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Kelly Ciravolo is a mother, a wife, an attorney and a triathlete.
Those of you who drive the Cross Valley every day from town to the Back Mountain might recognize her from her welcome position on the Anzalone Law billboard, strategically set at the Luzerne exit. What you might not know is that Kelly is the winningest female in the history of the former Wilkes-Barre Triathlon, having won five times. She also won the Wilkes-Barre Duathlon four times during the same period.
Did you know that she won a bunch of other races too and competed all over the globe, including in China, where she finished ninth in the world in 2011?
Kelly (nee Ochreiter) was born in NEPA and grew up in Kingston on Loveland Avenue. She had a pretty happy, normal childhood with her parents and her younger sister on a quiet street near the Wyoming Valley West stadium.
Ed Grivensky, her 8th grade science teacher at Regis Academy, remembers Kelly as a good kid.
“One that stands out among the thousands I have taught,” he said.
When she was 12 years old everything changed. Her father, Bobby, died as a result of a tragic accident. After that, softball, soccer and basketball just didn’t seem important anymore. She had a younger sister and a mother, who was struggling to provide for two young girls.
Susan Ochreiter had a lot to deal with as a young widow and mother to two young girls. Life got very real for Kelly at a young age. Kelly ended up at Bishop Hoban for high school. She worked hard and got good grades.
At 14, she started working at a law firm. Her uncle got her the job. He was a lawyer and a father figure and Kelly started working in the summer and after school when she could. She worked hard because she knew she was going to need to get a scholarship for college to help her mom. She got a scholarship to Wilkes University and graduated in 2001 summa cum laude.
Her next stop was PSU Dickinson School of Law.
For the first time in her life, Kelly was challenged academically. Law school was hard. The girl who always got As really had to work hard in law school, and there was pressure to stay at the top of her class.
To deal with that stress, Kelly started running. Running relieved the mental and physical stress, and gave her time to work things out in her head. She didn’t have a watch, and she didn’t have any fancy running sneakers, but she started running around campus and the town of Carlisle.
They had a 5K race one year at her law school and Kelly signed up. She won. Her first race. She won, not because she is a gifted athlete – she is – but because she is a gifted athlete who works her butt off at everything she does.
After law school, Kelly moved back to NEPA to prepare for the bar exam.
Her mother, Susan Rutchauskas now, had remarried at that point, and they were living on Hayfield Road in Shavertown near Penn State Wilkes-Barre. During the summer, when Kelly was upstairs studying for the bar, she would sometimes watch runners out the window of her bedroom. And then one day she saw all the triathletes running by on the triathlon run course.
She actually lived on the triathlon course.
She passed the bar, of course, and got her first job with Hourigan, Kluger and Quinn in Wilkes Barre. She joined the Wilkes-Barre YMCA because she knew being a young lawyer meant long hours and lots of pressure, she wanted to continue her habit from law school of exercising to manage that stress.
At the Y she started taking spin classes in the morning before going to the office. Her instructor was Liza Prokop. Prokop was a triathlete herself and she saw some promise in the new lawyer who was coming to her class. Ciravolo rode hard and always pushed herself.
By this time Kelly also had a basic Canondale bike that she would ride around town when doing her errands. Two weeks after meeting for the first time, Liza saw her on the bike, “blazing around the River Commons.” A few days later she saw a blonde bullet running around town in the same area.
Whoever it was, that woman was fast. Liza realized it was Kelly from spin class.
She can ride and also run? Liza knew talent when she saw it, and the next time she saw Kelly in class she told her “You should do the triathlon. You would be a great triathlete, you should think about it.”
Shortly after Kelly was introduced to the people at Around Town Bikes in Wilkes-Barre. She started to train with more of a purpose. She decided to enter the 2006 Wilkes Barre triathlon.
She borrowed a bike from Around Town Bikes, and she rode that borrowed bike in some basic running sneakers. After the race was over she went right home. She didn’t live far. The next day in the newspaper she found out that she won Top Local Female Finisher. It was her first triathlon and she won again!
Ciravolo decided to get serious about triathlon. The following year she started riding with a group of men at Haveys Lake, including Scott Millington, Sean Robbins, Tom Shalata, Drew Jubis, Scott Meuser and a tall, former professional cyclist named Scott Ciravolo.
That year she had her breakthrough – winning the 2007 Wilkes-Barre Duathlon in June and then the Wilkes-Barre Triathlon in August. She liked riding with the men a lot. She had to work hard and challenge herself, but there was so much to learn – drafting, pacing, taking pulls, bike handling, safety, but she was getting stronger every week.
And she started to spend time riding solo with Scott Ciravolo. Some of their early dates were bike rides. He taught her a lot. And to this day he is still her biggest supporter. They married in 2008 and today they have three children together, Gemma, Tuula and Bruno.
When asked what race was always the most special to her, Ciravolo says “Wilkes-Barre!” But some of her other career highlights include that ninth-place finish at ITU World Championships in Beijing after she finished seventh at USAT Nationals to qualify for the race. At Beijing she crashed towards the end of the bike leg, but still got up, bloodied, and ran her way into ninth place.
Some of her other favorite memories include placing in the top 10 at Ironman Eagleman, an early season 70.3 race in Maryland that attracted pros from all over the country.
Another favorite memory is from the 2011 Wilkes-Barre Triathlon. Many athletes will remember that year for the torrential “sideways” rain that started after the swim and continued all day. Kelly left in a later wave, but all day long she knew she was chasing Jessica Chong from Allentown.
“Chonger” rides professionally for the Fred Beans Cycling team to this day, and you can see her often at the Trexlertown Velodrome. Kelly laid it all out there on the run that day. Toward the end of the 6.9-mile run course, her husband Scott was yelling at her that he didn’t know the time differential, but that he knew it was mere seconds.
Kelly buried herself on the long straightaway back to Penn State Wilkes-Barre. She won that race by 8 seconds to capture her fourth overall victory at Harveys Lake. Liza Prokop said about her run – Kelly is “unmatched. That run … she would run everybody down.”
After the birth of her third child, Bruno, Kelly struggled with some serious health issues. During her pregnancy she developed deep vein thrombosis which led to a pulmonary embolism.
While she was pregnant with Bruno, she had to be put on blood thinners. Bruno came early, Kelly didn’t realize he was coming so she drove herself to the hospital. The doctors warned her that after delivery she was at a heightened risk of recurrence and 10 days later the worst happened.
Kelly ended up in the hospital for 10 days battling for her life. Doctors say what saved her was that her lungs were so strong, and she was so physically fit from her athletic training.
After that there was a period where she was medically forbidden to train. There has been some serious long-term damage to her legs from the clots and a major vein had to be ablated. These problems persist. While Kelly does still train consistently and race occasionally, this has had a major impact on her athletic career.
She was able to run the Steamtown Marathon later that year, but there were issues and once again she had to back off. Even though Kelly doesn’t run at the same pace or volume as she once did, she still gets that incredible enjoyment from running. She just loves to run.
Today Kelly channels some of that drive and competitiveness into her career as an attorney with Anzalone Law Firm.
Her work is competitive, confrontational and sometimes stressful, but she loves to win for her clients. Her need to work hard, compete and win is satisfied in the courtroom. Her partner Jamie Anzalone said “I can honestly say that there is no one who works harder at any task than Kelly. Whether it be on a legal brief, trying a case, or running a race, or training for that race …”
“Kelly is an inspiration in our office in terms of her work ethic and to those of us who are just trying to keep in shape, and she does it all while raising three kids and keeping the family together. She is, and always has been, a survivor.”
Some of her fellow attorneys had a nickname for the young attorney. They called her “The Badger.: Now if you were in fourth grade that might not be a nickname you’d be proud of, but when you are a young trial attorney, that is about as good as it gets. Her competition might not want to face her in a courtroom or on the race course.
When asked what did you love about the Wilkes-Barre Triathlon? Without hesitation she said, “The people.”
She loved running into people she hadn’t seen in a few years, and the people she had been training with all year. It always felt like everyone was rooting for her.
When I asked her what her favorite event was in the triathlon, she said the run was probably her best, but she just loved being on the bike and she misses it. Her mantra that she said to herself when she got on the run at a triathlon was “It’s time to go. Go hard!”
Fellow triathlete and four-time Wilkes-Barre Triathlon champion Sean Robbins said “Kelly has always been very talented, but she didn’t just rely on that talent. She was willing to put in the hard work that it took to be successful. That’s what set her apart.”
When she was young sometimes her father would tease her and say things like, “You got an A? How come you didn’t get an A+?”
He was an athlete too, and a swim instructor in Pittston (at the YMCA) where he grew up. Bobby Ochreiter has been gone for more than 30 years now. He didn’t get to see Kelly graduate from college, or get her law degree, or pass the bar. He never got to see her win Wilkes-Barre five times or compete at ITU World Championships representing the USA. He never got to meet Scott or hold his three grandchildren. But I am sure he is so proud of you Kelly and the incredible effort you put into every single thing you do as a mother, wife, lawyer and athlete.
He would be so proud of you Kelly. How could he not be?
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Evelyn Santana will no longer appear on the November ballot as a candidate for Allentown School Board after withdrawing from the race last week.
Santana, who has been a school director since January, crossfiled in the May primary and won both a Democratic and Republican nomination. She will serve on the school board until the end of the year, but due to personal reasons, won’t be able to commit to another four years, she said.
As a result of her withdrawal, the Lehigh County Democratic and Republican committees will each get the chance to offer up a substitute nomination to appear on the November ballot, according to Tim Benyo, chief clerk for the Lehigh County Election Board.
The two major parties have until Aug. 17 to submit a name.
Lori McFarland, chair of the Lehigh County Democratic Committee, said the committee will be advertising the opening and interested democrats must submit a declaration of interest, fill out a questionnaire and complete an interview process. The committee will be moving as quickly as possible to submit a name to the county, she said, but Democrats have until Friday to declare their interest. The committee’s executive board will then hold a vote early next week.
Two Democrats have declared their interest thus far and two more are expected to do so, but McFarland declined to share any names Monday.
Joe Vichot, chairman of the Lehigh County Republican Committee, said interested Republicans should call the committee’s office. They will submit a resume and meet with Allentown committee members, who will then take a vote. The committee does not have any interested Republicans yet, but will be advertising the opening. Vichot said he’s confident the party will have a name to submit to the county by the deadline.
Santana’s withdrawal will make the Allentown School Board race competitive as six candidates will likely compete for only five open spots. Benyo confirmed no other nominees have withdrawn from the race, leaving Audrey Mathison, Andrene Brown Nowell, Ana Tiburcio and Zaleeae Sierra on the ballot.
Santana was appointed as school director in a January board vote, along with Brown Nowell, to fill vacancies left by the resignations of state Sen. Nick Miller and longtime board member Charlie Thiel.
Santana is also a district parent and works as an executive director at Harcum College, a private two-year college, where she sits on the president’s cabinet and serves as a committee member for the school’s board of trustees.
Morning Call reporter Jenny Roberts can be reached at 484-903-1732 and jroberts@mcall.com.
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MADISON, Wis. -- It's a question the News 3 Now team receives nearly every time severe thunderstorms move through southern Wisconsin: why is the First Warn Weather team breaking into programming on WISC-TV to provide a weather update?
There are a number of factors that go into the decision to interrupt regular programming, including the potential danger to the public. A tornado warning would certainly rise to the threshold that would warrant interrupting programming and remaining on the air until the threat has passed; some severe thunderstorm warnings may also reach that level depending on their strength.
Another factor we consider is the storm's severity and location -- different decisions may be made for a stronger severe thunderstorm moving through a heavily-populated area than for a marginal severe thunderstorm moving through a more rural area.
We also look at whether we can cover commercials, which we try to do when possible even though it costs the station money. It depends when the commercials are, though, as to whether we can cover them or programming -- for example, commercial breaks during live sporting events are often determined by the action on the field rather than scheduled for a specific time.
When breaking into programming is necessary, the type of show on the air matters. If it's the final minutes of a season finale or a potentially game-winning field goal is about to be kicked, we'll consider whether we can delay the warning for a minute or two to avoid creating a cliffhanger.
Finally, we'll consider whether the information is new and warrants potentially interrupting a program multiple times. For example, if we break into a show to provide information about a severe thunderstorm warning for Dane County and highlight its potential impact as it moves into Jefferson County, do we break into programming again when a severe thunderstorm warning is issued for Jefferson County as expected?
Ultimately, it's up to the meteorologist(s) on duty to make the call, but safety always comes first.
Currently, it's not possible to cut in for just some viewers and not others, so when severe weather pops up in any of the counties in the WISC-TV viewing area -- Columbia, Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa, Jefferson, Lafayette, Marquette, Richland, Rock, Sauk -- everyone receives the same information simultaneously, whether they receive our signal via an over-the-air antenna or a cable or satellite provider.
Next-generation broadcast technology known as ATSC 3.0 or NEXTGEN TV promises to include more robust emergency alert notifications, but that technology has not yet rolled out in the Madison area and a rollout date has not been set.
When severe weather strikes, it's important to have multiple ways to be able to receive weather alerts. Download the First Warn Weather app to stay up-to-date on current weather conditions and the latest forecast.
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Beauty at Bethlehem Rose Garden | PHOTOS Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) By April Gamiz | abartholomew@mcall.com | The Morning CallJuly 31, 2023 at 5:31 p.m.A bee with pollen on its legs seems to dance between Goldsturm black-eyed susan flowers Monday, July 31, 2023, at the Bethlehem Rose Garden. The Bethlehem Rose Garden opened on May 11, 1931. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call) Petals of a rose look almost like velvet in the light Monday, July 31, 2023, at the Bethlehem Rose Garden. The Bethlehem Rose Garden opened May 11, 1931.(April Gamiz/The Morning Call) A detailed look at variety of zinnia shows the tightly curled inner pedals Monday, July 31, 2023, at the Bethlehem Rose Garden. The Bethlehem Rose Garden opened on May 11, 1931. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call) An abstract of a leaf is seen Monday, July 31, 2023, at the Bethlehem Rose Garden. The Bethlehem Rose Garden opened on May 11, 1931. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call) A bee with pollen on its legs seems to dance between Goldsturm black-eyed susan flowers Monday, July 31, 2023, at the Bethlehem Rose Garden. The Bethlehem Rose Garden opened on May 11, 1931. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call) Beauty at Bethlehem Rose Garden Tags: Photos and VideosVertical Photo Gallery April Gamiz | Visual Journalist April Gamiz is a visual journalist for The Morning Call. abartholomew@mcall.com Follow April Gamiz @_aprilb_
Pennsylvania News | Top Republican signals possible earlier return to Harrisburg as Pa. nears one month without budget
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FORT ATKINSON, Wis. -- Nearly three full days have passed since severe storms moved across the region Friday night, but some communities around southern Wisconsin are still trying to clean up on Monday.
Fort Atkinson resident Cynthia Hollinger said a large tree fell on her garage during the storms. The fallen tree left a hole in the roof of the garage and caused her to not be able to get to her car inside.
"It's a very unsafe structure right now," Hollinger said referring to her garage as she was out in her yard on Monday.
She's not the only one who experienced some kind of damage to her property. Walking through the residential areas of Fort Atkinson, one sees many branches pushed to the side of the streets.
"There's a lot of work to be done and our public works folks have been working really hard," said Rebecca Houseman, Fort Atkinson's city manager. "The north side was hit particularly bad; some places are still out of power."
While Hollinger's garage is cleared of the fallen street, she said she knows it'll be a long week ahead for the crews still working to clean things up.
"People are working really hard to get their yards cleaned up," she said.
If residents are still without power, the Dwight Foster Public Library is open until 8 p.m. and Wi-Fi and meeting rooms are available, according to the city's Facebook page, which continues to be updated with more information on clean up efforts.
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By David Matthews, New York Daily News
“Euphoria” star Angus Cloud has died. He was 25.
The actor, who played Fezco on the HBO series, died at his family’s home in Oakland, Calif., according to TMZ.
“It is with the heaviest heart that we had to say goodbye to an incredible human today. As an artist, a friend, a brother and a son, Angus was special to all of us in so many ways,” the family told the gossip site.
The family’s statement did not reveal how Cloud died, but said he had “intensely struggled” since the recent death of his father. The actor posted a photo of his father with the caption “miss u breh” two weeks ago on Instagram.
“The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend,” the statement added.
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone. We ask for privacy at this time as we are still processing this devastating loss.”
Cloud made his acting debut as a drug dealer in “Euphoria” and also appeared in the films “North Hollywood” and “The Line.” He also appeared in music videos for artists like Juice WRLD and Becky G & Karol G.
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WATERTOWN, Wis. -- Gov. Tony Evers spoke out Monday after a group of Nazi protestors were seen at a "Pride in the Park" event in Watertown on Saturday.
According to the Watertown Daily Times, a group of about a dozen men wearing all black "waved flags bearing the swastika symbol, gave the Nazi salute to onlookers and yelled homophobic rhetoric," during the event at Riverside Park.
One man was reportedly carrying a rifle.
This weekend’s Nazi presence at a Watertown LGBTQ Pride event was a disgusting and direct attack on our state’s LGBTQ community, communities of color, and Jewish Wisconsinites.This is unacceptable and unwelcome in Wisconsin. Period. pic.twitter.com/hyBsKkBsFg
"This is a disgusting and direct attack on our state’s LGBTQ community, communities of color, and Jewish Wisconsinites," Gov. Evers said. "LGBTQ Wisconsinites deserve to be treated with dignity, decency, kindness, and respect just like every other Wisconsinite."
Evers also criticized people, including some elected officials, who he said "continue to push radical rhetoric, divisive legislation and litigation, and falsehoods and disinformation about the LGBTQ community."
"Pride in the Park" was an LGBTQ+-focused event organized by Unity Project of Watertown that featured vendors, artists and drag performers.
Rep. Barbara Dittrich (R -- Oconomowoc) in a since-deleted post on "X" (formerly Twitter) said Saturday that the event should have been held in a private space without children.
"While I do not represent the city, I DO represent the town and have many friends who live in the city," Rep. Ditrich wrote. "They find this completely unacceptable in their community."
On Monday, Rep. Dittrich said that she "was unaware that there were masked members of a known hate group" at the event when she made her "X" post.
"I find that loathsome, disgusting, and condemned it the minute I learned of it," she said in a statement. "One can both find adult performances unsuitable for children at the same time they find hate groups to be vile."
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PITTSBURGH — A jury is set to deliberate whether to impose the death penalty or a sentence of life in prison without parole on a man who spewed antisemitic hate before fatally shooting 11 worshippers at a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community.
The same jurors who convicted 50-year-old Robert Bowers in June on 63 criminal counts listened to closing arguments Monday in the penalty phase of his federal trial, held nearly five years after the truck driver from suburban Baldwin perpetrated the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.
The extent to which mental illness and Bowers’ difficult childhood played a role in the massacre dominated the lawyers’ arguments for and against capital punishment. The jury is expected to get the case and begin deliberations Tuesday.
Speaking for the government, U.S. Attorney Eric Olshan said Bowers was clearly motivated by religious hatred when he entered the Tree of Life synagogue Oct. 27, 2018, and opened fire with an AR-15 rifle, shooting everyone he could find.
The gunman raved incessantly on social media about his hatred of Jewish people — using a slur for Jewish people some 400 times on a platform favored by the far right — and remains proud that he killed Jews, the prosecutor reminded jurors.
“Do not be numb to it. Remember what it means. This defendant targeted people solely because of the faith that they chose,” Olshan said.
He added: “This is a case that calls for the most severe punishment under the law: the death penalty.”
Bowers’ lead defense attorney, Judy Clarke, acknowledged the horror of his crimes but urged jurors to opt for mercy and a life sentence.
Bowers’ attorneys have argued that he has schizophrenia, a serious brain disorder whose symptoms include delusions and hallucinations, and that Bowers attacked the synagogue out of a delusional belief that Jews were helping to bring about a genocide of white people by coming to the aid of refugees and immigrants. On Monday, Clarke recounted Bowers’ history of psychiatric hospitalizations, including an extended stay in a residential juvenile mental health program.
The defense also presented evidence of Bowers’ difficult childhood.
“What has happened cannot be undone. We can’t rewind the clock and make it that this senseless crime never happened. All we can do is make the right decision going forward. We are asking you to make the right decision, and that is life,” Clarke said in her closing argument.
A life sentence would mean that “prison is where Mr. Bowers will die in obscurity, not as a hero and not as a martyr,” she said.
Olshan, the prosecutor, disputed the defense experts’ diagnosis of schizophrenia, asserting that Bowers was not suffering psychosis but had chosen to believe white supremacist rhetoric. And while acknowledging that Bowers was a depressed, neglected child, Olshan downplayed the significance of it, noting that Bowers had held jobs, paid bills and was an otherwise functioning adult.
“He was not a child, he was a grown man. He was responsible for his actions, not his family and things that happened decades earlier. He was, he is responsible for his actions,” Olshan said.
Clarke retorted that “childhood matters.”
“It defies reality to say he got better, he’s fine, he’s just an evil guy. What it does is reflects a complete misunderstanding of serious mental illness,” she said.
In order to impose death, jurors must find that aggravating circumstances, which make the crime especially heinous, outweigh mitigating factors that could be seen as diminishing his culpability. Those aggravating circumstances could include the vulnerability of Bowers’ elderly and disabled victims and his targeting of Jewish people.
Olshan played a composite of 911 calls made from inside the synagogue, including audio of people being shot and a survivor’s horrified screams.
He said Bowers had taken “11 people, 11 full lives, 11 people who loved their families, 11 people who loved their friends, 11 people who were loved. … How do you measure the impact of all of that loss?”
The prosecutor spoke about 75-year-old Joyce Fienberg’s care for her family and 65-year-old Richard Gottfried’s devotion to his faith. He said Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, 66, had the ethos of a country doctor: “He loved delivering babies but he never delivered judgment.” David Rosenthal, 54, and Cecil Rosenthal, 59, intellectually disabled brothers, “loved life,” Olshan said. “But maybe more than anything, they loved Tree of Life.”
The other deceased victims were Rose Mallinger, 97; Bernice Simon, 84, and her husband, Sylvan Simon, 86; Dan Stein, 71; Melvin Wax, 87; and Irving Younger, 69.
The attack also wounded seven people, including five responding police officers. Bowers was shot three times before surrendering when he ran out of ammunition.
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New York (CNN) — Ford has recalled more than 870,000 of its full-sized F-150 trucks because the electronic parking brake could engage unexpectedly at any time, including while the vehicle is being driven. That could cause a loss of control and possibly a crash.
The recall, posted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s recall website earlier this month, applies to some 2021 through 2023 model year F-150 trucks with single-pipe exhaust systems. Ford will begin mailing recall notices to owners around September 11.
In some of the trucks, a wiring harness can rub against the rear axle housing, gradually wearing away insulating material on the wires. Corrosion on the axle housing could make this problem worse, according to documents on the NHTSA website.
Owners will be advised to bring their trucks to a Ford dealer. The dealer will install a protective tie strap and tape wrap to the wiring harness and will also replace the wiring harness, if needed. The work will be performed at no cost to the owner.
Ford (F) opened an investigation into this issue in late February following a number of complaints of unintended parking brake application in 2021 model year trucks. The trucks had chafing on wiring harnesses involved in the parking brake, and the wear had gone through through abrasion-resistant tape on the harnesses.
So far, Ford is aware of 299 instances of the parking brake activating unintentionally and 19 of those incidents occurred while the vehicle was being driven. Ford is not aware of any accidents or injuries resulting from this problem, according to the documents.
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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I am 41 years old, and at my last women’s health appointment, I was told I was in perimenopause. What exactly does that mean? I haven’t had any symptoms. What should I expect? Is there anything I should be doing to prepare?
ANSWER: Perimenopause refers to the time of your life when your body starts making the natural transition to menopause, marking the end of the reproductive years. Perimenopause can begin as early as your mid 30s. As you go through perimenopause, your body’s production of estrogen — the main female hormone — rises and falls. These fluctuations can bring on symptoms such as irregular periods, hot flashes and vaginal dryness. Once you have gone 12 consecutive months without a menstrual period, you have officially transitioned from perimenopause to menopause. Menopause can happen in your 40s or 50s, but the average age is 51.
Perimenopause is a natural biological change. Because symptoms can come and go, many women feel like they are on an emotional roller coaster. Though not every woman will experience every symptom, the most commonly reported issues include common ailments that women might not realize are associated with menopause. It is important for you to know this is normal. It helps to understand more about the symptoms you may be experiencing.
Hot flashes and sleep problems
When a hot flash happens, you might feel a sudden sensation of warmth or heat, most often in your upper body around your face and neck. This can cause your face to become red and flushed, and you may begin sweating. Hot flashes also can happen when you are sleeping. These “night sweats” can interfere with getting a good night’s sleep.
Mood changes
Changes in mood are common and can include irritability, fatigue, sadness or anxiety. These mood swings can be a result of declining estrogen levels. Depression also is a common side effect of menopause. It is important to share how you’re feeling and the changes in your mood with your healthcare professional.
