike Kreidler, Commissioner, Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner
Property and Casualty Insurance (C) Committee
Chair: Alan McClain, Commissioner, Arkansas Department of Commerce, Arkansas Insurance Department
Co-Vice Chairs: Grace Arnold, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Commerce, and Larry D. Deiter, Director, South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation, Division of Insurance
Market Regulation and Consumer Affairs (D) Committee
Chair: Jon Pike, Commissioner, Utah Insurance Department
Co-Vice Chairs: Mike Causey, Commissioner, North Carolina Department of Insurance, and Michael Humphreys, Acting Commissioner, Pennsylvania Insurance Department
Financial Condition (E) Committee
Chair: Elizabeth Kelleher Dwyer, Superintendent, Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation, Division of Insurance
Vice Chair: Nathan Houdek, Commissioner, Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance
Financial Regulation Standards and Accreditation (F) Committee
Chair: Lori K. Wing-Heier, Director, Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, Division of Insurance
Co-Vice Chairs: Vicki Schmidt, Commissioner, Kansas Insurance Department, and Sharon P. Clark, Commissioner, Kentucky Department of Insurance
International Insurance Relations (G) Committee
Chair: Gary D. Anderson, Commissioner, Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, Massachusetts Division of Insurance
Vice Chair: Eric Dunning, Director, Nebraska Department of Insurance
Innovation, Cybersecurity, and Technology (H) Committee
Chair: Kathleen A. Birrane, Commissioner, Maryland Insurance Administration
Co-Vice Chairs: Michael Conway, Commissioner, Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, Division of Insurance, and Doug Ommen, Commissioner, Iowa Insurance Division
As part of our state-based system of insurance regulation in the United States, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) provides expertise, data, and analysis for insurance commissioners to effectively regulate the industry and protect consumers. The U.S. standard-setting organization is governed by the chief insurance regulators from the 50 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories. Through the NAIC, state insurance regulators establish standards and best practices, conduct peer reviews, and coordinate regulatory oversight. NAIC staff supports these efforts and represents the collective views of state regulators domestically and internationally.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran abruptly raised prices as much as 300% for a variety of staples such as cooking oil, chicken, eggs and milk on Thursday. Scores of alarmed Iranians waited in long lines to snatch up bundles of food and emptied supermarket shelves across the country in the hours before the price hike took effect.
Panicked shoppers raided stores and stuffed basic goods into large plastic bags, according to footage shared widely on social media. Lines in Tehran snaked out of grocery stores late Wednesday. On Thursday, Iran’s currency dropped to a low of 300,000 rial to the dollar.
Internet disruptions were reported across Iran as the government braced for possible unrest, advocacy group NetBlocks.org said. Protests appeared to spring up in the remote and impoverished south, according to videos shared online. The Associated Press could not verify their authenticity but the footage corresponded to reported events.
The scenes revealed not only deep anxiety gripping the country and frustration with Iran's leaders, but also underscored the staggering economic and political challenges facing them.
Food prices across the Middle East have surged due to global supply chain snarls and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which both export many essentials. Iran imports half of its cooking oil from Ukraine, where fighting has kept many farmers from the fields.
Although Iran produces roughly half of its own wheat, it imports much of the rest from Russia. The war has added to inflationary pressures. Smuggling of Iran's highly subsidized bread into neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan has spiked as hunger spreads across the region.
Drought is already ravaging Iran's economy. Western sanctions over Iran's nuclear deal have caused additional difficulties. Inflation has soared to nearly 40%, the highest level since 1994. Youth unemployment also remains high. Some 30% of Iranian households are below the poverty line, reports Iran's Statistics Center.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has promised to create jobs, lift sanctions and rescue the economy, but talks to revive Iran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers remain deadlocked. Iranian families have seen their purchasing power rapidly diminish.
The government is trying to act swiftly to blunt the pain. Authorities have promised to pay every Iranian citizen some $14 a month to compensate for the price hikes.
The cost of special and artisan breads, such as French baguette and sandwich bread, has multiplied by 10, bakery owners say. But authorities are careful not to touch subsidies on the country's flatbread, which contributes more to the Iranians' daily diet than anything else.
Subsidies, and bread subsidies in particular, remain a highly sensitive issue for Iran, which has been roiled by bread riots throughout its history. In the 1940s, bread shortages triggered mass street protests and a deadly crackdown that brought down then-Premier Ahmad Qavam.
Memories of Iran's fuel price hike three years ago also remain fresh. Widespread protests — the most violent since the creation of the Islamic Republic in 1979 — rocked the country. Hundreds of demonstrators were killed in the crackdown, according to Amnesty International.
But in recent weeks, the government has allowed prices to surge for almost every other staple, including pasta, until Thursday's hike for remaining Iranian dinner table basics.
As Iranians vent about the rising prices of flour, the top trending hashtag on Twitter in recent weeks has been #macaroni — the term Iranians use for all types of pasta.
“I am sure the government does not care about average people,” Mina Tehrani, a mother of three told the AP as she browsed a supermarket in Tehran. She stared in shock at a price tag for pasta — now 165,000 rials for a pound, compared to 75,000 rials last month.
Iranians who had forgone meat or dairy to save money have nothing left to cut, complained Tehran resident Hassan Shahbazzadeh.
“Now even macaroni is taken off their dining table,” he said.
“This jump in the price of flour has made people crazy,” said Saleh, a grocery store worker in Susangerd, a city in the oil-rich southwestern province of Khuzestan, home to an ethnic Arab population that has alleged discrimination and includes a separatist movement.
Saleh said that the price of a sack of 40 kilograms of flour had soared to the equivalent of $18 from $2.5 in recent weeks, stoking intense anger in the restive province.
“Many rushed to groceries to buy macaroni and other things for their daily needs," he said, giving only his first name for fear of reprisals.
Tempers have also flared in Iran's parliament.
“The waves of increasing in prices have made people breathless,” Kamal Hosseinpour, a lawmaker for the Kurdish area, thundered in a parliament session earlier this week. “Macaroni, bread and cooking oil are the main staples of Iran's weaker people. ... Where are the officials and what are they doing?”
Other lawmakers have directly rebuked hard-line President Raisi.
“The administration is incapable in managing the country’s affairs,” said Jalil Rahimi Jahanabad, a lawmaker for the Taibad province near Iran's border with Afghanistan.
Supporters of the government have described the price hikes as “necessary economic surgery" — part of a parliament-approved reform package. Some social media users have ridiculed the term, saying officials have removed the patient's heart instead of the tumor.
As outrage over rising inflation surges online, Iranian authorities appear to be bracing for the worst.
Internet monitoring group NetBlocks.org told the AP that it was tracking internet disruptions at a “national scale” that “are likely to impact the public’s ability to communicate.” Article 19, a global research organization that fights censorship, reported on Thursday that authorities appeared to have shut down almost all internet connectivity in cities across Khuzestan province.
Since the country’s 2009 disputed presidential election and the Green Movement protests that drew millions to the streets, Iran has tightened its control over the internet.
Videos have surfaced on social media in recent days of Iranians gathering in the dark in the streets of the southern Khuzestan province, chanting slogans against price hikes and against the country’s leaders. Iranian state media has not publicly addressed the protests.
The issue of high prices “is security-related,” lawmaker Majid Nasserinejad said ominously. “People cannot tolerate it anymore."
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Associated Press writer Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report. | 2022-05-12T18:24:13+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Iran-raises-prices-of-food-staples-stirring-17168397.php |
ATLANTA — Georgia abortion clinics entered a new reality Thursday as they turned away patients because the state’s heartbeat law went into full effect late Wednesday.
"I’m grateful we are in a position to help some people but I am deeply concerned about all the people we are turning away," said Kajelyn Jackson, executive director of the Feminist Women's Health Center, one of Atlanta’s most longstanding abortion clinics.
Wednesday morning, it was able to provide abortions up to 22 weeks gestation. Wednesday night, the number dropped to six weeks.
Because menstrual cycles take about four weeks, the six-week window is shorter than it sounds, Jackson said. A pregnant patient could take days to realize her cycle failed to re-start after three or four weeks. It could take her a day to take an at-home pregnancy test, another day contacting an abortion clinic. – and getting the state-required legal disclosure -- starting a one-day waiting period.
And then, clinic schedules are often booked for several days before an appointment is available.
"This is an unrealistic circumstance that’s going to eliminate care for thousands and thousands of people in Georgia and across the United States," Jackson said. This is because women in states with restrictive laws often traveled to Georgia for abortions before the heartbeat bill was enacted.
Jackson said neighboring Florida and North Carolina currently have abortion laws that are less restrictive than Georgia's. The elimination of most abortion care is exactly the goal of sponsors of the heartbeat bill – which narrowly passed the Georgia legislature in 2019, stalled in court for three years -- and then took effect late Wednesday. | 2022-07-21T23:05:54+00:00 | 11alive.com | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/patients-turned-away-abortion-clinics-georgia-heartbeat-law/85-e8937c94-a9d6-4210-a07d-054a8afd7c9b |
Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast. | 2022-11-20T19:50:48+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/national-world-news/2022-11-20/colorado-springs-councilmember-nancy-henjum-reflects-on-shooting-in-lgbtq-nightclub |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a court order that would have forced Yeshiva University to recognize an LGBTQ group as an official campus club.
The court acted Friday in a brief order signed by Justice Sonia Sotomayor that indicated the court would have more to say on the topic at some point.
The university, an Orthodox Jewish institution in New York, argued that granting recognition to the group, the YU Pride Alliance, “would violate its sincere religious beliefs."
On the other side, the club said Yeshiva already has recognized a gay pride club at its law school.
A New York state court sided with the student group and ordered the university to recognize the club immediately. The matter is on appeal in the state court system, but judges there refused to put the order on hold in the meantime.
The Supreme Court has been very receptive to religious freedom claims in recent years.
In June, conservatives who hold a 6-3 majority struck down a Maine program prohibiting state funds from being spent at religious schools and ruled a high school football coach in Washington state has the right to pray on the field after games. | 2022-09-09T21:46:45+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/high-court-blocks-recognition-of-lgbtq-campus-at-yeshiva-u/6EAXEJSQHBHB5FTQK5PLZ7CU6A/ |
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The streaking Tampa Bay Rays are running out of superlatives to describe baseball’s best start in more than three decades.
Remarkable, incredible, unbelievable — even crazy — are words players have used to describe the dominant, all-around team effort that has carried them to an 11-0 record that’s the toast of the big leagues two weeks into the season.
The Rays, who have made the playoffs each of the past four years, expected to be good.
But no one could have envisioned them joining the 1987 Milwaukee Brewers, 1982 Atlanta Braves, 1981 Oakland Athletics, 1966 Cleveland Indians, 1962 Pittsburgh Pirates and 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers as the only clubs to begin seasons with double-digit win streaks. Of those teams, only the Dodgers won the World Series.
“Pretty exciting. Doing it the way we have, every facet of our game is really performing, producing and contributing,” manager Kevin Cash said. “Normally it doesn’t work out that way.”
Through Tuesday night’s 7-2 victory against the Boston Red Sox, the Rays have swatted a majors-leading 29 homers and outscored opponents 83-20 for baseball’s fastest getaway since the ’87 Brewers won 13 in a row to tie the ’82 Braves for the longest win streak to start a season.
Tampa Bay won its first nine games by four runs or more, the longest such streak at any point in a season since the New York Yankees rattled off 10 in a row in 1939.
“Truthfully, I don’t think we’ve talked about it. We’re just here to play our brand of baseball. … We just have fun with each other, and go out there and have a blast,” ace Shane McClanahan said.
“It’s fun to be in this clubhouse regardless of the streak, to be honest with you,” McClanahan added. “I’ll tell you the truth, that’s the last thing we’re concerned about. … Part of what we do is no matter what, we have the same mentality out there.”
In addition to swinging torrid bats, the pitching and defense have been superb, too, with No. 3 and No. 4 starters Jeffrey Springs and Drew Rasmussen each winning twice and posting 13 scoreless innings over their first two outings.
McClanahan, a first-time All-Star a year ago, is 3-0 with a 1.59 ERA through three starts, while offseason acquisition Zach Eflin (2-0, 3.27) has been impressive after signing a $40 million, three-year contract — the largest the budget-minded Rays have ever awarded in free agency. Eflin was placed on the injured list Tuesday with back tightness.
That group has thrived even without star right-hander Tyler Glasnow, who has been sidelined by a left oblique strain since spring training.
Eflin and rookie reliever Kevin Kelly were the only new faces on the opening-day roster, so it’s not surprising that pieces have come together quickly.
“This is incredible baseball that we’re playing,” said second baseman Brandon Lowe, whose eighth-inning homer beat Boston 1-0 on Monday night. “We gotta keep it up.”
That won’t be easy, especially in the rugged AL East, where the defending division champion Yankees and young, talented Toronto Blue Jays once again are expected to contend for playoff berths.
Tampa Bay won its first nine games against the last-place Tigers, Nationals and A’s, who were a combined 8-22 entering Tuesday night.
Regardless of the competition, though, winning 10 in a row at any point in a season is difficult to do.
Offensively, Lowe and 22-year-old shortstop Wander Franco are off to strong starts after being hampered by injuries for much of 2022.
Randy Arozarena, Harold Ramirez, Yandy Díaz, Manuel Margot and Josh Lowe have been key contributors, too, as the Rays thrive on timely production throughout a lineup that lost defensive whiz Kevin Kiermaier, first baseman Ji-Man Choi and catcher Mike Zunino from last season.
Brandon Lowe noted the offense is producing much the way the Rays felt it could once all the key components recovered from injuries.
“It’s just nice to see it all come together,” Lowe said.
“They’re doing something that hasn’t been done in quite some time. We should be proud of that,” Cash said. “The good thing about this club is, they win, they enjoy it and … they’re ready (to play) the next day. They hold themselves to a high standard and want to be ready to go.”
The Rays also know it’s early.
“It feels nice to get in here and celebrate. … But, you know, we are, what, 16% done with the season, something like that,” reliever Pete Fairbanks said.
Three of the six previous teams to begin at least 10-0 missed the postseason, so the hot start is certainly no guarantee of October success.
“So, there’s a lot of baseball to play, and I don’t think we should ride too high or get too low after anything that’s happening in the first 10 days of March and April,” Fairbanks added. “But it is a lot of fun to go out there and see what the guys on the offensive side are doing and then to watch our (pitchers) roll out our stuff.”
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-12T02:49:02+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/sports/ap-sports/confident-rays-not-surprised-by-excellent-start-to-season/ |
Buy something now, pay later: It's changing how we shop. People are paying for laptops, coats and even groceries in installments. In a year marked by historic inflation, this is the holiday season's biggest trend.
"If a retailer doesn't offer that option, I don't shop with them," says Elmy Escalante, 50, from California, who has used financial companies Afterpay and Klarna to buy a computer, a vacuum cleaner and winter clothes.
Escalante's sentiment is spreading fast. The number of "buy now, pay later" loans grew more than tenfold during the pandemic, a U.S. government study shows, from almost 17 million in 2019 to 180 million in 2021. This month, an Ally Bank survey found twice as many people using "buy now, pay later" than they did just in August.
The appeal is obvious. At online checkout, most BNPL companies typically let you pay a quarter of the bill (or less), as long as you set auto payments for the rest — no interest, no credit history required. And so, for example, Escalante can buy $140 lounge pants in four installments of $35, over six weeks. Or Peloton can sell $1,530 bikes for 12 monthly payments of only $127.50.
One common problem is bank overdraft fees, when some shoppers lose track of future auto payments and don't have enough in their account when the debt gets deducted. New research is tackling the central concern about "buy now, pay later": Does it encourage people to overspend?
People use it as an alternative to credit cards
"Buy now, pay later" has largely grown by offering a new way of stretching out big payments for people with no credit history, bad credit or a desire to avoid credit card debt. A short BNPL loan usually doesn't ping your credit score, as long as you pay on time. (Federal research estimates about 12% of "buy now, pay later" borrowers faced late-payment fees in 2021, and almost half were waived.)
"With 'buy now, pay later,' I feel more — I don't know if responsible — but I feel more on top of it," says Maria Dahn, 35, from Overland Park, Kan. She used to shop with credit cards, make minimum monthly payments, roll over a balance and face escalating interest charges.
Now, she's closed her credit cards. This year, Dahn bought a $550 Doona stroller for her newborn in installments of $94.36, a six-month plan that did incur $16 in interest (for taking longer to complete payments than the typical six weeks). But it still cost her less than if she had used an average credit card.
"It doesn't snowball. ... It's not like I keep adding to it like with a credit card," Dahn says, and quickly clarifies: She could, in theory, run up a bunch of "buy now, pay later" loans, but she makes she's sure she "not tripling or quadrupling" her BNPL debt.
Stores pay high fees to offer 'buy-now-pay-later'
The way BNPL providers make money is by charging retailers. In fact, stores might pay 2% fees for credit-card companies to process transactions, but they pay up to 8% fees to buy-now-pay-later providers.
Financially, that would only make sense if "buy now, pay later" encourages people to buy more than they would otherwise, says Marco Di Maggio, one of the authors of new research from Harvard Business School.
Indeed, Di Maggio and team found that people who use "buy now, pay later" not only spend more on average, they also universally shift more of their budgets to retail. In other words, they shop more.
Retailers have also said that "buy now, pay later" encourages more people to actually complete their purchases rather than abandoning their online carts. And recently, BNPL companies have expanded marketing on their own apps, pushing out notifications of sales to shoppers who'd used their loans in the past.
"They do make it incredibly easy and tempting to make purchases," says Andy Arias, 43, from Los Angeles. "And if gone unchecked, it can be a little bit addicting, you know?"
It's an easy mind trick: you get, say, an $80 sweater today, but $60 of that is a future-you problem. In reality, you're likely to add more things to your basket as you check out, so you might still spend that full $80 today, with another $60 still due later.
'Buy now, pay later' loans not reported to credit bureaus
A growing number of brands have started to offer "buy now, pay later," including Instacart for food delivery, some gas stations for fuel and airlines for tickets. Last spring, Arias paid 12 installments of $126 for a last-minute flight to London for a wedding, feeling "a little weird" in a plane seat he hadn't technically paid for yet.
Because Klarna, Afterpay and their rivals aren't technically lenders, they don't have to report to credit bureaus. So we don't know, for instance, how many shoppers owe multiple "buy now, pay later" loans, potentially hurting their ability to pay utilities and other bills.
Harvard research estimated that as of last year, 15% of the U.S. population had tried BNPL at least once — a number that has certainly grown since then. Some surveys of shoppers put the number much higher, topping 50% or 60%.
So far, delinquencies on "buy now, pay later" loans seem to be in line or below credit cards, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Both are rising.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-12-15T20:16:22+00:00 | iowapublicradio.org | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/news-from-npr/2022-12-15/in-a-year-marked-by-inflation-buy-now-pay-later-is-the-hottest-holiday-trend |
ChatGPT makes its debut as a smartphone app on iPhones
(AP) – ChatGPT is now a smartphone app, which could be good news for people who like to use the artificial intelligence chatbot and bad news for all the clone apps that have tried to profit off the technology.
The free app started to become available on iPhones in the U.S. on Thursday and will later be coming to Android phones. Unlike the web version, you can also ask it questions using your voice.
The company that makes it, OpenAI, said it will remain ad-free but “syncs your history across devices.”
“We’re starting our rollout in the U.S. and will expand to additional countries in the coming weeks,” said a blog post announcing the new app, which is described in the App Store as the “official app” by OpenAI.
It’s been more than five months since OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public, sparking excitement and alarm at its ability to generate convincingly human-like essays, poems, form letters and conversational answers to almost any question. But the San Francisco startup never seemed to be in a hurry to get it onto phones — where most people access the internet.
That helped fuel a rise of clones built on the same or similar technology, some of which the security firm Sophos described as “fleeceware” in a report this week because they push unsuspecting users toward enrolling in a free trial that converts into a recurring subscription, or use intrusive advertising techniques.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-18T19:23:15+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/2023/05/18/chatgpt-makes-its-debut-smartphone-app-iphones/ |
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Panthers now have two of the top three overall picks from the 2018 NFL draft class on their roster, and both happen to be quarterbacks.
The big question is which one will start this season for Carolina.
The Panthers view their starting QB job as an open competition between the newly acquired Baker Mayfield and incumbent Sam Darnold, one that will ultimately be decided at training camp and in preseason games.
Panthers coach Matt Rhule has previously said he viewed Darnold as his starter, but that was before the team announced Wednesday it had struck a trade with Cleveland for Mayfield, whose relationship with the Browns quickly deteriorated after they began pursuing and later landed quarterback Deshaun Watson from the Houston Texans.
Trade talks between the Panthers and Browns had been ongoing for months, but the deal didn’t come to fruition until Mayfield helped bridge the financial gap between the teams by agreeing to take a $3.5 million pay cut. The Browns will pay Mayfield $10.5 million in 2022 and the Panthers will pay him $4.8 million.
Both Mayfield and Darnold are set to become unrestricted free agents after the season.
Mayfield enters the competition with a presumptive edge over Darnold — at least on paper.
The former No. 1 pick from Oklahoma is 29-30 as an NFL starter in four seasons with Cleveland, helping lead the Browns to a playoff win in 2020 after finishing 11-5 in the regular season. He’s thrown for 14,125 yards with 92 touchdowns and 56 interceptions.
Darnold, the No. 3 pick in ’18, is 17-32 as a starter with the New York Jets and Panthers and has never posted a winning season, let alone reach the playoffs. He’s thrown for 10,624 yards with 54 touchdowns and 52 interceptions.
But for Mayfield to win the job he'll first have to win over new Panthers offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo, a former critic of his, and catch up on the team's playbook installation.
When McAdoo was out of football in 2018, he told the New York Post he had plenty of reservations about Mayfield in the NFL, including his height, athleticism, hand size and the offense he played in with the Sooners.
“I didn’t see a lot of pro-style football in his college tape,” McAdoo said. “And if you’re short you have to be able to make up for it some way, somehow, and personality doesn’t do that. I didn’t think he was a great athlete. This guy is kind of like a pocket quarterback that is short and with small hands, that’s what I worry about.”
And then there's Panthers wide receiver Robbie Anderson, who earlier this offseason addressed reports that Mayfield may wind up in Carolina by responding with “Nooooo" on social media.
Anderson has since said he was trying to be supportive of his teammate Darnold, and that it wasn't meant to be a dig at Mayfield. He also tweeted on Wednesday, “I don't have an issue with Baker stop tryna paint that narrative.”
The addition of Mayfield represents Carolina's latest attempt to find stability at the quarterback position.
The Panthers haven't made the playoffs since 2017 and owner David Tepper has said in the past the team's top priority is shoring up its QB spot.
The revolving door started in earnest in 2000 when Carolina replaced longtime starter Cam Newton with Teddy Bridgewater. Bridgewater went 4-11 in 15 starts before being dealt to the Denver Broncos after just one season.
The Panthers then sent three picks to the New York Jets for Darnold last year, figuring they could resurrect his sagging career. But Darnold struggled with decision-making behind a patchwork offensive line, going 4-7 as a starter with 13 interceptions and nine touchdown passes while being sacked 35 times. The team re-signed Newton midseason, but he failed to win in five starts and was not brought back this offseason as an unrestricted free agent.
It seems the team has been looking for Darnold's replacement since finishing 5-12 last season.
Carolina set its sights on Watson, making a big push to land the controversial QB only to lose out to the Browns. And Carolina drafted Matt Corral from Mississippi in the third round with an eye toward developing him for the future.
If nothing else, Mayfield's arrival adds some intrigue to Carolina's regular-season home opener against the Browns on Sept. 11.
TickPick, a secondary ticket marketplace, reports it sold more tickets on Wednesday for the Browns-Panthers game after the trade was announced than for the entire month of June combined and the cheapest ticket increased from $78 to $133.
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The Toronto Maple Leafs made another veteran addition to their blue line by signing John Klingberg to a one-year deal worth $4.15 million on Saturday.
Klingberg is an offensive-minded defenseman, with 407 points in 619 NHL games, who moves the puck well and can play a role on the Leafs' special teams.
The 30-year-old spent the bulk of his career with the Dallas Stars, for whom he slotted into a top-four slot. That said, Klingberg projects to fit into Toronto's bottom pairing now. And that depth is especially important for the Maple Leafs given Justin Holl departed on a free agent deal of his own, landing a three-year pact with Detroit, and Erik Gustafsson moved on to the New York Rangers for one year and $825,000.
This is the second straight season where Klingberg has agreed on a one-year contract. There wasn't a ton of interest in the long-term market for veteran defensemen last summer, so Klingberg took a one-year, "prove-it" deal with the Anaheim Ducks. That paid him $7 million and gave him an opportunity to eat up minutes on a team not expected to contend in the Western Conference.
The Ducks indeed quickly fell out of the postseason race and elected to ship Klingberg out to the Minnesota Wild at the trading deadline.
Though he will be 31 when training camp opens, Klingberg can still anchor a power play and fit in nicely on the contending Wild after an up-and-down tenure with the Ducks.
The 2010 first-round pick hit his offensive peak in 2017-18, when he finished with eight goals and 67 points for the Stars. It was the only season in his career that he played the full 82-game schedule. | 2023-07-01T23:36:16+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/37946324/toronto-maple-leafs-add-john-klingberg-one-year-deal |
(The Hill) — Three Arkansas police officers have been placed on leave after they were caught on camera beating an individual in the town of Mulberry, authorities said on Sunday.
A video posted by KARK 4 News’s Mitchell McCoy shows two officers repeatedly punching and kicking the individual’s head and body as a third officer kept the person pinned down. At one point, one of the officers appears to slam the individual’s head into the ground.
It is not clear how the encounter began or why the officers pursued the individual.
“In reference to the video circulating social media involving two Crawford County deputies, we have requested that Arkansas State Police conduct the investigation, and the deputies have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation,” the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
“I hold all my employees accountable for their actions and will take appropriate measures in this matter,” the statement continued.
The Mulberry Police Department issued a similar statement, saying one of its employees was the third officer involved and had been placed on leave.
“The Arkansas State Police have been asked to investigate the incident,” the statement read.
“The officer is on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation,” it continued. “The City of Mulberry and the Mulberry Police Department takes these investigations very seriously and holds all their officers accountable for their actions. We will take the appropriate actions at the conclusion of the investigation.”
Mulberry is located roughly 20 miles northeast of Fort Smith, Ark.
The Hill has reached out to Arkansas State Police for comment. | 2022-08-22T13:36:05+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/3-arkansas-police-officers-suspended-after-beating-caught-on-camera/ |
Available in powder and on-the-go formats, additions to Beyond Raw® LIT™ portfolio take flavor to new horizons
PITTSBURGH, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Beyond Raw® is back with a limited time pre-workout exclusively at GNC: JOLLY RANCHER Grape. With a loyal consumer base ravenous for new flavors to mix into their workout routines, GNC is delivering with Beyond Raw® LIT™ JOLLY RANCHER Grape which joins the ranks of fan-favorites Watermelon, Green Apple, and Blue Raspberry. Known to help athletes dominate in the gym like no other, Beyond Raw® LIT's™ ingredients have been scientifically proven to promote energy, focus, and increase muscle carnosine levels on both training and non-training days. And now, fitness fanatics can experience the Beyond Raw® way in another coveted, mouth-watering JOLLY RANCHER flavor.
"We're excited to continue our partnership with The Hershey Company and introduce Beyond Raw® LIT™ JOLLY RANCHER Grape pre-workout powder and on-the-go to our consumers," said Kevin Maloberti, VP, Merchandising, GNC. "Beyond Raw fans are intense and loyal and they know our unmatched formula creates results. The launch of this new flavor partnership epitomizes our commitment to product innovation by showcasing formulations that taste great, bring fun into your workout, and help you Live Well."
Each serving of Beyond Raw® LIT™ pre-workout's includes clinically dosed ingredients like:
- 3g of L-Citrulline
- 3.2g of CarnoSyn® beta-alanine
- 1.5g of micronized creatine
- 250mg of caffeine
- 1.5g of Nitrosigine®
- 3g of L-Citrulline
"Launching Beyond Raw® LIT™ JOLLY RANCHER Grape is another opportunity to bring our absurdly bold Jolly Rancher flavors to life beyond the candy aisle," said Ernie Savo, Senior Director, Global Licensing, The Hershey Company. "Our continued partnership with GNC allows us to create a new path for consumers to experience the mouthwatering Jolly Rancher flavors and are thrilled to add grape to the lineup."
The Beyond Raw® LIT™ JOLLY RANCHER Grape follows the launch of Beyond Raw® Concept X in May, a first-of-its-kind supplement transforming the industry and redefining what consumers can expect from a pre-workout including extreme energy, focus, pumps, strength, endurance, and muscle soreness support. Now, more than ever, Beyond Raw® is helping consumers Live Well without sacrificing taste, fun, or results.
To learn more about GNC, visit www.gnc.com.
About GNC
GNC is a leading global health and wellness brand that provides high-quality, science-based products and solutions consumers need to live mighty, live fit and Live Well.
The brand touches consumers worldwide by providing its products and services through company-owned retail locations, domestic and international franchise locations, digital commerce and strong wholesale and retail partnerships across the globe. GNC's diversified, multi-channel business model has worldwide reach and a well-recognized, trusted brand. By combining exceptional innovation, product development capabilities and an extensive global distribution network, GNC manages a best-in-class product portfolio. www.gnc.com.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A loss of oxygen is a leading theory for why an unresponsive business jet flew over the nation’s capital Sunday before it crashed in rural Virginia. But federal investigators are just beginning to look for answers, and an expert cautioned against jumping to conclusions.
The Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethton, Tennessee, headed for Long Island’s MacArthur Airport. Once over Long Island, it turned around and headed south, flying a straight path over Washington, D.C. before crashing in Virginia, k illing the pilot and three passengers.
The Sunday crash wasn’t the first time a flight ended up far from its destination under mysterious circumstances.
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WHAT IS HYPOXIA?:
Hypoxia is the condition that occurs when someone’s brain is deprived of adequate oxygen. If untreated, it can be fatal.
In aviation, hypoxia can happen if a non-pressurized plane flies above 10,000 feet without supplemental oxygen or if there is a rapid decompression during a flight, or a malfunction of the oxygen or pressurization systems, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Oxygen pressure decreases as altitude increases. It’s the reason planes are pressurized and why mountaineers carry supplemental oxygen on high-altitude climbs. It’s also the reason flight attendants explain to passengers how to use oxygen masks in the unlikely event that cabin pressure is lost during a commercial flight.
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THE EFFECTS OF HYPOXIA
“It’s something that happens slowly. It’s almost like you’re getting groggy, and you just can’t, you can’t piece things together. And eventually you lose consciousness,” said Anthony Brickhouse, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board who is now an associate professor and director of the Aerospace Forensic Lab at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
The fighter jet pilots who caught up with the business jets said its pilot appeared to be slumped over and unresponsive, according to two US officials briefed on the matter. The officials were not authorized to discuss details of the military operation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Flight tracking sites showed the plane suffered a rapid spiraling descent, dropping at one point at a rate of more than 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) per minute before crashing in the St. Mary’s Wilderness.
Brickhouse said that aircraft are often set to fly on autopilot “so if the pilot goes hypoxic or loses consciousness, that aircraft is just going to fly whatever route it was programmed to fly,” he said.
Brickhouse said it’s unclear why the plane suddenly turned around in New York and headed south again. He said it’s possible the pilot was disoriented and may have “tried to reprogram a flight computer or something like that.”
