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For decades, the fire towers in New York's Adirondack Mountains defended the wilderness against fires. The soaring structures offer a vantage point high above summits to take in beautiful sunrises.
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For decades, the fire towers in New York's Adirondack Mountains defended the wilderness against fires. The soaring structures offer a vantage point high above summits to take in beautiful sunrises.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-07-07T00:10:54+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/2022-07-06/a-mountain-tower-in-the-adirondacks-lets-visitors-see-more-than-wildfires |
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Kathy & Megan with Idaho Foodbank explain what the Spring Challenge is
Learn more about this challenge here: https://idahofoodbank.org/ | 2023-02-15T23:18:15+00:00 | ktvb.com | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/idaho-today/idaho-today-spring-challenge-with-idaho-foodbank/277-6237dd1b-552a-4127-9e03-633f463e2341 |
PORTLAND, Ore. — President Joe Biden strode into the telephone bank at a crowded union hall and eagerly began making calls and eating doughnuts — one frosted, one glazed — as he tries every page in the political playbook to deliver votes for Democrats.
Before leaving Portland on Saturday, the president planned to attend a reception for Kotek and give a speech about his administration’s efforts to bring down costs for Americans.
It was the final stop on a four-day swing through Oregon, California and Colorado that has encapsulated Biden’s strategy for turning out voters on Election Day, Nov. 8: flex the levers of government to help boost candidates, promote an agenda aimed at strengthening an uncertain economy and haul in campaign cash.
And this: show up for candidates when Biden can be helpful, steer clear of places where a visit from a president with approval ratings under 50% isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Throughout the trip, Biden had to compete for the spotlight and contend with a troubling new inflation report and rising gas prices.
In Oregon, Democratic officials hope that Biden can help consolidate the party’s support behind Kotek. The party is in danger of losing the governor’s race in the traditional Democratic stronghold as Betsy Johnson — who has quit both the Democratic and Republican parties — has run a well-financed race against Kotek and the GOP nominee Christine Drazan.
The settings throughout the president’s trip were tailor-made for him.
In Los Angeles on Thursday, at a construction site for an extension on the city’s subway line, he spoke about his massive infrastructure law. Giant cranes rose up behind him as he stood before bulldozers and excavators. Many on hand were hard-hat workers in construction orange.
The stop neatly combined many of Biden's agenda's successes: investments in infrastructure, job creation, fighting climate change by promoting mass transit.
“When you see these projects in your neighborhood -- cranes going up, shovels in the ground, lives being changed -- I want you to feel the way I do: pride,” Biden said. “Pride in what we can do when we do it together. This is what I mean when I say we’re building a better America.”
But his remarks came as the government reported that consumer prices, excluding volatile food and energy costs, jumped 6.6% in September from a year ago — the fastest such pace in four decades. Biden acknowledged that people were being “squeezed by the cost of living. It’s been true for years, and folks don’t need a report to tell them they’re being squeezed.”
Democratic candidates have been far more likely to appear with Biden at official White House events underscoring their achievements than at overt campaign events. In California, Biden was joined by state lawmakers and the city’s mayor, and he called them out individually. Rep. Karen Bass, who is running for mayor of Los Angeles, made a takeout run with Biden to a taco shop.
Biden raised $5 million at a fundraiser in the Brentwood backyard of TV producer Marcy Carsey. Guests included fashion designer Tom Ford and actor-filmmaker Rob Reiner.
In Colorado, the president designated the first national monument of his administration at Camp Hale, a World War II-era training site, with a group of Democrats by his side. His audience in a canyon of stunning views, tall pines and bright yellow aspens included Sen. Michael Bennet, who is facing a tough reelection campaign and had worked for the new monument. Democrats hope the designation, popular in the state, will boost Bennet’s numbers.
Early voting is underway in California and begins next week in Oregon and Colorado. The president notably stayed away from states where his presence could hurt Democrats, so far skipping Nevada and Arizona, where Democratic senators are tough races.
Democrats are trying to retain power in the face of widespread economic uncertainty and the traditional midterm headwinds against the party in power. Republicans, aiming to regain the House and Senate, think they can capitalize on gas prices, inflation and the economy.
During his taco stop, Biden’s chicken quesadilla order ran to $16.45, but he handed the clerk $60 and asked him to use the change to pay the next patron’s bill.
It was the kind of personal connection Biden loves. But while the moment was unfolding, the headlines in Los Angeles focused on a bitter City Council clash over racist remarks, while in Washington, it was all about how the House voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump on his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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Follow AP for full coverage of the midterms at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections and on Twitter, https://twitter.com/ap_politics | 2022-10-15T17:42:28+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bidens-late-push-across-west-aims-to-deliver-votes-for-dems/2022/10/15/e60e0aa2-4caa-11ed-8153-96ee97b218d2_story.html |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
7-9-7-6
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
7-9-7-6
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By The Associated Press | 2023-01-29T04:37:33+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/winning-numbers-drawn-in-pick-4-evening-game-17749091.php |
March Madness: Boston, South Carolina women reach Final Four
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Dawn Staley knows what’s next for unbeaten South Carolina — a matchup the whole women’s college basketball world is eager to see.
But for now, the coach wants to revel in her extraordinary Gamecocks and their amazing achievements.
Aliyah Boston had 22 points and 10 rebounds and top-seeded South Carolina used its smothering defense to stop Maryland 86-75 Monday night and reach its third straight Final Four.
Do-it-all star Caitlin Clark and the Hawkeyes await in the national semifinals in Dallas on Friday, a game featuring two of the biggest stars in the sport. That can wait a bit. Her players deserve that, Staley said.
“I just want to enjoy this and just give our players an opportunity to be talked about,” Staley said. “The joy that I feel for this team to be able to be where they are, I’m just really happy.”
Staley’s team improved to 36-0 this season with its 42nd straight victory dating to last year’s NCAA title run. The Gamecocks are now two games away from repeating as champions and completing the 10th undefeated season in the women’s game.
The Gamecocks hugged and jumped when it was over. It’s the fifth Final Four since 2015, all under Staley. She’ll try for her third national title next week.
“Not a lot of teams can say they’re able to do this,” Boston said. “So for us to be able to do it feels really good, and it’s such a blessing we won’t ever take for granted.”
Zia Cooke finished with 18 points and Brea Beal 16 for the Gamecocks.
Boston, the 6-foot-5 senior, made 10 of 14 shots. The three-time All-American added five assists, two blocked shots and was named the Greenville 1 Regional’s most outstanding player.
Staley ran around the court thanking players, coaches and supporters. She hugged the pep band director and cheered on the musicians with a glowing smile.
Maryland (28-7) was routed at home, 81-56, by the Gamecocks last Nov. 11, but played without injured All-American Diamond Miller.
With a healthy Miller and an offense averaging nearly 80 points a game, the Terrapins were ready to take on the big, imposing Gamecocks. Maryland pushed the pace early, disrupting South Carolina’s No. 1 defense and was ahead 21-15 as an edgy, pro-Gamecock crowd wasn’t sure what it was watching.
South Carolina didn’t panic. Cooke shook off an 0-for-3 start to score nine points. Boston was her steady self with 12 points in the half as the Gamecocks outscored the Terps 23-9 in the second quarter to lead 38-30 at halftime.
“I thought the game was lost in the second quarter,” Maryland coach Brenda Frese said. “Their size, their depth, they wear you out.”
Maryland got two quick baskets after the break to cut South Carolina’s lead to 48-42. But the Gamecocks answered with a 14-3 burst to take control for good.
Miller led the Terps, looking for their first trip to the Final Four since 2015, with 24 points. Miller picked up a technical foul late in the game and thought it was an unevenly called game. “I’m not going to say the refs lost us the game,” she said. “I mean, they outrebounded us as we kind of expected.”
Maryland shot 50% for the game, yet couldn’t hold up down low against the Gamecocks. South Carolina outrebounded the Terps 48-26 and 25-7 on the offensive glass.
BIG PICTURE
Maryland: Terps have seven seniors, including Miller and four other starters. But Shyanne Sellers is a rising sophomore and likely focal point for Maryland the next couple of seasons. Expect Frese to work hard in the offseason to scour the portal for additions who can augment Maryland’s young roster.
South Carolina: These are certainly the glory days for Gamecocks women’s basketball. Maryland gave Iowa a glimpse into what may rattle the Gamecocks, although they quickly adjusted to gain control. But tightening up to prevent easy layups the Terps got early will certainly be a focus at South Carolina’s practices this week.
CLAIRVOYANT COACH
Turns out, LSU coach Kim Mulkey knew what she was talking about. She declared Sunday night after her team won the Greenville 2 Region to reach the Final Four that the Southeastern Conference would have half the field next week.
“The champion, South Carolina is going. I’m just telling you flat out. I’m getting ahead of myself, OK, but you write it. They’re going,” she said.
The Tigers and Gamecocks could play for a championship should both advance.
RACKING UP ACCOLADES
Staley joined UConn’s Geno Auriemma, Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer and Mulkey as active coaches with five or more trips to the Final Four. Staley’s first visit came in 2015, then she led the Gamecocks to a title in 2017. The Gamecocks have been the past three, losing to Stanford in the semifinals in 2021 before winning it all last year in Minneapolis.
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LONDON (AP) — An anti-migration protest outside a hotel housing asylum-seekers in northwest England turned violent and resulted in the arrests of 15 people, local police said Saturday.
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The Merseyside Police department said a police officer and two civilians sustained minor injuries during the disturbance on Friday night in Knowsley, a village located 13.5 kilometers (8.4 miles) from the city of Liverpool.
The police force said some protesters threw objects and set a police van on fire. The people arrested, who ranged in age from 13 to 54, were detained “following violent disorder.”
“A number of individuals who turned up at the Suites Hotel last night were intent on using a planned protest to carry out violent and despicable behavior," Merseyside Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said. "They turned up armed with hammers and fireworks to cause as much trouble as they could, and their actions could have resulted in members of the public and police officers being seriously injured, or worse,"
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Speculation on social media about a man accused of making inappropriate advances toward a teenage girl in a nearby town might have triggered the demonstration outside the hotel, Kennedy said. The man in his 20s was arrested elsewhere in England on Thursday “on suspicion of a public order offense” but later released on the advice of child protective services, she said.
George Howarth, who represents Knowsley in the U.K. Parliament, said the violence on Friday night did not reflect the community.
“The people of Knowsley are not bigots and are welcoming to people escaping from some of the most dangerous places in the world in search of a place of safety,” he said. “Those demonstrating against refugees at this protest tonight do not represent this community.”
Britain takes in fewer asylum-seekers than some other European countries, including France and Germany, but has seen a sharp increase in the number of people trying to reach the U.K. across the English Channel in dinghies and other small boats.
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More than 45,000 people reached Britain by that route in 2022, and most applied for asylum. The system for considering asylum applications has slowed to a crawl because of political turmoil and bureaucratic delays, leaving many migrants stuck in hotels or other temporary accommodation.
The Channel crossings have become a hot political issue, with the Conservative government promising to “stop the boats.” Opponents accuse the government of demonizing desperate people fleeing war and poverty.
In October, a man firebombed a processing center for new arrivals in the Channel port of Dover. Police said he was motivated by far-right ideology. He killed himself after the attack.
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Follow AP's coverage of global migration at https://apnews.com/hub/migration | 2023-02-11T17:17:48+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/politics/article/15-arrests-after-violent-protests-against-17778565.php |
FROM ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION
FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023
DEAR ABBY by Abigail Van Buren
STRANGER'S ABRUPT REVELATION ROCKS WOMAN'S WORLD
DEAR ABBY: I had pretty much an ideal childhood. My parents have never had issues that I ever saw. We went to church every Sunday, gathered with family often, etc. I'm now grown, and my parents are in their mid-80s.
Out of the blue, I got a message on social media from a woman who says she's my father's daughter from when he was 17 years old, before he met my mom. She found out through DNA testing. She is very nice about whether I tell my parents about her. Their health is beginning to deteriorate, and I don't want to stress them more than they can handle. At the same time, I don't know if it is right for me to withhold this information from my dad. I feel so alone in making this choice, so please give me any advice. -- SECRET-HOLDER IN GEORGIA
DEAR SECRET-HOLDER: Your father may be unaware that he fathered a child at 17. (Back then, an out-of-wedlock pregnancy was sometimes kept secret and the baby placed for adoption.) He should be given the information privately so he can decide if he would like to meet his daughter and whether, at this late date, your mother needs to know.
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DEAR ABBY: My fiancee and I began dating 2 1/2 years ago. We are in our late 50s. We moved in together four months ago and took out an equity loan for improvements on the house. Until we moved in, we were planning our future together, traveling and having fun. Once we moved in, however, everything changed.
Two months later, she came to me saying "something is not right." She says she loves me, she's attracted to me and doesn't want me to leave. She says I treat her like she's never been treated before, and I'm so good to her (her words). But I feel like I have been put into the friend zone. This usually happens after a couple of dates, not years. It's tearing her up because she doesn't want to feel this way, and it has me stumped about how to handle it. Is it cold feet? -- BAD CHANGE IN NEW YORK
DEAR BAD CHANGE: I don't know, you don't know and it is possible that SHE can't identify what's "wrong" either. Do not procrastinate. Get a referral to a licensed marriage and family therapist for pre-marital counseling. If the two of you do this, whatever is bothering her will be revealed. If she refuses to go, seek counseling without her. (I hope there is no prepayment penalty on that loan.)
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DEAR ABBY: I am a friendly person who can get along with most everyone. I am petite in height -- 4-foot-8, to be exact. Recently, while my husband and I were at a social gathering, one of the male guests approached me and commented, "Who let a child in here?" I was not only hurt, but also offended at his rudeness. My husband is much taller than I am, and he has never mistaken me for a child. I'm tired of being judged for my height. Any thoughts? -- TINY BUT A TRUE ADULT
DEAR TINY: Was the guest who said it drunk? I can't otherwise account for his egregious breach of etiquette in making a comment about the appearance of another guest at the gathering. I hope you ignore his tasteless comment. (What a nitwit.)
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Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Mother Nature is forcing the Buffalo Bills to shuffle off to the Motor City.
The NFL decided Thursday to shift the Bills’ home game against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday to Detroit’s Ford Field because of travel and safety concerns stemming from a lake-effect snowstorm set to hit the Buffalo region.
The move to relocate the game came before the storm even began. The forecast calls for 1 to 3 feet of snow to fall through the weekend. The switch in sites means the Bills will play back-to-back games in Detroit, one as the home team and then as visitors when they face the Lions on Thanksgiving.
To maintain continuity, Bills general manager Brandon Beane said the team has chosen to use the visitors’ locker room, sideline and coaching booths for both trips.
“It’s the home team’s choice, really, and we’re the home team,” Beane said during a Zoom call. “The only thing we want from the home-team standpoint this week is the fans.”
Beane then cracked a joke when asked about the price of tickets, which will go on sale Friday.
“They’re much less expensive,” he said, before adding with a laugh, “unless you’re a Cleveland Browns fan.”
The Bills (6-3) have lost two straight and will now play 10 “road” games — instead of nine — in the second year of the NFL’s 17-game schedule. The Browns (3-6) have lost four of five.
Two teams that share a wintry climate and a Lake Erie shoreline will instead play indoors after the NFL — with input from the Bills and New York state officials — was left with little choice but to shift the game.
The National Weather Service issued a lake-effect storm warning lasting through Saturday morning for southern Erie County, which includes the Bills’ home in Orchard Park. The storm is projected to bring wind gusts off Lake Erie as high as 35 mph, which would make travel conditions hazardous and lead to potential power outages.
Though Sunday’s forecast calls for light snow and gusting winds — playable conditions — the Bills and safety officials made clear to the NFL they didn’t want to draw resources away from what’s expected to be a major cleanup effort.
“At the end of the day, the safety of this community comes first, not playing a football game,” said Ron Raccuia, executive vice president of the Bills’ parent company, Pegula Sports and Entertainment.
This isn’t the first time weather has forced the Bills to relocate to Detroit.
Another snowstorm led to them making a similar trip to Ford Field in November 2014, when the Bills defeated the New York Jets 38-3. That game was also pushed back a day to accommodate travel for both teams. The Bills arranged for snowmobiles to pick up some players who were unable to dig their cars out of the snow in order to get them to the airport.
This time, the NFL couldn’t push back the date of the game because Buffalo is already facing a short week.
The Bills plan to make the 45-minute flight to Detroit on Saturday, as they would on a normal trip, and return home immediately after the game.
The Browns also plan to travel on Saturday, and prepared for the possibility of a venue switch by putting together two offensive game plans: one outdoor, one indoor.
“We will be ready for both,” offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt said. “That’s one thing that COVID years have done for us, we are very flexible and used to adapting and adjusting to any circumstances that come up.”
With the potential for playing in wind and blowing snow, Cleveland was set to rely on its running game with Nick Chubb getting enough carries to even satisfy those Browns fans who criticize coach Kevin Stefanski for not giving the ball to his star back on every play.
Now, a game inside Detroit’s warm and cozy dome will allow the Browns to use their complete playbook.
Trouble is, so will the Bills. Led by quarterback Josh Allen, Buffalo has a distinct advantage over a Cleveland defense that hasn’t delivered all season.
Beane said the Bills were planning to play at home, and even practiced outdoors on Thursday, until the decision was made to move the game. He said the change in location shouldn’t affect the game plan.
Players on both teams were looking forward to competing in the wintry elements.
“I would love it,” Pro Bowl left guard Joel Bitonio said. “But obviously people’s safety and the city of Buffalo. But it would be great. I grew up in California and didn’t see snow much. I was in college at Nevada, which gets snow.”
The Bills last played through a lake-effect storm in December 2017, when they defeated the Indianapolis Colts 13-7 in overtime in a game played in near white-out conditions. The storm didn’t hit until about an hour before kickoff.
“It was surreal. You come in the tunnel the grass is green, when you come back out it’s two feet of snow,” Bills safety Jordan Poyer said. “It was probably one of the most fun games I ever played in.”
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AP Sports Writer Tom Withers contributed to this report from Berea, Ohio.
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-11-18T14:11:49+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/sports/sports-news/ap-nfl-has-contingencies-if-storm-disrupts-browns-game-at-bills/ |
CANNES, France — After a canceled 2020 edition and a scaled-back gathering last year, the Cannes Film Festival kicked off Tuesday which what organizers hope will be a fully resuscitated French Riviera spectacular.
Formally attired stars including Eva Longoria, Julianne Moore and Forest Whitaker were among those streaming down the Cannes’ famous red carpet Tuesday for the opening of the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
The war in Ukraine was at the forefront, with a video address from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy playing Tuesday night before the premiere of Michel Hazanavicius’ zombie comedy “Final Cut.”
Zelenskyy called on filmmakers to call out dictators in the same way that Charlie Chaplin satirized Adolf Hitler during World War II.
Zelenskyy also encouraged filmmakers to promote values of democracy and freedom in their work, asking if cinema will “stay quiet” as hundreds die.
The Ukrainian president said his country will continue fighting for its freedom and it will win this war.
More star-studded premieres — “Top Gun: Maverick!” “Elvis!” — await over the next 12 days. | 2022-05-17T21:48:08+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/world/cannes-film-festival-opens-with-video-address-from-volodymyr-zelenskyy |
Cytta to Provide Cutting Edge Technology for Commaris's SEEKER UAV Fleet
WOBURN, Mass., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Commaris™, a brand of Terrafugia, Inc. delivering uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) for commercial operations, today announced a new partnership with Cytta Corp (OTCQB: CYCA), a company that specializes in video compression technology for mission-critical video streaming and integrated communications capabilities. This partnership entails that Commaris will collaborate with Cytta to engineer an integrated proof-of-concept system deploying Cytta's IGAN (Incident Global Area Network) command system and SUPR video compression technology in its newly introduced fleet of Commaris SEEKER UAVs. The SEEKER UAV is designed to be utilized in multiple first-responder applications and other industries worldwide.
"We are excited to launch our new partnership with Cytta and leverage their groundbreaking communications solutions for high-bandwidth video. Cytta's IGAN is a unique tool for video collaboration that includes the integration of video feeds from unmanned operations. With IGAN, our SEEKER UAV will make it simple for participants to not only remotely stream an airborne video feed in real-time, but also remotely send in-flight video commands such as video zoom on an area of interest," said Kevin Colburn, President of Terrafugia and its Commaris UAV brand. "Combined, our two companies' products will be a game-changer for public safety organizations for incident management, disaster relief, and other situations."
Cytta's IGAN platform is a fully integrated, multimedia connectivity platform that incorporates integrated features, including an "advanced interactive mapping" feature. The new features of the IGAN 2.0 ICS (Incident Command System) allow for the collection and dissemination of real-time video and audio situational awareness while concurrently serving as a real-time information collection and integration tool. Cytta's proprietary SUPR ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) system delivers real-time compression of video streams for streaming HD, 4K, and higher resolution video in bandwidth-constrained environments while reducing required technical resources.
"Commaris's Seeker UAV is one of the most advanced and functional in the aircraft industry, which is why Cytta is eagerly embracing our partnership with this innovative and exciting Company," said Gary Campbell, CEO of Cytta Corp. "By partnering with Commaris, we look forward to jointly engineering an unparalleled Commaris product that incorporates both our IGAN and SUPR connectivity systems. With the addition of our proprietary technology, SEEKER aircraft across the world will be able to offer customers realtime, safe, secure, and actionable information in sensitive environments on an ongoing basis."
The SEEKER's innovative, electric, fixed-wing/VTOL hybrid aircraft is designed to perform a wide variety of commercial inspection operations, including security and surveillance, inspections, surveying, mapping, and more. It has a long-endurance capability, with up to three or more hours of flight time without a battery change, and it supports multiple payload configurations of up to 10 pounds at a top speed of 75 mph.
To learn more about Cytta and to get in touch, please visit www.Cytta.com. If interested in partnering with Commaris or becoming a reseller of the SEEKER, please visit www.Commaris.com.
Commaris, a brand of Terrafugia, Inc., delivers uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) for commercial operations in power, gas, oil, mapping, agriculture, security, and more. Its flagship UAV, the SEEKER, provides industry-leading flight times with ultra-low noise output, fast and precise vertical takeoff and landing, and dual-GPS systems with automated route planning. The SEEKER's extensive payload-carrying capability is customizable with a variety of modular options, such as a 30x optical zoom EO/IR camera for inspection, a 120-megapixel high-resolution camera for terrain mapping and 3D modeling, a six-band multispectral camera designed for precision agriculture analysis, a LiDAR system, a laser methane sensor, or a corona discharge sensor, most of which will feature the ability to stream data to the operator in near-real-time. Terrafugia and Commaris are members of the Geely Technology Group. For more information on Commaris, please visit www.Commaris.com.
Cytta Corp (OTCQB: CYCA) develops and distributes proprietary software technology designed to shift how video/audio data is integrated, streamed, consumed, transferred, and stored. Cytta has created video/audio integration software with intelligence gathering capability, advanced video compression, and portable/SaaS hardware/software systems that solve real-world problems in large markets. Cytta wants its products to enable and empower the world to consume higher quality video/audio/information anywhere and anytime. Cytta's ultimate goal is to create/deliver a high-quality video/audio/information real-time platform that is not readily discernible from on-the-ground reality, creating a virtual "Reality Delivered" system for all parties utilizing our technology.
Cytta's proprietary intelligent IGAN 2.0 Incident Command System (ICS) system integrates any available video and audio streams, enabling real-time situational awareness while providing relevant and detailed actionable intelligence on an ongoing basis. The IGAN 2.0 ICS introduces real-time video and audio situational awareness while concurrently serving as a real-time intelligence collection and integration tool. Cytta's proprietary SUPR ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) system delivers real-time compression of video streams for all ISR applications. By utilizing a SUPR-enabled encoder onboard an unmanned system, video can be securely streamed in high definition through extremely low bandwidth with ultra-low latency.
For more information, please visit Cytta.com and the Cytta Video Channel on YouTube to view Cytta's vision, products, competitive advantages, marketplace, new product utilization, and markets.
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Car Shoppers Save Money Over Time Purchasing Brands, Models with Lowest Projected Ownership Costs
ATLANTA, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Beyond the upfront sticker price, smart car shoppers also should consider the long view and factor in a vehicle's total cost of ownership. Ongoing costs like fuel, maintenance, insurance and even vehicle depreciation can vary greatly from one model to the next. To help in-market car shoppers make wise purchase decisions, the experts at Kelley Blue Book, a Cox Automotive company, today name the 2023 model-year brand and category winners of the 5-Year Cost to Own Awards. These awards recognize new vehicles with the lowest projected ownership costs over the initial five-year ownership period.
"Many car shoppers would be shocked if they understood that cost of ownership can vary in staggering amounts from one vehicle to the next, potentially to the tune of thousands of dollars over time" said Janice Yoell, senior manager of valuations for Kelley Blue Book. "Paying attention to a vehicle's cost of ownership is imperative to make a smart purchase decision. For the third year in a row, Toyota and its luxury sibling Lexus take home the top brand prizes for 5-Year Cost to Own in 2023. Both brands feature several models with high residual values – meaning the vehicle holds its value well over time – leading to low vehicle depreciation, which is a key factor in determining cost of ownership."
Available for new models on Kelley Blue Book's KBB.com, 5-Year Cost to Own information takes into consideration depreciation, expected fuel costs, finance and insurance fees, maintenance and repair costs, and state fees. This data allows new-car shoppers to see the big picture of what a new vehicle will cost them over time, helping them to save money by choosing a vehicle that best meets their needs and their long-term budget.
2023 Kelley Blue Book 5-Year Cost to Own Award Winners
2023 KELLEY BLUE BOOK 5-YEAR COST TO OWN AWARD: BRAND
TOYOTA
2023 KELLEY BLUE BOOK 5-YEAR COST TO OWN AWARD: LUXURY BRAND
LEXUS
2023 KELLEY BLUE BOOK 5-YEAR COST TO OWN AWARDS: BY VEHICLE CATEGORY
(2023 model-year vehicles' projected ownership costs are based on the average Kelley Blue Book 5-Year Cost to Own data for the initial five-year ownership period).
Kelley Blue Book 5-Year Cost to Own information is developed using Kelley Blue Book® Residual Values to calculate depreciation costs. Kelley Blue Book calculates total ownership costs for new vehicles by applying a sophisticated valuation methodology along with critical financial data from third-party providers.
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Christopher Schurr, officer who shot Patrick Lyoya, fired from Grand Rapids Police Department
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (FOX 2) - The Grand Rapids police officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya earlier this year has been fired.
Christopher Schurr's termination comes less than a week after the officer was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the April 4 shooting.
More: Prosecutor announces charges in shooting of Patrick Lyoya
City Manager Mark Washington released a statement Wednesday, saying:
"Last Friday, the Police Chief and the Labor Relations Office recommended that I terminate Christopher Schurr’s employment with the City. I accepted that recommendation and scheduled a required discharge hearing. I have been informed by Mr. Schurr’s representatives that he is waiving his right to the hearing and, therefore, I have decided to terminate Mr. Schurr’s employment with the Grand Rapids Police Department effective June 10, 2022. Due to the on-going criminal matter and the potential for civil litigation, I will not be providing any additional comment concerning Mr. Schurr at this time."
Lyoya was shot in the back of the head during a traffic stop for a license plate issue. The plate on the car Lyoya was driving did not match the vehicle.
The Grand Rapids Police Department released several angles showing the stop and shooting.
Read: Here's what the Patrick Lyoya shooting videos showed
In the videos Schurr asks Lyoya if he has a license. He appears confused then begins running.
During the fight, Schurr deployed his Taser twice with no effect and Lyoya allegedly tried grabbing for it. Schurr screamed multiple times to drop the Taser as he fought to gain control of Lyoya before he ultimately shot him.
Witness phone video still of the fatal shooting of Patrick Lyoya by a police officer.
In a cell phone video recorded by the passenger in Lyoya's car, Schurr is seen on top of Lyoya as he is face down. He tells Lyoya to drop the Taser and reaches to his belt for his gun.
An autopsy confirmed that Lyoya was shot in the back of the head.
The shooting led to protests and calls for accountability. The department said releasing the videos was part of that. | 2022-06-15T20:44:06+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/grand-rapids-police-fire-christopher-schurr-after-patrick-lyoya-shooting |
Uvalde school shooting: What we know one year later
21 people died at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022. The mass shooting and delayed police response spurred calls for stricter gun laws.
UVALDE (TEXAS TRIBUNE) - After a teenage gunman entered Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School one year ago today, he fatally shot 19 children and two teachers and injured 17 people, perpetrating what became the deadliest school shooting in Texas history.
The city of about 25,000 residents west of San Antonio was simultaneously plunged into incalculable grief and the epicenter of America’s debate on semi-automatic rifles.
In the year since, investigations by state officials and journalists found lapses in public safety communication and leadership that contributed to significant delays in law enforcement action and medical care.
Families of the shooting victims repeatedly journeyed to both the Texas and U.S. Capitols to call for gun control measures to prevent more bloodshed. Within weeks of the shooting, federal lawmakers passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn helped negotiate passage of the legislation, which contained modest provisions but which was also the most significant federal gun measure passed in nearly three decades. But rather than pass gun measures of their own, state leaders have largely focused on improving school safety and access to mental health care.
Meanwhile, families of the Uvalde victims and some of the shooting’s survivors have spent the past year coping with grief and trauma.
Law enforcement waited more than hour to confront the gunman
Almost 400 officers from several local, state and federal law enforcement agencies responded to Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022. But they did not immediately confront the gunman, who was in two conjoined classrooms filled with 33 students and three teachers. After initially being driven back by gunfire, the law enforcement officers waited more than an hour for a Border Patrol tactical team to arrive and breach the classrooms, despite nationwide active shooter protocols that call on officers to stop an attacker as soon as possible.
Investigations and videos from inside the school have revealed that the 376 law enforcement officers present that day missed several opportunities to stop the gunman in the midst of unclear communication and leadership. A Texas House committee report also found “systemic failures” and missed warning signs that the gunman may have been planning a violent attack.
Inside the school, some police officers attempted to approach the classrooms the gunman took over, but they weren’t backed up by colleagues, according to records and footage reviewed by The Texas Tribune.