Forgetfulness
During perimenopause, you might also begin to notice you are having difficulty with your memory and concentration. You might find it hard to remember simple things, like where you placed your keys or why you walked into a room. This is sometimes called “brain fog,” and it is quite common. I often have women express concerns that this could be an early sign of dementia, which is not typically the case. Many studies have shown that brain fog associated with menopause is temporary, and cognitive function returns. Brain fog also can result from lack of sleep and proper rest. When sleep improves, we often see memory improvements as well.
Weight gain
Often women notice they are eating the same and exercising the same, yet suddenly they are gaining weight. It is common for women to notice weight gain during the perimenopause and menopause transition, particularly around the midsection. Metabolism changes and muscle loss often cause this as we age. Weight gain can seriously affect your health, so now is an important time to lean into your healthy lifestyle habits.
Next steps
Again, since not every woman will experience the same symptoms — or experience them with the same severity — perimenopause is the perfect time to devise a plan to manage the changes you are, and will be, going through. There are many books and resources available online as well, which you may want to review and use to connect with others.
During menopause, your risk of certain diseases and conditions increases, including heart disease, osteoporosis and urinary tract infections. You can do many things to ease your symptoms and protect your health.
Make sure you are incorporating healthy lifestyle habits, including:
— Getting regular exercise that includes cardiovascular and resistance training. This will help prevent muscle loss, boost metabolism and strengthen bones. Resistance training can include lifting weights or doing exercises using your own body weight.
— Eating a healthy, balanced diet and avoiding processed foods and excess sugar.
— Limiting or eliminating alcohol use.
— Maintaining a healthy weight.
— Quitting smoking or any use of tobacco products.
— Reducing your stress and paying attention to your mental health.
Although it is often a source of concern, hormone therapy also can help improve symptoms of menopause. Estrogen therapy is still the most effective treatment option for relieving hot flashes. Estrogen also helps prevent bone loss. There are also nonhormonal options. It is important to talk to your healthcare team about the risks and benefits of each treatment, and which one is right for you.
Every woman’s experience during perimenopause and menopause is different. It is not uncommon for women to feel insecure and isolated as these changes occur. Know you are not alone. Seek out support from family, friends and other groups that can offer you a safe place to share what you are going through. If you feel like you can’t cope, seeking help and consulting your care team is important. — Dr. Juliana (Jewel) Kling , Women’s Health, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix
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Twitter's new "X" sign was taken down on Monday after the city of San Francisco reprimanded the company for installing a giant, flashing sign above its building without a permit.
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said it received 24 complaints about the sign, including "concerns about its structural safety and illumination."
A building permit is technically required to dismantle the sign too, but the removal was allowed to proceed "duty to safety concerns," Patrick Hannan, a spokesperson for the department, told NPR.
The signage was the latest effort in the social media platform's rebranding since the sweeping changes were announced last week.
The removal comes less than three days after a city inspector went to Twitter's headquarters on Friday to alert the company of its permit violation and to evaluate the sign located on the roof, according to the city's complaint.
A Twitter representative denied access but explained that the structure is "a temporary lighted sign for an event." The inspector clarified that any signage without a permit must be removed.
The inspector came to the headquarters again on Saturday to visit the roof. But upon arrival, "access was denied again by tenant," the complaint said.
Twitter did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment. But to a tweet alleging that San Francisco authorities were trying to force Musk to remove the "X" sign, the Twitter owner replied on Saturday with a laughing-crying emoji.
Twitter was already in hot waters with the city of San Francisco last Monday for removing Twitter's original sign, which includes its name and iconic blue bird, without proper permits or taping off the sidewalk as part of pedestrian safety measures.
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(CNN) — Officials from the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection on Monday morning observed that the new “X” on top of the building formerly known as Twitter’s headquarters was being dismantled, according to Patrick Hannan, the department’s spokesman.
The news comes after the company was issued a notice of violation (NOV) Friday for work without a permit for the new sign, which flashes at night, that adorns the building.
“Over the weekend, the Department of Building Inspection and City Planning received 24 complaints about the unpermitted structure, including concerns about its structural safety and illumination. This morning, building inspectors observed the structure being dismantled. A building permit is required to remove the structure but, due to safety concerns, the permit can be secured after the structure is taken down,” Hannan said in an email to CNN.
“The property owner will be assessed fees for the unpermitted installation of the illuminated structure. The fees will be for building permits for the installation and removal of the structure, and to cover the cost of the Department of Building Inspection and the Planning Department’s investigation,” he added.
CNN has reached out to the company formerly known as Twitter for comment.
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A Stroudsburg man defrauded the federal government out of $2.2 million in pandemic relief funds, spending the money on boats, cars and other luxuries, officials allege.
Brian J. Albelli, 45, has been charged with wire fraud and money laundering in the case, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Albelli, who owned and operated multiple corporations in Pennsylvania and Florida, allegedly filed 20 fraudulent applications under the Payment Protection Program, and for economic injury and disaster loans.
The applications were filed for entities that had no actual business operations and bore inflated revenues and employee headcounts, the office said, adding that the applications included a forged IRS income tax return and forged federal employment tax documents.
Albelli allegedly obtained in excess of $2.2 million for himself and his family. He was charged with money laundering for concealing the fraudulent proceeds, the office said.
The maximum penalties under federal law for both charges are 20 years of imprisonment, a term of supervised release and a fine.
The relief programs, both funded by a March 2020 COVID relief law, were designed to help small businesses facing financial difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic.
PPP funds were offered in forgivable loans, provided the money was used for employee payroll, mortgage interest, lease and utilities expenses and other business expenses.
The economic injury and disaster loans are low interest rate loans, designated for specific business expenses such as fixed debts, payroll and business obligations.
The investigation was conducted through the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force created by the U.S. attorney general’s office in May 2021.
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(CNN) — Paul Reubens, who found fame as the quirky man-child character Pee-wee Herman, has died, his publicist announced.
He was 70.
“Last night we said farewell to Paul Reubens, an iconic American actor, comedian, writer and producer whose beloved character Pee-wee Herman delighted generations of children and adults with his positivity, whimsy and belief in the importance of kindness,” a post on his verified social media reads. “Paul bravely and privately fought cancer for years with his trademark tenacity and wit. A gifted and prolific talent, he will forever live in the comedy pantheon and in our hearts as a treasured friend and man of remarkable character and generosity of spirit.”
Reubens left a statement with his team to share with the public after his death.
“Please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing the last six years,” Reubens wrote. “I have always felt a huge amount of love and respect from my friends, fans and supporters. I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you.”
Born in Peekskill, New York, Reubens grew up in Sarasota, Florida, and developed an affinity for comedy early on in his life that he attributed in part to Sarasota being the winter home of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum Circus.
In sixth grade, while attending Southside Elementary, Reubens stepped onto a stage for the first time as Nick Burns in “A Thousand Clown”s at The Players Theatre. While at Brookside Junior High, he appeared at The Players in “The Riot Act”, “Camelot” and “On A Clear Day You Can See Forever.”
He led his high school drama club and appeared in starring roles in productions of “The Comedy of Errors,” “My Fair Lady” and “Guys and Dolls.” He was also voted “Most Talented” during his senior year.
After high school graduation, Reubens enrolled in Boston University’s theatre department before moving to Los Angeles to attend the acting program at California Institute of the Arts, the new school founded by Walt Disney.
It was after college that Reubens created the iconic character Pee-wee Herman while a member of the famed Los Angeles improv group, The Groundlings.
“The Pee-wee Herman Show” premiered at The Groundlings Theatre in 1981 before moving to The Roxy on Sunset Strip, where it ran for an unprecedented five months.
The HBO broadcast of the show introduced the Pee-wee Herman character to a national audience.
The character was later brought to the big screen in the 1985 comedy, “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” which Reubens co-wrote.
Reubens went on to create, co-write and co-direct the series “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” on CBS, where the series earned 22 Emmy Awards during its run from 1986 to 1991. Reubens was nominated for 14 Emmy Awards during his career, winning twice.
In 2010, he produced, co-wrote and starred in an updated revival of “The Pee-wee Herman Show” in Los Angeles. The production later traveled to Broadway, opening to rave reviews at The Stephen Sondheim Theater.
Five years later, he teamed with director Judd Apatow for the Netflix film “Pee-wee’s Big Holiday.”
His success as Pee-wee Herman also helped Reubens usher other actors into the spotlight on their road to fame. Some of his “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” costar included Laurence Fishburne, Natasha Lyonne, Jimmy Smits, Sandra Bernhard and S. Epatha Merkerson.
Away from the cameras, Reubens faced legal trouble over the years.
He was arrested for indecent exposure in 1991 at a theater showing X-rated films, for which he later entered a plea of no contest.
In 2002, Reubens was charged with one misdemeanor count of possessing material depicting children engaged in sexual conduct, a charge that was later dropped with the actor pleading guilty to a charge of obscenity instead.
“I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone I could think of,” Reubens told NBC in 2004.
Some of his more recent acting credits include roles on “Gotham,” “What We Do In The Shadows,” “The Blacklist,” “Portlandia,” “30 Rock,” “Pushing Daisies,” “Reno 911” and “Everybody Loves Raymond.”
Natasha Lyonne, director Tim Burton, Jimmy Kimmel and Conan O’Brien were the many friends and collaborators who paid tribute to Reubens on Monday.
“My heart is broken into a billion pieces. Then I looked at the text you sent me last week: a meme of a person in giant hair getting a pie in the face and I burst out laughing,” director Adam Shankman wrote. “Laughing and crying. This my friend says everything about you and what you gave the world.”
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As another of Illinois’ border states is set to enact a near-total abortion ban this week, Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday announced several new programs to help address the influx of out-of-state abortion seekers the state has seen in the 13 months since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
On Tuesday, Indiana will join Missouri and Kentucky in its near-total ban on the procedure, while court battles are ongoing over Republican attempts to restrict abortion in Iowa and Wisconsin. Pritzker said Illinois Democrats had been preparing for such a reality even before last summer’s landmark Supreme Court decision.
“While our neighboring states revert to forcing back-alley abortions, Illinois will remain a safe haven for women,” Pritzker said Monday at an event in Chicago announcing the investments. “And I will continue to do everything in my power to ensure widespread equitable access to reproductive rights.”
To expand Illinois’ capacity to care for the sharp increase in abortion-seekers, the state’s Department of Public Health will spend $10 million to create a hotline to aid callers in finding providers and making appointments. Pritzker had proposed the funding in February, and Democratic lawmakers included it in the state’s fiscal year 2024 budget this spring. The hotline is in its beginning stages as IDPH puts out a request for proposals.
The state’s spending plan also included $8 million in additional training for reproductive health care providers and a specialty consultation program for at-risk patients.
And on Monday, Pritzker said the state’s Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity will open a $5 million grant program for reproductive health care providers in Illinois. That money comes from the non-transportation portion of Illinois’ $45 billion infrastructure program, Rebuild Illinois. It can be spent on improvements, repairs, new construction, security upgrades and equipment, including vehicles that can be turned into mobile care units.
Additionally, Pritzker announced a new collaborative meant to help patients who need more complex reproductive health care. The state’s Department of Healthcare and Family Services, along with IDPH, will join the University of Illinois at Chicago hospital, Rush University Medical Center and the Chicago Abortion Fund to launch a hotline aimed at these high-risk patients next month.
The hotline, dubbed the Complex Abortion Regional Line for Access, or CARLA, will be staffed by nurses who will aid patients through scheduling appointments within hospital systems and getting set up with any required pre-operative testing. Additionally, CARLA’s partnership with the Chicago Abortion Fund will help patients with funding for reproductive health services, plus any transportation and child care costs while getting and recovering from treatment.
Dr. Laura Laursen, an obstetrician-gynecologist and assistant professor at Rush, will be a co-director of CARLA, and said she’s seen a rise in the number of patients seeking “complex abortion care.” She cited a recent out-of-state patient who had anemia, and as a result, couldn’t be seen by the closest abortion provider to her home state.
Laursen said this patient had to travel more than eight hours to Chicago and figure out child care for her other three kids – on top of the stress of knowing that being seen by a hospital-based abortion provider would be more expensive than the clinic where she originally had an appointment.
“By the time she reached me weeks later, her pregnancy was more advanced and more complex, and she was extremely emotionally drained,” she said. “I’m so fortunate that I was able to take care of her at Rush, but the experience of reaching me didn’t have to be so dramatic.”
Chicago Abortion Fund Executive Director Megan Jeyifo said her organization has also seen an influx of patients who need complex abortion care as GOP-controlled states have clamped down on access to the procedure. In the last 13 months, Jeyifo said CAF has supported more than 250 abortion seekers who needed hospital care – up from 26 the prior year.
“No one should have to travel to a city they’ve never been in to access health care,” Jeyifo said. “No one should have to depend on strangers to access the things they need for that trip. But this is our reality in the fallout of this horrific decision. And it is up to us together to be creative and nimble and there for people who are denied agency over their bodies and lives in their own states.”
CARLA’s startup costs for the first year come from $600,000 that IDHFS already had in its budget, according to a spokesperson for Pritzker.
Also on Monday, the governor announced the creation of a family planning program for Medicaid recipients that will cover services including annual preventative exams, family planning counseling, basic infertility counseling, screenings for cancers related to reproductive organs and all FDA-approved methods of contraception, tubal ligation, vasectomies and abortion.
The program will be paid for with a mix of federal Medicaid funding and Title X funding, but a Pritzker spokesperson couldn’t provide an exact spending amount on Monday.
Pritzker also announced the state would reimburse travel costs for state employees and dependents who live out of state but seek abortion care in Illinois. The program is modeled after an existing state program for organ donation and adoption, according to the governor’s office.
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Small plane crash-lands in Grant-Valkaria cow pasture; pilot, passenger uninjured
No injuries reported, investigation underway after small plane crashes in Grant-Valkaria cow pasture
A pilot and a passenger aboard a small private plane were uninjured after a hard landing in a cow pasture in Gra-nt-Valkaria on Monday.
The Romanian-made, single-engine Yak-52 crashlanded in the 10:45 a.m. The pilot had reported an engine issue, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, reached by FLORIDA TODAY.
The incident was reported to Brevard County Fire Rescue crews. The pilot and passenger were not named by Brevard County Fire Rescue.
“There were no injuries and no fuel leaks,” said Don Walker, spokesperson for Brevard County Fire Rescue. It was not immediately clear where the plane took off from.
The incident was being reported to the FAA, the federal agency that oversees aircraft mishaps and crashes.
More:Small helicopter slams to pavement after attempted takeoff at Titusville airport
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A flooring chain store will open in the former Sears location at Whitehall Mall, a mall official confirmed Monday.
A spokesperson for Washington Prime Group, owner of the shopping center in Whitehall Township, said Floor & Decor will be moving into the location.
The Atlanta-based Floor & Decor is a specialty retailer of hard-surface flooring, she said. It is expected to open early next year.
The Atlanta-based retailer offers flooring, as well as tools for hard-surface flooring projects, according to its website.
Demolition on the former Sears site began in late June. Built in 1966, it was one of the last remaining Sears in the Lehigh Valley.
Sears was in a two-level, 212,850-square foot building for over 50 years.
It closed three years ago.
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(CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s fortunes seem to be moving in opposing directions.
He is burning cash on an expanding, multipronged legal war with fronts in courtrooms up and down the East Coast: New York, Florida, Georgia and Washington, DC. Trials are already scheduled for March in Manhattan and May in Florida.
But Trump’s place atop the Republican primary field for the 2024 presidential race has never felt more secure and his chances against President Joe Biden have never felt more competitive.
Trump’s political power feeds on his criminal exposure
In a self-propelling cycle, Trump’s grassroots political supporters give a portion of their donations to his leadership PAC, which is paying his epic legal bills – more than $40 million in the first half of this year alone.
And his campaign, fueled by outrage over his legal problems that Trump alleges are politically motivated, remains his best bet for outlasting the two criminal cases he currently faces.
Two more criminal trials could be coming. Federal prosecutors may carry forward with allegations related to Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. And the Fulton County district attorney in Georgia is wrapping up her own case and could bring charges by the end of August.
Separately, The New York Times and CNN’s Kristen Holmes reported Monday that Trump’s leadership PAC, Save America, has asked for a refund on a $60 million contribution it gave to a super PAC formed to support Trump.
A legal defense fund is also being set up to help offset legal costs for Trump’s associates. His aide Walt Nauta and the Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira are listed as co-defendants in federal charges related to alleged attempts to hide classified material from the FBI.
De Oliveira made an initial court appearance Monday in Miami. But he did so without a Florida-based attorney, which might seem like an accident if Nauta had not done the same thing. Arraignments for both men were delayed as a result.
Delay is Trump’s top legal strategy. His legal team has been working hard to delay and disassemble the cases against him.
“Every day of delay counts,” said CNN’s senior justice correspondent Evan Perez, appearing on “Inside Politics.” “Every bit of it will add up. The former president’s overall goal – he has made it very clear – is to … wait until after the election to actually go to trial.”
Evidence of the delay strategy in many of his moves
Trump’s request to have charges brought by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg – regarding a 2016 hush-money payment scheme involving an adult-film star – moved to federal court has been denied. Trump is appealing the ruling.
He has also tried to revive a previously abandoned RICO lawsuit alleging a conspiracy against him by Democrats and Hillary Clinton. Read CNN’s report by Kara Scannell and Tierney Sneed on Trump’s legal maneuvers.
Endgame in Georgia
Security measures have been ramped up around the Atlanta courthouse in Fulton County, Georgia, and a yearslong investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in that state is complete, according to District Attorney Fani Willis.
“We’ve been working for two and half years. We’re ready to go,” Willis told CNN affiliate WXIA.
Whether that means Trump will ultimately face charges in Georgia is unclear, although Willis has said she would make a decision by the end of August.
On Monday, the judge who has overseen Willis’ investigation, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, dismissed Trump’s latest effort to circumvent the Georgia case, making clear the former president will have to wait until he is actually indicted there to fight potential charges.
‘Rumpelstiltskin’
He also alluded in a footnote to how Trump has fanned fury at his legal problems for his own political purposes.
“And for some, being the subject of a criminal investigation can, à la Rumpelstiltskin, be turned into golden political capital, making it seem more providential than problematic,” McBurney wrote, drawing a parallel between the former president and the villain of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale who turns straw into gold.
Trump is also trying to have McBurney bounced from the case. A hearing before another judge is scheduled for August 10.
Read CNN’s full report on the Fulton County probe by Sara Murray and Jason Morris.
Trump’s political fortunes stay bright
CNN’s Harry Enten has two very important points in his analysis.
Trump is in a very strong position to win the GOP primary.
Enten: No one in Trump’s current polling position in the modern era has lost an open presidential primary that didn’t feature an incumbent. He’s pulling in more than 50% of support in the national primary polls, i.e., more than all his competitors combined.
Proving Enten’s point, in a new New York Times/Siena College poll, Trump has the support of more than half, 54%, of the Republican primary electorate. He roughly triples the support for his nearest competitor, the flagging Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is under 20%.
Trump would be competitive in November 2024 against Biden.
Enten: What should arguably be more amazing is that despite most Americans agreeing that Trump’s two indictments thus far were warranted, he remains competitive in a potential rematch with President Joe Biden. A poll out last week from Marquette University Law School had Biden and Trump tied percentage-wise (with a statistically insignificant few more respondents choosing Trump).
Enten notes that general election polling so far from the election should not be viewed as predictive, which could give Democrats some solace. But the fact is that both men have poor favorability ratings. And Trump is neck and neck with Biden in some key states like Pennsylvania.
And note: The primary will mostly be completed by the end of March, when the first of the currently scheduled criminal trials is set to get underway.
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Police: Teen shot in Melbourne; motorist took aim after saying group threw rocks at vehicle
Melbourne police investigating after saying motorist shot teen
Melbourne police say a motorist who pulled up and shot a 13-year-old child early Monday apparently accused the child and the other juveniles she was with of throwing rocks at his vehicle. The girl was not seriously injured, suffering a superficial wound to her left arm, police reported.
“It is unusual,” said Sgt. Ben Slover of the Melbourne Police Department, adding that the shooting appears to be an isolated incident. The gun-toting motorist was not located. It was also not immediately clear why the teens were out after midnight along the darkened Melbourne roadways.
“Based on what we know, I wouldn’t say that shooting someone could be described as justified, with what I know right now. It’s still under investigation,” Slover said, adding that the officers were not able to say whether the teens were involved in tossing rocks or other shenanigans.
The shooting happened about 12:09 a.m. near the intersection of North Wickham Road and Fountainhead Boulevard. Officers arrived at the site within moments when the agency got another call – this time from a 13-year-old girl saying that she had just been shot, police records show.
The girl told detectives that she and a group of her friends had been confronted by an angry man in a white truck or sport utility vehicle. The unidentified man accused the teens of throwing rocks at his vehicle, then whipped out a gun and fired off at least one round toward the group, the girl said. The teens scattered and the wounded girl ran home to Sabal Palms Apartments to call for help from the police, reports show.
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Police said that at the same time, other motorists had complained about juveniles along the roadway tossing rocks and cinderblocks at passing vehicles. Detectives searched for video and descriptions of the shooter’s vehicle.
An investigation is ongoing.
J.D. Gallop is a criminal justice/breaking news reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Gallop at 321-917-4641 or jgallop@floridatoday.com. Twitter: @JDGallop.
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Harrisburg — Treasurer Stacy Garrity today told Pennsylvanians: “You can be anything, including one of the many Pennsylvanians owed some of the $4.5 billion in unclaimed property we want to return!”
More than $37.5 million is waiting to be claimed by Pennsylvanians named Barbie, Ken, Midge, Margot, Robbie, Ryan, Gosling, Greta or Gerwig – or with the word “pink” in their name or business name.
“Everyone should head to our website and search for unclaimed property today,” Garrity said. “We don’t have any hot pink Corvettes or dream houses in the treasury’s vault, but you could find some cash – or even long-lost family jewelry to pump up your fashion game! Also, don’t forget to search for any other names you go by, like Barbie, who should also search for her full name, Barbara Millicent Roberts.”
The average claim is worth about $1,600. About 1 in 10 Pennsylvanians have unclaimed property waiting to be returned.
Unclaimed property can include things like dormant bank accounts, uncashed checks, forgotten stocks, insurance policies, tangible property like contents of abandoned safe deposit boxes and more. State law requires businesses to report unclaimed property Treasury after three years of dormancy.
While “Barbie” is setting records at the box office, the Pennsylvania Treasury Department is setting records with unclaimed property. In fiscal year 2022-23, Treasury returned a record amount of unclaimed property – nearly $274 million.
To search for unclaimed property, or for free assistance with a claim, visit patreasury.gov/unclaimed-property.
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(CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s fortunes seem to be moving in opposing directions.
He is burning cash on an expanding, multipronged legal war with fronts in courtrooms up and down the East Coast: New York, Florida, Georgia and Washington, DC. Trials are already scheduled for March in Manhattan and May in Florida.
But Trump’s place atop the Republican primary field for the 2024 presidential race has never felt more secure and his chances against President Joe Biden have never felt more competitive.
Trump’s political power feeds on his criminal exposure
In a self-propelling cycle, Trump’s grassroots political supporters give a portion of their donations to his leadership PAC, which is paying his epic legal bills – more than $40 million in the first half of this year alone.
And his campaign, fueled by outrage over his legal problems that Trump alleges are politically motivated, remains his best bet for outlasting the two criminal cases he currently faces.
Two more criminal trials could be coming. Federal prosecutors may carry forward with allegations related to Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. And the Fulton County district attorney in Georgia is wrapping up her own case and could bring charges by the end of August.
Separately, The New York Times and CNN’s Kristen Holmes reported Monday that Trump’s leadership PAC, Save America, has asked for a refund on a $60 million contribution it gave to a super PAC formed to support Trump.
A legal defense fund is also being set up to help offset legal costs for Trump’s associates. His aide Walt Nauta and the Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira are listed as co-defendants in federal charges related to alleged attempts to hide classified material from the FBI.
De Oliveira made an initial court appearance Monday in Miami. But he did so without a Florida-based attorney, which might seem like an accident if Nauta had not done the same thing. Arraignments for both men were delayed as a result.
Delay is Trump’s top legal strategy. His legal team has been working hard to delay and disassemble the cases against him.
“Every day of delay counts,” said CNN’s senior justice correspondent Evan Perez, appearing on “Inside Politics.” “Every bit of it will add up. The former president’s overall goal – he has made it very clear – is to … wait until after the election to actually go to trial.”
Evidence of the delay strategy in many of his moves
Trump’s request to have charges brought by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg – regarding a 2016 hush-money payment scheme involving an adult-film star – moved to federal court has been denied. Trump is appealing the ruling.
He has also tried to revive a previously abandoned RICO lawsuit alleging a conspiracy against him by Democrats and Hillary Clinton. Read CNN’s report by Kara Scannell and Tierney Sneed on Trump’s legal maneuvers.
Endgame in Georgia
Security measures have been ramped up around the Atlanta courthouse in Fulton County, Georgia, and a yearslong investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in that state is complete, according to District Attorney Fani Willis.
“We’ve been working for two and half years. We’re ready to go,” Willis told CNN affiliate WXIA.
