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Small Business Owners Call for Change from FedEx Ground in the Face of Inflation, Financial Challenges
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Approximately 3,500 FedEx Ground contractors, industry analysts, professionals and special guests convened this weekend at Route Consultant's 2022 Contractor Expo to discuss the inflation-based and contractual challenges facing the network of small business owners that power the FedEx Ground network.
"I want to see FedEx Ground remember their identity. FedEx Ground is an amazing delivery company," said Spencer Patton, Founder and President of Route Consultant. "They are a $60 billion dollar company that could be a $120 billion dollar company if we can work together through these challenges."
Patton's keynote address – which was also viewed by an additional 2,500 professionals via the Expo's live stream – detailed the areas that FedEx Ground and its contractor network can work together to create a more viable economic model and prevent the network from collapse due to inflation, high gas prices, and contract issues.
The keynote address is available on the Route Consultant YouTube channel.
Patton – speaking on behalf of his own business challenges with the FedEx Ground model – addressed the three key actions he believes FedEx Ground could take to restore their win-win relationship with contractors:
- FedEx Ground should end Sunday deliveries. FedEx Ground Sunday deliveries financially cripple the network: and both contractors and FedEx Ground lose money on Sunday deliveries. The service has been maligned since its launch and puts an enormous strain on the small businesses powering the network.
- Contractual changes. Recent contractual changes pushed through by FedEx Ground, without support from its contractor network, fundamentally undermine the integrity and financial viability of the contractor model.
- FedEx Ground staffing. Terminal and corporate staff from FedEx Ground have little to no experience in small business or logistics operations. FedEx Ground needs to educate its staff and restore appropriate communications between its staff and the small business owners in the network.
"Part of true leadership is coming up and taking accountability when accountability has to be taken," said Patton. "What I will tell you here is that I will be accountable as we move through this process and I beg that FedEx Ground show the same accountability to its contractors."
Patton operates 225 FedEx Ground routes in 10 states. Starting November 25, 2022, he will no longer operate his routes if the financial terms of his contracts aren't adjusted. Between now and the end of the year he will no longer be part of FedEx Ground's critical contingency network, which services abandoned or underserved delivery territories.
Of those changes, Mr. Patton notes, "My businesses will no longer subsidize FedEx Ground."
Contractor Expo had a wide range of smart business and cost-saving solutions for its large audience of small business owners. More than 80 industry vendors attended the event to support the network of small business owners, including Xos Trucks, Beans Route, Bright Flag Recruiting, Bridgestone Tires, and Ground Cloud. The business owners also learned about the recently announced Route Consultant Purchasing Alliance (RCPA), an organization offering cost-savings based on collective purchasing power, and the Trade Association for Logistics Professionals, an advocacy organization for contractors.
Route Consultant is the leader in education for owners of FedEx Ground and Amazon DSP logistics operations. Additionally, Route Consultant offers consulting services to new and experienced professionals in the logistics community. The Route Consultant team also facilitates the greatest share of transactions in the logistics space.
At its core, the Trade Association for Logistics Professionals (TALP) advocates for small business owners in the industry, including owners of last mile delivery routes and linehaul runs, based on their shared experiences, successes and challenges. TALP was the vision of Spencer Patton, the owner-operator of one of the largest number of FedEx Ground routes in the United States. Mr. Patton is also Founder and President of Route Consultant, an organization that provides consulting and brokerage services to FedEx contractors across the country.
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- EBITDA OF $5.4 MILLION FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2022
- ADJUSTED EBITDA OF $9.4 MILLION FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2022
- NET LOSS OF $19.4 MILLION FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2022
- EBITDA OF $29.7 MILLION FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022
- ADJUSTED EBITDA OF $33.6 MILLION FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022
- NET INCOME OF $2.1 MILLION FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022
- COMPANY REITERATES THAT IT EXPECTS TO OPEN 20 NEW FACILITIES BY THE END OF 2024
HOUSTON, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nutex Health Inc. ("Nutex Health" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NUTX), a physician-led, technology-enabled integrated healthcare delivery system comprised of 21 state-of-the-art micro hospitals in 8 states and primary care-centric, risk-bearing physician networks, today announced fiscal year 2022 2nd Quarter financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and the filing of its current report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2022 ("10-Q") with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Financial Highlights for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2022 (Unaudited):
- Net revenue of $58.0 million.