“That’s definitely something that investigators will be looking into,” Brickhouse said.
Brickhouse said it’s important not to jump to conclusions about what caused the sudden flight turnaround and the crash.
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OTHER CRASHES INVOLVING HYPOXIA:
— One of the most well-known crashes involving hypoxia was the 1999 crash of a Learjet that lost cabin pressure and flew halfway across the country on autopilot before running out of gas and crashing in a South Dakota pasture, killing professional golfer Payne Stewart and five others.
— Among multiple theories in the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 carrying 239 passengers and crew was a slow or sudden decompression, causing a loss of oxygen, that could have killed everyone on board. If oxygen levels dropped, a loud, automated warning would have alerted the pilots to put on their oxygen masks and immediately descend below 10,000 feet, where there is enough oxygen to breathe without aid. But aviation experts said in that case the plane should have kept flying automatically toward Beijing and been visible on radar.
— Greek investigators said pilots on a Cypriot airliner did not realize an automatic pressurization system was set to “manual” when a loss of cabin pressure and oxygen led to hypoxia and the plane’s crash in Greece in 2005, killing all 121 people on board.
— In January 2018, Dr. Bill Kinsinger, of Edmond, Oklahoma, had been flying his Cirrus SR22T to Georgetown, Texas, to collect a disabled dog that was destined for a foster home in Oklahoma. But he never landed at the suburban Austin airport and overshot his destination by hundreds of miles. Authorities believe he may have lost consciousness due to hypoxia.
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Finley contributed from Norfolk, Virginia. | 2023-06-05T21:56:52+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/national/ap-us-news/loss-of-oxygen-in-cabin-may-have-led-to-virginia-plane-crash-expert-says/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Two major conservative groups have signaled they are open to supporting someone other than Donald Trump in the 2024 race for the White House, the latest sign from an increasingly vocal segment of the Republican Party that it’s time to move on from the former president.
David McIntosh, the president of the influential Club For Growth group, said Tuesday that the group has invited a half dozen potential Republican candidates to its donor summit in Florida next month, but Trump — the only declared major candidate in the race so far — is not among them.
Instead, the group has invited Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is viewed as Trump’s most formidable likely challenger, along with Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador; former Vice President Mike Pence; former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina; and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
“We think it would be great for our members to hear them, see what they have to say, where they want to lead the country,” McIntosh said in an interview.
His comments came on the heels of a memo released over the weekend by the conservative advocacy group Americans For Prosperity that said the group was prepared to support someone other than Trump in the GOP primary.
Tensions between Trump and both groups are not new, but their willingness to get involved on behalf of another candidate may only encourage at least half a dozen potential rivals who are considering campaigns. Haley is expected to announce her 2024 campaign next week in South Carolina.
Both groups join several megadonors who have signaled in recent months that they’re looking elsewhere for a presidential nominee.
Trump is facing a swirl of legal problems and has been blamed for the GOP’s underwhelming performance in last year’s midterm elections. However, he remains the most dominant figure in the party and has a been a prolific fundraiser, relying on a network of small donors.
Asked for comment Tuesday, Trump’s campaign pointed to messages on his Truth Social network in which he called McIntosh’s organization the “Club For NO Growth.” He later posted an additional message Tuesday calling the group “an assemblage of political misfits, globalists, and losers.”
Club For Growth, an anti-tax group, opposed Trump during his 2016 campaign but became a big ally once he won the White House. But the group has been at odds with Trump over the last year after it endorsed opposing candidates in Republican primaries, especially in the Ohio and Pennsylvania Senate races.
McIntosh said the group is open to supporting a candidate in the Republican presidential primary, potentially running ads on their behalf. But he made clear that the group would support Trump in the general election if he became the nominee.
“One of the factors that we’re taking into account is that the Democrats successfully used him in the last election to win a lot of races,” he said. “There’s a sense in all of this that we want to make sure whoever we nominate can win in the presidential race and people want to see that.”
Americans For Prosperity, founded by the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers, has long clashed with Trump. Their substantial network refused to endorse him or any candidate in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.
Trump in the past has lashed out at the brothers, calling them a “total joke” and “globalists” who are “against Strong Borders and Powerful Trade.”
In the new memo, the group said “the best thing for the country would be to have a president in 2025 who represents a new chapter.” It said the political advocacy arm of AFP is prepared to support a candidate in the GOP primary “who can lead our country forward, and who can win” — with an added emphasis on “win.”
A spokesperson for the group did not offer any further details about the process, including when the organization might make a decision on whom to endorse and which candidates might win the group’s backing.
The pro-business, free-market group spent more than $30 million in advertising against President Barack Obama’s reelection in 2012. AFP’s political arm spent almost $80 million in the 2022 midterms on behalf of House and Senate candidates, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Once more candidates enter the race in the coming months, AFP is expected to go through a comprehensive vetting process based first on each candidate’s policy positions. The organization has long refused to endorse Trump because he wasn’t viewed as sufficiently conservative on trade and federal spending, among other issues.
But AFP will also prioritize viability as a key factor in the endorsement process. By doing so, AFP — viewed as the largest and best-funded grassroots organization in the nation — could help narrow the Republican field in 2024 by starving lower-tier contenders of funding and attention.
Trump critics within the GOP fear that the former president may benefit from a crowded field that ultimately divides the anti-Trump vote in the early primary states.
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Associated Press writer Steve Peoples in New York contributed to this report. | 2023-02-08T14:54:33+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-conservative-groups-look-beyond-trump-for-2024-gop-nominee/ |
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A college student who authorities say admitted setting fire to a building slated to become Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic pleaded not guilty to an arson charge in federal court on Friday.
Standing next to her lawyer, Lorna Roxanne Green, 22, entered her plea after calmly answering questions from the judge about whether she understood the proceedings and for what charge she was indicted. She answered “no” to whether she had any mental or physical conditions that would make it difficult to understand what was happening as her father watched from the front row of court.
Green told investigators that she opposes abortion and was experiencing anxiety and having nightmares over the Wellspring Health Access clinic that was to open in Casper, Wyoming, last year, so she decided to burn it, according to court documents.
After the court hearing, Green’s lawyer, Ryan Semerad, declined to comment on the confession outlined by investigators. He said he needs to look at the conversation with authorities in detail, along with the rest of the evidence in the case that will now be turned over to him.
Investigators say Green broke a window at the clinic, filled aluminum baking pans with gasoline and set it ablaze on May 25, 2022. The clinic, which had drawn anti-abortion protesters, was scheduled to open a few weeks later but was not able to begin seeing patients until March because of the fire damage.
The facility is Wyoming’s only dedicated clinic in at least a decade to offer surgical abortions. It also offers abortion pills, women’s health care, family planning and gender-affirming health care, the clinic says.
Before Wellspring opened, only one other clinic in Wyoming — a women’s health center in Jackson, some 250 miles (400 kilometers) away — provided medication abortions.
Abortion remains legal in conservative Wyoming although lawmakers passed a law banning abortion except in cases of rape or incest reported to police, or when the mother’s life is in danger. However, a state judge put the ban on hold while an opposing lawsuit proceeds.
Wyoming also became the the first state to pass an explicit ban on abortion pills, which have been legal for decades and become the predominant choice for abortion in the U.S. The ban does not take effect until July 1.
Surveillance video released by police soon after the fire at the Casper facility captured a masked woman in a hooded shirt at the clinic building. But Green was not arrested until March after tipsters named her as a possible suspect when the reward in the case was increased to $15,000.
Chief Magistrate Judge Kelly Rankin scheduled Green to go on trial on July 24. She faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted. | 2023-06-03T03:14:18+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/health/college-student-accused-of-setting-fire-to-wyomings-only-abortion-clinic-to-enter-plea/ |
GERMANTOWN, Md., July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EDIRNA, Inc. (the "Company" or "EDIRNA"), an innovative biotechnology company focused on RNA-Editing therapeutics, announces establishment of executive management team led by experienced biopharma executive, Christopher W. Kennedy, as the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
EDIRNA recently completed initial funding from a leading global RNA biopharmaceutical company, Sirnaomics Ltd. ("Sirnaomics", Stock Code: 2257.HK), to further advance their research and development efforts. The agreement includes an exclusive licensing of Sirnaomics' proprietary delivery technologies for RNA-Editing applications. This strategic partnership accelerates EDIRNA's proprietary Edit-to-Cure Therapeutics™ platform targeting diseases with high unmet clinical needs.
"It's a distinct honor and remarkable opportunity to lead EDIRNA on the noble mission of developing technologies focused on addressing the root causes of rare diseases," said Kennedy. "I've been fortunate to work in both the research and patient care sides of healthcare. RNA-Editing provides the potential for innovative breakthroughs to cure diseases instead of treating symptoms. Our strategic partnership with Sirnaomics allows us to capitalize on clinically validated RNA delivery technology to advance our therapeutic programs."
"RNA-Editing is emerging as a powerful technology to manipulate RNA to enable correction of disease-causing mutations and modulate gene expression and protein function. The technology is particularly well suited for therapeutic applications that require a transient pharmacodynamic effect rather than a permanent alteration to the genome. RNA-Editing drugs are poised to broadly impact various unmet therapeutic needs," comments from Dr. Patrick Lu, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Sirnaomics. "We are very excited to build this strategic partnership with EDIRNA, since this innovative and dynamic group has assembled a leadership and scientific team with steadfast focus on RNA-Editing technology for novel therapeutics. This partnership also represents a strategic expansion of Sirnaomics' well-validated delivery and chemical modification technology platforms beyond just RNAi and mRNA applications."
About EDIRNA
EDIRNA, Inc. is a privately held early-stage biotech firm focused on RNA-Editing therapeutics. The Company's Edit-to-Cure Therapeutics™ platform uses RNA-editing technologies to address the root cause of disease progression. Learn more at www.EDIRNA.us.
About Sirnaomics
Sirnaomics is an RNA therapeutics biopharmaceutical company with product candidates in preclinical and clinical stages that focuses on the discovery and development of innovative drugs for indications with medical needs and large market opportunities. Sirnaomics is the first clinical-stage RNA therapeutics company to have a strong presence in both Asia and the United States. Based on its proprietary delivery technologies: Polypeptide Nanoparticle Formulation and the 2nd generation of GalNAc conjugation, the Group has established an enriched drug candidate pipeline. Sirnaomics is currently holding a leadership position on advancing RNAi therapeutics for oncology application with multiple successes of its clinical programs for STP705 and STP707. STP122G represents the first drug candidate of GalAhead™ technology entering clinical development. With establishment of the Group's manufacturing facility, Sirnaomics currently is undergoing a transition from a biotech company to a biopharma corporation. Learn more at: www.sirnaomics.com.
CONTACT:
EDIRNA
Christopher W. Kennedy | Chief Executive Officer | Email: ckennedy@edirna.us
Sirnaomics
Nigel Yip | Chief Financial Officer | Email: nigelyip@sirnaomics.com
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The husband of a Massachusetts woman who has been missing since New Year’s Day went online to look up ways to dismember and dispose of a body, and items belonging to the woman with her DNA were found at a trash processing facility, a prosecutor said at his arraignment Wednesday on murder and other charges.
Not guilty pleas were entered on behalf of Brian Walshe, 47, and he was held without bail in Quincy District Court. Dressed in a gray sweater and beige pants, he stood expressionless as the prosecutor laid out the state’s case and did not speak except to say “I do,” when asked by the judge if he understood the charges.
His attorney, Tracy Miner, did not contest bail but in the past has said her client has cooperated with investigators.
She said in a statement that “I intend to win this case in court.”
“I am not going to comment on the evidence, first because I am going to try this case in the court and not in the media,” Miner said in a statement. “Second, because I haven’t been provided with any evidence by the prosecution. In my experience, where, as here, the prosecution leaks so-called evidence to the press before they provide it to me, their case isn’t that strong.”
Walshe was already in custody on $500,000 bail after pleading not guilty earlier this month to misleading investigators searching for Ana Walshe, 39, whose body has not been found.
The couple, who have three young children who are now in state custody, lived in the affluent coastal community of Cohasset, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southeast of Boston.
Starting Jan. 1 and for several days after, Brian Walshe made multiple online searches using an iPad belonging to one of his sons using terms such as “dismemberment and best ways to dispose of a body,” “how long before a body starts to smell,” and “hacksaw best tool to dismember,” prosecutor Lynn Beland said in court.
Investigators also found Jan. 3 surveillance video of man resembling Brian Walshe throwing what appeared to be heavy trash bags into a dumpster at an apartment complex in Abington, which is not far from Cohasset.
“Surveillance shows the defendant’s Volvo, as well as a man fitting the defendant’s appearance, exit the car near the dumpster,” Beland said. “He walks to the dumpster carrying a garbage bag. He’s leaning, and it appears to be heavy, as he has to heft it into the dumpster.”
Police tried to locate those bags but they had already been taken away and incinerated, Beland said.
When police went to the family’s home Jan. 4 to perform a well-being check when it was still considered a missing person case, they noted the car had its seats folded down and a plastic liner in the back. Chemists later found the presence of blood in the car, Beland said.
During a Jan. 8 search of a trash processing facility in Peabody, north of Boston and not far from Brian Walshe’s mother’s home, investigators found trash bags that contained a hatchet, a hacksaw, towels and a protective Tyvek suit, cleaning agents, a Prada purse, boots similar to the ones Ana Walshe was last seen wearing, and a COVID-19 vaccination card with her name, Beland said.
Some items had what appeared to human blood on them and testing determined that both Ana and Brian Walshe were “contributors” to the DNA on them, she said.
Ana Walshe was reportedly last seen leaving their home in the early morning hours of Jan. 1, purportedly to take a ride-hailing vehicle to Logan International Airport for a flight to Washington, authorities said. But police have found no indication that she either took a vehicle or boarded any flight out of Logan.
She was reported missing Jan. 4 by her employer in Washington, where the couple has a home and to which she often commutes during the week for work at a real estate company, authorities said.
Authorities have searched the family’s home, a wooded area near the home, the trash processing facility in Peabody north of Boston, and a condo complex where Brian Walshe’s mother lives. Authorities previously said knives and blood were found in the family home’s basement.
Authorities have also previously said Brian Walshe was spotted on surveillance video buying hundreds of dollars worth of cleaning supplies at a home improvement store.
Brian Walshe had been on home confinement with some exceptions while awaiting sentencing in a fraud case involving the sale of fake Andy Warhol paintings, according to federal court records. Police have said Ana Walshe’s disappearance and her husband’s case appear to be unrelated.
The mother of Ana Walshe, who is originally from Serbia, told Belgrade’s Kurir daily prior to Wednesday’s arraignment that she does not believe her son-in-law harmed her daughter.
“My son-in-law would not do anything to harm my Ana, and I do not believe any of the statements that have so far been related to the possibility that Brian harmed her,” Milanka Ljubičić said.
“He assured me that Ana is fine and alive and I believe him. I am shocked by the new details that she was allegedly killed because I still hope that she is alive and well.”
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Associated Press writer Dusan Stojanovic in Belgrade, Serbia, contributed to this report. | 2023-01-19T02:44:21+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-us-news/ap-husband-of-missing-woman-looked-up-ways-to-dispose-of-body/ |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Narendra Modi did something very unusual on Thursday at the White House — he took questions from journalists.
It’s a rare occurrence for the Indian prime minister who avoids unscripted moments and has presided over a steady decline in press freedom in his country.
The news conference was more limited than the kind that U.S. presidents usually hold with foreign leaders, but even that wasn’t easy to arrange with Modi. Indian officials agreed to the event only the day before, according to a person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive negotiations.
Administration officials told Modi’s advisers that taking questions from the media was a standard part of how White House state visits are conducted, the person said.
An Indian reporter asked about addressing climate change, and an American reporter pressed Modi on human rights concerns— a particularly delicate topic as the United States seeks closer ties with India as a bulwark against China’s influence in the region.
Modi defended India by saying “democracy runs in our veins” and insisting that there is ”absolutely no space for discrimination.”
Although Modi, who is 72, has granted sporadic interviews since becoming India’s leader nine years ago, he has never held a solo press conference. Sometimes when asked questions he’ll defer to others on stage with him.
Modi also tends to keep reporters at a distance during overseas trips, such as last year in Germany, when the two countries announced a clean energy deal.
The Indian delegation had insisted then that no press conference be held, according to a German official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity.
However, Modi has loosened up a little in the company of American counterparts.
Eight years ago, when President Barack Obama visited India, Modi answered questions from two reporters, including one from The Associated Press.
Modi is active on social media where hundreds of millions follow him, hosts a monthly radio program where he directly connects with listeners, and often makes big speeches. He uses these platforms to highlight government programs, inaugurate infrastructure projects and express condolences when an accident or tragedy strikes.
But Modi has often remained silent on polarizing incidents, including when religious minorities have faced attacks by Hindu nationalists. He has also not commented on current ethnic violence roiling India’s remote northeast, where at least 100 people have died since May.
“His silences are legendary – he has never asked people to refrain from sectarian violence,” said Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, author of a Modi biography.
He suggested that Modi should not get much credit for any press conference in Washington if only a few questions were allowed.
Modi’s action, Mukhopadhyay said, “allows him to project an image as a more reasonable and democratic leader abroad, while he continues to evade press conferences at home, where he has scant regard for press freedom.”
The decline in press freedom didn’t start with Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, but it’s increased. The country fell 11 places, to 161 out of 180 countries, in this year’s Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders.
The organization cited violence against journalists and a partisan media landscape as reasons that “press freedom is in crisis in the world’s largest democracy.”
“With an average of three or four journalists killed in connection with their work every year, India is one of the world’s most dangerous countries for media,” the report said.
India’s foreign minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, dismissed the report’s claims at an event last month.
In recent years, journalists have been arrested and some are stopped from traveling abroad. Dozens are facing criminal prosecution, including for sedition. At the same time, the government has introduced sweeping regulatory laws for social media companies that give it more power to police online content.
A number of media outlets critical of Modi have also been subjected to tax searches, most recently the BBC after it aired a documentary that examined the prime minister’s role in 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the western state of Gujarat, where he was chief minister at the time.
More than 1,000 people were killed in the violence. Modi has denied allegations that authorities under his watch allowed and even encouraged the bloodshed, and India’s Supreme Court said it found no evidence to prosecute him.
The two-part BBC program drew an immediate backlash from the Indian government, which invoked emergency powers under its information technology laws to block it from being shown in the country. Social media platforms including Twitter and YouTube also complied with government requests to remove links to the documentary.
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Pathi reported from New Delhi. Associated Press writers Aamer Madhani and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.
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This version has corrected that India’s placement on the Press Freedom Index is 161, not 160. | 2023-06-23T08:50:03+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/politics/modi-meets-the-press-at-the-white-house-and-takes-rare-questions/ |
Justice Department investigators on Friday searched the offices of former Vice President Mike Pence’s political advocacy group as part of a review of his handling of classified documents, a spokesperson said.
Investigators did not find any new records with classified markings during their search of Advancing American Freedom’s office in Washington, D.C., Pence adviser Devin O’Malley said in a statement. They took one binder with “approximately three previously redacted documents.”
Those documents are believed to be from Pence’s 2020 debate preparations, a person familiar with the matter said.
“The vice president has consistently cooperated with appropriate authorities, has been fully transparent, and looks forward to the imminent conclusion of this matter,” O’Malley said in a statement.
Friday’s search offered federal agents unrestricted access to the offices of Advancing American Freedom. The search took “several hours,” and a member of Pence’s legal team was present throughout.
The FBI last week searched Pence’s home in Indiana after a small number of documents with classified markings were found there last month. Last week’s search turned up one additional document with classified markings.
Pence’s lawyer, Greg Jacob, had notified the National Archives on Jan. 18 that a small number of documents with classified markings were found at the former vice president’s Indiana home. Pence was not aware that the documents were there, Jacob said.
Officials had searched Pence’s home for classified documents out of an abundance of caution after sensitive government materials were found at President Biden’s home in Wilmington, Del., and his office from when he worked at the Penn-Biden Center in D.C.
The Pence documents were turned over to federal authorities the next day, along with two other boxes with copies of administration records, Jacob said.
The Justice Department last week was given unrestricted access to Pence’s Indiana home for the search, which had the same scope as the search of Biden’s home and office. Pence was not present for that search, as he was on the west coast after the birth of his second and third grandchildren.
That search yielded one document with classified markings and six additional pages without such markings that were not discovered in the initial review by the vice president’s counsel.
Pence previously said “mistakes were made” while packing up materials from his time as vice president, and he vowed to cooperate with federal officials on the matter. He had previously criticized Biden for having classified materials from his time as vice president at his home.
The review of his handling of classified documents comes as both Biden and former President Trump are under scrutiny for their handling of classified materials, though their cases are different.
Pence and Biden immediately alerted authorities about the discovery of documents, while Trump resisted turning them over for several months. Trump also had more documents in his possession with classified markings than Biden or Pence, and only Pence’s team proactively notified the press within days of their discovery.
The former vice president is also simultaneously caught up in a Justice Department investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He said this week he would fight a subpoena for testimony in the case, even if it meant taking it to the Supreme Court.
Pence is mulling a potential 2024 presidential campaign, with a decision about whether to run expected in the coming months. The former vice president spent this week in Minnesota and Iowa meeting with parents’ rights groups pushing back on transgender-affirming policies in schools.
—Updated at 2:47 p.m. | 2023-02-17T19:59:21+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/doj-searches-pence-groups-offices-finds-no-classified-documents/ |
A baby dolphin tangled in the remnants of a crab trap has been freed.
On Wednesday, lifeguards for the Clearwater Fire and Rescue Department noticed an adult dolphin circling a pier in shallow water.
When they checked it out, they found the juvenile dolphin tangled up.
Our lifeguards were first on scene when they noticed an adult dolphin circling around in shallow water. When they went to check it out, they found a young dolphin tangled in the remnants of a crab trap. They’re hoping the adult, possibly the mother, comes back. pic.twitter.com/mHNz5fxJeh
— Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department (@clearwaterfire) July 20, 2022
Scripps sister station WFTS reported that crews were able to free it from the ropes.
According to WFTS, the department called the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in hopes the animal could be reconnected with its mother.
Unfortunately, that didn't happen because the baby dolphin started swimming toward shore and struggled in the open water, the news outlet reported.
So, the aquarium took the dolphin to Sea World in Orlando, the fire department said.
Update: The dolphin is being taken to @SeaWorld in Orlando by @CMAquarium staff. https://t.co/PlmWVeMYMO
— Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department (@clearwaterfire) July 20, 2022 | 2022-07-21T20:24:17+00:00 | wsfltv.com | https://www.wsfltv.com/news/national/baby-dolphin-rescued-after-becoming-entangled-in-crab-trap |
BILLINGS — Moderate Republicans failed to temper the Montana Republican Party platform convention last weekend as the GOP declared it wanted bans on all abortions, including in cases involving incest and rape.
Republican lawmakers, candidates for office and other party members met in Billings last week for the first time since 2018 to revise the party platform. Broken up into sections, or planks, the platform articulates the Montana GOP’s stances on major issues, such as education, taxation and crime.
Rep. Amy Regier, R-Kalispell, read out the proposed party language on abortion, which supported a complete ban on elective abortions. Rep. Dennis Lenz, R-Billings, later clarified this did not exclude medical abortions, including cases where the life of the mother was at risk.
However, other party members felt the language didn’t leave room for people with differing beliefs, said Heidi Streiger, a proxy delegate. She wanted the platform to oppose elective abortion, not support a ban, and she did not believe the platform should take a stance on when life begins. The room voted her suggestions down.
Rep. David Bedey, R-Hamilton, also called for exceptions to the abortion ban.
“We support a ban on abortion, on elective abortion,” Bedey said, reading the language he wanted to see in the platform. “With the exception of cases of rape or incest or when there exists an imminent threat to the life of the mother.”
Bedey’s proposed language was also voted down.
The party platform also provided a preview of what legislation Republican lawmakers may introduce during the 2023 Legislature. Major pieces of legislation tied to the platform may also be used next session to create a legislative score card, showing how individual lawmakers voted on Montana GOP platform issues.
Rep. Derek Skees championed the accountability tool, which he said will give voters insight into which lawmakers vote the “brand Republican.”
“(Voters) are expecting small taxes, personal responsibility, small government,” Skees said. “…But the problem is we have a majority in our caucus that are conservative and minority who are not. And they trade votes left and right to get their stuff done and kill our stuff.”
Streiger cautioned against the idea of a scorecard moments before she attempted to introduce more mild language in the platform’s abortion stance. The 21-year-old Montana Tech student said, “We don’t want to compel people into supporting what they might disagree with somewhat.”
Skees acknowledged people don’t like heavy partisan politics and that he was one of the more extreme members of the party, because he said he was an “unapologetic conservative." But the scorecard is meant to increase transparency and label what the party and what candidates believe, he said.
During about five hours of discussion, delegates more than once booed moderate views, and some more controversial views drew contempt from even other conservatives. Rep. Bill Mercer, R-Billings, mocked a line in the national affairs plank of the platform, which talked about the January 6 defendants.
“It refers to people being held in indefinite detention,” Mercer said. “Let me quickly say how the criminal justice system works.”
Mercer, who served as Montana’s U.S. Attorney from 2001 to 2009, described how a typical federal case proceeds and how and when people can be released. When another delegate got up to rebut Mercer and restated the belief that prosecutors are depriving January 6 defendants of their rights, Mercer rolled his eyes. However, the language about Jan. 6 was approved for the platform.
When the topic of how to handle elections and count ballots arose, Bedey once again advocated a more moderate stance. The unfounded attacks on Montana’s election system does nothing but degrade people’s confidence in the fundamental process of voting, Bedey said.
“If we’re a conservative party, that wants to maintain our institutions,” Bedey said. “We should quit throwing gasoline on the fire.”
The party later adopted language declaring the Montana Republican Party would push for a return to hand counted or mechanically counted ballots. Any technology involving digital tabulation or digital storing of voting information should no longer have a place in Montana’s elections, according to the party platform’s goal.
Sen. Theresa Manzella, R-Hamilton, said she doesn’t understand the technology in voting machines and it makes it tough to call the elections transparent.
“I can admit that I’m so ignorant about this subject that I don’t even know what I don’t know,” Manzella said. “And I think most people fall into that category.”
The updated platform is expected to be up on the Montana Republican Party website later this month.
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TOKYO (AP) — Many users of Japan’s No. 2 mobile carrier KDDI Corp. were still having trouble making calls Monday after a massive outage throughout the weekend that affected nearly 40 million people, disrupting deliveries, weather reports and other services across the country.
The company said data transmission had largely been restored by Monday morning, but service restrictions were still causing many users to have trouble with making phone calls and sending short messages.
The outage started in the early hours of Saturday during a scheduled maintenance work at a facility in western Tokyo.
It disabled text messaging, phone calls and other services for more than 39 million users of KDDI’s mobile services. Parcel deliveries also were disrupted.
Over the weekend, the Meteorological Agency was unable to send weather data at hundreds of stations, dozens of cash machines were disabled in central Japan, and Tokyo and other municipalities had trouble reaching COVID-19 patients subject to health monitoring at home.
The major outage came just ahead of a July 10 parliamentary election and was seen as embarrassment for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government, which has been promoting digitization of the world's No. 3 economy.
The government was quick to address public concern over the problem.
“It is extremely regrettable that mobile phone service, which is a crucial infrastructure for social and economic activity, has been unusable for such a long time," Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiji Kihara told reporters on Monday.
He said the government was taking the situation “seriously” and urged KDDI to provide a thorough explanation. Kihara said he expected KDDI to “sincerely” consider compensation for possible damage claims from users.
On Sunday, KDDI President Makoto Takahashi apologized and provided an initial explanation about what happened and the outlook for resumption of disrupted services.
“We consider this a severe incident,” Internal affairs and communications minister Yasushi Kaneko said on Sunday. The outage was especially unfortunate because it disrupted emergency calls at a time when people were facing increased risks of COVID-19 and heat strokes and potential emergencies due to an approaching typhoon.
An outage last year by rival NTT DoCoMo affected nearly 13 million people. | 2022-07-04T08:22:06+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Outages-disrupt-services-at-Japan-s-No-2-17283075.php |
Statement of Ron Price
10 Min Read
July 11, 2023
Ron Price
Chief Operating Officer, PGA TOUR, Inc.
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
United States Senate
Chairman Blumenthal, Ranking Member Johnson, and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today regarding the PGA TOUR, Inc. (“TOUR”). I am pleased to join Jimmy Dunne, an independent director of our Policy Board, in addressing your questions about the future of golf. This is my 29th year as an employee of the TOUR, and I was a TOUR consultant for five years prior to becoming an employee. I serve as Chief Operating Officer at the TOUR and most recently have been co-leading the TOUR while Commissioner Monahan is on medical leave.
Let me start by saying that our goal is to protect an American institution that generates approximately $200 million for 3,000 charities through tournaments across 34 states in a single year, brings the highest level of sports and entertainment to millions of fans around the globe, and provides the most pro-competitive, legacy-driven platform for the world’s best players.
That goal—our core mission—has been under threat for the better part of two years. When the Saudi-funded LIV Golf Tour launched its inaugural series in 2022, the TOUR faced an unprecedented attack. In defending our organization and its regulations—regulations that each member agrees to at the start of every season—we were forced to suspend those players who made the choice to play for LIV Golf; they could play for the new league, but they could not come “back and forth” to freeride off the work and platform of the collective membership they had left behind. In August 2022, we were sued in an effort to invalidate our regulations. This created a fracture in golf unlike anything our sport had experienced in decades and created a division in our closely knit, membership organization.
We believe that we did everything we possibly could to defend what we stand for, including spending tens of millions of dollars to defend litigation instigated by LIV Golf, significant funds diverted away from our core mission to benefit our players and generate charity. As part of the litigation, we were successful in securing a court ruling that the Public Investment Fund (“PIF”) was not protected under sovereign immunity with respect to litigation discovery and potentially liability, something which had never been done before in the United States. Meanwhile, we have seen the continued strength of the TOUR thanks to the loyalty, talent and performance of the remarkable players we are proud to call members of the PGA TOUR.
Regardless, it was clear to us—and to all who love the PGA TOUR and the game of golf as a whole—that the dispute was undermining growth of our sport and threatening the very survival of the PGA TOUR and it was unsustainable. While we had significant wins in the litigation, our players, fans, partners, employees, charities and communities would lose in the long run. Instead of losing control of the PGA TOUR, an American institution and tradition, we pursued a peace that would not only end the divisive litigation battles but would also maintain the PGA TOUR’s structure, mission and longstanding support for charity. While negotiations toward a Definitive Agreement are currently underway—and there are no guarantees that we will receive the ultimate approval from our Policy Board, including five Player Directors—the Framework agreement contains important safeguards that ensure the TOUR will operate fundamentally as it does today: The TOUR will control operations; the TOUR will control the board of the new subsidiary; and the TOUR will be the governing body for competitive golf in connection with any combined golf operations. The agreement provides clear, explicit and permanent safeguards that ensure the TOUR will lead the decisions that shape our future, and that we will have control over our operations, strategy and continuity of our mission.
As I began my testimony, our goals are achieved through this Framework Agreement. Of course, I understand the need for additional clarity around how and why the deal came together, and I welcome the opportunity to shed light on the predicament we found ourselves in—one we did not seek, nor one that we could sustain indefinitely—but one for which we have found a workable, productive solution that benefits all who love the game of golf and the PGA TOUR.