Whether that means Trump will ultimately face charges in Georgia is unclear, although Willis has said she would make a decision by the end of August.
On Monday, the judge who has overseen Willis’ investigation, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, dismissed Trump’s latest effort to circumvent the Georgia case, making clear the former president will have to wait until he is actually indicted there to fight potential charges.
‘Rumpelstiltskin’
He also alluded in a footnote to how Trump has fanned fury at his legal problems for his own political purposes.
“And for some, being the subject of a criminal investigation can, à la Rumpelstiltskin, be turned into golden political capital, making it seem more providential than problematic,” McBurney wrote, drawing a parallel between the former president and the villain of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale who turns straw into gold.
Trump is also trying to have McBurney bounced from the case. A hearing before another judge is scheduled for August 10.
Read CNN’s full report on the Fulton County probe by Sara Murray and Jason Morris.
Trump’s political fortunes stay bright
CNN’s Harry Enten has two very important points in his analysis.
Trump is in a very strong position to win the GOP primary.
Enten: No one in Trump’s current polling position in the modern era has lost an open presidential primary that didn’t feature an incumbent. He’s pulling in more than 50% of support in the national primary polls, i.e., more than all his competitors combined.
Proving Enten’s point, in a new New York Times/Siena College poll, Trump has the support of more than half, 54%, of the Republican primary electorate. He roughly triples the support for his nearest competitor, the flagging Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is under 20%.
Trump would be competitive in November 2024 against Biden.
Enten: What should arguably be more amazing is that despite most Americans agreeing that Trump’s two indictments thus far were warranted, he remains competitive in a potential rematch with President Joe Biden. A poll out last week from Marquette University Law School had Biden and Trump tied percentage-wise (with a statistically insignificant few more respondents choosing Trump).
Enten notes that general election polling so far from the election should not be viewed as predictive, which could give Democrats some solace. But the fact is that both men have poor favorability ratings. And Trump is neck and neck with Biden in some key states like Pennsylvania.
And note: The primary will mostly be completed by the end of March, when the first of the currently scheduled criminal trials is set to get underway.
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2023 Brevard HS football preseason blog
Monday marked the start of Brevard County high school football practice. Follow along here for photos, team updates, stories and video throughout the preseason.
July 31, 2023
Raiders early on the field
Rockledge High continued its tradition of morning practices today, making 9 a.m. its starting time. The Raiders wrapped up around 11:30 with a few sprints. Check back here for more notes and a photo gallery.
Most area teams hold afternoon practices today and through the week. We will be at several of those today, with more notes, photos and video. Watch for those updates this evening.
Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @321preps and online at 321preps.com.
Bayside's Miller one of five new area head coaches
Read about new Bears head coach Billy Miller and his coaching influences here. They include several area coaches and his own high school coach from South Carolina.
Bears new top coach:Bayside's Billy Miller credits his HS coach as top influencer
Other new head coaches are Logan Hallock at Astronaut, Bayside's Mykel Benson, and two who aren't new to the county: Dan Burke of Palm Bay and MCC coach Nate Hooks.
Who's coaching where in 2023?A guide to Brevard County's 16 high school football coaches
321preps Dandy Dozen: DayDay Farmer headed to Pitt Panthers
We began our 321preps Dandy Dozen of the top high school senior football recruits on Sunday with one of our most highly recruited: DayDay Farmer of Melbourne Central Catholic.
321preps Dandy Dozen:MCC's DayDay Farmer flashes diverse game
The former Holy Trinity and FHSAA champion Cocoa receiver has committed to sign with Pitt. He's at MCC with new head coach Nate Hooks, formerly the Holy Trinity head coach.
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By Lucia Kassai and Rachel Graham, Bloomberg News
Record-breaking summer heat is forcing fuelmakers to cut back operations, just as dwindling supplies are causing gasoline prices to surge around the world.
The hottest-ever June and July prompted refiners to curtail oil processing by at least 2% globally as long stretches of triple-digit heat posed a threat to operations, according to Vikas Dwivedi, a global oil and gas strategist for Macquarie Group.
Excessive heat, associated with deferred maintenance in the past, has spurred an unusual number of refinery breakdowns this year, when fuel stockpiles are already low. This has in part propelled gasoline prices in the U.S. to the highest level since November. High-temperature forecasts into August could keep U.S. gasoline makers from running all out for the last stretch of the summer driving season, dimming hopes for relief at the pump.
U.S. refineries are struggling to return to the peak utilization rate of 95.8% seen in early June. Since May, at least four facilities reported fires while other seven had to take units down due to power outages and unplanned repairs, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. “The ability to cool the tower overhead can become a constraint at high ambient temperatures,” Dwivedi said in a report.
Cooling capacity issues have also dogged European refineries struggling to process lighter crudes in the aftermath of supply cuts from Saudi Arabia and Russia. French refiner TotalEnergies SE and Italian fuelmaker Saras SPA recently lamented the dampening impact of baking temperatures. “Refineries do not like hot weather,” TotalEnergies SE CEO Patrick Pouyanne said on an earnings call.
A continued contraction of the manufacturing sector has also led European refiners to hold back.
In July, global fuelmakers processed 82.5 million barrels of oil daily, down from an earlier estimate of 84 million barrels, Macquarie data show. Refineries may still hit the target in August or early September as new plants in Asia and the Middle East ramp up, according to Dwivedi. But this last attempt to boost fuel production in the final weeks of the summer may be cut short by the upcoming fall turnaround season.
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An aerial view shows a newly constructed X sign on the roof of the headquarters of the social media platform previously known as Twitter, in San Francisco, on July 29.
The city of San Francisco has filed a complaint against the headquarters of the company formerly known as Twitter for installing the new flashing "X" logo on top of the building without a permit. CNN's Sara Fischer has more.
The city of San Francisco has filed a complaint against the headquarters of the company formerly known as Twitter for installing the new flashing "X" logo on top of the building without a permit. CNN's Sara Fischer has more.
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An aerial view shows a newly constructed X sign on the roof of the headquarters of the social media platform previously known as Twitter, in San Francisco, on July 29.
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Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, on July 28.
(CNN) — Officials from the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection on Monday morning observed that the new “X” on top of the building formerly known as Twitter’s headquarters was being dismantled, according to Patrick Hannan, the department’s spokesman.
The news comes after the company was issued a notice of violation (NOV) Friday for work without a permit for the new sign, which flashes at night, that adorns the building.
“Over the weekend, the Department of Building Inspection and City Planning received 24 complaints about the unpermitted structure, including concerns about its structural safety and illumination. This morning, building inspectors observed the structure being dismantled. A building permit is required to remove the structure but, due to safety concerns, the permit can be secured after the structure is taken down,” Hannan said in an email to CNN.
“The property owner will be assessed fees for the unpermitted installation of the illuminated structure. The fees will be for building permits for the installation and removal of the structure, and to cover the cost of the Department of Building Inspection and the Planning Department’s investigation,” he added.
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HARRISBURG — With the state nearing a full month without a budget in place, a top Republican said negotiations are continuing and “things are moving forward” toward a possible return of the Senate to Harrisburg in August to complete key spending items.
Fiscal 2024 began July 1 and the state has been without a budget following a sharp break between Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, and top Republicans including Sen. Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland and the Senate president pro tempore. Republicans said Shapiro went back on a deal negotiated behind closed doors involving a priority shared by both: starting a taxpayer-funded, voucher-style scholarship program for students in low-performing public schools that would let them attend private ones.
Shapiro denied the claim.
“The quickest and best path forward has not changed and that is for Gov. Shapiro to keep his word and sign the budget as passed,” Ward said late Friday.
The Republican-controlled Senate passed a $46.55 billion spending bill that included $100 million for the scholarship program. After the majority leader in the Democratic-controlled House said there were not enough votes in the chamber to approve the program, Shapiro announced he would line-item veto the $100 million but urged lawmakers to work together to move the rest of the budget forward.
The spending bill, already approved by both the House and the Senate, must be signed in the Senate before it can go to the governor’s desk. Both chambers are on their traditional summer recess that typically lasts more than two months, but Ward’s statement said Senate Republicans “understand the importance” of getting the spending bill to the governor before the start of the school year.
When an agreement is reached, Ward said, “The Senate will return in August to complete the General Appropriations process which will allow funds to be disbursed in a timely manner to schools and organizations.”
The spending bill, though, typically is only part of a budget package that includes “code” bills that contains instructions on implementing some specific spending items. No code bills have been approved by the House or Senate.
In an opinion article published by the Post-Gazette on Monday, Ward said passage of the spending bill “only provides funding to approximately 75% of programs which includes schools and counties. The remaining 25% still need some form of legislation to authorize their expectations.”
Top Republicans have said it will be necessary to pass additional legislation to fund items favored by Democrats like indigent defense, the Whole-Home Repairs program, and Level Up funding for needy schools.
Asked on Monday about Ward’s statement, a spokesperson for Shapiro referred to comments the governor made to reporters last week.
“We don’t need a deal. The budget has already passed,” Shapiro said then. What is needed now, he said, is for Ward to call the Senate back into session so the spending bill can be signed and then forwarded to him for final approval.
Another complicating factor is that Democrats lost their one-vote majority in the House on July 19 with the resignation of Rep. Sara Innamorato, who is running for Allegheny County executive. Democrats are expected to easily retain the seat in the Pittsburgh-based district in a Sept. 19 special election. Any legislation that comes to the chamber before the winner is seated will be subject to a vote with the parties tied at 101 seats each.
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Angus Cloud, breakout star of ‘Euphoria,’ is dead at 25
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25.
Cloud’s publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given.
In a statement, Cloud’s family said goodbye to “an artist, a friend, a brother and a son.
“Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss,” the family said. “The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence.”
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone,” his family added.
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting scout Eléonore Hendricks noticed him. Cloud was resistant at first, suspecting a scam. Then casting director Jennifer Venditti met with him and series creator Sam Levinson eventually made him a co-star in the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
To some, Cloud seemed so natural as Fez that they suspected he was identical to the character — a notion that Cloud pushed back against.
“It does bother me when people are like, ‘It must be so easy! You get to go in and be yourself.’ I’m like, ‘Why don’t you go and do that?’ It’s not that simple,” Cloud told Variety. “I brought a lot to the character. You can believe what you want. It ain’t got nothing to do with me.”
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television. He had a supporting role in his first film, “The Line,” a college drama starring Alex Wolff and John Malkovich that premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Festival. Cloud was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6.” He’s also made cameos in music videos for Juice WRLD, Becky G and Karol G.
The third season of “Euphoria” hasn’t yet begun filming.
“We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud,” HBO said in a statement. “He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and ‘Euphoria’ family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time.”
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Trump attempt to derail Georgia election investigation rejected by judge
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge on Monday rejected an attempt by former President Donald Trump to keep a Georgia district attorney from prosecuting him and from using certain evidence gathered in her investigation into potential illegal meddling in the 2020 election in the state.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney didn’t mince words in his nine-page ruling, which said Trump lacked the legal grounds to bring the challenge before any indictment has been filed in the case. Any harm alleged by Trump and by Cathy Latham, a Republican fake elector from Georgia who had joined his motion, is “either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized,” the judge wrote.
The alleged harms “are insufficient because, while being the subject (or even target) of a highly publicized criminal investigation is likely an unwelcome and unpleasant experience, no court ever has held that that status alone provides a basis for the courts to interfere with or halt the investigation,” McBurney wrote.
In a caustic footnote, seemingly nodding to Trump’s status as the dominant frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination for president despite having been indicted twice already, the judge added: “And for some, being the subject of a criminal investigation can, à la Rumpelstiltskin, be turned into golden political capital, making it seem more providential than problematic.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, an elected Democrat, has strongly suggested that she is likely to seek charges in the case in the coming weeks. While she has not directly said she plans to seek charges against the Republican former president, she has repeatedly said no one is above the law.
Monday’s ruling came in response to a motion filed in March by Trump’s Georgia-based legal team that said a special grand jury seated to help Willis investigate “involved a constant lack of clarity as to the law, inconsistent applications of basic constitutional protections for individuals being brought before it, and a prosecutor’s office that was found to have an actual conflict, yet continued to pursue the investigation.”
The special grand jury did not have the power to indict, but it did issue subpoenas and heard from some 75 witnesses while meeting from May to December last year and issued a final report with recommendations for Willis.
Trump attorney Drew Findling did not immediately respond Monday to text and voicemail messages seeking comment.
Latham was one of 16 Georgia Republicans who met at the state Capitol in December 2020 and signed a certificate declaring falsely that Trump had won the presidential election and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors. Willis last year informed them that they were targets of her investigation, though some have since reached immunity deals with her team.
McBurney said there are no grounds to disqualify Willis from pursuing her investigation and likely prosecution, saying she had not acted improperly.
“The drumbeat from the District Attorney has been neither partisan (in the political sense) nor personal, in marked and refreshing contrast to the stream of personal invective flowing from one of the movants,” he wrote, no doubt referring to Trump.
Trump’s attorneys several weeks ago took another stab at barring Willis from prosecuting him and getting the special grand jury’s report tossed out with twin filings against Willis and McBurney in Fulton County Superior Court and the Georgia Supreme Court. Explaining this extraordinary action, they cited the fact that McBurney had yet to rule on their earlier motion and Willis’ indication that she would soon seek charges in the case.
The state Supreme Court unanimously declined to intervene, dismissing the petition.
A judge from neighboring Cobb County was assigned to consider the other petition after the chief judge of the Fulton County Superior Court recused himself and the other judges on that bench from hearing the matter involving McBurney. He has set a hearing for Aug. 10.
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Deal strengthens Bain's global ML, cloud, data & app engineering capabilities
BOSTON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bain & Company today announced that it has acquired Max Kelsen's consulting and managed services divisions (collectively referred to as "Max Kelsen Consulting"), a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions, to offer enhanced ML and AI capabilities to clients across the globe.
Based in Australia and founded in 2015, Max Kelsen Consulting's team of full stack ML engineers deliver ML systems, AI-powered applications, and advisory services for clients. Now, as one unified and integrated team under Bain's Advanced Analytics Group (AAG), Max Kelsen Consulting and Bain will together help enterprises develop and operationalize high-impact AI and ML enabled use cases.
"We are delighted to welcome the Max Kelsen Consulting team to Bain, and to bring their industry-leading machine learning expertise to bear to deliver even more powerful solutions to our clients," said Roy Singh, global head of Bain's Advanced Analytics Group. "We are seeing growing demand from clients for AI-related services and engineering capabilities that will enable them to be early movers in shaping how this generational shift in technology could transform their respective industries."
"We are very excited about the quality of the Max Kelsen Consulting team and the innovative work they have done for clients in Australia and globally. This acquisition will strengthen the suite of AI and ML capabilities we offer to our clients regionally and globally," said Richard Fleming, leader of Bain's Advanced Analytics Group in Asia Pacific.
Max Kelsen has worked with Australian and global companies to build and deploy ML solutions including real-time prediction, forecasting, computer vision, industrial control optimization, robotics and more, as well as working with clients to establish best practice operational machine learning (MLOps) capabilities. The company has served a wide range of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, and has partnered with market-leading cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. While Max Kelsen applies its ML and AI expertise across industries, such as mining, financial services and retail, the company has particularly deep experience serving the healthcare & life sciences sector.
"We are excited to join Bain at a time when businesses are starting to navigate the disruptions brought on by generative AI," said Nicholas Therkelsen-Terry, co-founder and CEO of Max Kelsen. "In a rapidly evolving business climate, companies that understand how to use these tools to their advantage will come out on top. By joining Bain, we are thrilled to be working with an even larger pool of global clients and supporting Bain to strengthen their global ML capabilities."
Max Kelsen also operates a products division (SAVI Surgical and PROPeL Health AI) and a research division, which are not part of the acquisition by Bain.
Media contacts
To arrange an interview or for any questions, please contact:
Bain & Company:
Ann Lee (Singapore) — Email: ann.lee@bain.com
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About Bain & Company
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world's most ambitious change makers define the future.
Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today's urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
About Max Kelsen
Founded in Brisbane in 2015, Max Kelsen is one of Australia's leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) solutions businesses. The company delivers innovation, directly linked to the generation of business value and competitive advantage to customers in Australia and globally, including Fortune 500 companies. Max Kelsen is also dedicated to reinvesting our expertise and profits to solve the challenges of humankind, focusing on Cancer Genomics, AI Safety, and Quantum Computing.
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Console & Associates, P.C.: Flagstar Bank Reports 2021 Data Breach Exposing Social Security Numbers of an Estimated 1.4 Million People
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 3:50 PM MDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
MARLTON, N.J., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Approximately 1.4 million consumers are being notified that their Social Security numbers were compromised following a recent cyberattack. The data breach lawyers at Console & Associates, P.C. are investigating claims on behalf of anyone affected by the Flagstar Bank breach, hoping to fully inform them of the risks they face in the wake of the breach as well as their legal rights.
The sensitive personal data of 1.4 million Flagstaff Bank customers has been compromised. Now, members' full names and Social Security numbers may be in the hands of criminals, putting victims at a greater risk of identity theft and other frauds.
On July 30, 2023, Flagstar Bank filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Maine describing a data breach affecting consumers nationwide. According to the notice, the data breach affected an estimated 1.4 million people.
The list of sensitive information that was exposed includes consumers':
- Full names, and
- Social Security numbers.
If you receive a data breach notice from Flagstar Bank, you could now be at risk of identity theft—and the devastating financial and legal consequences that go along with it.
Flagstar's filing with the Maine AG indicates a previous data breach letter was sent on March 15, 2015, which may be an error.
What Should You Do if You Receive a Flagstar Bank Data Breach Letter?
Additionally, victims should consider contacting a data breach attorney immediately, as anyone who receives a data breach letter from Flagstar Bank may be entitled to financial compensation.
If you wish to discuss this data security incident, or if you have any questions regarding your rights following the Flagstar Bank data breach, please contact Console & Associates, P.C. at (866) 778-5500. Interested parties and potential plaintiffs can also learn more about this data breach and potential lawsuit at https://www.myinjuryattorney.com/flagstar-bank-data-breach-investigation/. This press release may be considered Attorney Advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and ethical rules.
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The moon will seem extra big and bright and thus be quite a sight this August, with a sturgeon supermoon visible on Tuesday and then a rare blue supermoon coming at the end of the month.
Two of the four supermoon events of 2023 will take place in August, with the first happening on Tuesday. On Aug. 30, there will be a blue supermoon, which won't happen again until 2032. Here's what you need to know so you can catch this summer's lunar double feature.
What is a supermoon?
A perigean full moon, better known as a supermoon, happens when the moon is full during the closest point in its orbit around Earth. This gives its appearance an extra pop, making it look up to 8% bigger and 16% brighter than a typical full moon, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.
According to NASA, the moon's typical orbit ranges between 226,000 and 251,000 miles from Earth, but variances can bring it a bit closer or farther away. Only the closest three or four approaches each year qualify as supermoons. The last one was on July 3.
Up first is the sturgeon supermoon on Tuesday
The sturgeon moon got its name from Native American tribes that found that the giant sturgeons from the Great Lakes were "most readily caught" at this time of the summer, according to Farmer's Almanac. It's also known as a green corn moon, grain moon, flying-up moon, harvest moon, ricing moon, black cherries moon and mountain shadow moon.
This spectacle will hit peak illumination at 2:32 p.m. ET. "That evening, look toward the southeast after sunset to catch a glimpse of the Sturgeon Moon rising," Farmer's Almanac says.
A sturgeon, for non-anglers, is an enormous fish with roots in the Jurassic Period that spends its life — up to 150 years — in both fresh and salt water. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North America, reaching as long as 20 feet and nearly 2,000 pounds, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. But most of the sturgeons inhabiting the Great Lakes measure about 6 feet in length and weigh approximately 200 pounds.
The second show is a rare blue supermoon
While the term "supermoon" references the moon's orbit in relation to Earth, a blue moon has to do with frequency, referring to when there's a second full moon in a single calendar month, NASA says. "Blue moon" is also used to describe the third of four full moons in an astrological season.
The moon takes 27.3 days to orbit the Earth, but because of how the sun's light hits the satellite, it takes 29.5 days to complete its lunar cycle from one new moon to the next.
The term "once in a blue moon" is an idiom used to describe a rare but nonetheless recurring event. But according to NASA, blue moons aren't actually all that rare, recurring every two and a half years or so.
A blue supermoon, however, happens far less frequently. According to the website Time and Date, the last blue supermoon was in December 2009, and the next one won't be until August 2032.
This year's blue supermoon will peak at 9:36 p.m. ET on Aug. 30, Farmer's Almanac says, but you can use its moonrise calculator to see when the blue supermoon will be visible in your area.
The end-of-August supermoon will be the biggest and brightest of 2023 because the moon will be "exceptionally close" to Earth at 222,043 miles, according to Farmer's Almanac, nearly 17,000 miles closer than average.
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All-terrain wheelchair provides accessibility at state park
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Thanks to an initiative launched by the Minnesota state legislature, access to state park trails for all has just taken another step forward.
Blue Mounds State Park in Luverne, Minnesota, received one of eight Action Trackchairs. The battery-powered wheelchair can access more than eight miles of the park’s trails.
“Opportunities were pretty slim prior to the chair arriving, and now people can see a lot of the really neat features of the park using the chair,” said Chris Ingebretsen, state park manager.
Upon receiving the chair, park staff knew safety remained one of their top priorities, so testing it on the different trails was key.
Park staff says safety is always their top priority — before making the chair available to visitors, they tested it themselves.
“I’ve used it on a three-mile loop in the park, and it’s capable of going on slopes that are at twenty percent, which is more excessive than a typical ATV can run on, so I was a little apprehensive about it being used in places, but having used it now, it’s got a low center of gravity, and it’s a safe chair that operates.”
Staff says they are always working to create easier accessibility on trails for everyone, including ways to improve access to picnic and viewing areas.
Reservations for the trackchair begin Aug. 1.
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LOS ANGELES AUTO SHOW® 2023 REGISTRATION OPENS FOR MEDIA AND INDUSTRY DAY AT AUTOMOBILITY LA® ON NOVEMBER 16
AutoMobility LA is the global Media Day and Industry Gathering taking place at the LA Convention Center prior to the show's public opening
LOS ANGELES, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles Auto Show®, the leading automotive and lifestyle in-person event, will open registration tomorrow for AutoMobility LA®; its annual preview day for both media and industry professionals.
Scheduled for November 16 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the LA Auto Show's press and B2B gathering is an opportunity for the global community and key decision makers to convene in Southern California for the latest debuts, product announcements, networking opportunities and more.
The 2023 LA Auto Show will continue to highlight the latest innovations in electrification, as well as exhibits and festivities that span California's automotive lifestyle and legacy of car culture. Visitors will have an opportunity to experience both indoor and outdoor driving tracks, which provide visitors with unparalleled access to comparison shop the latest offerings from major manufacturers.
Registration opens tomorrow on August 1 and is complimentary for accredited and approved media. Industry attendees will be offered an "early bird" registration fee of $75 through October 15. After that date, the full registration fee of $150 will apply to all approved industry registrants. Registration is accessible at automobilityla.com/register.
Taking place in the nation's foremost zero-emissions vehicle market, AutoMobility LA is the preeminent destination for media, automotive and tech companies, influencers, and policymakers to discuss and experience the latest in transportation innovation.
Celebrating its 116th year, LA Auto Show remains as influential to the North American automotive industry as any time in its history. At the center of the largest car-buying market in North America for both gas-powered and electric vehicles, LA Auto Show and AutoMobility LA offer vital perspective and foresight into how the rest of the country and the global market will soon look.
"Given the growing influence of electrification, the LA Auto Show will be the ultimate destination for car buyers looking to compare models and test-drive," said LA Auto Show President, Terri Toennies. "We'll also have the latest gas-powered vehicles as well as a fascinating array of special exhibits and attractions that highlight Southern California's impact on the global automotive landscape."
More comprehensive details pertaining to vehicle unveilings, manufacturer participation and significant announcements will follow. To learn more about AutoMobility LA, to book accommodations with the show's partner hotels, and for information about media and industry credentials, please visit: AutoMobilityLA.com.
Following AutoMobility LA, the 2023 LA Auto Show opens its doors for ten days from Friday, November 17 through Sunday, November 26 to welcome hundreds of thousands of consumers to comparison shop, test drive the latest vehicles, and immerse themselves in Southern California's largest annual car culture showcase. For information about the LA Auto Show and ticket purchases, please visit LAAutoShow.com.
About the Los Angeles Auto Show (LA Auto Show®)
Founded in 1907, the Los Angeles Auto Show (LA Auto Show®) is widely recognized as one of the most influential shows globally. Reflective of its location, the show celebrates the love affair Angelenos have with their cars and offers a global platform to industry technology and innovation, synonymous with California.
The show runs for 10 full days over the Thanksgiving period and is a must-attend destination for many industry influencers, car enthusiasts and families wanting to enjoy a day out over the holiday season. Held annually at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the LA Auto Show contributes several-hundred-million dollars to the local economy, stimulates the local job market, and is the number one revenue generator for the LA Convention Center.