- Net loss attributable to Nutex Health of $19.4 million. In Q2, the Company recognized a one-time non-cash charge of $18.4 million, net to income tax expense during the three months ended June 30, 2022 for the change in tax status of Nutex Health Holdco LLC and release of acquired valuation allowance of Clinigence. Additionally, the Company recognized one-time acquisition expenses of $3.9 million related to the merger of Nutex Health Holdco LLC and Clinigence Holdings, Inc. Please read "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our 10-Q.
- EBITDA of $5.4 million.
- Adjusted EBITDA of $9.4 million.
- As of June 30, 2022, the Company had total assets of $871.8 million, including cash and cash equivalents of $47.6 million.
Financial Highlights for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2022 (Unaudited):
- Net revenue of $137.2 million.
- Net income attributable to Nutex Health of $2.1 million.
- EBITDA of $29.7 million.
- Adjusted EBITDA of $33.6 million.
Note: EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are non-GAAP financial metrics. A reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP measures is included below in this earnings release.
Notes to the Financial Highlights for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2022:
- Clinigence Holdings, Inc. and Nutex Health Holdco LLC completed their merger on April 1, 2022. Therefore, the Second Quarter 2022 financial results reflect the consolidated financial results of post-merger Clinigence Holdings, Inc. and Nutex Health Holdco LLC.
- The Company recognized a one-time non-cash charge of $18.4 million, net to income tax expense during the three months ended June 30, 2022 for the change in tax status of Nutex Health Holdco LLC and release of acquired valuation allowance for Clinigence. Prior to the merger with Clinigence, Nutex Health Holdco LLC and the Nutex Subsidiaries were pass-through entities treated as partnerships for U.S. federal income tax purposes. No provision for federal income taxes was provided for these periods as federal taxes were obligations of these companies' members. After the merger, Nutex Health Holdco LLC became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clinigence and will be included in its future consolidated corporate tax filings.
- The Company anticipates opening 20 new facilities by the end of 2024. These facilities are either under construction or in advanced planning stages. Three are expected to open in late 2022, with another 17 expected to open in 2023 and 2024. There can be no assurance that these new facilities will open in the anticipated timeframes or that they will open at all.
"In the second quarter, our management team focused on integrating our two companies post-merger," stated Jon Bates, Chief Financial Officer of Nutex Health. "We believe this integration has now been substantially completed."
"We are very proud of the hard work of our physicians, nurses, hospital staff and corporate staff to get to this stage. We continue our efforts to grow the Company while providing the best patient care possible. This philosophy dictates all of our decision making as an organization," stated Tom Vo, M.D., MBA, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nutex Health. "We are also excited about our pipeline of new facilities which are either under construction or in advanced planning stages throughout the country."
"The Company has formed two new independent practice associations (IPAs), one in Houston and one in South Florida. We are actively working on contracting with primary care physicians as well as specialists. Once this phase is completed, the Company expects to contract with health insurance plans and start enrolling patients in 2023," stated Warren Hosseinion, M.D., President of Nutex Health. "We believe that our unique integrated model which combines our cloud-based data analytics platform, micro hospitals and IPAs will create long-term value for our shareholders."
For more details on the Company's Second Quarter 2022 financial results, please refer to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and accessible at www.sec.gov.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are used as supplemental non-GAAP financial measures by management and external users of our financial statements, such as industry analysts, investors, lenders and rating agencies. We believe EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are useful because these measures allow us to more effectively evaluate our operating performance.
We define EBITDA as net income plus net interest expense, depreciation and amortization, and Adjusted EBITDA is further adjusted for stock-based compensation and any acquisition related costs. A reconciliation of net income to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA is included below. Neither EBITDA nor Adjusted EBITDA is intended to serve as an alternative to U.S. GAAP measures of performance and may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures presented by other companies.
About Nutex Health Inc.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas and founded in 2011, Nutex Health Inc. is a physician-led, technology-enabled healthcare services company with approximately 1500 employees nationwide and is partnered with over 800 physicians. The Company has two divisions: a Hospital division and a Population Health Management division. The Hospital division currently owns and operates 21 facilities in eight different states. The division implements and operates different innovative health care models, including micro hospitals, specialty hospitals and hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs). The Population Health Management division owns and operates provider networks such as Independent Physician Associations (IPAs). Through our Management Services Organizations (MSOs), we provide management, administrative and other support services to our affiliated hospitals and physician groups. Our cloud-based proprietary technology platform aggregates clinical and claims data across multiple settings, information systems and sources to create a holistic view of patients and providers, allowing us to deliver greater quality care more efficiently.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements and information included in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words or phrases "will", "will likely result," "expected to," "will continue," "anticipated," "estimate," "projected," "intend," "goal," or similar expressions are intended to identify "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are subject to certain risks, known and unknown, and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. Such uncertainties and risks include, but are not limited to, our ability to successfully execute our growth strategy, changes in laws or regulations, economic conditions, dependence on management, dilution to stockholders, lack of capital, the effects of rapid growth upon the Company and the ability of management to effectively respond to the growth and demand for products and services of the Company, newly developing technologies, the Company's ability to compete, conflicts of interest in related party transactions, regulatory matters, protection of technology, lack of industry standards, the effects of competition and the ability of the Company to obtain future financing. An extensive list of factors that can affect future results are discussed in the Current Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2022 under the heading "Risk Factors" in Part I, Item IA thereof, and other documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such factors could materially adversely affect the Company's financial performance and could cause the Company's actual results for future periods to differ materially from any opinions or statements expressed within this press release.