Another frustrated state trooper urged officers to enter but was told by a police officer that they hadn’t received those orders. Some officers at the scene seemed to believe that Pete Arredondo, the police chief of the Uvalde school district, was in charge. Although at one point he directed officers to evacuate other classrooms, Arredondo has said he did not think he was the incident commander leading the law enforcement response. Arredondo also left his police radio behind, limiting his communication with officers.
Responding officers feared the gunman’s AR-15-style rifle
A Tribune review of emergency communications and interviews with law enforcement at the school found that officers also avoided the classrooms because the gunman had an AR-15-style rifle — a weapon initially designed for military use that can efficiently kill.
Rifles like the AR-15 have more power than handguns, such as common police pistols, and can penetrate the lighter body armor usually worn by police officers on patrol. They also cause more damage to the human body.
In two and a half minutes, before any police officer set foot inside the school, the gunman fired more than 100 rounds at students and teachers from point-blank range. Upon breach, 18 of the 21 victims were already dead.
A Texas Tribune, ProPublica and Washington Post investigation found further delays in the medical response that prevented some victims, including teacher Eva Mireles, from quickly receiving lifesaving treatment.
Mireles called her husband, district police officer Ruben Ruiz, who tried rushing into one of the classrooms to save her after she said she was bleeding. Ruiz was stopped by colleagues who seized his handgun.
The disjointed medical response, which also included lapses in communication and muddled lines of authority, frustrated medics while delaying efforts to get ambulances, air transport and other emergency services to victims.
For example, medical helicopters with critical supplies of blood tried to land at the school, but an unidentified fire department official told them to wait at an airport 3 miles away. And only two ambulances were seen outside the school in police camera footage, while dozens of parked police vehicles blocked other ambulances’ paths.
Officers fired and school superintendent retired in shooting’s aftermath
After the delayed police response, Arredondo was fired by the Uvalde school board in August. He also stepped down from the Uvalde City Council seat he had recently been elected to before the school shooting.
The district’s police department was suspended for an unspecified amount of time, and superintendent Hal Harrell resigned in October. Harrell will remain “superintendent emeritus” until August, the district said. Gary Patterson is listed as the district’s interim superintendent. No district police information is listed on the district’s website. A spokesperson for the school district did not respond to the Tribune’s requests for comment this month.
The district also fired a former Department of Public Safety trooper that it had hired after it was reported she was one of the first officers to respond to the shooting. Robb Elementary School principal Mandy Gutierrez was briefly placed on paid administrative leave in July but was quickly reinstated after she rebuffed claims about the school’s safety measures in a state committee report.
DPS, which completed an internal investigation into its officers’ response, said in February that it would fire two troopers. This did not include the trooper hired and fired by the district, who resigned before the investigation concluded.
Families have grappled with loss
Families of the 21 victims and other Uvalde community members confronted a return to school and holidays as they coped with long-lasting trauma and grieved loved ones, who were memorialized in murals across the town.
But despite an outpouring of support from people across the world and millions of dollars in aid, some families have also struggled financially as those donations and state resources trickled in.
There are still ongoing fundraising efforts to support families, such as through the group Lives Robbed, which is advocating for gun violence prevention laws. Other fundraisers honor victims by founding scholarships in their name, including for students Tess Marie Mata, Alithia Haven Ramirez, Makenna Lee Elrod Seiler and Jackie Cazares.
A few families of survivors of the shooting who wanted to avoid spending the one-year mark in Uvalde created fundraisers to spend the time at Disney parks instead.
Victims’ families fought for accountability and new laws
Many families became politically active, packing Uvalde City Council and school board meetings to demand more school security and call for the firing of police officers. They also traveled to Austin and Washington, D.C., to urge lawmakers to adopt stricter gun laws, such as raising the minimum age to legally purchase AR-15-style rifles from 18 to 21. That measure, though, appears unlikely to pass after House Bill 2744 missed key legislative deadlines.
Some Uvalde residents also waded in to the 2022 elections. Some rooted for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O’Rourke to oust Gov. Greg Abbott, and one father even ran for a county seat. Despite those lost elections, parents and relatives persisted at the Texas Legislature, where they continued to call on lawmakers to pass increased gun regulations during this spring legislative session. One mother also sued the Uvalde school district and the manufacturer of the gunman’s weapon.
Texas officials focus on school safety and mental health care
Abbott and other Texas Republicans have mostly ignored calls for increased gun restrictions since the Uvalde shooting, instead focusing on mental health funding and school safety.
In late June, Abbott and state leaders announced they would dedicate $100 million in state funds to boost school safety and mental health services through August 2023. Most of the funds went toward bullet-resistant shields for school police officers and for school districts to buy silent panic alert technology to alert police of an intruder.
Cornyn negotiated a federal bill signed into law last June with modest gun control measures that addressed a “boyfriend loophole,” which previously exempted some dating partners from a federal ban on firearm purchases for those convicted of domestic violence. The bill also included incentives for states to impose “red flag laws,” which allow for the temporary confiscation of guns from people found by a judge to be dangerous. Texas has not moved to impose such a law.
Texas lawmakers also appear unlikely to raise the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15 from 18 to 21 after a bill to do so missed key legislative deadlines. But gun safety advocates say they still see incremental progress through two gun-related bills passed by both chambers of the Legislature.
Senate Bill 728 requires courts to report involuntary mental health hospitalizations of juveniles 16 and older for inclusion in the federal background check system to purchase firearms. The bill, sent to the governor’s desk, addresses a loophole exposed by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica following the shooting in Uvalde.
House Bill 2454 would restrict a person from buying a gun for another person not allowed to have one. It has passed both chambers, but the House must accept or negotiate amendments made to the bill by the Senate before the legislative session ends May 29.
Lawmakers have also advanced legislation to fund campus security upgrades, add requirements such as silent panic buttons in classrooms and create a new safety and security department within the Texas Education Agency. The department would have the authority to compel school districts to establish active-shooter protocols — something about half of the state’s school districts failed to have, according to an audit in 2020.
Texas lawmakers have also proposed more funding for school mental health services as part of school safety legislation. However, school officials worry that money will instead be used up by school security upgrades and want a dedicated funding stream for mental health assistance. Lawmakers would have to act quickly to do so before the legislative session ends, though Abbott has warned of a special session if certain Republican priorities aren’t passed.
Abbott also appointed a chief of school safety and security, a new position he created in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting, and ordered “random intruder audits” of schools to begin last fall to detect weak points in campus safety. The inspections were to be carried out by the Texas School Safety Center, a research center at Texas State University long tasked with collecting and distributing school safety information.
COPYRIGHT 2023 TEXAS TRIBUNE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. | 2023-05-24T15:50:06+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2023/05/24/uvalde-school-shooting-what-we-know-one-year-later/ |
Donations have allowed Crime Stoppers to increase the reward for information leading to an arrest in a vandalism case in Bay City. The reward is up to $1,700 for information that helps find who was responsible for the vandalism at St. Stan’s fairgrounds and athletic facilities, which happened some time between the evening of Sunday, April 24 and Wednesday morning, April 27.
Vandals destroyed the press box and everything in it, plus a food trailer. Windows overlooking the football field were broken and numerous items were thrown onto the bleachers. Damage was estimated at $20,000 to $25,000.
Tips can be reported to Crime Stoppers, 1-800-422-JAIL (5245), or by using the P3 mobile app or website: P3Tips.com/488 | 2022-06-07T00:08:51+00:00 | wsgw.com | https://www.wsgw.com/reward-increases-for-information-in-bay-city-st-stans-athletic-club-vandalism/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — The virtual cat hero from the new video game sensation “Stray” doesn’t just wind along rusted pipes, leap over unidentified sludge and decode clues in a seemingly abandoned city. The daring orange tabby is helping real-world cats as well.
Thanks to online fundraising platforms, gamers are playing “Stray” while streaming live for audiences to raise money for animal shelters and other cat-related charities. Annapurna Interactive, the game’s publisher, also promoted “Stray” by offering two cat rescue and adoption agencies copies of the game to raffle off and renting out a New York cat cafe.
Livestreaming game play for charity isn’t new, but the resonance “Stray” quickly found from cat lovers is unusual. It was the fourth most watched and broadcast game on the day it launched on Twitch, the streaming platform said.
Viewers watch as players navigate the adventurous feline through an aging industrial landscape doing normal cat stuff — balancing on railings, walking on keyboards and knocking things off shelves — to solve puzzles and evade enemies.
About 80% of the game’s development team are “cat owners and cat lovers” and a real-life orange stray as well as their own cats helped inspire the game, one creator said.
“I certainly hope that maybe some people will be inspired to help actual strays in real life — knowing that having an animal and a companion is a responsibility,” said producer Swann Martin-Raget, of the BlueTwelve gaming studio in Montpellier, in southern France.
When Annapurna Interactive reached out to the Nebraska Humane Society to partner before the game’s launch on July 19, they jumped at the chance, marketing specialist Brendan Gepson said.
“The whole game and the whole culture around the game, it’s all about a love of cats,” Gepson said. “It meshed really well with the shelter and our mission.”
The shelter got four copies of the game to give away and solicited donations for $5 to be entered into a raffle to win one. In a week, they raised $7,000, Gepson said, with the vast majority of the 550 donors being new to them, including people donating from Germany and Malta. The company also donated $1,035 to the shelter.
“It was really mutually beneficial,” Gepson said. ”They got some really good PR out of it and we got a whole new donor base out of it.”
Annapurna also bought out Meow Parlour, the New York cat cafe and adoption agency, for a weekend, as well as donating $1,000. Visitors who made reservations could buy “Stray” themed merchandise and play the game for 20 minutes while surrounded by cats. (The game also captivates cats, videos on social media show.)
Jeff Legaspi, Annapurna Interactive’s marketing director, said it made sense for the game’s launch to do something “positively impactful and hopefully bring more awareness to adopting and not shopping for a new pet.”
Annapurna declined to disclose sales or download figures for the game, which is available on PlayStation and the Steam platform. However, according to Steam monitor SteamDB, “Stray” has been the No. 1 purchased game for the past two weeks.
North Shore Animal League America, which rescues tens of thousands of animals each year, said it hadn’t seen any increase in traffic from the game but they did receive more than $800 thanks to a gamer.
In a happy coincidence, the shelter had just set up a profile on the platform Tiltify, which allows nonprofits to receive donations from video streams, the week the game launched. The player channeled donations to the shelter, smashing her initial goal of $200.
“We are seeing Tiltify and livestreaming as this whole new way for us to engage a whole different audience,” said Carol Marchesano, the rescue’s senior digital marketing director. Usually, though, organizations need to reach out to online personalities to coordinate livestreams, which can take a lot of work, she said.
About nine campaigns on Tiltify mention the game “Stray,” the company’s CEO Michael Wasserman said. JustGiving, which also facilitates charity livestreams, said it identified two campaigns with the game.
For his part, Gepson from Nebraska reached out to an Omaha resident who goes by the name TreyDay1014 online to run a charity livestream. Trey, who asked that his last name not be used, has two cats, one of which he adopted from the shelter.
Last week, he narrated to viewers watching live on the platform Twitch as his cat character batted another cat’s tail and danced along railings.
“If I found out my cat was outside doing this, I’d be upset,” Trey said, as his character jumped across a perilous distance. Moments later, a rusty pipe broke, sending the tabby down a gut-wrenching plunge into the darkness.
“That is a poor baby,” Trey said somberly, “but we are okay.”
A $25 donation followed the fall, pushing the amount raised by Trey for the Nebraska shelter to over $100 in about 30 minutes. By the end of four and a half hours of play, donations totaled $1,500. His goal had been to raise $200.
“This has opened my eyes to being able to use this platform for a lot more good than just playing video games,” Trey said. | 2022-08-04T13:39:41+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/popular-stray-cat-video-game-helps-real-life-felines/ |
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Laramie County Democratic Party pins on a table during the Politics Are A Drag! fundraiser at the Historic Atlas Theatre. in Cheyenne on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Democratic Party is at risk of losing major party status if Democrats in the state don’t register and vote in the general election.
The Wyoming Secretary of State's Office reported that out of the more than 182,000 votes cast in the primary election overall, only 4.5% were for Democratic candidates. Republican candidates received 94.4% of the vote, and nonpartisan votes cast were at 1.1%.
The lopsided numbers were the result of many Democrats "crossing over" and voting Republican to support incumbent U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, who has taken a strong stance against former President Donald Trump and serves as vice-chair of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Cheney lost to challenger Harriet Hageman by 63,709 votes.
Democrats need to meet the 10% threshold of total votes cast for any one of the offices of the statewide offices – U.S. House of Representatives, governor or secretary of state – in the general election, or else they will be considered a minor political party. Under state statute, a minor political party is a political organization that receives not less than 2% or more than 10% of the total votes cast in the same office elections.
If they received less than 2%, a representative from the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Election Division said the Democratic Party would need to petition to gain access as a provisional party.
Minor and provisional political parties must nominate through a convention, meaning only the Republican Party would be allowed to nominate candidates by primary election, if Democrats lost major party status. Laramie County Democratic Party Communications Director Lindsey Hanlon said it also impacts participation in debates. (Hanlon is also a member of the Wyoming Tribune Eagle's editorial board.)
However, Democratic Party officials said they are not concerned.
“Historically speaking, Democratic candidates for governor, U.S. House or U.S. Senate have performed well above the 10% threshold outlined in Wyoming law,” WDP Communications Director David Martin told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. “So, it’s not something we’re concerned about. We’re more concerned about issues such as quality education, making sure that public lands remain in public hands, things along those lines.”
Hanlon said she is confident that Democrats will gain the votes necessary to continue as a major party in the state, but she was distressed to see the low percentage of representation during the primary. She said she believes U.S. House candidate Lynnette GreyBull and governor candidate Terry Livingston are both fantastic candidates, and they will pull voters back to the Democratic Party.
The biggest issue she sees with voters remaining registered as Republicans is it makes it harder to send out mailers or keep track of Democratic rolls, Hanlon said. She recommends voters change their registration back to Democrat before the general election.
“It does make it harder to communicate with those voters,” she said. “For example, if we’re wanting to send out a reminder mailer, and we want to send it out to all Democrats – we’re going to end up missing any Democrat who’s currently registered as a Republican.”
Despite a low number of voters participating in the Democratic primary, the turnout of the voting age population in the state was one of the highest in the past four decades, according to the Wyoming Election Division. Close to 41% of the voting age population took part in the 2022 primary, and the last closest amount was 41.5% of the population in 1994.
It also has been a successful year in terms of the percentage of the voting age population that is registered to vote. On Aug. 16, there were 287,014 voters registered, which is the highest ever seen. It was also the highest amount in terms of voter turnout, with 182,232 filling out their ballot in the primary, or about 64%.
Jasmine Hall is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s state government reporter. She can be reached by email at jhall@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3167. Follow her on Twitter @jasminerhphotos and on Instagram @jhrose25. | 2022-09-13T01:58:28+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/elections/election_2022/wyoming-democratic-party-at-risk-of-losing-major-party-status/article_61569a8a-32e3-11ed-a10f-13e8def7f782.html |
Sea lion spotted in the middle of the road, assisted back to tidelands
Published: Oct. 10, 2022 at 3:12 PM CDT|Updated: 54 minutes ago
VALDEZ, Alaska (Gray News) – A sea lion is safely back in the ocean after it got lost and stranded on a street in Alaska.
According to the Valdez Police Department, officers got a call about a sea lion wandering in the road. Police said when officers arrived, the animal looked distressed and tired.
Police said thanks to some “creative vehicle herding” by officers and a local resident, they were able to get the sea lion safely back to the tidelands.
In a Facebook post, the police department said it was “a legit happy ending for all of us and our new friend.”
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-10T21:06:19+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/2022/10/10/sea-lion-spotted-middle-road-assisted-back-tidelands/ |
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – A survey finds that an unexpected property cost of $5,000 would put most New York homeowners into debt. Also, a majority of landlords say they could not afford a surprise bill of over $20,000.
Unforeseen costs are part of a package deal when it comes to being a homeowner, but sometimes the costs can rack up thousands in monetary value. If funds are not readily available, it may mean owners have to take out a loan or try to fork out savings to meet these unexpected property regulation costs.
A survey conducted by California Deck and Balcony Inspections Inc. showed that 4,076 homeowners and landlords revealed that, on average, New York homeowners said $5,000 in unexpected property regulation costs would put them into financial debt. The survey also asked landlords if they feel there should be a federal law introduced to protect them against any surprise property regulations that could cost a significant value in maintenance.
76% of landlords in New York believe that federal law should be implemented to protect them from unexpected regulations that could cost thousands in property maintenance fees according to the survey. With climate change having a strong influence on extreme weather, homeowners and landlords in New York will likely be burdened with increased costs to make their properties more resistant to climate change-related factors suggests the survey.
The survey also found that 78% of current landlords said if they got hit with a surprise bill of over $20,000, they wouldn’t be able to cover the costs without going into debt. 43% of homeowners and landlords said they think the government should cover all costs should climate change-related regulations about property maintenance be introduced into law, mentioned the survey. | 2022-05-25T22:16:08+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-header/economy/unexpected-property-cost-could-cause-homeowners-debt/ |
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Effective immediately, the Natural Fibers Alliance (NFA) is calling for an immediate suspension of the use of the HIGG Index considering the recent New York Times article "How Fashion Giants Recast Plastic as Good for the Plant." Developed in 2012, the HIGG Index was created to help brands, retailers and manufacturers assess the sustainability of materials for use in footwear, garments, and other consumer products. Since that time many within the natural fibers community (leather, wool, fur, silk etc.) and fashion activists have voiced concerns over the index's questionable support of harmful synthetic materials made from fossil fuels that run counter to long term environmental sustainability goals.
"It's simple, natural biodegradable fibers to include leather, wool, fur, silk, etc. are more sustainable and better for our planet than plastic clothing. The culture of fast fashion is as much consumer driven as it is a direct result of corporate greenwashing. The only way to lower environmental costs and impact is to buy clothing that lasts, repurpose older pieces and support a culture of slow fashion based on high quality long-lasting materials," says Mike Brown, head of sustainability and public affairs for the Natural Fibers Alliance.
According to the Changing Markets Foundation (CMF), 'Fossil Fashion: The Hidden Reliance on Fossil Fuels', the use of such synthetic materials derived from crude oil and gas has doubled in clothing, creating both a reliance on the material and a boom in the cheap, fast fashion industry. This boom has had a direct environmental impact that will lead to an eventual ecological disaster. The CMF estimates the use of synthetic fibers will increase from 69% to 73% market share within the next 10 years.
The NFA feels that legislation and effective regulation are the only clear path forward. Sustainable natural fiber derived products should be the norm, not the exception and the only way to achieve that is to level the playing field, placing responsibility on companies through their compliance with regulation, allowing customers to make informed choices rather than having that decision manipulated by data or overreaching animal rights activists.
The Natural Fibers Alliance is a coalition of producers and associations in both the US and Canada that support the use of natural sustainable materials in clothing, accessories, and other goods.
Contact: communications@naturalfibersalliance.com
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SOURCE Natural Fibers Alliance | 2022-06-16T19:18:48+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/06/16/natural-fibers-alliance-calls-promotion-natural-fibers-suspension-higg-index/ |
The stars could be aligning this year for Road Less Traveled Productions if Covid delays don’t torpedo too many scheduled performances. Right now, that’s a medium-sized “if.”
“Mysterious Circumstances,” originally set to open in time for Curtain Up!, is now pushed to Sept. 22, due to illness. However, that still leaves four weeks of performances, thanks to RLTP’s preseason contingency planning.
“We’re only doing four plays this season – we used to do five – but we’re running every one a week longer,” Artistic Director Scott Behrend said. “We’re giving everybody four more opportunities to see something, plus it gives us a buffer if … Covid. We’re not going to have understudies, but our idea is if we lose a weekend, we still can get everybody in.”
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When “Mysterious Circumstances” does open, Behrend is certain audiences are in for a treat: a real-life mystery involving the world’s most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, and one of his biggest fans. In brief, a would-be biographer of Holmes’ creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tries to block the auction of a trove of the Conan Doyle’s long lost papers and manuscripts. But, before the auction, the biographer is found dead – of unnatural causes. And the game is afoot.
After David Grann wrote about the case for the New Yorker in 2004, playwright Michael Mitnick adapted it for the stage.
“First of all, there’s the mystery aspect, plus it’s highly entertaining how (Mitnick) pulls all these situations together,” Behrend said. “When I gave it to (director) John Hurley and we read it out loud, we realized how much fun it is. There’s lots of scenes, lots of costume changes; we have seven actors who play something like 30 characters.”
The character count is pared down considerably for the next show, Rajiv Joseph’s dark and powerful “Guards at the Taj” (Nov. 10), a two-man play about close friends assigned to protect the Taj Mahal, and who are then ordered to do an unthinkable task.
Behrend said he had wanted to produce the play for “quite some time,” and jumped at the chance when actors Afrim Gjonbalaj and Darryl Semira both became available.
“Again, this is a story that has some historical basis, which is interesting to begin with,” Behrend said. “It’s funny, in a dark context, but also a very beautiful piece. And it’s certainly the bloodiest show of the year.”
Plans are for Joseph to be in Buffalo during the show’s second weekend for a playwright interview on RLTP’s “Off Road” podcast and then to attend a performance.
After a winter break comes “The Thin Place” (Feb. 23) from popular playwright Lucas Hnath, who also wrote “The Christians” and “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” among others.
“We’re pleased to continue curating his work in Buffalo,” Behrend said, noting that this production isn’t like either of Hnath’s previous shows at RLTP. It begins when a "professional" medium meets a woman who may, or may not, be able to speak to the dead. The question is: Do the dead continue to exist in that thin place between seen reality and what comes after?
“It’s a spooky, spooky play that we’re putting on stage,” Behrend said. “I think Lucas has written a play that will keep the audience on the edge of their seats. He wants to build that sense of horror in your mind.”
And then, after pandemic delays, RLTP plans to bring Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning instant-blue-collar-classic “Sweat” (April 20) to Buffalo. Set in Reading, Pa., in 2000 and 2008, “Sweat” spotlights the human cost of sending jobs off-shore, downsizing and union busting.
“We see this as a very important play for Buffalo,” Behrend said. “It shows what happened throughout the country, and ultimately how it affected people and their lives.”
The Road Less Traveled Theater will go dark for a couple of months between its first two and last two shows, and when it reopens the entry will have a new look. They have purchased a commercial space that walled off the front part of their entry and will use it to triple the size of the theater lobby.
“That will all be done by our Feb. 23 opening,” Behrend said. “I think people are going to like it.”
Road Less Traveled Productions, at Road Less Traveled Theatre, 456 Main St., 716-629-3069
Sept. 22 – Oct. 16: “Mysterious Circumstances”
Nov. 10 – Dec. 11: “Guards at the Taj”
Feb. 23 – March 26: “The Thin Place”
April 20 – May 21: “Sweat” | 2022-09-14T11:41:54+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/season-preview-changes-at-road-less-traveled-include-expanded-performance-runs-new-lobby-in-2023/article_e1981fb6-32bb-11ed-9009-4704c016cae3.html |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's chief of staff violated the law by retweeting a political message on his government Twitter account, and a warning letter was sent to him, according to a memo from the Office of Special Counsel.
The memo dated Wednesday said Ron Klain ran afoul of the Hatch Act, which prohibits government officials from using their official roles to influence elections, including supporting candidates, while acting in their official capacities. The message Klain retweeted on May 22 from STRIKE PAC, a Democratic group, was about delivering infant formula to Americans. But the message also included the encouragement, “Get your Democrats Deliver merch today!”
Klain removed the retweet as soon as he was notified of the complaint. No disciplinary action will be pursued and the office, an independent government watchdog that monitors violations of the Hatch Act, considers the matter closed. Klain was warned to be more careful in the future.
The conservative legal group America First Legal, led by Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller, complained about the tweet and sought an investigation.
Miller and at least a dozen other former Trump administration officials repeatedly violated that same law, without consequence and with Trump's approval, as part of a “willful disregard for the Hatch Act,” the Office of Special Counsel found in 2021. The office investigated comments by Trump officials leading into the 2020 presidential election, including at the Republican National Convention, which was held at the White House in a major break from historical norms.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre often cites the Hatch Act in deflecting political questions during news briefings. Earlier this week she was asked whether Biden was doing everything he can possibly do to get Democrats across the finish line in the Nov. 8 elections.
"I have to be careful of what I say, because we do respect the Hatch Act here in this administration,” she said. | 2022-10-27T16:23:21+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/White-House-chief-of-staff-warned-on-Hatch-Act-17538706.php |
MONTROSE, S.D. (KELO) — Taking a safe driving quiz paid off big time for Nick Paulsen.
The Montrose High School freshman took home $10,000 for himself Monday thanks to the Lesson Learned SD program.
Volk: What are you going to do with the $10,000?
Nick Paulsen: Probably buy a truck.
Nick’s dad Jess Paulsen: Save some too.
Nick Paulsen: Yeah, that too.
His school also gets $10,000.
Lesson Learned SD is put on by the South Dakota Office of Highway Safety and the South Dakota Broadcasters Association.
Students answered safe driving questions and were then put in the drawing for the grand prize.
“Minding your speed, paying attention to what you’re doing, wearing your seatbelt, not drinking and driving, those are things that are very important because those are the main contributing factors that we see in major injury and fatality crashes in our state,” SD Department of Public Safety Secretary Craig Price said.
“We just decided that particularly too if we can reach young drivers, that we can hit them at that age, maybe we can build some lifetime habits, so now is the time to reach these kids,” South Dakota Broadcasters Association president Steve Willard said.
While Nick and his school now have some extra money, all the participants are getting something even more valuable: a lesson in safety.
“So we don’t crash and cause other accidents,” Nick Paulsen said.
More than 2,800 teens in the state participated. | 2022-05-10T00:54:47+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/montrose-student-wins-safe-driving-contest/ |
Texas man allegedly shot and killed a man who scammed him of $40 in parking fees. Then he resumed his date
By Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi, CNN
A Texas man who was allegedly scammed of $40 in parking fees while on a date shot and killed the man who posed as the lot’s attendant — and then “nonchalantly” walked away to proceed with his dinner plans, court records show.
Erick Aguirre, 29, appeared in court Thursday for a felony murder charge in the killing of 46-year-old Elliot Nix on a Houston street where witnesses saw the shooting unfold, according to court records.
On the evening of April 11, Aguirre paid Nix $40 after the victim claimed he was the parking attendant and said that it would cost $20 to park Aguirre and his date’s cars, according to a Harris County probable cause affidavit.
Before the couple walked into a restaurant, they were informed by a restaurant employee that they had been scammed, the affidavit says. A witness who saw Aguirre’s initial interaction with Nix told police he then saw the defendant sprint to his car, grab a gun and run after Nix who was out of his view, according to the court documents.
The witness heard a gunshot and then “observed the suspect nonchalantly walking back to his car with the gun in his hand,” according to the affidavit. Another witness who found Nix bleeding in the street called 911.
Aguirre allegedly shot Nix in the torso, and he died later at the hospital from his wounds, according to court records.
After leaving the scene, Aguirre put the gun in his car and walked back to where his date was waiting, then they entered the restaurant, according to the affidavit. The woman on the date later told police she did not see or know about the shooting at that point, the affidavit states.
Following the shooting, Houston Police released a surveillance photo showing Aguirre and his date together, asking for the public’s help with identification. The woman in the photo contacted police and voluntarily testified against Aguirre, police said.
When Aguirre came back to her after chasing after Nix, he told her “he just scared the guy and everything was fine,” she told investigators.
Before being seated at the restaurant, “Erick started to look uncomfortable and suggested they go eat somewhere else,” the woman told police.
Aguirre is currently being held on $200,000 bond. He has not entered a plea and remained behind bars Friday night, Harris County Jail records show.
His attorney, Brent Mayr, declined to comment to CNN.
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CA Phoenix AZ Zone Forecast for Monday, October 3, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Southwest Arizona/Southeast California
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
121 AM MST Tue Oct 4 2022
This is an automatically generated product that provides average
values for large geographical areas and may not be representative
of the exact location that you are interested in. For a more site
specific forecast, please visit weather.gov/phoenix and either
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AZZ537-540-542>544-546-548-550-551-041100-
Northwest Valley-Buckeye/Avondale-Deer Valley-Central Phoenix-
North Phoenix/Glendale-Scottsdale/Paradise Valley-East Valley-
South Mountain/Ahwatukee-Southeast Valley/Queen Creek-
Including the cities of Circle City, Surprise, Wittmann, Beardsley,
Sun City West, Avondale, Cashion, Goodyear, Liberty, Peoria, Phoenix,
Paradise Valley, Mesa, Chandler, Tempe, Gilbert, Sun Lakes,
and Queen Creek
121 AM MST Tue Oct 4 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 75. North wind around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 95. Northeast wind around 5 mph in the
morning becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 74. Southeast wind 10 to
15 mph in the evening becoming east around 5 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 95. East wind around 5 mph in the
morning becoming west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
clear. Lows 67 to 74. Northeast wind around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly sunny with a 20 percent
chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Highs 90 to 95.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 67 to 73.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 88 to 93.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 10 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 67 to 72.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A 10 percent chance of afternoon showers
and thunderstorms. Highs 87 to 92.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 65 to 70.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of afternoon showers and
thunderstorms. Highs 85 to 90.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 65 to 70.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Sunny. Highs 87 to 92.
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Cave Creek/New River-Fountain Hills/East Mesa-
Apache Junction/Gold Canyon-
Including the cities of Scottsdale, Fountain Hills,
and Apache Junction
121 AM MST Tue Oct 4 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear and cooler. Lows 61 to 71. Northeast wind
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as warm. Highs 88 to 93. East wind 5 to
10 mph in the morning becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 60 to 70. East wind 10 to 15 mph
in the evening becoming northeast around 5 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 88 to 93. East wind 5 to 10 mph in
the morning becoming west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
clear. Lows 60 to 70. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly sunny with a 20 percent
chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Highs near 90.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 65 to 70.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of afternoon showers and
thunderstorms. Highs 85 to 91.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 64 to 70.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of afternoon showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows 62 to 67. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of afternoon showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid to upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 62 to 67.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly sunny with a
20 percent chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Highs in
the mid to upper 80s.