Taking place on November 16, AutoMobility LA media and industry days will include a range of groundbreaking industry announcements and reveals. Doors open to the public November 17-26. LA Auto Show is owned and operated by ANSA Productions. To receive the latest show news and information, follow the LA Auto Show on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn and sign up for alerts at laautoshow.com.
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The anthropomorphic cattle dog has been captivating her target audience and then some. We spoke to parents about how the show has provided comfort and guidance in the wild world of parenting.
Who is she? Bluey Heeler is a six-year-old Australian blue heeler that is the protagonist of her eponymous children's show — as well as several toy collections, an album, books and a popular stage show.
What's the big deal? Aside from her name dominating the search bar suggestions on YouTube as soon as you begin typing the word "blue..."?
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What are people saying? Pretty good stuff! NPR's Scott Detrow spoke to some Bluey viewers on why they're drawn to the program from down under.
Linda McGee, a Chicago area mom of two, on why she first got into it:
It's taught me to really just play along and just tap into my childlike innocence and sense of wonder. There's so many things that I've done that I probably would never do if I wasn't watching Bluey. I probably would not be, like, a horsey ride or, like, a car driving to the grocery store for some reason.
Joseph Peterson, a Frederick, Md. dad of one, on which episode first caught his attention:
For me, I think that episode is Sleepytime.
It's just so heartwarming and empathetic, I think both for the difficulty it is for children — it really sees them in kind of the struggles to stay in their own bed at night — and also, it's really empathetic towards the parents' point of view, right? What that struggle can mean, going back and forth from bedroom to bedroom to the bathroom, to sharing space on the bed or on the floor.
And Mari Brisco, a mother of one in New Orleans on how she found herself totally engrossed with the show:
So my daughter was born eight weeks early. So I've always worried, in the back of my head like, "Oh, my God, is she hitting the right milestones at this age and everything?" And even watching that episode [Baby Race] I was like, "It's OK. You know, she's going to crawl when she crawls. She's going to talk when she talks."
So, what now?
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Angus Cloud, breakout star of ‘Euphoria,’ is dead at 25
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25.
Cloud’s publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given.
In a statement, Cloud’s family said goodbye to “an artist, a friend, a brother and a son.
“Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss,” the family said. “The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence.”
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone,” his family added.
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting scout Eléonore Hendricks noticed him. Cloud was resistant at first, suspecting a scam. Then casting director Jennifer Venditti met with him and series creator Sam Levinson eventually made him a co-star in the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
To some, Cloud seemed so natural as Fez that they suspected he was identical to the character — a notion that Cloud pushed back against.
“It does bother me when people are like, ‘It must be so easy! You get to go in and be yourself.’ I’m like, ‘Why don’t you go and do that?’ It’s not that simple,” Cloud told Variety. “I brought a lot to the character. You can believe what you want. It ain’t got nothing to do with me.”
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television. He had a supporting role in his first film, “The Line,” a college drama starring Alex Wolff and John Malkovich that premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Festival. Cloud was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6.” He’s also made cameos in music videos for Juice WRLD, Becky G and Karol G.
The third season of “Euphoria” hasn’t yet begun filming.
“We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud,” HBO said in a statement. “He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and ‘Euphoria’ family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time.”
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Twitter's new "X" sign was taken down on Monday after the city of San Francisco reprimanded the company for installing a giant, flashing sign above its building without a permit.
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said it received 24 complaints about the sign, including "concerns about its structural safety and illumination."
A building permit is technically required to dismantle the sign too, but the removal was allowed to proceed "duty to safety concerns," Patrick Hannan, a spokesperson for the department, told NPR.
The signage was the latest effort in the social media platform's rebranding since the sweeping changes were announced last week.
The removal comes less than three days after a city inspector went to Twitter's headquarters on Friday to alert the company of its permit violation and to evaluate the sign located on the roof, according to the city's complaint.
A Twitter representative denied access but explained that the structure is "a temporary lighted sign for an event." The inspector clarified that any signage without a permit must be removed.
The inspector came to the headquarters again on Saturday to visit the roof. But upon arrival, "access was denied again by tenant," the complaint said.
Twitter did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment. But to a tweet alleging that San Francisco authorities were trying to force Musk to remove the "X" sign, the Twitter owner replied on Saturday with a laughing-crying emoji.
Twitter was already in hot waters with the city of San Francisco last Monday for removing Twitter's original sign, which includes its name and iconic blue bird, without proper permits or taping off the sidewalk as part of pedestrian safety measures.
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Mentoring Moment: Local professional shares passion for reading with kids
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Whether a child is just learning to read or is struggling with the basics, leaders at REACH Literacy say their volunteers are there to help area students increase their confidence.
One creative professional enjoys sharing her love for reading with the next generation.
Liz Stanton has been a mentor with REACH Literacy for two years and does not intend to stop anytime soon.
“This program is important to me because I feel like reading has contributed to me as a learner, as a writer and as a creative professional, said Stanton. “It’s exciting to see students gain confidence over the 10 weeks as they read and want to just foster an excitement for reading and others.”
From her own experience, Liz understands the importance that mentoring has on others.
“As a student, I was interested in architecture early on and had opportunities to shadow other architects who then helped me make decisions and further my career,” said Stanton.
She has a passion for reading and helping others advance their literacy skills.
“I was fortunate and grew up in a household where we read every night, and I think there’s a direct correlation between my success as a student and having that opportunity. I recognize that that’s not feasible for every household, and so contributing however I can to help other students do better through reading,” said Stanton.
Through a 10-week course, Liz chooses books to take turns reading with mentees over Zoom. As an architectural designer in Sioux Falls, Liz makes sure to find her time to mentor.
“There are times when the day is busy, and it seems like one more thing on the list of things to do, but at the end, I’m always feeling fulfilled and re-energized for the weekend,” said Stanton.
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Pilot injured after banner plane crashes into ocean near beach
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF/Gray News) – Officials are investigating after a banner plane crashed onto a South Carolina beach.
WMBF reports the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were called to look into the crash which occurred at 11:30 a.m. Monday at Myrtle Beach.
Cpl. Chris Starling with the Myrtle Beach Police Department said the pilot of the single-engine PA-18 was the only person on board. He was able to get out of the plane safely.
According to officials, witnesses said bystanders rushed to the crash site to help the pilot get out after the plane hit the water.
Witness Sue Boyd told WMBF she and another woman both called 911 after seeing the crash.
“The banner plane was all of a sudden going down super fast and then it just hit the water and went under. A bunch of civilians came and sprang into action into the water,” she said.
First responders treated the pilot, who was then taken to the hospital. He is expected to recover from his injuries.
The plane was removed from the surf via tow truck around 4 p.m. Crews removed the plane’s wings to properly load the aircraft.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Anushka Shah, who has her sights set on college, just graduated high school at 19-years-old with a 3.75 GPA.
Anushka has Rett syndrome and is unable to speak or use her hands. She uses her eyes to communicate.
“I communicate using this eye-gaze device, meaning that I control it with my eyes. I know I am the coolest,” she said.
“Anushka overcomes challenges every single day,” expressed Nita Shah, her mother.
Until recently, there was no treatment for Rett syndrome, only medicines and therapies to help the symptoms.
“We have, now, the first FDA-approved treatment for Rett syndrome, a drug called Trofinetide, or Daybue,” said Dr. Robin Ryther, pediatric neurologist at the WashU Rett Spectrum Clinic at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
Experts say the drug could stop the syndrome before it takes hold.
“It targets the genetic changes. It's not a cure but it's the first step,” Dr. Ryther added.
Dr. Ryther has seen it turn the clock back for some of her patients.
"We have one young woman, for example, who has regained verbal speech and she has over 30 words now, and she's been on the drug for over two years," said Dr. Ryther.
Anushka, who has not taken the drug yet, is looking forward to a bright future of helping people like her get their voices heard.
Rett syndrome can now be detected at birth with broad screening tests, which can help with diagnosis even before regression begins. The new drug is approved for children aged two years and older.
Researchers don’t yet know if patients will need to take it for life, or if it will have the same impact for older people living with Rett syndrome.
As for Anushka, she wants people to know that Rett syndrome is challenging but not insurmountable, and that no one should ever give up on beating it.
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Live call and webcast will occur on August 1 at 9:00 a.m. ET
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueCar, Inc., (NASDAQ:TRUE) today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023 in a stockholder letter, which is available HERE and on the TrueCar investor relations website at ir.truecar.com.
The company will host a call to discuss its second quarter results on Tuesday, August 1 at 9:00 a.m. ET/6:00 a.m. PT. A live webcast of the call will be available through TrueCar's Investor Relations website and the link below.
TrueCar Second Quarter 2023 Live Call and Webcast Details:
An archived version of the call will also be available upon completion on the Investor Relations section of TrueCar's website at ir.truecar.com.
TrueCar has used and intends to continue to use its Investor Relations website (ir.truecar.com), LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter as means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.
About TrueCar
TrueCar is a leading automotive digital marketplace that lets auto buyers and sellers connect to our nationwide network of Certified Dealers. With access to an expansive inventory provided by our Certified Dealers, we are building the industry's most personalized and efficient auto shopping experience as we seek to bring more of the process online. Consumers who visit our marketplace will find a suite of vehicle discovery tools, price ratings and market context on new, used and Certified Pre-Owned vehicles. When they are ready, shoppers in TrueCar's marketplace can connect with a Certified Dealer in our network, who shares our belief that truth, transparency and fairness are the foundation of a great auto shopping experience. As part of our marketplace, TrueCar powers auto-buying programs for over 250 leading brands, including AARP, Sam's Club, Navy Federal Credit Union and American Express.
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Trump attempt to derail Georgia election investigation rejected by judge
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge on Monday rejected an attempt by former President Donald Trump to keep a Georgia district attorney from prosecuting him and from using certain evidence gathered in her investigation into potential illegal meddling in the 2020 election in the state.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney didn’t mince words in his nine-page ruling, which said Trump lacked the legal grounds to bring the challenge before any indictment has been filed in the case. Any harm alleged by Trump and by Cathy Latham, a Republican fake elector from Georgia who had joined his motion, is “either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized,” the judge wrote.
The alleged harms “are insufficient because, while being the subject (or even target) of a highly publicized criminal investigation is likely an unwelcome and unpleasant experience, no court ever has held that that status alone provides a basis for the courts to interfere with or halt the investigation,” McBurney wrote.
In a caustic footnote, seemingly nodding to Trump’s status as the dominant frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination for president despite having been indicted twice already, the judge added: “And for some, being the subject of a criminal investigation can, à la Rumpelstiltskin, be turned into golden political capital, making it seem more providential than problematic.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, an elected Democrat, has strongly suggested that she is likely to seek charges in the case in the coming weeks. While she has not directly said she plans to seek charges against the Republican former president, she has repeatedly said no one is above the law.
Monday’s ruling came in response to a motion filed in March by Trump’s Georgia-based legal team that said a special grand jury seated to help Willis investigate “involved a constant lack of clarity as to the law, inconsistent applications of basic constitutional protections for individuals being brought before it, and a prosecutor’s office that was found to have an actual conflict, yet continued to pursue the investigation.”
The special grand jury did not have the power to indict, but it did issue subpoenas and heard from some 75 witnesses while meeting from May to December last year and issued a final report with recommendations for Willis.
Trump attorney Drew Findling did not immediately respond Monday to text and voicemail messages seeking comment.
Latham was one of 16 Georgia Republicans who met at the state Capitol in December 2020 and signed a certificate declaring falsely that Trump had won the presidential election and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors. Willis last year informed them that they were targets of her investigation, though some have since reached immunity deals with her team.
McBurney said there are no grounds to disqualify Willis from pursuing her investigation and likely prosecution, saying she had not acted improperly.
“The drumbeat from the District Attorney has been neither partisan (in the political sense) nor personal, in marked and refreshing contrast to the stream of personal invective flowing from one of the movants,” he wrote, no doubt referring to Trump.
Trump’s attorneys several weeks ago took another stab at barring Willis from prosecuting him and getting the special grand jury’s report tossed out with twin filings against Willis and McBurney in Fulton County Superior Court and the Georgia Supreme Court. Explaining this extraordinary action, they cited the fact that McBurney had yet to rule on their earlier motion and Willis’ indication that she would soon seek charges in the case.
The state Supreme Court unanimously declined to intervene, dismissing the petition.
A judge from neighboring Cobb County was assigned to consider the other petition after the chief judge of the Fulton County Superior Court recused himself and the other judges on that bench from hearing the matter involving McBurney. He has set a hearing for Aug. 10.
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LOWER ALSACE TWP., Pa. - Officials in the Antietam School District are looking for volunteers to help pack up and move furniture and classroom equipment before the start of school.
Damage from recent flash floods forced the district to close Antietam Middle Senior High School for the 2023-2024 academic year.
School officials decided earlier this month that students in grades 4-12 will largely be housed at the Mount Penn Elementary Center and students in grades K-3 will be housed at the Mount Penn Primary Center.
Volunteers are needed to help move/clean/arrange furniture, pack-up/set-up/move classrooms, prepare materials and complete other various tasks to get classrooms ready before students return.
Interested volunteers can sign up here.
Volunteers who choose to work at the Antietam Middle Senior High School will be required to complete a waiver. No waivers will be required by those working only in Mt. Penn Elementary, Mt. Penn Primary Center and Trinity UCC.
Volunteers will be contacted by the district to confirm their time, date and location after completing the sign-up form.
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RALEIGH - CommScope [NASDAQ: COMM], a global telecommunications leader, plans to add 250 new jobs with a $60.3 million investment to expand its fiber-optic cable manufacturing operations in Catawba County, Governor Roy Cooper announced last week.
“Connecting every household in North Carolina to high-speed internet is going to take a lot of fiber, and with this expansion CommScope is answering the call not only with American jobs, but North Carolina jobs,” said Governor Cooper. “We appreciate CommScope’s additional investment in Catawba County and their confidence in our workforce to improve the nation’s fiber-optic infrastructure.”
Founded in Hickory, North Carolina, CommScope has led the communications technology space for more than 45 years. The Fortune 500 company began with coaxial cable production for broadband and cable TV and now offers end-to-end solutions for wired and wireless networks. CommScope develops, manufactures, installs, and supports network and hardware infrastructure for a digital society, such as the high-speed internet that connects people and places around the world. This project will upgrade the Catawba County facilities to increase the company’s capacity to produce fiber optic cable.
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“CommScope is in the business of providing connectivity solutions, and we are proud to produce the fiber cables that help ensure all Americans have access to Broadband, right here in the State of North Carolina,” said Chuck Treadway, President & CEO of CommScope. “We appreciate our long-standing relationship with the State and Catawba County. This investment and jobs creation over the next four years will continue to keep the focus on North Carolina as the fiber cable hub of the U.S.”
“Broadband is as critical infrastructure as any other utility and our workforce, education and economic prosperity depend on it,” said N.C. Commerce Secretary Machelle Baker Sanders. “As a North Carolina company and leader in cable production, CommScope knows the value of doing business in our state. I’m committed to providing the work and services that will enable this company and other innovators to continue advancing technology and high-speed internet for underserved communities.”
The North Carolina Department of Commerce led the state’s efforts to support the company’s expansion in North Carolina.
Although salaries for the new positions will vary, the average annual wage for the new positions is $57,444. Catawba County’s average salary is $52,172. The project’s payroll impact could fuel more than $14.3 million into the community each year.
CommScope’s expansion will be facilitated, in part, by a Job Development Investment Grant (JDIG) approved by the state’s Economic Investment Committee earlier today. Over the course of the 12-year term of this grant, the project is estimated to grow the state’s economy by more than $834 million. Using a formula that takes into account the new tax revenues generated by the new jobs, the JDIG agreement authorizes the potential reimbursement to the company of up to $1,899,900 spread over 12 years. State payments only occur following performance verification by the departments of Commerce and Revenue that the company has met its incremental job creation and investment targets. JDIG projects result in positive net tax revenue to the state treasury, even after taking into consideration the grant’s reimbursement payments to a given company.
Because CommScope chose to expand in Catawba County, classified by the state’s economic tier system as Tier 2, the company’s JDIG agreement also calls for moving $211,100 into the state’s Industrial Development Fund – Utility Account. The Utility Account helps rural communities across the state finance necessary infrastructure upgrades to attract future business.
“We gladly welcome these new jobs and investments to our community,” said N.C. Senator Dean Proctor. “CommScope could have expanded anywhere in the world, but they chose to further invest here at home, and we stand ready to help them in this next phase of growth.”
“Catawba County has a strong telecommunications cluster,” said N.C. Representative Mitchell S. Setzer. “CommScope is the largest employer in the county and a great corporate citizen. We appreciate their contributions and the diligent work of the economic developers and local and state officials that supported this project.”
In addition to the North Carolina Department of Commerce and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, other key partners in the project include the North Carolina General Assembly, North Carolina Department of Information Technology, North Carolina Community College System, Catawba County Community College, Catawba County, and County Catawba County Economic Development Corporation.
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READING, Pa. - Reading's top cop is retiring.
Monday marked Chief Richard Tornielli's last day at City Hall after more than three years in the role and over two decades on the force.
The city announced that Deputy Chief Javier Ruiz will take over as interim chief.
Tornielli announced his retirement over the weekend. Mayor Eddie Moran said in a statement that he decided to move forward with new leadership in the department, and that the city plans to conduct a nationwide search for the next police chief.
The city says members of the department who meet the qualifications may apply as part of the process.
"The charter requires that someone be presented to council," explained Reading City Council President Donna Reed. "It's the same with all the department heads, including fire chief, that the person is presented to council for verification."
Reed says this isn't the first time several current members of council have gone through the process of searching for a new chief, but the current timeframe could complicate the process.
"If this mayor is not reelected, then the next mayor may choose not to keep the police chief that's on," said Reed.
She adds that police work is difficult, even more challenging in an urban environment, and leading a department like Reading is an important role.
"We have a really strong and dedicated police force," Reed said. "Our numbers are not what they should be. Council stands ready, as budget comes, to fully fund the police department."
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Locals Representing 340K UPS Workers Nearly Unanimously Recommend Contract
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters local unions representing 340,000 full- and part-time workers at UPS voted 161-1 on Monday to endorse the tentative agreement reached with the delivery giant on July 25 and recommend its passage by the full membership.
Of the 176 local unions with UPS members, 14 affiliates failed to show up to a meeting in Washington, DC, to review the tentative agreement.
At least two representatives from all other local unions discussed more than 60 changes and improvements to the UPS Teamsters National Master Agreement, the largest private-sector collective bargaining agreement in North America. The gains achieved during negotiations, which occurred regionally and nationally since January, are larger and more lucrative than any previous Teamsters contract at UPS. The tentative agreement, valued at $30 billion, establishes record wage increases for all workers for the life of the contract, installation of air conditioning in new vehicles, the end of an unfair two-tier wage system, catch-up raises for part-timers, Martin Luther King Day as a paid holiday for the first time, new language to prevent forced overtime on days off, and other huge wins.
Now that local unions have nearly unanimously endorsed the tentative agreement, all rank-and-file UPS Teamsters will have the chance to vote on ratification from August 3-22.
"The entire UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee stands behind this historic contract and our UPS local unions have resoundingly voted to endorse it," said Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien. "Our tentative agreement is richer, stronger, and more far-reaching than any settlement ever negotiated in the history of American organized labor. The Teamsters are immensely proud of reaching agreement with UPS to improve the lives of our members, their families, and working people across the country."
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.
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MUHLENERG TWP., Pa. - The Teamsters Union said the trucking company Yellow Corp is ceasing operations and filing for bankruptcy.
This comes after years of struggling financially.
New Penn Trucking off Route 61 in Muhlenberg Township is a Yellow Corp subsidiary.
A local union representative said 50 people there are Teamsters members and another ten or so are not.
The local union representative said those workers all live in the Reading area.
According to the representative, a handful of people have already reached out to Teamsters for guidance.
"Today's news is unfortunate but not surprising. Yellow has historically proven that it could not manage itself despite billions of dollars in worker concessions and hundreds of millions in bailout funding from the federal government. This is a sad day for workers and the American freight industry," said Sean M. O'Brien, Teamsters general president, in a statement.
Yellow is a 99-year-old Tennessee-based company.
Reports of bankruptcy emerged after Yellow prevented a strike with Teamsters workers.
Teamsters said the situation is developing and that additional details are forthcoming.
The local union said it cannot comment on the bankruptcy and can only offer employees guidance.
So far, there has been no bankruptcy filing, and the company has not returned our requests for comment.
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BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. - After nearly a century, one of the country's largest less-than-truckload freight operators has abruptly closed shop - Yellow Corp.
The company employs roughly 30,000 nationwide among more than 300 terminals.
There are multiple locations in Pennsylvania - with one in the Lehigh Valley, in Bethlehem Township, on Brodhead Road. When we showed up there Monday, it was deserted. Signs were posted stating the company has ceased operations as of Sunday.
It's still unclear exactly how many were employed at this facility specifically, but the workforce board tells 69 News it was at least 50 people.
"We have a shortage of CDL drivers for years - pre-pandemic that was a really tight area of the market, so anyone with a CDL should have no trouble finding another position. Logistics, manufacturing, warehousing in general is very robust here so we should have no trouble absorbing warehouse workers, order pickers, shipping, receiving."
Locally, the demand for logistics and freight workers remains, despite some slowdown in consumer spending, especially for off-shifts and weekends, says Susan Larkin, with Allied Personnel Services, a staffing agency in Allentown.
Yellow had been locked in a battle with the Teamsters union over a contract for more than 20,000 employees. The union was notified Monday of the shutdown and bankruptcy.
The company also has a large amount of debt.
"Obviously, UPS successfully negotiated their recent contract, FedEx is still a booming business here in the market, Amazon. They all need workers," Larkin said. "So one company is not indicative of the entire industry, certainly not here in the Lehigh Valley."
Yellow Corp. had received a $700 million loan in 2020 from the government in an agreement which left taxpayers holding 30% of the company's stock. The company was awarded the loan despite allegations of fraudulently billing services for the U.S. military. The company came to a nearly $7 million settlement with the government without having to admit any wrongdoing.
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SENIOR SOCIAL: The only nonprofit senior center in the Greensboro area is hosting a free watermelon social Monday at 2 p.m. To celebrate the opening of their brand new fitness center for Guilford County residents 55 and up, Evergreens Lifestyle Center is having a watermelon-based party with trivia, games and, of course, snacks. For more information, call 336-373-4816, ext. 280.
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Deal strengthens Bain's global ML, cloud, data & app engineering capabilities
BOSTON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bain & Company today announced that it has acquired Max Kelsen's consulting and managed services divisions (collectively referred to as "Max Kelsen Consulting"), a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions, to offer enhanced ML and AI capabilities to clients across the globe.
Based in Australia and founded in 2015, Max Kelsen Consulting's team of full stack ML engineers deliver ML systems, AI-powered applications, and advisory services for clients. Now, as one unified and integrated team under Bain's Advanced Analytics Group (AAG), Max Kelsen Consulting and Bain will together help enterprises develop and operationalize high-impact AI and ML enabled use cases.
"We are delighted to welcome the Max Kelsen Consulting team to Bain, and to bring their industry-leading machine learning expertise to bear to deliver even more powerful solutions to our clients," said Roy Singh, global head of Bain's Advanced Analytics Group. "We are seeing growing demand from clients for AI-related services and engineering capabilities that will enable them to be early movers in shaping how this generational shift in technology could transform their respective industries."
"We are very excited about the quality of the Max Kelsen Consulting team and the innovative work they have done for clients in Australia and globally. This acquisition will strengthen the suite of AI and ML capabilities we offer to our clients regionally and globally," said Richard Fleming, leader of Bain's Advanced Analytics Group in Asia Pacific.
Max Kelsen has worked with Australian and global companies to build and deploy ML solutions including real-time prediction, forecasting, computer vision, industrial control optimization, robotics and more, as well as working with clients to establish best practice operational machine learning (MLOps) capabilities. The company has served a wide range of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, and has partnered with market-leading cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. While Max Kelsen applies its ML and AI expertise across industries, such as mining, financial services and retail, the company has particularly deep experience serving the healthcare & life sciences sector.
"We are excited to join Bain at a time when businesses are starting to navigate the disruptions brought on by generative AI," said Nicholas Therkelsen-Terry, co-founder and CEO of Max Kelsen. "In a rapidly evolving business climate, companies that understand how to use these tools to their advantage will come out on top. By joining Bain, we are thrilled to be working with an even larger pool of global clients and supporting Bain to strengthen their global ML capabilities."
Max Kelsen also operates a products division (SAVI Surgical and PROPeL Health AI) and a research division, which are not part of the acquisition by Bain.
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About Bain & Company
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world's most ambitious change makers define the future.
Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today's urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
About Max Kelsen
Founded in Brisbane in 2015, Max Kelsen is one of Australia's leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) solutions businesses. The company delivers innovation, directly linked to the generation of business value and competitive advantage to customers in Australia and globally, including Fortune 500 companies. Max Kelsen is also dedicated to reinvesting our expertise and profits to solve the challenges of humankind, focusing on Cancer Genomics, AI Safety, and Quantum Computing.