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The creation of more permanent supportive housing is one solution to homelessness that’s been gaining support in Oregon for a while. This method looks to house the most vulnerable: people suffering from long-term homelessness who also struggle with debilitating health issues, such as physical or mental and behavioral conditions or addiction.
The state’s leading housing agency, Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS), made permanent supportive housing a key part of its Statewide Housing Plan in 2019. Its goal then was to create 1,000 of this type of affordable housing by 2023. The agency surpassed that goal by more than 200 units earlier this month.
OPB’s All Things Considered host Tiffany Camhi spoke with executive director of OHCS Andrea Bell about this milestone and what to expect from her agency next.
Tiffany Camhi: Let’s start with defining what permanent supportive housing is.
Andrea Bell: First of all, Oregon does not have enough affordable housing. Over the last couple of years, it’s been reaffirmed that housing is a critical determinant of health. Permanent supportive housing is a particular evidence-based housing model that brings together the two disciplines of affordable housing and behavioral health services. We know that housing and services are both needed. So when we talk about “housing as health,” this model really embodies that.
Camhi: Since 2019, OHCS has committed to funding more than 1,200 permanent supportive housing units across the state. How many of these are actually online now and where are they in the state?
Bell: So a few years ago, when our agency embarked on our Statewide Housing Plan, which really serves as our five-year strategic plan, we set out some audacious, achievable and aggressive goals around housing. Within that plan, there is a commitment to increase the pipeline of permanent supportive homes by 1,000. Now, we’re about four years into that plan and we have more than 1,200 units that we are investing in. We estimate that Oregon has somewhere between 1,500 to 2,000 permanent supportive housing units on the ground or in development. And when we look statewide, about 60 percent of those are being scaled up in the Portland metro region.
Camhi: There are quite a few in development right now, are there any permanent supportive housing units that are online and actually housing people right now?
Bell: We do have some of our permanent supportive homes up and running. Malheur County opened up its first affordable housing [in Ontario.] About six of those units were dedicated to permanent supportive housing. In total, this project was about 56 units. And when you think about the scale of permanent supportive housing and affordable housing taking place across the state, 56 units doesn’t sound like a lot. But when you think about the context and the demographics in Malheur County, that is huge. These are individuals and families that are going to be able to have opportunities and have accessibility to affordable housing. This is about stabilizing communities and that is really the impetus of permanent supportive housing.
Camhi: According to data from the Corporation for Supportive Housing, a nationwide homeless services nonprofit that OHCS works closely with, Oregon needs more than 14,000 supportive housing units. How does your agency plan to meet this demand and is it even feasible?
Bell: Absolutely. It is feasible. Our responsibility as the state’s housing finance agency [is] to remain hopeful, both around the progress that we have made so far and the monumental task that we continue to have in front of us. We still have a year left in our statewide housing plan and we still have goals that we have to continue to pursue. As we think about the next couple of years, we’re heading into a budget cycle where we are asking for $800 million dollars in housing investments; 60% of it is housing-supply focused.
So while we do not directly develop, our responsibility in this is to use both state and federal resources to facilitate all of the solutions that we’re working towards for housing with our development partners, homeless services partners, community-based organizations and others across the state.
Camhi: What kind of support would you like to see on the local, state and federal levels regarding permanent supportive housing?
Bell: We are seeing sweat equity, the labor of love, from all of our partners to pursue housing solutions that are based in dignity, that are based in evidence-based solutions and that are both systemic and sustainable.
What’s incumbent upon us next, collectively, exists in a few ways: we have to continue to work to invest in affordable housing solutions and preserve affordable housing, we must continue to engage with the community to make sure that the housing we’re building is accessible, we are working to make sure we have the right wraparound services to support people in the long run and then we’re continuing our work on the federal level on advocacy.