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AZZ553-554-041100-
Northwest Pinal County-West Pinal County-
Including the cities of Casa Grande, Cactus Forest, Florence,
and Coolidge
121 AM MST Tue Oct 4 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 61 to 71. North wind around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs 90 to 95. East wind around
5 mph in the morning becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear and breezy. Lows 60 to 70. Southeast wind
10 to 15 mph in the evening becoming east around 5 mph after
midnight. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 95. East wind around 5 mph in the
morning becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 61 to 71. Southeast wind around
5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly sunny with a 10 percent
chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower to
mid 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 66 to 71.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 87 to 93.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 10 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 65 to 70.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 90.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 63 to 68.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A 10 percent chance of afternoon showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 10 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 63 to 68.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Sunny. Highs near 90.
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CAZ566-041100-
Imperial County West-
Including the cities of Coolidge Springs, Salton City, Winona,
Coyote Wells, Ocotillo, and Plaster City
121 AM PDT Tue Oct 4 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 71 to 81. Northwest wind around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny and hot. Highs 98 to 103. Northwest wind around
5 mph in the morning becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 70 to 80. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny and hot. Highs 97 to 102. Northwest wind around
5 mph in the morning becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 69 to 79. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph
in the evening becoming west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny and hot. Highs 97 to 101.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 73 to 78.
.FRIDAY...Sunny and hot. Highs 94 to 100.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 73 to 78.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 72 to 77.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly sunny with a 20 percent
chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Highs 90 to 96.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 71 to 76.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 98.
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CAZ562-041100-
Imperial County Southwest-
Including the city of Mountain Spring
121 AM PDT Tue Oct 4 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 73 to 83. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny and hot. Highs 95 to 100. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph
in the morning becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 72 to 82. West wind 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny and hot. Highs 95 to 100. Northwest wind 5 to
10 mph in the morning becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 71 to 81. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny and hot. Highs 90 to 100.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 71 to 80.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 87 to 97.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 71 to 80.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A 10 percent chance of afternoon showers
and thunderstorms. Highs 84 to 94.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 79.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A 10 percent chance of afternoon showers and
thunderstorms. Highs 83 to 93.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 77.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 85 to 95.
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CAZ560-561-041100-
Joshua Tree NP West-Joshua Tree NP East-
Including the cities of Cottonwood Visitor and Lost Horse-Keys
Village
121 AM PDT Tue Oct 4 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 64 to 74. West wind around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 85 to 95. North wind around 5 mph in
the morning becoming northeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 72. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95. North wind 5 to 10 mph in the
morning becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 61 to 71. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph
in the evening becoming west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 81 to 95.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 57 to 71.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 78 to 92.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 56 to 71.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 75 to 89.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 55 to 70.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A 10 percent chance of afternoon showers and
thunderstorms. Highs 74 to 88.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 55 to 70.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 75 to 89.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-fired power plants, the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday ordered an Ohio utility to stop dumping dangerous coal ash into unlined storage ponds and speed cleanup of the site.
The order to the Gen. James Gavin Power Plant in southern Ohio marks the first time the EPA has formally denied a utility’s request to continue disposing toxic coal ash after a deadline to stop such disposal has passed. The Gavin plant, located along the Ohio River in Cheshire, Ohio, is one of the largest coal-fired electricity plants in the U.S.
At least five other plants, most in the Midwest, face similar action by the EPA under a crackdown proposed in January.
“For too long, communities already disproportionately impacted by high levels of pollution have been burdened by improper coal ash disposal,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said Friday. “Today’s action reaffirms that surface impoundments or landfills cannot be closed with coal ash in contact with groundwater.”
The action is intended to ensure that local water resources are safe while protecting the public health and ensuring a reliable electricity supply, Regan said.
Coal ash, the substance that remains when coal is burned to generate electricity, contains a toxic mix of mercury, cadmium, arsenic and other heavy metals. It can pollute waterways, poison wildlife and cause respiratory illness among those living near massive ponds where the waste is stored.
The EPA order directs the power plant to stop placing coal ash and other waste streams into an on-site storage pond no later than 135 days after publication in the Federal Register, expected next week. As a practical matter, the plant may have have to pause or even cease operations next year in order to comply with the order.
A spokesperson for the plant’s owner, Lightstone Generation LLC, could not be reached for comment. The company is a joint venture between private-equity firms ArcLight Capital Partners and Blackstone Group.
EPA said Friday that its decision recognizes the importance of maintaining grid reliability. The order establishes a process for Gavin to seek additional time, if needed, to address demonstrated grid reliability issues.
EPA said it is working with a regional grid operator to prevent unscheduled outages and protect reliability of the grid. Under rules established by the grid operator, PJM Interconnection, Gavin must request a planned outage at least 30 days in advance, EPA said.
The order finalized Friday follows through on a proposal issued in January that implements a 2015 rule aimed at reducing groundwater pollution from coal-fired power plants. The Trump administration weakened the Obama-era rule in 2020, allowing utilities to use cheaper technologies and take longer to comply with guidelines that were less stringent than the initial rule.
The action on coal ash was among dozens of public health and environmental mandates that were weakened, rolled back or eliminated under former President Donald Trump.
U.S. coal plants produce about 100 million tons (90 million metric tons) annually of ash and other waste.
The EPA has proposed denial of requests for extensions of coal ash permits by several other power plants, including the Clifty Creek power plant in Madison, Indiana and the Ottumwa Generating Station in Ottumwa, Iowa.
The H.L. Spurlock plant in Maysville, Kentucky, is required to fix groundwater monitoring as a condition for continued operation of its coal ash pond, the EPA said.
Lisa Evans, a senior attorney for the environmental group Earthjustice, called the Gavin plant “a super-polluter″ and said EPA’s action was overdue.
“In this case, the violations are very obvious and very severe,” she said, adding that the plant’s previous and current operators “have continued their reckless and illegal disposal of toxic coal ash and contaminated groundwater. Now they will be forced to clean it up.”
A report issued this month by Earthjustice and the Environmental Integrity Project said 91% of U.S. coal-fired plants have ash landfills or waste ponds that are leaking arsenic, lead, mercury and other metals into groundwater at dangerous levels, often threatening streams, rivers and drinking water aquifers.
Some power companies are illegally manipulating data and monitoring systems to avoid cleanup requirements and have proposed inadequate cleanup strategies that will not restore groundwater quality, the report said. | 2022-11-19T20:31:48+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/ap-epa-orders-ohio-power-plant-to-stop-dumping-toxic-coal-ash/ |
It’s never too late to learn.
And it’s never too late to enjoy.
Former Park Forest and Frankfort resident Priscilla Bruske is proof of that.
Bruske, 93, who is now living at Smith Crossing in Orland Park, recently left the facility for the first time in more than a year to immerse herself in the Immersive van Gogh Exhibit Chicago at the Lighthouse ArtSpace, which had 500,000 cubic feet of projections, 60,600 frames of video and 90 million pixels of all things Vincent van Gogh.
Bruske needs a wheelchair and is in hospice care but with the help of family members, Smith Crossing driver Jack Christ, members of the Elara Caring staff and the staff at Lighthouse ArtSpace doing the heavy lifting, she said the trip was easy.
“The way they handled it was really, really nice,” said her daughter, Diane Bruske. “She never had to get out of her wheelchair and it’s all wheelchair accessible there.
“The difference between seeing Van Gogh in a museum and seeing it the way we saw it in Chicago was that all of the paintings were across the walls and the floor and the ceiling. You are almost inside the paintings.”
The fact that Priscilla was able to get out for an outing was the buzz around the Smith Crossing community.
“Everyone was excited that Priscilla was breaking loose and breaking out of the place,” Diane said. “That was the first day she left here, the first time in at least a year.”
Diane said as each painting was shown, Priscilla knew the names of the paintings and stories behind them.
Priscilla became a student of van Gogh history when she turned 40. She took art classes at Joliet Junior College and became fascinated with his work and his life.
She loves his work, especially the way he used colors.
His life?
“Disgusting,” she said. “It makes me feel very, very bad the way he had to learn to exist.”
The Dutch artist, who only lived to age 37, spent much of his life poor and in poor health. Much of the value of van Gogh’s paintings and his own fame came after his death.
If van Gogh were alive today, Priscilla said she would ask him one question.
“Why didn’t you go out and make more money?” she said.
“He was such a poor, hardworking creature.”
After taking courses at Joliet Junior College, Priscilla was still raising a family of five but later attended the University of Illinois-Chicago, where she received bachelor’s degree in art history.
In a Star Newspapers story from in 1982, Priscilla said she was proud of getting a degree because her father did not want his daughter attending school when she was growing up.
“He didn’t think a girl should go away to school,” she said in the article. “I guess he didn’t want me to grow up. It was the old-fashioned idea of protecting the virgin under your roof.”
Armed with a bachelor’s degree, Priscilla attended the University of Chicago and was one thesis chapter short of earning a master’s degree.
“She didn’t complete her master’s degree because as she was finishing the thesis, her adviser died,” Diane said.
Others at the school did not take her seriously, Priscilla said.
“They saw me as some woman from the suburbs fooling around,” Priscilla said. “I may have not been hungry for a job, but I was serious.”
Her thesis about van Gogh was offbeat at the time. She related his health problems to his environment.
“His problems could be because of the chemicals of the paint he was using,” Diane said. “When you don’t have any money, you are not only using the paints, you are living with them.
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“He was exposed 24/7 to all of these volatile chemicals and oils and that was her thesis.”
At the time, no one was subscribing to that theory, but now, “you can find a whole library of books on that subject,” Priscilla said.
Priscilla’s late husband, Ed, opened up Bruske Products in Tinley Park and the business, now owned by employees, is 50 years old. The company specializes in brushes and brooms.
Priscilla said even though her father didn’t want her to go to college, he insisted on her learning secretarial skills and that came in handy as she became the backbone of the Bruske business.
“She can still take notes in shorthand,” Diane said. “Today, in this day and age, that’s like a super power. So many people don’t have any idea of what that’s about.
“It’s like she can communicate with people in a secret language.”
Jeff Vorva is a freelance reporter for the Daily Southtown. | 2022-10-28T10:18:27+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-bruskie-van-gogh-st-1030-20221028-bv3z5lgiibajvebsdymnh2fqli-story.html |
VANCOUVER, BC, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Northstar Clean Technologies Inc. (TSXV: ROOF) (OTCQB: ROOOF) ("Northstar" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that all matters put forward to its shareholders at the Company's annual general and special meeting of shareholders (the "Meeting") held on Thursday, July 28, 2022 were duly approved. Details of the voting results are provided below.
At the Meeting, the Company's shareholders overwhelmingly approved the matters voted on , including: the re-election of the six director candidates proposed by management; the reappointment of Davidson & Company LLP as auditors of the Company; and the approval of the Company's 2022 Equity Incentive Plan, including the approval of a 10% rolling plan for stock options and a fixed plan of 6,500,000 common shares for awards of restricted share units ("RSUs"), performance share units ("PSUs") and deferred share units ("DSUs").
A total of 74 shareholders were represented in person or by proxy with 23,229,123 common shares voted, representing 21.89% of the Company's outstanding common shares.
About Northstar
Northstar Clean Technologies Inc. is a Canadian-based clean technology company focused on the sustainable recovery and reprocessing of asphalt shingles. Northstar has developed a proprietary design process for taking discarded asphalt shingles, otherwise destined for already over-crowded landfills, and extracting the liquid asphalt for usage in new hot mix asphalt, shingle manufacturing and asphalt flat roof systems, and aggregate and fiber for usage in construction products and other industrial applications. Focused on the circular economy, Northstar plans to reprocess used or defective asphalt shingle waste back into its three primary components for reuse/resale at both its Empower Pilot Facility in Delta, British Columbia and its first commercial scale up facility in Calgary, Alberta. As an emerging innovator in sustainable processing, Northstar's mission is to be the leader in the recovery and reprocessing of asphalt shingles in North America, extracting the recovered components from asphalt shingles that would otherwise be sent to landfill.
For further information about Northstar, please visit www.northstarcleantech.com.
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Biden briefly evacuated after plane enters airspace near Delaware vacation home
A small private airplane mistakenly entered restricted airspace near President Joe Biden's Delaware vacation home Saturday, prompting the brief evacuation of the president and first lady, the White House and the Secret Service said.
The White House said there was no threat to the Biden or his family and that precautionary measures were taken. After the situation was assessed, Biden and his wife, Jill, returned to their Rehoboth Beach home.
The Secret Service said in a statement that the plane was immediately escorted from the restricted airspace after "mistakenly entering a secured area." The agency said it would interview the pilot who, according to a preliminary investigation, was not on the proper radio channel and was not following published flight guidance.
As is standard practice for presidential trips outside Washington, the Federal Aviation Administration published flight restrictions earlier this week before Biden's beach town visit. The restrictions include a 10-mile radius no-fly zone contained with a 30-mile restricted zone.
A CBS News reporter said on Twitter that he saw Biden motorcading to a Rehoboth Beach fire station. The group of reporters that travels with the president was not part of the motorcade.
Federal regulations require pilots to check for flight restrictions along their route before taking off. Still, accidental airspace breaches, particularly around temporary restricted zones, are common.
U.S. military jets and Coast Guard helicopters are often used to intercept any planes that violate the flight restrictions around the president. Intercepted planes are diverted to a nearby airfield where aircrews are interviewed by law enforcement and face potential criminal or civil penalties. | 2022-06-04T20:35:06+00:00 | wtae.com | https://www.wtae.com/article/president-biden-briefly-evacuated-after-plane-enters-airspace-near-delaware-beach-home/40195652 |
Bill to help finance a Las Vegas ballpark for Oakland A’s passes Nevada Senate, heads to Assembly
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A stadium financing bill aimed at drawing the Oakland Athletics to Las Vegas cleared a major hurdle Tuesday after being approved by the Nevada Senate, but not before lawmakers amended the measure to strengthen its benefits for the community.
The 13-8 Senate vote marks another step as the bill moves through the Democratic-controlled Legislature while reviving the national debate over public funding for private sports clubs. The bill, which has the support of Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, must now be considered by the state Assembly.
A’s representatives and some Nevada tourism officials have said the measure could add to Las Vegas’ growing sports scene and act as an economic engine. But a growing chorus of economists and some lawmakers have warned that such a project would bring minimal benefits when compared to the hefty public price tag.
Senate approval came after days of closed-door negotiations and a contentious hearing about the bill, which calls for contributing $380 million in public funding for the proposed $1.5 billion stadium.
Many lawmakers have criticized a lack of community benefits and the special session rush to consider the financing bill. But legislators several struck a more positive tone Tuesday, saying the amendments addressed much of their skepticism.
“I assure every Nevadan, even those of you who have concerns about this bill — I assure you that if you see where the bill started and where it is now, that there’s not a single Nevadan that won’t say this bill was much better,” said Democratic Sen. Edgar Flores.
Republican Sen. Ira Hansen was among a bipartisan group of senators still concerned about the amount of public funding that would be spend on the project.
“Honestly, if it was my own money, it’s a good deal. I would probably vote yes. But it’s not my money,” Hansen said. “It’s the taxpayers’ money, and we should do all we can to ensure the private sector does these sorts of investments.”
Amendments to the bill include diversity requirements for stadium and construction jobs as well as community service requirements for Athletics players. They also would accelerate the funneling of money generated from operations to a homelessness prevention account and make a larger share of $180 million in state transferable tax credits that are proposed for the stadium refundable to the state.
Lawmakers also inserted changes unrelated to the stadium proposal but which mirror legislation Lombardo vetoed earlier this month.
One would require all Nevada companies with at least 50 full-time employees to establish paid family and medical leave to qualify for certain tax abatements. Another would remove a provision that exempts railroad workers under state contracts from being paid the prevailing wage for similar work in the region.
Last month, Lombardo’s office introduced the stadium financing bill with less than two weeks left in the legislative session. He called lawmakers into the special session after the bill failed to pass during the regular session.
The $380 million in public funds for the stadium would mainly come from the $180 million in transferable tax credits and $120 million in county bonds. Backers have pledged that the creation of a special tax district around the proposed stadium would generate enough money to pay off those bonds and interest. The plan would not directly raise taxes unless the county cannot pay off its bonds, as is the case with other general obligation bonds.
The A’s would not owe property taxes for the publicly-owned stadium. Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, would also contribute $25 million in credit toward infrastructure costs.
The proposed 30,000-seat stadium would be the smallest in Major League Baseball.
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Roquan Smith's contract breakdown and linebacker market originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
Amidst the news of Roquan Smith's public announcement requesting a trade, the question of his contract becomes overwhelmingly prominent.
Despite hearing positive signals towards what seemed an inevitable deal made between the Bears and Smith, he took to the public to claim malfeasants against the front office.
Smith has consistently shown up to practice with an active mindset despite his placement on the PUP (physically unable to perform) list. The Bears declared Smith their WILL linebacker for the upcoming season's defense too.
Now, Smith claims the front office "doesn't value" him and have refused to "negotiate in good faith." The news comes as a major reflection on the front office and its intentions. It does not serve as a positive look for the new regime and could certainly do damage on the locker room.
The speculation about his contract suspects Smith is aiming to be the highest paid linebacker in the NFL. Shaquille Harrison, from Matt Eberflus' previous team, inked a five-year deal worth $98.5 million. Seeing that, Smith likely wants to break the $100 million mark with his sights on $20 million per year over five years.
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His first rookie contract with the Bears was worth $18 million over four years. With his contract up last season, he is due $9.7 million this season based on his fifth-year option number. That number would make give him the third-highest base salary amongst all inside linebackers.
Therein lies Smith's argument about the linebacker market. The market for linebackers is low considering no team wants to overpay a lesser valued position. However, seeing as the WILL linebacker in Eberflus' system and others around the league is based on other positions creating space for him to make plays, he's arguing the position is undervalued.
In the past two seasons, Smith has produced over 300 combined tackles and 30 plus tackles for loss. He's come inches away from breaking 100 in solo tackles in the last two seasons. While he's been snubbed from being named All-Pro, he's still the Bears' best player.
Smith would set a new precedent by signing a deal worth nine figures for an inside linebacker. That's what he intends on doing, whether it be with the Bears or a different franchise. | 2022-08-09T16:26:50+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/heres-bears-linebacker-roquan-smith-contract-breakdown-and-linebacker-market/2910376/ |
As part of President Biden's recent "Bidenomics" campaign push, aides from across the administration and close allies have been dispatched to events across the U.S. to try to convince people that the nation's strong economy is the result of the president's programs and policies.
The message sweeps in Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, a law that includes $369 billion in climate investments as a major step in the fight against climate change. But the emphasis has shifted to the number of jobs created by the projects, sidelining what the projects collectively mean for the push to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Take, for instance, a recent stop of the Bidenomics tour, where the president's top climate aide, Ali Zaidi, joined Maryland's Democratic governor, Wes Moore, at a row house near Carver Vocational-Technical High School. Students are renovating the house while learning green building techniques.
Zaidi told NPR that the green jobs programs are making a material difference in the lives of Americans.
"We see it here in Baltimore, where folks are getting enlisted to help retrofit our buildings — and they now have wind in their sails thanks to the president's climate agenda," Zaidi said.
Should Biden talk more about his climate successes?
When he took office, Biden named addressing climate change as one of his top four priorities, and his administration has focused on climate and environmental policies.
When Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law a year ago, he talked at length about how its clean energy investments would help the climate. Now, as his reelection campaign gears up, the bill's economic upsides have taken center stage in his remarks.
"This bill includes the biggest investment ever, not only in America but anywhere in the world, when dealing with climate change," Biden told a crowd of union workers in Philadelphia during the first big rally of his campaign. "And the investment isn't only going to help us save the planet. It's going to create jobs — lots of jobs, tens of thousands of good-paying union jobs."
Politically, a focus on the economy makes sense: Voters consistently rank it as the issue that is most important to them and have expressed concern about Biden's handling of it.
But the economic focus has left some voters in the dark about the considerable climate wins that the administration secured with the legislation. The Inflation Reduction Act is projected to spur a 40% reduction in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from a 2005 baseline by 2030.
Approval of Biden's performance on climate has waned
Since the bill was signed, approval for Biden's handling of climate change and the environment has declined. That's according to polling by Data for Progress, which does work for Democratic candidates and causes.
The drop was most dramatic among voters under age 30.
Koray Gates, 21, is a student in Colorado Springs, Colo., who says climate change is one of his top issues. He said he is frustrated by some of the decisions made during Biden's time in office.
"[Biden] does things like, you know, allowing drilling in the Arctic again. And so," Gates said, "it kind of undermines my faith a little bit."
In March, Biden approved a large drilling project, known as Willow, on federal land in Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle, provoking intense backlash from environmental groups and young, climate-motivated voters.
"President Biden is by far the best climate president we've had, but he's also broken some key climate promises," said Ed Maibach, who studies climate communication at George Mason University. "Those broken promises have been a profound disappointment to some of his voters, especially young voters."
Meanwhile, most Democratic voters have still not heard much about Biden's signature climate law, according to Maibach's research.
"I don't think the president has spent enough time or effort convincing Americans what a big deal the [Inflation Reduction Act] is," Maibach said. "To quote Cool Hand Luke, 'What we've got here is a failure to communicate.'"
The White House says these messages take time
When Zaidi, Biden's climate adviser, was asked whether he was concerned about young voters' frustration or the lack of awareness about the Inflation Reduction Act, he said he thought the situation would improve with time.
"I think that young people — thanks to the administration's work, thanks to the president's leadership — are going to be able to get onto a school bus that doesn't pollute. They are going to see the Postal Service fleet — that touches every home and every street in every part of the county — go fully electric," Zaidi told NPR.
"The president could not feel more urgently the need to move forward, and he has done just that," Zaidi said.
Meanwhile, young voters concerned about climate change seem unlikely to shift their support away from Biden and his party, given that Republicans have said they want to scale back Biden's climate initiatives and support increased domestic fossil fuel production.
Gates, the 21-year-old student, said that despite his frustrations with Biden, he can't imagine voting for a Republican challenger in the 2024 election — and doesn't think he or his friends would opt to sit the election out.
"It's really important to vote, even if the person who you're voting for is not perfect," Gates said, "even if not everything is as you would want it."
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The New York Lottery announced Sunday that a top-prize winning ticket was sold at the Tops on Union Road in Buffalo.
The ticket was sold for the December 10 Take 5 Evening Drawing.
The ticket is worth $38,085.50.
Drawings take place every day at 2:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
Prizes of any value must be claimed within a year of the drawing date. Check your ticket numbers here. | 2022-12-11T20:55:34+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/new-york-lottery-top-prize-winning-take-5-ticket-sold-in-buffalo |
Stampli, the leader in Accounts Payable automation, distinguishes itself through its specialization in complex, multi-entity structures and speed of integration & deployment.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stampli, the AI-powered Accounts Payable (AP) automation solution, is excited to announce that it has been named as a "recommended solution" by Sage, the leader in accounting, financial, HR and payroll technology for small and mid-sized businesses.
Sage named Stampli a "Sage Tech Partner – Plus," which means that Stampli is a recommended solution for Sage customers and partners to automate accounts payable for greater efficiency, visibility and control, with full confidence in the extent and depth of Stampli's integration with Sage Intacct.
"We are excited to collaborate with Stampli as a Sage recommended solution that enables businesses to easily navigate intricate AP processes and complex corporate structures," said Chip Mahan, Vice President and Global Commercial Head of Fintech, Payments & Banking at Sage. "Sage Recommended Solutions are those in which we have vetted and validated for ease of integration, quality of the service, and superior tech stacks for Sage customers as a complement to their core ERP."
Visit Stampli in Booth #230 at the Sage Partner Summit, May 22-24, 2023, in Las Vegas.
Even in 2023, accounts payable is still surprisingly manual
According to a 2023 research report by Stampli, 63% of AP and Finance team members surveyed expect the responsibilities of the AP team to increase in 2023, but only 39% expect to add headcount to their AP team. Bottlenecks in AP can create significant business risks, including muddy audit trails that create compliance & regulatory challenges, late or missed payments that make vendors unhappy, and difficulties controlling cash flow — to say nothing of the increased propensity for errors and fraud.
AP automation solves these problems by increasing the capacity and precision of the AP team, and by freeing staff members from routine manual efforts to focus on more strategic tasks. The American Productivity & Quality Center estimates that such automation enables each AP team member to process more than 23,000 invoices per year, as opposed to around just 6,000 invoices per year with manual systems — a productivity increase of nearly 300%.
Stampli is well-known for automating even the most complex multi-entity AP workflows, especially for businesses in healthcare, construction, manufacturing, hospitality and real estate. Stampli's integration with Sage products such as Sage Intacct extends to all native Sage functionality, making Stampli particularly suitable for multi-entity companies and organizations that prioritize fast deployment or don't want to change their ERP or existing AP processes.
Key capabilities of Stampli's AP solution include centralized collaboration, Billy the Bot™ for smart AI assistance, multi-entity subsidiary support, direct payments, integrated credit cards, and advanced vendor management.
Stampli and Sage Intacct at LTC Ally
LTC Ally, a provider of back-office services to more than 400 skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, has experienced firsthand the benefits of the Sage Intacct/Stampli partnership. As they continued to grow their technology and data-driven operations, LTC Ally sought a scalable solution that would keep pace with their ever-expanding roster of clients. Stampli's integration with Sage Intacct proved to be a game-changer.
Expanding LTC Ally's footprint in the skilled nursing market requires an adaptable solution that can rapidly onboard new entities. Stampli and Sage Intacct have been instrumental in streamlining this process. "Sometimes we take on as many as 30 skilled nursing facilities in a month, and the easiest part of our onboarding process is the AP workflow," said Sam Pirutinsky, Partner/VP of Finance at LTC Ally.
"Stampli's solution enabled us to grow without proportionally increasing our staff," notes Pirutinsky. "Our ratio of employee-to-facility has dropped significantly with our implementation of Stampli. This hasn't just been a cost-saving measure for us, it's also a significant revenue driver. We're able to onboard more nursing homes more rapidly, and this has directly impacted our bottom line. Stampli is not just an accounts payable solution; it's an enabler of our business growth."
Steve Zicherman, Partner/Executive VP of Finance, echoed these sentiments, emphasizing the efficiency gains that have resulted from using Stampli. "Stampli and Sage Intacct have allowed us to streamline our operations in a way that had a noticeable effect on both customer and internal staff satisfactions."
Zicherman also reflected on the speed of implementation. "When we were first introduced to Stampli, we were concerned that implementation could be a months-long process. When they promised us a one-day setup, we were delighted but skeptical. However, Stampli delivered. It was a clear demonstration of the commitment Stampli has to helping its customers hit the ground running."
The CEO perspective
Eyal Feldman, CEO of Stampli, commented on the partnership with Sage: "At Stampli, we have invested heavily in integrating with Sage Intacct to ensure our customers can deploy our solution quickly and easily without having to reconfigure their ERP. Our collaboration with Sage allows businesses to benefit from a more efficient accounts payable process, saving time and resources. We are proud to partner with Sage, a true leader in the financial management software space, whose commitment to delivering exceptional cloud solutions has made this seamless integration possible and highly beneficial to our mutual customers."
For more information on Stampli's accounts payable solution, visit www.stampli.com.
About Stampli
Stampli is an AI-powered Accounts Payable automation solution that makes AP departments far more efficient, without requiring them to rework their ERP or change their existing processes. Stampli's unique approach centers all AP-related communication, documentation, and workflows into one place for complete visibility and control.
Stampli is simple for users to learn and even simpler to use, especially with Billy the Bot™ automating capture, coding, routing, fraud detection, and other manual tasks. For even greater efficiency, Stampli's core AP solution is complemented by a suite of integrated products that include Direct Pay, Credit Cards, Advanced Vendor Management, and others.
Stampli supports all native functionality for more than 70 ERPs, including those from Sage, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, QuickBooks, and 70 others, enabling it to deploy in a matter of days, not months.
For more information, visit www.stampli.com.
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The second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack has arrived just days after the House committee tasked with reviewing the Capitol riot capped its historic investigation, dropping its 800-plus-page report and releasing thousands of exhibits of raw evidence about the deadly event.
But even as the public understanding of what transpired that day has grown — with the panel highlighting the central role played by then-President Trump — observers differ on whether the committee’s work casts the anniversary in a different light.
“There’s definitely a reality of the fact that we do not have a consensus in this building, in the Capitol, of what happened that day and how meaningful that was to this country. That’s just such a shame that we can’t have a sense of shared truth,” said Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.), who made headlines after he stayed behind on Jan. 6, 2021, to help clean up the destruction left in the wake of the attack.
The report attempted to offer that sense of truth both to the public and to members of Congress. Its conclusion detailed a multipronged effort to keep Trump in power, one that spanned from the Justice Department to the halls of Congress to a pressure campaign on election officials across the country.
“Given the work that the committee did and we’ve now laid out to the American public, it’s very clear what happened. It wasn’t just the events of the day, which was obviously significant, but the plotting and the planning that went on extensively prior to that day to essentially overturn the U.S. government,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), who served on the committee.
“It’s pretty profound.”
Any reflections leading up to the anniversary, already sharply divided, have been tainted by the ongoing chaos in the House, with many of the figures central in objecting to the certification of votes in 2021 — including some subpoenaed by the select committee — now emerging as key players in the Republican battle over whether Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) should serve as the next Speaker.
“What goes round comes round. The right-wing habits of chaos and betrayal the GOP unleashed against the American Republic on Jan. 6 are now destroying Lincoln’s party. The sedition you feed is the sedition that feeds on you,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the Jan. 6 committee, wrote on Twitter this week.
Even for a day many watched unfold live on television, the committee unspooled new details about Trump’s plot to remain in power, including numerous indications he knew he lost the 2020 election.
“On Jan. 6 last year, the committee hadn’t yet shared any of its findings publicly. And then, in just the span of a year, the American public has learned a tremendous amount of information about the day itself, the lead-up to it — if you compare this anniversary to the last anniversary, it’s day and night,” said Sandeep Prasanna, an attorney in private practice who previously served as an investigative counsel to the select committee.
“That makes this anniversary hit in a way that’s more serious and somber. … We’re going into this anniversary with our eyes wide open about all of the challenges that we face because of the committee’s work.”
Democrats plan to gather at the White House Friday as President Biden awards medals to various individuals who resisted efforts to contest the election results both leading up to and on Jan. 6, a group that includes election officials and law enforcement officers.