The remainder of my testimony provides additional details regarding the TOUR, the litigation and the Framework Agreement that resolved the litigation.
The PGA TOUR
The TOUR is the world’s premier membership organization for touring professional golfers. It sanctions tournaments on the PGA TOUR, PGA TOUR Champions, Korn Ferry Tour, PGA TOUR Latinoamérica and PGA TOUR Canada. The TOUR has more than 150 active player members from the United States and more than 80 international members from 24 countries and territories.
The PGA TOUR is a tax-exempt membership organization, as described in section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code. Its principal mission is to promote the sport of professional golf through sanctioning and administering golf tournaments, and promoting the common interests of its membership of touring golf professionals. The TOUR provides competitive earnings opportunities for members, protects the integrity of the game and helps to grow the reach of the game in the United States and around the world. We hold tournaments in 34 U.S. states and nearly a dozen countries around the world. Television coverage of the PGA TOUR is broadcast to 200 countries and territories in 26 languages.
In addition to promoting and building the sport of professional golf, the TOUR has a longstanding commitment to generating substantial charitable contributions in the communities where its tournaments are played. Even though the TOUR is a 501(c)(6) membership organization, and not a charitable organization under section 501(c)(3), the TOUR has chosen to structure its tournaments whereby the net proceeds of the tournaments are contributed to local charities. Through its charitable activities, the TOUR has supported local healthcare, education, youth development, disaster relief, food banks, military programs and other causes. Last year, the TOUR and its tournaments generated $215 million for 3,000 charities. Some examples include its support for grantees, including the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Connecticut; AmericanFamily Children’s Hospital in Wisconsin; and Evans Scholars Foundation in Delaware. In its 54-year history, the TOUR and its events have generated $3.6 billion in charitable giving. In addition, the events sponsored by the TOUR help support the additional charitable efforts of TOUR members through their individual foundations and fundraising activities.
Litigation Related to LIV Golf
As I mentioned, in August 2022, a group of LIV players filed a federal lawsuit against the TOUR seeking to invalidate the TOUR’s regulations that had made the players ineligible to play in TOUR events due to their participation in LIV Golf events. In addition, certain players sought an emergency temporary restraining order to block the TOUR from enforcing its regulations. Although the TOUR prevailed in defeating the temporary restraining order, the principal litigation continued, and the TOUR spent the last year engaged in expensive and divisive litigation.
In late 2022, PIF sought to quash certain discovery requests on the grounds that PIF was immune from lawsuits in the United States under principles of sovereign immunity as specified in the U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. In February 2023, in a critical decision, the court ruled in favor of the TOUR, concluding that the activities at issue were subject to a “commercial activity” exception to foreign sovereign immunity. PIF appealed this decision, and the appeal was pending at the time of the Framework Agreement that settled the litigation.
Although the TOUR had some significant procedural victories and remains confident in its legal positions in the case, the TOUR concluded that protracted litigation was not in the best interests of the players, fans or the sport of golf. In addition to the financial burden on the TOUR, the litigation imposed significant burdens and distractions on others involved in golf, particularly players, sponsors and other golf organizations that were drawn into the litigation between the TOUR and PIF. Years of complex litigation would have been enormously expensive, divisive and harmful to the TOUR, players, fans and the sport.
Framework Agreement to Resolve the Litigation
The TOUR, DP World Tour and PIF entered into the Framework Agreement on May 30, 2023, and the agreement was publicly announced on June 6, 2023. The agreement contains two principal binding elements: the complete dismissal of the litigation between the parties and an agreement not to solicit or recruit the players of the other organization. Overall, the TOUR achieved very significant objectives in the agreement through the dismissal of the litigation and a commitment that any further agreement would preserve its important role in leading and promoting competitive professional golf. The agreement contemplates the negotiation of a Definitive Agreement that would include establishing a new commercial subsidiary of the TOUR into which the parties will contribute their commercial and golf assets. The Framework Agreement will terminate at the end of 2023 if the parties do not reach a final agreement. It is far from clear whether a final agreement will be reached, and our Policy Board, which includes players, would be asked to review and approve any final agreement. Whether or not a final agreement is reached, however, the litigation is over. It has already been dismissed and cannot be refiled even if further negotiations over a final agreement do not prove successful.
The executed Framework Agreement, which has been provided to the Subcommittee, includes the following binding provisions: Paragraph 6 requires the dismissal of all pending litigation and arbitrations with prejudice, meaning that the litigation claims cannot be reopened or refiled. Following the agreement, all litigation claims were dismissed. Paragraph 6 also requires the parties to refrain from soliciting players from other tours while negotiations continue on a potential Definitive Agreement.
In addition, the agreement contains a number of provisions related to the structure of a potential further agreement regarding the combination of the parties’ commercial and golf operations: Paragraph 1 indicates the parties will negotiate in good faith for the creation of a new TOUR subsidiary into which the TOUR and the DP World Tour will contribute their commercial operations, and the PIF will contribute LIV and its golf assets. Paragraph 1 additionally provides that PIF will make an investment in the new entity and will have a right-of- first-refusal on potential future capital investments in the new company.
Paragraph 1 provides that the TOUR will maintain a controlling voting interest in the new entity, regardless of any investment by PIF. The TOUR’s control of the new entity was a critical component of the agreement for the TOUR. Paragraph 2 of the agreement further provides that the TOUR will be the competition manager for all golf-related commercial businesses under the agreement.
The TOUR’s Tax-Exempt Status and Charitable Commitments
The TOUR fully intends to continue to meet the applicable requirements and remain a 501(c)(6) tax-exempt membership organization, regardless of the outcome of the discussions with PIF regarding a potential further agreement, and it is fully committed to continuing in its charitable tradition of donating the net proceeds of the tournaments to charity. Importantly, the Framework Agreement does not address or affect the TOUR’s tax-exempt status—nor was it ever a deal point in the negotiations. Under U.S. tax law, a nonprofit entity may maintain a for-profit entity, subject to certain requirements, and if the TOUR and PIF were to reach a further agreement to combine their golf operations, the TOUR intends to operate the new entity consistent with those requirements.
Thank you for the opportunity to testify today, and I would be happy to answer your questions. | 2023-07-13T02:09:04+00:00 | pgatour.com | https://www.pgatour.com/article/news/future/statement-of-ron-price |
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Wildlife officials rescued a critically ill mountain lion cub in Northern California and veterinarians named her “Holly” for the holiday season as they treat her in intensive care, the Oakland Zoo said Tuesday.
A Santa Cruz resident noticed the cub on her property on Monday and alerted the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, the zoo said in a Twitter thread. Wildlife officials waited to see whether the cub’s mother would return and took the animal to the zoo when she did not.
The zoo’s veterinarians estimate that the cub is three to four months old and critically ill. She was treated with fluids, vitamins and medication. While that improved the cub’s bloodwork, she still isn’t standing or moving around often, the zoo said.
“We are hopeful she continues to improve but are taking it very much day by day,” the zoo said.
The goal is to release animals back into the wild but with severely sick or young cubs like Holly, the zoo said, veterinarians are dedicated to “caring for them until they recover enough to find suitable forever homes.” | 2022-12-22T00:25:11+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/hooked-on-science/ap-science/ap-critically-ill-mountain-lion-cub-rescued-in-california/ |
Richard Zoglin is a New York-based writer and critic.
Not content with their spaces being safer, theaters increasingly seem to want to be “safe spaces.”
Take the audience advisory for the new Broadway revival of the musical “1776.” Highlighted in red on the production’s website, it warns that the show, about the political wrangling that led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, “contains stylized representations of racialized violence” as well as “sexually suggestive themes, occasional strong language, haze, a brief strobe effect, a non-firing replica firearm, and a gunshot sound effect.”
The warning struck me as a little alarmist, especially after seeing the show. The “racialized violence” is a reference to the show’s somewhat overheated, but historically accurate, depiction of the debate over slavery. The only strong language I heard was an occasional “damn it, Franklin”; and the sexual material was so mildly suggestive as to be barely noticeable. As for the replica firearm — well, the country was at war, wasn’t it?
Just how much coddling do theatergoers need these days? An audience advisory for the touring production of the recent revisionist Broadway revival of “Oklahoma!” gives a jarringly literal spin to the term “trigger warning.” It alerts viewers to the exact number of guns that appear onstage (114) and details the timing and plot circumstances of each of the four gunshots heard in the show. “The third shot is around 18 minutes into the second act … with a character surreptitiously picking up the gun, then firing it off in order to bring order to a chaotic scene on stage.”
Spoilers are allowed, I guess, for what is described as Broadway’s first “gun-neutral production”: For every gun prop that appears in this “Oklahoma!,” the producers promised to make a minimum $100 donation toward nonprofits working to take illegal firearms out of circulation or supporting youth programs in areas with high levels of gun violence.
So-called trigger warnings first gained notoriety several years ago, when some college instructors began alerting students to potentially disturbing content in reading material, even classic novels such as “The Great Gatsby” (abusive treatment of women) and “Mrs Dalloway” (discussion of suicide). And audience advisories have long been common in theater playbills, alerting patrons to surprise gunshots and other things that might affect sensitive viewers, such as strobe effects or smoking onstage.
But the new advisories go well beyond that. They seem less about protecting potentially distressed theatergoers than italicizing the show’s revisionist, diversity-minded, politically evolved messages. The most startling thing about the new production of “1776” is not any sexually suggestive material but the topsy-turvy sexual casting: All of the Founding Fathers are played by female, nonbinary and transgender actors. This rather blunt-force gimmick is meant, of course, to highlight the utter lack of diversity among the delegates to the Second Continental Congress, the band of White men who established the freedoms on which our nation is based.
More bothersome, these warnings often seem to reflect a patronizing, self-centered view of the past — a need to signal how far we’ve advanced from an era whose customs, morals and political views no longer mesh with our own.
Yes, a lot of people in the old Oklahoma Territory walked around toting guns — and sometimes even fired them. And yes, the White men who signed the Declaration of Independence were largely oblivious to the rights of women and people of color. But if we can’t change the past, can we at least try to understand it on its own terms?
At least the moral preening isn’t universal — there are no similarly prominent warnings about the Nazi spouting antisemitic slurs in Tom Stoppard’s Holocaust play, “Leopoldstadt,” which just opened on Broadway, or about the brutal rape scene in the Tony-winning musical “A Strange Loop.” Perhaps that’s because shocking the audience — provoking a reaction, forcing us to confront unpleasant things — is part of the point, not just of these plays but of much of Western drama going back to Shakespeare.
Yet not even the Bard has escaped the new skittishness. For its production of “Romeo and Juliet” last year, London’s Globe Theater felt it necessary to warn audiences about the play’s “upsetting” content, including “depictions of suicide, moments of violence and references to drug use.” That was followed by a list of organizations offering “advice and support” for anyone who might be disturbed by the play.
Theater producers genuinely concerned about the well-being of their audiences should consider the research showing that trigger warnings may actually increase anxiety among vulnerable theatergoers. I jump as high as anyone at the sound of a gunshot onstage, but I’m not sure an advance warning would help much. And when it comes to Romeo’s swordplay, or John Adams’s profanity — damn it, Franklin, I think I can handle it. | 2022-10-19T20:38:59+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/19/broadway-trigger-warnings-too-much/ |
Investigational New Drug Application Submitted by Omega Represents the First Epigenomic Controller in a New Class of Programmable mRNA Therapeutics
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Omega Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OMGA) ("Omega") today announced the submission of an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Company's lead product candidate, OTX-2002, for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). OTX-2002, an Omega Epigenomic Controller, is designed to downregulate c-Myc (MYC) expression pre-transcriptionally through epigenetic modulation while potentially overcoming MYC autoregulation.
"This is an important milestone for our Company, an IND achieved in approximately 26 months since we started working on the early constructs in discovery which culminated in OTX-2002. We are excited that this represents the first of many anticipated IND applications and the transition of the company to its next stage," said Mahesh Karande, President and Chief Executive Officer of Omega Therapeutics. "This also marks a milestone regulatory submission for the first epigenomic controller, a new class of programmable mRNA therapeutics enabled by our OMEGA platform. We believe our approach to engineering epigenomic controllers has immense potential across a broad range of diseases, including HCC, which carries a 5-year survival rate of only 10%. We look forward to advancing OTX-2002 into the clinic and bringing it one step closer to patients in need."
The Company plans to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial in the U.S. to evaluate OTX-2002, following FDA clearance.
OTX-2002 is a first-in-class Omega Epigenomic Controller™ in development for the treatment of HCC. OTX-2002 is a mRNA therapeutic delivered via lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) and is designed to downregulate c-Myc (MYC) expression pre-transcriptionally through epigenetic modulation while potentially overcoming MYC autoregulation. The MYC oncogene is associated with aggressive disease in up to ~70% of patients with HCC. An IND application has been submitted to the FDA.
Omega Therapeutics, founded by Flagship Pioneering, is a development-stage biotechnology company pioneering the first systematic approach to use mRNA therapeutics as a new class of programmable epigenetic medicines. The company's OMEGA Epigenomic Programming™ platform harnesses the power of epigenetics, the mechanism that controls gene expression and every aspect of an organism's life from cell genesis, growth, and differentiation to cell death. Using a suite of technologies, paired with Omega's process of systematic, rational, and integrative drug design, the deterministic OMEGA platform enables control of fundamental epigenetic processes to correct the root cause of disease by returning aberrant gene expression to a normal range without altering native nucleic acid sequences. Omega's modular and programmable mRNA medicines, Omega Epigenomic Controllers™, target specific epigenomic loci within insulated genomic domains, EpiZips™, from amongst thousands of unique, mapped, and validated genome-wide DNA-sequences, with high specificity to durably tune single or multiple genes to treat and cure diseases through Precision Genomic Control™. Omega is currently advancing a broad pipeline of development candidates spanning a range of disease areas, including oncology, regenerative medicine, multigenic diseases including immunology, and select monogenic diseases, including alopecia.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements, including without limitation statements regarding future IND applications; the immense potential of our approach to engineering epigenomic controllers across a broad range of diseases; plans to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial in the U.S. to evaluate OTX-2002; the potential of the OMEGA platform to engineer programmable epigenetic mRNA therapeutics that successfully regulate gene expression by targeting insulated genomic domains; expectations surrounding the potential of our product candidates, including OTX-2002; and expectations regarding our pipeline, including trial design, initiation of preclinical studies and advancement of multiple preclinical development programs in oncology, immunology, regenerative medicine, and select monogenic diseases. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following: the novel technology on which our product candidates are based makes it difficult to predict the time and cost of preclinical and clinical development and subsequently obtaining regulatory approval, if at all; the substantial development and regulatory risks associated with epigenomic controller machines due to the novel and unprecedented nature of this new category of medicines; our limited operating history; the incurrence of significant losses and the fact that we expect to continue to incur significant additional losses for the foreseeable future; our need for substantial additional financing; our investments in research and development efforts that further enhance the OMEGA platform, and their impact on our results; uncertainty regarding preclinical development, especially for a new class of medicines such as epigenomic controllers; the fact that our product candidates may be associated with serious adverse events, undesirable side effects or have other properties that could halt their regulatory development, prevent their regulatory approval, limit their commercial potential, or result in significant negative consequences; the impact of increased demand for the manufacture of mRNA and LNP based vaccines to treat COVID-19 on our development plans; difficulties manufacturing the novel technology on which our OEC candidates are based; our ability to adapt to rapid and significant technological change; our reliance on third parties for the manufacture of materials; our ability to successfully acquire and establish our own manufacturing facilities and infrastructure; our reliance on a limited number of suppliers for lipid excipients used in our product candidates; our ability to advance our product candidates to clinical development; and our ability to obtain, maintain, enforce and adequately protect our intellectual property rights. These and other important factors discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 and our other filings with the SEC could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements made in this press release. Any such forward-looking statements represent management's estimates as of the date of this press release. While we may elect to update such forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we disclaim any obligation to do so, even if subsequent events cause our views to change.
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Missing dogs found bound with rope, shot in the head: ‘Inhumane, barbaric’
CUMBERLAND, Iowa - Logan Lank can’t imagine who would have tortured and killed his missing dogs. They were found bound and shot in the head on August 2 near Cumberland, Iowa.
"I believe that anybody with a mindset to even think of doing such acts is wretched, let alone somebody capable of actually committing or executing such a devastating crime," the 19-year-old told FOX Television Stations.
"They are nonetheless inhumane, barbaric, and a lousy member of a beautiful society," he added.
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Logan said his dogs, Bella and Pepper, went missing in late July. Bella was a year-old pit bull mix. Pepper was a three-and-a-half-year-old black lab.
Logan said he had called for his dogs, but they didn’t return. After posting notices on social media, he was told his pets were at a neighbor’s house but that neighbor didn’t call Logan to tell him his dogs were there.
"That was the last place they were seen," he continued.
Logan said on August 2, a bridge worker found the dogs beneath an overpass.
"The dogs were found thrown over a bridge into the water," Logan said. "They had gunshot wounds to the back of their heads, shot close enough to leave burn marks, and their feet were tied with rope."
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The Cass County Sheriff’s Office said there are investigating the abuse, posting an alert on its Facebook page.
Logan said he wants the perpetrator or perpetrators to be fully prosecuted.
"What would be justice for me would be to see whomever [is] demented enough responsible for these actions to be held accountable by law and by their own haunted conscience for the gut-wrenching actions they have done," he added.
However, he’s holding on to memories of his beloved pets.
"Every memory I had with these dogs was a blessing," he added. "Just being able to come home after a hard day and have my girls present was enough to ease my mind and help myself be at peace."
This story was reported from Los Angeles. | 2022-08-08T18:47:19+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/missing-dogs-found-bound-with-rope-shot-in-the-head-inhumane-barbaric |
DRL's Season will showcase drone racing across all dimensions — IRL, esports, and the metaverse — and air on NBC, YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook this fall
NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Drone Racing League (DRL), the world's premier professional drone racing property, announced a partnership today with Google Cloud to reimagine a new era of tech-driven sports and win over the developers of tomorrow. Launching the 2022–23 DRL Algorand World Championship Season, DRL and Google Cloud will bring the first professional drone race to Silicon Valley and inspire dreamers, builders, and innovators everywhere to race drones using Google Cloud technology.
The DRL Race in the Cloud, presented by Google Cloud, will kick off the 2022-2023 racing season on Tuesday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m. PST at PayPal Park in San Jose, California. The event is open to the public with tickets available on Ticketmaster and will experience a thrilling, tech-driven sports competition featuring the world's best drone pilots racing high-speed drones through an immersive neon-colored aerial course.
The race will be held on the opening night of Google Cloud Next, the annual conference where big thinking and technology converge to solve the challenges of tomorrow. Attendees at Next '22 will have the opportunity to participate in the Google Cloud Fly Cup Challenge, a competition for developers to boost cloud skills and drive innovation into the sport of drone racing using Google's secure, reliable, and scalable cloud platform. Participating developers will be able to utilize DRL's race data to predict race outcomes and provide tips to DRL Pilots to enhance their season performance. The competition will launch today and run through the fall, and developers will have a chance to win an expenses-paid trip to the season finale of the 2022–23 DRL Algorand World Championship, where they will be celebrated on stage.
"Google Cloud and the Drone Racing League are globally recognized for technology innovation, progressive thinking, and making the future happen today. We are thrilled to partner with Google Cloud to engage their worldwide community of developers through our sport", said DRL President Rachel Jacobson. "Together, we will launch our 2022–23 DRL Algorand World Championship Season with a spectacular drone race as part of Google Cloud's marquee event of the year."
DRL's young, global "tech-setter" fans are more likely to be software developers, engineers, or work in key Information Technology positions than the general population.
"The Drone Racing League represents a new frontier of real-world tech-driven sports and games that can only be achieved with the scale and performance of the cloud," said Anil Jain, global managing director of media and entertainment industry solutions at Google Cloud. "We look forward to collaborating with DRL through advanced AI/ML and data analytics capabilities that will allow the league to reimagine how they engage with and delight their millions of tech-savvy fans, who we are excited to welcome into the Google Cloud community of innovators."
The 2022–23 DRL Algorand World Championship Season will start airing high-speed drone racing across all dimensions on November 19, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. EST on NBC and Twitter. Doubling down on where Gen Z fans want to watch drone racing, DRL will expand its media distribution to top streaming platforms this season, including TikTok, where the league has 5 million followers, along with YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and Facebook.
The world's 12 best drone pilots race high-speed drones through iconic sports arenas, DRL SIM virtual maps, and a metaverse world to be crowned the DRL Algorand World Champion. The DRL race locations include: PayPal Park, home of MLS' San Jose Earthquakes, an esports event in Texas, and loanDepot park, home to Major League Baseball's Miami Marlins, in Miami, Florida. Virtual courses in the DRL SIM game on Playstation, Xbox, Steam, and Epic Games include the U.S. Air Force Boneyard map.
"It's incredible to see the Drone Racing League bringing the 22-23 DRL Algorand World Championship Season to fans wherever they are - IRL, virtual simulation and, for the first time, in the metaverse," said Algorand interim CEO Sean Ford. "We'll also see DRL launch a new play-to-own game on Algorand this season. It all ladders up to demonstrate the deeper and further-reaching fan engagement that Web3 can enable, and it'll be thrilling to see the season play out!"
DRL partners including Algorand, the leading high-performance blockchain platform, Google Cloud, T-Mobile, the U.S. Air Force, and Draganfly, the award-winning, industry leading drone systems and solutions provider, will activate throughout the season.
Find the DRL ticketing info here. To register for Google Cloud Next '22, taking place online on October 11-13, please visit https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next.
The Drone Racing League (DRL) is the world's premier, professional drone racing property. The best drone pilots in the world fly in the league and millions of fans watch them race on NBC, YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Combining groundbreaking technology and immersive drone racing, DRL is creating a new era of sports that brings high-speed competition IRL, in virtual simulation, and in the metaverse. Founded by Nicholas Horbaczewski in 2015, DRL is a privately-held company headquartered in NYC. For more information, visit www.drl.io.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary incident report regarding a plane’s emergency landing and a co-pilot’s fatal fall mid-flight in North Carolina last month.
In late July, a small aircraft made an emergency landing at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) after losing its main wheel. Officials later found the body of Charles Hew Crooks and released 911 calls revealing that he may have jumped from the aircraft.
Before the incident, the pilot-in-command (PIC) – whose name has not been released – said that the plane flew two skydiving runs, then descended to the Raeford West Airport to pick up a third group of skydivers.
According to the report, Crooks was flying into Raeford when the plane descended below the tree line and “dropped.” Crooks attempted to maneuver the plane, but, before he could stop the sink rate and initiate a climb, the right main landing gear hit the surface of the runway.
The PIC said he then instructed Crooks to declare an emergency and request a diversion to RDU. While flying to RDU, the PIC flew the plane and Crooks communicated with air traffic control.
Shortly after the plane diverted to RDU, Crooks “became visibly upset about the hard landing,” the report said.
In his final transmission to air traffic control, Crooks acknowledged the path the plane was heading.
The newly released NTSB report said Crooks then opened the cockpit window because he “may have gotten sick” and felt like he needed air. The PIC explained there was also some turbulence during the flight.
Crooks then reportedly lowered the ramp in the back of the airplane.
The report said Crooks “got up from his seat, removed his headset, apologized, and departed the airplane via the aft ramp door.”
There was a bar about six feet above the ramp, but the pilot said he did not see Crooks grab it before exiting the plane.
About a minute-and-a-half after Crooks told air traffic control where the plane was heading, the PIC told air traffic control that Crooks exited the plane without a parachute.
The plane then made an emergency landing at RDU and was retained for further examination. The pilot was taken to the hospital, where officials said he was okay.
The full report can be read below.
Shortly after the plane landed, local emergency units began searching for Crooks. Authorities were flagged down by someone who heard a noise in their yard. Crooks was then found dead in the Sonoma Springs Neighborhood, roughly 30 miles south of RDU.
Crooks’ father Hew told Nexstar’s WNCN that his son was “very serious” and an experienced, professional commercial pilot. Crooks was also a flight instructor for a company based at RDU. | 2022-08-17T01:58:35+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/north-carolina/pilot-may-have-gotten-sick-before-deadly-mid-flight-fall-in-north-carolina-ntsb-report-reveals/ |
This week, we rented potted Christmas trees, witnessed a spectacular meteor shower, and listened to SZA's new album SOS on repeat.
Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.
Making a Shazam playlist
As the year wraps up, I tend to take stock of my listening habits. We see superlatives everywhere like Spotify Wrapped. But rather than fixating on my Spotify Wrapped, I've been enjoying the app Shazam. I made a playlist of all the songs I "Shazamed" throughout the year. It shows where my musical interests lie. I think it's really fascinating. There are sections where I can tell that I was in Europe because I'm only getting bachata songs and French pop. It's really nice and it helps me — as I have a very music superlative list minded brain — keep track of my listening habits. This is not an ad for Shazam, but I really enjoy using the app and I think it's cool to look back on at the end of the year. — Reanna Cruz
An annual mixtape featuring "Things Fall Apart" by Cristina
'Tis the season for shameless self-promotion. The 17th mind-boggling installment of my annual Holiday mixtape, this year's installment is called The Airborne Yuletide Event, is now posted at chrisklimek.net for your listening pleasure to obfuscate and illuminate your yuletide. The rationale for this: I like Christmas songs that are timeless and classic and just generally good, but I love Christmas songs that were naturally selected for extinction about 5 minutes after they were recorded. One that I found for this year's tape was the 1981 track "Things Fall Apart" by Christina. — Chris Klimek
NPR Best Music of 2022 and "Mon Amour" by Stromae
I'm going to combine music list making and self-promotion by mentioning NPR Music's year-end Best of ... Best Songs of the Year. Best Albums of the Year. Both of those lists dropped this week. They provide such a great opportunity to go back and discover records that you haven't heard. I can pretty much guarantee, no matter how immersed you have been in music in 2022, you're going to hear something that you haven't heard before. It is worth taking some time with those lists to discover new music. List making season is not about arguing about what was best. It's about discovering what we didn't hear.
In the spirit of what may be a discovery for some people, I was just talking to a friend this week who had never heard of the great Belgian singer Stromae. My immediate thought was that they would love Stromae, because everybody would love the Belgian singer Stromae.
He just performed a fantastic Tiny Desk concert. He put out a great record in 2022 called Multitude, which was one of NPR's best 50 albums of 2022. I think it's one of the ten best albums of 2022. This is such a fun time to discover new music. — Stephen Thompson
More recommendations from the Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter
by Linda Holmes
Can we talk about a couple things I caught up on this week that I want to encourage you to catch up on as well, if you haven't? Oh, good. I was a little wary of The Banshees of Inisherin, from Martin McDonagh, because I did not like Three Billboards (enough said), but I found it very engaging and curious. The performances from Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan in particular are top-notch. It reminded me of the very similarly titled McDonagh play I saw on Broadway a few years ago with Daniel Radcliffe, The Cripple of Inishmaan. Good stuff.
I also finally finished FX/Hulu's The Bear, which I had started and liked but somehow never found time to finish. I have some questions about what happens at the end, some big logistical questions (without spoiling, I'll say: how is that a net benefit?), but the performances are superb, and I absolutely loved the delicacy of some of the conversations that take place in the noisiest spaces.
I enjoyed, up to a point, Top Gun: Maverick, as a throwback, as a piece of extravagantly indulgent fan service and as an example of some really exciting flight sequences. I find the idea of it getting a best picture nomination genuinely hilarious given the script (I will no longer be listening to any complaints about the awards that went to Titanic, I'll tell you that much), but for what it is — among other things, a crowd-pleaser that gave a lot of people who missed movie theaters a chance to enjoy them again — I give it all the respect in the world.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Marcus Sasser scored 21 points, J’Wan Roberts added 12 points and six rebounds, and No. 3 Houston opened the season with an 83-36 win over Northern Colorado on Monday night.
Sasser, a preseason All-American, scored 11 points in the first half. He finished 7 of 14 from the field and made 4 of 8 3-pointers. The senior guard missed the second half of last season and all of Houston’s run to the Elite Eight with a toe injury.
Houston coach Kelvin Sampson won his 700th career game and 200th with the Cougars.
Emanuel Sharp scored 11 points, Jamal Shead had nine points and nine assists, and Jarace Walker had eight points and 12 rebounds for Houston. The Cougars shot 44% and were 11 of 29 on 3-pointers.
The Cougars, who started the season with their highest ranking since the 1967-68 team began at No. 2, have won 14 straight openers.
Matt Johnson II, Riley Abercrombie and Caleb Shaw each scored eight points for the Bears. Northern Colorado shot 26% and went 5 of 21 on 3-pointers.
Houston finished the first half on a 10-2 run to open a 32-13 lead on a 3-pointer by Sasser. The 13 points were the second fewest allowed in a first half in school history. The Cougars gave up 12 to UConn on Dec. 28, 2016.
BIG PICTURE
Northern Colorado: The Bears, who were picked to finish second in the Big Sky, held their own against Houston for much of the first half on the defensive end but struggled to do much offensively. The Cougars’ size and athleticism were too much for Bears.
Houston: The Cougars were sluggish to start and had issues breaking Northern Colorado’s zone for most of the first half. Rebounding and defense continue to be staples for the Cougars, who outrebounded the Bears 43-31 and forced 23 turnovers, which they converted into 27 points.
NO. 700
Sampson, the 33rd Division I coach to reach 700 victories, has a 700-340 overall record and is 200-70 in nine seasons with Houston. He was presented a game ball to commemorate the win and a video of former players congratulating him was shown.
UP NEXT
Northern Colorado: Hosts Texas A&M-Commerce on Friday.
Houston: Faces St. Joseph’s in Annapolis, Maryland, on Friday as part of the Veteran’s Classic.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KUSSHI, the last makeup bag you'll ever need, is now available at Nordstrom. KUSSHI grew from a persistent packing problem—makeup bags that got dirty, couldn't be washed and were hard to find products in. Disappointed with the bags on the market, KUSSHI set out to fill an obvious gap with the idea that form and function should work hand in hand. After a year and a half of designing, testing, and gaining feedback from women who travel all over the world, KUSSHI was born and has cultivated a devoted following.
KUSSHI makeup bags are machine washable, which means they last longer and are more sustainable. They are designed to work with organizers that snap in for extra protection and with zippers on 3 sides, the makeup bags open wide so you can see all of your makeup and skincare without digging. KUSSHI Organizers are antimicrobial, mold resistant, stain resistant and water repellant. The brand even created bottle protectors to make sure that your glass bottles are shatter-proof.
"KUSSHI was created to provide ease and organization while travelling for a discerning clientele that loves to travel. It is a dream come true to now be available at Nordstrom, one of my favorite retailers!" says KUSSHI Founder, Jessica Parker, "Nordstrom caters to a loyal and astute customer that really aligns with the KUSSHI brand and I can't wait for their customers to shop KUSSHI online at Nordstrom.com."
Nordstrom will carry a select variety of KUSSHI products which includes two (2) Makeup Bag Sizes in either leather or fabric and in a wide variety of colorways as well as accessories such as snap-in Brush Organizers and Bottle Protectors. KUSSHI is super customizable so that users can show their personality and organizational skills while using!
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About KUSSHI: KUSSHI was founded by women for women to bring moments of unexpected joy. Blending elegant design with quality craftsmanship for a customizable cosmetic bag like never before — combining luxurious materials to take functional design to new levels. KUSSHI is committed to bringing our customers the best quality materials and craftsmanship in a way that is also kind to our planet. We have spent years perfecting our production, distribution and shipping to reduce our waste and impact.