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Unemployment is at its lowest rate in more than 50 years, with employers adding nearly 530,000 jobs during the month of July, according to the latest data from the Labor Department. But the strong job gains obscure ominous signs elsewhere, including a historically high rate of inflation, continued supply chain bottlenecks, and staffing shortages related to the pandemic.
We talk to three small business owners about what they have been experiencing. Paula Hayes is the founder and owner of Hue Noir Cosmetics in Beaverton. Thomas Angel is the co-owner and co-founder of Altitude Functional Beverages in Bend. Alfonso Herrera is the owner of Mid-Valley Auto Body and Service Center in Woodburn. They join us to talk about their hopes and fears amid the economic uncertainty.
Note: The following transcript was computer generated and edited by a volunteer.
Dave Miller: From the Gert Boyle studio at OPB, this is Think Out Loud, I’m Dave Miller. The last two and a half years have been a challenging time to run a small business to say the least. First came the jolt of the shutdown, when so much in public life just came to a grinding halt. Roller coaster waves of successive variants followed, along with evolving and sometimes confusing guidance from federal and state governments. Then came massive staffing shortages, hits to the supply chain, and 40 year inflation highs. Now there is talk of a recession.
So we’ve invited three small business owners on to talk about what they’ve been experiencing and what the future looks like now. Paula Hayes is the founder and owner of Hue Noir cosmetics in Beaverton. Thomas Angel is the co-owner and co-founder of Altitude Functional Beverages in Bend. And Alfonso Herrera is the owner of Mid-Valley Auto Body and Service Center in Woodburn. Welcome to all three of you.
Paula Hayes: Hi, it’s nice to be here.
Miller: It’s great to have all of you on. Paula Hayes, I want to start with you, because you actually started your business the longest time ago, back in 2009, which was really coming out of another really challenging time, the recovery from the Great Recession. What was your initial idea for your business?
Hayes: Yeah, it’s interesting, it was coming out of a previous recession. So my business is really based on the idea of using science and technology to create beauty products, primarily color cosmetics, that work for um customers regardless of skin tone.
The interesting thing about a color cosmetics company is that, in most periods of time, if there’s a recession, there’s always something called the lipstick index. It’s the idea that when the market sees a downturn and people’s wallets start to tighten, there’s traditionally been one true thing in the beauty industry is that lipsticks normally take a pretty big jump in sales. And so I actually started with lipstick at the end of that recessionary period, and it was a good launching point for my business.
Miller: So did you know about this curious fact, the lipstick index, when you started?
Hayes: I did.
Miller: So what’s the reason? Because I would have thought that with a recession leading to a lot of people tightening their belts, restricting money that they’re spending on stuff that’s not totally necessary, why is it that lipstick seems immune to that?
Hayes: It’s really the idea that if I, as a consumer, can’t necessarily go out and afford to splurge on, say, a really expensive outfit or a pair of shoes or something really indulgent for myself, one thing that is within reach is maybe splurging on a $15 tube of lipstick that’s going to last me the next year, that brightens my mood. And so that’s been traditional. COVID was something different.
Miller: Well, we’ll get to COVID and masks as we go. So you started with lipstick. My understanding is that you started your business in 2009. But how many years was it before you actually were up and running, and had products, and had sales?
Hayes: So outside of lipsticks, which is something that I had already formulated, we took about five years just to build a database, and the information we needed, and to formulate, and to figure out all the pieces of the puzzle and the supply chain. We were really doing it from a different landscape. So it really wasn’t until 2015-16 that I started to then get retail feedback from major retailers on the brand, and started making some of their recommended changes. So the brand as you see it, we hit the market in a much broader way in 2017. It was really 2017, 2018, 2019 that we started to really fly.
Miller: Alfonso Herrera, what about you? I mean I gave the name of your business, Mid-Valley Auto Body and Service Center, which seems pretty self evident. But can you give us a sense for the services that you offer?
Alfonso Herrera: So, we provide automotive repair. We serve Woodburn and the surrounding areas here. Our strategy is helping folks navigate through the insurance claim process. So most people, when they have an accident, they file a claim with their insurance carrier. And sometimes that gets pretty complicated, most people don’t know how to get around that. So my background is actually insurance. I come from working with a large insurance carrier, and also the collision repair facility. So kind of combined both those experiences into our own business now.
Miller: Am I right that you started your business in August of 2020?
Herrera: Yes, we did.
Miller: Why? Why then?