And House Democrats plan to gather in front of the Capitol in remembrance of the officers who lost their lives in the wake of the insurrection, as well as to honor those injured during the attack.
McCarthy’s office did not respond to a request for comment about any plans for the anniversary.
Still, some in the GOP also emphasized the significance of the date.
“I think we ought to be pausing on that day and not letting it just become another date on the calendar, but a date that changed America forever,” said Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.).
House Republicans have also released their own rebuttal report, focusing on what they see primarily as a major security failure to protect the Capitol.
“My views haven’t really changed. I didn’t object. I don’t think Congress can overturn the will of the states,” said Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), who on Jan. 6 posted a video asking Trump to call the riot off.
“I still think there are unanswered questions about why security was so lax around the Capitol.”
But remembrance plans and any reflection on the weight of evidence brought forward by the Jan. 6 committee have been largely overshadowed by the repeated votes held to determine the next Speaker.
“What’s really striking to me is how anticlimactic it feels,” said Quinta Jurecic, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare who has been closely following the committee’s work.
“I do think that the committee was really extraordinarily effective in uncovering evidence that Trump really did know that he lost and was central in organizing the events that led up to Jan. 6, that he intended to walk to the Capitol himself — there’s a lot of new evidence in the report on that front. And so that, I think, is really notable insofar as how we’re thinking about Trump’s accountability,” Jurecic said.
“But certainly from the point of view of being in the Capitol … we’ve come a long way and yet in a certain sense, we’re back where we started.”
The committee’s work, of course, was never squarely directed at Congress, its prime-time kickoff a clear sign it hoped to reach a broad swath of the American public. The panel would later decide to hold subsequent hearings during the day, an effort to reach Fox News viewers after the network opted not to suspend its own evening programming to cover the hearings.
Still, its subpoenas to five GOP members of Congress asking about numerous meetings with Trump White House staff to coordinate plans to reject the certification of votes made clear that legislation would need to address problems within the body itself in order to prevent future insurrections.
“What we’re seeing with the continuing chaos on the House Republican side is that thank goodness we don’t have to certify the Electoral College results right now, because we couldn’t do that because we’re not even sworn in,” said Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.).
“The American people have to ask themselves two years from now, would they really want a Republican majority in control with all this chaos that they’re showing? And so, I want people to think about that as well on Jan. 6.”
Some Republicans are also lamenting the hectic start to the new Congress.
“My first term started off with January 6. Now we’re starting off with this,” said Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.).
“Nothing has changed. I mean, it’s still the status quo up here.”
Kim said while the report is an important public record, he’s frustrated that some colleagues appear ultimately unaffected by a day they experienced themselves.
“Frankly, every single one of us, we were here that day. Like, we all know what happened. We didn’t need a report for our own purposes to understand where culpability was and challenges there. So, it’s sad in that way that we’re at a point now where people’s understanding about Jan. 6 here on the Capitol is for many people removed from the reality and truth of what happened,” he said.
“But it’s important for the American people to have that deeper understanding. And I hope that they are not afflicted by the same kind of partisan veil that so many people here in this building are.” | 2023-01-06T14:05:03+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/hill-politics/will-jan-6-anniversary-hit-differently-in-the-wake-of-house-probe/ |
A jury on Tuesday is scheduled to hear closing arguments in the trial of Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the former Theranos official charged with teaming up with his secret lover, CEO Elizabeth Holmes, to carry out a massive fraud.
The three months of testimony and evidence mirrored the case against Holmes in a separate trial last year. Holmes was convicted on four counts of defrauding investors and acquitted on four counts alleging she had also deceived patients who submitted to Theranos blood tests. She is free on $500,000 bail but faces a potential prison sentence of up to 20 years. Balwani faces the same punishment if convicted.
Holmes, 38, is awaiting sentencing in September.
Lawyers for Balwani, 57, have depicted him as a well-intentioned investor and entrepreneur who became Theranos’ chief operating officer in 2010 and then was swept into the scam by Holmes. She later dumped him as her lover and business partner in 2016 as Theranos began to unravel.
Before that fissure, Balwani put up $15 million of his own money to help bolster Theranos when Holmes brought him on board as her top lieutenant while they were clandestinely living together. Balwani’s Theranos investment eventually became worth about $500 million on paper -- a stake that his lawyers told jurors he never sold. It became worthless when the company collapsed.
Prosecutors, meanwhile, have portrayed Balwani as a ruthless accomplice who helped Holmes swindle investors. At one point, they charged, Balwani oversaw the Theranos lab that covered up serious flaws in a the company's blood-testing technology thatcould have jeopardized the lives of patients.
Holmes' bold claims for Theranos helped make her a Silicon Valley star — a rich one, too, with a paper fortune of $4.5 billion based on the company's success in fundraising and brokering business deals based on Holmes' promise that Theranos would revolutionize health care. Holmes boasted the company had developed a technology that could scan for more than 200 potential health problems with a few drops of blood taken with a finger prick.
Balwani began dating Holmes around the same time she started Theranos, and then began providing her business advice drawn from his previous success that included selling a technology startup that made him rich. Their relationship was a focal point of a Hulu TV series, “The Dropout,” about Holmes' rise and fall that was released shortly before the trial began, complicating efforts to pick an unbiased jury.
During her trial, Holmes took the witness stand and at one point tearfully accused Balwani of being a domineering figure in her life who subjected her to emotional and sexual abuse. One of Balwani’s other attorneys vehemently denied those allegations during Holmes’ trial. Balwani's lawyers have urged jurors in the current trial to discard anything they may have previously read or heard of Holmes’ allegations.
There had been speculation that that Holmes might return to court to testify against Balwani during his trial, but it never happened. Unlike Holmes, Balwani opted against testifying in his own defense during his trial. | 2022-06-21T12:38:05+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Trial-of-Elizabeth-Holmes-partner-ex-lover-17254768.php |
NEW YORK (AP) — The Department of Justice has informed former Vice President Mike Pence ‘s legal team that it will not pursue criminal charges related to the discovery of classified documents at his Indiana home.
The department sent a letter to Pence’s attorney on Thursday informing him that, after an investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, no criminal charges will be sought.
The news comes days before Pence plans to launch his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination for president — a campaign that would put him in direct competition with former President Donald Trump.
Attorney General Merrick Garland had named a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department’s investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents, as well as Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, just three days after Trump formally launched his latest campaign.
A Justice Department official confirmed the authenticity of the letter to Pence’s lawyer. | 2023-06-02T15:56:05+00:00 | 9and10news.com | https://www.9and10news.com/2023/06/02/justice-department-wont-charge-pence-over-handling-of-classified-documents/ |
PHOENIX (AP) _ Cable One Inc. (CABO) on Thursday reported third-quarter profit of $70.6 million.
On a per-share basis, the Phoenix-based company said it had profit of $11.53.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $12.61 per share.
The telecommunications company posted revenue of $424.7 million in the period, which also did not meet Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $431.8 million.
Cable One shares have fallen 55% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $802.35, a drop of 54% in the last 12 months.
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An inner city garden which feeds a community now serves as a recycling host site
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - An inner-city garden that started feeding a neighborhood is now working to keep the community litter free. The garden’s creator wants water bottles distributed in the city to be disposed of properly and is helping to make that happen.
The Sharing is Caring Neighborhood Block Garden on Powers Avenue is now a recycling host site, accepting plastic bottles and other recyclables from the community.
“I go house to house and collect the water bottles,” said garden creator Norma Michael.
For about a month the military veteran has returned to the same homes where she delivered free water to retrieve those bottles. In September Michael and her nephew, Derrick Lawson went door to door throughout the neighborhood providing free water for the elderly and those without transportation. Now she is asking them to return those plastics to the Sharing is Caring recycling site.
“It’s just great that they want to turn around and do something helpful to keep the earth from just being destroyed,” said Michael.
Residents have so far filled three super sacks with plastic bottles. Plastic bags, bottled water plastic wrappings, milk, and other containers are also accepted.
“It really helps my efforts of Keeping Jackson Beautiful a lot easier,” said Keep Jackson Beautiful Executive Director Keelan Sanders.
Michael is working with Keep Jackson Beautiful, Replenysh, and Environmentality Recycling to keep the plastics out of landfills. The nature lover downloaded the Replenysh app to establish the site.
“As of this week we’ve collected over 10,000 pounds of plastics throughout the city, but that’s only just a drop n the bucket of what actually has been put out there,” said Sanders.
The neighborhood garden is one of 15 private and public recycling sites in the city. Sanders said more recycling sites are being added daily across the city.
He suggests crushing the plastic bottles and other containers, removing excess air and water to take up less space. Keep Jackson Beautiful hopes residents will use the recycling sites being created daily in the city.
“I’m just glad to be a part of something positive,” added Michael.
The environmentalist plans to keep the recycling open indefinitely.
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Copyright 2022 WLBT. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-13T23:58:37+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/2022/10/13/an-inner-city-garden-which-feeds-community-now-serves-recycling-host-site/ |
Volkswagen enthusiasts gather for annual V-Dubs in the Park
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) -Volkswagen enthusiasts from all over the country were in Medicine Park on Saturday for the annual v-dubs in the park show.
This was the Volkswagen Club of Oklahoma’s 8th annual show.
Some members of the club even camped out over night for the big event.
The show was hosted by Fancy Nancy’s grill and bar, who spent days preparing for their arrival.
There were top picks for both new and older cars, each winner received a skateboard deck.
VDW board member, Angela Bumgarner says the brand has created a special bond between attendees.
“ It’s not only popular for the Volkswagen owners, but just Volkswagen lovers that want to come look at the cars enjoy coming to these shows and just seeing all the different Volkswagens they came in all varieties and there’s a lot of people that are just really lovers of Volkswagens,” Bumgarner said.
Bumgarner said due to venue changes she didn’t expect such a great response from the community.
Now she’s believes that next’s years show will be even bigger.
If you have a Volkswagen you can stop by, or set up the night before to get to know fellow Volkswagen lovers.
Copyright 2023 KSWO. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-19T18:19:52+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/2023/03/19/volkswagen-enthusiasts-gather-annual-v-dubs-park/ |
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Man charged after smashing 18 cars at dealership with ax, police say
Published: Jul. 20, 2022 at 4:09 PM CDT|Updated: 22 minutes ago
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KSFY/Gray News) – A man was charged after police say he took an ax to 18 cars at a dealership in South Dakota, causing six figures in property damage.
Joseph Blackbonnet, 32, was charged with aggravated intentional damage to property.
Sioux Falls police received multiple calls around 9 p.m. Tuesday concerning a man who was using an ax to smash the windows of vehicles for sale at the dealership.
When officers arrived, they located Blackbonnet at the dealership and said he still had the ax with him. Officers took Blackbonnet into custody.
Officials estimate the damage to be at least $100,000.
Police did not release a motive or further details.
Copyright 2022 KSFY via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-20T21:33:55+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/2022/07/20/man-charged-after-smashing-18-cars-dealership-with-ax-police-say/ |
(WKBN) – Each year during April and May sky gazers are treated to a dazzling display from the eta Aquariid meteor shower.
“A meteor shower is like a normal rain shower, with 50-60 meteors per hour,” said Bill Cooke, lead of NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in a NASA blog post. “An outburst is like a thunderstorm, with greater than normal meteor activity expected. A meteor storm is like a tornado, where meteor rates are over one thousand per hour.”
NASA says the eta Aquariid could be especially impressive this year, with astronomers expecting 120-160 meteors per hour.
The meteor shower starts around April 15 and goes through May 27 each year. Projections for the peak of the eta Aquariid shower tend to vary a bit, but the American Meteor Society predicts it will happen on May 6.
How many meteors will we see?
People in the Northern Hemisphere will see a few fireballs leave glowing trains in their wake, but not as many as those who live south of the equator as this is a better shower for the Southern Hemisphere.
Under a dark sky, it is possible to see 10 to 20 meteors per hour in the southern United States.
Out west, Californians who live far from big cities and other sources of light pollution will see roughly 10 fireballs per hour, according to the Redding Record Searchlight.
The full flower moon will limit our viewing
The other item that will limit our viewing will be the full flower moon. It will be close to being full, throwing a lot of light into the sky. This will reduce our chances of catching a shooting star from this shower. There is a chance to see a few.
When is the full moon?
The full moon will take place on May 5, 2023. The full moon during May is known as the Full Flower Moon.
When is the best time to catch the meteor shower?
The best time to see one would be in the hours before sunrise on May 6-7.
What causes the meteor shower?
This shower is the result of the earth passing through the debris trail of Halley’s Comet. These flying space pieces of debris pass through the earth’s atmosphere and become meteors.
Halley’s Comet only passes through every 75 to 76 years. The last time was in 1986 when we could see it with our eyes from the Earth. It won’t be around again until 2061. | 2023-05-05T21:17:22+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/meteor-shower-peaks-this-weekend-when-to-watch/ |
CHICAGO (AP) — CHICAGO (AP) — LKQ Corp. (LKQ) on Thursday reported first-quarter net income of $270 million.
On a per-share basis, the Chicago-based company said it had net income of $1.01. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $1.04 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 96 cents per share.
The vehicle components company posted revenue of $3.35 billion in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $3.26 billion.
LKQ expects full-year earnings in the range of $3.90 to $4.20 per share.
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GREENSBORO — Residents along South Benbow Road want to bring even more of the city’s Black history to light.
As the area applies for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, the city’s Planning Department is hosting a Historic Memorabilia Scan Day on Thursday at Hayes-Taylor YMCA on East Florida Street. The memorabilia will be incorporated into a series of oral histories being produced by historian Bernetiae Reed and projects being developed by UNCG and N.C. A&T faculty and staff.
Reed was reflecting on how devastating storms in parts of the country have destroyed homes and communities and everything in them.
A project to nominate the South Benbow Road area as a candidate for the National Register of Historic Places is underway and recently got a boost.
“People are losing parts of their history and heritage,” Reed said of items that helped tell the stories of those communities.
People are also reading…
Having photos and documents scanned can preserve them for generations to come, she said.
While Greensboro’s significance in the civil rights movement is extensively documented, residents along South Benbow Road want to also highlight the people, places and events that were important parts of everyday life, be it home, work, church, school or fun.
“Everyone can leave with what they brought,” said Eric Woodard, one of the event’s organizers, of often hard-to-part-with items that people would still love to share.
For example, one Benbow Park resident plans to have scanned the obituaries and photos of William “Bill” Streat and Dr. David Trader. Streat, an MIT-educated architect, served as professor and chairman of A&T’s architectural engineering department. Prior to his time at A&T, Streat flew a B-25 bomber for the Army Air Corps as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
He designed and built his residence on Tuscaloosa Avenue, off of Benbow Road.
Trader, an alumnus of Morgan State and Howard universities, served as a combat physician in Korea. In Greensboro, he was the chief of staff and chief of medical service at the segregated L. Richardson Memorial Hospital. The first Black internist in the city, Trader would later join the staff at Moses Cone Hospital.
Trader and his family for a while lived in Benbow Park. His obituary lists Dr. George Evans and Dr. Alvin Blount as speakers at his funeral, themselves trailblazers in medicine and civil rights in Greensboro.
The source for the documents on Streat and Trader is Fredrica Sayles, a Benbow Park resident who passed away recently at 103. The Streats were family friends, and Trader was a neighbor to Sayles for a time.
Sayles’ first husband, James Reid, is believed to be the first Black soldier killed in Italy during World War II as a member of the 92nd Infantry, better known as the “Buffalo Soldiers.”
An avid horticulturalist before entering the U.S. Army, Reid is honored at A&T with his name on the campus greenhouse.
Organizers hope that the effort is a rallying cry for people who may no longer live in the area but have items to contribute.
“People have dispersed and some have moved away to different parts of the city, but they may still have memorabilia — something that reflects back to the neighborhoods along South Benbow Road,” Woodard said.
Woodard added that the interest in the South Benbow Road project should captivate history buffs and others.
“We say that it’s Black history, but this is all of our history,” Woodard said. “They played a part in shaping all of our lives. This is Greensboro history, North Carolina history, U.S. history, and to be honest, world history. Some of the folks from there, they’ve affected the world.” | 2023-04-05T13:12:50+00:00 | greensboro.com | https://greensboro.com/news/local/south-benbow-road-national-register-of-historic-places/article_dbcdcb6e-d27d-11ed-9882-7ba9b0c2126e.html |
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge on Monday granted a request from Planned Parenthood to delay implementing the state’s trigger law banning most abortions, as implications of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade reverberate nationwide.
With the decision, abortion remains legal up to 18 weeks in Utah, which is among a group of states where abortion rights have been thrown into limbo amid the legal and political challenges shaping the post-Roe landscape with states now holding the power to restrict abortion.
“What I’m really doing is saying we have serious things to talk about,” Judge Andrew Stone said after granting an injunction delaying the trigger law.
He said the status quo should remain in effect until a challenge from the state’s Planned Parenthood affiliate can be heard fully.
Meanwhile, a Minnesota judge declared most of that state’s restrictions on abortion unconstitutional. In Michigan, a campaign turned in a record-breaking number of signatures so voters can be asked on the November ballot whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.
Federally, the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that hospitals “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions. Currently, even states with the most stringent abortion bans allow exceptions when the health of a mother is at risk, though the threat of prosecution has created confusion for some doctors.
Last month’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that found the right to abortion was protected by the U.S. Constitution. The issue reverted to the states, setting off new court battles and ballot initiatives as many states act to curtail or ban abortions.
Utah is among more than a dozen states with trigger laws designed to limit abortion upon the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The decision on Monday comes two weeks after the court put a temporary hold on the law, which bans most abortions with exceptions for rape, incest or maternal health. Stone, who was appointed by a Republican governor, blocked its enforcement for 14 days after the state’s branch of Planned Parenthood sued. His decision effectively extends the temporarily hold placed on the law and allows Planned Parenthood clinics to continue providing abortions until the case is resolved.
Attorneys for Utah argued language in the state constitution allowed for abortions to be banned and said delaying the implementation of the trigger law would amount to overruling the will of Legislature and Utah voters. Julie Murray, Planned Parenthood’s attorney, said not delaying the implementation of the law could open its staff to criminal charges and hurt roughly 200 patients with scheduled appointments in the month ahead.
Stone granted a preliminary injunction, which would let Planned Parenthood clinics continue to provide abortion care — up to 18 weeks of pregnancy under another recently passed limit — until the court rules on the constitutional questions.
The judge in Minnesota declared most of the state’s restrictions on abortion unconstitutional, including a 24-hour waiting period and a requirement that both parents be notified before a minor can get an abortion. Ramsey County District Judge Thomas Gilligan also struck down requirements that only physicians can perform abortions and that abortions after the first trimester must be performed in hospitals. His order took effect immediately, meaning the limits can’t be enforced.
Gender Justice and other abortion rights groups argued the restrictions were unconstitutional under a 1995 Minnesota Supreme Court holding that the state constitution protects abortion rights. The judge called that case “significant and historic” and said it’s unaffected by the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
“These abortion laws violate the right to privacy because they infringe upon the fundamental right under the Minnesota Constitution to access abortion care and do not withstand strict scrutiny,” Gilligan wrote.
The ruling is expected to benefit patients from restrictive states who could go to Minnesota for reproductive health care. Providers have been preparing for a surge in patients from neighboring upper Midwest states, and even farther away.
Opponents of abortion rights condemned the decision. Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life said the laws challenged in the case are “common sense measures that support and empower pregnant women” and striking them down blocks residents from “enacting reasonable protections for unborn children and their mothers.” A Republican attorney general candidate called on the Democratic attorney general to appeal.
In a Louisiana state court Monday, legal efforts to stave off the permanent closure of the state’s three abortion clinics were renewed. A New Orleans judge refused last week to extend a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of the state’s abortion ban, saying the case belonged in Baton Rouge.
Attorneys for a north Louisiana clinic and an abortion rights group are now seeking a new restraining order from a Baton Rouge judge. Attorney General Jeff Landry’s office says a temporary restraining order cannot be renewed once it has expired.
In Arizona, a federal judge on Monday blocked a 2021 “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to unborn children. Abortion providers argued the law can lead to criminal charges such as assault or child abuse and say it is unconstitutionally vague. Judge Douglas Rayes agreed in his ruling.
All abortions in Arizona stopped last month, but they could restart in at least one county following the ruling.
Alongside lawsuits to challenge bans, abortion rights supporters are trying to add ballot questions to enshrine abortion rights in state constitutions.
More than 750,000 signatures were turned in by the campaign in Michigan on Monday — close to double the number needed. The Democratic governor and attorney general in the battleground state have both made abortion rights a centerpiece of their reelection campaigns.
“The number of signatures showed that here in Michigan we trust women. We trust people. We trust doctors, not politicians, to make decisions about our body, our pregnancy and parenthood,” Reproductive Freedom for All spokesperson Shanay Watson-Whittaker said during a news conference in Lansing.
The signatures still must be verified and validated. A judge has temporarily blocked a 1931 Michigan law that would make abortion a felony except when “necessary to preserve the life of such woman.”
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has said that the law is invalid under the due process and equal protection clauses of the state constitution. The injunction, which stems from a Planned Parenthood lawsuit, could be revoked at any time.
Last week, backers of a last-minute effort to enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona Constitution failed to collect enough signatures to make the November ballot. In California, voters will decide in November whether to guarantee the right to an abortion in their constitution. Democrats who control the government in California fear the state’s abortion laws could be vulnerable to legal challenges.
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McDermott reported from Providence, Rhode Island, and Karnowski reported from St. Paul, Minnesota. Associated Press writer Kevin McGill in New Orleans and Associated Press/Report for America writer Joey Cappelletti in Lansing, Michigan contributed to this report. | 2022-07-12T17:35:13+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/judges-rule-on-state-abortion-restrictions-shape-roe-impact/ |
(The Hill) – The National Rifle Association (NRA) is moving forward with its annual summit in Houston, Texas, this weekend despite calls for the event to be canceled.
The pro-gun group’s three-day convention, which starts Friday, is located less than 300 miles from the site of the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade. On Tuesday, an 18-year-old shot and killed 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas using guns he bought just days before.
The NRA, the most powerful gun rights group in the nation, has lobbied GOP lawmakers to oppose bills to expand background checks on gun sales, ban assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines and enact “red flag” provisions that allow authorities to take guns away from individuals who pose a threat.
The organization’s role in defeating federal gun control legislation after every mass school shooting, and backing of bills to loosen gun laws in several states, including Texas, has sparked outrage and pleas for the conference to be called off.
Here are five things to know about the NRA’s annual meeting.
Trump, Cruz, Abbott set to speak
Former President Trump, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) are scheduled to deliver remarks to NRA members on Friday. Of those planned speakers, Trump was the only one to confirm his attendance as of Thursday afternoon.
“America needs real solutions and real leadership in this moment, not politicians and partisanship,” Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform. “That’s why I will keep my longtime commitment to speak in Texas at the NRA Convention and deliver an important address to America.”
Cruz and Abbott, both staunch opponents of gun restrictions, are under pressure to cancel their speeches at the Houston convention center.
“What an absolute fraud the governor of Texas is,” Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on the Senate floor Thursday. “And this is the same Gov. Abbott who tomorrow, tomorrow, will go speak at the NRA convention in Houston.”
Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat who will face off with Abbott in November’s gubernatorial election, urged him over Twitter to “immediately withdraw from this weekend’s NRA convention and urge them to hold it anywhere but Texas,” joining a chorus of calls for Abbott to skip the event.
“Governor, your attendance at the event right after 19 innocent children were murdered by a gun sends a message that guns are more important than the lives you represent,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson wrote in a letter to Abbott on Wednesday. “Which is more important to you?”
Some have pulled out of the event
A small number of high-profile guests will no longer attend the NRA meeting following the shooting.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) will not speak at the convention due to “an unexpected change in his schedule” that occurred prior to the Uvalde shooting, his office said.
“He has to be in D.C. for personal reasons on Friday,” a Cornyn spokesperson said.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), another planned speaker, will not attend because he will be in Ukraine, a change that was made before the shooting took place, according to a spokesperson.
Country singers Larry Gatlin and Larry Stewart on Thursday announced that they will pull out of the NRA convention. Gatlin said in a statement that he could not “in good conscience” perform at the event and called on the NRA to drop its opposition to expanded background checks.
That comes after “American Pie” singer Don McLean told news organizations Wednesday that he will cancel his performance at the NRA due to Tuesday’s horrific attack.
“In light of the recent events in Texas, I have decided it would be disrespectful and hurtful for me to perform for the NRA at their convention in Houston this week,” McLean said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the AR-15-style weapon used by the suspected shooter, is no longer listed as an exhibitor at this weekend’s convention, according to the NRA’s website. Countless other gun manufacturers will promote their products at the event.
Activists push Houston to cancel the event
Scores of activist organizations are putting pressure on the city of Houston to block the NRA conference from taking place.
Advocacy group ParentsTogether collected more than 200,000 signatures within 24 hours calling on the local government corporation that owns the Houston convention center to cancel the event.
“While there are differences of opinion on the NRA and the exact current day interpretation of the Second Amendment, we should all be able to agree that it’s inappropriate for the largest gun lobbying organization in the world to host a celebratory convention in the very same state as this week’s mass elementary school shooting,” the group said.
Several local organizations, including Black Lives Matter Houston, Indivisible Houston and the Harris County Democratic Party, are preparing to protest the convention.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, a Democrat, told outraged residents this week that the city cannot prevent the event from taking place due to the threat of ensuing legal action.
“It’s a contractual arrangement. We simply cannot cancel a conference or convention because we do not agree with the subject matter,” Turner said during a public meeting Wednesday.
The NRA confirmed that the event will go on as scheduled, and indicated that the organization will address the devastating shooting. The NRA previously decided to hold its annual meeting after the 1999 Columbine, Colo., shooting after considering calling it off.
“As we gather in Houston, we will reflect on these events, pray for the victims, recognize our patriotic members, and pledge to redouble our commitment to making our schools secure,” the NRA said in a statement Wednesday.
Guns are banned during Trump’s speech
NRA members will not be allowed to carry guns during Friday’s forum that includes remarks from Trump and other high-profile Republicans.
The pro-gun group told attendees that the Secret Service will use magnetometers to screen attendees for guns, ammunition, holsters, magazines, gun parts and even toy guns, all of which are prohibited during the event.
Guns are allowed during other events at the annual meeting, but the NRA warned attendees of Friday’s forum that the convention center won’t provide storage for firearms.
Planned speakers benefited from NRA cash
The NRA shells out tens of millions of dollars in each election cycle to support GOP candidates, some of whom are set to speak at the NRA event Friday.
The pro-gun group spent nearly $48 million on ads backing Trump and attacking his Democratic opponents during the 2016 and 2020 elections, according to research group OpenSecrets. The pro-Trump ads accounted for the bulk of the NRA’s election spending in both contests.
Trump indicated support for expanding background checks on gun sales in 2019 following back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, but his tone changed after a meeting with NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, where they reportedly discussed the president’s reelection campaign.
According to OpenSecrets, Cruz is the top recipient of campaign donations from gun rights interests, which include the NRA and other pro-gun groups. He’s received more than $442,000 over the course of his career. However, Cruz is only the No. 37 recipient of total NRA support, including donations and election ads, among members of Congress.
Democrats and gun control activists swiftly linked the NRA’s political spending to inaction in Congress.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said Thursday that the NRA blocks bills to restrict access to guns by using “dark money political muscle,” noting that the group, like most political nonprofits, does not disclose the identities of its donors.
“It’s not the only place in which dark money political muscle has disabled the Congress, but it is certainly one of the worst,” he said. | 2022-05-27T10:44:01+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/five-things-to-know-as-nra-presses-ahead-with-texas-summit/ |
Wout Faes has just become Liverpool fans’ favorite player – and he doesn’t play for them.
The Leicester City center back was at fault for two own goals in a span of seven minutes that turned the Foxes’ early 1-0 lead into a 2-1 deficit at halftime.
After Keirnan Dewsbury-Hall opened the scoring at Anfield in the fourth minute, Faes’ first own goal came in the 38th.
Liverpool right back Trent Alexander-Arnold whipped in a low out-swinging cross from the right flank to the penalty box that goalkeeper Danny Ward rushed out to secure. However, Faes got in the way to clear it, but his attempt saw the ball loop over everyone’s heads and into the left far post.
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If that wasn’t unfortunate enough, lightning struck twice. The 24-year-old Belgian found himself with another own goal in the 45th minute right before halftime.
Darwin Núñez made his usual threatening run with the ball towards the left channel and dinked the ball over Ward, who had rushed out in an attempt to appear big before Núñez’s shot.
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The shot came off the right far post, but Faes fell right in front of the ball’s path and watched himself put it in.
Faes’ misfortunes saw him become the first player to score two own goals in a single Premier League match since Jonathan Walters, who did so for Stoke City against Chelsea in 2013, according to Sky Sports.
He had just joined the club over the summer from Ligue 1 side Stade Reims for a transfer fee worth 17 million euros, according to Transfermarkt.
At this rate, maybe manager Brendan Rodgers changes Faes’ position to striker as Leicester looks to equalize in the second half. | 2022-12-30T21:54:02+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/sports/watch-leicester-citys-wout-faes-score-two-own-goals-vs-liverpool/2940602/ |
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New 18-part video program focuses on sex as a biological variable in preclinical research to address knowledge gaps in scientific inquiry and accuracy
NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cohen Veterans Bioscience (CVB) is proud to introduce an unprecedented new video series that provides the practical knowledge necessary for researchers to incorporate sex as a biological variable into their current and future research. Titled Addressing Sex as a Biological Variable in Preclinical Pharmacology and Neuroscience Research: Accounting for Neglected Factors and Applying Practical Solutions to Enhance Rigor and Reproducibility, the 18-part video training program was developed to help strengthen the translation of basic research findings to human care.
Developed under the leadership of Dr. Chantelle Ferland-Beckham, PhD, Senior Director of External Affairs and head of educational programming for CVB, the video series was created in response to a 2015 National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy aiming to transform research design, analysis, and reporting in the preclinical sphere by ensuring that both male and female organisms were included in early-stage animal research. A similar policy was enacted nearly 20 years earlier (in 1993) mandating the inclusion of women in human studies. Prior to 2015, most biomedical research was conducted solely in male animals. As a result, females were historically underrepresented in preclinical research studies.