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Wells Fargo & Company ("Wells Fargo" or the "Company") (NYSE: WFC) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Wells Fargo investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Wells Fargo common stock between February 24, 2021 and June 9, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
WFC investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) Wells Fargo had misrepresented its commitment to diversity in the Company's workplace; (ii) Wells Fargo conducted fake job interviews in order to meet its Diverse Search Requirement; (iii) the foregoing conduct subjected Wells Fargo to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement action, including criminal charges; (iv) all of the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to negatively impact Wells Fargo's reputation; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Wells Fargo during the relevant time frame, you have until August 29, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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What should replace the closed Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center? We want to hear from you.
Alex Garner
Sheboygan Press
SHEBOYGAN - What do you think should replace the Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center on Seventh Street?
According to an agreement with the city, Advocate Aurora will have three years to demolish the existing building and develop it to fit in with the surrounding neighborhood.
After reading our coverage on the new Aurora Medical Center – Sheboygan County, The Sheboygan Press has received several reader inquiries about what will be replacing the Memorial Medical Center.
We want to hear from you!
If you have ideas for what should replace the Memorial Medical Center, contact me, Alex Garner, at 224-374-2332, agarner@gannett.com or on Twitter at @alexx_garner so I can help share your thoughts in a future article. | 2022-07-18T14:16:24+00:00 | sheboyganpress.com | https://www.sheboyganpress.com/story/money/2022/07/18/aurora-sheboygan-memorial-medical-center-closed-what-replace-it/10067536002/ |
As the importance of mental health becomes more widely accepted in the United States, men are still battling the stigma that it should not be discussed.
But that changed recently when famous MMA fighter Paddy “the Baddie” Pimblett delivered a moving public message after a fight, saying he has been struggling himself.
In his post-fight speech, Pimblett spoke about a close friend of his who had taken his life only days before the fight. He urged men to talk about their issues.
“I’d rather my mate cry on my shoulder than go to his funeral," he said.
The speech was an important message to men worldwide.
“I saw that clip of Paddy and I was just stopped. I had that sense of 'finally,'” said Eric French, a psychiatrist at the Mind Spa in Denver. “[Men] have these conceptions about [themselves] that we’re supposed to be strong, stoic, press forward no matter what is going on but we are human beings and that means there are aspects of ourselves that are no less real if we acknowledge them or not; that being our emotional state. And if acknowledging your emotional state makes you vulnerable, that’s not a bad thing.”
“I was always taught that a man is supposed to be strong, courageous. You bottle up all your feelings,” said Sam Peterson, a retired war veteran.
Peterson knows about that stigma first-hand. He was a bomb technician in Afghanistan for more than four years. The PTSD he developed from his time in the Army nearly led him to take his own life in 2014.
“It was very much like panic attacks, and, you know, I very nearly ended my own life because of it,” he said. “I had my .45 in my hand, you know, ready to pull the trigger and I got a text message from one of my very good friends and he’s like hey man come over. I sat down on the couch and I just bawled my eyes out for like three hours. Just letting it all out and it felt like someone had just taken my soul out of my body and just washed it in bleach and stuck it back in.”
After the speech by Pimblett, who is from the U.K., mental health clinicians in the region reported seeing more men coming to their practice for help.
“You have to have someone there who can hold up a mirror to your biases and help you break them down or you’re just going to be stuck in the same rut,” said Peterson.
“If you’re struggling and you get the sense that this feeling you’re having is not going away, it’s not going to go away,” added French. “It’s going to stay there until you face it.” | 2022-08-19T21:49:10+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/as-mental-health-in-the-us-is-more-widely-acknowledged-men-still-struggle |
Michiganders Are Not Gambling Online As Much As People From New Jersey, For Now
Published: Jul. 27, 2022 at 12:40 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Results from the first half of 2022 are in and according to gambling revenue numbers released by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement and the Michigan Gaming Control Board, compiled by OddsSeeker.com: NJ online casino & poker sites generated $814,519,523 in revenue versus $757,024,184 for Michigan online casino & poker sites in the first half of 2022.
Adjusted for population
New Jersey: $87.89 Gambling Revenue per capita (9,267,130 population - 2021 Est. Census.gov)
Michigan: $75.31 Gambling Revenue per capita (10,050,811 population - 2021 Est. Census.gov)
While online gambling is relatively new to Michigan (started in January 2021 compared to Nov 2013 for New Jersey), the rapid growth of the industry exposes incredible pent-up demand that likely exists across many states where online gambling is yet to be legalized.
"Based on the year over year growth trajectory for New Jersey, since inception, it seems clear that Michigan will inevitably pass New Jersey in online gambling revenues and become the largest and most important betting and iGaming market in America." said Frank Weber, Sports Editor at OddsSeeker.com
NJ online casino sites set a new revenue record of $140,655,053 in March '22 which helped them stay ahead of Michigan online casinos in the first 6 months of 2022. And while the revenue between the states remains neck-and-neck, it's good to note that both states' revenues have contracted over the past two months.
With an economic downfall looming and the summer lull in full effect, it's no surprise revenues continue to fall. The question that still remains is; will online gambling sites continue to grow throughout the year, especially with Football season gearing to kick-off shortly?
New Jersey and Michigan Online Casino Revenue by The Numbers – 1st Half 2022 ($ In Millions)
Here is the full breakdown for New Jersey and Michigan online casino revenue for the first half of 2022:
About OddsSeeker: OddsSeeker.com is a leading source for iGaming news, online games, and online casino & sports betting promotions in the U.S. regulated online gaming markets.
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Survivor of Virginia Walmart mass shooting files $50 million suit
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A Walmart employee who survived last week’s mass shooting at a store in Virginia has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the company for allegedly continuing to employ the shooter — a store supervisor — “who had known propensities for violence, threats and strange behavior.”
The lawsuit, which appears to be the first to stem from the shooting, was filed Tuesday in Chesapeake Circuit Court by Donya Prioleau. Walmart, which is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, did not immediately respond to a written request seeking comment on the litigation.
Prioleau’s suit alleges that she has experienced post-traumatic stress disorder, including physical and emotional distress, from witnessing the rampage in the store’s breakroom on Nov. 22.
“Bullets whizzed by Plaintiff Donya Prioleau’s face and left side, barely missing her,” the lawsuit states. “She witnessed several of her coworkers being brutally murdered on either side of her.”
The lawsuit adds: “Ms. Prioleau looked at one of her coworkers in the eyes right after she had been shot in the neck. Ms. Prioleau saw the bullet wound in her coworker’s neck, the blood rushing out of it, and the shocked look on her coworker’s helpless face.”
Store supervisor Andre Bing, 31, fatally shot six employees and wounded several others before he died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot, police said.
The lawsuit alleges that Bing “had a personal vendetta against several Walmart employees and kept a ‘kill list’ of potential targets prior to the shooting.”
The lawsuit also states that Prioleau had submitted a formal complaint on a Walmart Global Ethics Statement Form indicating that Bing had “bizarrely and inappropriately commented on Ms. Prioleau’s age.”
The lawsuit alleges that Bing told her: “Isn’t your lady clock ticking? Shouldn’t you be having kids?”
Prioleau also complained that Bing had harassed her for “being poor and being short,” according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit states that she also informed Walmart that Bing called her a “b---h” under his breath.
“Despite Mr. Bing’s long-standing pattern of disturbing and threatening behavior, Walmart knew or should have known about Mr. Bing’s disturbing and threatening behavior, but failed to terminate Mr. Bing, restrict his access to common areas, conduct a thorough background investigation, or subject him to a mental health examination,” the lawsuit states.
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FORT LAUDERDALE — The lead attorney for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz told the jury in his penalty trial Monday they have witnessed “things that will haunt them for the rest of their lives,” but they now need to learn what led him to massacre of 17 people four years ago before they can decide whether he is sentenced to death or life without parole.
Melisa McNeill told the seven-man, five-woman jury and their 10 alternates in her opening statement that Cruz committed a horrible, unspeakable act when he murdered 14 students and three staff members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018, but he was a “damaged person” whose birth mother had abused alcohol and cocaine throughout her pregnancy.
“We must understand the person behind the crime,” McNeill, an assistant public defender, said.
[ RELATED: As his defense launches, Parkland shooter still fixated on blood, murder, revenge ]
Cruz. 23, pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder and his trial is only to decide whether he is sentenced to death or life without parole. This is the deadliest U.S. mass shooting to ever reach trial. Nine other gunmen who killed at least 17 people died during or immediately after their shootings, either by suicide or police gunfire. The suspect in the 2019 slaying of 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, is awaiting trial.
“I stand before you today in a space filled with overwhelming sadness, painstaking grief, anger and trauma,” McNeill said.
McNeill had deferred her opening statement from the trial’s first day of July 18 to the beginning of her team’s case. A rare strategy, it appears part of a broader plan to acknowledge the horror of Cruz’s slaughter and not anger jurors by challenging it.
[ RELATED: Parkland gunman: 'We had this monster living under our roof and we didn’t know.' ]
Instead, the defense will focus on what happened to Cruz over two decades to create someone capable of coldly shooting others during a seven-minute massacre, from his mother’s drug and alcohol abuse during pregnancy to the bullying and alleged sexual abuse he endured. He exhibited severe mental and emotional problems starting in preschool, where he was kicked out for hurting other children.
During his public school years, he spent considerable time at a school for students with emotional problems before he was expelled from Stoneman Douglas about a year before the shooting.
Her team will call their first witness later Monday for a case that is expected to last several weeks. The trial had been on a two-week hiatus before resuming Monday.
During the prosecution’s three-week case, the defense rarely cross-examined witnesses. They asked one teacher from a classroom where no one was shot about the lack of a security monitor in the three-story building where the slayings happened. When the gun store owner who sold Cruz the AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle used in the killings testified, they asked what Florida’s minimum age was in 2017 to buy a rifle — 18 — and today — 21.
[ RELATED: School shooter tormented his mother yet she escorted him to buy an AK-47 ]
Neither they nor the prosecutors then asked the store owner why the law was changed: Cruz was 19 when the shooting happened and the Republican-led Legislature raised the age limit as part of a larger package of gun laws enacted in response to the shootings.
Cruz’s youth will be part of his defense and while Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer has barred the defense from presenting testimony that directly casts blame on third parties like school administrators for not preventing the shooting, his attorneys will likely try to indirectly make such points.
The defense will be trying to overcome the horrendous evidence that was laid out by lead prosecutor Mike Satz and his team, capped by the jurors’ Aug. 4 visit to the fenced-off building that Cruz stalked, firing about 150 shots down halls and into classrooms. The jurors saw dried blood on floors and walls, bullet holes in doors and windows and remnants of Valentine’s Day balloons, flowers and cards.
Prosecutors also presented graphic surveillance videos of the massacre; gruesome crime scene and autopsy photos from its aftermath; emotional testimony from teachers and students who witnessed others die; and four days of tearful and angry statements from parents, spouses and other family members about the victims and how their loved one’s death affected their lives. Jurors also watched video of Cruz calmly ordering a cherry and blue raspberry Icee minutes after the shooting and, nine months later, attacking a jail guard.
After the defense concludes its case, the prosecution will present a rebuttal case before each side gives its closing argument and jury deliberations begin.
Associated Press writer Freida Frisaro in Fort Lauderdale contributed to this report. | 2022-08-22T17:42:13+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-ne-parkland-cruz-trial-defense-case-begins-20220822-aaq53gpix5c75hwjxkvpcafhc4-story.html |
The best Mother’s Day cookware gifts she’ll actually use
If you know a mom who loves to cook or bake, Mother’s Day is the perfect time to treat her to the latest kitchen gadget or a high-quality, time-tested staple. We asked BestReviews cooking and baking expert Andrea Boudewijn to recommend her favorite cookware gifts, from must-have appliances and heirloom dishes to overlooked tools and everyday essentials. Whether you’re shopping for a mom who goes all-out for bake sales or loves trying new dinner recipes, these gifts will make her Mother’s Day special.
In this article: KitchenAid 5-quart Tilt-Head Stand Mixer, Joey’z Extra-Large Cake Carrier and Home Array Set of Six Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls.
What does Mom really want for Mother’s Day?
Instead of picking out something simply based on its appearance, Boudewijn suggests a more practical gift. Rather than collecting dust or taking up space in a cupboard, a gift that gets regular use is bound to be more appreciated.
“Our moms work hard for us all year, providing everything from PB & to souffles,” she said. “Instead of giving them another pretty copper pot, make her kitchen time easier with something different.” Depending on the recipient, this could include a time-saving gadget for dinnertime or something to make morning coffee quicker and easier.
Mother’s Day baking gifts
For a mom who loves to bake, the options are almost limitless: mixing bowls, loaf pans, cake carriers or even appliances such as a stand mixer can all inspire her next baking endeavor.
For a more artistic baker, consider a cake decorating kit loaded with piping tips and frosting bags. Someone who’s fine-tuned their sourdough recipe might appreciate fresh baking sheets or linen bags for bread storage.
Mother’s Day cooking gifts
Picture the kitchen. What gaps could you help fill? Maybe she’s been using the same set of wooden utensils for as long as you can remember and they’re due for a refresh. Maybe she could use a beautiful, high-quality chef’s knife.
Mother’s Day can also be a good opportunity to upgrade her pots and pans to a nonstick — and nontoxic — set. Ceramic cookware is made without the usual nonstick coatings that can release toxins at high temperatures. Other eco-friendly gifts she might love include cutting boards made from recycled materials or bamboo bowls and utensils.
Stainless steel cookware is another popular option for someone who loves to cook. Stainless steel doesn’t have the same nonstick properties as ceramic or Teflon, but it’s durable, conducts heat beautifully and can last a lifetime if properly cared for.
Mother’s Day entertaining gifts
For a mom who loves to host a gathering, look for bakeware that can double as a beautiful serving piece. Oven-to-table cookware such as casserole dishes or Dutch ovens is designed to make cooking and serving easier. Gifts that help throw parties, such as a cheese board or a tiered serving tray, can also help make her next get-together even more special.
Expert picks for Mother’s Day gifts
“My go-to is this easy-to-use and easy-to-clean Keurig for a perfect cup of coffee every morning,” said Boudewijn. It can brew three different cup sizes, including tall travel mugs, and has a descaling setting for easy maintenance.
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KitchenAid 5-quart Tilt-Head Stand Mixer
A perennial favorite gift, Boudewijn suggests this 5-quart stand mixer, which comes in a rainbow of colors to match her kitchen. The glass mixing bowl features measurement markings and a pour spout, and the mixer comes with a wire whisk, dough hook and flex edge beater.
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Chef’s Choice Trizor 15XV Professional Electric Knife Sharpener
“Make things with tough skins like tomatoes and oranges easy to slice with sharp-as-heck knives,” recommends Boudewijn. She loves this knife sharpener for quick and easy sharpening thanks to its three-stage sharpening system with diamond abrasives.
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Joey’z Extra-Large Cake Carrier
“It’s not just for cake!” said Boudewijn. “It will house casseroles, pies, dips and more.” This carrier measures 14 inches across — big enough for a 13-inch cake or dish — and features a locking cover and a carry handle.
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Home Array Set of Six Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls
Boudewijn prefers these mixing bowls for their wider, shorter shape, which makes them easier to handle than taller bowls. The stainless steel nesting bowls range from 3 cups to 8 quarts and feature rolled rims for easier pouring.
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Other top Mother’s Day cookware gifts
This beautiful cookware set features a nontoxic ceramic nonstick coating over an aluminum core. They can be used on any cooktop, including induction. Choose from six colorways, all with large stainless steel handles.
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Mammafong Flat-Bottom Carbon Steel Wok Pan
This sturdy, high-quality wok is made from hand-hammered heavy-gauge carbon steel. Its flat bottom allows it to be used on most cooktops. With proper cleaning and seasoning, it’ll last for years.
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Anchor Hocking Set of 10 Glass Mixing Bowls
Made from durable tempered glass, these bowls can be used in the oven or microwave. Plus, they nest for easy storage, and they’re dishwasher-safe. They come in a set of 10, with sizes ranging from 1 fluid ounce to 3.5 quarts.
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Woodenhouse Wooden Cooking Utensils Set
This elegant set of handcrafted teak utensils comes with a matching container. The wooden turner, spatula, ladle and more are perfect for protecting the finish on nonstick cookware. Included in the set are six hooks for hanging the utensils, as well as a spoon rest.
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Mac Knife Professional 8-inch Hollow-Edge Chef Knife
Indentations in the knife edge help reduce friction, making it easier to slice sticky foods. The Santoku-style blade is made in Japan from vanadium alloy steel, which better resists rust and holds an edge well.
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Show Dates: April 7-16 (Press: April 5&6)
NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York International Automobile Show announces the dates for 2023 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center from April 7-16 (Press Days are April 5 & 6). The annual automobile spectacular is doubling its electrification effort with an expanded multi-brand Electric Vehicle Test Track with more vehicles, industry participation, sponsors, and more elaborate automaker EV tracks on Level 3.
"Auto Shows are a fundamental component of every car company wanting to influence buyer behavior. No other event can create this volume of direct vehicle contact and brand awareness," said New York Auto Show president Mark Schienberg.
This year's Show also includes more OEM and specially curated displays and an even bigger aftermarket showcase called 'Never Ride Stock' featuring the biggest names in the specialty equipment industry, the latest custom vehicle trends, and some of the most extreme tuner cars.
The New York Auto Show is also where the business of the industry gets done and the uniquely important 2023 New York Auto Show includes the nation's leading industry events during its Press Preview days. Kick-starting the week, the Automotive Forum - created by J.D. Power, the National Automobile Dealers Association, and the New York Auto Show— returns with the biggest names in the industry on April 4. The exceptional World Car Awards - the #1 automotive awards program in the world, returns with its unique program designed to celebrate the best of the best that the auto industry has to offer on a uniquely global scale.
The prominent World Traffic Safety Symposium also returns with a program more important than ever as traffic fatalities continue to rise in the U.S. The Media Post Automotive Advertising Conference -- the largest and most influential media, marketing, and advertising online site -- will return with an increased lineup of speakers and programs to round out the lineup of exciting and important 2023 industry events and symposiums.
BIGGER EV TEST TRACK RETURNS FOR 2023
With over 80,000 attendee rides through multiple indoor and outdoor tracks last year, the spring Show will increase opportunities for OEMs to engage with consumers. Chevrolet, Nissan, Kia, VinFast, INDI, Volkswagen, and Volvo knocked it out of the park last year at the Show's multi-brand Electric Vehicle Test Track. Thanks to the exceptional success of the brands taking part, the 2023 Show is growing its electric vehicle presence with more new vehicles, industry participants, sponsors, and an even larger track.
"The NYIAS EV Test Track was instrumental in providing consumers an opportunity to experience electric vehicles first-hand and a survey by J.D Power revealed that nearly 4 out of every 10 of our test track participants had no prior EV exposure and that's why we are doubling our efforts this year," said Mark Schienberg, president of the New York Auto Show.
J.D. Power interviewed more than one hundred EV test track participants and found that simply riding in an EV increased purchase consideration for 7 out of every 10 participants. For some, the lift was even greater. The data also showed the positive impact of EV exposure on purchase/lease consideration, with 7 out of 10 EV Test Track participants saying that they are now more likely to consider purchasing or leasing a battery electric vehicle based on their event experience.
With nearly a million square feet of exhibit space on four different levels, the New York Auto Show is a unique marketing event that continues to draw unprecedented numbers of car buyers from the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut metro area, as it has done since 1900.
About the New York Auto Show
The New York International Automobile Show delivers critical information to potential car buyers, supports brand discovery, drives vehicle purchasing, and opens consumers to new makes and models using sophisticated displays and experiential marketing. It is an awesome combination of new ideas, technological innovation, exceptional concept cars, and hundreds of the latest new cars and trucks.
Innovating since 1900, North America's oldest and largest attended auto show is the best place to research a new car and has welcomed millions of car buyers through its doors to experience everything that the automobile industry has to offer ever since. It is the one place where the information is comprehensive and engaging and where new technology can be explained and explored freely.
For more information: www.autoshowNY.com
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – Think you have a popular last name? A new study found most Americans have one of six surnames, almost regardless of where they live.
In the study, Ancestry.com reviewed phone book listings from across the country to determine the three most popular last names in each state. The company found Smith is far and away the most common.
In fact, Smith only failed to land among the top three surnames in just five states: California, Hawaii, Minnesota, New Mexico and North Dakota.
Smith was an occupational name, meaning a worker who specialized in metal like a blacksmith or farrier, per its English and Scottish roots, Ancestry explains. As of 2004, the average lifespan of people with the last name Smith was 73 years old, compared to the national average of 74.
Other popular surnames included Johnson, Miller, Jones, Williams and Anderson.
Regionally, Ancestry found a handful of differences. For example, Andersons are more common in the Northwest — states like Washington, Idaho, Utah, and into the Dakotas — than elsewhere in the country.
Miller is most commonly found in the Midwest and the Appalachian Mountain regions — Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, and Kansas — while Garcia is popular in Southwestern states like Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada.
The interactive map below shows the most common surname in each state, according to Ancestry:
Hawaii was the only state in which the last names Lee, Wong, and Kim were the most popular. California also had two names — Hernandez and Lopez — that no other state had in its top three.
These names were among the most common in only one state:
- Sullivan: Massachusetts
- Nelson: Minnesota
- Chavez: New Mexico
- Olson: North Dakota
You can view Ancestry’s full report here, as well as the meanings and origins behind many common last names. | 2023-03-18T16:49:35+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/whats-the-most-popular-last-name-in-your-state/ |
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ peace envoy for Ukraine, a veteran of the Catholic Church’s conflict-mediation efforts, blasted war as a “pandemic” on Tuesday and said all Christians are called to be peacemakers.
In his first public comments since being named Ukraine envoy, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi called for the creation of a culture of peace to respond to the “deep anxiety, sometimes unexpressed, often unheard, of peoples who need peace.”
The Vatican on Saturday confirmed that Francis had tasked Zuppi with a mission “to help ease tensions in the conflict in Ukraine, in the never-ending hope by the Holy Father, that this can initiate paths of peace.” No further details were released, with the Vatican saying that they were still under study.
Zuppi, 67, is the archbishop of Bologna, president of the Italian bishops’ conference and a veteran of the Catholic Church’s peace mediation initiatives through his longtime affiliation with the Sant’Egidio Community. Through the Rome-based charity, Zuppi helped mediate the 1990s peace deals ending civil wars in Guatemala and Mozambique and headed the commission negotiating a cease-fire in Burundi in 2000, according to Sant’Egidio.
A pastor in Francis’ style and considered “papabile” — having the qualities of a future pope — Zuppi was named last year to head the Italian bishops conference, and in that role opened the conference’s spring meeting Tuesday with a wide-ranging speech about the Italian church that also dwelled on Ukraine.
Quoting Francis, Zuppi recalled the pontiff’s frequent, emotional expressions of solidarity with the “martyred” Ukrainian people, and appeared to address the frequent criticism of the Vatican’s diplomatic tradition of neutrality and Francis’ unwillingness to publicly call out the Kremlin.
Zuppi suggested Francis was by no means neutral in demanding peace.
“We are grateful today for his prophecy, so rare today when talking about peace seems to avoid taking sides or fail to acknowledge responsibility,” he said.
Saying all Christians are called to do their part to bring peace, he said: “War is a pandemic. It involves all of us.”
“The church and Christians believe in peace, we are all called to be peacemakers, even more so in the terrible storm of conflicts,” he said.
Francis announced the existence of a peace mission while en route home last month from Hungary, where he met with an envoy of the Russian Orthodox Church, which has strongly supported the war. In the weeks since, Francis has met at the Vatican with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who made clear he would not accept territorial concessions and rejected Francis’ reference to victims on both sides of the conflict, saying there can be no equivalence between victim and aggressor. | 2023-05-23T20:37:41+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-popes-ukraine-peace-envoy-blasts-war-as-a-pandemic-that-affects-everyone/ |
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A 37-year-old Kenosha man has been charged with 10 counts of felony possession of child pornography. | 2022-12-12T21:11:21+00:00 | kenoshanews.com | https://www.kenoshanews.com/juaquin-ernesto-olivares/article_4533c20e-7a57-11ed-9565-9b60481dba50.html |
BERLIN (AP) — Two police officers were injured Monday in scuffles that broke out when protesters tried to break through a police cordon during a demonstration against a meeting of oil and gas companies in Vienna.
Police detained 143 people and resorted to using pepper spray to break up the demonstration.
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Public broadcaster ORF reported that some protesters had tried to block roads leading to the hotel where the three-day European Gas Conference is being held.
Environmental activists have criticized the conference participants for pursuing further natural gas projects amid strong demand and high prices due to the war in Ukraine.
Jasmin Duregger of the group Greenpeace accused gas companies of promoting their business at the expense of the climate “under the cover of energy security.”
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Activists hope to mobile for a large protest Tuesday against the conference, which is sponsored by Austrian energy giant OMV. | 2023-03-27T16:50:17+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/2-police-hurt-143-people-held-in-vienna-gas-17862332.php |
Keynote speech will focus on "Radical Collaboration, Innovation and the Fallacy of Impossible"
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Overcoming the impossible through collaboration and innovation will be the subject of a keynote speech by author, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist Mick Ebeling at CompTIA ChannelCon 2023.
CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce, announced today that Ebeling, founder of Not Impossible Labs, will deliver keynote remarks during the technology industry's premier annual conference, scheduled for Aug. 1-3 at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas.
"We're incredibly pleased to bring Mick Ebeling's knowledge and experience to the ChannelCon audience this year," said MJ Shoer, chief community officer at CompTIA. "His work centers on the premise that we can do anything, and that's what this year's conference is about. Mick's presentation will show how innovative technologies are breaking boundaries and opening new doors for humanity. It is an opportunity to get truly inspired."
In his keynote speech Ebeling will offer insight into how he has learned to overcome the impossible so true innovation can take place. He'll share how Not Impossible Labs has collaborated with unlikely characters to tackle challenges and found innovative ways to overcome them. Ebeling will also discuss the tools necessary to become a stellar collaborator, and to recognize the traits of collaboration-worthy individuals for your next big idea.
In addition to the keynote, ChannelCon will feature a mix of collaborative sessions from leading technology experts offering insight into the latest business challenges and growth opportunities in today's market. Sessions include education in four main areas including cybersecurity planning, workforce tactics to help build your business, tools for tech vendors, and sales and marketing strategies. Complete conference details and registration options are available CompTIA ChannelCon 2023.
About CompTIA
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(The Hill) – A bipartisan duo of freshman lawmakers co-launched a new c ongressional caucus based on athletic sneakers.
The Congressional Sneaker Caucus (CSC), launched by Reps. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) and Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.), will include a bipartisan group of lawmakers and congressional staffers who share their love for sneakers and their impact on American culture and fitness, according to a press release.
The newly created caucus also plans to help members and staffers find common ground and foster bipartisan cooperation in Congress. CSC will also organize community events and social gatherings to promote interaction between members from both sides of the aisle.
“The sneakers I wear across the Capitol represent a pathway back to my childhood and a connection to the next generation. They routinely are a starting point for conversation with my colleagues,” Moskowitz said in a statement. “That’s exactly why I launched this Caucus – to use sneakers to promote social interaction between Members of Congress, their staff, and visitors to the capitol.”
Chavez-DeRemer expressed her excitement about launching the new caucus with fellow sneaker lover Moskowitz in a separate statement.
“I’m excited to join Congressman Moskowitz to launch the bipartisan Sneaker Caucus,” Chavez-DeRemer said. “From expressing style to demonstrating athleticism and innovation, sneakers are a fun part of our culture. It will be a light-hearted way to build relationships with other members of Congress and our constituents.”
Sneakers have long been a popular choice of wear for lawmakers, congressional staffers and media reporters who roam the halls of Capitol Hill. Nikolas Ajagu, the husband of Vice President Harris’s niece Meena Harris, made headlines for a cool pair of Air Jordan 1 Diors at Biden-Harris inauguration in 2021, according to GQ.
Moskowitz, who rocked DJ Khaled-inspired Air Jordan V’s at the State of the Union in February, has long hinted at creating a Sneaker-based caucus.
Moskowitz wore customized Air Jordan 1’s honoring the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting and his late father, who died of pancreatic cancer when he was sworn into the House in January. | 2023-04-28T13:55:36+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/new-sneaker-caucus-launched-in-house/ |
New equipment will benefit hundreds of customers
ERIE, Pa., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Penelec, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE), is working to help enhance service reliability for more than 400 customers in Millcreek Township, Erie County, by replacing underground electric cable, transformers and other equipment. The project is expected to be completed this summer.
Over time, water and corrosive soil materials have penetrated underground wires through tiny cracks and fissures which can lead to reliability issues and potential service interruptions. Contractors are replacing more than a mile of the electric cable in the Rolling Meadows neighborhood, which was originally installed in the 1970s and 1980s. In addition, they will install 21 new transformers as well as equipment that divides the cable into smaller sections, helping to isolate damage and limit the number of customers impacted by service interruptions.
The replacement work centers around West 42nd, West 41st, and West 40th Streets, Canterbury Drive and Amherst Road.
"The new wires encased in PVC conduit will help better protect the equipment and is expected to last for decades," said Scott Wyman, president of FirstEnergy's Pennsylvania operations. "Underground cables housed in conduit are easier for line crews to repair, which can shorten the duration of service interruptions."
Contractors will use a machine to bore horizontally beneath the ground wherever possible to limit excavation damage to driveways, sidewalks and landscaping. Areas with unmarked utilities or hard surfaces may require some trenching. Once the boring is completed, the conduit will be fed through the openings and the cable pulled through the conduit. Crews will restore any disturbed areas after the work is finished.
The new cable will be placed within the right of way adjacent to the existing line. Occasional planned outages will be necessary to transfer groups of customers from the old cable onto the new system as the project progresses. Penelec will notify impacted customers and public officials in advance of scheduled outages.
The work is part of Penelec's Long Term Infrastructure Improvement Plans (LTIIP II), a $200 million initiative to accelerate capital investments over five years to help enhance continued electric service reliability for the company's 585,000 customers.
Penelec serves approximately 585,000 customers within 17,600 square miles of northern and central Pennsylvania. Follow Penelec on Twitter @Penelec and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PenelecElectric.
FirstEnergy is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Its 10 electric distribution companies form one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, serving customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland and New York. The company's transmission subsidiaries operate approximately 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Follow FirstEnergy online at www.firstenergycorp.com and on Twitter @FirstEnergyCorp.
Editor's Note: Photos of underground cable conduit and a boring machine are available for download on Flickr.
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A message from Verna Williams, incoming CEO of Equal Justice Works
WASHINGTON, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Equal Justice Works, the nation's largest facilitator of opportunities in public interest law, today announced that Verna Williams will be the organization's new CEO.
Verna comes to Equal Justice Works from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she currently serves as the dean, and brings decades of experience both practicing and teaching law, specializing in constitutional law, critical race theory, race and the law, family law, and feminist legal theory. In her role as CEO, Verna will build on the 36-year history of Equal Justice Works, an organization founded by law students, which currently has more than 200 Fellows and 2,300 alumni, 85% of whom remain in public service positions following their Fellowship.