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SÃO PAULO, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenvia Inc. (NASDAQ: ZENV), the leading cloud-based CX platform in Latin America empowering companies to transform their customer journeys, today announced that its fiscal 2023 second quarter and first half results will be released after the market close on Wednesday August 16, 2023.
Zenvia's senior management team will host a webcast to discuss the financial and operating results on Thursday, August 17, 2023, at 10:00 am ET. To access the webcast presentation, click here.
Additional information regarding Zenvia, including a replay of the webcast when available, can be found at https://investors.zenvia.com.
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About ZENVIA
ZENVIA is driven by the purpose of empowering companies to create unique experiences for end-consumers through its unified CX SaaS end-to-end platform. ZENVIA empowers companies to transform their existing customer experience from non-scalable, physical and impersonal interactions into highly scalable, digital-first and hyper-contextualized experiences across the customer journey. ZENVIA's unified end-to-end CX SaaS platform provides a combination of (i) SaaS focused on campaigns, sales teams, customer service and engagement, (ii) tools, such as software application programming interfaces, or APIs, chatbots, single customer views, journey designers, documents composer and authentication and (iii) channels, such as SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, Instagram and Webchat. Its comprehensive platform assists customers across multiple use cases, including marketing campaigns, customer acquisition, customer onboarding, warnings, customer services, fraud control, cross-selling and customer retention, among others. ZENVIA's shares are traded on Nasdaq, under the ticker ZENV.
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A Virginia man stands accused of murder after a domestic dispute turned deadly on Sunday in a park in the city of Eden, authorities said.
Eden police said they were dispatched to Freedom Park about 2:45 p.m. Sunday in response to what was called a shooting in progress. Within one minute, police said, they were at the scene of the shooting and captured John Michael Powell as he was fleeing the park in a black Chevrolet Avalanche.
In the parking lot near a sports field, police said, they found Gwendolyn Lavonne Riddick suffering from many gunshot wounds and lying beside her red Ford Mustang. Officers provided first aid until the ambulance arrived, and Riddick was taken to UNC Health Rockingham, where she died at 3 p.m. She was 40 years old and was the mother of Powell's child.
Powell, who is 35 and lives in Newport News, Va., was charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of firing a weapon into occupied property. He was placed in the Rockingham County Jail and has a court appearance scheduled for Aug. 8.
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Investigators said the shooting came after ongoing domestic problems between Powell and Riddick. They called the shooting an isolated incident because of the connection between the shooter and victim, who have a child in common.
Eden Police Chief Clint Simpson called the shooting "a senseless and tragic loss of life," especially so because it took place in a park with lots of families and children nearby.
“I am saddened by the loss of life but I am very proud of the quick response by the officers of the Eden Police Department to give aid to the victim and apprehend the suspect near the crime," he said. "I am also proud of our citizens who gathered invaluable information, called 911 and attempted to provide aid to the victim as well."
Police said anyone with information on the case may call Detective Tyson Scales or Lieutenant Andrew Kenyi at any time at 336-623-9755, or from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 336-623-9240. People can provide information anonymously at Rockingham County Crimestoppers, 336-349-9683.
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Console & Associates, P.C.: Flagstar Bank Reports 2021 Data Breach Exposing Social Security Numbers of an Estimated 1.4 Million People
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 4:50 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
MARLTON, N.J., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Approximately 1.4 million consumers are being notified that their Social Security numbers were compromised following a recent cyberattack. The data breach lawyers at Console & Associates, P.C. are investigating claims on behalf of anyone affected by the Flagstar Bank breach, hoping to fully inform them of the risks they face in the wake of the breach as well as their legal rights.
The sensitive personal data of 1.4 million Flagstaff Bank customers has been compromised. Now, members' full names and Social Security numbers may be in the hands of criminals, putting victims at a greater risk of identity theft and other frauds.
On July 30, 2023, Flagstar Bank filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Maine describing a data breach affecting consumers nationwide. According to the notice, the data breach affected an estimated 1.4 million people.
The list of sensitive information that was exposed includes consumers':
- Full names, and
- Social Security numbers.
If you receive a data breach notice from Flagstar Bank, you could now be at risk of identity theft—and the devastating financial and legal consequences that go along with it.
Flagstar's filing with the Maine AG indicates a previous data breach letter was sent on March 15, 2015, which may be an error.
What Should You Do if You Receive a Flagstar Bank Data Breach Letter?
Additionally, victims should consider contacting a data breach attorney immediately, as anyone who receives a data breach letter from Flagstar Bank may be entitled to financial compensation.
If you wish to discuss this data security incident, or if you have any questions regarding your rights following the Flagstar Bank data breach, please contact Console & Associates, P.C. at (866) 778-5500. Interested parties and potential plaintiffs can also learn more about this data breach and potential lawsuit at https://www.myinjuryattorney.com/flagstar-bank-data-breach-investigation/. This press release may be considered Attorney Advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and ethical rules.
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. - At former Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski's invitation, I took the nearly four-hour drive from Allentown to the Maryland countryside to Federal Correctional Institution Cumberland, where Pawlowski has been housed for several years.
When I arrived at the facility I was struck by how remote it was, tucked away in the Appalachian Mountains.
Looking at aerial photos of the Cumberland campus, you can see it's quite large.
The FCI Cumberland website says the campus houses 911 inmates total. 690 at FCI and 221 at the camp, which is where I interviewed Pawlowski.
I was told by prison officials that I was only allowed to bring a pen and paper to get quotes.
I was taken into an empty visitation room, with a high arched ceiling and shiny tile floors.
Quilts are mounted on the walls, presumably to help with the echo of visiting families.
There is a small room on the side with vending machines and a sign at the entrance stating the area is for visitors only. Inmates are prohibited from entering.
At the door to the visitation room there is a circular guard's desk, which made it hard to see Pawlowski when he first entered the hall.
But after a few steps, I saw him, dressed in an olive-green jumpsuit and black sneakers.
He greeted me with a smile and welcomed me to the facility.
For the first few minutes I didn't write anything down. I was just taking in the moment.
I had spent years attending news conferences where Pawlowski stood at podiums in a suit and tie talking about plans and initiatives.
I even interviewed him one hot summer day when the Allentown pools opened. He was dressed in swim trunks and took great joy in nearly splashing me when he did a cannon ball into the pool for my live shot.
I watched his physical demeanor and appearance change with the raid of city hall, the indictments, and throughout the trial.
As inmate Pawlowski sat before me, I was thinking about the last time I saw him.
It was March 7, 2018, a week after he was convicted of 47 counts of corruption related crimes.
He looked pale, tired and defeated.
The man sitting before me was not the same man.
Pawlowski is noticeably thinner. "When I came in I was 240 pounds, Now I'm down 190 pounds," he told me.
He looked healthier than I have ever seen him. He was tan, and the only thing pale about him was the skin under his wedding band.
He attributed the tan to walking two miles every day on the track with a service dog he is training named Astra.
Pawlowski said federal inmates: "try to teach them more substantial skills," like "opening doors" and "picking things up with their mouths."
He said at FCI Cumberland, "Everybody has to have a job. I was looking to something I can do to make a difference."
He now teaches GED classes and said that the "guys are excited when they pass tests."
Pawlowski also teaches history classes and attends Bible study at night.
Pawlowski maintains his innocence, saying he knows if he had pleaded guilty instead of going to trial, "I would have been home by now."
For our interview, Pawlowski brought a thick binder jammed with papers.
Throughout our discussion, he pulled out documents to illustrate his points.
"I have respect for the jury, I have respect for the judge, but the sentence is severe," said Pawlowski.
He said he tries "to do something everyday to advance" his "cause of getting home."
That includes sending out letters to friends.
He said there are roughly 100 people in his email list and he writes to others using regular mail.
He recently urged his friends to start a letter writing campaign to President Biden seeking a pardon or reduced sentence.
That request has taken root. I will talk more about that in part two of my series.
We covered a lot of ground with Pawlowski during the interview, but some things, like his thoughts on the trial, his friendship with political consultant Mike Fleck and his family were topics that he said he's not ready to talk about on the record.
On the legal front, Pawlowski said he is waiting for the outcome of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit involving the Department of Justice and the FBI seeking information he said he didn't have at trial.
In court filings, the DOJ said there are so many documents, that providing him the information would take 238 years. The FBI cited 31 years.
Pawlowski said that is unacceptable.
Meantime, there's a growing number of people locally who are trying to help Pawlowski get out of prison.
I'll have that story Tuesday night.
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A man who was walking across Creek Ridge Road Friday night was fatally injured when he was struck by a car that came onto the highway from the off-ramp of southbound U.S. 220, Greensboro police said.
Police said Montel Williams, 27, died at the scene of the wreck.
Police said they were called to the scene about 10:15 p.m. in response to a report that someone had been seriously injured in a crash.
On arrival, authorities determined that a 2015 Honda Accord driven by Mickey Osborne, 44, of Greensboro, was traveling west on Creek Ridge Road after getting onto the road from the U.S. 220 south off-ramp, when his car struck Williams as he was walking across the westbound lanes of Creek Ridge Road.
Osborne was charged with driving while impaired, police said, adding that their investigation is ongoing.
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Anyone with information about the wreck may call Greensboro/Guilford Crime Stoppers at 336-373-1000. Citizens can also download the mobile P3tips app for Apple or Android phones to submit a mobile tip, or go to P3tips.org to submit a web tip. All tips to Crime Stoppers are completely anonymous.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25.
Cloud’s publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given.
In a statement, Cloud’s family said goodbye to “an artist, a friend, a brother and a son.
“Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss,” the family said. “The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence.”
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone,” his family added.
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting scout Eléonore Hendricks noticed him. Cloud was resistant at first, suspecting a scam. Then casting director Jennifer Venditti met with him and series creator Sam Levinson eventually made him a co-star in the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
To some, Cloud seemed so natural as Fez that they suspected he was identical to the character — a notion that Cloud pushed back against.
“It does bother me when people are like, ‘It must be so easy! You get to go in and be yourself.’ I’m like, ‘Why don’t you go and do that?’ It’s not that simple,” Cloud told Variety. “I brought a lot to the character. You can believe what you want. It ain’t got nothing to do with me.”
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television. He had a supporting role in his first film, “The Line,” a college drama starring Alex Wolff and John Malkovich that premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Festival. Cloud was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6.” He’s also made cameos in music videos for Juice WRLD, Becky G and Karol G.
The third season of “Euphoria” hasn’t yet begun filming.
“We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud,” HBO said in a statement. “He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and ‘Euphoria’ family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time.”
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Results Show an Alternative Twice as Effective Compared to Antidepressant Medications
LONDON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Flow Neuroscience, the creators of the Flow tDCS headset that provides at-home non-invasive brain stimulation to treat depression, today announced the results of its FDA pivotal clinical trial. The trial results show that the Flow headset was twice as effective as the most commonly-prescribed antidepressants in the treatment of depression.*
In July 2022, Flow received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation, demonstrating the innovative nature of the platform and the significant advantages it offers over existing approved or cleared alternatives. It was the first medical device in the category to achieve this status. Flow is now being reviewed for full FDA approval, which would make this device available as an at-home treatment option in the U.S.
In a study of patients in the US and the UK, the largest-ever clinical trial of its kind, 56% of the participants using the Flow tDCS headset were relieved of all depressive symptoms within 10 weeks**. Daily use of Flow was confirmed to be safe with minimal side effects.
Flow has already been granted regulatory approval in Europe where it is available over the counter via Flow's website and in major UK pharmacies. More than 12,000 people and 100 clinics/hospitals in Europe use Flow today, including NHS partnerships.
Preliminary results include:
- The trial sites at the University of Texas and the University of East London measured the effectiveness and safety of the tDCS headset designed by Flow Neuroscience.
- 173 patients were taken through the at-home treatment program, completely remotely and with minimal supervision, over a 10-week period. This was the largest ever US/UK tDCS study for the treatment of depression.
- 56% of patients in the treatment group went into remission (complete relief from depression symptoms), and 62% had a clinical response (more than 50% improvement in depressive symptoms.)**
- The study showed that participants had greater than three times higher odds of getting substantially better if they got the active treatment vs if they got placebo/sham stimulation, approximately double the average effect size witnessed in the trials for the 21 best-selling antidepressants reviewed by the FDA.
- No major side effects were reported from the treatment group.
Flow's study results come at a time when depression is at an all-time high among U.S. adults, but with nearly half of Americans in 2021 reporting they did not seek help for clinical-level mental health issues, citing an increased desire for self-help options. The Flow tDCS headset and treatment is conveniently administered at home five times a week, creating an effective, safe, and accessible treatment option for depression.
How Flow works:
- The Flow headset uses a brain-stimulation technique called tDCS to target the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which is the area of the brain associated with depression.
- Depression is associated with lowered activity in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC). This area of the brain helps regulate mood, and focus, and can even impact sleep and appetite. When this area of the brain has lower activity, these functions are affected.
- By delivering a weak electrical current (2 mA) to the DLPFC via electrodes placed on the forehead, activity increases in this part of the brain. This addresses what some researchers believe is one of the physical causes of depression.
- Since Flow can target specific brain areas involved in depression directly, users experience little to no side effects compared to antidepressants.
Allan Young (Chair of Mood Disorders, Director of Centre for Affective Disorders in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King's College London) said: "These exciting and encouraging new data raise the prospect of a real advance in the treatment of depression. Major depression is undertreated throughout the world, and all of the currently widely used treatment modalities have significant limitations. The nature of this treatment, being both effective and well tolerated, means that it is a treatment which may be widely adopted and should be a helpful intervention for many people suffering from major depression."
Azhar Zafar (GPA Director of Research, NHS GP, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Buckingham) said: "These findings are incredibly promising and align with the valuable insights gained from utilizing Flow in primary care. Flow has gained significant popularity among our NHS patients, and a considerable number of them willingly opt for Flow when presented with the choice for the treatment of depression with or without pharmacotherapy. This positive reception speaks volumes about the effectiveness and patient satisfaction associated with Flow."
Flow Neuroscience co-founder Daniel Månsson said: "Depression is one of the most common mood disorders, and unfortunately, it is also one of the hardest to treat. Our core mission was to create a treatment that is effective and accessible to as many people as possible in their own homes, with little to no side effects. The results of this clinical trial show how effective this treatment has become and how breakthroughs are still possible in the treatment of depression."
Corey Keller (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University) said: 'These results show clear separation of active and sham treatment arms in a large, multisite, randomized controlled trial for at-home low-intensity brain stimulation for depression. Flow's novel brain stimulation approach could offer valuable opportunities for individuals to manage their depression from home effectively, signaling a very promising development in mental health treatment.'
Visit www.flowneuroscience.com to find out more information about Flow's first at-home depression treatment.
Key Stats about Flow Neuroscience:
- 12,000+ real-world users in UK and Europe
- Live in 100+ clinics and hospitals in UK and Europe
- 8 million minutes of stimulation using the Flow headset and over 260,000 stimulation sessions
- Flow attracts users from all ages and walks of life, with over one-third of users above 50 years of age
More About Flow Neuroscience
Founded in 2016, Flow Neuroscience's mission is to develop new ways to combat mental health issues with science and technology. The Flow headset is a medication-free treatment for depression, the leading cause of disability in the world. It combines a brain stimulation wearable and an app-based therapy program to create a new effective, safe, and affordable way to treat depression, at home. The Flow headset offers a treatment you can take with you from your home to your office to your everyday. On average, the majority of Flow headset users see significant improvements within 4 to 6 weeks of treatment.
Notes to Editors:
*Based on a comparison of odds ratios, a standardized way of comparing clinical trials and a form of measurement for the difference in effect between treatment and placebo. The study showed that participants had greater than three times higher odds of getting substantially better if they got the active treatment vs if they got placebo/sham stimulation, approximately double the average effect size witnessed in the trials for the 21 best-selling antidepressants reviewed by the FDA.
**Measured by the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS). The trial was also measured by the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS-17), and results demonstrated 45% clinical remission and 55% had an improvement of at least 50%.
Media Contact: flowneuroscience@greenbrier.partners
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Gov. Josh Shapiro's office announced a program Monday to encourage farmers to be environmentally conscious.
Farmers can now sign up for tax credits if they buy environmentally-friendly equipment.
Officials want to encourage farmers to find ways to protect the environment and keep water safe while they grow and harvest their crops.
You can find information about the program and how to get the tax credits on the state's website.
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Three years ago, after Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes signed his second NFL contract, he became the highest-paid player in league history, by a wide margin. In an instant, the bar was pushed to $45 million per year.
Now, Mahomes is $7.5 million per year behind the top of the market, and falling.
The challenge for Mahomes is to strike the balance between insisting on full and fair compensation for his skills, abilities, and efforts and his desire to have enough money left behind for the Chiefs to sign enough other quality players, in the hopes of remaining a high-level contender.
In comments to Albert Breer of SI.com, Mahomes mentioned Tom Brady’s habit of not grabbing every last dollar. That attitude contributed to Brady winning seven career Super Bowls. It also grossly suppressed the quarterback market.
“I’ve looked at Tom’s model and how he did it,” Mahomes told Breer. “That’s it — you want to make money for yourself and for your family. You want to keep pushing the market forward for other quarterbacks. You don’t want to be someone that they [use against other players]. But at the same time, I want these other guys to get paid. I want Chris Jones to be in training camp. I want Travis Kelce to always be making money. I want everybody on the team here.”
Currently, the balance is out of whack. Mahomes is underpaid. And it’s only going to get worse, unless and until the Chiefs rip up his ultra-long-term deal and give him a much-deserved raise.
While he’s indeed making good money, how close is he coming to getting what he deserves for what he brings to the table for the Chiefs, and for the league? Brady’s willingness to take less stagnated the market at the position, and it definitely was used by the Patriots against other players.
As to Jones and Kelce, neither had profited from Mahomes’s largesse. Both are currently woefully underpaid — with Jones being doing something about it, by holding out.
“I have a great offensive line,” Mahomes added. “It’s everything around me. It’s all about having open conversation with [G.M.] Brett Veach, Coach [Andy] Reid, [owner] Clark Hunt, and just knowing where that happy medium is. That will be out there throughout my entire career. To me, it’s not always about being the highest paid. It’s about making enough money for me and my family, and keep moving the game forward for everybody.”
But he was the highest paid three years ago, so it’s obviously a factor for him. What can he do to ensure that he’s getting what he should for what he brings to the game?
The right answer continues to be tying a quarterback’s compensation to a percentage of the salary cap, or in the alternative to guarantee a player like Mahomes that he’ll make as much as the average of the five highest paid players at the position, year in and year out. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow could end up with one or the other of those options. If/when Burrow does, Mahomes should raise a hand and say, “I’ll have what he’s having.”
The other reality is that the truly great players should transcend the salary cap. Mahomes, Burrow, Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, Jalen Hurts, Lamar Jackson, Aaron Rodgers. We tune in to watch them, whenever and wherever they play. The NFL specifically configures the prime-time schedule based on which team they’re playing for. In addition to whatever they get from their teams, they deserve more from the league.
The salary-cap system keeps that from happening. And it creates a very real temptation for the best to take less in order to have more around them, so that they can win.
That’s one of the most toxic aspects of the entire owner-player relationship. The league routinely uses the players’ love of the game and their desire to succeed against them, over and over again. That’s why there will likely never again be an in-season work stoppage, it’s why Rodgers took $33.7 million less from the Jets over the next two years, and it’s why Mahomes won’t insist on getting every penny he deserves.
When a player doesn’t take every penny he deserves, where do those pennies go? Sometimes, they go to other players. Sometimes, they get stuffed into the owner’s piggy bank.
Ideally, every player should be paid for what he brings to the game. For Mahomes, whenever any player is ever making a penny more than him, he’s not getting paid what he should.
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GREENSBORO — Determination and desperation.
Suffering and sadness.
Fear.
And hope.
They were all carried through this thicket of trees near Guilford College, which would later be known as the Underground Railroad.
“The footprints are long gone,” said local historian Max Carter of the New Garden Woods, which provided refuge on a path to freedom for an unknown number of slaves. “I’ve had people come here who are sensitive to these things who have stopped at the top of the hill because there is too much energy here.”
A tulip tree towering more than 140 feet and dating back to the 1800s has stood as a silent witness.
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Still largely in its primitive condition, this piece of history sits insulated two blocks north of Friendly Avenue in one direction, and a quarter of a mile to Jefferson Road in another. Like Deep River in High Point and the Mendenhall Homeplace in Jamestown, Guilford County geography helps to tell the story of a time when the nation was divided by slavery.
The route through Greensboro that included the New Garden community has been called the Southern most successful Underground Railroad decades before the Civil War. Some white people who opposed slavery served as “conductors” along the route, helping those seeking freedom get from one “station” to the next.
The journey after here would have then taken about six weeks of walking to get slaves to a popular route through Indiana while traveling largely by night, not well clothed and foraging for food.
In those turbulent times, if you made it this far, to New Garden, was quite a feat. Freedom was within your grasp.
“This is where you ran to because of the Quaker community,” said Carter, the great, great grandson of conductors in Indiana.
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The local portion of the Underground Railroad that extended through Guilford County ran though hundreds of acres of farmland once owned by Vestal and Alethea Coffin, believed to be the first conductors of North Carolina’s Underground Railroad. A Target retail store, a place of worship and Jefferson Elementary now sit on what had been more than 300 acres owned by the couple.
It’s where those Coffins met John Dimrey, a free Black man in 1819 who had been kidnapped and plotted with the couple to successfully escape his kidnappers.
The early Quakers in North Carolina were abolitionists who believed that any participation in slavery was inconsistent with Christian testimony. But those like the Coffins, who took part in hiding slaves, were later out of step with other Quakers who would not own slaves but saw it as the law of the land.
Once the Coffins and other sympathizers opened their doors, they were in trouble with the law.
The Guilford woods provided a measure of protection as slaves on the run made their way to a freedom they knew existed and wanted to experience.
As was the case of the slave woman given to her owner’s son, who had moved to Charlotte to start a family of his own. The woman tried to run so she wouldn’t be separated from her own family.
“This is where she would have hidden out,” said Carter, as a flicker of sunlight streams through the surrounding trees in the New Garden Woods, now known as the Guilford Woods. “They wouldn’t turn her away.”
But with a small baby in her arms, she later gave up.
Levi Coffin, Vestal and Althea’s younger cousin, went to her owner, David Caldwell, the noted preacher and politician, asking for mercy on her behalf. Caldwell was convinced to let her remain with her husband and children.
Those slaves who dared to escape did so with careful oral directions, sometimes passed through songs. The old Negro spiritual “Wade in the Water” was a reminder about routes and the best way for dogs to lose their scents.
Many were told at forks in the road to look for a tree with an embedded nail as a guide. Or never forget the secret greeting — three knocks followed by a pause and then two more — for food and shelter along the way.
“Conductors showed freedom seekers how to make a raft of four to six fence rails tied together with rope, cord or a vine,” according to the Guilford College archives. “After using this to cross the body of water, the slaves would cut apart the rails and float them downstream. Thus they would avoid leaving evidence of people having crossed.”
People have tread on significant portions of the Underground Railroad path through the New Garden community without knowing it. The Coffin property itself is now one of the busiest collections of roads in the area.
All around are echoes of a history that is unknown to some today, but is part of the county and country’s fabric.
Like Archibald and Vina Curry. They were free Blacks who had a 12-acre farm along Horse Pen Creek in between all the Coffin farms. After Archibald’s death, Vina went to work at the newly opened Quaker boarding school in the 1830s.
“While she’s scrubbing away, cooking and cleaning, she is interviewing young Black men because she still has her husband’s freedom papers,” related Carter, whose stories are often a part of the tours he gives along the local route of the Underground Railroad.
The freedom papers have no pictures, just a physical description of Archibald Curry.
Vina could’ve sold them. Instead, she found a novel way to use them to help others like herself.
“The integrity not to sell them but to give them to some Quaker like Levi Coffin, who would bring them back to her,” Carter said. “She got 15 men to freedom that way.”
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Dr. George Howland Swain, a young Guilford County abolitionist in the early 1800s South, is buried in the New Garden Friends Meeting Cemetery. He helped a slave named Benjamin Benson successfully use the legal system for the first time in this country to gain his freedom.
Slaves, who were intentionally kept illiterate, couldn’t write their stories. So history mostly remembers them through the lives of those like the Coffins.
Swain, who died in 1852, was one of three members of the New Garden Quaker abolitionist community who took up the case of a free Black man who, in 1817, was kidnapped in Delaware and sold to Greensboro businessman John Thompson. After Swain, Vestal Coffin and Enoch Macy took up his case, Thompson sold Benson to a Georgia slave owner. Swain and the others later convinced a judge to order Benson back to Guilford County, where he later argued his own case in Superior Court — and won.
A historical marker stands outside the International Civil Rights Center & Museum downtown.
In the Guilford woods, though, history isn’t as obvious. Then as much as today, broken branches and overturned rocks are nondescript reminders of what once transpired.