"Research based solely on males can translate poorly to female human populations," said Dr. Ferland-Beckham. "This is particularly troubling in the field of neuroscience, where there are many well-established differences in basic biology between men and women. Research in brain disorders often shows sex differences in the prevalence, progression, and responses to treatment. By determining how males and females are both similar and different across biological systems, we drive the discovery of health solutions that better fit the entire population," Dr. Ferland-Beckham added.
For many researchers, navigating the new policy has led to confusion and revealed a knowledge gap that has hindered them from fully adopting the policy. This new video series aims to overcome that knowledge gap. Across the 18 videos, researchers will be able to review what is known about sex differences in the fields of neuroscience and pharmacology and learn why research inclusive of both sexes is important for advancing patient-centered treatments and spurs innovation by opening new areas of potential discovery.
Dr. Magali Haas, MD, PhD, CEO of CVB noted, "Females have historically not been part of the equation when it comes to the important health discoveries that have shaped clinical care. The assumption that women and men were fundamentally similar beyond the reproductive system left major gaps in our understanding, at the detriment of informing sex-appropriate medical care. When we factor biological sex into the design, analysis and reporting of all research studies, we ensure that we aren't making decisions for 100% of the population based on half of the data."
The videos are available now on the Global Preclinical Data Forum's website (https://www.preclinicaldataforum.org/addressing-sex-as-a-biological-variable-training/), a joint global initiative of CVB and the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology to address modern issues in preclinical science that contribute to poor research quality and hinder progress in clinical care. Many of the activities of the Global Preclinical Data Forum center around providing training to early career researchers on how to ensure that the science they conduct abides by rigorous standards of experimental design, methodology, analysis, interpretation and reporting.
Dr. Ferland-Beckham added: "When we have confidence that the research on which we base our knowledge is conducted in such a way that others can reliably reproduce and extend the findings, then our ability to further scientific discovery and maximize efforts increases. CVB believes that training the next generation of the scientific workforce in these principles is key to improving the success rate of clinical research and development. We are proud to be able to add this training series on sex as a biological variable to our toolbox of resources that will further improve the basic starting material for all research in brain health."
The creation of these training videos was made possible through a generous grant from the National Institute of General Medicines (Grant Number: 5 R25 GM133017-03), awarded to Cohen Veterans Bioscience (Principal Investigator: Chantelle Ferland-Beckham, PhD), and through the direct contributions of an advisory board of internationally recognized experts in the fields of sex differences, neuropharmacology and research design and analysis.
Cohen Veterans Bioscience (CVB) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) biomedical research organization dedicated to fast-tracking the development of diagnostic tests and personalized therapeutics for the millions of veterans and civilians who suffer the devastating effects of trauma-related and other brain disorders. CVB promotes best practices in research for evidence-driven, reproducible, and effective solutions. To support & learn more about our research efforts visit www.cohenveteransbioscience.org.
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Titans OC Todd Downing arrested for DUI hours after win over Packers originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
Just hours after a victory over the Green Bay Packers on Thursday Night Football, the mood surrounding the Tennessee Titans has quickly changed.
Offensive coordinator Todd Downing was arrested early Friday morning for driving under the influence and speeding, according to Tennessee Highway Patrol.
The Titans’ team plane landed in Nashville at 2:11 a.m. CT, according to ProFootballTalk, and Downing was pulled over at 3:49 a.m. CT. Terry McCormick of TitanInsider.com first reported the news.
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Downing was booked at Williamson County jail (just south of Nashville) at 4:39 a.m. CT and released on bond at 6:46 a.m. CT.
"We are aware of the reports regarding Todd Downing and are in the process of gathering additional information," the Titans said in a statement Friday.
The Titans had plenty to celebrate last night, but obviously, things got out of hand. Downing’s offense scored a season-high 27 points in a resounding 10-point victory over the Packers, which moved Tennessee to 7-3 on the season.
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Downing, 42, has been an NFL assistant coach since 2005 with the Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Rams, Detroit Lions, Buffalo Bills and Oakland Raiders. He’s been the Titans’ offensive coordinator since 2021 after serving as their tight ends coach in 2019 and 2020.
Mike Vrabel’s team won’t play again until next Sunday, Nov. 27, against the Cincinnati Bengals. Downing’s status for that game and beyond remains unclear. | 2022-11-18T18:13:50+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/sports/titans-oc-todd-downing-arrested-for-dui-hours-after-win-over-packers/2912335/ |
BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met on Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and said they agreed to “stabilize” badly deteriorated U.S.-China ties, but America’s top diplomat left Beijing with his biggest ask rebuffed: better communications between their militaries.
After meeting Xi, Blinken said China is not ready to resume military-to-military contacts, something the U.S. considers crucial to avoid miscalculation and conflict, particularly over Taiwan.
Still, China’s main diplomat for the Western Hemisphere, Yang Tao, said he thought Blinken’s visit to China “marks a new beginning.”
“The U.S. side is surely aware of why there is difficulty in military-to-military exchanges,” he said, blaming the issue squarely on U.S. sanctions, which Blinken said revolved entirely around threats to American security.
Yet Blinken and Xi pronounced themselves satisfied with progress made during the two days of talks, without pointing to specific areas of agreement beyond a mutual decision to return to a broad agenda for cooperation and competition endorsed last year year by Xi and President Joe Biden at a summit in Bali.
And, it remained unclear if those understandings can resolve their most important disagreements, many of which have international implications. Still, both men said they were pleased with the outcome of the highest-level U.S. visit to China in five years.
The two sides expressed a willingness to hold more talks, but there was little indication that either is prepared to bend from positions on issues including trade, Taiwan, human rights conditions in China and Hong Kong, Chinese military assertiveness in the South China Sea, and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Blinken said later that the U.S. set limited objectives for the trip and achieved them. He told reporters before leaving for a Ukraine reconstruction conference in London that he had raised the issue of military to military communications “repeatedly.”
“It is absolutely vital that we have these kinds of communications,” he said. “This is something we’re going to keep working on.”
Speaking to reporters Monday during a campaign fundraising trip to California, Biden said Blinken did a “hell of a job.” The president said “you know” progress was made with relations between the U.S. and China because of the meeting.
The U.S. has said that, since 2021, China has declined or failed to respond to over a dozen requests from the Department of Defense for top-level dialogues.
According to a transcript of the meeting with Blinken, Xi said he was pleased with the outcome of Blinken’s earlier meetings with top Chinese diplomats and said restarting the Bali agenda were of great importance.
“The Chinese side has made our position clear, and the two sides have agreed to follow through the common understandings President Biden and I had reached in Bali,” Xi said.
That agenda had been thrown into jeopardy in recent months, notably after the U.S. shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon over its airspace in February, and amid escalated military activity in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. Combined with other disputes over human rights, trade and opiate production, the list of problem areas is daunting.
But also Xi suggested the worst could be over.
“The two sides have also made progress and reached agreement on some specific issues,” Xi said without elaborating, according to a transcript of the remarks released by the State Department. “This is very good.”
In his remarks to Xi during the 35-minute session at the Great Hall of the People, a meeting that was expected but not announced until an hour before it started, Blinken said “the United States and China have an obligation and responsibility to manage our relationship.”
“The United States is committed to doing that,” Blinken said. “It’s in the interest of the United States, in the interests of China, and in the interest of the world.”
Blinken described his earlier discussions with senior Chinese officials as “candid and constructive.”
Despite the symbolism of his presence in China, Blinken and other U.S. officials had played down the prospects for any significant breakthroughs on the most vexing issues facing the planet’s two largest economies.
Instead, these officials have emphasized the importance of the two countries establishing and maintaining better lines of communication.
Thus, China’s refusal to resume the military-to-military contacts was a hitch.
“Progress is hard,” Blinken told reporters. “It takes time, it takes more than one visit.”
Blinken’s trip is expected to herald a new round of visits by senior U.S. and Chinese officials to each other’s countries, possibly including a meeting between Xi and Biden in India or the U.S in the coming months.
Before meeting with Xi, Blinken met earlier Monday with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi for about three hours, an encounter that produced a harsh assessment of the talks.
China’s foreign ministry said “it is necessary to make a choice between dialogue or confrontation, cooperation or conflict.” It blamed the “U.S. side’s erroneous perception of China, leading to incorrect policies towards China” for the current “low point” in relations.
And, it said the U.S. bore responsibility for halting “the spiraling decline of China-U.S. relations to push it back to a healthy and stable track.” It added that Wang had “demanded that the U.S. stop hyping up the ‘China threat theory,’ lift illegal unilateral sanctions against China, abandon suppression of China’s technological development, and refrain from arbitrary interference in China’s internal affairs.”
In it’s readout of the meeting, the State Department said Blinken “underscored the importance of responsibly managing the competition between the United States and the PRC through open channels of communication to ensure competition does not veer into conflict,” using the acronym for the People’s Republic of China.
In the first round of talks on Sunday, Blinken met for nearly six hours with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, after which both countries said they had agreed to continue high-level discussions.
Both the U.S. and China said Qin had accepted an invitation from Blinken to visit Washington but Beijing made clear that “the China-U.S. relationship is at the lowest point since its establishment.” That sentiment is widely shared by U.S. officials.
Blinken’s visit came after his initial plans to travel to China were postponed in February after the shootdown of a Chinese surveillance balloon over the U.S.
In his meetings, Blinken also pressed the Chinese to release detained American citizens and to take steps to curb the production and export of fentanyl precursors that are fueling the opioid crisis in the United States.
Since the cancellation of Blinken’s trip in February, there have been some high-level engagements. CIA chief William Burns traveled to China in May, while China’s commerce minister traveled to the U.S. And Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with senior Chinese foreign policy adviser Wang Yi in Vienna in May.
But those have been punctuated by bursts of angry rhetoric from both countries over the Taiwan Strait, their broader intentions in the Indo-Pacific, China’s refusal to condemn Russia for its war against Ukraine, and U.S. allegations from Washington that Beijing is attempting to boost its worldwide surveillance capabilities, including in Cuba.
And, earlier this month, China’s defense minister rebuffed a request from U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for a meeting on the sidelines of a security symposium in Singapore, a sign of continuing discontent.
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Associated Press writer Emily Wang contributed. | 2023-06-19T22:24:49+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/international/blinken-opens-second-day-of-talks-in-beijing-on-mission-to-ease-soaring-us-china-tensions/ |
As 2022 turned to 2023, an exceptionally strong wintertime heat dome pounced on much of Europe, producing unprecedented warmth for January. As temperatures soared 18 to 36 degrees Fahrenheit (10 to 20 Celsius) above normal from France to western Russia, thousands of records were broken between Saturday and Monday - many by large margins.
The extreme warm spell followed a record-warm year in many parts of Europe and provided yet another example of how human-caused climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of such extraordinary weather events.
On New Year's Day, at least seven countries saw their warmest January weather on record as temperatures surged to springtime levels: Latvia hit 52 degrees (11.1 Celsius); Denmark 54.7 degrees (12.6 Celsius); Lithuania 58.3 degrees (14.6 Celsius); Belarus 61.5 degrees (16.4 Celsius); the Netherlands 62.4 degrees (16.9 Celsius); Poland 66.2 degrees (19.0 Celsius); and the Czech Republic 67.3 degrees (19.6 Celsius).
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Those who track worldwide weather records described the warm spell as historic and could hardly believe its scope and magnitude.
Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist who tracks global weather extremes, called the event "totally insane" and "absolute madness" in text messages to the Capital Weather Gang. He wrote that some of the high nighttime temperatures observed were uncommon in midsummer.
It's "the most extreme event ever seen in European climatology," Herrera wrote. "Nothing stands close to this."
Guillaume Séchet, a broadcast meteorologist in France, agreed, tweeting that Sunday was one of the most incredible days in Europe's climate history.
"The intensity and extent of warmth in Europe right now is hard to comprehend," tweeted Scott Duncan, a meteorologist based in London.
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Here are some of the most impressive records that were set in Europe on New Year's Day:
- In Poland, it was so warm that the January national high-temperature record was broken before sunrise. The town of Glucholazy was 65.7 degrees at 4 a.m., which is warmer than its average low temperature in midsummer. Temperatures rose further as the day progressed.
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- Bilbao, Spain, reached 77.2 degrees (25.1 Celsius), its hottest January day.
- Trois-Ville, France, reached 76.8 degrees (24.9 Celsius), a record for the month. It was among more than 100 records set across the country Sunday, including 75.2 degrees (24.0 Celsius) in Dax, and 65.5 degrees (18.6 Celsius) at stations with data dating to the 1800s in Besançon and Châteauroux.
- Ohlsbach, Germany, reached 66.9 degrees (19.4 Celsius) for a monthly record and the highest temperature of the day in Germany. Other locations, including Berlin at 60.8 degrees (16 Celsius), also set January records. Berlin was among the places that set records both New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
- Warsaw's high of 66.2 degrees (19 Celsius) demolished the its previous January record by 9.2 degrees (5.1 Celsius).
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While the most extreme temperatures occurred on New Year's Day, exceptionally mild weather began on New Year's Eve.
Scores of calendar day and monthly records fell on Saturday, surpassing marks set just a year before in many instances.
The Czech Republic's weather service tweeted that the country posted its warmest New Year's Eve on record. Prague, with 247 years of measurements, set a new monthly maximum of 63.9 degrees (17.7 Celsius).
Here are some of the more significant temperature records set Saturday:
- France saw impressive record values such as a high of 76.6 degrees (24.8 Celsius) in Verdun. The country as a whole saw its warmest New Year’s Eve.
- Six of nine federal states in mountainous Austria saw their warmest Dec. 31 on record. Temperatures were as warm as 64.9 degrees (18.3 Celsius) in Aspach.
- Luxembourg set a December record for the country with 64.0 degrees (17.8 Celsius) in Wormeldange. Belgium reached a December record high of 63.5 degrees (17.5 Celsius) at Diepenbeek.
- Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler bested Germany’s highest December minimum as it only dipped to 59.5 degrees (15.3 Celsius).
Monday marked the third day of widespread high temperatures previously unheard of in midwinter. Many more monthly and daily records were set in the eastern half of Europe, particularly in Germany, Hungary, Romania and Russia.
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By Tuesday, the places where temperatures will be the most above-average are likely to shift toward Ukraine. After that, the warmth should ease some.
This exceptional wintertime warmth comes on the heels of the warmest 2022 in many parts of Europe, including in the U.K., Germany and Switzerland.
Extreme heat visited Europe in waves throughout the year and was intensified by a historically severe summer drought. The combination helped push the United Kingdom to 104 degrees (40 Celsius) for the first time on record in July.
Although the warmth is slowly easing in Europe as Arctic air creeps in from the northeast, above-normal temperatures are forecast for much of the mainland region through at least Jan. 10. After that, the forecast is a little less clear, but a cooler pattern could emerge by mid-month. | 2023-01-03T14:29:47+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/03/world/thousands-records-shattered-historic-winter-warm-spell-europe/ |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai International Airport saw a surge in passengers over the first half of 2022 as pandemic restrictions eased and the upcoming FIFA World Cup in Qatar will further boost traffic to the city-state’s second airfield, its chief executive said Wednesday.
Paul Griffiths, who oversees the world’s busiest airport for international travel, told The Associated Press that the airport handled 160% more traffic over the past six months compared to the same period last year, part of an air travel rebound around the world.
The nearly 28 million people who traveled through the airport over the past six months represent some 70% of the airport’s pre-pandemic levels, even as Dubai’s key source market of China remains closed due to severe pandemic restrictions. Griffiths said he expects the airport’s traffic to return to pre-pandemic levels by the end of next year.
“It’s a very, very welcome surge of traffic,” Griffiths said.
The first World Cup in the Middle East, he added, will send foreign soccer fans flocking to Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central, or DWC. From there, they’ll travel daily to Qatar, a tiny neighbor that faces a hotel squeeze.
“We’ve actually seen a huge amounts of demand at DWC for slot filings for airlines wanting to operate a shuttle service,” he said. “I think the city has a lot to offer and a lot to gain from the World Cup.”
Among the airlines buying extra slots to shuttle soccer fans to the tournament from DWC are Qatar Airways, low-cost carrier FlyDubai and budget airline Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, he said.
Ambitions plans to turn the airfield in Dubai’s southern desert into a mega-aviation hub, first unveiled by Dubai before the 2008 global financial crisis, have sputtered in recent years. Long-haul carrier Emirates, based in Dubai, parked many of its double-decker Airbus A380s there during the pandemic as commercial flights halted.
A key East-West transit point, Dubai’s air traffic is closely watched as a barometer of the city-state’s non-oil economy. Emirates remains the linchpin of the wider empire known as “Dubai Inc.,” an interlocking series of government-owned businesses.
During the first half of 2022, Dubai International Airport dealt with nearly 56% more flights than the same period in 2021, when contagious coronavirus variants clobbered the industry.
Now, in a sign of the health of the industry, Emirates said Wednesday that it would pour billions of dollars into retrofitting much of its Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 fleet. At the height of the pandemic, the airline received a $4 billion government bailout.
The widespread lifting of virus restrictions has triggered a rapid increase in air travel demand, filling Dubai’s hub and causing mayhem at airports around the world.
While Dubai has not seen the chaotic crowds overwhelming European hubs in recent weeks, Griffiths said the global disruptions have affected its main airport.
“It’s obviously affected growth because some of the caps on capacity that they’ve applied to airports like Heathrow have had an impact on our numbers,” he said.
Last month Emirates lashed out at Heathrow, refusing its request to cap departing passengers and cut flights to the London hub. Emirates later agreed to temporarily limit sales on its flights.
Since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine sent Russia’s richest businessmen scrambling to save their assets from what became a widening dragnet, Dubai has welcomed an influx of Russians to its beach-front villas and luxury hotels. The city remains one of the few remaining flight corridors out of Moscow.
Griffiths declined to comment on Russians carrying cash out of the country to Dubai, which has become the talk of the town in recent months.
But he said the flow of Russian visitors would not stop anytime soon, adding: “It’s still a major source of traffic for us.”
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Follow Isabel DeBre on Twitter at www.twitter.com/isabeldebre. | 2022-08-17T16:54:39+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/dubai-sees-air-travel-surge-expects-fifa-world-cup-boost/ |
Laughing gas and childbirth: An option for patients looking for a middle ground
Doctors and patients around the world are likely familiar with using laughing gas during childbirth, but it’s largely gone under the radar in the United States — until now.
Nitrous oxide — or laughing gas — was commonly used during childbirth in the U.S. in the 1930s but with the emergence of epidurals, its popularity declined in the 1970s.
It has since experienced a renaissance with its approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2012, but since it had fallen out of popularity for years, many obstetricians and anesthesiologists became unfamiliar with using it in hospitals, according to Contemporary OB/GYN.
Using laughing gas during childbirth to help manage and mitigate pain and anxiety is still an option for expectant parents in the U.S. but it’s not used nearly as much as in other countries.
One hospital in New York hopes to shed more light on the benefits of using laughing gas as opposed to epidurals or other IV narcotics to get through childbirth with no lingering side effects and a baby that is unaffected.
Laura C. breathing in laughing gas during labor. (Northwell Health)
Common abroad, rare in the U.S.
Laughing gas has been used around the world to help manage pain and anxiety during childbirth for nearly 100 years. It is especially popular in countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many others, according to Contemporary OB/GYN, and is often the first line of defense when it comes to pain management.
Since it fell out of popularity in the 1970s, the U.S. has seen a resurgence of interest due to its easy use and minimal side effects.
FILE - A pregnant woman breathes through a pain relief breathing apparatus for nitrous oxide during labor in the United Kingdom, 1956. (Grace Robertson/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
In 2011, just one year before the FDA approved a portable nitrous oxide delivery system in U.S. hospitals, there were only two places that offered laughing gas for pregnant people. As of 2019, nearly 1,000 hospitals and 300 birthing centers have laughing gas as an option, according to NPR, but it’s not often discussed as a valid option for pain and anxiety management during childbirth.
Laura and Robert of Long Island, New York, credit their knowledge of nitrous oxide to friends who lived outside of the U.S. "Almost everyone I know outside the U.S. has used it," Laura told FOX TV Stations.
The couple had their first child in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2016, and luckily for them, the hospital already had an option for nitrous oxide for pregnant patients.
"Europe would probably be laughing in that of itself because they’ve been using it for a very long time," said Dr. Jennifer Baierlein, director of women and children’s services at Huntington Hospital in Long Island. "I know for some people that have delivered outside of the United States that do work with us here now, they’re like, ‘Wow, you haven’t had this before?’ ‘Well no we haven’t had it before.’ And there have been some hospitals in New York that we did reach out to, to talk to, just to see how things went for them."
How is laughing gas used in childbirth?
Using laughing gas during childbirth is self-administered and operates out of a closed-circuit unit, according to Baierlein.
"They have to be able to hold the mask themselves. No one is holding the mask to them. If she needs it then, she can do it," Baierlein said.
Nitrous oxide is an odorless gas and usually takes peak effect at about 30-50 seconds after inhalation. The gas does not take away the pains of labor but it helps patients to not really care about it.
"So in labor use, we use less of a concentration, and just like you said, it’s not going to completely take away anyone’s pain. It really is more of a modality to help birthing people feel less anxious, kind of cope a little better while they are in labor. There has been patients that use it that is their form of pain management so we optimally want to manage pain. There’s some cases in which you can’t take away all pain, so it’s kind of nice to have this as a tool in the toolbox for people who, for some reason, may not want an epidural or for those that may not want an epidural right away for their pain management, so this is something that can be used to help as a bridge to get them some time to think about what they may want," Baierlein said.
FILE - A pregnant woman lies on her bed with monitoring devices placed on her belly as she gets ready before delivering her child at the maternity ward of a hospital. (CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP via Getty Images)
During both of her pregnancies, Laura said using the laughing gas helped her to stay present but allowed her body to relax enough to help move along her labor smoothly.
"It lets your body relax more and faster between contractions so that I was better able to manage the subsequent contraction," Laura said.
Who should and shouldn’t use nitrous oxide
Side effects when using laughing gas are not very common and usually, a patient’s physician will go through a checklist of red flags before allowing its use.
If a patient has any of the following, it’s probably best to stay away from using laughing gas during childbirth:
- Has a vitamin B12 deficiency
- Already used some sort of narcotic for pain two hours before using nitrous oxide
- Unable to maintain proper oxygen levels without assistance
Some side effects could include:
- Nausea
- Lightheadedness
- Dizziness
- Vomiting
But the benefit of using nitrous oxide is it leaves your systems in minutes so if it’s not the right fit, patients can move on to a stronger method of pain management or use none at all. It’s all up to them.
And unlike an epidural or IV narcotics, laughing gas does not reach the baby and so far has no health impacts. Once the pregnant person takes a breath and decides to stop, it’s out of their system in no time.
No harm in trying it
Health care workers preparing nitrous oxide machine for Laura to use during labor. (Northwell Health)
Laura wanted to share her own experience with nitrous oxide to hopefully educate expectant parents about their options.
"I like being aware, I like being able to get up and move around, and so compared to the other options that are available at the hospitals I was at with the IV narcotics and the epidural anesthesia, the epidural limits how much movement you can have. It also numbs everything so you can’t get up and walk around. You also have a urinary catheter, there’s a collection of unique risks to that situation and with the IV narcotics it affects your cognitive function, so I mean you’re high. It also passes to the fetus and that’s one of the reasons they have to stop it in advance of delivery which to me sort of defeated the purpose," Laura said.
Laura gave birth to her daughter at Northwell Health’s Huntington Hospital in New York and highlighted the midwifery group she worked with, commending their more holistic approaches to childbirth. She was educated about what would work best for her by a plethora of experts.
"In my case, it’s hard for me to disengage from everything else that’s going on and focus, especially in that type of environment where there are half a dozen people, there’s monitors, there’s all sorts of things going on. So, the difference between labor with and without the nitrous is, for me the nitrous helped me really stay in my groove and not be taken off course by other things that were happening," Laura continued.
While the nitrous helped Laura focus on her breathing and her labor, she was fully able to have conversations and was aware of everything going on around her.
"With my son’s delivery, he had actually gotten a little bit off course and was stuck in my pelvic bone. And if I had had an epidural, I would not have known that. So, because of the nitrous, I was able to communicate something felt off," she said. "Had I not been able to feel what was going on, he would have ended up in distress and that would have ended up as a C-section. So having that body awareness and the ability to communicate because I wasn’t on something that affected my cognition, I was able to be aware and communicate that effectively."
Laura emphasized that everyone’s experience with labor and how they handle pain is different. She in no way poo-poos people’s desire to use epidurals or IV narcotics but she wanted to let people know there is a middle ground for some expectant parents who are nervous about taking drugs to manage their pain.
Both Laura and her husband, Robert, would encourage any expectant parents to discuss using nitrous oxide with their providers if the goal is to have a low-intervention labor while still giving birth at a hospital.
"So, for somebody that has unmedicated, low-intervention-type labor, having a facility with that option available gives you an intermediary step that preserves as much of that experience as is reasonable. So for some people, if that’s really what their goal with labor is, that may be the difference between having that goal or having to move on to something else," Laura said.
"If it’s available and if things feel like you need something to help in any way, it doesn’t hurt to try it. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to keep using it. If you felt better without it, you can go back to using nothing or if you want to upgrade, you can upgrade," Laura added.
This story was reported from Los Angeles. | 2022-07-19T23:04:32+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/laughing-gas-and-childbirth-an-option-for-patients-looking-for-a-middle-ground |
‘Scrubs’ producer Eric Weinberg charged with sex assaults
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eric Weinberg, an executive producer and writer for the hit TV show “Scrubs” and many others, has been charged with sexually assaulting five women that he lured to photo shoots and there could be many more victims, Los Angeles County prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Weinberg, 62, was arrested Tuesday, nearly a week after he was charged with 18 felony counts including rape, oral copulation, forcible sexual penetration, sexual battery by restraint, false imprisonment by use of violence, assault by means of force likely to cause great bodily injury and attempted forcible penetration with a foreign object, according to the district attorney’s office.
He was released that day on a $5 million bond. His arraignment was scheduled for Oct. 25.
An email to an agent for Weinberg seeking comment wasn’t immediately returned.
Weinberg was charged for alleged attacks between 2014 and 2019, but investigators say they believe there may be other victims of assaults dating back to the 1990s, District Attorney George Gascón said at a news conference.
He urged them to come forward.
“The defendant relied on his Hollywood credentials to lure young women for photo shoots where he allegedly sexually assaulted them,” Gascón said. “Power and influence can corrupt some to hurt others, that often leads to a lifetime of trauma for those who are victimized.”
LAPD Detective Ryan Lamar said investigators were looking into information received from a tip line regarding possible other assaults by Weinberg.
Weinberg was previously investigated several times by police, but the DA’s office didn’t file charges for lack of evidence, Gascón said.
Weinberg was co-executive producer on nearly 100 episodes of the NBC hospital dramedy “Scrubs” between 2000 and 2006 and also wrote nearly a dozen episodes, according to the IMDB website.
He also was co-executive producer for “Californication” in 2007 and had producing and writing credits on other shows, including “Anger Management,” “Men at Work,” “Veronica’s Closet” and “Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.”
In 2020, documents filed in Weinberg’s divorce and child custody proceedings included allegations by three women that he sexually assaulted them during photo shoots, the Los Angeles Times reported.
One woman alleged that she met Weinberg at a North Hollywood coffee shop in 2014 when she was 22 and he convinced her to come to a photo shoot at his home where she stripped to her underwear. The woman alleged that while taking photos, Weinberg grabbed her, forced to perform oral sex, choked her and then raped her, according to documents cited by the Times.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Victor Wembanyama walked into his first NBA news conference Wednesday morning, took his seat and looked out at a maze of cameras and microphones that have been awaiting him for years.
And then he smiled.
“What’s up, everyone?” the French teen said.
Seeming poised and completely ready for what awaits him, Wembanyama’s NBA chapter is now underway. The NBA draft — one that Wembanyama’s towering shadow has hung over for months, blocking much of what is usually part of the process — is Thursday night, and he’ll be selected No. 1 overall by the San Antonio Spurs.
“Ever since I knew about the draft, exactly how it worked, I wanted to be first,” Wembanyama said Wednesday. “I think I started to realize I could be a professional basketball player at the age of 12. Tomorrow, something’s going to happen, something that I’ve been thinking (about) for years and years, I can’t really describe how I feel right now. I just know I’m going to have trouble sleeping tonight, for sure.”
There has been no debate about who the Spurs should take with the No. 1 pick, no discussion of which player might be a better fit, no real attempts to raise any red flags about the presumed selection.
When a player like Wembanyama comes along — and maybe none ever has — there’s no real reason to drum up any drama. The Spurs are not going to pass up someone who is listed at 7-foot-4 but has the skills of a player much smaller.
The decision is certain, but not official until Commissioner Adam Silver says Wembanyama’s name Thursday night. And Wembanyama playfully corrected a reporter in New York on Wednesday who welcomed him to San Antonio.
“Not there yet,” Wembanyama said. “But thank you.”
The 19-year-old from France has been called the best prospect since LeBron James came out of high school 20 years ago, perhaps with some physical gifts that even the NBA’s career scoring leader didn’t possess.
Expectations from the outside world are sky-high. Wembanyama insists that won’t bother him.
“I don’t let all this stuff get into my head,” Wembanyama said. “I’ve got such high expectations for myself that I’m immune to all this stuff. I really don’t care.”
He arrived Monday in the New York area, surprised that some fans were waiting for him when he landed at Newark Liberty International Airport. On Tuesday, there was his first subway ride — even hopping a turnstile as he exited, though the police who were flanking him didn’t complain — and a trip to Yankee Stadium to throw out the ceremonial first pitch; it was well out of the strike zone. And on Wednesday morning, before his NBA duties began, he had a weightlifting workout with a coach.
He has been a big kid in a grown-up world. He signs autographs with a smile, pokes fun at himself, doesn’t mind that everyone tends to stare at someone of his height.
“Crazy,” he said of that first subway ride, with New Yorkers all around him.
Let the craziness begin. Silver will call his name Thursday night, shake his hand, and before too long Wembanyama will be on a plane for San Antonio to start the first chapter of his NBA life. Wembanyama said he will play in Summer League that starts in early July, though it remains unclear if he’ll be participating with the Spurs in the Sacramento summer league, the primary NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, or both.