"The mission of Equal Justice Works to create opportunities for leaders to transform their passion for equal justice into a lifelong commitment to public service is an admirable one that means so much to me personally. Throughout my career, while I was at the Department of Justice, the National Women's Law Center, and the University of Cincinnati College of Law, public interest law has truly been at the heart of my work, especially with a focus on civil rights and women's rights. At this time, when economic security remains out of reach for too many and long-standing legal protections are in jeopardy, the mission of Equal Justice Works and the work of the Fellows is more important than ever. It's an honor to join this organization," said Verna Williams, incoming CEO of Equal Justice Works.
"Verna has an impressive background and experience practicing law, driving educational opportunities in public interest law, and leading a law school — all of which relates to the work and community of Equal Justice Works. She has a clear vision for the future of the organization; a strong record of championing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; and she has a demonstrated ability to lead and build connections across groups within the community. Given her experience, vision, and personal qualities, I am thrilled and enthusiastic about welcoming Verna to the leadership of Equal Justice Works," said Ivan Fong, Chair of the Equal Justice Works Board of Directors.
"Verna is an outstanding choice to be the next leader of Equal Justice Works," said David Stern, Executive Director of Equal Justice Works. "For 30 years, I have been inspired by the students, Fellows, and alumni who are on the front lines challenging systemic injustice and making a lasting impact in the communities where they serve. At a time when injustices proliferate, there is an unprecedented appetite among law students and lawyers to devote themselves to public service. Equal Justice Works is poised to respond, and Verna is the right choice to be the next leader of this organization."
Verna most recently served as the Dean of the College of Law at the University of Cincinnati, where she began working as a member of the faculty in 2001 teaching areas of family law, gender discrimination, and constitutional law. She also founded and co-directed the College's Judge Nathaniel Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice. Prior to her roles at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, Verna was the Vice President and Director of Educational Opportunities at the National Women's Law Center, focusing on gender equity in education. Additionally, Verna clerked for the Honorable David S. Nelson, U.S. District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, and, following her clerkship, she practiced law at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, DC, and at the U.S. Department of Justice. Verna graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and Georgetown University.
Verna Williams will join Equal Justice Works as CEO on September 19. Here is a message from Verna Williams, incoming CEO of Equal Justice Works: https://youtu.be/Tl9OYzYwgzQ
Learn more about Verna here.
Equal Justice Works is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that creates opportunities for lawyers to transform their passion for equal justice into a lifelong commitment to public service. As the nation's largest facilitator of opportunities in public interest law, Equal Justice Works brings together an extensive network of law students, lawyers, advocates, legal services organizations, and supporters to build a community committed to fulfilling our nation's promise of equal justice for all.
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ORONO — The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk, “LEAN In: Building and Researching a Statewide Local Energy & Climate Action Network in Maine,” on Monday, April 3 at 3 p.m.
In this talk, Sharon Klein, associate professor in the School of Economics and a faculty fellow of the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine, will provide a vision for a Maine Local Energy & climate Action Networks and the research possibilities related to it, as well as an overview of existing LEANs in other states.
Maine communities have been taking local action on sustainable energy adoption and climate change adaptation for decades. However, there has not been a coordinated effort at the state level to directly support these projects until recently.
Statewide LEANs like those in Vermont and New Hampshire provide regular peer-learning opportunities, training, information about funding and other resources to help community-scale projects be successful and learn from each other. With statewide partnerships and local regional groups now active, Maine has the necessary pieces to form a LEAN. What will it take to pull it together? How can a Maine LEAN advance equitable sustainable energy adoption and climate resilience in the state? What types of opportunities could it provide for researchers?
Klein’s research and teaching are multidisciplinary, centering on the physical, economic, environmental and social/cultural tradeoffs inherent in sustainable energy decision-making. She is interested in all sustainable energy options, but especially residential and community-driven solar energy and energy efficiency, and options that advance energy equity and justice.
All talks in the Mitchell Center’s Sustainability Talks series are free and are offered both remotely via Zoom and in person at 107 Norman Smith Hall on the UMaine campus in Orono. Registration is required to attend remotely; to register and receive connection information, see the event webpage.
Please note that face coverings are required for all persons attending Mitchell Center Sustainability Talks. For the latest UMaine health and safety guidance, please see umaine.edu/return.
Updates for this event will be posted to the event webpage. To request a reasonable accommodation, contact Ruth Hallsworth at 207-581-3196 or hallsworth@maine.edu. | 2023-03-22T15:39:13+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/03/22/bdn-maine/mitchell-center-to-host-talk-on-building-a-local-energy-and-climate-action-network-for-maine-april-3/ |
Oh, a face mask. Many hear those two words and think of the pandemic.
During October, others may think of ghosts, goblins or clowns. Though, if Halloween's not your favorite, there's an alternative mask that's not itchy or scary. In fact, a Korean face mask is soothing, calming or even detoxifying.
The use of face masks as a beauty agent goes back centuries, even millennia — whether the masks were made of olive oil, spices, avocados, aloe vera, eggs, crushed shells and more.
In recent years, Korea has taken therapeutic face masks to a new level as the cosmetics and skin care industry looks for more ways to pamper or help women, in particular, rejuvenate their skin or banish signs of aging. Today's face masks use a variety of ingredients from a variety of serums, natural ingredients like cucumbers, acai berries, honey or avocados to hydrogels, foil and charcoal.
Here at The Advocate, we set up a mini-spa in our photography studio and convinced a number of employees to try out a variety of face masks and give us their feedback. According to package instructions, "wearing" the face mask for between 15-20 minutes is recommended.
At our mini-spa, each individual selected his or her mask from the 20 or so we had on hand. The face masks touted a plethora of benefits for the skin, including hydration, brightening effects, acne control or pore care. All but one was white, laden with various serums, cool and slightly goopy. Once in place, the masks felt surprisingly restorative, according to each person who tried one.
Candace Morgan, who used a Célavi Cucumber facial mask, said she could tell the difference in her skin for the rest of the day. This was the first time Morgan tried a Korean-style face mask, but she says she would absolutely use one again.
By the afternoon, Morgan said she typically has oily skin around her nose and chin, but the face mask helped with that.
"I liked the moisture that it provided to my skin and how glowing my skin looked," she said.
Matthew Albright also agreed that there was a noticeable difference in his skin after using the Oscar Mayer bologna face mask, which, according to the packaging, was inspired by those who used to make masks out of their bologna as kids.
"I have pretty oily skin, so I didn’t notice [a difference] right away," Albright said of the supposed hydrating and restoring benefits of the so-called bologna mask. "But my desk is right under an AC vent, and that often dries me out through the day, and it noticeably did not after I used the face mask."
Some face masks also claim to have anti-aging effects with ingredients like ceramide for moisture retention.
Jill Stokeld, who used the Facetory Sun Bae soothing mask, said her skin looked less dull and even dewy.
"I was pleasantly surprised. I might be tempted to try others that claim more age-defying benefits — Lord knows I need them," Stokeld said.
If you'd rather relax with some spa music at home while experimenting with a 10-step skin care routine than go to a Halloween party, we recommend starting with a sheet face mask. Cucumbers are optional. | 2022-10-31T12:13:33+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/article_c7db2b20-5487-11ed-a56b-77804d7f0af4.html |
Chunli Zhao, the suspect arrested following Monday’s mass shooting at a California farm, had a legally purchased weapon, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said on Tuesday.
Authorities said seven people died in the incident, while one person was wounded. They said that seven males and one female were among those killed or injured. The sheriff’s office also stated that several migrants were among those killed.
A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office said that it appears to be a workplace violence incident as Zhao was an employee of the farm.
The suspect is expected to be arraigned on Wednesday. The suspect was arrested in a vehicle Monday night near a sheriff’s substation. Investigators have not determined a motive, officials said.
The victims' identities will not be released until all next of kin have been notified. | 2023-01-24T19:52:58+00:00 | wsfltv.com | https://www.wsfltv.com/news/national/half-moon-bay-shooting-suspect-had-legally-purchased-weapon |
NEW YORK (AP) — Baltimore Orioles pitcher Matt Harvey was suspended for 60 games by Major League Baseball on Tuesday for distributing a prohibited drug of abuse, a punishment stemming from his admission of providing opioids to a teammate who fatally overdosed.
The former New York Mets star also admitted in February during a federal trial in Texas stemming from Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs’ death that he used cocaine while in New York and California.
“We support all aspects of MLB’s joint drug prevention and treatment program and their ruling in this particular case,” Orioles general manager Mike Elias said in a statement. “I am glad that Matt now has the opportunity to put this part of his past behind him and pursue another shot with our organization after serving his suspension.”
Harvey, a 33-year-old right-hander, agreed last month to a minor league contract with the Orioles that called for a $150,000 salary while in the minor leagues, a $1 million salary while in the major leagues and a $500,000 assignment bonus if traded while under a major league contract. He has been working out at Baltimore’s extended spring training facility and has not pitched in any games.
The suspension is retroactive to April 29. Under an agreement between MLB and the players’ association, minor league games will count toward the suspension, a person familiar with that provision told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because that was not announced.
Harvey would be eligible to be active on July 8, if there are no postponements.
During the trial of former Los Angeles Angels employee Eric Kay, Harvey, pitchers Mike Morin and Cam Bedrosian and first baseman C.J. Cron testified and described recreational drug use allegedly going on among and around the Angels when they played for the team.
After saying he was subpoenaed and testifying only because he had immunity from prosecution, Harvey acknowledged being a cocaine user before and during his season with the Angels in 2019. He said he tried oxycodone provided by Skaggs during his season with the Angels and also provided drugs to Skaggs.
Skaggs was found dead in a suburban Dallas hotel room on July 1, 2019, a day the Angels were supposed to open a four-game series against the Texas Rangers. Kay was convicted on one count each of drug distribution resulting in death and drug conspiracy. He faces at least 20 years and up to life in prison when he is sentenced on June 28.
Nicknamed the Dark Knight of Gotham, Harvey was selected seventh overall by the Mets in the 2010 amateur draft and made a heralded major league debut in 2012. He started the 2013 All-Star Game at Citi Field but a little more than a month later tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow and needed Tommy John surgery.
Harvey returned in 2015 and went 13-8, helping the Mets reach the World Series, where he talked manager Terry Collins into letting him take the mound with a two-run ninth-inning lead against Kansas City in Game 5. Harvey walked Lorenzo Cain and allowed an RBI double to Eric Hosmer, Salvador Perez hit a tying groundout off Jeurys Familia and the Royals went on to a 12th-inning win that gave them the title.
Harvey was traded to Cincinnati in May 2018 and pitched for the Angels in 2019, Kansas City in 2020 and Baltimore last year, when he was 6-14 with a 6.27 ERA. He has a 50-66 career record with a 4.42 ERA in nine major league seasons.
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-05-18T04:19:59+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/os-harvey-suspended-60-games-by-mlb-for-drug-distribution/ |
A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, most likely closing the case that shocked a nation and galvanized the modern civil rights movement.
After hearing more than seven hours of testimony from investigators and witnesses, a Leflore County grand jury last week determined there was insufficient evidence to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham on charges of kidnapping and manslaughter, Leflore County District Attorney Dewayne Richardson said in a news release Tuesday.
The decision comes despite recent revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and the 87-year-old Donham’s unpublished memoir.
The Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., Emmett Till’s cousin and the last living witness to Till’s Aug. 28, 1955, abduction, said Tuesday’s announcement is “unfortunate, but predictable.”
“The prosecutor tried his best, and we appreciate his efforts, but he alone cannot undo hundreds of years of anti-Black systems that guaranteed those who killed Emmett Till would go unpunished, to this day,” Parker said in a statement.
“The fact remains that the people who abducted, tortured, and murdered Emmett did so in plain sight, and our American justice system was and continues to be set up in such a way that they could not be brought to justice for their heinous crimes.”
An email and voicemail seeking comment from Donham’s son Tom Bryant weren’t immediately returned Tuesday.
In June, a group searching the basement of the Leflore County Courthouse discovered the unserved arrest warrant charging Donham, then-husband Roy Bryant and brother-in-law J.W. Milam in Till’s abduction in 1955. While the men were arrested and acquitted on murder charges in Till’s subsequent slaying, Donham, 21 at the time, was never taken into custody.
The 14-year-old Chicago boy was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he and some other children went to the store in the town of Money where Carolyn Bryant worked. Relatives told the AP that Till had whistled at the white woman, but denied that he touched her.
In an unpublished memoir obtained last month by The Associated Press, Donham said Milam and her husband brought Till to her in the middle of the night for identification but that she tried to help the youth by denying it was him. She claimed that Till then volunteered that he was the one they were looking for.
Till’s battered, disfigured body was found days later in a river, where it was weighted down with a heavy metal fan. The decision by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, to open Till’s casket for his funeral in Chicago demonstrated the horror of what had happened and added fuel to the civil rights movement.
Following their acquittal, Bryant and Milam admitted to the abduction and killing in an interview with Look magazine. They were not charged with a federal crime, and both have long since died.
In 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice Department opened an investigation of Till’s killing after it received inquiries about whether charges could be brought against anyone still living.
Till’s body was exhumed, in part to confirm it was he. A 2005 autopsy found that Till died of a gunshot wound to the head, and that had fractures in his wrist bones, skull and femur.
In 2006, the FBI launched its Cold Case Initiative in an effort to identify and investigate racially-motivated murders. Two years later, Congress passed the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act.
The Justice Department said the statute of limitations had run out on any potential federal crime, but the FBI worked with state investigators to determine if state charges could be brought. In February 2007, a Mississippi grand jury declined to indict anyone, and the Justice Department announced it was closing the case.
But federal officials announced last year that they were once again closing their investigation, saying there was “insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she lied to the FBI.”
Timothy Tyson, the North Carolina historian who interviewed Donham for his 2017 book, “The Blood of Emmett Till,” said Tuesday that the newly rediscovered warrant did nothing to “appreciably change the concrete evidence against her.” But he said the renewed focus on the case should “compel Americans” to face the racial and economic disparities that still exist here.
“The Till case will not go away because the racism and ruthless indifference that created it remain with us,” he said in an email. “We see generations of Black children struggle against these obstacles, and many die due to systemic racism that is every bit as lethal as a rope or a revolver.” | 2022-08-10T04:29:39+00:00 | miamitimesonline.com | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/world_national/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-woman-in-emmett-till-killing/article_2197181e-1823-11ed-bb54-133940086656.html |
Jeffrey Epstein suicide blamed on jail guard negligence and misconduct: Justice Department watchdog
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department’s watchdog said Tuesday that a "combination of negligence and misconduct" enabled financier Jeffrey Epstein to take his own life at a federal jail in New York City while he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz cited the federal Bureau of Prisons' failure to assign Epstein a cellmate after his previous one left and problems with surveillance cameras as factors in Epstein’s death.
Horowitz also said that Epstein was left in his cell with too many bed linens, which are a security issue and were used in his suicide.
The inspector general issued a report detailing findings of his investigation into Epstein's August 2019 death, the last of several official inquiries into the matter. He reiterated the findings of other investigations that there was no indication of foul play, rebutting conspiracy theories surrounding the high-profile death.
Horowitz echoed previous findings that some members of the jail staff involved in guarding Epstein were overworked. He identified 13 employees with poor performance and recommended charges against six workers. Only the two workers tasked with guarding Epstein were charged, avoiding jail time in a plea deal after admitting to falsifying logs.
The report comes more than four years after Epstein took his own life at the Metropolitan Correctional Center while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.
It also comes weeks after The Associated Press obtained thousands of pages of records detailing Epstein’s detention and death and its chaotic aftermath.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-06-27T20:36:45+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-blamed-on-jail-guard-negligence-and-misconduct-justice-department-watchdog |
Rights advocates in Belarus sounded the alarm on Tuesday about a new heavy crackdown on dissent by the authoritarian government that saw over 100 people — including several psychologists and psychiatrists — detained in a week.
Viasna, Belarus’ oldest and most prominent rights group, said mass arrests took place in the capital Minsk, as well as in the east and the west of the country. The authorities targeted opposition activists, journalists, medical workers, members of shooting sports clubs and people working with drones.
Viasna’s Pavel Sapelka told The Associated Press that Belarus’ security forces are waging “sweeping raids and searches” on those suspected of involvement in a recent attack on a Russian warplane stationed near the Belarusian capital.
“Guerillas” from the country’s opposition BYPOL movement claimed responsibility of the attack on a Beriev A-50 parked at the Machulishchy Air Base near Minsk. Russia used the territory of its ally Belarus to invade Ukraine a year ago, and Belarus has continued to host Russian troops, warplanes and other weapons. The opposition activists had said they aimed to undermine that support for the war.
The Belarusian authorities have said they requested from longtime ally Moscow to monitor their border and initially kept quiet about the incident. Days later, Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko acknowledged the attack, saying that the damage to the plane was insignificant, but admitting it had to be sent to Russia for repairs.
According to Belarus’ Interior Ministry, on March 9 alone 60 people were detained as part of “intensifying work on those involved in extremist groups and terrorist organizations.” The country’s KGB state security agency also reported detaining a Ukrainian national whom the authorities accuse of attacking the plane, and 20 Belarusian alleged accomplices.
The authorities also reported detaining 30 people in the city of Gomel on the border with Ukraine, “with the purpose of identifying connections with foreign members of extremist groups.” According to Viasna, those detained in Gomel remain in custody in harsh conditions.
The group also reported “inexplicable” mass detentions of Belarusian psychologists and psychiatrists. More than 20 doctors have been detained across the country, and the authorities “demand that they violate doctor-patient confidentiality and report ‘unsavory’ patients they’re treating.”
A total of four journalists have also been detained in Belarus over the past week. Among them are Viachaslau Lazarau, who was arrested in Vitebsk and is facing charges of “contributing to extremist activities,” and cameraman Pavel Padabed, who was detained in Minsk on Tuesday for a social media post from 2012. Another journalist, Anatol Hatouchyts in Gomel, was subjected to a home search.
Sapelka from Viasna said that “we know of a hundred detained all across Belarus, but the real scale (of the crackdown) can be much larger.”
“Every act of resisting Lukashenko’s regime triggers a new wave of harsh repression in Belarus,” Sapelka said, adding that the clampdown is aimed at “sowing more fear in an already intimidated society.”
A sweeping crackdown on dissent in Belarus was unleashed by the authorities in 2020 and has continued in waves ever since. It came in response to mass protests that followed an Aug. 2020 election that gave Lukashenko a new term in office. Opposition politicians and Western countries denounced the results as a sham.
Lukashenko, a longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who backed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has ruled the ex-Soviet country with an iron fist since 1994. More than 35,000 people were arrested, and thousands were beaten by police amid the protests, the largest ever held in the country.
“Detentions, raids, torture behind bars continue in Belarus, political prisoners face pressure, and independent media content is being labeled extremist,” Sapelka said. “Repression against those who actively express their views on the war in Ukraine, unleashed by Russia, are intensifying every day.” | 2023-03-15T03:10:54+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/belarus-rights-group-says-scores-detained-in-new-clampdown/ |
Man allegedly sent fake Pokémon cards, bilking people out of thousands of dollars
TULSA, Okla. (KOKI) - Police said he tried to catch ‘em all, but they ended up catching him instead.
A man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is behind bars for allegedly selling fake Pokémon cards on Craigslist to people across the country.
Tulsa police say Michael McCoy was arrested after a tip came in from a victim in Hawaii who had paid $3,000 for what he thought was the real deal.
Police had already been looking into this case for months when they got a call from that victim in Hawaii.
That person agreed to work with investigators, and they set up a fake number to trick McCoy into selling him cards again.
Police were then able to arrest McCoy when he went to the post office to mail the cards out.
Officials said, in all, McCoy was able to scam people out of $12,000, including in Arizona, Colorado, Ohio and Texas.
Copyright 2022 KOKI via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-04T11:45:27+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2022/11/04/man-allegedly-sent-fake-pokmon-cards-bilking-people-out-thousands/ |
A new report suggests ways Providence, Rhode Island, can atone for its extensive ties to the transatlantic slave trade and centuries of racism and discrimination by, among other things, establishing home repair funds, launching financial literacy programs and boosting aid to Black and Indigenous organizations.
The report, issued Monday by the Providence Municipal Reparations Commission, notably doesn’t recommend giving out direct payments to Black and Native American residents, as some had called for.
Instead, it defines “reparations” as efforts that close the “present-day racial wealth and equity gaps,” and outlines 11 areas for the city to focus its reparations work, including criminal justice reform, neighborhood development, health equity and improving educational and cultural opportunities.
Providence’s reparations effort was launched the same year Rhode Island voters approved a ballot referendum getting rid of the words “and Providence Plantations” from the state’s formal name because of its slavery connotations.
The new report suggests creating a dedicated fund to support residents impacted by urban renewal policies that displaced and negatively impacted communities of color. It also calls for forgiving certain municipal court debts; ending police use of so-called “no-knock” warrants; decriminalizing consumption of alcohol in public; and creating a school curriculum based on the city’s research into its racist and discriminatory policies.
But the report doesn’t suggest how much money should be spent on the many specific initiatives it lists, or which should take priority over others. Mayor Jorge Elorza, who launched the reparations effort two summers ago and is leaving office at the end of the year, is expected to address next steps in the process Thursday, including how he proposes to spend $10 million in federal coronavirus pandemic funds the city has specifically earmarked for reparations-related work.
The report recommends limiting eligibility for reparations-related efforts to those with Indigenous heritage or ancestors originating from sub-Saharan Africa, residents of neighborhoods disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, and low income households earning less than 50% of the area median income.
Rodney Davis, chair of the commission, said in a statement that he hopes the report helps advance new city policies and programs and inspires outside institutions to also get involved.
“Our recommendations are centered on the objective of moving people, institutions, and businesses in a similar direction towards universal equity,” he said.
Last year, Elorza’s administration released a historical report tracing the city’s racist and discriminatory practices and their legacy, from colonial through modern times. The reparations commission has been meeting since the spring with members appointed by the mayor and city council. | 2022-08-24T16:21:40+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/rhode-island-reparations-report-suggests-programs-not-cash/ |
Georgia governor asks judge to quash subpoena for him to appear before grand jury
By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp asked a judge on Wednesday to throw out a subpoena from the Fulton County district attorney requiring the Republican governor to appear before the grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.
Kemp had been scheduled for a voluntary interview in July, his lawyers said in a court filing, but the interview was “unilaterally cancelled” after Kemp’s legal team inquired about its scope. The district attorney’s office then issued a subpoena, Kemp’s lawyers said.
“Governor Kemp has ardently defended the rule of law in this state. Moreover, he welcomes opportunities to explain and defend his actions,” a court filing from Kemp’s lawyers said. “However, the Subpoena ignores — and more importantly, the DA’s Office has refused to account for — the serious privileges it implicates in relation to the testimony of a sitting governor.”
The filing also argues that the subpoena is suspiciously timed to coincide with the “crescendo” in Kemp’s reelection campaign and is not “driven by genuine investigative need for information.”
The Fulton County DA’s office declined to comment.
Investigators sought to discuss a December 2020 phone call in which Trump allegedly tried to push Kemp to convince state legislators to overturn then-President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the state.
Kemp’s office tried to schedule the interview and expressed concerns about the upcoming election, the filing says, but found the district attorney’s office to be unresponsive.
Kemp’s office also provided over 1,000 pages of material to investigators through a Freedom of Information Act request and 137,00 pages of materials voluntarily, the filing said.
Earlier Wednesday, Rudy Giuliani appeared behind closed doors for grand jury testimony in the investigation. Trump’s former attorney has been told by Atlanta prosecutors that he is a target in their probe of Trump’s election subversion schemes in the state.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, meanwhile, has asked a federal judge to stay a decision requiring him to appear next week before the special grand jury until he can appeal, according to a new court filing. Graham has argued that he should not be forced to testify before the grand jury because his actions surrounding Georgia’s election were related to legislative activity and should be protected under the Speech and Debate clause.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — When officials of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City sought a location for an annual economic symposium in 1982, they chose Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for a simple reason: It had fly-fishing.
Paul Volcker, the Fed chairman at the time, was known to enjoy the pastime, and it was hoped that the opportunity to do some fishing would draw Volcker away from Washington, D.C.’s late August heat. The ploy worked, and the Fed has held a conference there in late August ever since.
Now, though, warmer waters in Jackson Lake and the Snake River it empties into have led the Park Service to urge anglers to restrict their fishing to the morning hours. Catch-and-release fishing, the most common practice here, is harder on the fish when water is warmer, and the fish are also harder to catch later in the day.
It is just one example of how the consequences of climate change are now in plain view to Fed officials during their annual summer symposium in Jackson Hole. Wyoming’s Teton County has been afflicted by the same long-term drought that has lowered rivers and reservoir levels throughout the West.
Some water activities typically enjoyed by visitors to the Jackson Lake Lodge, where Fed officials are convening, have been canceled this summer. The Colter Bay Marina has been closed because of low water levels, an economic blow to the small businesses that rent motorboats and other equipment.
Many academic economists and central bankers from around the world attend the Fed’s conclave in Jackson Hole, a valley nestled amid the majestic Teton mountain peaks. The signs of climate damage are among the ways in which the region’s challenges are evident alongside the idyllic setting. The nearby town of Jackson is also struggling with soaring home prices, labor shortages and widening economic inequality.
Jackson Lake, visible from the lodge that hosts the Fed’s symposium, is just 36% full. That is nearly as severe as last summer, when drought conditions were even worse and water levels reached one of the lowest levels in 30 years.
Rain has been better this year, though it was so heavy in June that it caused major flooding in nearby Yellowstone Park, closing sections for the park for weeks. The shutdown has thrown many wildlife guides and other park employees out of work, said Cody Pitz, a local coordinator for the Sunrise Movement, an environmental group.
Chair Jerome Powell and the rest of the Fed are embroiled in a public debate over just how far the central bank should go to take account of climate issues in its policymaking. The Fed is under pressure from environmental activists to consider climate change in how it regulates banks. Many activists argue that the financial system is at risk because, among other things, rising waters could increasingly flood real estate and force developers to default on property loans.
Some such groups, including the Sunrise Movement and 350.org, are holding protests near the lodge and have called on the Fed to stop supporting the fossil fuel industry. During the pandemic, the Fed unveiled a lending program to bolster medium-sized businesses that critics charged was made available to oil and gas drillers, though few loans were made overall and the program was temporary.
Yet the Fed has also absorbed criticism from congressional Republicans for the modest steps it’s taken to incorporate climate change into its regulatory oversight. GOP senators, including those on a committee that oversees the central bank, argue that the issue is not part of the Fed’s purview.
Last year, though, the Fed declared that climate change “poses significant challenges for the global economy and financial system, with implications for the structure of economic activity, the safety and soundness of financial institutions and the stability of the financial sector more broadly.”
And at a congressional confirmation hearing in January, Powell declared, “Our role on climate change is a limited one but it is an important one, and it is to assure that the banking institutions that we regulate understand their risks and can manage them.”
In early 2021, the Fed became the last major central bank to join the Network for the Greening of the Financial System, an international group that focuses on global warming and financial regulation.
In the meantime, Jared Baeker, executive director of the Jackson-based Snake River Fund, pointed out that it’s unusual for the lake to become so low by August. In the past, the water level typically bottomed out closer to October.
But snow packs in the Teton Mountains, he said, are smaller and are melting earlier, leaving less water later in the summer. The damage will likely increase and require more action by state, local and federal authorities, he said.
“We’re a climate-dependent economy,” Baeker said, “whether it’s skiing in the winter or boating and fly fishing in the summer. Without a doubt, policy is important there.” | 2022-08-26T14:19:08+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-climate-change-alters-life-at-feds-jackson-hole-conference/ |
RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) — An altar dedicated to television legend Mr. Rogers is displayed in Richmond, Virginia's Museum District.
Visitors pay homage to St. Fred The Neighborly in the most unlikely of places — an old phone booth.
"It has been turned into a shrine,” said Carter Blough. “Be the person Mr. Rogers knew you could be. And you could light a candle should you wish.”
Blough said the payphone disappeared years ago. The site morphed into a magnet for stickers and artwork since.
No one knows for sure when the alter to the public television icon popped up nor who is responsible.
“When I see this I thank God for artists,” said Sam Davis. “I think the using of the phone booth is a great recycling of the old phone booth.”
The original drawing accompanied by trinkets is a big hit with Davis.
“I’ve never noticed the art before. It was not until St. Fred was pictured here that I noticed this and now I will come all of the time to see it,” he said.
Josh Gunn passes the booth every day. He hopes the mystery creator steps out of the shadows to take a bow.
“Never seen the artist. Never seen a sticker get put up. Never seen anything get put into it. Nothing,” he said. “It’s fun to be a surprise, but it is kind of like but you also want to thank people that add a little joy to people’s lives.”
During his decades-long run, Fred Rogers was defined by his calming presence.
Abu Kahn lives a few doors down and can’t think of a more perfect patron saint for his slice of the city.
“The whole show was about being your friendly neighbor. And in turn, I think I grew up a friendly person and a friendly neighbor to the people around me,” said Abu. “Easily it has become our favorite piece of the neighborhood for me and my roommate. I got super excited when I saw this. I think he protects the neighborhood in some way.”
Patty Carr admires the artwork, but calls the shrine a stark reminder of the passage of so much time.
“It is extremely very creative,” she said. “But I’m sad to say that the correlation to this payphone not being in use and my age and Mr. Rogers is kind of a little sad.”
The last original Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood show aired in 2001. The luminary passed away two years later at the age of 73. But in many ways, Mr. Rogers still inspires.
Gunn said the soothing, sweater-wearing soul is needed now more than ever.
“I think even the younger generation has a clue who it is. I don’t think you need to be in your 40s or 50s to know Mr. Rogers and the impact he had,” he said. “As things get outdated I think that one thing that doesn’t get outdated is the idea that we need kindness.”
This story was originally reported by Greg McQuade on wtvr.com.
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local):
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7:30 p.m.
Third-seeded Ons Jabeur advanced to her first Grand Slam semifinal with a 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 victory over Marie Bouzkova on Centre Court at Wimbledon.
The 27-year-old Tunisian dropped her first set of the grass-court tournament but dominated the rest of the way. She will next face Tatjana Maria of Germany for a spot in the final.
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7:20 p.m.
Home favorite Cameron Norrie reached his first Grand Slam semifinal — where he’ll face Novak Djokovic — with a 3-6, 7-5, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 win over David Goffin at Wimbledon.
The ninth-ranked Norrie is the last British player remaining in singles and advanced with Prince William and his wife Kate among the spectators on No. 1 Court.
At 5-5 in the fifth set, the 26-year-old Norrie broke his Belgian opponent and then served it out, winning on his second match point when Goffin sent a backhand into the net.
The 31-year-old Goffin fell to 0-4 in Grand Slam quarterfinal matches.
Djokovic, the No. 1 seed, advanced earlier with a five-set victory over 10th-seeded Jannik Sinner.
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5:15 p.m.
Three-time defending champion Novak Djokovic recovered from two sets down to beat Jannik Sinner 5-7, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 and advance to the Wimbledon semifinals.
The top-seeded Serb extended his winning streak at the All England Club to 26 matches.
The six-time Wimbledon champion improved to 10-1 in five-set matches at the All England Club, with the loss coming in 2006.
Djokovic, a 20-time Grand Slam champion, will next face either unseeded David Goffin or ninth-seeded Cameron Norrie for a spot in Sunday’s final.
Djokovic’s most-recent loss at Wimbledon was five years ago when he retired because of an elbow injury.