Levi Coffin fed escaped slaves hiding in the woods near his grandparent’s farm, near where Western Guilford High now sits. He had found purpose in helping slaves after coming across a group of men, bound by chains, trudging down the road as a man on a horse with a whip followed closely. Then 7, he asked his father about what he saw and the elder Coffin explained slavery to him.
Coffin would eventually discover runaway slaves hiding in the New Garden woods while he was out doing chores.
Levi and his wife Catherine later joined Quakers moving to “free states” like Indiana where he turned their home into one of the most prominent stations on the Underground Railroad for slaves heading to Canada.
In subsequent years, Coffin wrote books sharing stories of the people on the Underground Railroad.
Said Carter: “It was much more difficult unless you were someone like Frederick Douglas, who taught himself to read, to tell that story. So a lot of what Guilford has been trying to do lately is to tell the story of people like Vina Curry and Arch Curry.”
But not all of that history can be found within the pages of a book.
Much of it is on dirt among the branches and bushes. In the New Garden woods. Where the footprints are long gone.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A dead dog was found in Richmond Saturday in Fairfield Court near Church Hill, lying on a dog bed.
Richmond Animal Care and Control (RACC) is investigating this tragedy and are working to find out more details and track down the dog’s owner.
The two-year-old black and white Pitbull mix was found lying — already dead — in a dog bed in a field early Saturday morning. An unknown person dumped the body around 2 a.m.
RACC said they pick up dead animals regularly, but this is the first time they have found a dog lying in a dog bed in the middle of a park. Usually, RACC finds dogs that are wrapped in blankets and not left outside, alone.
The dog had no visible injuries or gunshot wounds, and RACC is running tests to determine the cause of death. The agency and Richmond Police are currently working to piece together surveillance video from that night last week.
Although they are able to see someone laying the dog down, they cannot tell if the dog was already dead before it was put there.
RACC director Christie Peters said they often receive reports of injured, dead and shot animals from the Fairfield Court area, and this is not an isolated incident. Peters further said that after they find out more from the surveillance, RACC will track down the owner, which they have done many times before.
“We find them all the time. We anticipate that we’ll find this person,” Peters said.
The center currently has the dog and will continue running tests on it to determine the cause of death, but the hope is that the footage will help them figure out what happened.
RACC has a pick-up service for dead animals, which Peters urges people to use instead of dumping the animals. “We do it every day. We charge a fee. If you can’t afford the fee, we waive the fee,” Peters said. “So, there’s really no reason for anyone to do this.”
Anyone who has any information or who saw anything in the area is urged to contact RACC at 804-646-5573.
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Plans are underway for the development of the old Allentown State Hospital site.
The 195-acre property may be about to become the city's newest housing development. In 2020, the old Allentown State Hospital was finally demolished, but it took two more years and a state law to finally sell the 195-acre property to developer City Center Investment Corp. for just more than $5 million in November of 2022. Now the plan is to turn the land into Allentown's newest housing community.
"It's just sitting there going wasted right now. I mean, nothing is being done with it. So you might as well bring some more revenue to the community," said Nicole Sukanick, who lives less than a block from the site.
Sukanick was excited when we showed her the pictures on the company website.
"I think it looks gorgeous from the pictures," said Sukanick.
Sukanick said she's aware some of her neighbors are concerned about the added traffic the development could bring to nearby Hanover Ave., but she's not worried.
"I think there's enough land there, so hopefully they'll account for the amount of people that would be moving and allot enough parking for that so it really wouldn't cause an issue," said Sukanick.
The City of Allentown has not zoned the land for a housing development yet, but City Clerk Michael Hanlon said the city expects a zoning amendment and a map change to be submitted shortly. A public open house is scheduled for Saturday at 10 a.m. at the East Side Youth Center. Sukanick said she's looking forward to learning more.
"I would love if there's more information online, because I'd go and look at it now," said Sukanick.
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LOS ANGELES AUTO SHOW® 2023 REGISTRATION OPENS FOR MEDIA AND INDUSTRY DAY AT AUTOMOBILITY LA® ON NOVEMBER 16
AutoMobility LA is the global Media Day and Industry Gathering taking place at the LA Convention Center prior to the show's public opening
LOS ANGELES, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles Auto Show®, the leading automotive and lifestyle in-person event, will open registration tomorrow for AutoMobility LA®; its annual preview day for both media and industry professionals.
Scheduled for November 16 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the LA Auto Show's press and B2B gathering is an opportunity for the global community and key decision makers to convene in Southern California for the latest debuts, product announcements, networking opportunities and more.
The 2023 LA Auto Show will continue to highlight the latest innovations in electrification, as well as exhibits and festivities that span California's automotive lifestyle and legacy of car culture. Visitors will have an opportunity to experience both indoor and outdoor driving tracks, which provide visitors with unparalleled access to comparison shop the latest offerings from major manufacturers.
Registration opens tomorrow on August 1 and is complimentary for accredited and approved media. Industry attendees will be offered an "early bird" registration fee of $75 through October 15. After that date, the full registration fee of $150 will apply to all approved industry registrants. Registration is accessible at automobilityla.com/register.
Taking place in the nation's foremost zero-emissions vehicle market, AutoMobility LA is the preeminent destination for media, automotive and tech companies, influencers, and policymakers to discuss and experience the latest in transportation innovation.
Celebrating its 116th year, LA Auto Show remains as influential to the North American automotive industry as any time in its history. At the center of the largest car-buying market in North America for both gas-powered and electric vehicles, LA Auto Show and AutoMobility LA offer vital perspective and foresight into how the rest of the country and the global market will soon look.
"Given the growing influence of electrification, the LA Auto Show will be the ultimate destination for car buyers looking to compare models and test-drive," said LA Auto Show President, Terri Toennies. "We'll also have the latest gas-powered vehicles as well as a fascinating array of special exhibits and attractions that highlight Southern California's impact on the global automotive landscape."
More comprehensive details pertaining to vehicle unveilings, manufacturer participation and significant announcements will follow. To learn more about AutoMobility LA, to book accommodations with the show's partner hotels, and for information about media and industry credentials, please visit: AutoMobilityLA.com.
Following AutoMobility LA, the 2023 LA Auto Show opens its doors for ten days from Friday, November 17 through Sunday, November 26 to welcome hundreds of thousands of consumers to comparison shop, test drive the latest vehicles, and immerse themselves in Southern California's largest annual car culture showcase. For information about the LA Auto Show and ticket purchases, please visit LAAutoShow.com.
About the Los Angeles Auto Show (LA Auto Show®)
Founded in 1907, the Los Angeles Auto Show (LA Auto Show®) is widely recognized as one of the most influential shows globally. Reflective of its location, the show celebrates the love affair Angelenos have with their cars and offers a global platform to industry technology and innovation, synonymous with California.
The show runs for 10 full days over the Thanksgiving period and is a must-attend destination for many industry influencers, car enthusiasts and families wanting to enjoy a day out over the holiday season. Held annually at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the LA Auto Show contributes several-hundred-million dollars to the local economy, stimulates the local job market, and is the number one revenue generator for the LA Convention Center.
Taking place on November 16, AutoMobility LA media and industry days will include a range of groundbreaking industry announcements and reveals. Doors open to the public November 17-26. LA Auto Show is owned and operated by ANSA Productions. To receive the latest show news and information, follow the LA Auto Show on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn and sign up for alerts at laautoshow.com.
For press inquiries, email media@laautoshow.com.
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GREENSBORO — Sometimes, the creek does rise.
North Carolina is in the process of updating floodplain maps for Guilford County — gearing up for the first revision of the maps since 2007.
People who live or own property near streams or rivers, or who might be considering it, are encouraged to check out the new maps to find out whether the expected changes will affect their properties.
Floodplain maps help people understand and prepare for risk of flooding and can affect everything from insurance rates to a property's resale value and what can or can't be built. For residents who wish to appeal the state's new findings related to their properties, now is the time to do so.
At a community meeting held in Greensboro on Tuesday, state and local administrators said they stand ready to help people understand the new maps, how they could be affected, and how the appeals process works.
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Milton Carpenter, a North Carolina Emergency Management Outreach planner, said that for Guilford County as a whole, as with the state, his sense is the total area being identified as Special Flood Hazard Area is actually decreasing, most likely due to increased accuracy in the data the state is collecting.
Still, there're plenty of examples on the new maps of buildings now fully or partly in the hazard area that weren't there before. City of Greensboro staff said that, within the city, addresses with new or increased impact outnumbered addresses with decreased impact.
The state has evaluated some areas for the new maps that it hadn't evaluated previously. And factors like increased urbanization and more frequent, intense storms in recent years can increase floodplain areas.
A key point: People who hold federally backed mortgages on buildings in areas with at least an annual 1% risk of floodwaters covering the ground are legally required to carry flood insurance.
A building in that Special Flood Hazard Area has about a one in four chance of suffering flood damage over the course of 30 years, according to FEMA.
It's unclear exactly when the new maps will go into effect, but it's unlikely it will be sooner than next year. Once it happens, people newly required to carry flood insurance who don't have it already will be contacted by their mortgage lenders to let them know its required, Guilford County's floodplain administrator Brent Gatlin said.
Carpenter explained that the state collects the data for the floodplain maps by flying over with airplanes. The planes use emitted light to measure the distance from the airplane to the ground, which is used to determine the elevation of the property.
Carpenter said that to appeal the state findings, a property owners would likely need to hire a surveyor to double check the elevation of their property, most likely costing hundreds of dollars.
That might or might not be worth the money, Carpenter said. He suggests an unofficial rule of thumb for people to consider first:
First, he said, look at your property on the new preliminary maps, and look to see if there's an area that's listed as above the flood zone and an area that's listed as in the flood zone.
Next, walk the property. If it's an uphill walk from the area that's supposed to be above the flood zone to get to the area that's in the flood zone, that's a reasonable sign that something might be off with the elevation measurement.
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Free agent guard Dalton Risner is visiting the Vikings, Mike Klis of 9News reports.
Vikings offensive line coach Chris Kuper was the assistant offensive line coach of the Broncos the past three seasons when Risner started 46 games at left guard. Justin Rascati is in his second season as the Vikings’ assistant offensive line coach, having spent three seasons with the Broncos.
Risner is one of the top free agents and the top guard available.
The Broncos made Risner a second-round pick in 2019.
He became an immediate starter and has played and started 62 of a possible 66 games in his career. Risner played 15 games in 2022.
In his career, Risner has played 3,775 offensive snaps and 178 on special teams.
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The race to represent the Lehigh Valley and part of the Poconos in Washington is heating up.
Republican Maria Montero has announced she's running for Congress in 2024.
She previously filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission in the race for Pennsylvania's 7th District.
Montero will face GOP rivals Kevin Dellicker and Ryan Mackenzie in the primary.
The winner of that race will face incumbent Democrat Susan Wild.
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Live call and webcast will occur on August 1 at 9:00 a.m. ET
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueCar, Inc., (NASDAQ:TRUE) today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023 in a stockholder letter, which is available HERE and on the TrueCar investor relations website at ir.truecar.com.
The company will host a call to discuss its second quarter results on Tuesday, August 1 at 9:00 a.m. ET/6:00 a.m. PT. A live webcast of the call will be available through TrueCar's Investor Relations website and the link below.
TrueCar Second Quarter 2023 Live Call and Webcast Details:
An archived version of the call will also be available upon completion on the Investor Relations section of TrueCar's website at ir.truecar.com.
TrueCar has used and intends to continue to use its Investor Relations website (ir.truecar.com), LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter as means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.
About TrueCar
TrueCar is a leading automotive digital marketplace that lets auto buyers and sellers connect to our nationwide network of Certified Dealers. With access to an expansive inventory provided by our Certified Dealers, we are building the industry's most personalized and efficient auto shopping experience as we seek to bring more of the process online. Consumers who visit our marketplace will find a suite of vehicle discovery tools, price ratings and market context on new, used and Certified Pre-Owned vehicles. When they are ready, shoppers in TrueCar's marketplace can connect with a Certified Dealer in our network, who shares our belief that truth, transparency and fairness are the foundation of a great auto shopping experience. As part of our marketplace, TrueCar powers auto-buying programs for over 250 leading brands, including AARP, Sam's Club, Navy Federal Credit Union and American Express.
TrueCar Investor Relations:
investors@truecar.com
TrueCar Public Relations:
Sara Morgan
Senior PR Manager
pr@truecar.com
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GREENSBORO — A judge on Friday dismissed a federal lawsuit filed in March against the city and a police officer accused of fatally shooting a teenager during a traffic stop last year.
U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Eagles dismissed the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Wakita Doriety, the mother of 17-year-old Nasanto Crenshaw, who was shot to death on Aug. 21, 2022.
“We’re following the process of the law,” City Attorney Chuck Watts said about the lawsuit’s dismissal.
Attorney Harry Daniels responded on Doriety's behalf Friday: "Respectfully, we believe the court got it wrong and we will be filing an appeal ... We strongly believe that the clear and convincing evidence shows an unlawful killing of Nasanto, and we believe that the Court of Appeals will see it our way. Our pursuit for justice for Nasanto Crenshaw is far from over."
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Guilford County District Attorney Avery Crump announced in late March that she would not pursue criminal charges against the officer.
“After careful review, although tragic, the use of deadly force by Cpl. (M.L.) Sletten under these circumstances was justified,” according to a statement from Crump’s office.
Per departmental policy, Sletten was placed on administrative duty after the shooting. The police department later publicly released, with the court's approval, all 104 recordings from the incident, including footage from 63 cameras worn by officers and 41 dashboard cameras.
During a news conference in March, Daniels and attorney Chimeaka White described Crenshaw's death as an “unlawful killing of a young Black male.”
For Doriety, the teenager was her youngest of six children.
“That was my baby,” she said in March about the last time she spoke with her son. “I never seen my child again until he was in a coffin.”
The August 2022 tragedy took place at 9:08 p.m. According to police, Crenshaw’s vehicle was stopped “for a traffic violation” in the 4900 block of West Market Street.
“Moments later, it was determined the vehicle was stolen,” the police department said in a news release. “As the officer approached the stopped vehicle, the vehicle fled from the traffic stop. The officer attempted to stop the car again and multiple occupants fled from it.
“While the officer was attempting to detain the vehicle and remaining occupants, the suspect vehicle struck the police car. The vehicle then accelerated, and the officer discharged their weapon.”
Crenshaw was pronounced dead at the scene.
The wrongful death lawsuit contends Sletten used excessive force. Attorneys for Doriety said the teenager was unarmed and posed no threat to the officer.
In April, police department spokeswoman Josie Cambareri said when the use of force results in a loss of life “there is tremendous impact on those directly involved — the families, the officers and the greater community.”
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Officials with the Allentown Fire Department say they were called for a threat reported at a Wells Fargo bank.
The bank along South Fourth Street was evacuated late Monday afternoon.
There's no word yet what exactly the threat was.
But an official in Allentown tells us the police department, fire department, and FBI are investigating.
Stay with 69 News and wfmz.com for updates on this developing story.
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Locals Representing 340K UPS Workers Nearly Unanimously Recommend Contract
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters local unions representing 340,000 full- and part-time workers at UPS voted 161-1 on Monday to endorse the tentative agreement reached with the delivery giant on July 25 and recommend its passage by the full membership.
Of the 176 local unions with UPS members, 14 affiliates failed to show up to a meeting in Washington, DC, to review the tentative agreement.
At least two representatives from all other local unions discussed more than 60 changes and improvements to the UPS Teamsters National Master Agreement, the largest private-sector collective bargaining agreement in North America. The gains achieved during negotiations, which occurred regionally and nationally since January, are larger and more lucrative than any previous Teamsters contract at UPS. The tentative agreement, valued at $30 billion, establishes record wage increases for all workers for the life of the contract, installation of air conditioning in new vehicles, the end of an unfair two-tier wage system, catch-up raises for part-timers, Martin Luther King Day as a paid holiday for the first time, new language to prevent forced overtime on days off, and other huge wins.
Now that local unions have nearly unanimously endorsed the tentative agreement, all rank-and-file UPS Teamsters will have the chance to vote on ratification from August 3-22.
"The entire UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee stands behind this historic contract and our UPS local unions have resoundingly voted to endorse it," said Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien. "Our tentative agreement is richer, stronger, and more far-reaching than any settlement ever negotiated in the history of American organized labor. The Teamsters are immensely proud of reaching agreement with UPS to improve the lives of our members, their families, and working people across the country."
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.
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Kara Deniz, (202) 497-6610
kdeniz@teamster.org
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Angus Cloud, breakout star of ‘Euphoria,’ is dead at 25
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25.
Cloud’s publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given.
In a statement, Cloud’s family said goodbye to “an artist, a friend, a brother and a son.
“Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss,” the family said. “The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence.”
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone,” his family added.
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting scout Eléonore Hendricks noticed him. Cloud was resistant at first, suspecting a scam. Then casting director Jennifer Venditti met with him and series creator Sam Levinson eventually made him a co-star in the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
To some, Cloud seemed so natural as Fez that they suspected he was identical to the character — a notion that Cloud pushed back against.
“It does bother me when people are like, ‘It must be so easy! You get to go in and be yourself.’ I’m like, ‘Why don’t you go and do that?’ It’s not that simple,” Cloud told Variety. “I brought a lot to the character. You can believe what you want. It ain’t got nothing to do with me.”
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television. He had a supporting role in his first film, “The Line,” a college drama starring Alex Wolff and John Malkovich that premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Festival. Cloud was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6.” He’s also made cameos in music videos for Juice WRLD, Becky G and Karol G.
The third season of “Euphoria” hasn’t yet begun filming.
“We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud,” HBO said in a statement. “He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and ‘Euphoria’ family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time.”
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Angus Cloud, breakout star of ‘Euphoria,’ is dead at 25
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25.
Cloud’s publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given.
In a statement, Cloud’s family said goodbye to “an artist, a friend, a brother and a son.
“Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss,” the family said. “The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence.”
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone,” his family added.
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting scout Eléonore Hendricks noticed him. Cloud was resistant at first, suspecting a scam. Then casting director Jennifer Venditti met with him and series creator Sam Levinson eventually made him a co-star in the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
To some, Cloud seemed so natural as Fez that they suspected he was identical to the character — a notion that Cloud pushed back against.
“It does bother me when people are like, ‘It must be so easy! You get to go in and be yourself.’ I’m like, ‘Why don’t you go and do that?’ It’s not that simple,” Cloud told Variety. “I brought a lot to the character. You can believe what you want. It ain’t got nothing to do with me.”
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television. He had a supporting role in his first film, “The Line,” a college drama starring Alex Wolff and John Malkovich that premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Festival. Cloud was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6.” He’s also made cameos in music videos for Juice WRLD, Becky G and Karol G.
The third season of “Euphoria” hasn’t yet begun filming.
“We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud,” HBO said in a statement. “He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and ‘Euphoria’ family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time.”
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Angus Cloud, breakout star of ‘Euphoria,’ is dead at 25
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25.
Cloud’s publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given.
In a statement, Cloud’s family said goodbye to “an artist, a friend, a brother and a son.
“Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss,” the family said. “The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence.”
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone,” his family added.
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting scout Eléonore Hendricks noticed him. Cloud was resistant at first, suspecting a scam. Then casting director Jennifer Venditti met with him and series creator Sam Levinson eventually made him a co-star in the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
To some, Cloud seemed so natural as Fez that they suspected he was identical to the character — a notion that Cloud pushed back against.
“It does bother me when people are like, ‘It must be so easy! You get to go in and be yourself.’ I’m like, ‘Why don’t you go and do that?’ It’s not that simple,” Cloud told Variety. “I brought a lot to the character. You can believe what you want. It ain’t got nothing to do with me.”
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television. He had a supporting role in his first film, “The Line,” a college drama starring Alex Wolff and John Malkovich that premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Festival. Cloud was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6.” He’s also made cameos in music videos for Juice WRLD, Becky G and Karol G.
The third season of “Euphoria” hasn’t yet begun filming.
“We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud,” HBO said in a statement. “He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and ‘Euphoria’ family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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STOKESDALE — Senate leader Phil Berger, a powerful politician who represents Rockingham County and is a proponent of gambling on his home turf, received a campaign contribution in 2022 from a casino developer that seeks to build here, according to state campaign finance records.
Joseph Weinberg, the CEO of Cordish Gaming Group and Cordish Global Cities Entertainment, contributed $5,600 — the maximum allowed that year — to Berger’s campaign in November 2022, records show.
Cordish, based in Baltimore, is a major developer of casinos and entertainment districts and wants 192 acres of county land zoned for commercial use — a necessary first step for a gaming operation to be built.
Seven other state legislators also received money from executives or other people connected to The Cordish Cos., campaign finance records show. Among them was Rep. Kyle Hall, a Republican representing Forsyth and Stokes counties, who received $2,500.
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Also, lawmakers representing Nash and Anson counties — proposed sites for two other casinos — received contributions as well.
From November 2022 to March 2022, the eight legislators received a total of $34,400 from at least four contributors with ties to The Cordish Cos., according to data from the State Board of Elections and Federal Elections Commission.
And while it’s not illegal for politicians to accept donations to their campaigns, the recent revelation hasn’t sat well with many Rockingham residents who oppose the project. The 192 acres being considered is pristine land along U.S. 220. Heightening tensions is the presence of a place called Camp Carefree, a getaway for chronically ill children.
For both sides, the issue is becoming a high stakes game of deal or no deal.
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In June, NC Development Holdings, a company with links to The Cordish Cos., requested the county planning board rezone the acreage from “agricultural/residential” land to “commercial” use.
The board voted 5-2 against the move. The company’s request, however, will now go before the county commissioners, who have the power to approve rezoning and where Berger’s son, Kevin, is a longtime commissioner from Madison.
Asked last week whether his son’s vote on the issue would be a conflict of interest, the elder Berger said: “There is no conflict of interest.’’
At the same time in Raleigh, lawmakers are discussing whether to allow the development of casinos in certain parts of the state. Traditionally, gambling has been a hard sell in North Carolina. But in recent years, a number of casinos in neighboring states, and the prosperity they’ve brought, has warmed more legislators to the idea — even at the risk of offending constituents.
Still, there are indications that many state residents aren’t as opposed to the proposition as they once were.
Helping shape the debate has been the fact that Rockingham and the other proposed counties for casino operations are economically distressed and could benefit from a boost of industry.
Meanwhile, opponents of casino development in rural Rockingham said campaign contributions from interested parties is politics as usual.
“I am in no way shocked over the news of these contributions,’’ said Rhonda Rodenbough, who lives on 38-year-old Camp Carefree’s property in the Huntsville Township near Madison and serves on the organization’s Board of Directors. “We pretty much know how politics works.”
A Berger spokesperson directed questions about the campaign contribution to Dylan Watts, director of the North Carolina Republican Senate Caucus.
“Senate Republicans receive contributions from thousands of individuals each cycle,’’ Watts said in an email. “Contributions to campaigns are not conditioned on supporting or not supporting a policy matter. Senator Berger does not even allow policy matters and campaign contributions to be discussed in the same conversation.”
Watts did not address a question about whether Berger will accept future campaign contributions from the casino company or other casino-related businesses.
If made into law, the draft bill would call for the creation of at least four casinos, including three non-tribal operations in Rockingham, Nash and Anson counties.
The bill further details that one developer would build the three casinos with a required investment of at least $500 million per location and a commitment to bring in roughly 1,500 jobs at each site.
The counties are among the state’s poorest, also criteria for casino consideration, according to the draft bill.
“It really is baffling to me the zeal with which this casino is being pushed on Rockingham County,’’ Rodenbough said. “And it bothers me that they just consider the poorest counties. Are you preying on the poor? If it’s such a great thing, why are we the target?”
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While Rodenbough is most concerned about preserving the camp, more than 2,100 county residents have signed a petition through change.org seeking to block rezoning by county commissioners. Many say the county’s already-taxed infrastructure cannot tolerate a massive new development along a busy highway.
They caution that more than 1,400 homes are planned within a couple of miles off of U.S. 220, as well as scores of new houses proposed or already built on nearby Gideon Grove and Gold Hill roads.
Concerned citizens are meeting Tuesday evening at Ellisboro Baptist Church to discuss fighting the potential development. They worry that the introduction of a big casino complex will glut already full school classrooms, exhaust the county’s two struggling rural hospitals and bring a host of public health problems, such as gambling addiction.
Numerous studies show that when casinos are built in a community, many problems increase including crime, suicide, drinking, domestic abuse, bankruptcy and homelessness.
Asked if the state had a plan for assisting or funding the county’s infrastructure improvements or establishing public health safeguards, Berger said casinos will generate plenty of money to satisfy the county.
“Rural tourism districts can be an economic boost,’’ Berger said. “They would provide thousands of good-paying jobs for our residents and tens of millions of dollars in new revenue for our rural areas.’
“The additional revenues can be used at the county’s discretion to fund infrastructure needs, public safety, education and other priorities. Overall, this is a substantial economic boost that requires no taxpayer-funded incentives. It gives North Carolina the ability to compete with neighboring states where our residents are currently spending their money on gaming.’’