“Wembanyama is built for the modern game,” said analyst Jay Bilas, who has been part of ESPN’s coverage for every draft since James topped the 2003 one. “We’ve never seen anything quite like him on a basketball floor.”
The modern NBA game requires big men to be comfortable playing away from the basket, able to handle the ball and defend opponents on the perimeter. It’s a league where 7-footer Nikola Jokic just guided the Denver Nuggets to their first championship by becoming the first player to lead the postseason in total points, rebounds and assists, where first-team All-Defense centers Jaren Jackson Jr. and Brook Lopez block shots on one end and shoot 3-pointers on the other.
Wembanyama can seemingly do all that. He was the MVP and Defensive Player of the Year in the French league, leading the league in scoring, rebounding and blocks. The almost-unbelievable highlights of some of those plays, a slam or a swat when he seemed too far away to pull it off even with his enormous wingspan, had basketball fans and even future opponents on both sides of the Atlantic buzzing throughout the season.
He will go to a San Antonio team that won five titles after selecting Tim Duncan the last time it had the No. 1 pick in 1997. Duncan is a Hall of Famer and one of the best power forwards in NBA history, and maybe it’s too much to ask Wembanyama to become quite like that.
But he’s the best of the bunch this year, and maybe of the last 20 years.
“I’m trying to be the best,” Wembanyama said. “Being the best, it’s not only on the court. There’s whole dimensions in the job of basketball player, an NBA player. I want to be the best also at the media, the press conference, all this stuff. I don’t like to do things halfway.”
Charlotte is expected to decide between Alabama forward Brandon Miller and G League Ignite guard Scoot Henderson with No. 2, with Portland perhaps taking the other at No. 3. The Rockets and Pistons round out the top five.
Those teams have been recent regulars near the top of the draft and should add another good young player for new coaches Ime Udoka in Houston and Monty Williams in Detroit. But those clubs shared the best odds with the Spurs of winning the No. 1 pick in last month’s draft lottery, so there was disappointment to wipe away before thinking ahead.
That’s because, while every draft has good players, very few will ever offer the chance to draft one like Wembanyama.
Just ask someone who would know.
“Everybody’s been a unicorn over the last few years, but he’s more like an alien,” James said last fall. “No one has ever seen anyone as tall as he is but as fluid and as graceful as he is out on the floor.”
James will get an up-close view this coming season when he plays against the Spurs. So will the rest of the league. Wembanyama’s time starts now, and he sounds as ready as can be.
“I just feel really, really lucky to be able just to live this life,” Wembanyama said. “I’m just so lucky.”
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AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds contributed.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-06-22T10:30:52+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/sports/ap-sports/with-wembanyama-a-player-like-few-others-theres-no-debate-at-the-top-of-this-nba-draft/ |
906 Adventure Team finds new home
906 Adventure Team plans to move to the center of Marquette
Published: Jan. 3, 2023 at 8:32 AM EST|Updated: 46 minutes ago
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - The 906 Adventure Team is packing up and moving.
What was originally going to be a hotel on Lakeshore Boulevard, will now be a green space and basecamp for the 906 Adventure Team.
The 906 Adventure Team hopes to bring adventure to the backyards of Marquette residents.
Click here to learn more about the 906 Adventure Team.
Copyright 2023 WLUC. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-03T14:18:38+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/01/03/906-adventure-team-finds-new-home/ |
Rangers vs. Tigers: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
Marcus Semien and Zach McKinstry will be among the star attractions when the Texas Rangers face the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday at 1:10 PM ET, at Comerica Park.
Bookmakers list the Rangers as -155 favorites on the moneyline, while giving the underdog Tigers +130 moneyline odds to win. The total is 9 runs for the matchup.
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Rangers vs. Tigers Odds & Info
- Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2023
- Time: 1:10 PM ET
- TV: MLB Network
- Location: Detroit, Michigan
- Venue: Comerica Park
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Rangers Recent Betting Performance
- The Rangers have played as the favorite in seven of their past 10 games and have won six of those contests.
- In their last 10 games with a total, the Rangers and their opponents are 5-5-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- Over their last 10 games, the Rangers are 3-1-0 against the spread.
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Rangers Betting Records & Stats
- The Rangers have put together a 20-9 record in games they were favored on the moneyline (winning 69% of those games).
- Texas has gone 15-3 when it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -155 or shorter (83.3% winning percentage).
- The implied moneyline probablility for this matchup gives the Rangers a 60.8% chance to win.
- In the 53 games in which oddsmakers have set an over/under for Texas, it has combined with opponents to go over the total 31 times (31-20-2).
- The Rangers have covered 83.3% of their games this season, going 5-1-0 against the spread.
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Nate Lowe Player Prop Bets: Rangers vs. Guardians - July 15
Published: Jul. 15, 2023 at 1:23 AM CDT|Updated: 40 minutes ago
Nate Lowe is available when the Texas Rangers battle Gavin Williams and the Cleveland Guardians at Globe Life Field Saturday at 4:05 PM ET.
He is back in action for the first time since July 9, when he went 0-for-3 against the Nationals.
Nate Lowe Game Info & Props vs. the Guardians
- Game Day: Saturday, July 15, 2023
- Game Time: 4:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Globe Life Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Guardians Starter: Gavin Williams
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -238)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +105)
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Nate Lowe At The Plate
- Lowe leads Texas in OBP (.368) this season, fueled by 100 hits.
- Among qualifying hitters in MLB action, his batting average ranks 31st, his on-base percentage ranks 23rd, and he is 67th in the league in slugging.
- Lowe has gotten at least one hit in 75.8% of his games this season (69 of 91), with at least two hits 24 times (26.4%).
- In 11.0% of his games this year, he has hit a home run, and 2.4% of his trips to the plate.
- In 38.5% of his games this year, Lowe has picked up at least one RBI. In nine of those games (9.9%) he recorded two or more RBI, while accounting for three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- He has scored in 43 games this season (47.3%), including 12 multi-run games (13.2%).
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Nate Lowe Home/Away Batting Splits
Guardians Pitching Rankings
- The Guardians pitching staff ranks 28th in the league with a collective 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Guardians have a 3.92 team ERA that ranks ninth across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Guardians pitchers combine to surrender 95 home runs (one per game), the seventh-fewest in the league.
- Williams makes the start for the Guardians, his fifth of the season. He is 1-1 with a 4.01 ERA and 19 strikeouts in 24 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent appearance on Saturday, the right-hander tossed 5 2/3 innings against the Kansas City Royals, allowing three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 23-year-old has an ERA of 4.01, with 6.9 strikeouts per nine innings, in four games this season. Opponents have a .225 batting average against him.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. imposed sanctions on the pro-Russian head of Serbian intelligence on Tuesday, accusing Aleksander Vulin of involvement in illegal arms shipments, drug trafficking and misuse of public office.
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said Vulin used his public authority to help U.S.-sanctioned Serbian arms dealer Slobodan Tesic move illegal arms shipments across Serbia’s borders. Vulin is also accused of involvement in a drug trafficking ring, Treasury said.
Vulin was appointed spy chief for the Balkan state last year.
He previously served as Serbia’s interior minister. In that role, he visited Moscow last August, a rare visit by a European state official that underscored Belgrade’s refusal to join Western sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
Vulin then told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that “Serbia is the only state in Europe that didn’t introduce sanctions and was not part of the anti-Russian hysteria.”
Serbia is a candidate for European Union membership, but its strained relationship with Kosovo has stymied its application and the nation has for years been drifting away from its EU path and toward allyship with Russia.
Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesperson, said the U.S. “will continue to hold accountable those who further their political agenda and personal gain at the expense of peace and stability in the Western Balkans and advance Russia’s malign activities in Serbia and the region.” | 2023-07-12T06:38:22+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-us-is-sanctioning-the-pro-russian-head-of-serbian-intelligence-for-alleged-corruption/ |
CHICAGO (NewsNation) — The pandemic caused logistical headaches for countless businesses over the past two years, but while many industries are getting back on their feet, brewers are preparing for a possible shortage.
A supply chain crisis and an extinct volcano are closing the tap for some beer makers.
Some smaller breweries are even shutting down after a carbon dioxide production shortage caused by natural contamination at the Jackson Dome — a Mississippi reservoir of CO2 from an extinct volcano.
Now, brewers from coast to coast are struggling to get their products to the market. With few options available, some beer makers are planning to switch to nitrogen, while others, particularly small, independent craft brewers, are shutting down entirely.
Some breweries have been able to secure a steady supply of CO2, but it’s come at a steep cost — prices have increased as much as four times the average.
In July, Nightshift Brewery, outside Boston, shut down a facility after being told its carbon dioxide supply was “cut for the foreseeable future, possibly more than a year.”
While the brewery has been able to get its product onto shelves, thanks to help from other area breweries, not every craft beer maker has been so lucky.
The carbon dioxide shortage caught craft brewers, many of whom already viewed 2022 as a “make or break” year for their businesses, by surprise.
The Jackson Dome has provided CO2 to the food and beverage industry since 1977. It became contaminated, cutting off access to a major source of a key ingredient.
Experts describe the situation at the site as “dire.” It’s been going on for months, with no end in sight. Many fear it’s only a matter of time before consumers start feeling the impact on both their fridges and their wallets.
The government’s consumer price index shows beer prices up 5% this year, less than the broader food and beverage market, but that could change soon as the rising costs of both carbon dioxide and grain lead to a more expensive brew. | 2022-09-21T17:26:01+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/breweries-alter-recipes-shut-down-amid-carbon-dioxide-shortage/ |
The 24/7 Automated Pizzeria Concept Expands to Houston and Friendswood
HOUSTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PizzaForno, one of North America's only automated pizzerias that bakes artisanal pizzas in less than three minutes, has announced the kick-off of its 'Pizza with a Purpose' program in the United States. Its first stop: Houston, Texas.
'Pizza with a Purpose,' is the foundation for how PizzaForno selects licensees to join in on the development of their "Pizzaruption." In addition to staying focused on purpose driven initiatives, they work with each of their local owners to identify opportunities to help support non-profit organizations within their community.
The local entrepreneurs developing PizzaForno in the marketplace have chosen to support the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Houston/Galveston (RMHCGHG). Every Tuesday, the PizzaForno Houston licensees will donate $1.00 for every pizza sold at their Texas locations to help pay for vaccines, exams, and quality medical treatment for thousands of children. Licensee Daniel Albelice has a personal connection to The Ronald McDonald House Charities. When Albelice's son was just 18-months old, he was diagnosed with leukemia and underwent medical treatment for three years. Throughout this difficult time, the Albelice family leaned on the organization for support, which is why it was important for him to show his gratitude and give back.
Participating locations include the first units to enter the state with fully-operational locations at Social Beer Garden HTX (3101 San Jacinto St. Houston, TX 77004) and 3312 FM-528, Friendswood, TX 77546. In addition, there are two more locations to open soon; one in downtown Houston (625 Fannin St, Houston, TX, 77002) and the other in Galveston's Tiki Island.
Daniel Albelice and Keith Stephenson plan to open an additional 12 units by September of 2023 across Houston, which will extend into a 50-unit development deal. They're also seeking spirited entrepreneurs who are looking to expand their portfolio or add this turn-key, fully automatic gourmet food concept that can be placed indoor or outdoor with as little as 60 square feet onto their existing business. They have already garnered interest from potential sub licensees within the community.
"We are excited about delivering the future of pizza to the people of Houston. PizzaForno has it all: convenience, deliciousness, and quality ingredients at a great price," said master licensee, Daniel Albelice. "We anticipate we will continue to partner with local non-profit organizations as we believe we can make a difference one pizza at a time."
"There is endless growth potential throughout Texas at places like shopping malls, truck stops and universities, and we couldn't be happier about Daniel Albelice and Keith Stephenson leading the way," said Les Tomlin, Co-Founder and President of PizzaForno. "They both have really meaningful ties to the Houston community, and I am really proud of their entrepreneurial ambition, and the fact that they have taken on the very first Pizza with a Purpose campaign in the U.S."
PizzaForno not only offers a high ROI but has the ability to operate 24/7 with zero on-site labor costs, limited waste and gives the option for licensees to scale quickly. Unlike most on-the-go pizza options loaded with added preservatives, PizzaForno has selected healthy, natural ingredients to deliver on quality and consistency to scale the business.
As volume demands, each unit can hold up to 70 fully prepared pre-boxed pizzas made fresh in the U.S. and replenished frequently. As soon as the customer selects their preferred menu item, the state-of-the-art oven gives the customer the option to Take-n-Bake or bake the 12" premium artisan pizza in under three minutes.
To learn more about PizzaForno and their licensing opportunities, visit https://www.pizzaforno.com/become-a-licensee/.
ABOUT PIZZAFORNO
Founded in 2018 by Canadian entrepreneurs William Moyer and Les Tomlin, PizzaForno is North America's only automated pizzeria which introduces gourmet artisanal pizzas in less than three minutes. Accessible 24/7 at the tap of a digital screen, PizzaForno offers a selection of innovative menu options, each made with high quality ingredients, with an authentic approach. In 2020, PizzaForno was honored with the Restaurants Canada 2020 Innovation Award. Utilizing technology made popular in France by ADIAL, PizzaForno currently has 40 operating locations and over 100 additional locations committed – with the first U.S. locations already established in Michigan. To learn more about PizzaForno, visit https://www.pizzaforno.com/. To inquire about the licensee opportunity, visit https://www.pizzaforno.com/become-a-licensee/.
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David Folkenflik was described by Geraldo Rivera of Fox News as "a really weak-kneed, backstabbing, sweaty-palmed reporter." Others have been kinder. The Columbia Journalism Review, for example, once gave him a "laurel" for reporting that immediately led the U.S. military to institute safety measures for journalists in Baghdad. | 2023-03-07T23:30:38+00:00 | iowapublicradio.org | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/news-from-npr/2023-03-07/fox-news-faces-mounting-evidence-in-defamation-case |
Multinational telco will use Unacast Turbine® Platform-as-a-Service to power insights
NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unacast, a global location data and analytics firm, today announced a partnership with London-based BT Group, one of the largest multinational telecommunications firms. Through the partnership with Unacast, BT seeks to set a new gold standard for human mobility insights in the United Kingdom.
BT Group needed a way to move faster to market with multiple data insights offerings for industries ranging from retail to transportation, urban development, tourism, banking and finance, and disease control.
BT Group chose Unacast for the company's proven track record of delivering high-quality human mobility insights. The company will use the cloud-native Unacast Turbine® Platform-as-a-Service to transform raw mobile network data into high-quality, privacy friendly aggregated location intelligence. These clean, filtered insights can be used to make better strategic decisions on a global scale. Learn more about some of the insights derived from BT Group's data in this blog.
Chris Withers, director of data and artificial intelligence, BT Group, said: "BT Group has for some time been using aggregated and anonymized mobile data to uncover mobility insights in the UK and has seen healthy industry growth in the last few years. We are now looking toward significant growth in this area. To achieve this, BT has chosen to partner with Unacast because of the company's proven track record in Europe, operating under GDPR, and for its transparent and result-oriented culture. We look forward to becoming the market leader within data monetization for the UK market, and our partnership with Unacast is essential to that growth strategy."
Andreas H.F. Olsen, vice president of platform operations, Unacast, said: "At Unacast, we've invested heavily in designing a platform to help telecommunications companies succeed with data processing and monetization. BT Group's strong presence and market share in the UK, coupled with unmatched data processing capabilities and reliability from Unacast, will lead to a successful partnership."
About Unacast
Unacast is a global location data and analytics company that provides the most accurate understanding of human activity in the physical world for consultancies, software analytics firms, and multinational organizations. The Data-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service offerings provide customers with clean, filtered insights to make better strategic decisions on a global scale when it comes to competitive analysis, site selection and demand forecasting. Visit us online at www.unacast.com.
About BT
BT Group is the UK's leading provider of fixed and mobile telecommunications and related secure digital products, solutions and services. We also provide managed telecommunications, security and network and IT infrastructure services to customers across 180 countries.
BT Group consists of four customer-facing units: Consumer serves individuals and families in the UK; Enterprise and Global are our UK and international business-focused units respectively; Openreach is an independently governed, wholly owned subsidiary, which wholesales fixed access infrastructure services to its customers - over 650 communication providers across the UK.
British Telecommunications plc is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
For more information, visit www.bt.com/about
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Biden administration officials said Friday they have yet to see an uptick of migrants at the southern border in the wake of Title 42’s termination, but asylum officers have been told they must work throughout the weekend to help process claims.
While officials expected to see an increase of migrants at the border following the end of Title 42, which allowed for the U.S. to turn them away almost immediately, flows have not yet altered in the immediate hours following the lift of the policy.
“Overnight, we saw similar patterns to what we’ve seen over the past several days. We continue to encounter high levels of non-citizens at the border but we did not see a substantial increase overnight or an influx at midnight,” Blas Nuñez-Neto, chief operating officer at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said on a call Friday with reporters.
Asylum officers at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), however, were notified they must work mandatory overtime on both Saturday and Sunday.
“Developments emerging over the course of the day made clear that more resources are needed, and we must take immediate steps to increase the number of staff available on both Saturday and Sunday to meet the need,” a USCIS official told staff in an email obtained by The Hill.
The email states the move is needed to “ensure full operational readiness.”
“We are clear-eyed about the challenges we face in the days and weeks ahead, and we are ready to meet them. We expected to see large numbers of encounters initially; we are already seeing high numbers of encounters in certain sectors. This places an incredible strain on our personnel, our facilities and our communities,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said at a Thursday White House press briefing ahead of Title 42’s lifting.
The Biden administration has surged resources to the border, including sending 24,000 border agents, along with military troops and asylum officers.
Still, Nuñez-Neto cautioned that conditions could change.
“The men and women from the U.S. Border Patrol and the Office of Field Operations who are on the frontlines are experienced in managing these types of situations and are doing outstanding work. It is still early, however,” he said.
Migrants arriving at the border have been encouraged to use CBP One — a smartphone app operated by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection — to apply for asylum or make appointment requests. However, the app has faced months of complaints due to glitchiness and an insufficient number of languages supported by it.
Nuñez-Neto said to speed processing, they are expanding the number of appointments through the app, devoting half the slots to those who have already requested an appointment, while the rest will be randomly assigned to newcomers, as well as those who have already applied. | 2023-05-12T20:33:59+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/hill-politics/end-of-title-42-has-not-led-to-substantial-increase-at-border-biden-officials-say/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it will overhaul packaging labels for the emergency contraceptive pill, Plan B, that women can take after having sex to prevent a pregnancy.
The federal agency said it will remove references on the contraception's packaging that claim, without scientific evidence, that the pill prevents a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb.
The new labels are intended to further distinguish the emergency contraception — also known as the morning after pill — from abortion pills, which end a pregnancy after a fertilized egg has implanted in the lining of a woman’s uterus.
In a memo released Friday, the FDA clarified that taking Plan B pills is not the same as an abortion, a fact that has long been understood in the medical community.
“Evidence does not support that the drug affects implantation or maintenance of a pregnancy after implantation, therefore it does not terminate a pregnancy,” the FDA said in its statement.
The agency added that the emergency contraception works similarly to birth control in preventing pregnancy, but contains a higher dose of levonorgestrel. The pill prevents ovulation.
About a quarter of women say they've used emergency contraception pills at some point, according to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control released last year.
Still, concern has swirled that access to emergency contraception such as Plan B might be limited in some states, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion this summer. Nevada's Republican governor-elect said he'd consider banning the pill during a debate this year. School clinics in Idaho also prohibited the pills under a law banning public funding for “abortion related services" last year.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Plan B for use up to 72 hours, or three days, after unprotected sex. Women are able to get the emergency contraception over the counter. | 2022-12-24T00:25:09+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/FDA-changes-Plan-B-label-clarifies-it-won-t-17675011.php |
100 years ago
June 24, 1922: A proposal for a swimming pool in O'Neil Park was made by Commissioner John Welch. Children in the area need a swimming place, he said, as the water in Sugar Creek where they have been bathing is polluted by the city sewers. The water could be derived from the fountain, he said, and the pool could be open to children without charge.
75 years ago
June 24, 1947: Pontiac farmer Vernon Shoop has taken up toy-making as a hobby since his discharge from the army. Trucks, wagons, doll furniture and toy farm implements have been turned out in Shoop's workshop; he has solved some of the shortage problems by using old dynamite case for lumber and making some of the tools himself.
50 years ago
June 24, 1972: Ethel Nolder walked out of Illinois State Penitentiary at Pontiac after his sentence was commuted by Gov. Richard Ogilvie. Nolder had violated his parole, related to a Bloomington larceny conviction, and lived under a different name for 38 years, before turning himself in at the Pontiac prison on June 13, 1972.
25 years ago
June 24, 1997: More than 1,500 students are taking part in the Bands of America Summer Band Symposium at Illinois State University. Students and instructors spend their days honing their skills hoping to make themselves and their school bands better. "This is like a giant shot of adrenaline in the arm for me," said Brian Lackey, a band director from Bedford, Indiana.
Compiled by Pantagraph staff | 2022-06-24T11:02:33+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/100-years-ago-new-bloomington-swimming-pool-proposed/article_148fb3d2-f2ea-11ec-a56a-b3bc383b6f4f.html |
Some Southwest passengers still missing luggage
(CNN) - It’s five days into the new year, and some Southwest passengers still don’t have their bags back after the airline’s Christmas week meltdown.
Southwest said reuniting customers with their lost luggage is a top priority.
It was supposed to be a perfect holiday for Toya Martin of Maryland. Instead, she spent almost two weeks searching for her family’s three lost bags.
“Two words: Mentally exhausting,” she said.
Martin said Southwest Airlines lost the checked baggage of her nephew and mother who flew in from St. Louis.
In one of her mom’s suitcases were the critical medical supplies needed for her colostomy bag.
“It’s like being lost. Like you’re in the middle of a ocean with no way to get back and they’re just looking at you saying, ‘We don’t know what to tell you,’” Martin said.
Southwest is telling passengers that it is returning lost luggage with “great urgency,” using FedEx and even competing airlines to transport bags.
The pile of unclaimed bags at Southwest’s Baltimore hub has now disappeared. But at other airports, like in Denver, where Southwest canceled 2,300 holiday flights, the pile is still dwindling.
“Southwest has a lot of work ahead of itself,” airline industry expert Ross Feinstein said.
Feinstein pointed out Southwest carries the most checked bags of any U.S. airline since it offers passengers two checked bags for free.
In an employee memo obtained by CNN, Southwest CEO Bob Jordan said the airline has “cut the number of bags in half since (last) Thursday, and we’re on track to get the majority if not all bags shipped to our customers later this week.”
Feinstein said Southwest’s actions are not fast enough.
“A week and a half, two weeks is just unacceptable,” Feinstein said. “And customers are just frustrated trying to track down their bags.”
However, the issue goes beyond just one airline.
This week, Valerie Szybala of Washington, D.C. found her bag after it was lost by a United Airlines vendor by using an Apple airtag.
“They kept saying that it was safe in a delivery center, and none of that was true,” Szybala said.
The latest federal data shows airlines mishandled 2 million bags in 2021.
New numbers are likely to go higher after families like the Martins spent their holiday without bags and without patience for Southwest Airlines.
“Southwest was probably one of my favorite airlines to travel on, and it will never be the same,” Martin said.
Experts said one tip when checking luggage is to take a picture of the contents inside before sending it off. Southwest insures up to $3,800 for checked bags, but you have to be able to prove what was inside.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-05T17:02:44+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2023/01/05/some-southwest-passengers-still-missing-luggage/ |
SANTA CLARA — The 49ers have something absurdly close to a full squad for the team’s final home game of the season — a Divisional Round playoff matchup with the longtime rival Cowboys.
Only quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo and defensive back Ambry Thomas were the only two players on the Niners’ roster who were unavailable for selection to the team’s 46-man gameday roster Sunday.
No one else on the roster was even listed as questionable heading into the game.
The 49ers were one of the most injured teams in the NFL this season, per ManGamesLost.com, but one could make the case that they are the healthiest they have been all season — including Week 1 — for this, the team’s 19th game.
NFL 2022 regular season injury plot. Games missed to injuries and health protocols versus team wins. Bubble size represents cumulative quality of players lost for games (Lost-av metric) https://t.co/HBPgJxYIPz pic.twitter.com/oBHD5oQubB
— Man Games Lost NFL (@ManGamesLostNFL) January 12, 2023
The Niners might get Garoppolo back — as Brock Purdy’s backup — for next week for the NFC Championship Game against the Eagles, should the Niners advance.
“I’d be surprised, but I think it depends how this whole weekend goes, but I think it’s an outside chance,” Kyle Shanahan said Friday.
But the Super Bowl? (Again, should the 49ers advance.)
“I think there’d be a better chance then,” said Shanahan.
Trent’s Trash Talk
Pregame kicking warmups are typically a quiet, uneventful affair.
That was not the case before Sunday’s game.
A few days after Cowboys kicker Brett Maher missed four extra points in the Cowboys’ first-round playoff game against the Buccaneers, he struggled in pregame warmups at Levi’s Stadium.
He also received a visit from 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams, who was clearly not stopping by to wish him well. Maher was attempting to warm up on the south side of the field while Brock Purdy did the same just yards away from him.
Tempers never flared, but the conversation drew over several Niners and Cowboys players and personnel, with Niners kicker Robbie Gould taking Williams out of the fray. When Maher went to kick toward the north end zone, only the specialists remained on the field, although Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and 49ers counterpart Denise DeBartolo York were greeting each other just steps away from Maher, who finished by making a 58-yard attempt.
#49ers #Cowboys get into verbal spat over traffic jam on field as kicker Brett Maher attempts to warmup while Brock Purdy gets in his throws. Trent Williams, Aaron Banks and Robbie Gould intervene.
Maher missed 4 PATs in Monday win at Tampa pic.twitter.com/iWJZspQIuC— Cam Inman (@CamInman) January 22, 2023
49ers Inactives
• Jimmy Garoppolo – QB • Ambry Thomas – CB • Ross Dwelley – TE • Nick Zakelj – OT • Tyrion Davis-Price – RB • Alex Barrett – DT • Drake Jackson – DE
Cowboys Inactives:
• Jason Peters – OT • Jabril Cox – LB • Will Grier – QB • Jalen Tolbert – WR • Nahshon Wright – CB • Peyton Hendershot – TE • Quinton Bohanna – DT
How’s the weather?
A week after a deluge of rain threatened the 49ers and Seahawks, the Niners and Cowboys were welcomed to Levi’s Stadium Sunday by cloudless skies, a beaming sun, and a temperature that is expected to rise to 60 degrees at kickoff.
In short: perfect football weather.
With perfect jerseys, to boot. The 49ers will wear their home reds, the Cowboys, their everyday white jerseys. It’s a classic look for what could be a classic day.
What channel is the game on?
The Cowboys have long been the darlings of FOX, which holds the regular-season NFC broadcasting rights. “America’s Team” might be a ridiculous moniker, but the ‘Boys still sell.
The Niners aren’t too shabby themselves when it comes to television ratings.
FOX is broadcasting the game and sent its top crew to Levi’s Stadium. Kevin Burkhardt will be on play-by-play with former NFL tight end Greg Olsen providing analysis and Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi on the sidelines. It’s the start of an incredible stretch for the crew, who will also announce the NFC Championship Game in Philadelphia next Sunday and Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12.
KNBR (104.5-FM and 680-AM) will broadcast the game on local radio. Greg Papa and Tim Ryan will be on the call.
The national radio broadcast on Westwood One will be handled by Ryan Radtke, Mike Golic, and Ed Werder on the sideline.
Who’s favorited?
The 49ers are 3.5-point favorites for Sunday’s game, per The Action Network. They had been 4-point favorites at some sportsbooks earlier this week.
The total for the game is 46.5. | 2023-01-22T22:47:02+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2023/01/22/49ers-cowboys-pregame-niners-enter-divisional-round-matchup-final-home-game-with-unique-health/ |
(JNS) As tourist season returns to Israel, there are many options to enjoy, but the best options of all make you feel good inside and out. Hikes are good exercise, and Israel has amazing restaurants and spas, but many are opting for trips that allow groups of people to exercise their mitzvah/good deeds quotient “Giveback experiences” that enable them to have fun but also to help others.
“There are unlimited opportunities for volunteer work,” says Arnie Draiman, who works in the tourism industry, creating what he calls “not-for-profit adventures.” He works on behalf of foundations that support nonprofits.
“I tailor the nonprofit to the group that is interested, and I try to do something worthwhile with organizations that I know are efficient and effective,” he explains.
When his clients are interested in animals, he might recommend a visit with Hama Israel, an animal-assisted therapy program in Emek Hefer, near Netanya, founded by Avshalom and Pam Beni. There participants work with animals, groom and feed them, and learn about how the therapy sessions help Israelis, says Draiman.
The charitable adventures are as creative as the volunteers’ imaginations, he says. He recalled a family coming from the United States to celebrate a bat mitzvah. The bat mitzvah girl, a dancer, wanted to collect ballet slippers in the U.S. and distribute them to needy aspiring dance students in Israel. She and her friends donated 600 pairs of gently worn dance shoes and donated them to dance programs all over Israel. Draiman says it was easy to get to the children in need.
And when a sports-loving boy from Texas wanted to buy sneakers to donate, Draiman used his connections to network. The result: Nike Europe donated several thousand pairs of brand-new athletic shoes, so the bar mitzvah boy traveled to different cities to distribute them personally. It was a cultural experience as the shoes went to Jewish and non-Jewish sports programs throughout the country.
And when a group of families wanted to participate in something to support the Border Police, they built a small shul for a Border Police base in the greater Jerusalem area, recalls Draiman.
“No matter how strange the request, if it can happen, I say be creative and I will make it happen.”
37,000 families each month
One of the more popular “Giveback” activities is Pantry Packers. A decade ago, Colel Chabad asked Rabbi Menachem Traxler to create a volunteer center for its distribution of 5,000 monthly food packages to needy people. He came up with a program where Pantry Packers allowed people to participate by filling packages and to immerse themselves in Colel Chabad’s mission of tzedakah, or charity.
They are celebrating the program’s 10th anniversary ahead of Passover and will be packing Seder Kits for elderly homebound people and making Kiddush cups to the tune of a musical seder band.