The win was Djokovic’s 84th at Wimbledon and ties him with Jimmy Connors for second-most men’s singles match wins at the All England Club, trailing only Roger Federer.
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3:30 p.m.
Tatjana Maria advanced to the Wimbledon semifinals — the 34-year-old German’s first final four at any Grand Slam tournament — by beating Jule Niemeier 4-6, 6-2, 7-5.
Maria will face either third-seeded Ons Jabeur or unseeded Marie Bouzkova for a place in the final.
The 103rd-ranked Maria is only the sixth woman in the Open era to reach the Wimbledon semifinals after turning 34.
Maria had also come back from a set down to beat 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko in the fourth round.
Niemeier was broken in the final game, hitting a backhand into net on match point. Niemeier was a qualifier at the French Open, losing in the first round in her only other appearance at a Grand Slam tournament.
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11 a.m.
Six-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic will be first on Centre Court in the quarterfinals of the grass-court Grand Slam and third-seeded Ons Jabeur will follow.
The top-seeded Djokovic will take on Jannik Sinner of Italy in the main stadium.
Jabeur will then face Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic.
On No. 1 Court, Tatjana Maria will play Jule Niemeier. The two Germans have never been this far at a Grand Slam tournament. Ninth-seeded Cam Norrie will then take on David Goffin in the later match.
Norrie is looking to become only the fourth British man to reach the Wimbledon semifinals in the Open era. Andy Murray, Tim Henman and Roger Taylor are the others.
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More AP Wimbledon coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/wimbledon and https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-07-06T02:33:38+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/sports/ap-sports/wimbledon-updates-maria-reaches-1st-gs-semifinal-at-age-34/ |
“Rumor has it” that we’ve all been saying Adele’s name wrong this entire time. That’s right: According to a recent report from Babbel, Americans just can’t seem to pronounce Adele correctly.
The Captioning Group, which captions and subtitles events for television, and the British Institute of Verbatim Reporters release an annual list of words that the media, politicians and other famous figures most commonly mispronounced throughout the year. The report is commissioned by online language learning company Babbel, and this year, the list contains everything from singers like Adele to cities in Ukraine.
So how do you say Adele? Well, most of us say “ah-DELL,” but it’s actually “uh-DALE.” In a live stream interview for “Happy Hour with Adele,” Adele applauded a London fan who pronounced her name “perfectly.” Watch the moment on TikTok below, and see if you notice the subtle pronunciation difference:
@etalkctv Have you been pronouncing it Un-del or Ah-del? During a Q&A with fans, #Adele ⬠original sound – etalk
This isn’t the only U.K. name that we have been mangling in the States. The American media also apparently pronounces “Edinburgh” wrong. The capital of Scotland was mentioned often in the news this year as Queen Elizabeth II’s body made its way to Holyroodhouse after her death in Balmoral prior to being interred in Windsor. But while the media called it “Ed-in-burg,” it is actually “Ed-in-Bruh” or “Ed-in-Buh-Ruh.”
This helpful YouTube video from Eurocentres Worldwide which reveals the correct way to say Edinburgh, as well as the secret nickname that people from the U.K. use for the city:
We have also been mispronouncing Domhnall Gleeson’s name wrong — he is the actor best known for playing Bill Weasley in the “Harry Potter” series, as well as starring in the 2022 miniseries “The Patient.” His name is pronounced “DOH-null.” And as for his brother Brian (known for his roles in shows like “Peaky Blinders”), his name is pronounced “BREE-an,” not “BRY-an.”
Here are the brothers teasing Seth Myers on “Late Night with Seth Myers” for butchering their Irish names:
Other mispronounced names in 2022? Zaporizhzhia, a city in Ukraine that is home to Europe’s largest nuclear station, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station. It is pronounced z”ah-POH-reezha,” not the wide swath of varying mispronunciations that American tongues have come up with.
And the report says we also often butcher Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s name. The Samoan football player pronounces his last name as “TUNG-o-vai-LOH-uh.”
Watch him pronounce his name below:
Another popularly mispronounced phrase is a drink name that morphed into a huge social media trend. Negroni sbagliato, properly pronounced “ne-GRO-nee spah-lee-AH-toh,”— with prosecco — became a meme after actress Emma D’Arcy revealed it was her favorite drink on a YouTube interview with Olivia Cooke for HBO Max. Here’s the moment that launched a thousand TikTok videos:
You can read more about Babbel’s full list of most mispronounced words of 2022 here.
By Bridget Sharkey, for Newsy.
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Automakers and biogas producers are poised to commercialize the Renewable Fuel Standard 'eRIN' program via Bridge to Renewables platform
WASHINGTON, May 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading automakers and biogas producers intend to participate in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) eRINs program through a proprietary platform developed by Bridge to Renewables (BTR). Electric-RINs or "eRINs" are credits that may be generated under the RFS by combining biogas-derived energy production data with electric vehicle (EV) charging information. If the EPA finalizes its proposal, eRIN generation would begin in 2024, encouraging the transition to EVs and growth in the cellulosic fuels category, a longtime goal of the RFS.
"We applaud the EPA for including a logical and compelling framework for eRIN generation under the RFS in its recent proposed rule. As the EPA noted in its proposal, implementing the eRINs program will help encourage the transition to EVs and increase investment in mitigating emissions and utilizing biogas to produce renewable energy," said Jack Barrow, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, BTR.
The eRINs program has the potential to be one of the most significant developments in the RFS since its inception nearly two decades ago. The EPA estimate for eRIN generation in the first year of the program implies more than 4 million megawatt-hours of biogas-derived energy may be used for EV charging — a material opportunity for the EV and biogas industries generally. Both automakers and biogas producers are excited about the potential impact eRINs will have on efforts to decarbonize and are actively preparing to realize it.
"This program represents a complementary opportunity to catalyze and accelerate growth in the EV and renewable energy markets," said Michael Maten, Director of EV Policy and Regulatory Affairs, General Motors. "GM is proud to help establish a structure that will support both industries; we hope the eRINs program will be leveraged broadly to encourage new developments and reduce emissions."
BTR is currently working with eight (8) leading automakers, including GM, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Volkswagen, and others. Each of these companies intends to individually procure RFS-qualifying energy from a diverse group of biogas producers through BTR. BTR's platform is designed to efficiently connect participating biogas producers to the automakers.
"Having a strategic partner to help navigate the EPA's requirements and to streamline collaboration with participating automakers will be very important for everyone, but it will be particularly important for smaller companies like ours," said Thomas Yeransian, Principal, CommonWealth Resource Management Corporation (CWRM), a developer and operator of several landfills that produce biogas. "BTR enables us to participate in the eRIN program right away, which ensures it will benefit the entire industry."
Many small- and medium-scale agricultural facilities, landfills, and wastewater facilities will benefit from the access the platform provides to automakers, eliminating a potential barrier to participating in the new program. Others like CWRM collaborating with BTR include Vespene Energy, Pacolet Milliken, leading agriculture digester developer California Bioenergy, and many more.
Larger biogas producers with portfolios of facilities, including bp and OPAL Fuels, are also in discussions to work with BTR to collectively supply a significant amount of the energy that will be used by the automakers to generate eRINs. BTR's ability to connect these larger producers to multiple automakers simultaneously provides flexibility and helps defray single-counterparty dependency.
"We are excited to work with companies like BTR and such an impressive collection of automakers," said Adam Comora, Co-Chief Executive Officer, OPAL Fuels. "Allocating a portion of our biogas and renewable energy portfolio to multiple automakers simultaneously through this platform provides many benefits across the value chain of the eRINs program. We strongly encourage the EPA to finalize its proposal, which we know will provide additional tools necessary to achieve our collective goals in fighting climate change."
BTR is aiming to define best practices for the eRINs program ahead of the EPA's final rulemaking, expected June 2023. The Company offers to act as an agent to help manage and facilitate the process of reporting EV fleet information and charging data and generating eRINs for participating automakers. BTR can also manage the application, registration, and reporting processes for biogas producers.
"Audi views the timely launch of the eRIN program as vital to two important environmental outcomes. First, it supports Audi's mission to deploy more all-electric vehicles and sends a strong market signal to do so rapidly. And second, it incentivizes the production of renewable energy, further decarbonizing the energy system that supports those all-electric vehicles," said Spencer Reeder, Director of Government Affairs and Sustainability at Audi of America. "Both of these outcomes are highly aligned with Audi's goals for realizing a more sustainable transportation system. This underscores the importance of the work BTR has done and all other efforts to support a successful launch of the eRIN program next year."
ABOUT BTR
Bridge to Renewables, Inc. (dba "BTR") is on a mission to maximize the environmental impact of every electric vehicle, everywhere. Since its founding in 2015 by family team Mike, Jim, and Chrys Lemon, BTR has been one of the earliest supporters of the eRINs program and has continuously engaged the EPA in developing its regulations. The Company provides an industry-leading platform that empowers electric vehicle manufacturers, fleet operators, charging station networks, and renewable energy generators to work together to reduce emissions and to participate in low carbon and renewable transportation fuel programs, like the eRINs program and California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). Through these new and innovative strategic partnerships, BTR supports its clients in electrifying and decarbonizing the transportation sector. For more information, visit: www.btr.energy
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A multi-agency search continued Thursday night for three armed robbers who tied up employees and held up a Martha’s Vineyard bank.
FBI, State and local police are collaborating on the search, which is right now continuing on the island. The suspects are still large as of 7:30 pm and authorities said they are considered armed and dangerous.
Rockland Trust Bank in Vineyard Haven was robbed at gunpoint at around 8:30 a.m. on Thursday by three people in white masks and black hoodies, according to details first reported by the Martha’s Vineyard Times and later confirmed by Tisbury police. The suspects tied up employees and escaped in a car stolen from a teller. It was later found abandoned, police said. No one was injured.
FBI agents and state and local police converged on the Holiday Inn on Jones Road in Falmouth before noon today, eventually closing off the street. They arrived wearing tactical gear in more than three dozen vehicles. K-9 units were also on site. Students at the nearby Morse Pond Elementary School sheltered in place before being bused to Falmouth High School, where they were reunited with parents and guardians.
Police were acting on a tip that connected the robbers to the hotel – but after the afternoon-long police action, law enforcement withdrew, saying the suspects were in fact not on the premises.
Dunne said he could not reveal whether the robbers had stayed at the Holiday Inn, or address the nature of the tip.
“We conducted an investigation here and have concluded that the suspects are not here and the investigation will continue on the island,” Dunne told reporters on the steps outside the Holiday Inn around 3:30 p.m.
Many families learned of the news when they received an automated call from Morse Pond Principal Tim Adams.
“Everyone is safe at school,” he said in the message. “No one is allowed in or out for the time being. I will update you when the protocol has been lifted.”
“When you're dealing with armed robbery suspects, you never know what's going to happen. So just under an abundance of caution — they were never in any danger — but we did remove them from the school,” said Falmouth Police Chief Ed Dunne.
Islands schools also went into lockdown, and several banks closed or limited business as a precaution.
The Massachusetts State Police took the lead in this investigation and continue to search Martha’s Vineyard.
“I believe the search is on the island,” Dunne said. “Nothing here in Falmouth, other than us watching the boats as we’ve been doing all day.”
Falmouth police continue to monitor the routes the robbers would need to take to get back to the mainland. They could take a “private boat, Steamship Authority, and then there’s the Patriot that takes workers back and forth,” he said. “But all those have been checked.”
Many have speculated online about the state of the investigation and where the robbers may be, which had led to significant confusion. Ultimately, while preparing to leave the scene at the Holiday Inn, Dunne offered the robbers some advice.
“Turn yourself in.”
The robbers are still considered armed and dangerous. This is a developing story and we will have more details. | 2022-11-18T06:29:39+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/2022-11-17/robbery-suspects-still-at-large-following-armed-bank-heist |
CAIRO (AP) — Eight people were killed and 44 injured in a car crash on Thursday near Egypt’s southern province of Aswan, the state-run news agency reported.
The crash took place in the early morning when a passenger bus collided with a truck, on a highway linking Awsan to Abu Simbel, the seat of the ancient temples of Ramses II, MENA said.
Ambulance vehicles rushed to the scene to carry the casualties’ bodies to Aswan’s morgue and to transfer the wounded to the province’s main hospital, added the report.
Deadly traffic accidents claim thousands of lives every year in Egypt, which has a poor transportation safety record. The crashes and collisions are mostly caused by speeding, bad roads or poor enforcement of traffic laws.
In January, at least 16 people were killed 18 others injured when a microbus collided with a public transportation bus in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
Egypt’s official statistics agency says there were around 10,000 road accidents in 2019, the most recent year for which statistics are available, leaving over 3,480 dead. In 2018, there were 8,480 car accidents, causing over 3,080 deaths. | 2022-07-07T17:00:50+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/8-killed-44-injured-in-car-crash-in-southern-egypt/ |
LUTZ, Fla., April 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BayCare, the largest provider of behavioral health services in the Tampa Bay region, is expanding with the addition of a 24-bed inpatient psychiatric and medical unit at St. Joseph's Hospital-North in Lutz. The St. Joseph's Hospital-North Unit for Psychiatry and Medical Services (UPM) will open in mid-April. St. Joseph's Hospital-North is located at 4211 Van Dyke Road, Lutz.
The new behavioral health unit was announced in February 2022. BayCare and Hillsborough County are each contributing $3.5 million. Hillsborough County used federal American Rescue Plan grant money to fund half of the $7 million total cost of the unit.
"The allocation of these funds by Hillsborough County, along with our partnership with BayCare in this endeavor, will greatly assist in serving individuals with both behavioral health and medical needs," said Ken Hagan, Hillsborough County Commission Chairman. "The Unit for Psychiatry and Medical Services (UPM) at St. Joseph's Hospital-North will treat and deliver care for a patient population in an innovative way."
"Many providers nationally are closing behavioral health programs," said Anthony Santucci, BayCare director of behavioral health nursing. "We're fortunate that BayCare and its BayCare Board of Trustees is committed to serving our community's health needs. It's remarkable we are expanding while others are closing."
Santucci also noted that there are not many locations for inpatient mental health services in northern Hillsborough County, where St. Joseph's Hospital-North is located.
"St. Joseph's Hospital-North is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of all those we serve," said Sara Dodds, St. Joseph's Hospital-North's operations director and currently serving as the hospital's interim president. "We are proud to be contributing to this currently unmet need in our community."
Santucci said the St. Joseph's Hospital-North UPM will deliver care in a nontraditional way from most mental health programs. The UPM will treat patients simultaneously for both medical and psychiatric diagnoses and needs. Traditionally, medical and psychiatric are treated separately in different units.
"This brings psychiatry and medicine together into a single effort to care for the patient as a whole. We're not carving this out, with a separate space for each," Santucci said. "This is a reimagining of a care delivery model."
A former medical/surgical unit at St. Joseph's Hospital-North has been redesigned and constructed to meet the regulatory requirements for licensed inpatient psychiatry. Santucci said the design changes are mostly from a safety perspective and includes changes to furniture, beds, shower facilities, sink fixtures and ceilings.
The St. Joseph's Hospital-North UPM will be staffed by registered nurses, mental health technicians, patient care technicians, behavioral health therapists, psychiatrists and medical hospitalists (hospital-based doctors).
"The foundation of this program (St. Joseph's Hospital-North UPM) stands tall on the integration between medicine and psychiatry," Santucci said. "I feel honored to be part of a health care system that recognizes the needs within our community surrounding mental health."
BayCare currently operates 318 behavioral health inpatient beds in four counties (Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk) at eight locations. More than 12,000 patients are treated annually including adult, geriatric, child and adolescent patients.
BayCare's announcement of the St. Joseph's Hospital-North's UPM addition is the health system's second significant behavioral health announcement this year. In early 2023, BayCare announced the acquisition of Northside Behavioral Center in Tampa: https://baycare.org/newsroom/2023/january/baycare-acquires-northside.
Additionally, St .Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, another BayCare hospital, is adding 13 rooms for behavioral health patients to its Emergency Center as part of an expansion project:https://baycare.org/newsroom/2023/march/st-anthonys-to-add-behavioral-health-rooms-to-emergency-center
About St. Joseph's Hospital-North
St. Joseph's Hospital-North opened in February 2010 to bring high-quality health care services to North Tampa in an environment designed to help patients heal. Part of BayCare Health System, St. Joseph's Hospital-North features all private patient suites and offers emergency care, surgical services, GI endoscopy, imaging, intensive care, obstetrics, cardiac catheterization, interventional radiology and more in a peaceful, relaxing and family-centered environment. Located just north of Tampa in Lutz, the all-digital, state-of-the-art facility is specially designed to make patients and visitors as comfortable as possible during their hospital experience.
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WFO PORTLAND Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, December 25, 2022
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COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Portland OR
1158 AM PST Sun Dec 25 2022
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST THIS
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Tidal overflow flooding.
* WHERE...In Oregon, North Oregon Coast and Central Oregon
Coast. In Washington, South Washington Coast.
* WHEN...Until 3 PM PST this afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding, up to one foot above ground level,
during high tides is expected in the low lying areas near bays,
sloughs, and the lower reaches of the coastal rivers.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...A Coastal Flood Advisory for Minor Tidal
Overflow indicates that coastal and inland flooding of low lying
areas is expected due to elevated river levels, combined with
high astronomical tides. Property damage can occur, but is
usually localized. Low-lying roads may be closed due to high
water.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Coastal Flood Advisory means that tidal overflow flooding is
expected. Coastal residents in the warned area should be alert
for rising water, and take appropriate action to protect life and
property.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-12-25T21:21:36+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/weather/article/WA-WFO-PORTLAND-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17677102.php |
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Air Force airman has been taken into custody in connection with an April explosion that injured several U.S. troops at a base in eastern Syria.
Rose Riley, an Air Force spokeswoman, said the airman was placed in pretrial confinement by his commander after a review of the investigation. An initial hearing on the matter is expected to take place Wednesday.
Riley said no charges have yet been filed, and the airman’s identity will not be released unless he is charged. The military has provided no details on the investigation.
The U.S. military initially reported that the injuries were caused by artillery or another form of indirect fire. But it later said the April 7 attack was carried out by the “deliberate placement of explosive charges” by one or more individuals at an ammunition holding area and shower facility on the base, known as Green Village.
The blasts hit two support buildings and four service members were evaluated for minor injuries and possible traumatic brain injuries.
The investigation is being done by the Army Criminal Investigation Division and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
The U.S. has several hundred troops in eastern Syria as part of its effort to counter the Islamic State group. | 2022-06-23T04:11:39+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/airman-in-custody-in-probe-of-syria-blast-injuring-us-troops/ |
COLORADO SPRINGS — This week is direct support professionals week, a time meant to recognize the work that caretakers do for the clients they serve who have disabilities.
Cheyenne Village, a local non-profit that specializes in housing those with disabilities, held an appreciation event.
Direct support professionals, or DSPs, brought their clients and had fun with food, games, and some time off.
Ellen Marshall has been a client of Cheyenne Village for 50 years. She's especially thankful for the work that caretakers have helped her with over the years.
"Speaking for myself, I have a sense of security, that I normally wouldn't have otherwise," said Marshall.
Several DSPs spoke with News5 today about how happy they are with the non-profit. They say that they believe Cheyenne Village is a great place to work.
"Great. It's good. I get to go to all the community resource fairs and stuff when I get to talk to people about the agency and everything that we do that really improve people's quality of life," says a DSP of 15 years Chantel Kamlan.
The industry of caretakers and DSPs has greatly suffered since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The job has a high turnover rate and many workers report working long hours with minimum overtime pay.
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Watch KOAA News5 on your time, anytime with our free streaming app available for your Roku, FireTV, AppleTV and Android TV. Just search KOAA News5, download and start watching. | 2022-09-15T01:02:43+00:00 | koaa.com | https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/non-profit-cheyenne-village-celebrates-national-direct-service-professionals-appreciation-week |
LEARN HOW TO ACTIVELY REDUCE STRESS THROUGH STIMULATION OF THE VAGUS NERVE
ROCKAWAY, N.J., June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
BACKGROUND:
Ask any American if they are currently living with stress and the answer would likely be a resounding YES. Everybody agrees that stress makes life less enjoyable, and it isn't hard to see how it might even be a cause of racing thoughts, upset stomach, or sleep disruption. But did you know that chronic stress could lead to more serious medical problems like heart attacks, chronic pain, auto-immune diseases and even cancer? Modern medical research is proving that these are conditions that every one of us will ultimately experience if we don't take some very important steps to manage stress.
Experience the full interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/9168851-electrocore-truvaga-vagus-stimulation-stress-reduction/
BREAKING DOWN STRESS
- The tell-tale signs of extreme stress - a fast heartbeat, shallow breathing, sweating and tightness in your stomach are controlled by a part of the nervous system called the autonomic nervous system, or ANS.
- The ANS has two sides that usually work in opposition to one another referred to as the sympathetic and parasympathetic arms. The autonomic features of the stress response are mediated by the sympathetic arm, which is sometimes called the fight, flight or freeze response because they are the bodily changes needed to enable you to defend yourself, run away from danger or freeze in total panic.
- The other arm of the ANS, the parasympathetic, is the rest, digest, relax and restore mode. In this state, your body slows down, heals and returns to homeostasis where everything is copacetic.
- If the sympathetic arm is driving the autonomic response to danger, sympathetic activation also drives an immune response. This immune response is pro-inflammatory, activating cells of the innate immune system to produce chemicals that trigger inflammation.
- A balanced cycle between stress and relaxation is healthy for all living creatures. However, things start to go off the rails when the cycle breaks down because stress becomes chronic, and the parasympathetic arm never has time to switch fully back on.
- To combat this natural phenomenon, electroCore has created Truvaga, an easy-to-use, handheld vagus nerve stimulator that sends electric signals below the skin that calm the vagus nerve and restore it to its resting mode. In turn, the body transitions out of the fight-or-flight response that triggers both physical and mental symptoms, returning the parasympathetic nervous system to its standard activities.
Peter Staats, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer at electroCore, shares the science behind our stress and how to get it under control using noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation. He discusses the importance of stress management and shares some easy ways – including vagus nerve stimulation, or VNS that will help reduce stress in your life and potentially prevent long-term conditions.
For more information, please visit www.truvaga.com
MORE ABOUT DR. PETER STAATS:
Dr. Staats, a co-founder of electroCore, served on the board of directors of electroCore between 2000 and 2018. He was the founder of the Division of Pain Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, where he was the director for 10 years. Dr. Staats received his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor and completed his residency and fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Society. He is currently President elect of World Institute of Pain and continues to serve as Chief Medical Officer for National Spine and Pain Centers, the largest pain practice in the United States. Dr. Staats has written or co-edited 10 books and over 400 articles, abstracts, monographs, and book chapters on pain medicine in publications that include the Journal of the American Medicine Association (JAMA)Pain, Anesthesiology, the lancet and the Journal of Clinical Oncology. His work has been highlighted on Good Morning America, CBS Evening News, Newsweek, and CNN. He has lectured extensively nationally and internationally. He has received numerous awards including physician of the year from the New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia branches of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians; Best Doctors in America, Top Doctors, and New Jersey Top Doctor; the Raj Award for Excellence from the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP)and lifetime achievement awards from NYNJSIPP,ASIPP, and the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS).
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, January 31, 2023
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service San Diego CA
1252 PM PST Mon Jan 30 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 PM PST
TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Northeast winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts 45 to 55 mph
expected.
* WHERE...San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland
Empire, Santa Ana Mountains and Foothills, San Gorgonio Pass
Near Banning, Orange County Coastal Areas and Orange County
Inland Areas.
* WHEN...From 8 PM this evening to 6 PM PST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
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Copyright 2023 AccuWeather | 2023-01-30T21:22:28+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/weather/article/ca-wfo-san-diego-warnings-watches-and-advisories-17752125.php |
Updated December 27, 2022 at 8:32 PM ET
The massive winter storm that has affected much of the country has claimed at least 49 lives so far – more than half of them in western New York.
At least 31 people have died in Erie County – which includes the city of Buffalo – because of the storm as of Tuesday evening, according to the county health department. That the number could increase.
Bodies have been discovered in cars, homes and snowbanks. Of the 31 dead in Erie County, 17 were found outside, seven died from lack of heat, three died from cardiac issues from shoveling, three were found in a vehicle and another died due to a delay from emergency medical services, according to the health department.
The storm has caused road closures and forced the cancellation of thousands of domestic flights at one of the busiest travel times of the year.
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz called the city of Buffalo "impassable," detailing numerous abandoned cars scattered across roads in all directions.
Despite a driving ban in effect, Poloncarz said at a press conference Tuesday that "too many people" are ignoring the ban.
"We have gigantic dump trucks that are trying to scoop up the snow ... and at the same time they are trying to remove abandoned vehicles, people are trying to drive around it in little Honda Civics," he said.
Poloncarz said 100 military police personnel will work with New York State Police to manage traffic control and get people off the roads.
It will take two days to create one open lane for every street in Buffalo to make travel easier for emergency responders, Poloncarz said.
But continued snowfall is not making efforts any easier.
Most winter storm warnings that were in place over the weekend have been lifted, but the Buffalo area and other counties in New York are covered by winter weather advisories.
The snowfall pummeling western New York is called lake-effect snow, which occurs when cold air moves across the Great Lakes and forms cloud bands that can produce two to three inches of snow per hour. The National Weather Service said Tuesday that Buffalo will endure one more day of this type of snow, leaving behind a coating to 1 inch, before the system drifts north.
Speaking to NPR's All Things Considered on Monday, Buffalo's mayor called the blizzard "a very devastating and difficult storm, unlike anything that even the city of Buffalo is used to getting."
While Tuesday's forecast seems like nothing compared to the 4 feet of snow that fell in some places over the last few days, officials say it will have an impact as responders work to clear streets.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has described the weather system that brought 49 inches of snow over three days at Buffalo Niagara International Airport "one for the ages."
President Biden approved an emergency disaster declaration for the state Monday night and authorized the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support local disaster relief efforts.
Our State Fire LMTV/UTV teams performed welfare checks of residents in Cheektowaga today, shoveling out blocked furnace vents to safely heat homes. They also helped dig out an @ErieCountyESU box truck to retrieve much needed supplies. @NYGov @ErieCountyNY pic.twitter.com/ORL2AaxYCT
— NYS Div. of Homeland Security & Emergency Services (@NYSDHSES) December 26, 2022
Meanwhile, holiday travelers across the country are experiencing flight delays and cancellations as a result of the storm. One of the hardest-hit carriers, Southwest Airlines, canceled 70% of its flight schedule Monday and already 60% of its schedule Tuesday as of 11:30 a.m. ET.
The U.S. Department of Transportation called the cancellations, delays and customer service response "unacceptable," and said it would examine whether the cancellations were controllable.
NPR's Giulia Heyward and Scott Neuman contributed reporting.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Friends and fellow authors spoke out on Salman Rushdie's behalf during a rally Friday on the steps of the main branch of the New York Public Library, one week after he was attacked onstage in the western part of the state and hospitalized with stab wounds.
Rushdie's condition has improved, and, according to his literary agent, he has been removed from a ventilator.
Jeffrey Eugenides, Tina Brown and Kiran Desai were among those who shared wishes for a full recovery, told stories of Rushdie as an inspiration and defender of free expression, and read passages from his books, essays and speeches, including from “The Satanic Verses,” the 1988 novel that was condemned by some Muslims as blasphemous.
Rushdie spent years in hiding after Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 edict, a fatwa, calling for his death, but had traveled freely over the past two decades.
The hourlong “Stand With Salman" gathering was presented in part by the library, by Rushdie's publisher, Penguin Random House, and by the literary and human rights organization PEN America. Hundreds were in attendance, many affiliated with PEN, of which the 75-year-old Rushdie is a former president.
“He's been a constant, indefatigable champion of words and of writers attacked for the purported crime of their work,” said the day's first speaker, PEN CEO Suzanne Nossel. “Today, we will celebrate Salman for what he has endured, but even more importantly, because of what he has engendered — the stories, characters, metaphors and images he has given to the world."
The rally did not include any new words from Rushdie, but Nossel said he was aware of the event and even made suggestions for what to read. Rushdie's son Zafar Rushdie, who has been with his father, tweeted that “it was great to see a crowd gathered” outside the library.
“Stand With Salman” took place the day after a judge in Mayville, New York, denied bail to 24-year-old Hadi Matar, who has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault. While in jail, Matar told the New York Post that he disdained Rushdie as anti-Muslim and expressed admiration for the Ayatollah.
On Friday, other readers included the author and journalist Gay Talese, author and former PEN president Andrew Solomon, and the poet, lawyer and activist Reginald Dwayne Betts. Actor Aasif Mandvi read from Rushdie’s upcoming novel, “Victory City,” which he completed before the attack and includes the passage “I myself am nothing now. All that remains is the city of words. Words are the only victors.”
Eugenides, whose novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Middlesex,” remembered traveling to London in the early 1980s. Eugenides was 20 and Rushdie's breakthrough novel “Midnight's Children” had recently been published. He knew Rushdie lived there and decided he wanted to meet him. It was years before “The Satanic Verses,” and Eugenides found his name and address in the phone book.
“I took the tube out to his house. As it turned out, Salman wasn't at home; he was in Italy, vacationing," said Eugenides, who was greeted by Rushdie's then-mother-in-law and left a note for the author.
“That was the world we used to live in," Eugenides added. | 2022-08-19T20:42:44+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Authors-and-friends-rally-and-read-for-Salman-17385033.php |
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Aside from being a few blocks apart, the summer group shows at Pazo Fine Art and Adah Rose Gallery don’t have much in common. Pazo’s “Soft Power” presents the work of just five artists, all from D.C. or Baltimore. Adah Rose’s “Carte Blanche” includes dozens of contributors, among them a few Europeans. But the two exhibitions have one artist in common: Wayson R. Jones, who is known for thickly impastoed square abstracts.
The Adah Rose show, which overflows from the gallery’s current home into its former space around the corner in the same building, features more than a dozen Jones paintings. Two are in the stark black-and-white style that was once the Prince George’s County-based artist’s signature, while others are pastel. The four Jones pictures at Pazo are more vivid, and can be seen as flirting with being landscapes. The standout is “Lifting Up the Sunny World,” a field of gradated oranges inside craggy green and blue borders.
The other Washingtonian in “Soft Power” is Jean Jinho Kim, whose aluminum-downspout sculptures have become simpler and more direct, to their benefit. Her “Good Vibes 3” consists of two mirror-image forms powder-coated in shades of dark olive and pale green. The piece recalls the confident austerity of the late D.C. artist Anne Truitt, and strongly contrasts the work of the show’s other sculptor, Danni O’Brien, whose found-object assemblages are bulbous, spindly and surreal.
Also in the show are paintings by abstractionists Mary Anne Arntzen and Sue Crawford, both of whom employ voluptuous colors and undulating patterns. Arntzen’s oils are thicker and more textured, while Crawford’s gouaches are softer and more watery. What links them is the way both artists conjure motion that is contained within the frame, so that the gestures pulse and coil.
Like previous Adah Rose summer showcases of the same name, “Carte Blanche” was programmed by the gallery’s interns and draws heavily from artists whose work the gallery has previously shown. Among them are Jessica Drenk, who assuredly transforms mundane found objects such as white PVC pipes; Maremi Andreozzi, whose paintings of women in period garb are meticulously detailed, yet lacking faces; and Lori Anne Boocks, whose intriguingly weathered pictures layer partly abraded acrylic washes atop charcoal marks that include unreadable text.