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D-backs trade Rojas, others to Mariners for closer Sewald
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - The Arizona Diamondbacks have finally made a move to bolster their depleted and struggling bullpen, trading for Mariners’ closer Paul Sewald. In return, the Diamondbacks will be sending infielder Josh Rojas, infield prospect Ryan Bliss, and outfielder Dominic Canzone to Seattle. News of the deal was first reported by The Atlantic.
Fans were calling for GM Mike Hazen to get the team active in trade talks with the trade deadline 24 hours away, and Hazen answered back, acquiring a reliever who’s under club control until the end of 2024. Sewald, 33, has completed 21 of 24 save opportunities this season and has sported a 2.93 ERA across 43 innings.
The D-backs opted for a closer by committee at the beginning of the season, and it hasn’t worked out too well. Relievers Andrew Chafin, Miguel Castro and Scott McGough have struggled in the role, failing to hold the job. Reliever Kevin Ginkel has seen time in the ninth and has done exceptionally well.
Sewald is making $4.1 million in his second year of arbitration and has one more year left before hitting free agency in 2025. Sewald spent the first four seasons of his career with the New York Mets, owning a 5.50 ERA before finding his stride with Seattle, becoming the primary closer for the team in 2021. Sewald recorded 52 saves across three seasons with the Mariners.
Josh Rojas heads to Seattle batting .228 across 189 plate appearances. The 29-year-old was sent down to Triple-A Reno earlier this season amid his struggles and the success of infielders Emmanuel Rivera and Evan Longoria. The Millenium High School alum will look to find consistent playing time in Seattle.
Dominic Canzone, called up just recently, was one of the many left-handed outfielders the Diamondbacks have in their organization. The 25-year-old hit one home run across 38 plate appearances. Ironically, Canzone hit the game-winning RBI single to propel the D-backs to a 4-3 victory over the Mariners on Saturday. In 257 at-bats in Triple-A Reno this year, he hit .354/.431/.634.
Infield prospect Ryan Bliss struggled mightily in the minors up until this season. Bliss is batting .358 with 12 home runs and 47 RBIs in Double-A this season. Scouts see Bliss as a utility type with the potential to be an everyday second baseman.
The trade deadline is on Tuesday at 3 p.m. MST.
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SÃO PAULO, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenvia Inc. (NASDAQ: ZENV), the leading cloud-based CX platform in Latin America empowering companies to transform their customer journeys, today announced that its fiscal 2023 second quarter and first half results will be released after the market close on Wednesday August 16, 2023.
Zenvia's senior management team will host a webcast to discuss the financial and operating results on Thursday, August 17, 2023, at 10:00 am ET. To access the webcast presentation, click here.
Additional information regarding Zenvia, including a replay of the webcast when available, can be found at https://investors.zenvia.com.
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ZENVIA is driven by the purpose of empowering companies to create unique experiences for end-consumers through its unified CX SaaS end-to-end platform. ZENVIA empowers companies to transform their existing customer experience from non-scalable, physical and impersonal interactions into highly scalable, digital-first and hyper-contextualized experiences across the customer journey. ZENVIA's unified end-to-end CX SaaS platform provides a combination of (i) SaaS focused on campaigns, sales teams, customer service and engagement, (ii) tools, such as software application programming interfaces, or APIs, chatbots, single customer views, journey designers, documents composer and authentication and (iii) channels, such as SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, Instagram and Webchat. Its comprehensive platform assists customers across multiple use cases, including marketing campaigns, customer acquisition, customer onboarding, warnings, customer services, fraud control, cross-selling and customer retention, among others. ZENVIA's shares are traded on Nasdaq, under the ticker ZENV.
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Meth and THC Oil labs found in Dickinson Sunday
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 5:36 PM CDT|Updated: 47 minutes ago
DICKINSON, N.D. (KFYR) - One man is in jail after two drug labs were busted Sunday in Dickinson.
Dickinson police say early Sunday morning, officers responded to a call on the 900 block of 3rd Avenue West for a possible overdose.
Evidence was found and a search warrant was obtained.
Law enforcement and a Hazmat team found a meth lab, a pound of meth, a THC oil lab, 30 firearms and other drugs.
37-year-old Joshua James Lidberg was arrested and faces multiple drug charges.
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Boyle County looking to 4-peat as state champs in class 4A
Rebels return many of the playmakers from last season’s championship team
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - It is simply remarkable how Boyle County continuously finds themselves playing in and winning state championships.
“If you want to be remembered here, you’ve got to win a state championship,” said Rebels head coach Justin Haddix. “That’s what we start January 4th.”
Everyone remembers the names of Sage Dawson, Avery Bodner, and Montavin Quisenberry, and guess what? They’re all back, and they have plenty to go with them.
“It makes it tough for the defense as far as who are you going to take away,” says Haddix. “It makes it fun for me as a coach and offensive play-caller.”
“I’ve got trust in all of my guys that they are going to go get the ball,” said quarterback Sage Dawson. “So I can throw it up to them and they’re going to go get it.”
As for Dawson, the Rebel’s second-year QB is much more polished as a passer but can still be dangerous on the ground.
“He’s improved a lot from last year,” said Rebels running back Avery Bodner. “He comes out here and gets better every day and does his job and makes it easy for us.”
The Rebels did lose Tommy Ziesmer, Jon Turpin, and Andrew Hardwick on the line, and that’s where Boyle County usually controls the situation.
“There’s been a lot of defensive linemen that have stepped up to fill Tommy’s shoes,” says Bodner.
When you say title town that means one thing, and for the Rebels, a shot at title number twelve.
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Marcus Brandon didn't need a cup of coffee to get him started on Thursday morning. It was a photo that opened his eyes as well as those of N.C. A&T alumni.
On an alumni page was posted a photo taken at Costco in Greensboro that showed a water bottle with the UNCG logo on it. On the opposite side of the bottle was printed "HBCU Pride." There are two HBCUs in Greensboro, but UNCG is not the third.
Suffice it to say, Aggie Pride was on full display on social media, but Brandon, a former Guilford County state representative, took it to the next level.
"So it was circulating around Facebook a lot. It was on an A&T alumni page," Brandon said. "So I just took the initiative to call Costco and let them know that that was not acceptable. I called early and (the manager) assured me that they would all come off the floor. I live on Friendly (Avenue), so I just truck it on down there just to make sure because I also have a Costco membership and they were all gone ... but when I got there, the A&T cups are still there."
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They were there, but not for long. A visitor finally found the A&T bottles toward the back of the store on Wendover Avenue near Interstate 40. But a second run at the aisle where they were located showed those bottles had been taken down.
A different Costco manager than the one Brandon spoke to declined to comment, and Costco's media relations department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
By then, however, it was too late to soothe Aggie nerves. There were at least 150 shares of the photo posted, and a UNCG student posted a video to TikTok with another illustration of the UNCG bottle.
UNCG issued a statement on Friday apologizing for the error, explaining what happened and that it has respect for HBCUs.
"We have worked with our contracted production and retail vendors to remove the water bottles from the retail store and production lines," the statement said. "Along with UNCG’s water bottle, the contracted design team was creating several HBCU ones and inadvertently combined certain design elements."
The manufacturer, Logo Brands, didn't immediately respond on Friday to a request for comment.
An A&T spokeswoman said on Friday that the school would have no comment.
Amy Chantelle Crawford of Greensboro went through a range of emotions after seeing a photo of the UNCG bottle, which she shared on her Facebook page.
"Initially, I was confused. It took me a moment to realize what I was seeing," Crawford said. "Then I found it to be quite comical because we have seen how certain people have used our images in the past to profit from it."
There's an undercurrent to the mistake. There have always been concerns among the A&T faithful that there would be an effort to merge the two schools, a worry that initially manifested itself when UNCG changed its primary school color from green to blue, matching the Aggie scheme. The bottle mistake fanned that flame again.
Brandon remembers how his father reacted when he saw that UNCG has changed its colors on a water tower.
"I remember when I was a kid riding down the street and my dad slamming on the brakes, and go into the payphone and calling people once he realized that UNCG tower changed from green and gold to blue and gold," he said. "So, we have some trauma on this."
A spokesman for the UNC System said on Friday that there is no such merger in the works.
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Expert: Phoenix seeing spike in valley fever cases
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Arizona is the perfect environment for valley fever spores to thrive. Right now, researchers say cases in Phoenix are spiking.
Dr. John Galgiani is the director of the University of Arizona’s Valley Fever Center for Excellence. He said they are analyzing data from Banner Health Urgent Cares across the state and found that 20% of patients with pneumonia also have valley fever. “I think it is very important we know it is very common in the community right now,” said Dr. Galgiani.
Valley fever is an infection caused by a fungus that lives in the dirt. When it is wet, the spores bloom. When things dry out, the spores go into the air, and people can inhale them and become infected.
“These spores are very small, they get into the air and can stay in the air for long periods of time and travel many miles,” said Dr. Galgiani.
Galgiani said if you have symptoms similar to pneumonia, like fever, cough or shortness of breath, get tested for valley fever. “One out of every 100 people every year develop an illness due to valley fever, and many go unrecognized because doctors don’t order tests,” said Galgiani.
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New traffic violations law to take affect August 1 in ND
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Starting Tuesday, North Dakota will start reporting all traffic violations to insurance companies.
Violations that are three points or more are currently the only ones sent to your insurance company when they request your driving record.
Starting August 1, if you get a ticket for any reason, your insurance company will hear about it.
“It means drivers will be paying more attention to how they are driving and being more responsible on the roadway,” said Sgt. Wade Kadrmas, Safety and Education Officer, North Dakota Highway Patrol.
North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread says our state is the only one that hasn’t reported every single violation.
“There has actually been cases in North Dakota where somebody has had a clean driving record for their insurance purposes, so all those minor violations are not on there, but have actually had their license suspended through the DOT because they have racked up so many points of those smaller traffic violations,” said Jon Godfread, Commissioner, North Dakota Insurance Dept.
The North Dakota Highway Patrol says this will now cover many traffic violations including speeding.
“That would be certain speeding violations if you are over the speed limit by a certain number. Those types of violations would get reported,” said Kadrmas.
The insurance commissioner says this could mean higher rates for drivers. The new law will help insurance companies to get a better idea of the risk a driver poses.
“People may see an increase in rates if you are a poorer driver. If you have had a large number of speeding tickets or a lot of those small minor traffic violations. For the most part, we are hoping this will lead to stable rates,” said Godfread.
In order to avoid an increase in your car insurance, Kadrmas said to “be responsible, do your job as a driver. Pay attention to the roads, obey all the traffic signs and obey all the speed limits.”
NDHP hopes that the change will incentivize good driving.
The current law has been on the books since the 1970s.
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Pilot injured after banner plane crashes into ocean near beach
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF/Gray News) – Officials are investigating after a banner plane crashed onto a South Carolina beach.
WMBF reports the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were called to look into the crash which occurred at 11:30 a.m. Monday at Myrtle Beach.
Cpl. Chris Starling with the Myrtle Beach Police Department said the pilot of the single-engine PA-18 was the only person on board. He was able to get out of the plane safely.
According to officials, witnesses said bystanders rushed to the crash site to help the pilot get out after the plane hit the water.
Witness Sue Boyd told WMBF she and another woman both called 911 after seeing the crash.
“The banner plane was all of a sudden going down super fast and then it just hit the water and went under. A bunch of civilians came and sprang into action into the water,” she said.
First responders treated the pilot, who was then taken to the hospital. He is expected to recover from his injuries.
The plane was removed from the surf via tow truck around 4 p.m. Crews removed the plane’s wings to properly load the aircraft.
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GRAPHIC: Man faces charges after horses, other animals found emaciated at Horry County property
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) – An animal neglect investigation is underway in the Little River area after several animals were found in poor conditions, according to police.
Officers were called last week to Horseshoe Road South, off Highway 17, for reports of horses on the road.
When officers arrived, they said they found several emaciated animals, some with open wounds, that were being kept at a nearby property. Warrants state that the horses were “underweight with hip bones, ribs and backbone prominent and protruding.”
The warrants also state one horse was found with multiple open wounds after it was kept in a makeshift stock for days at a time.
**WARNING: Some viewers may find the pictures of the horses hard to look at*
The investigation led to officers seizing four horses, one dog, and seven chickens.
WMBF News spoke to several neighbors in the area who said they were shocked to learn of the arrest and charges.
Jason and Leslie Crenshaw, who live nearby, said they’ve seen horses on the suspect’s property. While they noticed they looked skinny, they said they had no idea the abuse was as bad as it was.
“It was a big shock to me, it really was; I mean, I didn’t know anything about it,” said Jason Crenshaw.
The Crenshaws also said if they had known, they would have reported the situation sooner.
“That makes me sick to my stomach, that they’re doing stuff like this and getting away with it,” said Leslie Crenshaw. “So people, please don’t do stuff like this, it’s animal cruelty.”
Police said one horse was in such bad shape that it had to be put down.
“We were forced to help the poor creature across the rainbow bridge for his comfort,” the Horry County Police Department posted. “There is a heavy toll and burden of responsibility that comes with caring for animals in rough condition.”
The animals are now being cared for by the Horry County Animal Care Center staff, where the shelter is already overcapacity.
If you can help, the shelter asks of three things:
- Send support staff who are feeling the weight of this situation
- Be good to the animals that rely upon you
- Foster or adopt an animal in need, or if you can’t do that, then volunteer at Horry County Animal Care Center.
Police arrested Gabriel Ponce in the case. He faces four charges and two citations under the animal care and treatment ordinance. He was released from jail Sunday night after posting a $4,000 bond.
The investigation remains active and ongoing.
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Pilot injured after banner plane crashes into ocean near beach
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF/Gray News) – Officials are investigating after a banner plane crashed onto a South Carolina beach.
WMBF reports the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were called to look into the crash which occurred at 11:30 a.m. Monday at Myrtle Beach.
Cpl. Chris Starling with the Myrtle Beach Police Department said the pilot of the single-engine PA-18 was the only person on board. He was able to get out of the plane safely.
According to officials, witnesses said bystanders rushed to the crash site to help the pilot get out after the plane hit the water.
Witness Sue Boyd told WMBF she and another woman both called 911 after seeing the crash.
“The banner plane was all of a sudden going down super fast and then it just hit the water and went under. A bunch of civilians came and sprang into action into the water,” she said.
First responders treated the pilot, who was then taken to the hospital. He is expected to recover from his injuries.
The plane was removed from the surf via tow truck around 4 p.m. Crews removed the plane’s wings to properly load the aircraft.
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Trump attempt to derail Georgia election investigation rejected by judge
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge on Monday rejected an attempt by former President Donald Trump to keep a Georgia district attorney from prosecuting him and from using certain evidence gathered in her investigation into potential illegal meddling in the 2020 election in the state.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney didn’t mince words in his nine-page ruling, which said Trump lacked the legal grounds to bring the challenge before any indictment has been filed in the case. Any harm alleged by Trump and by Cathy Latham, a Republican fake elector from Georgia who had joined his motion, is “either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized,” the judge wrote.
The alleged harms “are insufficient because, while being the subject (or even target) of a highly publicized criminal investigation is likely an unwelcome and unpleasant experience, no court ever has held that that status alone provides a basis for the courts to interfere with or halt the investigation,” McBurney wrote.
In a caustic footnote, seemingly nodding to Trump’s status as the dominant frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination for president despite having been indicted twice already, the judge added: “And for some, being the subject of a criminal investigation can, à la Rumpelstiltskin, be turned into golden political capital, making it seem more providential than problematic.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, an elected Democrat, has strongly suggested that she is likely to seek charges in the case in the coming weeks. While she has not directly said she plans to seek charges against the Republican former president, she has repeatedly said no one is above the law.
Monday’s ruling came in response to a motion filed in March by Trump’s Georgia-based legal team that said a special grand jury seated to help Willis investigate “involved a constant lack of clarity as to the law, inconsistent applications of basic constitutional protections for individuals being brought before it, and a prosecutor’s office that was found to have an actual conflict, yet continued to pursue the investigation.”
The special grand jury did not have the power to indict, but it did issue subpoenas and heard from some 75 witnesses while meeting from May to December last year and issued a final report with recommendations for Willis.
Trump attorney Drew Findling did not immediately respond Monday to text and voicemail messages seeking comment.
Latham was one of 16 Georgia Republicans who met at the state Capitol in December 2020 and signed a certificate declaring falsely that Trump had won the presidential election and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors. Willis last year informed them that they were targets of her investigation, though some have since reached immunity deals with her team.
McBurney said there are no grounds to disqualify Willis from pursuing her investigation and likely prosecution, saying she had not acted improperly.
“The drumbeat from the District Attorney has been neither partisan (in the political sense) nor personal, in marked and refreshing contrast to the stream of personal invective flowing from one of the movants,” he wrote, no doubt referring to Trump.
Trump’s attorneys several weeks ago took another stab at barring Willis from prosecuting him and getting the special grand jury’s report tossed out with twin filings against Willis and McBurney in Fulton County Superior Court and the Georgia Supreme Court. Explaining this extraordinary action, they cited the fact that McBurney had yet to rule on their earlier motion and Willis’ indication that she would soon seek charges in the case.
The state Supreme Court unanimously declined to intervene, dismissing the petition.
A judge from neighboring Cobb County was assigned to consider the other petition after the chief judge of the Fulton County Superior Court recused himself and the other judges on that bench from hearing the matter involving McBurney. He has set a hearing for Aug. 10.
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Pilot injured after banner plane crashes into ocean near beach
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF/Gray News) – Officials are investigating after a banner plane crashed onto a South Carolina beach.
WMBF reports the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were called to look into the crash which occurred at 11:30 a.m. Monday at Myrtle Beach.
Cpl. Chris Starling with the Myrtle Beach Police Department said the pilot of the single-engine PA-18 was the only person on board. He was able to get out of the plane safely.
According to officials, witnesses said bystanders rushed to the crash site to help the pilot get out after the plane hit the water.
Witness Sue Boyd told WMBF she and another woman both called 911 after seeing the crash.
“The banner plane was all of a sudden going down super fast and then it just hit the water and went under. A bunch of civilians came and sprang into action into the water,” she said.
First responders treated the pilot, who was then taken to the hospital. He is expected to recover from his injuries.
The plane was removed from the surf via tow truck around 4 p.m. Crews removed the plane’s wings to properly load the aircraft.
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Trump attempt to derail Georgia election investigation rejected by judge
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge on Monday rejected an attempt by former President Donald Trump to keep a Georgia district attorney from prosecuting him and from using certain evidence gathered in her investigation into potential illegal meddling in the 2020 election in the state.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney didn’t mince words in his nine-page ruling, which said Trump lacked the legal grounds to bring the challenge before any indictment has been filed in the case. Any harm alleged by Trump and by Cathy Latham, a Republican fake elector from Georgia who had joined his motion, is “either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized,” the judge wrote.
The alleged harms “are insufficient because, while being the subject (or even target) of a highly publicized criminal investigation is likely an unwelcome and unpleasant experience, no court ever has held that that status alone provides a basis for the courts to interfere with or halt the investigation,” McBurney wrote.
In a caustic footnote, seemingly nodding to Trump’s status as the dominant frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination for president despite having been indicted twice already, the judge added: “And for some, being the subject of a criminal investigation can, à la Rumpelstiltskin, be turned into golden political capital, making it seem more providential than problematic.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, an elected Democrat, has strongly suggested that she is likely to seek charges in the case in the coming weeks. While she has not directly said she plans to seek charges against the Republican former president, she has repeatedly said no one is above the law.
Monday’s ruling came in response to a motion filed in March by Trump’s Georgia-based legal team that said a special grand jury seated to help Willis investigate “involved a constant lack of clarity as to the law, inconsistent applications of basic constitutional protections for individuals being brought before it, and a prosecutor’s office that was found to have an actual conflict, yet continued to pursue the investigation.”
The special grand jury did not have the power to indict, but it did issue subpoenas and heard from some 75 witnesses while meeting from May to December last year and issued a final report with recommendations for Willis.
Trump attorney Drew Findling did not immediately respond Monday to text and voicemail messages seeking comment.
Latham was one of 16 Georgia Republicans who met at the state Capitol in December 2020 and signed a certificate declaring falsely that Trump had won the presidential election and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors. Willis last year informed them that they were targets of her investigation, though some have since reached immunity deals with her team.
McBurney said there are no grounds to disqualify Willis from pursuing her investigation and likely prosecution, saying she had not acted improperly.
“The drumbeat from the District Attorney has been neither partisan (in the political sense) nor personal, in marked and refreshing contrast to the stream of personal invective flowing from one of the movants,” he wrote, no doubt referring to Trump.
Trump’s attorneys several weeks ago took another stab at barring Willis from prosecuting him and getting the special grand jury’s report tossed out with twin filings against Willis and McBurney in Fulton County Superior Court and the Georgia Supreme Court. Explaining this extraordinary action, they cited the fact that McBurney had yet to rule on their earlier motion and Willis’ indication that she would soon seek charges in the case.
The state Supreme Court unanimously declined to intervene, dismissing the petition.
A judge from neighboring Cobb County was assigned to consider the other petition after the chief judge of the Fulton County Superior Court recused himself and the other judges on that bench from hearing the matter involving McBurney. He has set a hearing for Aug. 10.
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Clarence Page: A ‘woke’ military? Don’t forget the messy race relations that got us here
Recent Republican moves to limit diversity training and transgender rights and other hot-button controversies stemming from the annual defense authorization bill remind me of my own days in uniform back when some of those diversity policies were being created.
Lucky me, I was drafted in 1969, a dark time that some military officials called the “time of troubles” in the late 1960s and early ’70s. It was a time when the armed forces were facing military defeat in Vietnam and racial strife, poor morale and reports of urban riots back home, where the war had grown increasingly unpopular — and not just among radical activists.
In just two years, 1969 and 1971, the Defense Department recorded more than 300 racial incidents, including “race riots” and other unrest on military bases and other outposts, including two Navy aircraft carriers, according to military reports
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Among other problems, one study found, Black service members were more likely to be assigned to combat than technical operations and were promoted more slowly — even controlling for test score differences.
The Defense Department, facing transition to an all-volunteer force, took aggressive steps to improve communications, including establishing “equal opportunity councils” in major units and goals and timetables for affirmative action, military-style.
By the first Gulf War in 1991, led by a black general, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell, the era of such racial incidents appeared to have passed as the military faced newer challenges, such as the Tailhook scandal, sparked by shocking allegations of sexual harassment.
A foremost study by the late Charles Moskos, a Northwestern University sociology professor, and then-sociology professor John Sibley Butler of the University of Texas — “All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way” — described a new military that, as Moskos put it,became the nation’s most integrated institution. “The only place in America where Blacks routinely boss whites around,” he called it.
As a formerly enlisted African American from a family with lots of cousins in the Army and Air Force, I could not disagree with his assessment.
Now, as I see today’s generation of congressional Republicans wage their seemingly endless war against the “woke,” I cannot help but wonder: Do these folks have any idea of how turbulent the issue of military diversity used to be?
The House Armed Services Committee last week debated the possible blocking of DEI, a shorthand for programs to encourage “diversity, equity and inclusion,” and the purging of “critical race theory,” an academic field of study whose title increasingly seems to be used by conservatives to mean whatever they want it to mean in order to gain the most leverage.
Meanwhile, over on the Senate side, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a first-term Alabama Republican, continued his monthslong blockade of military promotions, all to protest the Biden administration’s decision to provide military personnel with access to abortion care after the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights.
Whatever you may feel about abortion rights, it is a violation of simple fairness to hold military promotions hostage to politics, especially when you’re violating a promise to support our troops and their families in their service to our country.
Butler has his own criticism of some DEI policies, especially when they go too far. He has a point when policies to improve race or gender relations go overboard and actually discourage the free discussion and debate necessary to honest debate. But the best answer is not to put a blackout on such sensitive topics, declaring them off-limits through a conservative version of political correctness.
In a speech on the Senate floor, Majority Whip Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, urged the body to pass the bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act for the next fiscal year.
Besides authorizing nearly $886 billion for the nation’s defense and a 5% pay raise for our troops and the Pentagon’s civilian workforce, the bill also would expand employment opportunities for military spouses, funding for child care and improved military housing.
Times have changed. We have become accustomed to Democrats stereotypically calling for cuts in defense spending while Republicans seem to throw open the doors to the Treasury.
But, after all the political hoopla between the two sides, there comes a time for good Americans to put partisan divisions aside — in service to our country.
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Trump attempt to derail Georgia election investigation rejected by judge
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge on Monday rejected an attempt by former President Donald Trump to keep a Georgia district attorney from prosecuting him and from using certain evidence gathered in her investigation into potential illegal meddling in the 2020 election in the state.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney didn’t mince words in his nine-page ruling, which said Trump lacked the legal grounds to bring the challenge before any indictment has been filed in the case. Any harm alleged by Trump and by Cathy Latham, a Republican fake elector from Georgia who had joined his motion, is “either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized,” the judge wrote.
The alleged harms “are insufficient because, while being the subject (or even target) of a highly publicized criminal investigation is likely an unwelcome and unpleasant experience, no court ever has held that that status alone provides a basis for the courts to interfere with or halt the investigation,” McBurney wrote.