The National Food Security Initiative administers the program. The state provides 70% of the funding for the food boxes and Pantry Packers collects the rest.
Traxler grew up in Houston, Texas, a son of Chabad emissaries.
“My parents taught me love and non-stop giving, teaching giving,” he recalls. “Whenever the Rebbe would meet a child, he would give out a coin and say, ‘Put this in a tzedakah box.’ My father followed his example. He always had a little pouch of coins in his pocket and gave out coins to children he would meet, encouraging them to give charity. When Jewish people come together and meet, they should help a third person. This inspired me to create the model.”
Since the packages consist of shelf-stable foods, the self-professed gadget lover Traxler automated the system, which allowed the needy to order their packages online. Instead of distributing retail boxes, he bought the food in bulk and created an assembly line with state-of-the-art machinery, putting volunteers on the assembly line.
This created a family-giving activity for people from toddlers to grandparents, who could all participate in packing the food. A toddler can push a button or lever. Grandma in a wheelchair can do something too. But all of them are enjoying the activity of giving, as a team.
Volunteers to the Pantry Packers facility in Jerusalem’s Talpiot neighborhood receive a brief introduction about Colel Chabad in English, Hebrew, Yiddish or Spanish. There is a mini-museum/visitor’s center.
Then, aprons, hairnets and gloves are donned as groups are assigned to different food stations. Each performs the same process with different foods. As they work, the screens at each station ask cogent questions to make the visit more mindful: Have you ever met a hungry person? Why is giving so necessary?
Participants package foods for an hour and a quarter. They finish with a group picture and a video about tzedakah, showing some of the recipients.
More than 133,000 volunteers have participated in the assembly process since Pantry Packers started. They come from all walks of life, Jewish, non-Jewish, religious, non-religious, and from all over the world including (to name a few) Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Panama, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Congo. Slow days might see at least one family packing. But summer brings the tourists.
“Tourist season is huge,” Traxler says. “We fill four slots each day and operate five stations with 10 people at each. A single bar or bat mitzvah can take up all the slots.”
The Newman family decided to honor their father and grandfather Yehoshua Newman’s 90th birthday by volunteering at Pantry Packers. Ranging in age from 18 to 90, many from the party of 12 had come all the way from the States to celebrate the occasion.
“They were so accommodating and helpful,” says Jay Newman, one of Yehoshua’s sons. “We really felt like we were doing a good deed because they took us through the whole process of how everything works and is distributed to those in need. It was a very meaningful way to honor my father and this special birthday.”
Traxler makes an effort to give each volunteer group and recipient everything they need.
“We respect every group that comes,” he says. “It’s part of the mission of letting families give tzedakah together. We see so many different types of people, and the recipients also come from all different types of backgrounds.”
Personalizing the food packages can be a big challenge. On Passover, for instance, every community has its specific customs. He points out that if you don’t give machine-made matzah to certain families, it isn’t Passover for them. Certain Chabad families make everything from scratch during the holiday, so vegetables and a peeler are in order.
And 4,500 moms are getting baby formula — a new addition.
He tries to accommodate each volunteer group when there are special requests.
“A family called, concerned that their children shouldn’t be exposed to [computer] screens,” he recalls. “It was a challenge, since everything is automated. Even the tzedakah box is interactive. But I want everyone to be able to participate.”
To make it a good experience for the family, Traxler came in early and figured out how to turn off the screens and disconnect the sensors. The family enjoyed their experience immensely.
“People have asked can’t you just get a machine to do the whole process? Of course, we can, but we especially want groups and families to get involved in the mitzvah as a team.”
Through the National Food Security Initiative, Pantry Packers serves 37,000 families each month.
Spiritual (and social) sustenance
Torat Reva Yerushalayim provides spiritual sustenance to the elderly homebound and residents of nursing homes in southern Jerusalem, in English, Hebrew or French.
Sharona Halickman, founder and director, explains, “These nursing homes have no chaplain, no social director and seldom have religious programs.”
Halickman developed her ideas after working as a nursing home social coordinator in Riverdale, in New York City’s Bronx borough. She helps families, schools and midrashot (the equivalent of yeshivahs for women) find projects that involve the elderly. From art to music, or just bringing a gift, the visits are cherished.
“Recently, a bat mitzvah girl elected to decorate a Sukkah for the residents of one such home,” Halickman describes. “A bar mitzvah boy from Connecticut planned a Kabbalat Shabbat service for some residents and another helped to raise money to buy and distribute 350 mishloach manot (Purim baskets) for residents at seven nursing homes. One man walked by with his Purim basket, until I realized it was last year’s package he was holding. He had kept it all year long.”
For Shabbat Vehdarta, an event honoring the elderly around the Shabbat when the Kedoshim Torah portion (Leviticus 19:1–20:27) is recited, Halickman raises money to give flowers to the residents of homes.
“Some of these nursing homes are really remote and isolated,” she explains. “People on the street wouldn’t just pop in to do a quick visit and the residents are so appreciative because they don’t get a lot of interaction.”
“Rescued” meals
Leket Israel is one of the largest “Voluntourism” organizations in the Jewish state.
Joseph Gitler, an oleh from New York, began it all 20 years ago as a one-man volunteer effort. He couldn’t stand the thought of food waste at events. He began a food rescue operation, collecting excess food from catering halls, events, hotels and even the IDF, and began donating it to nonprofits that serve the elderly and the needy.
When he first started making calls to collect food, he was surprised to find that the chefs and caterers were thrilled to hear from him. They quickly began calling him to collect their surpluses.
Leket began collecting fruits and vegetables from farmers who had surpluses and eventually extended the idea to harvesting, starting at a persimmon farm after a farmer informed them of an excess of produce there.
Leket volunteer activities include harvesting in a donated Rishon Letzion field owned by farmer Tal Ben Shalom, a long-time donor to the NGO who works the field and plants the crops for them to harvest.
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There are also volunteer opportunities for sorting and preparing volunteer-harvested produce from Ben Shalom’s field and produce overages donated by farmers. The sorting takes place in the Leket food center in Moshav Gan Haim, near Kfar Saba. And true to Gitler’s mission no food is wasted. Produce that isn’t top quality is put aside for farm animals.
Leket continues to distribute “rescued” meals. Last year, the organization rescued two million meals. Leket stores and heats the food, then brings it to the nonprofits that use cooked food. Food safety is strictly observed with expiration dates and exacting handling limits. And only 100% nutritious foods are distributed.
Leket’s volunteer department tries to accommodate groups of all sizes. Volunteers need to register in advance. Harvest volunteers pick the produce, mostly root vegetables including kohlrabi, potatoes, sweet potatoes and cauliflower, by themselves or in groups with family, friends or work colleagues. Last year, 54,000 volunteers participated in Leket harvests and sorting. It is open all year round, weather permitting, and there’s always something to pick.
Leket works with 265 nonprofits that feed 234,000 people each week. It provides nutrition education workshops on “How to Eat Healthy on a Limited Budget,” in Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic and Russian.
“People everywhere care about sustainability,” explains Shira Woolf, PR and brand manager at Leket. “Many come to Israel to experience working the land and the biblical commandment of Leket (charitable donations from the field). We have tons of missions from synagogues and non-Jewish organizations, as well as bar and bat mitzvah parties and work events.
“Nonprofits like nursing homes, women’s shelters, at-risk-youth programs shouldn’t be spending their scant budgets to find food,” Woolf adds. “At Leket we handle the logistics of getting the food to them so they can serve their people.”
To read more content visit www.jns.org | 2023-03-30T14:41:29+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/fl-jj-voluntourism-giving-fun-20230330-wr2wwpml45gh3j54locmyah7w4-story.html |
Jill Biden has ‘rebound’ COVID-19 case; president remains negative
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 again in an apparent “rebound” case, after she initially tested negative for the virus over the weekend.
President Joe Biden, who spent three days with his wife at their Rehoboth Beach, Del. vacation home, continues to test negative, the White House said. He also suffered a rebound case earlier this month after an initial recovery from the virus.
Jill Biden first tested positive for the virus on Aug. 15, when she and her husband were vacationing in Kiawah Island, S.C. She isolated in the beach town until she received two negative tests and was cleared to meet the president in Delaware on Sunday.
Biden’s deputy communications director Kelsey Donohue said she “has experienced no reemergence of symptoms, and will remain in Delaware where she has reinitiated isolation procedures.” She added: “The White House Medical Unit has conducted contact tracing, and close contacts have been notified.”
Jill Biden, 71, like her husband, has been twice-vaccinated and twice-boosted with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. She had been prescribed the antiviral drug Paxlovid, which has proven to be highly effective at preventing serious disease and death among those at highest risk from COVID-19, but a minority of those prescribed the drug have experienced a rebound case of the virus a few days after their initial recovery.
The White House said the president was considered a close contact and would wear a mask “for 10 days when indoors and in close proximity to others” in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance. The White House will also increase the frequency of his COVID-19 testing.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-24T17:43:25+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/2022/08/24/white-house-first-lady-jill-biden-experiencing-covid-19-rebound-case/ |
Inter Milan manager Simone Inzaghi acknowledged his team would be the underdogs in the Champions League final against either Manchester City or Real Madrid after his side completed a resounding 3-0 aggregate victory over AC Milan in the semifinals on Tuesday.
Lautaro Martinez's 74th-minute goal at the San Siro saw Inter ease past their rivals following a 2-0 win in last week's first leg.
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When asked whether he would prefer in the final to face City or Madrid, who play the second leg of their last-four tie on Wednesday, Inzaghi was keeping his cards close to his chest.
"It's normal that when you go to face City or Real you start underdogs, but football is always open: we met Real Madrid last year and we lost two games, but playing well. Manchester City needs no introduction: we will watch and whoever arrives will arrive."
Man City and Madrid are tied 1-1 after their first leg in Spain last week.
"Whoever we end up with, we will be unlucky, because they are two really great teams with incredible quality," Inzaghi said with a wry smile. "I will watch tomorrow's match, like I watched the first leg. ... Obviously we will follow it closely."
A month ago, Inzaghi faced criticism and was under pressure after a lacklustre run of results, yet his side has turned it around and Tuesday's win was their eighth in a row in all competitions.
"It was a dream at the start, but we always believed, we had an extraordinary run and to win the semi-final in a derby this way is immensely satisfying. We can only praise the lads," Inzaghi told Sport Mediaset.
Inter are third in Serie A and will face Fiorentina in the Coppa Italia final on May 24.
Their return to form has been built on a solid defence, keeping six clean sheets in their current winning streak and conceding only three goals.
"I had said a long while back we would put in a crazy effort without looking at one competition or the other, just trying to achieve our best," he said.
Inzaghi basked in the glory of his team's victory over Milan, a fourth successive win over their city rivals.
Milan had not suffered four defeats in a single campaign against Inter since the 1973-74 season.
"They showed strength, determination, aggression, concentration, they were wonderful," he said. "We played four derbies since January and won all four, we know Milan are the Champions of Italy and have huge quality, but the players were excellent and deserve to enjoy this evening."
Before their two semifinal victories, Inter beat Milan 3-0 to lift the Italian Supercup in January and grabbed a 1-0 win in Serie A the following month.
Inzaghi said that Serie A was now the primary focus for his players, who face newly crowned champions Napoli on Sunday.
"I gave the players a day off tomorrow because we haven't had it since April 1. It was deserved. We'll meet again from Thursday because we have to prepare for a league match in Naples."
The Champions League final will be played at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul on June 10.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report. | 2023-05-17T01:27:14+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/soccer/internazionale/story/4950082/inzaghi-inter-milan-champions-league-final-underdogs-against-manchester-city-real-madrid |
Progressives call for ouster of Justice Thomas
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The fallout from a ProPublica report that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose gifts for decades continues in Washington. Ethics questions are looming as lawmakers and activists increase their calls for consequences. Some are calling for an immediate resignation.
Recent revelations highlighted Thomas receiving gifts from Republican billionaire mega donor Harlan Crow. The gifts included luxury trips on yachts and private jets, stays at fancy resorts, six-figure bibles, and doing real estate deals with Crow. These all went undisclosed in financial forms.
“it’s not enough to amend and try to hide your corruption. It’s too late for that,” said Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Georgia).
Johnson, alongside colleagues and activists called for the historic ouster of a justice. Disclosures are a standard practice for Members of Congress and judges in the U.S.
“Justice Thomas has been brazenly compromised and corrupted by Republican dark money,” said Johnson.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Illi.) wants a code of ethics to be implemented for Supreme Court Justices, currently nonexistent. He also wants Thomas to testify before his committee, which he acknowledges is unlikely.
Republicans on that committee, like Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) say Thomas is unfairly targeted.
“Everybody should follow reporting requirements and my understanding is that Justice Thomas has followed the requirements,” said Hawley.
Thomas says colleagues advised him he did not need to report these gifts because they were from a friend who did not have any business before the court. Disclosure guidance for the court recently changed and Thomas says he plans to adhere to it going forward. Hawley is not concerned about his behavior.
“What I have a lot of concerns about is the multi decade effort now to target Clarence Thomas by these liberal activist groups,” said Hawley.
Durbin is considering a hearing surrounding these ethics questions. It is not clear exactly when that might take place.
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Washington state experiences deadliest flu season in 5 years
May 12, 2023, 10:24 AM | Updated: 10:44 am
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Flu season in Washington state was the deadliest in five years, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Two-hundred sixty-two people died in Washington in 2022, a tenfold increase from 2021.
In Washington state, flu activity rose at the end of October and peaked by the end of November. As of the end of April, there was only minimal flu activity.
Nationwide, the CDC says 57,000 flu deaths occurred between Oct. 1 – April 29, 2023.
“While respiratory illness precautions such as masking and social distancing helped keep the number of flu cases low during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s especially important now that most of us are around other people again to get a flu vaccine every year,” Health Secretary Umair A. Shah said. “The flu vaccine is your best protection against this serious disease. Even if you get the flu, if you’ve been vaccinated, your illness is milder, and you aren’t as likely to need to go to the hospital.”
The CDC said there were as many as 640,000 flu hospitalizations nationally.
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Officials blame the decrease on fewer people getting a flu shot. Despite vaccine effectiveness, flu vaccination rates have decreased nationally in certain groups. Rates for children dropped more than 6%, and rates for pregnant people decreased by nearly 15% compared with pre-pandemic rates.
The Health Department recommends a yearly flu vaccine for everyone six months and older. If you are 65 or older, talk to your doctor first.
Some people who get the flu vaccine may still get sick. If you get the flu, the vaccine will help reduce the severity of your illness. It will also lower your chance of needing to go to the hospital.
Practicing healthy habits such as frequently washing hands, staying home when sick, and wearing masks in crowded spaces also help prevent the spread of the flu. These precautions protect people in our community who are most likely to be affected by severe flu disease, including:
- People over age 65.
- People who are immunocompromised.
- Children under age five.
- Pregnant people.
- People with chronic health conditions. | 2023-05-12T19:18:14+00:00 | mynorthwest.com | https://mynorthwest.com/3888171/state-had-deadliest-flu-season-five-years/ |
2-time Texas national champion coach Gustafson dead at 91
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Texas baseball coach Cliff Gustafson, who led the Longhorns to two national championships and nearly two dozen conference titles in 29 seasons, died Monday at age 91, the school announced.
Gustafson played on the Longhorns team that made it to the 1952 College World Series. He returned as head coach in 1968 and stayed until 1996. He finished with a career record of 1,466-377.
Gustafson led the Longhorns to national championships in 1975 and 1983, and 22 Southwest Conference championships. His Texas teams played in the College World Series 17 times.
His .792 career winning percentage ranks second among major college coaches. His 1,466 career wins ranked first when he retired and now rank 10th.
Before taking the job at Texas, Gustafson won six Texas state high school championships. He said he took a $500 pay cut from his high school position when then-Texas football coach and athletic director Darrell Royal offered him the Longhorns job.
“The historic run he had in building on the great legacy of our baseball program will never be forgotten, and the stature he took it to continues to this day,” said Tommy Harmon, a former Texas all-American catcher and longtime assistant under Gustafson.
“He was a man who just loved baseball, loved his players and every year gave his teams everything he had,” Harmon said.
The Texas announcement of Gustafson’s passing did not include a cause of death.
Harmon was inducted into the Texas Athletics Hall of Honor ins 1983 and is a member of the College Baseball Hall of Fame.
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– Year over Year Net Revenues increased 38.8% to $17.2 million, including one month contribution from Urbn Leaf and no contribution from Loudpack –
– Felicia Snyder appointed to board of directors –
OAKLAND, Calif. and TORONTO, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Harborside Inc. ("Harborside" or the "Company") (CSE: HBOR) (OTCQX: HBORF), a California-focused, vertically integrated cannabis enterprise, today filed its interim financial statements and management's discussion and analysis for the three months ended March 31, 2022 (collectively, the "Q1 2022 Financial Results") under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
The Q1 2022 Financial Results encompass a period reflecting only one month of contribution from UL Holdings Inc. ("Urbn Leaf"), which the Company acquired on March 1, 2022, and no contribution from LPF JV Corporation ("Loudpack"), which the Company acquired subsequent to quarter-end on April 4, 2022. The Loudpack and Urbn Leaf acquisitions have transformed the Company into one of the largest vertically integrated cannabis enterprises in California.
Board of Directors Appointment
Harborside also announced that Felicia Snyder has joined the board of directors of the Company (the "Board"), effective immediately. An entrepreneur, corporate strategist, seasoned cannabis executive and brand builder, Ms. Snyder is currently Founder and co-CEO of Arcana, an experiential hospitality brand. She was a founding executive at Tokyo Smoke, one of Canada's most recognized cannabis brands and a leading Canadian cannabis retailer, where she helped to scale the business through its merger with Doja Cannabis and eventual sale to Canopy Growth Corporation. Post-acquisition, she was Vice President at Canopy Growth, managing a portfolio of premium cannabis brands across all product categories. Prior to Tokyo Smoke, she worked for several years in South Korea with Samsung Electronics, where she oversaw a variety of projects related to business strategy, acquisitions, investments, partnerships, and development of new products and services. She is also a Google alum and started her career in Financial Services Management Consulting at Oliver Wyman, a global consulting firm. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
"On behalf of the Board and management team of Harborside, I am delighted to welcome Felicia to the Harborside team," said Ed Schmults, Chief Executive Officer. "Her diverse skillset and significant cannabis industry experience are valuable additions to Harborside as we work to integrate our recent acquisitions and build the flagship California cannabis company."
The appointment of Ms. Snyder to the Board fills a vacancy created by the previously announced resignation of Michael Dacks.
Conference call
The Company intends to host a conference call for analysts and investors, during which it will review the ongoing progress of Harborside's business integration with Urbn Leaf and Loudpack:
Conference Call Date: May 31, 2022
Time: 11:00am ET
North American toll-free dial-in number: 1-888-664-6392
International dial-in number: 416-764-8659
Webcast: https://produceredition.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1552975&tp_key=14131803f3
A telephonic replay of the conference call will also be available through June 14, 2022.
North American toll-free replay number: 1-888-390-0541
International replay number: 416-764-8677
Replay entry code: 193421#
Harborside, a vertically integrated enterprise with cannabis licenses covering retail, major brands, distribution, cultivation, nursery and manufacturing, is one of the oldest and most respected cannabis companies in California. Founded in 2006, Harborside was awarded one of the first six medical cannabis licenses granted in the United States. Today, the Company operates 14 dispensaries covering Northern and Southern California and one in Oregon, distribution facilities in San Jose and Los Angeles, California and integrated cultivation/production facilities in Salinas and Greenfield, California. Harborside is a publicly listed company, currently trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange ("CSE") under the ticker symbol "HBOR" and the OTCQX under the ticker symbol "HBORF". The Company continues to play an instrumental role in making cannabis safe and accessible to a broad and diverse community of California and Oregon consumers.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of the applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation. To the extent any forward-looking information in this news release constitutes "financial outlooks" or "future-oriented financial information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, the reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on such information. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based on expectations, estimates, and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements. In this news release, forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements relating to the integration of Harborside with Urbn Leaf and Loudpack, the Company becoming one of the largest vertically integrated cannabis enterprises in California, and the Company's future performance.
These forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time such statements were made. Actual future results may differ materially as forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of the Company to materially differ from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors, among other things, include: implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's operations; fluctuations in general macroeconomic conditions; fluctuations in securities markets; expectations regarding the size of the cannabis markets where the Company operates; changing consumer habits; the ability of the Company to successfully achieve its business objectives; plans for expansion and acquisitions; political and social uncertainties; inability to obtain adequate insurance to cover risks and hazards; employee relations; the presence of laws and regulations that may impose restrictions on cultivation, production, distribution, and sale of cannabis and cannabis-related products in the markets where the Company operates; and the risk factors set out in the Company's management's discussion and analysis for the period ended December 31, 2021 and the Company's listing statement dated May 30, 2019, which are available under the Company's profile on www.sedar.com. Although the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are based upon what management of the Company believes, or believed at the time, to be reasonable assumptions, the Company cannot assure shareholders that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking statements, as there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law.
The Company, through several of its subsidiaries, is indirectly involved in the manufacture, possession, use, sale, and distribution of cannabis in the recreational and medicinal cannabis marketplace in the United States. Local state laws where the Company operates permit such activities however, investors should note that there are significant legal restrictions and regulations that govern the cannabis industry in the United States. Cannabis remains a Schedule I drug under the United States Controlled Substances Act, making it illegal under federal law in the United States to, among other things, cultivate, distribute or possess cannabis in the United States. Financial transactions involving proceeds generated by, or intended to promote, cannabis-related business activities in the United States may form the basis for prosecution under applicable United States federal money laundering legislation.
While the approach to enforcement of such laws by the federal government in the United States has trended toward non-enforcement against individuals and businesses that comply with recreational and medicinal cannabis programs in states where such programs are legal, strict compliance with state laws with respect to cannabis will neither absolve the Company of liability under United States federal law, nor will it provide a defense to any federal proceeding which may be brought against the Company. The enforcement of federal laws in the United States is a significant risk to the business of the Company and any proceedings brought against the Company thereunder may adversely affect the Company's operations and financial performance.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities in the United States. The Company's securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to U.S. Persons unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.
The CSE has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this news release. Neither the CSE nor its Market Regulator (as that term is defined in the policies of the CSE) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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MIAMI (AP) — A court appearance was postponed Tuesday for a Donald Trump valet who’s charged with helping the former president hide classified documents that the Justice Department wanted back.
A lawyer for the valet, Walt Nauta, told a judge that Nauta had been unable to find a Florida-based attorney. He also said that Nauta was stuck in Newark, New Jersey, after his scheduled flight down to Florida for the arraignment sat on the tarmac for hours and then was canceled.
The lawyer, Stanley Woodward, said Nauta expressed his apologies to the court for not being present.
“Mr. Nauta takes very seriously the charges that he is facing,” he said.
As a result, a federal magistrate judge, Edwin Torres, pushed Tuesday’s scheduled arraignment back until July 6.
Nauta was charged earlier this month alongside Trump in a 38-count indictment filed by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith. Trump pleaded not guilty earlier this month to 37 counts related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents kept at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Nauta’s arraignment was postponed to give him time to find a Florida-based lawyer.
The indictment accuses Nauta of conspiring with Trump to conceal records that he had taken with him from the White House after this term ended in January 2021.
Prosecutors allege that Nauta, at the former president’s direction, moved boxes of documents bearing classification markings so that they would not be found by a Trump lawyer who was tasked with searching the home for classified records to be returned to the government. That, prosecutors said, resulted in a false representation to the Justice Department that a “diligent search” for classified documents had been done and that all documents responsive to a subpoena had been returned.
Nauta is a Navy veteran who fetched Trump’s Diet Cokes as his valet at the White House before joining him as a personal aide at Mar-a-Lago. He is regularly by Trump’s side, even traveling in Trump’s motorcade to the Miami courthouse for their appearance earlier this month and accompanying him afterwards to a stop at the city’s famed Cuban restaurant Versailles, where he helped usher supporters eager to take selfies with the former president.
Meanwhile, on Monday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon denied a Justice Department request to file under seal the names of 84 potential witnesses it wants Trump, the front-runner in the 2024 Republican presidential race, to be prohibited from discussing the case with as it moves forward in court. She said that, in her view, the Justice Department did not explain why it needed to file the list with the court or why it was necessary to seal the list from public view.
She also scheduled a pretrial conference for July 14 to discuss matters related to the Classified Information Procedures Act.
And last week, the Justice Department proposed a Dec. 11 trial date for Trump, requesting a postponement from a judge’s initial date in August. Cannon told defense lawyers to respond to that request by July 6.
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Tucker reported from Washington. | 2023-06-28T03:51:19+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/latest/trump-valet-set-for-arraignment-in-classified-documents-case/ |
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Dallas Cowboys kicker Brett Maher missed four straight extra points in Monday night's NFC wild-card game against Tampa Bay, becoming the first player in NFL history to miss three or more in a playoff game.
Maher's misses were the only thing going wrong for the Cowboys, who led the Buccaneers 24-0 after his 0-fer. Maher finally kicked one through the uprights on his fifth try, giving Dallas a 31-6 lead in the fourth quarter.
Maher missed five consecutive extra points overall after failing on his final try in Week 18. He was 50 of 53 on PATs in the regular season.
He was wide right on his first two kicks Monday night, pulled his third try wide left and then hit the top of the right upright on his fourth attempt.
Maher was solid on field goals this season, going 29 of 32 (90.6%) — including 9 of 11 from 50 yards or more, with a long of 60.
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HONOLULU, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. (NYSE: ALEX) approved a fourth quarter 2022 dividend of $0.22 (twenty-two cents) per share. The dividend is payable on January 6, 2023, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on December 23, 2022.
About Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.
Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. (NYSE: ALEX) (A&B) is the only publicly-traded real estate investment trust to focus exclusively on Hawai'i commercial real estate and is the state's largest owner of grocery-anchored, neighborhood shopping centers. A&B owns, operates and manages approximately 3.9 million square feet of commercial space in Hawai'i, including 22 retail centers, 12 industrial assets and four office properties, as well as 141 acres of ground leases. A&B is expanding and strengthening its Hawai'i CRE portfolio and achieving its strategic focus on commercial real estate by monetizing its remaining non-core assets. Over its 152-year history, A&B has evolved with the state's economy and played a leadership role in the development of the agricultural, transportation, tourism, construction, residential and commercial real estate industries. Learn more about A&B at www.alexanderbaldwin.com.
Contact:
A&B Investor Relations
(808) 525-8475
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CHICAGO, June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Chicago rapper Dreadrock releases his highly anticipated album "24 Hours of Hell." Produced by SwervGang and released under the esteemed Swervnation record label, this track promises to captivate audiences with its raw energy and powerful storytelling.
Dreadrock's unique style and compelling lyricism have earned him a dedicated fan base, and "24 Hours of Hell" showcases his artistic growth and versatility. The album delves deep into the artist's personal experiences, painting a vivid picture of the challenges faced by individuals living in Chicago's west side. Dreadrock's authentic storytelling combined with SwervGang's masterful production sets the stage for a song that resonates on multiple levels.
"24 Hours of Hell" takes listeners on a journey through the struggles, resilience, and determination of Dreadrock's life. The track's gritty verses and infectious hooks reflect the harsh realities faced by many in the community, offering a glimpse into a world filled with both darkness and hope. Through his powerful delivery and captivating wordplay, Dreadrock shines a light on the issues plaguing marginalized neighborhoods while instilling a sense of empowerment and unity.
Swervnation, the driving force behind the release, is a record label known for its dedication to supporting emerging artists and amplifying their voices. Based in Chicago's west side, Swervnation has become a hub for talent, fostering a creative environment that empowers artists to push boundaries and explore new sonic territories. The collaboration between Dreadrock and SwervGang highlights the label's commitment to delivering groundbreaking music that resonates with listeners worldwide.
"24 Hours of Hell" is now available on all major streaming platforms, and listeners are encouraged to experience the gripping narrative firsthand. The album's release has already sparked excitement within the music community, and fans eagerly await the accompanying music video, set to drop in the coming weeks. With its powerful message and infectious beats, "24 Hours of Hell" has the potential to become a chart-topping hit, further solidifying Dreadrock's position as a rising star in the hip-hop industry.
SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEBSITES
Dreadrock's Social media Links
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dreadrock700/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dreadrocksge
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dreadrocksge_/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-samuels-jr-dreadrock-396755232/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvFkUkAHYrTVLlaQICg8KsQ
Websites:
Swervnation: https://swervnation.com/
Dreadrock: https://dreadrock.swervnation.com/
Store: https://shop.swervnation.com/
Songwhip : https://songwhip.com/dreadrock
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AeroPress Clear combines the same patented breakthrough technology and durability of the acclaimed AeroPress Original with a new glass-like appearance
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AeroPress, Inc., the maker of the iconic coffee press with more than 45,000 five-star reviews in over 60 countries, announces the official launch of its latest, widely demanded coffee maker: the AeroPress Clear.
Designed to meet consumer demands for aesthetically pleasing coffee brewing solutions and give users the ability to observe and adjust their brew, the AeroPress Clear features the same revolutionary, patented brewing technology as the AeroPress Original in a new crystal-clear form, made from Tritan™. Completely dishwasher safe (top and bottom rack), shatterproof, and stain resistant, the new Aeropress Clear is as appealing as it is functional - lightweight, yet tough enough for the road, sleek enough for display.
The AeroPress Clear joins the AeroPress Original and AeroPress Go as the only coffee makers thoughtfully designed to deliver a unique and customizable coffee experience with complete control over grind size, temperature, and immersion time. With a patented, portable design and unbelievably fast brewing process, AeroPress coffee makers allow users to create uniquely delicious American, latte, cold brew, and espresso-style coffee anytime, anywhere.
"We've been working on this for years and are so excited to announce that the AeroPress Clear is officially here," says CEO Gerard Meyer. "Its glass-like appearance looks so good people will want to display it prominently on their counters, while the durable design means they can still pack it up and enjoy its portability and convenience anywhere they need a perfect cup of coffee."
The AeroPress Clear is available in the USA now at aeropress.com for $49.95, coming soon to Amazon, and rolling out to international distributors over the coming months.