New to the gallery is Taegan Treichel, a Denmark native who combines naturalistic renderings of foliage, birds and man-made features into fabulist compositions. “Hunting for a Prince” depicts a tightly compacted avian refuge on a rocky outcropping in a body of water that could be a small pond or a huge sea. Lush and strange, Treichel’s islet is a vision of some sort of paradise.
Soft Power Through Aug. 25 at Pazo Fine Art, 4228 Howard Ave., Kensington. Open by appointment.
Carte Blanche Through Sept. 1 at Adah Rose Gallery, 3766 Howard Ave., Kensington.
Potomac River Life
The Potomac River is a broad, usually placid estuary whose disposition abruptly turns feral just beyond Georgetown. The wild river is the subject of the most dramatic work in “Potomac River Life,” a group show at the Athenaeum. Black-and-white photographs by Ron Colbroth and Daniel Horowitz — widescreen and close-up, respectively — capture the surge of Great Falls, as do Jim Tetro’s color shots. The most immersive portrayal of the falls is Elizabeth Matthews’s painting of the torrent at dusk, divided into three panels highlighted by red-painted sides.
More placid but just as evocative are paintings, drifting from realist to mildly Impressionist, of quieter stretches of the river by Christina Blake, Jill Brabant, Debra Dartez and Georgia Nassikas. Lianna Zaragoza’s oil of a section of riverbank at high tide is literally moored in the Potomac; it’s in shades of brown because the pigment was made with river silt collected and ground by the artist.
The occasion for the exhibition is the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, and while most of the entries are scenic, a few are more pointed. Franz Jantzen used a near-obsolete photographic process to document trash that has accumulated where a creek meets the river; Marcel Deolazo constructed fish heads from shards of recycled plastic; and Kirsty Little filled jars with natural specimens and a few of the abundant pieces of single-use plastic that clog today’s waterways. These entries lack the sweep of the Great Falls imagery, but are in their own way just as powerful.
Potomac River Life Through Aug. 21 at the Athenaeum, 201 Prince St., Alexandria.
Newly Juried 2022
In a process that has not been without controversy, the city of Alexandria is revamping the Torpedo Factory Art Center, removing some longtime art-studio tenants. It’s also adding others, some of whom are represented in “Newly Juried 2022: A Torpedo Factory Art Center Exhibition,” just up the street at Principle Gallery. The 38-participant show is solid, but doesn’t foretell a significant shift in the sort of artists the facility hosts.
Many of the paintings are representational and rooted in traditions that are given a gentle twist. Sarah Bentley takes a neoclassical approach to a still life of a contemporary subject, a pastry and a Starbuck’s disposable cup. Minwei Liang nestles a highly detailed bird among flower-budded branches rendered in a looser style. June Yun’s picture is clearly an aerial view of a city, but partly abstracted in gemlike tones of turquoise pigment and gold and silver leaf.
If there’s a trace of autobiography in Liang’s and Yun’s work, such hints are even stronger in Anna Shakeeva’s and Iryna Smitchkova’s mystical pictures. Shakeeva’s self-portrait wreathes her face with birds and flowers, while Smitchkova centers peacocks and orange trees behind an open blue door flanked by ornamental tiles. Ellen Delaney shifts to rural America, combining the homey and the cosmic in three views of low-slung barns or houses under vast skies, while Sally Veach paints an expanse of turbulent clouds into which she inscribes a house-shaped pentagon. In their myriad ways, many of these pictures are reveries of home.
Newly Juried 2022: A Torpedo Factory Art Center Exhibition Through Aug. 21 at Principle Gallery, 208 King St., Alexandria. | 2022-08-12T10:57:45+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/08/12/art-gallery-shows-dc-area/ |
The White House is working with the Justice Department as it reviews classified documents from when President Biden served as vice president that were found in a private office last fall.
Attorneys for Biden discovered the documents in November and notified the National Archives, Richard Sauber, special counsel to Biden, said in a statement. The Archives took possession of the materials the following morning and has since referred the matter to the Justice Department for further investigation.
“The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice regarding the discovery of what appear to be Obama-Biden Administration records, including a small number of documents with classified markings,” Sauber said.
The materials were first discovered at an office at the University of Pennsylvania in Washington while it was being cleaned out, Sauber said. Biden had used the office while he served as an honorary professor for the university from 2017 to 2019.
“The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives,” Sauber added. “Since that discovery, the President’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives.”
The discovery of the documents was first reported by CBS News. The president and vice president are required under the Presidential Records Act to turn over documents to the National Archives for secure storage.
That classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president were not in possession of the National Archives is sure to ignite criticism from conservatives given former President Trump is under investigation for allegedly taking numerous classified government documents to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida upon leaving the White House in 2021. During an unprecedented FBI search of the property, more than 100 documents were obtained that federal officials said were marked with varying degrees of classification.
In response to the news involving Biden, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, “When will the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team storm one of Biden’s many vacation homes bought and paid for somehow by a lifetime of being a humble public servant?”
But one key difference was that Biden’s team quickly alerted the National Archives upon discovering the documents, while Trump was still in possession of his files until an FBI search in August.
“Worth noting what former government officials have said since Mar a Lago raid: classified docs get mistakenly removed from government facilities fairly frequently. You report it, turn in the docs, the government does a damage assessment, and that is the end of it,” tweeted Matthew Miller, a former Justice Department spokesperson during the Obama administration.
“OR…you cover it up, lie about it repeatedly to the government, and force them to raid your premises to retrieve the docs (ie act like a sociopath), in which case you can expect a criminal charge,” Miller added. | 2023-01-10T01:48:23+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/classified-documents-found-from-bidens-time-as-vp-white-house-cooperating-with-doj/ |
The January 6th riot brought change to Capitol Hill, politics
Some lawmakers want to move forward; others feel not enough has been done
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - It has been two years since the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol. It’s a day seared in the minds of many.
“We can see people over running the chamber, the Senate chamber where we’d been literally a few minutes before,” f recalled.
The House Selected Committee to Investigate the January 6th attacks on the U.S. Capitol disbanded in December, after it released an 845 page report of its findings. A list of best practices on how to avoid a repeat of that was included in the report.
One recommendation the committee made was to update the Electoral Count Act, closing the loopholes that would allow a losing presidential candidate to challenge an election outcome.
Democrats were able to include that legislation in a wide-ranging spending bill passed in December.
Members from both sides of the aisle are now calling for Congress to learn from what happened, but move on with a fresh start.
“I think this this is something that we have to put in the past,” Rep. Mike Carey (R-Ohio) said. “We’ve got to move forward. I think moving forward in this Congress, we’re going to do a lot of good things for the American public and we’re going to work bipartisanly.”
“Let’s protect democracy, make sure we have free and fair elections and let’s get Congress up and running and back to work,” said Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR).
Todd Belt is the director of the Political Management program at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. He warns that decisions made by incoming Republican leadership might re-open old wounds.
“The legacy of January 6 is really going to depend upon the investigation of the January 6 Committee, which we’re hearing might be happening from the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives,” Belt explained. “How that goes about is probably going to be something that’s really going to be impactful.”
Belt worries this move will further political division between Americans.
“I think they’re sick of the divisiveness and I think they’re sick of the idea that we are a very fragile democracy, and they want us to move forward and move forward in a way that is responsible and government gets it done,” Belt said.
Copyright 2023 Gray DC. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-06T18:44:51+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/2023/01/06/january-6th-riot-brought-change-capitol-hill-politics/ |
CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Interior Central California
National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for tonight, Wednesday, Wednesday night, and Thursday.
CAZ300-311100-
West Side Mountains north of 198-
Including the city of San Luis Reservoir
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 74. West winds up to 10 mph.
Gusts up to 35 mph decreasing to 25 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 101. North winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 73 to 79. West winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 98 to 106. West winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 76 to 82. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH LABOR DAY...Clear. Highs 98 to 109. Lows 75 to
87.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 79 to 85.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 108.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Luis Reservoir 65 99 71 103 /
$$
CAZ301-311100-
Los Banos - Dos Palos-
Including the city of Los Banos
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 72. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH LABOR DAY...Clear. Highs around 107. Lows 72 to
77.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Los Banos 62 99 67 105 /
$$
CAZ302-311100-
Merced - Madera - Mendota-
Including the cities of Merced, Madera, and Atwater
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 103. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH LABOR DAY...Clear. Highs around 106. Lows 68 to
73.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 60 96 63 102 /
Merced 62 100 65 105 /
Chowchilla 60 99 64 104 /
Madera 61 100 64 104 /
Firebaugh 61 98 65 103 /
Mendota 63 99 66 105 /
$$
CAZ303-311100-
Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-
Including the cities of Planada, Lake Mcclure, and Le Grand
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 100. Northwest winds up to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 105. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 107. Lows in the
lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 108.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Planada 62 99 66 105 /
Le Grand 62 100 65 105 /
$$
CAZ304-311100-
Coalinga - Avenal-
Including the cities of Avenal and Coalinga
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. West winds up to 10 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 102. Northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106. North winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 108. Lows in the
upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 110.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 108.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Coalinga 69 103 74 107 /
Avenal 72 102 77 106 /
$$
CAZ305-311100-
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-
Including the cities of Lemoore Station, Five Points,
and Kettleman City
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 102. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 109. Lows in the mid
70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 110.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
Highs around 109.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huron 67 102 71 107 /
Five Points 66 102 69 107 /
NAS Lemoore 65 102 69 107 /
Kettleman City 70 103 74 107 /
$$
CAZ306-311100-
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma-
Including the cities of Selma, Sanger, Parlier, Kingsburg,
and Kerman
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 101. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 105. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 70. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 107. Lows in the
lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 108.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
Highs around 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Selma 67 102 70 106 /
Kingsburg 65 102 67 106 /
Sanger 66 103 69 106 /
Kerman 61 100 65 104 /
Caruthers 63 102 66 105 /
$$
CAZ307-311100-
Fresno-Clovis-
Including the city of Fresno
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 102. West winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs around 108. Lows in the
lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 109.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 108.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
Highs around 108.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Clovis 70 103 73 106 /
Fresno 69 103 72 106 /
$$
CAZ308-311100-
West Side Mountains South of 198-
Including the cities of Blackwells Corner and McKittrick
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph shifting to the southwest
after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 102. Northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. North
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 106. Southeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s. North winds up to
10 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs 100 to 110. Lows around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 79 to 85.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 110.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 109.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 60 96 63 102 /
Merced 62 100 65 105 /
Chowchilla 60 99 64 104 /
Madera 61 100 64 104 /
$$
CAZ309-311100-
Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5-
Including the cities of Lost Hills and Buttonwillow
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to
15 mph decreasing to up to 5 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 102. North winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106. West winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northwest winds up
to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 108. Lows in the mid
70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
70s. Highs around 109.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lost Hills 68 102 72 106 /
Buttonwillow 68 102 71 106 /
$$
CAZ310-311100-
Delano-Wasco-Shafter-
Including the cities of Delano, Wasco, Alpaugh, and Shafter
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 101. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. Northwest winds
up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 105. Southwest winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 106. Lows in the
lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs around 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alpaugh 66 101 69 105 /
Allensworth 67 102 70 105 /
Wasco 67 101 70 105 /
Delano 67 101 71 104 /
McFarland 67 101 70 105 /
Shafter 68 102 71 105 /
$$
CAZ311-311100-
Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
Including the cities of Hanford, Lemoore, and Corcoran
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 100. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 70. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 106. Lows in the
lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs around 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lemoore 66 102 69 106 /
Hanford 65 103 66 106 /
Corcoran 65 102 69 106 /
$$
CAZ312-311100-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-
Including the cities of Goshen, Visalia, Tulare, and Porterville
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 101. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs around 105. Lows in the
lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs around 106.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Reedley 65 102 69 106 /
Dinuba 65 102 68 106 /
Visalia 64 101 66 104 /
Exeter 66 102 69 105 /
Tulare 67 101 69 104 /
Lindsay 66 101 70 104 /
Porterville 70 101 73 104 /
$$
CAZ313-311100-
Buena Vista-
Including the city of Taft
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 100. North winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 103. West winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Northwest winds
up to 5 mph with gusts to around 20 mph shifting to the west
after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 106. Lows around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 107.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
Highs around 106.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Taft 75 101 79 104 /
$$
CAZ314-311100-
Bakersfield-
Including the city of Bakersfield
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 75. North winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the west after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 101. West winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 71 to 77. North winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 105. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 74 to 80. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 107. Lows 73 to 81.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 76 to 82.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 108.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 76 to 82. Highs
around 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bakersfield 74 101 76 105 /
$$
CAZ315-311100-
Southeast San Joaquin Valley-
Including the city of Richgrove
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 100. Southwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. North
winds up to 5 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs around 104. Lows in the
mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
70s. Highs around 105.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Richgrove 67 100 71 104 /
$$
CAZ316-311100-
South End San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Lamont and Arvin
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the south after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 100. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 76 to 82. Northwest winds up to
5 mph with gusts to around 20 mph shifting to the south after
midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs around 105. Lows in the
upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 106.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
Highs around 106.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Arvin 72 102 74 106 /
Lamont 71 102 74 106 /
Mettler 73 99 76 103 /
$$
CAZ317-311100-
Mariposa Madera Foothills-
Including the cities of El Portal and Mariposa
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 73. Northwest winds up to 10 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 100. Southwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 71 to 77. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 73 to 79. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs around 105. Lows 73 to
79.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 74 to 80.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 106.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 75 to 81.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs around 106.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 75 to 81. Highs
around 105.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mariposa 71 97 73 100 /
$$
CAZ318-311100-
Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-
Including the cities of Bass Lake, Coarsegold, Fish Camp,
Oakhurst, and North Fork
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 73. West winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the east after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 91 to 99. Southeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 75. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 102. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 77. West winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 103.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 77.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 104.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 78.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 104.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 79.
Highs 95 to 104.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oakhurst 63 101 64 104 /
Bass Lake 64 95 65 100 /
$$
CAZ319-311100-
Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
Including the city of Millerton Lake
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the south after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 101. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104. Southeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 108.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 108.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
70s. Highs 102 to 108.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Millerton Lake 69 102 73 106 /
Three Rivers 72 104 74 107 /
Springville 70 97 72 100 /
Tule River Reservation 77 101 80 104 /
$$
CAZ320-311100-
Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Auberry
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 78. West winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the east after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 101. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 70 to 80. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 91 to 103. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 72 to 82. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 104.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 72 to 83.
Highs 91 to 105.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Auberry 75 97 79 101 /
$$
CAZ321-311100-
South End Sierra Foothills-
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the south after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. North
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 102. Southeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs around 103. Lows in the
upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 104.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
80s. Highs around 104.
$$
CAZ322-311100-
South End of the Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Camp Nelson
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 75. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 97. Southwest winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west with gusts to around 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 71 to 77. North winds up to
5 mph with gusts to around 25 mph shifting to the east after
midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 100. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 73 to 79. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight. Gusts up to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 100.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 73 to 79.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 101.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 74 to 80.
Highs 92 to 101.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Camp Nelson 65 92 66 93 /
$$
CAZ323-311100-
Yosemite NP outside of the valley-
Including the cities of Tuolumne Meadows and Wawona
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 46 to 62. Southeast winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 69 to 85. South winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 47 to 63. Southwest winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 71 to 87. East winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 48 to 64. West winds up to
5 mph with gusts to around 20 mph shifting to the east after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 71 to 87.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 49 to 66.
Highs 71 to 89.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Tuolumne Meadows 42 79 43 80 /
Wawona 62 95 64 98 /
Hetch Hetchy 68 97 69 101 /
$$
CAZ324-311100-
Yosemite Valley-
Including the city of Yosemite Valley
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 72. Southeast winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99. Southeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 72. West winds up to
5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 102. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 75. Northwest winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 102.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 74.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 104.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 76.
Highs 91 to 102.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Yosemite 58 103 60 105 /
$$
CAZ325-311100-
San Joaquin River Canyon-
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 63 to 73. Southwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 88 to 96. North winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 75. Southwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 97. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 76. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 90 to 99. Lows
67 to 78.
$$
CAZ326-311100-
Upper San Joaquin River-
Including the cities of Devils Postpile, Florence Lake,
and Lake Thomas Edison
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 48 to 60. Southwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 67 to 83. South winds up to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 49 to 61. Southwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 68 to 84. East winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 50 to 62. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 69 to 86. Lows
51 to 64.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Devils Postpile 55 79 56 81 /
$$
CAZ327-311100-
Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-
Including the cities of Lake Wishon, Huntington Lake,
and Shaver Lake
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 49 to 61. Southeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 70 to 82. Southeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 51 to 63. Southwest winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 70 to 84. East winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 52 to 64. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 71 to 86. Lows
52 to 65.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huntington Lake 58 80 59 81 /
Shaver Lake 60 86 62 88 /
Lake Wishon 60 86 62 86 /
$$
CAZ328-311100-
Kings Canyon NP-
Including the city of Cedar Grove
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 44 to 56. South winds up to 10 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 62 to 78. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 46 to 58. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 62 to 78. Southwest winds up to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 46 to 58. West winds up to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 62 to 80. Lows
47 to 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Cedar Grove 66 97 68 98 /
$$
CAZ329-311100-
Grant Grove Area-
Including the cities of Grant Grove and Hume Lake
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 58 to 72. Southwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 92. Southeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 59 to 73. North winds up to
5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 93. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 60 to 74. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 77 to 95. Lows
61 to 76.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grant Grove 63 84 65 85 /
$$
CAZ330-311100-
Sequoia NP-
Including the cities of Giant Forest and Lodgepole
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 44 to 64. South winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the east with gusts to around 25 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Warmer, sunny. Highs 64 to 84. South winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the southwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 46 to 66. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Warmer, sunny. Highs 65 to 85. East winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 47 to 67. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 65 to 87. Lows
48 to 68.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lodgepole 55 83 57 84 /
$$
CAZ331-311100-
South End of the Upper Sierra-
Including the city of Johnsondale
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 55 to 69. West winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the north after midnight. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 91. Southwest winds up to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 57 to 71. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 78 to 92. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 58 to 72. West winds 5 to
15 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 77 to 94. Lows
58 to 73.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Johnsondale 56 97 58 98 /
$$
CAZ332-311100-
Kern River Valley-
Including the cities of Lake Isabella and Kernville
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. West winds up to
10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 98 to 104. Northwest winds up to 5 mph
increasing to west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Northwest
winds up to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 106. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. West winds
10 to 15 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs 100 to 108. Lows in the
mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs 99 to 107.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alta Sierra 67 87 69 88 /
Kernville 70 104 72 105 /
Lake Isabella 74 104 76 106 /
Weldon 73 104 74 107 /
$$
CAZ333-311100-
Piute Walker Basin-
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 74. West winds up to 10 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 87 to 97. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 75. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 77. Northwest winds up
to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs 89 to 100. Lows 66 to 76.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 77.
Highs 88 to 99.
$$
CAZ334-311100-
Tehachapi-
Including the city of Tehachapi
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 73. West winds up to 10 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 88 to 96. Northwest winds up to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 75. West winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 98. Northwest winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 77. Northwest winds up
to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs 89 to 99. Lows 68 to 76.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 77.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 70 to 78.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 79. Highs
89 to 99.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bear Valley Springs 67 90 69 91 /
Tehachapi 63 95 65 96 /
Twin Oaks 71 95 73 98 /
$$
CAZ335-311100-
Grapevine-
Including the cities of Grapevine and Lebec
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 73. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 96. North winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 75. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 72 to 78. West winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs 90 to 100. Lows 71 to 77.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 73 to 79.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 91 to 101.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 73 to 79.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs 91 to 101.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 72 to 80. Highs
90 to 100.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grapevine 75 98 77 101 /
$$
CAZ336-311100-
Frazier Mountain Communities-
Including the city of Frazier Park
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 74. Northeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 96. East winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 77. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 87 to 99. South winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 68 to 80. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs 87 to 102. Lows 67 to 81.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 70 to 82.
.LABOR DAY...Sunny. Highs 88 to 102.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 81. Highs
88 to 102.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pine Mountain Club 66 88 67 88 /
Frazier Park 57 94 59 94 /
$$
CAZ337-311100-
Indian Wells Valley-
Including the cities of Inyokern and Ridgecrest
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 104 to 110. West winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. West
winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 105 to 111. West winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southwest
winds 5 to 15 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 106 to 112.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 107 to 113.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 106 to 111.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
Highs 104 to 112.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Inyokern 80 109 82 109 /
Ridgecrest 78 109 78 110 /
$$
CAZ338-311100-
Mojave Desert Slopes-
Including the city of Mojave
1101 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM
PDT TUESDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 72 to 78. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 105. West winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly clear. Lows 74 to 80. Northwest
winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 107. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph shifting to the southeast in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 75 to 81. West winds 10 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs 95 to 108. Lows 75 to 81.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 76 to 82.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 106.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 75 to 82.
Highs 94 to 107.
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. West winds
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.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 107. West winds up to 10 mph
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. West winds
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.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs around 109. Lows in the
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PHILADELPHIA — As he was going through the postgame handshake line, Kyle Wright received a request from Braves manager Brian Snitker.
Wright became the first 20-game winner in the majors this season and Atlanta beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-3 on Saturday to stop a three-game losing streak.
“I don’t know if I realized how cool it was until my teammates and coaches congratulated me real quick afterward,” Wright said. “It’s a team stat and I couldn’t have done it without them scoring runs and playing defense.”
William Contreras and rookie Michael Harris II each homered and had three hits for the playoff-bound Braves (94-58), who moved within 1 1/2 games of the first-place Mets in the NL East. New York lost 10-4 at Oakland.
The Mets and Braves play three games in Atlanta next weekend.
“We still have to take one foot ahead of the other,” Wright said. “It is like we are in postseason baseball right now. We’ve clinched our spot but hopefully we can continue winning and hopefully we can bypass that first round.”
Bryce Harper hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning for Philadelphia (83-68), which began the day a half-game ahead of San Diego for the second NL wild card and 2 1/2 games in front of Milwaukee for the final spot.
“We got off to a slow start,” Phillies interim manager Rob Thomson said.
The 26-year-old Wright, who came into the season with two career wins in 21 appearances, went 5 1/3 innings and became the first Braves pitcher to win 20 games since Russ Ortiz won 21 in 2003. Wright is the seventh 20-game winner for the Braves since they moved to Atlanta in 1966, also joining Denny Neagle and four Hall of Famers: John Smoltz, Greg Maddux, Phil Niekro and Tom Glavine.
“The experience that he got last year is the biggest thing that has happened to him,” Snitker said. “He sprung-board off the World Series when he won that big game (Game 4, a 3-2 win over Houston) for us and he learned he was pretty good. And he came to spring training a different guy and it’s carried him to now. Hopefully, he gets a couple of more.”
Wright (20-5) ran a high pitch count but didn’t allow a hit until Rhys Hoskins doubled with one out in the sixth. Harper followed with his 18th homer, ending the shutout bid and chasing Wright.
“I’ve learned to have confidence and I can keep myself under control better than I did before,” Wright said. “I trust myself and I trust the defense. I throw a lot of groundballs and I’ve learned to trust the defense.”
Philadelphia scored an unearned run in the seventh and had the potential tying run at the plate with two outs when A.J. Minter struck out Hoskins on a 3-2 fastball. Kenley Jansen earned his 37th save with a clean ninth inning.
Atlanta generated its offense early, taking advantage of Bailey Falter’s inability to keep the ball out of the middle of the plate. The Braves got six runs and 10 hits in 3 2/3 innings against Falter (5-4), handing the left-hander his first loss since July 24.
“Bailey threw some bad pitches that he normally does make,” Thomson said. “I was happy with our bullpen. They kept us in the game and we got the tying run to the plate.”
Contreras hit his 20th homer in the third. Harris added a two-run drive, his 19th, in the fourth. Vaughn Grissom and Travis d’Arnaud both had two hits for Atlanta.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Braves: Rookie RHP Spencer Strider (strained left oblique) was placed on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to Sept. 21, and will miss the rest of the regular season. His status for the playoffs is uncertain. ... OF Ronald Acuña Jr. (back) sat out for a third straight day. He is day-to-day.
Phillies: OF Nick Castellanos (right oblique strain) will not go out on a minor league rehab assignment and will likely be activated off the IL next week when the Phillies begin a nine-game road trip in Chicago. Castellanos was added to the injured list Sept. 4.
UP NEXT
The regular-season finale between the NL East foes is Sunday, with Atlanta sending RHP Charlie Morton (9-6, 4.09 ERA) to the mound against RHP Kyle Gibson (10-7, 4.71).
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A currency trader walks by the screens showing the foreign exchange rates at a foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. Shares were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after a modestly higher close on Wall Street as concerns over pressures on global growth tempered gains in the absence of major data releases.
A currency trader watches computer monitors at a foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. Shares were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after a modestly higher close on Wall Street as concerns over pressures on global growth tempered gains in the absence of major data releases.
A currency trader watches computer monitors near the screen showing the Korean Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (KOSDAQ), left, at a foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. Shares were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after a modestly higher close on Wall Street as concerns over pressures on global growth tempered gains in the absence of major data releases.
A currency trader walks by screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at a foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022.
Wall Street gains ground, turning higher for the week
Stocks rose on Wall Street, lifting major indexes into the green for the week as investors welcomed a report showing consumer confidence is holding up better than expected
By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA - AP Business Writers
A currency trader walks by the screens showing the foreign exchange rates at a foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. Shares were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after a modestly higher close on Wall Street as concerns over pressures on global growth tempered gains in the absence of major data releases.
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A currency trader watches computer monitors at a foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. Shares were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after a modestly higher close on Wall Street as concerns over pressures on global growth tempered gains in the absence of major data releases.
Lee Jin-man - staff, AP
A currency trader watches computer monitors near the screen showing the Korean Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (KOSDAQ), left, at a foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. Shares were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after a modestly higher close on Wall Street as concerns over pressures on global growth tempered gains in the absence of major data releases.
Lee Jin-man - staff, AP
A currency trader walks by screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at a foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022.
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FILE - Street signs at the intersection of Wall and Broad Streets are shown in lower Manhattan, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021.
Stocks rose on Wall Street, lifting major indexes into the green for the week as investors welcomed a report showing consumer confidence is holding up better than expected. That’s despite the Federal Reserve’s campaign to fight inflation by reining in the economy with sharp increases in interest rates. The S&P 500 index climbed 1.5% Wednesday and the Nasdaq rose 1.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 1.6% with a lot of help from Nike, which soared after reporting better-than-expected results. Treasury yields mostly fell. Technology stocks were among the big winners. Energy stocks gained ground along with rising oil prices.
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BERLIN — Germany is trying any range of measures to combat an energy crisis that is only expected to worsen this winter. Public buildings can be heated to just 66 degrees and most private pools not at all. Starting this month, billboards and other landmarks go dark at 10 p.m. The government has even extended the lives of two of the country’s last nuclear reactors.
But the one thing that Germany will not do, apparently, is put a general speed limit on the fabled autobahns, a proposal raised — and shot down — even though it could save gasoline and cut carbon dioxide emissions.
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The speed-limit issue has a special resonance in Germany, akin to debates over gun control in the United States. So sacrosanct is the absence of limits that when a Czech developer posted a video of himself on YouTube last year driving nearly 260 miles per hour — or as fast as a prop plane flies — prosecutors could bring no charges.
A vow of no general speed limits on autobahns was even part of the agreement that allowed the current three-party coalition, which includes the environmentalist Greens as well as the libertarian-minded Free Democratic Party, to take power.
“The FDP has made this into an issue of identity,” said Wolfgang Schroeder, a political science professor at the University of Kassel, in central Germany, who studies the coalition. “They’ve said, ‘We are the party of drivers and freedom, and we don’t want any state interference.’”
Still, the mood on speed restrictions has been shifting over the past two decades, with the current oil crisis seeming to accelerate the change, at least perhaps in the public mind, if not in the political class.
In April, two months after Russia attacked Ukraine and as Germany tried to reduce its energy dependence on Russia, Ricarda Lang, coleader of the Greens, proposed a temporary speed limit to help save gasoline.
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While the idea was blocked by coalition partners, a recent poll commissioned by the magazine Der Spiegel found that 55 percent of Germans supported the idea of an immediate, if temporary, speed limit, with 39 percent against.
The German Environment Ministry found that if a speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour, about 62 mph, were put in place on the autobahns, with an 80 kph limit on other roads, Germany’s 48 million automobiles could save 2.1 billion liters of fuel every year.
If drivers actually kept to that speed, 5.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions could be saved, about 3 percent of all CO2 emitted from transportation. If drivers kept to a speed limit of 130 kph, or 80 mph — a more realistic limit — the savings would drop to 1.9 million metric tons, or just above 1 percent of total transportation emissions.
Currently, about 30 percent of the autobahn system has permanent restrictions. Other sections have temporary limits linked to construction work.
In 2020, the ADAC — a nearly 120-year old automobile club in Germany with more than 20 million members — stopped lobbying against limits. Surveys of their members found that, for the first time in nearly three decades, most were no longer opposed to a limit.
“It’s pretty straightforward: Society is changing, and with it, the ADAC,” said Katrin van Randenborgh, a spokesperson for the club.
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Another part of the debate involves accidents. Even though the autobahn is lauded for its safety when compared with other highways, official figures show that where the autobahn has no speed restrictions, there are 75 percent more accidents involving a death than on stretches that have speed limits.
Nonetheless, Bernd Reuther, a traffic specialist for the Free Democratic Party, defended the status quo.
“We rely on people’s sense of responsibility, and we don’t want to regulate,” he said.
With the coalition agreement cementing no new speed limits, Reuther and the FDP say they feel the issue is settled, at least until the next government.
Putting speed limits in place would be an easy, if modest, step toward helping get to the country’s emission goals, according to Swantje Henrike Michaelsen, a Green lawmaker and member of the parliamentary traffic committee. But, she said, “It’s become this glaring symbol in politics.”
Her party had chosen to focus “on the progress we can make together,” rather than push the divisive issue, she added.
With the dominant member of the coalition, the Social Democratic Party, playing more of a mediator role, things look set to remain as they are.
“It is a kind of nonaggression pact that we are seeing among the members of the coalition that is especially important when it comes to ideological positions,” Schroeder said.
As the energy crisis worsens, the speed limit issue could cause tension within the coalition, but it is unlikely to break it, experts say, especially since other measures can do more to save emissions, like concrete steps to reduce emissions that are being discussed as part of budget negotiations this week in parliament.
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For the Free Democratic Party, speed-limit-free driving is an important issue for its base, which skews wealthy, well-educated, and privileged. As the smallest coalition partner, the party is the most vulnerable governing member, and, political analysts say, that means it has to be especially careful about giving up its positions, no matter how symbolic.
“The FDP will do everything in its power to stay visible in this coalition,” said Uwe Jun, a political science professor at Trier University, in western Germany.
The Greens, by contrast, are polling at 22 percent and — if nothing changes drastically in the next three years — have a good chance to end up in the next government, where they might be expected to take a more assertive stance on the issue of speed limits.
For now, probably, nothing will change.
Considering the difficulties, “Is it worth playing up such a clearly symbolic question?” Jun asked. “Is it worth making it so important?” | 2022-09-06T21:31:08+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/06/world/energy-crunch-germany-turns-down-heat-wont-limit-autobahn-speeds/ |
Marshall County RSVP makes a comeback
New director to bring new live to senior volunteer program.