In a caustic footnote, seemingly nodding to Trump’s status as the dominant frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination for president despite having been indicted twice already, the judge added: “And for some, being the subject of a criminal investigation can, à la Rumpelstiltskin, be turned into golden political capital, making it seem more providential than problematic.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, an elected Democrat, has strongly suggested that she is likely to seek charges in the case in the coming weeks. While she has not directly said she plans to seek charges against the Republican former president, she has repeatedly said no one is above the law.
Monday’s ruling came in response to a motion filed in March by Trump’s Georgia-based legal team that said a special grand jury seated to help Willis investigate “involved a constant lack of clarity as to the law, inconsistent applications of basic constitutional protections for individuals being brought before it, and a prosecutor’s office that was found to have an actual conflict, yet continued to pursue the investigation.”
The special grand jury did not have the power to indict, but it did issue subpoenas and heard from some 75 witnesses while meeting from May to December last year and issued a final report with recommendations for Willis.
Trump attorney Drew Findling did not immediately respond Monday to text and voicemail messages seeking comment.
Latham was one of 16 Georgia Republicans who met at the state Capitol in December 2020 and signed a certificate declaring falsely that Trump had won the presidential election and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors. Willis last year informed them that they were targets of her investigation, though some have since reached immunity deals with her team.
McBurney said there are no grounds to disqualify Willis from pursuing her investigation and likely prosecution, saying she had not acted improperly.
“The drumbeat from the District Attorney has been neither partisan (in the political sense) nor personal, in marked and refreshing contrast to the stream of personal invective flowing from one of the movants,” he wrote, no doubt referring to Trump.
Trump’s attorneys several weeks ago took another stab at barring Willis from prosecuting him and getting the special grand jury’s report tossed out with twin filings against Willis and McBurney in Fulton County Superior Court and the Georgia Supreme Court. Explaining this extraordinary action, they cited the fact that McBurney had yet to rule on their earlier motion and Willis’ indication that she would soon seek charges in the case.
The state Supreme Court unanimously declined to intervene, dismissing the petition.
A judge from neighboring Cobb County was assigned to consider the other petition after the chief judge of the Fulton County Superior Court recused himself and the other judges on that bench from hearing the matter involving McBurney. He has set a hearing for Aug. 10.
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Two pipeline companies fined
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 5:10 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Two pipeline companies have agreed to pay twelve and a half million dollars in civil penalties over spills in North Dakota and Montana.
Belle Fourche’s Bicentennial Pipeline ruptured in 2016 in Billings County, spilling oil into a tributary to Ash Coulee Creek, which feeds into the Little Missouri River.
It was made worse by the fact that the spill wasn’t reported until a landowner discovered it.
In 2015, Bridger’s Poplar Pipeline ruptured where it crosses under the Yellowstone River near Glendive, Montana.
The money is to resolve claims under the Clean Water Act and Pipeline Safety Laws.
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It is hot outside.
We’re pretty sure you didn’t need for us to tell you that.
After all, it is July. In North Carolina. What did we expect? It’s supposed to be hot.
But what’s different from before is the context. It’s hot all over.
This has been the hottest July on Earth in 120,000 (not a typo) years, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service and the World Meteorological Organization said last week.
How would anyone know?
Well, human beings have kept records only since 1940. But by extrapolating from studies of coral reefs, tree rings and deep-sea sediment cores, researchers say they are reasonably sure that we’re not only breaking a sweat. We’re breaking records.
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Some unsettling signs of these times:
- Even cactuses are feeling it. In Phoenix, Ariz., which is not unused to blistering heat, hardy Saguaro cactuses are showing signs of stress after a string of record-high temperatures.
- Nights are not providing as much relief as they used to. Over the past 50 years, the average summer nighttime temperature in the Triad has increased 3.7 degrees, the Winston-Salem Journal’s John Deem reported in June.
- In Europe, a prolonged heat wave has gripped a continent where many lack air conditioning from a belief (at least once upon a time) that they didn’t need it. Earlier this month, parts of Bosnia, France, Greece, Italy and Spain saw highs that reached 104 degrees. In Sicily, temperatures climbed to 115 degrees. Some areas, The New York Times reports, have reached 118 degrees. Severe storms have claimed lives and forced evacuations.
- A township in China sweltered through a high of 126.
- In Mexico there have been more than 200 heat-related deaths.
The world is baking and climate scientists expect that there may be more where this came from.
A study released last week by the World Weather Attribution contends that much of the record heat would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change. “In line with what has been expected from past climate projections and IPCC reports these events are not rare anymore today,” the report says.
“North America, Europe and China have experienced heatwaves increasingly frequently over the last years as a result of warming caused by human activities, hence the current heat waves are not rare in today’s climate with an event like the (current one) expected approximately once every 15 years in the US/Mexico region, once every 10 years in Southern Europe, and once in 5 years for China.”
“Unless the world rapidly stops burning fossil fuels,” the report warns, “these events will become even more common and the world will experience heatwaves that are even hotter and longer-lasting.”
As overwhelming as it all may seem, there is something each of us can do:
Be careful. Don’t underestimate the danger. If you can, avoid strenuous activity during the hottest times of the day. Stay hydrated. Be sure not to leave children or pets in a car. If you see a child or pet in a locked car in the heat of the day, call police.
Conserve. The heat strains the power grid by creating greater demand. You can ease the burden on the grid and your budget by setting the thermostat as high as you comfortably can. As John Deem noted last week, “every 2 degrees you adjust your thermostat closer to the outside temperature can save up to 5% on your cooling costs.”
Be accountable. Support policies to expand renewable energy and leaders who support such policies. If you can, opt for more environmentally friendly transportation. Respect the science. If you’re skeptical, learn the science from reliable sources.
And don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. For example, yes, electric vehicles come with some of their own environmental costs. But they still are less harmful than fossil fuel-burning cars and trucks.
Some people have likened our blissful descent into the ravages of climate change to unsuspecting frogs in a pot of slowly boiling water.
Lately, that obviously hasn’t been the case. We’re feeling this.
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Hot temperatures are predicted today. It should reach a warm 88 degrees. We'll see a low temperature of 65 degrees today. We will see a mix of sun and clouds. Models are suggesting a 24% chance of precipitation in today's outlook. Today's UV index is high. The sun's rays will be intense. Stay in the shade as much as possible. Wear sunglasses, a hat and sunscreen when in sunlight. The Greensboro area should see a light breeze, with winds only reaching 6 miles per hour, coming from the North. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. Keep an eye on greensboro.com for forecast information and severe weather updates.
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WATCH: Arizona DPS air crews rescue hikers with heat-related illness
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - The Arizona Department of Public Safety air rescue crews have been busy this summer, including rescues of patients suffering from heat-related symptoms.
A new video released by the Department of Public Safety shows back-to-back air rescues that happened last Sunday, July 23. Around 1 p.m., the Ranger 1 crew was requested to assist the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office in rescuing two hikers with heat-related illnesses on Siphon Draw Trail in Apache Junction. The video shows DPS meeting the hikers on the trail, then lifting them from a rope into the helicopter. The hikers were taken off the trail and were treated by Superstition Fire and Medical for heat exhaustion.
At 4:15 p.m. that same afternoon, Ranger 1 was asked to assist in another rescue about 100 miles to the northwest. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office called DPS to assist with the rescue of three stranded dirt bikers experiencing heat exhaustion on a trail north of Crown King.
A rescue technician went down and helped get one of the bikers onto the helicopter, then hiked down the trail to prepare the two other bikers for a hoist rescue. All three bikers were safely put onto the helicopter and then went with the Mayer Fire Department for an evaluation.
DPS warns the public not to put themselves and first responders in a dangerous situation. They advise you to avoid strenuous activities such as hiking or cycling in the middle of the day during extreme heat; however, if you must go out, they say to bring a cell phone and extra water and always to tell others where you are going.
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Greater numbers of women are dying of alcohol-related conditions, study finds
Gap is narrowing for alcohol mortality amid ‘normalization’ of alcohol use among women, trends suggest
A rising number of women are succumbing to alcohol-related deaths, a new study published in JAMA Network on July 28 found.
While males historically have been more than twice as likely to die from alcohol-related conditions than females, the gap appears to be narrowing.
Researchers from Hofstra University in New York, Harvard Medical School and the University of South Carolina analyzed nearly 606,000 deaths linked to alcohol between 1999 and 2020, based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.
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Mortality has been rising for both genders, but the spike has been sharper among females.
Men’s mortality rate increased by 12.5% between 2018 and 2020, while the rate among women increased by 14.7%, the researchers found.
The most prominent increase was seen in the last three years of the study.
The higher mortality increase among females remained even after excluding data from the first year of the pandemic, the researchers noted.
"This finding is concerning because women experience greater health consequences from drinking alcohol compared to men," Dr. Shana Johnson, a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician in Scottsdale, Arizona, told Fox News Digital.
Johnson was not involved in the study.
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The deaths were linked to alcohol-related poisoning, gastritis, cardiomyopathy, myopathy, liver disease, polyneuropathy and pseudo-Cushing syndrome, among others, according to the journal article.
"Women are now drinking alcohol at higher amounts and frequencies than in the past."
"The changing patterns of alcohol consumption among women are an important consideration in understanding these trends," the study authors wrote in a discussion of the findings.
"Women are now drinking alcohol at higher amounts and frequencies than in the past, likely due to the normalization of alcohol use for female individuals in society."
One potential reason for the uptick in drinking rates among women is a rise in stress levels and stress-related disorders in recent years, the researchers said.
"Stress plays a major role in the development and maintenance of disordered drinking," Johnson said.
"It is not a big leap to look at soaring food and housing costs and think that chronic stress is taking its toll in the form of increased alcohol use to cope with today's hardships."
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Physical factors contributing to the larger mortality risk among women is the fact that they tend to have a higher percentage of body fat and a lower percentage of body water compared to men, the study authors wrote, "resulting in higher alcohol blood concentrations and potentially increasing vulnerability to complications."
Additional factors include hormonal fluctuations, slower alcohol metabolism, higher susceptibility to physiological and organ damage, and greater risk of liver diseases, circulatory disorders and breast cancer.
Study had limitations, researchers noted
This research did not explore the specific factors that could have contributed to alcohol-related deaths, nor did it fully examine trends among specific age groups, the study authors wrote.
Also, the study did not take into account historical or generational factors.
There was also not enough mortality data for females between ages 15 and 24 to establish a trend for that age group.
Earlier this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a statement that there is no safe amount of alcohol consumption.
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"Alcohol is a toxic, psychoactive and dependence-producing substance," the WHO wrote.
"Alcohol causes at least seven types of cancer, including the most common cancer types, such as bowel cancer and female breast cancer."
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Alcohol is the fourth-leading preventable cause of mortality in the U.S., leading to more than 140,000 deaths each year — approximately 97,000 men and 43,000 women — according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
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(NEXSTAR) – With heat records already falling this summer, you may be running your ceiling fan nearly non-stop, but did you know you may not be as cool as you could be?
If you’ve ever taken a close look at the fan, you may have noticed a small switch located on the side of the fan base. The switch, which is found on nearly every fan, can change the direction the fan spins.
Using that switch according to the season will not only keep you more comfortable, but it can also help you save money.
In the summer, make sure that your fan is going in a counterclockwise direction, which forces cool air directly downward and creates a “wind chill effect,” according to Home Depot. In the winter, you can switch it up so the fan rotates clockwise at a low speed, circulating the warm air that gets trapped near the ceiling.
If you have ceiling fans as well as air conditioning, using the fan correctly will allow you to raise the thermostat by roughly 4 degrees Fahrenheit and still feel just as comfortable, according to the Department of Energy. In moderately hot weather, you may even be able to turn off the AC. The DOE reminds people to turn off fans in unoccupied rooms.
According to Energy Star, if you raise your thermostat by just two degrees and use your ceiling fan, you can lower the cost of air conditioning by up to 14%.
If you’re in the market for a ceiling fan, larger fan blades will move more air than smaller ones, but you have to make sure it’s an appropriate size for the space.
The Department of Energy recommends blades be 7 to 9 feet above the floor and 10 to 12 inches away from the ceiling. The blades should be no closer than 8 inches from the ceiling and 18 inches from any walls.
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Doc Martens spotlights 'alarming' DIY shoes promoting gender transition 'top surgery'
A redesign of the shoe by a queer artist featured a transgender person with scars from an elective double mastectomy
A Dr. Martens shoe showed the design of a woman bearing the scars from a gender transition "top surgery" as part of the brand’s "DIY Docs" feature.
The "DIY Docs" feature aims to spotlight independent artists redesigning the classic Dr. Marten shoe, often to promote LGBT causes. The latest example came from "queer illustrator" Jess Vosseteig whose art "focuses on inclusivity, empowerment, and creating conversations surrounding feminism and the queer community."
Vosseteig described herself on the company’s website saying, "I love illustrating to empower all genders, break gender stereotypes, and promote body positivity/neutrality. I want my audience to feel seen and heard in my work, be empowered to be themselves, educate others, and push societal norms!"
Her design of the shoe most notably includes a pink woman who appears to have scars following a double mastectomy, a surgery often used by transgender men to transition.
"The inspiration for my design came from representing queer joy! I wanted to include two stylized people that were part of the queer community. I knew I wanted to incorporate lots of color with rainbows, clouds, and sparkles! I wrote ‘Queer Joy’ on the back of them to send the message that queer joy will always exist," Vosseteig explained.
While the shoe is not available for sale, Dr. Martens advertised a free giveaway of the pair from its USA Instagram account on Tuesday. If followers liked the post, followed both Dr. Martens and Vosseteig and tag a friend, they could be eligible for the contest until July 31.
The shoe also does not appear to be available of purchase on Vosseteig’s personal website.
Though Dr. Martens did not respond for a comment, the company confirmed that it will not be selling the show and that the design came from the artist alone.
The design, along with Dr. Martens, was attacked on social media for promoting gender transition surgeries.
"@drmartens is advertising a new shoe celebrating females who get a double mastectomy," the Libs of TikTok account warned.
"Why is Dr Martens promoting trans double mastectomies? Cutting off healthy women’s breasts in the name of gender identity should not be promoted," YouTuber Oli London tweeted.
Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice agreed, "Removing the healthy breasts of girls should be as alarming as if the amputation of healthy limbs was happening as part of a social contagion. What if thousands of kids were removing their right arms?"
The controversy resembles the original backlash surrounding the Bud Light brand after transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney revealed a customized beer can with the activist’s face. The company quickly insisted that the can was not intended for sale, but the promotion led to a massive decrease in sales, effectively ending Bud Light’s reputation as the most popular beer brand in America.
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The "DIY Docs" section of Dr. Martens’ website also featured other shoes promoting LGBT activism with designs reading "QUEER" or "Trans Love." Many other shoes were also in partnership with the LGBT activist group The Trevor Project.
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Broncos' Sean Payton 'broke the code' when he ripped Nathaniel Hackett, anonymous NFL coach says
Payton called Broncos' 2022 season 'one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL'
Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton appeared to ruffle some feathers with his comments about Nathaniel Hackett and the 2022 coaching staff – and it’s not just New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
An anonymous NFL head coach spoke out about Payton’s remarks. The new Broncos leader told USA Today last week that Denver’s 2022 season was "one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL."
"That crosses the line," the anonymous coach told NBC Sports’ Peter King for his "Football Morning in America" column on Monday. "Sean broke the code."
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Payton apologized on Friday.
"Listen, I had one of those moments where I still had my Fox hat on and not my coaching hat on," Payton said. "I said this to the team: We've had a great offseason relative to that, I've been preaching that message, and here I am the veteran stepping in it. It was a learning experience for me, a mistake, obviously. I need a little bit more filter."
"I needed a bit more restraint. I regret that."
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Rodgers, a supporter of Hackett, slammed Payton over the comments on Sunday.
"Yeah, I love Nathaniel Hackett. And those comments were very surprising for a coach to do that to another coach," Rodgers told NFL Network’s Peter Schrager. "My love for Hackett goes deep. We had some great years together in Green Bay. Kept in touch. Love him and his family – incredible family man, incredible dad."
"And on the field, he’s arguably my favorite coach I’ve ever had in the NFL – his approach to it, how he makes it fun, how he cares about the guys. Just how he goes about his business – with respect, with leadership, with honestly, with integrity," he continued.
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"And it made me feel bad that someone who’s accomplished a lot in the league is that insecure that they have to take another man down to set themselves up for some sort of easy fall if it doesn’t go well for that team this year," Rodgers said. "I thought it was way out of line, inappropriate, and I think he needs to keep my coaches’ names out of his mouth."
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Memphis police prevent 'potential mass shooting' at Jewish school, suspect in critical condition
The suspect reportedly shot his gun outside of Margolin Hebrew Academy in Memphis
The Memphis Police Department announced that their officers stopped a potential school shooting and detained the gunman on Monday afternoon.
Police received a report that an armed male fired his gun outside of Margolin Hebrew Academy at around 12:20 p.m. Police said there were no injuries and the suspect left the scene in a Ram pickup truck with California tags.
"MPD then received information that the suspect was possibly seen in Bartlett, TN," the Memphis Police Department said in a statement. "Moments later, MPD Officers on patrol located the suspect's vehicle in the area of McCrory and Gary."
Police then stopped the car, and the suspect got out while holding a handgun.
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A police officer then shot the suspect. He was transported to a local hospital in critical condition.
"Due to the suspect's condition and in accordance with police, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has been contacted and will be conducting this investigation," the press release added.
Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis commended her officers' quick response to the threat.
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"I am proud of the vigilant and quick response of MPD officers who mitigated a potential mass shooting situation today," Davis said. "Many thanks to our neighboring jurisdictions for also providing critical information to stop the suspect's actions."
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Pee-wee Herman, the comic creation of actor/writer Paul Reubens, would often toss taunts of the schoolyard into his casual conversation. It was one of the character's go-to bits.
"Why don't you take a picture? It'll last longer!"
"That's my name! Don't wear it out!"
And, most iconically,
"I know you are, but what am I?"
Of course, when it came to Pee-wee himself, with his tight gray suit, red bow tie, crew cut, rouged cheekbones and ruby-red lips, "What am I?" was the real question – it was the one he posed merely by existing.
Reubens died Sunday of cancer at the age of 70. He was an actor – but for a long time, he tried to convince the public that Pee-wee was a real person, not a character.
Folks didn't know what to make of Reubens' petulant man-child at first. Created in 1977, while Reubens was a member of the Los Angeles sketch troupe The Groundlings, Pee-wee was part prop comic, part brat and part trickster spirit. There was something fearless in Pee-wee, something unapologetic and brash that took you a second to process. The character was very obviously and intentionally what folks used to call a sissy – but how could a sissy own the stage like he did? Bask in the spotlight like he did? How could a sissy so confidently and explicitly dictate the terms for his audience on how to experience him?
The Pee-wee Herman Show at The Groundlings Theatre soon had LA hipsters lining up around the block for a midnight show that mixed puppets and parody with archival educational films – the precise fuel mixture that powered Reubens' later CBS Saturday morning show, Pee-wee's Playhouse.
It was never Peter Pan, what he was doing. Yes, Pee-wee was a boy who never grew up, but he was more than that — he was one singular adult's remembrance of what it was like being a kid. Specifically, of those parts of childhood we pretend not to see in our own children — the narcissism, the selfishness, the utter lack of basic human empathy. The monstrous bits.
In Pee-wee's Big Adventure, it manifested in his hilariously obsessive drive to recover his stolen bike — a quest which would cause him to trample on the feelings of friends like Amazing Larry (Lou Cutell) and Dottie (E.G. Daily). On Pee-wee's Playhouse, it took the form of gleeful admonitions to his viewers to "scream real loud" whenever anyone said the week's secret word. (Spare a thought for the long-suffering parents who'd hoped that sitting their kids in front of the TV would allow them a moment's peace to finish their coffee.) On 1988's magnificent holiday staple Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special, Reubens zeroed in kids' ravenous greed for presents, turning Pee-wee into a monster who only reluctantly sees the light once guilted into it. (Like Scrooge, he's a lot more fun to hang around with before his last-minute epiphany.)
To watch Pee-wee was to re-experience childhood the way we'd forgotten it actually was – pure, concentrated, distilled to its essence, when riding your bike and playing with your toys and screaming real loud was all it took to fill a day. Pee-wee was a creature of impulse, anarchy and id – which is probably why Reubens' frequent appearances on Late Night with David Letterman helped launch him to stardom.
Reubens' silliness worked on a different frequency than Letterman's – Pee-wee was wilder and far less inhibited than Letterman could ever hope to be, and Letterman knew to play up his own tetchy, aggrieved discomfort at Pee-wee's hijinks for comedic effect. The two men vibrated at opposite ends of the comedic spectrum, but they worked together brilliantly. In those interview segments, which quickly devolved into Pee-wee's signature giggles, you laughed at Reubens' ability to take complete control of the experience, and at Letterman's entirely uncharacteristic willingness to give over the reins.
In the coming days, our social media feeds will fill up with a lot of Pee-wee's greatest hits – Large Marge; "Tequila!"; Jambi the Genie; Chairy; Reubens' extended and entirely improvised death scene in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie; "I'm a loner, Dot. A rebel."; and, of course, "Come on, Simone. Let's talk about your big 'but.'"
Me, though, I'll be putting on the aforementioned Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special, because it will remind me of one of Reubens' most overlooked talents – his ability to sneak an artisanal blend of fey subversiveness into the mainstream. That special injected a defiantly, yet matter-of-fact, queer sensibility into the CBS primetime airwaves of Reagan's America: The Del Rubio Triplets! Zsa Zsa Gabor! Little Richard! Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon! KD Lang! Charo! The LA Men's Chorus dressed up as a Marine choir! And, most indelibly, Grace Jones as green Gumby, drag singing a club mix of "The Little Drummer Boy."
Keep your "I meant to do that." Keep your dancing on the biker bar to "Tequila." The image of Reubens that I'll be holding closest to my heart over the next few days is of him rocking out in the background as Jones sings in the glare of the spotlight.
Because I swear you can see, in just the way he holds his body, the mischievous delight he's taking in what he's unleashing on an unsuspecting public: Grace Jones, ladies and gentlemen, delivered unto your living rooms, pulling up to the bumper of your cozy family holiday special, an entirely singular brand of weirdness served up to you hot and fresh, with a high, unselfconscious giggle.
Jennifer Vanasco contributed to earlier versions of this story.
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Twitter's new "X" sign was taken down on Monday after the city of San Francisco reprimanded the company for installing a giant, flashing sign above its building without a permit.
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said it received 24 complaints about the sign, including "concerns about its structural safety and illumination."
A building permit is technically required to dismantle the sign too, but the removal was allowed to proceed "duty to safety concerns," Patrick Hannan, a spokesperson for the department, told NPR.
The signage was the latest effort in the social media platform's rebranding since the sweeping changes were announced last week.
The removal comes less than three days after a city inspector went to Twitter's headquarters on Friday to alert the company of its permit violation and to evaluate the sign located on the roof, according to the city's complaint.
A Twitter representative denied access but explained that the structure is "a temporary lighted sign for an event." The inspector clarified that any signage without a permit must be removed.
The inspector came to the headquarters again on Saturday to visit the roof. But upon arrival, "access was denied again by tenant," the complaint said.
Twitter did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment. But to a tweet alleging that San Francisco authorities were trying to force Musk to remove the "X" sign, the Twitter owner replied on Saturday with a laughing-crying emoji.
Twitter was already in hot waters with the city of San Francisco last Monday for removing Twitter's original sign, which includes its name and iconic blue bird, without proper permits or taping off the sidewalk as part of pedestrian safety measures.
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LOS ANGELES – Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O'Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25.
Cloud's publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given.
In a statement, Cloud's family said goodbye to “an artist, a friend, a brother and a son.
“Last week he buried his father and intensely struggled with this loss,” the family said. “The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence.”
“We hope the world remembers him for his humor, laughter and love for everyone,” his family added.
Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting scout Eléonore Hendricks noticed him. Cloud was resistant at first, suspecting a scam. Then casting director Jennifer Venditti met with him and series creator Sam Levinson eventually made him a co-star in the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.
To some, Cloud seemed so natural as Fez that they suspected he was identical to the character — a notion that Cloud pushed back against.
“It does bother me when people are like, ‘It must be so easy! You get to go in and be yourself.’ I’m like, ‘Why don’t you go and do that?’ It’s not that simple," Cloud told Variety. "I brought a lot to the character. You can believe what you want. It ain’t got nothing to do with me.”
The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television. He had a supporting role in his first film, “The Line,” a college drama starring Alex Wolff and John Malkovich that premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Festival. Cloud was recently cast to co-star in “Scream 6.” He's also made cameos in music videos for Juice WRLD, Becky G and Karol G.
The third season of “Euphoria” hasn't yet begun filming.
“We are incredibly saddened to learn of the passing of Angus Cloud,” HBO said in a statement. “He was immensely talented and a beloved part of the HBO and ‘Euphoria’ family. We extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family during this difficult time.”
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