ABOUT AEROPRESS
AeroPress coffee makers give coffee lovers in 60+ countries worldwide the ability to brew their perfect cup anywhere. This unique technology combines the best of three brew techniques in one easy-to-use, portable, affordable press. Coffee lovers get a uniquely delicious cup of coffee with the full body of a French press, the smoothness of a pourover, the richness of espresso, and a quality of finish that lingers well after the last sip. With an iconic design and an unbelievably fast brewing process, AeroPress coffee makers are a fan-favorite among baristas, world coffee champions, and the discerning everyday coffee drinker – and its 45K+ 5-star online reviews speak for themselves. For more information about AeroPress, visit aeropress.com or follow along on Instagram (@aeropress) and TikTok (@aeropress).
Tritan is a trademark of Eastman Chemical Company.
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WFO PORTLAND Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, November 24, 2022
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BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Portland OR
421 AM PST Tue Nov 22 2022
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING FOR BEACHES...
* WHAT...Sneaker waves possible.
* WHERE...In Oregon, North Oregon Coast and Central Oregon Coast
counties. In Washington, South Washington Coast county.
* WHEN...From Thursday afternoon through Thursday evening.
* IMPACTS...Waves can run up significantly farther on a beach
than normal, including over rocks and jetties. Sneaker waves can
suddenly knock people off of their feet and quickly pull them
into the frigid ocean which may lead to serious injury or
drowning.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Beach Hazards Statement is issued when sneaker waves create
potentially life-threatening conditions in the surf zone. Caution
should be used when in or near the water. Always keep an eye on
the waves, and be especially watchful of children.
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CEDARHURST, N.Y., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues this alert to shareholders of Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. (NasdaqGS: LILM, LILMW, QELL, QELLU, QELLW),, if they purchased the Company's securities between March 30, 2021 and March 14, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Shareholders have until June 17, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in the securities class action lawsuit.
Shareholders are encouraged to contact us at https://kclasslaw.com/cases/securities/nasdaqgs-lilm/https://kclasslaw.com/cases/securities/nyse-hmlp/, by calling toll-free at 1-833-835-1495 or by email (dk@kclasslaw.com).
Kuznicki Law PLLC is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a Company lead to artificial inflation of the Company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Kuznicki Law PLLC
Daniel Kuznicki, Esq.
445 Central Avenue, Suite 344
Cedarhurst, NY 11516
Email: dk@kclasslaw.com
Phone: (347) 696-1134
Cell: (347) 690-0692
Fax: (347) 348-0967
https://kclasslaw.com
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The Central girls’ volleyball team defeated Holyoke in four sets on Wednesday behind a trio of stellar performances on the court.
Wednesday, Sep. 14
CENTRAL
Putnam 3, Ware 0 - Box Score
Central 3, Holyoke 1 - Box Score
Taconic 3, Mount Everett 0 - Box Score
Monument Mountain 3, Sci-Tech 0 - Box Score
EASTERN
Westfield 3, Pittsfield 0 - Box Score
METRO
Smith Voc. 3, Hampden Charter School of Science East 0 - Box Score
Paulo Freire 3, Pioneer Valley Christian 0 - Box Score
Southwick 3, Granby 0 - Box Score
NORTHERN
Franklin Tech 3, Pioneer Valley 1 - Box Score
Wahconah 4, Turners Falls 1 - Box Score
SOUTHERN
Easthampton 3, Hampden Charter School of Science West 0 - Box Score
WESTERN
Agawam 3, Chicopee Comp 0 - Box Score
West Springfield 3, Ludlow 0 - Box Score
Westfield 3, Pittsfield 0 - Box Score
Lee 3, South Hadley 0 - Box Score
Independent
Easthampton 3, Hampden Charter School of Science West 0 - Box Score | 2022-09-15T05:01:37+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/highschoolsports/2022/09/scoreboard-araiza-acum-santos-leads-central-girls-volleyball-to-victory-and-more.html |
WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, January 26, 2023
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URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service New York NY
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425 AM EST Wed Jan 25 2023
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
4 AM EST THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Southeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph
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* WHERE...In Connecticut, Northern New London, Southern
Middlesex and Southern New London Counties. In New York,
Northwest Suffolk, Northeast Suffolk, Southwest Suffolk,
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Southeast Suffolk, Northern Nassau and Southern Nassau
Counties.
* WHEN...From 4 PM this afternoon to 4 AM EST Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.
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Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
result.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Locally higher wind gusts to 60 mph are
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PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Lawmakers are demanding reforms to protect migrant kids who have been found working in plants and slaughterhouses.
“Thousands tens of thousands of those kids are in forced child labor conditions at slaughterhouses, at factories, working construction jobs,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said. “It is absolutely unconscionable.”
He said the problem stems from the Biden administration’s border policies.
“(President Joe Biden) opened the door to child smugglers two years ago,” Hawley claimed.
He has proposed legislation requiring companies to submit annual independent audits of their labor practices to the U.S. Department of Labor.
“We should root out all child labor from our supply chains,” Hawley said. “Fine the corporations. Go after them.”
The Department of Labor has promised not to turn a blind eye to the surge in child labor violations, which have increased 69% since 2018. A special task force launched to crack down on the problem has 600 open investigations. The department has also called on Congress to increase fines.
Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the D.C.-based nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, said criminal charges are necessary, too.
“Bring criminal fines against exploiters,” he said. “A criminal charge is much more effective than any fine. No one wants to go to jail.”
He said the Labor Department also needs more funding from Congress to conduct inspections.
“The Department of Labor has been under-resourced for the last 30, 40 years. There’s not enough resources for a labor inspector to go to a workplace even once in 30 years,” he said.
The Labor Department would not comment on Hawley’s bill specifically but says it supports any increase in accountability or deterrence. | 2023-05-08T22:03:51+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/bill-would-crack-down-on-migrant-child-labor-violations/ |
In the year since the Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion, America’s religious leaders and denominations have responded in strikingly diverse ways — some celebrating the state-level bans that have ensued, others angered that a conservative Christian cause has changed the law of the land in ways they consider oppressive.
The divisions are epitomized in the country’s largest denomination — the Catholic Church. National polls repeatedly show that a majority of U.S. Catholics believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases, yet the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops supports sweeping bans.
Among Protestants, a solid majority of white evangelicals favor outlawing abortion. But most mainline Protestants support the right to abortion, and several of their top leaders have decried the year-old Supreme Court ruling that undermined that right by reversing the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973.
For example, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Michael Curry, said he was “deeply grieved” by that ruling.
The decision “institutionalizes inequality because women with access to resources will be able to exercise their moral judgment in ways that women without the same resources will not,” Curry said.
Some religious Americans have gone beyond expressions of dismay, filing lawsuits contending that new abortion bans infringed on their own religious beliefs. Jewish women played roles in such lawsuits in Indiana and Kentucky; in Florida, a synagogue in Boynton Beach — Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor — contended in a lawsuit that a state abortion ban violated Jewish teachings.
Dr. Sara Imershein, who performs first-trimester abortions in northern Virginia, said her Reform Judaism beliefs informed her decision to choose that path.
“I looked more at the liturgy of Judaism and found that it really supported my work,” she said. “I studied with my local rabbi.”
Imershein was in college when abortion was legalized nationwide. Now, at 69, she has seen Roe’s demise.
“Laws that restrict abortion … ignore our Jewish teachings that are very old, and they stomp on our religious freedom,” she said.
In Buddhism, Islam and Sikhism, there also is widespread acceptance of abortion in some circumstances. Most U.S. Hindus are “very much in support of choice,” said Dheepa Sundaram, assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Denver; she cited the concept of karma which holds that each person has the liberty to act and face the consequences of their actions — good or bad.
Randall Balmer, a professor of American religious history at Dartmouth College, says the abortion debate is so intractable in part because believers in the opposing camps view the Bible — which doesn’t include the word “abortion” — as supporting their side.
“It shows the pliability of Scripture — the way that each group tries to marshal arguments on its behalf,” he said. “The Bible can be manipulated.”
“What strikes me about both sides is there’s no humility in their position,” Balmer added. “They stake out what they believe is God’s will, and everybody else is a heretic.”
Even within individual churches, divisions over abortion can flare. Bishop Timothy Clarke, pastor of First Church of God in Columbus, Ohio, frequently exhorts his predominantly African American congregation to respect those with opposing views.
Clarke describes himself as “biblically pro-life,” yet he criticizes the stringent abortion bans enacted in numerous Republican-led states as “excessive and extreme.”
Referring to laws that would criminalize abortion-providing doctors and deny abortion to victims of rape, he said many people in his church “are saying this is going too far. It’s beyond the pale.”
There is similar sentiment among some U.S. Catholics, says Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a professor of American studies and history at the University of Notre Dame and director of its Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.
“There are some horrific stories coming out of pregnant women with severe issues who are being denied health care,” she said, referring to the consequences of some state abortion bans.
“We have to have a more human approach,” she said. “I think we’ll see more Catholics saying, ‘I’m not pro-abortion. But I want mercy. I want health care.’”
As a group, Catholic bishops are unwavering, as conveyed in a statement earlier this year from their conference’s president, Archbishop Timothy Broglio.
“The Catholic bishops of the United States are united in our commitment to life and will continue to work as one body in Christ to make abortion unthinkable,” he said.
A poll last year from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research showed a clear gap between the prevalent views of U.S. Catholics, and the anti-abortion positions of the bishops. According to the poll, 63% of Catholic adults said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and 68% opposed Roe v. Wade’s reversal.
“On every issue having to do with sexuality or reproductive health, there’s a huge gap between the way lay Catholics think and what the hierarchy is teaching,” said Jamie Manson, president of Catholics for Choice.
“What’s challenging,” she said, “is that even though most Catholics believe abortion should be legal, they don’t speak about it publicly because of the taboo … the fear of being ostracized by their community.”
Manson noted that a 2014 survey by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights, found that nearly one-fourth of U.S. abortion patients identify as Catholic.
“There’s an all-male hierarchy telling them they’re complicit in murder,” Manson said. “I wish what bishops and priests would do is listen to these women, listen to their stories of why they choose abortion.”
Among mainline Protestant denominations, there have been official statements acknowledging that abortion is a complex issue, but prevailing sentiment is that last year’s Supreme Court ruling was an injustice to women, particularly those already facing economic hardships and racial discrimination.
“This decision further complicates the struggle and creates division, anger, and chaos in an already divided and conflicted country,” wrote Bishop Thomas Bickerton, president of the United Methodist Church’s Council of Bishops.
Some Protestant pastors have emerged as outspoken advocates of abortion rights; among them is Jacqui Lewis, the first African American and first woman to serve as a senior minister in New York City’s historic Middle Collegiate Church.
She evoked the fear and heartache felt by many of the women affected by the new abortion bans.
“These are the poorest of us, the most disenfranchised and they’re struggling more because some portion of Christianity feels they have the right to decide for other people what is moral,” Lewis said. “It breaks my soul to see religion weaponized this way … it’s the opposite of what religion should be.”
Among the leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, by far the largest evangelical denomination, there’s unified opposition to abortion. However, there has been sharp disagreement over whether to impose criminal penalties on women who get abortions.
The SBC’s president, Bart Barber, opposes criminalization of women in such cases and has sparred verbally with Baptist pastors who argue that such women. in some instances, should be considered murderers.
“I think it is unjust, unnecessary, and unwise to include in abortion laws the prosecution of women who seek or obtain an abortion,” Barber writes in a lengthy article. “The abortionist is the murderer, and any law banning abortion should identify the abortionist uniquely as such.”
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AP reporters Tiffany Stanley in Washington and Deepa Bharath in Southern California contributed.
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Which cute portable charger is best?
In today’s hyperconnected digital age, your phone battery die isn’t just unfortunate — it can be downright crippling. There aren’t many public options available for charging your devices, so it’s practically a requirement to carry a portable charger with you. Most of them look like ugly, monotone bricks, but a few of them are cute without sacrificing effectiveness. The Yoobao Cute Portable Charger is one of these options. It comes in three cute designs and has a large-capacity, quick-charging battery.
What to know before you buy a cute portable charger
Cuteness, novelty and quality
It’s hard to generalize what design choices make a portable charger cute or not. For example, you may think a kitten-covered charger is adorable, but your roommate may think it’s tacky. What can be discussed is the intersection of cuteness, novelty and quality.
Most chargers are plain rectangular bricks for a reason: They are simple and effective. Cute chargers are also typically rectangular but have design elements that attempt to look endearing without sacrificing much effectiveness.
Novelty chargers are never rectangular bricks — they come in all manner of shapes, sizes and forms. Some novelty chargers are hidden inside stuffed animals or look like a tube of lipstick. These rarely have the capacities and charge times to be relied on as your main source of on-the-go charging, but they can be effective in a pinch.
Milliampere hours
A portable charger’s milliampere hours is a measure of its capacity. Many cute portable chargers have 10,000mAh, which is enough to charge two to three dead phones or one tablet back to 100%. It’s rare to see cute chargers with bigger capacities, but they do exist if you look hard enough — you just won’t have many design choices.
Amperage
A portable charger’s amperage is a measure of how fast it can charge a device with larger numbers being faster. It’s important to note that amperage is split between all devices if your charger can charge more than one at a time. That said, most cute chargers top out around 3 amps, which is enough to charge one dead phone in under an hour.
What to look for in a quality cute portable charger
Battery level indicator
The best cute chargers have battery level indicators, typically in the form of several LED lights. The more LEDs that light up, the fuller the battery is. It’s essentially impossible to tell when your cute portable charger needs to refill its battery without indicators unless it just stops charging — something you don’t want to happen when you’re at 1%.
Flashlight
Some cute portable chargers have little flashlights that can be turned off and on at the press of a button. It’s not much, but it can make charging your dead phone in the dark much easier.
How much you can expect to spend on a cute portable charger
Most cute portable chargers cost less than $50, as their designs are skewed toward appearance rather than performance. You may find some higher-powered cute options for $50-$100, but anything more expensive is unlikely to look like anything other than a brick.
Cute portable charger FAQ
Is there a difference between portable chargers and power banks?
A. Generally speaking, portable charger and power bank are interchangeable terms. It just depends on how a given manufacturer wants to market its product. That said, a few manufacturers with a wider spread in products will use the term portable charger to describe their midrange and lesser batteries and the term power bank to describe their high-capacity batteries.
Are cute portable chargers compatible with all phones?
A. Yes, all portable chargers are capable of charging any model of phone as long as you have a cable that can connect to your charger’s out ports and your phone’s in port. That said, some aspects of the charger — namely its amperage — may affect how well it charges certain phones.
What’s the best cute portable charger to buy?
Top cute portable charger
What you need to know: This option comes in several cute designs and reliably charges on the go.
What you’ll love: It uses a 10,000mAh battery and two USB out ports with 2.1-amp charge speeds. The battery can be charged using either a USB-C cable — which is included with purchase — or a Lightning cable. It weighs just under half a pound.
What you should consider: A few consumers had issues being able to charge the power bank’s batteries, and some said it took several hours to fully charge.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top cute portable charger for the money
What you need to know: The little puppy paw print pushes this otherwise plain but affordable charger into cute territory.
What you’ll love: It has a 10,000mAh battery with three 3-amp ports — two USB out ports and one USB-C in/out port — that can all be used simultaneously. It includes a travel pouch and a USB-C cable, comes in black or blue and has a flashlight.
What you should consider: There are some rare reports from purchasers that it stops working after a few months, either by not holding a charge or by not charging multiple devices at once.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Hrnakdfkl Cute Cat and Bear Mini Power Bank
What you need to know: This is perfect for charging phones around your home or in an emergency charging situation.
What you’ll love: One of the portable chargers features a cat design that charges Lightning devices (iPhones), and the other charger features a bear design that charges USB-C devices. Each charger has an 800mAh battery that can charge a phone up to 20%. The base acts as a night light.
What you should consider: The chargers don’t fit over most cases, so the case will need to be removed. They don’t charge as quickly as less-novel options.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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(Green Car Reports) — The 2024 Kia EV9 electric SUV will be built at the automaker’s West Point, Georgia, factory starting in the 2024 calendar year, Kia announced Wednesday at the 2023 New York Auto Show.
The ramp-up will happen after the EV9 goes on sale in the U.S. in the fourth quarter of this year, with initial units likely sourced from South Korea. Full U.S. launch timing and pricing will be revealed at a later date.
First shown in concept form at the 2021 Los Angeles Auto Show, the three-row EV9 is the largest model to date built on the E-GMP platform shared by Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis. It’s the second Kia model to use the E-GMP platform, after the EV6, and it will be the first Kia electric car assembled in the U.S.
Kia revealed the design of the EV9, which stuck pretty close to the concept version last month, other details on specs, range, and charging later in the month. Highlights include speedy 800-volt charging with future V2G (vehicle-to-grid) capability, a Level 3 Highway Driving Pilot system, as well as second-row swivel seats. Those probably aren’t coming to the U.S., however.
U.S. assembly will make the EV9 eligible for at least half of the potential $7,500 EV tax credit under new rules enacted as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). While that checks one box, Kia will also need to meet battery-assembly and raw-materials sourcing requirements to get the full amount.
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Reports have also suggested that Kia might get some of the production from Hyundai’s so-called Metaplant in Savannah, Georgia. But with this, that possibility may be a little less likely. Kia’s West Point factory is already well established, having assembled more than 3.8 million vehicles since 2009, according to the automaker. | 2023-04-06T18:23:50+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/automotive/kia-ev9-electric-suv-confirmed-for-georgia-production-in-2024/ |
Island real estate market sees yearly decline in transaction figures but a record-setting year for property values & high-end transactions
NANTUCKET, Mass., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- After an unprecedented period for Nantucket real estate, the 2022 market showed signs of a return to normalcy in transaction numbers but dollar volume was 64 percent higher than pre-pandemic figures, the median home sale price skyrocketed 81 percent above the 2019 value, and half of 2022 dollar volume came from just 20 percent of transactions at the high-end of the market. Jen Allen of Fisher Real Estate writes that Nantucket has likely experienced a permanent shift in property values due to persistently limited inventory, increased island popularity and a new demographic of buyers.
With little inventory for buyers to come by in 2022, single-family home sales dropped below 300 transactions for the first time since 2013. The lost transaction volume was more than gained in increased dollar volume as the 286 home transfers represented $1.3 billion in sales. This was approximately 100 fewer transactions than the five-year average but nearly the same dollar volume. A new record was also set in 2022 for the highest property sale in Nantucket's history with the $37.6 million sale of 4 Middle Valley Road, initially reported at $25 million.
Between a natural rise in property values due to supply and demand dynamics, and the increased activity in sales above $5 million, the 2022 median home sale value rose 21 percent from 2021 and stood at $3.36 million by year's end. This is the first time this value surpassed $3 million, and it is 81 percent higher than in 2019, pre-pandemic. Fisher Real Estate states that until there is a significant increase in for-sale properties, it does not foresee a dramatic shift in pricing, even as transactions slow.
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Morning news brief By Leila Fadel, Steve Inskeep Published June 12, 2023 at 5:02 AM EDT Facebook LinkedIn Email Listen • 11:13 Despite indictment, ex-President Trump spent the weekend campaigning. Ukraine's counteroffensive has begun. Scotland's ex-first minister is arrested in a probe of Scottish National Party's finances. Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-06-12T09:43:57+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/2023-06-12/morning-news-brief |
CHICAGO, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading promotional products and solutions provider iPromo announced today that it has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list for the second year in a row with three-year revenue growth of 256%, placing No. 2281 on Inc's. annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America.
The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
"In the new hybrid world we are focused on creating solutions that help with employee retention and relationship building through promotional products and corporate gifts," said Leo Friedman, iPromo's CEO & Founder. "Our clients love their online company stores, and our new SwagCloud™ platform that lets them store and distribute their products on demand. We are also passionate about reducing the 20% waste in our industry through EcoCloud™, a solution for reusing or donating unused swag. Our growth has come from being reliable branding and distribution partners for our clients."
The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19. Among the top 500, the average median three-year revenue growth rate soared to 2,144%. Together, those companies added more than 68,394 jobs over the past three years.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million.
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine, which will be available on August 23.
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After Ohio train wreck, Biden orders door-to-door checks
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday directed federal agencies to go door-to-door in East Palestine, Ohio, to check on families affected by the toxic train derailment that has morphed into a heated political controversy.
Under Biden’s order, teams from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Protection Agency and Federal Emergency Management Agency will visit homes in East Palestine to ask how residents are doing, see what they need and connect them with appropriate resources. The “walk teams” are modeled on similar teams following hurricanes and other natural disasters.
Biden did not specify a number of homes to be visited, but directed employees to get to as many as possible by Monday. The president said that at present he has no plans to personally visit.
His order came as House Republicans opened an investigation into the Feb. 3 derailment, blaming Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for what they contend was a delayed response to the fiery wreck.
Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, became the latest lawmaker to jump into what has become a political proxy war as each party lays into the other after the derailment and chemical leak that led to evacuation of the small Ohio community.
“Despite the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) responsibility to ensure safe and reliable transport in the United States, you ignored the catastrophe for over a week,” the Kentucky Republican said in a letter to Buttigieg. “The American people deserve answers as to what caused the derailment, and DOT needs to provide an explanation for its leadership’s apathy in the face of this emergency.”
A preliminary report released Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board stated that the crew operating the Norfolk Southern freight train didn’t get much warning before dozens of cars went off the tracks and there is no indication that crew members did anything wrong.
Republicans are framing the incident as a moral failing at the hands of the Biden administration, while Democrats are pointing to rollbacks former President Donald Trump made during his term that weakened rail and environmental regulations.
The Oversight letter requests documents and communications concerning when DOT leaders learned of the derailment and whether they received any guidance about what the public response should be, as well any recent changes to agency train maintenance and procedures.
A day earlier, Buttigieg made his first visit to the crash site and hit back at Trump, who had visited the day before and criticized the federal response.
Buttigieg told reporters that if the former president — and current Republican presidential candidate — felt strongly about increased rail safety efforts, “one thing he could do is express support for reversing the deregulation that happened on his watch.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre excoriated “political stunts that we’re seeing from the other side.”
Norfolk Southern said the NTSB report showed the train’s heat detectors worked as intended and the crew operated “within the company’s rules.” Nevertheless, the company said it would “need to learn as much as we can from this event” and “develop practices and invest in technologies that could help prevent an incident like this in the future.”
The freight cars that derailed on the East Palestine outskirts, near the Pennsylvania state line, included 11 carrying hazardous materials. Residents evacuated as fears grew about a potential explosion of smoldering wreckage.
Officials seeking to avoid an uncontrolled blast released and burned toxic vinyl chloride from five rail cars, sending flames and black smoke into the sky. That left people questioning potential health effects, though authorities maintained they were doing their best to protect people.
“This incident is an environmental and public health emergency that now threatens Americans across state lines,” Comer and nearly two dozen Republicans said in their letter to Buttigieg.
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Associated Press writer Zeke Miller contributed to this story.
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TOKYO (AP) — A decade-long data breach in Toyota’s much-touted online service put some information on more than 2 million vehicles at risk, the Japanese automaker said Friday.
Spanning from January 2012 to April 2023, the problem with Toyota’s cloud-based Connected service pertains only to vehicles in Japan, said spokesperson Hideaki Homma.
The Connected service reminds owners to get maintenance checks and links to streaming entertainment and provides help during emergencies. It can call for help after a crash or locate a car that’s been stolen.
No issues arising from the breach have been reported so far.
Although there is no evidence any information was leaked, copied or misused due to the breach, the data at risk includes: the vehicle identification number, which is separate from the license plate; the location of the vehicle and at what time it was there; and video footage taken by the vehicle, known as the “drive recorder” in Japan.
Such information cannot be used to identify individual owners, according to Toyota Motor Corp., which makes the Prius hybrid and Lexus luxury models.
Vehicles belonging to about 2.15 million people have been affected, including those who used net services called G-Link, G-Book and Connected.
Toyota’s Connected service in Japan is operated by a subsidiary. Until recently, no one noticed outside access to such information should have been turned off, Homma said.
“We are so sorry to have caused such trouble to all the people,” he said.
The problem is a major embarrassment for Japan’s top automaker, which has built a reputation for quality and attention to detail.
Automakers worldwide are competing to differentiate model offerings with the latest technology to lure buyers.
The problem with the system has been fixed, Homma said, so it’s safe to continue driving Connect-enabled vehicles as usual, and there is no need to bring them in for repairs.
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By BISWAJEET BANERJEE
Associated Press
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Heavy rains flooded hundreds of homes, knocked out power and collapsed structures including a wall that crushed 12 people in northern India, officials said Friday.
Schools were closed for the day in Lucknow, the Uttar Pradesh state capital, where the meteorological office recorded 35 millimeters (1.4 inches) of torrential rain in the past 24 hours, said Brijesh Pathak, the state’s deputy chief minister.
A wall collapsed on a slum dwelling made of polyethylene sheets and mud early Friday in the Hazratganj area of the state capital where laborers were sleeping. Nine died on the spot and another three were hospitalized with injuries, Pathak said.
In Unnao, a town 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Lucknow, another three people were killed in a house collapse following torrential rains, Pathak said.
Earlier this month, life was disrupted in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru after two days of torrential rains set off long traffic snarls, widespread power cuts and heavy floods that swept into homes and submerged roads.
People hopped onto tractors to get to work. Boats were deployed to rescue people submerged in floodwaters in Bengaluru, the capital of southern Karnataka state. The two zones that make up the city, Bengaluru Urban and Bengaluru Rural, saw 141% and 114% excess rainfall, making it the wettest September day in the past eight years.
Monsoon rains in South Asia typically begin in June. But this year, heavy downpours lashed northeastern India and Bangladesh beginning in March, triggering floods as early as April in Bangladesh.
The monsoon season that ends in October leaves hundreds of people dead and tens of thousands homeless every year.
The weather system for the Indian subcontinent is being altered due to climate change. Scientists say this is making extreme events such as excess rainfall the new normal.
With rising global temperatures due to climate change, experts say the monsoon is becoming more variable. Much of the rain that would typically fall in a season is arriving in a shorter period of time.
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When does daylight saving time start for Oklahoma in 2023? When do we 'spring forward'?
On the morning of Sunday, March 12, daylight saving time will once again commence.
Clocks will spring forward one hour at 2 a.m., and we'll lose that hour of sleep.
The tradeoff is that the sun will start setting after 7 p.m. in Oklahoma for the first time since October.
But why go through the trouble in adjusting clocks and circadian rhythms twice each year?
With the impending start of spring ― cue the budding flowers, the return of some birds to the region and shorts, at least for some ― here's a brief explainer on what daylight saving time is, how it started, and the effort by some states to make it permanent.
How did daylight saving time start?
The Uniform Time Act established nationwide standards for the observance of daylight saving time when it was signed into law in 1966.
Prior to then, daylight saving time in the United States was not regulated by the federal government, leaving municipalities, cities and states to decide whether or not to observe the practice, and if so, when it started and ended.
The Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education characterized this as a haphazard approach to managing the country's standard time, saying it left "transportation industries, including railroads, trucking and airlines, with complex and constantly shifting time schedules." And by the mid-20th century, the emerging broadcast television industry was finding it difficult to work within patchwork time zones and standards.
Since then, the start and end dates for daylight saving time in the United States has shifted over the years.
Who came up with daylight saving time?
The practice, at least according to Encyclopedia Britannica, was first suggested in an essay by Benjamin Franklin in 1784.
The first true proponent of daylight saving time, however, was an English builder named William Willet. In 1907, he published a pamphlet called "The Waste of Daylight" that campaigned for advancing clocks in spring and turning them back in fall, according to the National Museum of Scotland. Willet also encouraged people to get out of bed earlier in the summer to make the most of daylight.
"Everyone appreciates the long light evenings," Willett wrote in the pamphlet. "Everyone laments their shrinkage as autumn approaches, and nearly everyone has given utterance to a regret that the clear bright light of early morning during spring and summer months, is so seldom seen or used. Nevertheless standard time remains so fixed, that for nearly half the year the sun shines upon the land, for several hours each day while we are asleep."
Should the U.S. end daylight saving time?
No one actually likes losing or gaining an hour of sleep for the sake of more daylight, do they?
Recent polls have found that only 35% of Americans support resetting their clocks every fall and spring, while 59% want to see daylight saving time made permanent. And that sentiment appears to have translated to legislative action.
In the past five years, 19 states including Ohio have enacted legislation or passed resolutions to provide for year-round daylight saving time, if Congress were to allow such a change, and in some cases, if surrounding states enact the same legislation, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The key phrase there is if Congress were to allow such a change.
Under the Uniform Time Act, states and territories have the power to opt out of daylight saving time and switch to standard time, which Arizona, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands have done.
If the country were to switch to year-round daylight saving time, Ohio would move to Atlantic Time, the time zone for Puerto Rico, much of the Caribbean and Canada's Maritime provinces.
So, despite what states want, a switch to year-round daylight saving time requires a change in federal law.
The U.S. Senate passed a bill last March that would have made daylight saving time permanent across the U.S. beginning this year. But the House of Representatives didn't take the Sunshine Protection Act up in subsequent months. | 2023-02-14T18:26:25+00:00 | oklahoman.com | https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2023/02/14/daylight-saving-time-2023-when-does-it-start/69903324007/ |
Higganum man arrested for speeding after New Hampshire state police track him with aircraft
BOW, NH (WFSB) - A Connecticut man fled from state police in New Hampshire when they tried to pull him over for speeding, troopers said.
Daniel David Palozie, 33, of Higganum, CT, was clocked going 93 mph on a motorcycle on Interstate 93 north in the town of Bow, NH on Thursday.
New Hampshire State Police said Palozie fled at a high rate of speed in the breakdown lane of the highway when they tried to stop him.
A trooper in a state police aircraft monitored Palozie for several miles until he exited I-93 at exit 20.
“The aircraft informed ground units that Palozie had entered the parking lot of the Market Basket in Tilton and backed his motorcycle into a space near the trees,” New Hampshire State Police said in a news release. “The aircraft continued to observe Palozie until troopers from Troop D and officers from the Tilton Police Department arrived on scene.”
Troopers took Palozie into custody and charged him with speeding, disobeying a police officer, reckless driving and unregistered vehicle. They said a bail commissioner released Palozie on his own recognizance and he is due in court on July 28.
Copyright 2023 WFSB. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-16T12:48:11+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2023/06/16/higganum-man-arrested-speeding-after-new-hampshire-state-police-track-him-with-aircraft/ |
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