Marshall County, Ala. (WAFF) - After nearly 3 years of inactivity, Marshall County’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Program is alive and well. New director Carolyn Davis has taken on the task of reviving the program after the COVID-19 pandemic.
“RSVP was so active and just so full of activities and then COVID hit. The building was empty, the people were at home and we weren’t doing anything. When COVID first starting lifting the seniors were the one group that was very reluctant to start getting out and about,” Davis tells WAFF 48.
Davis has spent many years serving the communities of Marshall County. Now, she’s coming out of a ten-year retirement to bring back RSVP. She says it was meant to be.
“I was playing pickle ball I was playing cards and I was traveling and just having a big time. Then one of the board members called me and asked me if I would be interested. I love a challenge and this is definitely a challenge. I love helping people, I love fixing things. I think this is a really good fit for me. God has really given me an opportunity. He’s put me in places that.. I learned from this job to get ready for the next job,” Davis says.
With her affinity for helping people, Davis has hit the ground running with plans for the volunteer program.
“I want to see this building filled with people. I want to see that parking lot filled with cars. We’ve got some classes scheduled to start in March. I want to see and taking computer classes and takin exercise classes and taking painting classes.”
Davis is also excited to extend her reach all across Marshall County.
“I want to be in all the cities. I want to be in Boaz, Albertville, Guntersville, Arab.. I want to be in Grant. I want us, RSVP to be seen in every city in the county,” Davis says.
Davis also tells us that the program is always in need of volunteers to help with classes and other events. Volunteers include anyone over the age of 55, and those interested in lending a hand can call the RSVP office at 256-571-7734.
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(Green Car Reports) — Tesla has once again lowered prices. As of Thursday the automaker’s online configurator shows price cuts for every model in its lineup.
The Model Y received the biggest cut, of about 20% across the lineup. Including the new, higher $1,390 destination fee, the base Model Y Long Range now starts at $54,380, while the Model Y Performance now starts at $58,380.
There might be a good reason for that deeper cut to the Model Y. Five-passenger versions of the Model Y qualify for the new clean-vehicle tax credit as passenger cars—meaning that buyers can claim $7,500 (likely through March) if the MSRP of the vehicle isn’t more than $55,000. With buyers again able to claim that credit, the effective price for many U.S. drivers of the Model Y will now slot below $47,000 after the tax credit has been applied.
With the Model Y’s starting price of $68,390 up to yesterday, that’s effectively more than a $20,000 price cut.
The Model 3 now starts at $45,380, while the base price of the Model 3 Performance is now listed at $55,380. Those are changes of 6% and 14% for the base and Performance specs, respectively, before destination charges.
This comes after Tesla issued discounts on the Model 3 and Model Y in December. The automaker initially offered a $3,750 discount, then doubled it to $7,500 for cars delivered from Dec. 21-31. That came after a series of Tesla price rises, including one in June that pushed the starting price of the Model Y past $67,000.
Tesla also cut the base price of the Model S by about 10% to $96,380. The Model S Plaid Performance variant now starts at $116,380, 15% lower than before, not counting destination. Model X prices were lowered by a similar amount, with the base Model X now starting at $109,990 and the Model X Plaid now starting at $119,990.
These price cuts help reverse years of price increases on Teslas, and come as the market for used Tesla vehicles softens. Used Teslas have generally held their value better than other electric cars, but a recent report found that prices were dropping fast. The average price of a used Tesla peaked in July 2022 at $67,297 but had dropped 17% by November 2022, compared to a 4% decrease for the overall used car market, the report found.
The cuts come after a record year for Tesla. According to an Automotive News Data Center estimate, the brand sold 491,000 cars in the U.S. in 2022, making it the top selling luxury brand in the country. Tesla does not break out sales by country or region, but the estimate gave Tesla a lead of about 158,000 cars over BMW.
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(The Hill) — Former President Donald Trump chided former Vice President Mike Pence for resisting a plan to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election, saying he’ll be remembered as a “wimp,” according to an excerpt of Pence’s new book published in The Wall Street Journal.
“On Saturday, Jan. 2 [2021], I instructed my chief of staff to issue a statement supporting the right of lawmakers to bring objections under the Electoral Count Act. By Sunday morning, the headline ‘Pence Welcomes Congressional Republicans’ Bid to Challenge Electoral Votes’ was everywhere. When the president called me that morning, his mood had brightened,” Pence wrote in the excerpt of “So Help Me God.”
“‘You have gone from very unpopular to popular!’ [Trump] exclaimed. But then he pressed me again to reject electoral votes unilaterally. ‘You can be a historic figure,’ he said, ‘but if you wimp out, you’re just another somebody.’”
Pence writes that Trump and some supporters had urged him to use his role in Congress’s election certification process to block electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021, adding that he resisted Trump’s pressure and raised concerns that he didn’t possess power under the Constitution that would enable him to reject the 2020 electoral votes.
“‘You’re too honest,’ [Trump] chided. ‘Hundreds of thousands of people are gonna hate your guts… People are gonna think you’re stupid,’” Pence wrote.
“The president laid into me. ‘You’ll go down as a wimp,’ he said. ‘If you do that, I made a big mistake five years ago!’ ” Pence added.
Pence ultimately went through with the certification after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Pence also writes he told Trump he was “angry” about the Jan. 6 attack and argued that the rioters weren’t Trump’s “true” supporters.
Pence’s memoir, “So Help Me God” is slated for release next Tuesday — the same day Trump is set to give an announcement from Mar-a-Lago in Florida, during which he’s widely expected to announce a 2024 presidential bid.
Pence has teased his own White House run and sidestepped questions about whether he’d back Trump in 2024, saying at an event last month that “there might be somebody else I prefer more.” | 2022-11-10T16:01:27+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/hill-politics/pence-says-trump-chided-him-over-pushback-to-election-scheme-youll-go-down-as-a-wimp/ |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A U.K.-based rights group on Thursday launched an interactive map documenting rampant human rights abuses and violence against civilians since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan nearly two years ago.
The documented violations — committed by both the Taliban and militant groups such as the Islamic State group — paint a harrowing picture of present-day Afghanistan. The project by the independent, non-profit Center for Information Resilience is meant to draw wider attention to the surge in abuses against civilians, journalists, and ethnic minorities across the troubled country.
With more than 1,300 data points of incidents since Aug. 17, 2021, the map is part of the center’s Afghan Witness initiative.
“The map reveals the violence and human rights abuses occurring under Taliban rule against women, independent journalists, and minorities, sometimes in the form of ad hoc beatings in the street or staged public punishment, as well as violence used to suppress peaceful protest and armed resistance,” said Benjamin Den Braber, lead analyst at Afghan Witness.
He described the map as a “transparent record of verified human rights violations in Afghanistan.”
“What we can verify represents only the tip of the iceberg of human rights violations in Afghanistan; many abuses are hidden from view and never recorded online,” Den Braber said.
The Britain-based center has used open-source data and techniques to investigate human rights abuses, war crimes and disinformation in Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Myanmar. To develop the map, the Afghan Witness team collaborated with C4ADS, a U.S.-based group that uses data-driven analysis and technology to shine a light on conflicts, instability, environmental crimes and human rights abuses.
“Our ability to tell the stories of the Taliban’s human rights abuses through visualization is a powerful tool,” said Lawrence Henderson, a program director at C4ADS.
Earlier this month, a report released by the United Nations strongly criticized the Taliban for carrying out public executions, lashings and stoning, and urged them to halt such practices. In the past six months alone, 274 men, 58 women and two boys were publicly flogged in Afghanistan, according to the report by the U.N. mission in Afghanistan.
The Taliban seized Afghanistan in mid-April 2021, during the last weeks of the U.S. and NATO troops drawdown from the country. Despite initial promises of a more moderate rule than during their previous stint in power in the 1990s, they swiftly moved to impose harsh measures in line with their strict interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia.
In the months following their takeover, the Taliban gradually tightened restrictions on women, barring them from public spaces, such as parks and gyms, and banning education for girls beyond the sixth grade.
The restrictions have triggered an international uproar, increasing the country’s isolation at a time when its economy has collapsed — and worsening a humanitarian crisis.
The Afghan Witness map contains more than 450 pieces of footage showing attacks on civilians, more than 100 clips of attacks in the minority Shiite and Hazara communities, and more than 350 videos of protests. A viewer can search for a particular incident using keywords, access footage, original tweets or a report about it.
“Afghan Witness investigates, verifies where possible and archives data in the hope that one day accountability mechanisms will bring the perpetrators to justice,” said David Osborn, a team leader at Afghan Witness.
A statement released Thursday alongside the map, which can be accessed through the website of the Center for Information Resilience, said that the project “will continue to work with journalists around the world and civil society in Afghanistan to increase access to accurate, reliable sources of information.” | 2023-05-19T10:28:36+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/international/ap-uk-based-group-documents-rights-abuses-since-taliban-takeover-of-afghanistan-with-witness-map/ |
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
- National award recognizes world-class supplier diversity programs
- Honor reflects Stellantis' commitment to supporting women
- Ninth year in a row company has received prestigious award
Stellantis is proud to once again be a recipient of the prestigious Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) America's Top Corporations for Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs) award. This is the ninth year in a row the company has received this honor, the only national award recognizing corporations for world-class supplier diversity programs that reduce barriers and drive growth and opportunities for women-owned businesses.
Stellantis is one of 66 corporations being honored this year for demonstrating a continuous and growing commitment to creating business opportunities for women-owned businesses within their supply chains, successfully implementing diversity and inclusion programs that enable growth and innovation for women's business enterprises.
"Stellantis is honored to receive this award, as it recognizes the great strides we've made as a global leader in empowering women," said Bruno Olvera, Stellantis head of supplier diversity development. "Supporting women in all aspects of our business is critical. It's important to show that we care as a company, and that we're there to support them, invest in their careers and businesses, invest in their well-being and advocate for them."
Stellantis was recognized among the automotive, transportation and logistics industry leaders for investing in "WBEs by going deep into their supply chains to mentor suppliers," according to the WBENC. The award-winning corporations were honored during the 2023 WBENC National Conference, held from March 20-23 in Nashville, Tennessee.
The award signifies Stellantis' continuing efforts to support women. Stellantis recognized the start of Women's History Month in March by celebrating the company's new MentorWE development program. Developed in partnership with the Great Lakes Women's Business Council, the program is designed to prepare women-owned suppliers for future contracting and procurement opportunities while further expanding Stellantis' support of initiatives to empower diverse suppliers.
Stellantis has adopted the United Nations Women's Empowerment Principles, signifying a global commitment to gender equality. In 2022, the company increased the number of women in leadership positions to 27% from 24%. This supports Stellantis' progress toward achieving 30% of leadership positions held by women by 2025 and more than 35% by 2030, as outlined in the Dare Forward 2030 strategic plan.
Learn more about WBENC America's Top Corporations for WBEs at www.wbenc.org/about-wbenc/awards/top-corporations-for-womens-business-enterprises/
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WBENC is the largest third-party certifier of businesses owned, controlled, and operated by women in the United States. WBENC partners with 14 Regional Partner Organizations (RPOs) to provide its world-class standard of certification to women-owned businesses throughout the country. WBENC is also the nation's leading advocate of women-owned businesses and entrepreneurs, supported by more than 540 Corporate Members. Throughout the year, WBENC provides professional development, business development, and outreach opportunities for more than 18,000 WBENC-Certified women-owned businesses, Corporate and Government Members, and the national WBENC network. Learn more at www.wbenc.org.
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BEIJING, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 15, 2022, MegaRobo Technologies Ltd. announced that it has closed a ~US$300mm Series C financing, led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Asia Investment Capital, and GGV Capital, and co-invested by Sinovation Ventures (existing shareholder), Pavilion Capital, Starr Capital, U-Member Capital, RedView Capital, Harvest Capital and Taihe Capital. The proceeds will help MegaRobo continue its R&D investment, capacity increasing and global expansion.
In the past decade, R&D spending in life sciences industry has been driven by growth in small- and medium-sized biotech companies, strong capital formation and increasing contribution from APAC countries. Efficiency improvement and resource optimization are the top priorities for the development of life sciences industry. Artificial intelligence and robotic automation are natural solutions to address the challenge and potentially reset the efficiency standard for the next-generation life sciences laboratory.
Since 2016, MegaRobo has empowered life sciences industry with a complete suite of automation solutions ranging from benchtop workflow automation for simple work flow to fully automated platform for complex work flow in large system journey applications, further penetrating into the next-generation life sciences infrastructure system for R&D and AI drug development services. Addressing the rapidly increasing demand in labor shortage and throughput limit, MegaRobo's workflow automation integrates different processes and applications by combining AI software, analytical instruments, hardware and consumables into one system. Successfully adopted in multiple countries around the world, MegaRobo's products can significantly improve efficiency for clients compared to conventional approach in various life sciences applications including antibody selection, cell line development and molecular screening.
MegaRobo has collaborated with leading life sciences companies to build the infrastructure and platform to optimize R&D process and improve efficiency. In organoids, MegaRobo has partnered with CELLada to achieve high-throughput large-scale cultivation and testing. Various highly valuable organoid models have been successfully cultivated, such as heart organoids with 2-band beating and typical chambers, and brain organoids with ventricles and clear neural structures. In cell & gene therapy, MegaRobo has jointly developed integrated automation solutions for synthetic biology and biopharmaceutical R&D with Agilent Technologies. Together with AccuMea, MegaRobo has established an automated and standardized platform for detection and analysis of mRNA and viral gene vectors. In gene editing, MegaRobo has created a large CRISPR plasmid library through proprietary MegaMolecule and MegaCell platforms to standardize accumulation of cell phenotypic images and omics data, which has been proven to be ten times more efficient than conventional manual approach.
In addition to exploring frontier fields in life sciences, MegaRobo has also been actively providing total solutions to COVID-19. It has developed a fast-evolving and diverse product portfolio in a short period of time, which consists of high-throughput sample preparation system, fully automatic nucleic acid testing system enabling "sample-in, result-out", fully automated mobile shelter laboratory as well as fully automated high-throughput antigen reagent preparation solution. MegaRobo's platform can significantly reduce the infection risk among front-line medical professionals while greatly improving the testing throughput and accuracy.
Dr. Wang Chengzhi, Chief Scientist of MegaRobo, said: "MegaRobo has greatly improved the efficiency of biopharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing in many fields by deeply integrating intelligent and automation technology with life sciences. Through a large automated experimental platform, MegaRobo collaborates with multiple top institutions to build a standardized and structured biological database for the next-generation AI-driven research and development. This financing round will help MegaRobo further strengthen its closed-loop solutions in 'Automation + Artificial Intelligence + Life Sciences', and build the next-generation life sciences infrastructure featuring intelligent automation."
Mr. Liu Erh Fei, Founding Partner and CEO of Asia Investment Capital, said: "We see great opportunities in automation and digitalization to improve efficiency and intelligence level in a wide range of areas. MegaRobo has established a leading franchise in the life sciences industry with recognition from leading players in the sector globally. MegaRobo has built strong capabilities in automation and artificial intelligence, has gained in-depth industry know-how, and is continuously exploring frontier technologies. We believe MegaRobo is well-positioned to expand the width and depth of its business, and will continue to be the driving force of efficiency improvement and value creation in the life sciences industry."
Mr. Kevin Ding, an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management focused on healthcare-related private equity investments, said: "The global life sciences automation industry has significant growth potential. We expect the rapid penetration of automation solutions to continue amid challenges in scaling up manufacturing and increasing hiring of R&D talent. MegaRobo has demonstrated continuous innovation in its technology and product offerings for clients. We look forward to leveraging our global network and resources to support the company's continued growth and ambitions as a leader in this market segment."
As a long-term supporting partner of MegaRobo, Sinovation Ventures' partner Mr. Richard Yang said: "Under the opportunity of deep integration of AI and automation technology with advanced industries, MegaRobo has made great progress in the past few years. It has applied automation technology to greatly improve the efficiency of the biological and chemical industry and facilitate the upgrading of the industry with qualitative changes, and is extending its core competitiveness to other cutting-edge industries. As a partner witnessing this process, Sinovation Ventures has been touched and inspired a lot along the way. Being open-minded and down-to-earth, MegaRobo's team continuously challenged, upgraded and transformed themselves in the past few years, forming the MegaRobo spirit of 'Always Day One'. As more and more partners are introduced, MegaRobo has grown into a unicorn. But we believe this is just the beginning, and hope that more talents and partners will join this great cause to promote the progress of human life with technology and love."
Mr. Daniel Huang, Founder and CEO of MegaRobo, said: "This financing round marks an important milestone in the development of MegaRobo. It is a great honor to team up with many top institutional investors and partners. We firmly believe that intelligent automation is an inevitable trend in life sciences industry. MegaRobo will continue to deeply consolidate its R&D and technological capabilities, and broadly explore empowerment opportunities in energy and chemical industry, food safety, applied chemistry, semiconductor and other fields with intelligent and automation technologies, in order to enable the upgrade and transformation of more industries and fulfill the mission to 'create a more efficient, healthier and better world for everyone'."
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NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) — Robert C. Krueger, who followed two U.S. House terms with a brief interim appointment to the Senate before launching a sometimes-hazardous diplomatic career, has died at age 86, his family said Sunday.
Krueger died Saturday morning in his New Braunfels home with his wife by his side after suffering from congestive heart failure, daughter Sarah Krueger said.
Funeral arrangements were pending.
Most of Krueger’s career was as an academic at Duke University, the University of Texas at Austin, Rice University, Oxford University and Texas State University.
Even while pursuing that career, Krueger, a Democrat, ventured into politics in 1974 with his first election to the U.S. House. After two House terms, President Jimmy Carter appointed him as a U.S. ambassador at large and coordinator for Mexican affairs. He served in that capacity until the end of the Carter administration in 1981.
Krueger returned to elective politics when he won a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission in 1990. He served from January 1991 until Texas Gov. Ann Richards tapped him to complete Lloyd Bentsen’s unexpired U.S. Senate term in January 1993 when Bentsen left to become President Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary. However, Krueger lost to Republican Kay Baily Hutchison in a June 1993 special election.
Krueger returned to diplomacy when Clinton named him U.S. ambassador to Burundi in 1994. The eastern African country was embroiled in civil strife at the time. Krueger had to be airlifted when his convoy was attacked by unidentified gunmen in June 1995, killing one convoy member and injuring several others, and was recalled from the post for his safety.
Krueger was U.S. ambassador to Botswana in 1996-99 and a special U.S. representative to the 14-nation Southern African Development Community in 1998-2000. He then returned to academia as a visiting fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and continued his academic pursuits until his 2017 retirement from a lectureship position at Texas Tech University. | 2022-05-01T21:00:34+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/krueger-ex-texas-congressman-and-diplomat-dies-at-86/ |
Ready To Ref? Join Me On The Aroostook County Soccer Board
Have you considered becoming a soccer official?
Soccer season is quickly approaching as some teams are able to begin practices starting next week. As the season comes into the picture the need for referees to ensure a future for local sports is real. Now is the time to seriously consider becoming an eligible soccer official. Classes will begin soon and there are a couple of ways you can sign up to learn more information.
Take it from me, an official
First off, I have to give you, my pitch. I have been a soccer official at the local middle school and high school level for several years. Officiating has brought me to all corners of Aroostook County and has allowed many friendships to develop. The high quality of play makes this an exciting and fun way to stay close to the game and earn some extra income. With rising costs on everything, a few extra bucks each week could go a long way when Christmas comes along or you want to take a family trip.
It's a great side hustle
The startup costs for soccer officials are very minimal. You will need to pay for the class and your uniform which will consist of a shirt, shorts, socks, and appropriate shoes. Of course, you will need a whistle, flipping coin, and a few other small items, but you could have that investment back within your first week of games. The majority of soccer season is played from mid-August through mid-October. As you progress as an official you will be working at the varsity levels which play into the first couple of weeks of November.
You determine what days you work
You can work as many games as you want or you can tell the local leaders that you have limited availability. Most middle school soccer games are played in the afternoon after school, although some play in the evening if fields with lights are available. Saturday's can be busy with games beginning around 9-10 a.m. and go right into the nighttime hours. My point is that there are plenty of games played at all hours and 6 days per week.
It's not the nightmare you think it might be
The fans? Yes, there are a few loud mouths here and there but it is really not that bad in our area. I have found almost every school and town we cover has a respectful and appreciative crowd. The coaches are fantastic to work with and the players understand that the officials are needed to play their games. If there is a problem with an out-of-control fan, no need to worry, the administration will take care of the problem. You will not be fed to the wolves. As you begin your officiating career you will be partnered with experienced officials to help guide you, answer questions, and take care of unnecessary issues.
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Are you ready to become a ref? Here is how you begin the process. You can fill out this form and someone will contact you for more details or you can email your interest to brad_ala36@hotmail.com | 2022-07-19T16:20:08+00:00 | q961.com | https://q961.com/ready-to-ref-join-me-on-the-aroostook-county-soccer-board/ |
List Recognizes Tech Breakthroughs Across Industries That Promise to Transform the Future
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DroneUp, LLC, a leading autonomous drone delivery platform and drone services provider, today announced that it has been named to Fast Company's second annual Next Big Things in Tech list, honoring technology breakthroughs that promise to shape the future of industries—from agriculture and environment to productivity and artificial intelligence.
This year, 83 technologies developed by established companies, startups or research teams are highlighted for their cutting-edge advancements and potential to impact consumers, businesses and society overall. While not all of the technological developments are available in the market yet, each one is reaching key milestones in order to have a proven impact in the next five years. Fast Company also recognized 41 honorable mentions.
DroneUp is creating a world where drone flight is good for business, for people, and for the planet. DroneUp received a significant investment from Walmart and has partnered with them to open 34 DroneUp hubs in 5 states by year end for on-demand delivery - marking the first multi-site commercial drone delivery operations. This effort marked a significant leap forward in the broader use of UAS (unmanned aircraft systems) to provide last-mile consumer delivery services and supply chain efficiency options.
Beyond drone delivery, DroneUp is helping customers in commercial real estate, construction, insurance, maritime, utilities, and more, including the aerial inspection of a well-known casino in Las Vegas. The latest DroneUp numbers include: 27,000+ network pilots; 101,000+ hours flown; 80 waivers; 10 patents; and 0 reportable safety incidents.
"It's an honor to be recognized by Fast Company and we wholeheartedly agree that drones are the next big thing in tech. Drones are emerging as a sustainable alternative to complement current transportation, delivery and inspection offerings. They are uniquely valuable in their flexibility, ease of integration, automation, reduction in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The ability to expedite delivery of goods and services safely and conveniently for customers make drones an invaluable part of our society's ecosystem today and in the future," said Tom Walker, Founder and CEO of DroneUp. "DroneUp values safety above all else and has worked closely and continuously with the FAA to ensure the safe operation of drones in the National Airspace. Not only do we value safety from the FAA standpoint, but our services also help to make critical field infrastructure jobs safer and easier to manage."
"Technology breakthroughs and cutting-edge advancements promise to be the solution to some of the world's most pressing issues. Fast Company is excited to highlight some of the organizations, of all sizes and industry backgrounds, whose technology advancements today will lead to a better tomorrow," says Brendan Vaughan, editor-in-chief of Fast Company.
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The Winter 2022/2023 issue of Fast Company is available online now and will hit newsstands on December 6.
Fast Company is the only media brand fully dedicated to the vital intersection of business, innovation, and design, engaging the most influential leaders, companies, and thinkers on the future of business. The editor-in-chief is Brendan Vaughan. Headquartered in New York City, Fast Company is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with our sister publication, Inc., and can be found online at fastcompany.com.
DroneUp is an American technology company that combines airspace solutions, software applications, analytics platforms, and a trusted team of industry leaders to help companies operate at scale with drone innovation.
In 2021, DroneUp received a significant investment from the #1 retailer in the world, Walmart, Inc. DroneUp was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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Former WGRZ-TV (Channel 2) meteorologist Elyse Smith has another reason to smile.
According to sources, Smith, who had a perpetual smile on her face during three years giving weather reports at the station, is headed to a station in Houston, a Top 10 TV market. It is unclear which station in the Texas city will be her new TV home and when she will work.
Smith hasn’t announced where she is going, which usually means the station where she is headed hasn’t told the person she is replacing.
Smith was given a brief on-air goodbye at 11 p.m. Friday, where she repeated the comments she made earlier in the day praising her time in Buffalo.
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In her announcement on social media networks, Smith wrote: “Today is my last day at WGRZ. Moving to Buffalo was the best choice I could have made. Here I became the meteorologist I’ve dreamed of being since I was a little girl. Thank you for welcoming me with open arms … this place felt like home for the past three years.”
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She started at the station as a weekend meteorologist but more than a year ago was moved to weekdays when Heather Waldman left the station to move with her husband to California. Waldman now works at KCRA in Sacramento.
Smith was never given that weekdays job permanently. Waldman’s opening finally was filled last week with the hiring of Jennifer Stanonis, whose departure as weekend meteorologist led to Smith’s hiring.
General Manager Mark Manders wrote in an email that Smith’s replacement hasn’t been hired yet.
Channel 2’s owner, Tegna, is still waiting to complete a sale announced more than a year ago to hedge fund Standard General, which in late March reportedly filed a lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission over its decision to hold hearings on its plan to buy the television operator.
The delay of the sale may have also delayed Tegna stations – it manages 64 in 51 TV markets – from hiring or promoting people. | 2023-05-01T14:09:00+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/entertainment/television/former-wgrz-meteorologist-elyse-smith-headed-to-houston-station/article_ece8bbb4-e81e-11ed-9ee6-eb123c0c4b26.html |
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Google has announced plans to lay off 12,000 workers from around the globe.
Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and Alphabet, broke the news Friday morning in a letter to employees.
“This will mean saying goodbye to some incredibly talented people we worked hard to hire and have loved working with. I’m deeply sorry for that. The fact that these changes will impact the lives of Googlers weighs heavily on me, and I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here,” Pichai wrote.
The layoffs are company-wide across all product areas, levels, and regions, according to Pichai.
Pichai says the company has seen “periods of dramatic growth” over the last two years, and to match and fuel that growth, Google hired for “a different economic reality than the one we face today.”
“I am confident about the huge opportunity in front of us thanks to the strength of our mission, the value of our products and services, and our early investments in AI. To fully capture it, we’ll need to make tough choices. So, we’ve undertaken a rigorous review across product areas and functions to ensure that our people and roles are aligned with our highest priorities as a company. The roles we’re eliminating reflect the outcome of that review.”
Laid-off workers in the U.S. will be paid during the full notification period — a minimum of 60 days, Pichai says. Employees will also receive severance packages and six months of healthcare, job placement services, and immigration support for those affected, and 2022 bonuses and vacation time will be paid out.
At the end of 2021, Alphabet — Google’s parent company — had 156,500 full-time employees worldwide, according to data compiled by Statista. It was not immediately clear how many U.S. employees will be affected by the layoffs.
“To the Googlers who are leaving us: Thank you for working so hard to help people and businesses everywhere. Your contributions have been invaluable and we are grateful for them,” Pichai said.
Friday’s announcement comes just two days after Microsoft detailed plans to lay off 10,000 employees. Salesforce, which has approximately 2,300 employees in Indianapolis, is set to reduce its workforce by 10%, while Amazon recently said it will cut 18,000. | 2023-01-20T12:28:23+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/google-announces-plans-to-cut-12000-jobs/ |
Honorees include advocates, leaders, survivors, lawmakers, and more
HARRISBURG, Pa. , April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) announced today 24 recipients of its 2023 Visionary Voice Awards. These honorees represent a wide range of disciplines from across the country and were selected for their outstanding work toward preventing sexual harassment, misconduct and abuse.
This year's recipients include Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who has been a longtime supporter of sexual violence prevention organization Day One; Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Task Force of Colorado, which fought for and successfully passed a bipartisan bill that improved policies, procedures and trainings pertaining to missing and murdered indigenous relatives cases; Michigan Senator Stephanie Chang, who has sponsored bipartisan legislation that aims to fix loopholes in Michigan law that enabled convicted Olympic Gymnastics Coach Larry Nassar and others to perpetrate; New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who secured the highest funding level ever for the Department of Justice's Violence Against Women Act programs; and the late Laura Segura, a lifelong champion of survivors of domestic and sexual violence in the Santa Cruz County community.
"It is such a privilege for us to recognize these individuals and organizations who have devoted tireless energy and commitment to this movement," said NSVRC Executive Director Yolanda Edrington. "All of the honorees this year are true visionaries advancing efforts across the U.S. to create safer communities and strengthen support for survivors. We thank them all for their service."
The Visionary Voice Awards are presented annually by NSVRC, the leading nonprofit in providing information and tools to prevent and respond to sexual violence, in conjunction with Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). SAAM is a national campaign held each April to raise awareness about preventing sexual violence.
This year's SAAM theme, "Drawing Connections: Prevention Demands Equity," highlights the importance of understanding how historical contexts and current systemic oppressions are vital to sexual violence prevention.
Nominated by state, territory and tribal sexual violence coalitions across the U.S, the following is a complete list of this year's Visionary Voice Award recipients:
- Ipu Lefiti (Nominated by American Samoa Alliance against Domestic & Sexual Violence)
- Laura Segura (Nominated by ValorUS, formerly the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault)
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Task Force of Colorado (Nominated by Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault)
- Krystal Rich (Nominated by Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence)
- Claudia Melton (Nominated by Delaware Alliance Against Sexual Violence)
- JoEllen Revell (Nominated by Florida Council Against Sexual Violence)
- Marissa Castellanos (Nominated by Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs, Inc.)
- Katie Boleware (Nominated by Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault)
- Disability Rights Maine (Nominated by Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault)
- Tania Araya (Nominated by Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault)
- Diana Mancera (Nominated by The Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, Jane Doe Inc. (JDI) )
- Senator Stephanie Chang (Nominated by Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence)
- Kenosha Davenport (Nominated by Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault)
- Joan Masters (Nominated by Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence)
- Candias (Candi) Jones (Nominated by Nebraska Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence)
- Rachelle Pellissier (Nominated by Nevada Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence)
- Senator Jeanne Shaheen (Nominated by New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence)
- Andrea Ritchie (Nominated by New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault)
- Alexandria Ruden, Esq (Nominated by Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence)
- Ann Emmerling (Nominated by Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape)
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (Nominated by Day One [Rhode Island])
- Katrina Brown (Nominated by Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic & Sexual Violence)
- Denise George, Esq (Nominated by Virgin Islands Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Council)
- Katie Spriggs (Nominated by West Virginia Foundation for Rape Information and Services)
To learn more about the 2023 Visionary Voice Award recipients, please visit: https://www.nsvrc.org/visionary-voice-awards-2023
ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH
Since 2001, NSVRC has coordinated the national Sexual Assault Awareness Month campaign observed every April. This year's theme is "Drawing Connections: Prevention Demands Equity." Join the campaign by accessing free resources at nsvrc.org/saam. Resources are available in Spanish at nsvrc.org/es/saam.
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) is the leading nonprofit in providing information and tools to prevent and respond to sexual violence. NSVRC translates research and trends into best practices that help individuals, communities and service providers achieve real and lasting change. The center also works with the media to promote informed reporting. Every April, NSVRC leads Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), a campaign to educate and engage the public in addressing this widespread issue. NSVRC is also one of the three founding organizations of RALIANCE, a national, collaborative initiative dedicated to ending sexual violence in one generation.
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