Herrera: It was a good opportunity to start at a slow time. Starting the business with the size that we had in mind kind of made sense at the time. And so we just took the risk, my wife and I. She’s a registered nurse and thought, well, if all else fails, she can go back to being a nurse and I can go back to insurance. And here we are.
Miller: And so far, no thoughts of returning to your previous lives?
Herrera: No, no. We’ve been growing continuously for the last few years, and continue to grow this year a little more.
Miller: What were the personal factors that led you and your wife to leave those professions and start a new life in a new business?
Herrera: We always wanted to have something of our own. We didn’t know what or when until things aligned. Opportunities came up. It was something we had explored about five years back, and couldn’t do it then. And the opportunity arose, and we took advantage of it.
Miller: Was 2020 a good time to actually buy a business? Was it cheaper then, because a lot of people were terrified of what the future would hold in terms of business?
Herrera: I think it was, because of so many unknowns, it was a good opportunity for us. A lot of businesses were hurting. Some of them closed down because of the pandemic. And at the same time, it created opportunities for others.
Miller: Others like you.
Herrera: Yes.
Miller: And Thomas Angel, as I noted, you’re the co-founder and co-owner of Altitude Functional Beverages. Can you describe your business?
Thomas Angel: Yeah, thank you for having me, Dave. As we have in our title, we do functional beverages, which ultimately are beverages that provide some sort of benefit to you. Specifically, we’ve got two lines, a line of oat milk lattes with hemp derived CBD, turmeric, and what they call functional mushrooms. So kind of a better for you latte to start your day. And then we recently launched a line of sparkling white tees that are essentially alcohol alternative beverages. So we put a line of amino acids in there that give you the feeling you seek from alcohol with absolutely no alcohol.
Miller: What do you mean by functional?
Angel: Yeah, so this is the question that we get all the time. I think ultimately the functions that we’re trying to provide to people are the things that people seek in vitamins and supplements. And that’s certainly why we started the company, my wife and I. Things like hemp derived CBD is a great anti-inflammatory. However, it’s mostly in powder and tincture form. And so being able to put that into something as routine as a cup of coffee makes it a whole lot easier to stay consistent with that routine. Ultimately, there’s a lot of functions to the ingredients that we put in our beverages. But the number one thing for us is about making it accessible, putting into something that you would already drink. And ideally something that’s a routine based beverage.
Miller: What were you doing before you started this new company?
Angel: I was working for Boeing. And actually, during the pandemic and prior to that, we were living in Beijing, China for a few years, and unfortunately got caught outside of China during the pandemic and couldn’t return. So that was part of our origin story for starting a business during the pandemic.
Miller: You couldn’t go home. What did you do?
Angel: We actually spent an entire week in Washington DC, going to the Chinese embassy, trying to get a re-entry permit. This was June of 2020. And when we realized that there really wasn’t gonna be a path to return to our home in Beijing, we kind of had a “what are we gonna do with our lives” moment. And I wouldn’t say that immediately, the first idea was to move to Bend, Oregon and start a beverage company. But after about a couple of months of trying to reintegrate, through repatriation back to the United States, we decided that maybe this is an opportunity to get into entrepreneurship, something that we had talked about for years. Also at the time we had just turned 30, didn’t have kids, didn’t have a mortgage. So it maybe a silver lining out of a rather unfortunate situation.
Miller: If it hadn’t been for the novel coronavirus, do you think you would still be living in China right now, working for Boeing?
Angel: Yeah, most likely. Our assignment was all the way through this year. So for all intents and purposes, we probably would still be in Beijing if it wasn’t for coronavirus.
Miller: Why Bend? It seems like you could have lived anywhere in the world, maybe but China.
Angel: Yeah, that’s a great question. I think it’s a confluence of things. I grew up in the Portland area and had fond memories of visiting central Oregon as a kid. I think the second reason was probably trying to find a completely different place from Beijing. It’s a city of 22 million people. Very polluted. Bend’s about 100,000 people and as close to nature as you can get while still having good amenities.
And I would say the third thing is it’s quite a beverage town. Everybody knows Bend for all the breweries like Deschutes, but there’s quite a lot of non-alcoholic companies there as well, like Humm Kombucha. And for a town of 100,000 people, that’s a lot of beverage companies. And so we just kind of decided if we were gonna start one, it’s probably better to start it in a community as small as Bend, and as inclusive as Bend as well.
Miller: Thomas Angel, a lot more to hear about your company. But Paula Hayes, I want to go back to you, the founder and owner of Hue Noir Cosmetics based in Beaverton. So you explained the fact that, when you started out of the Great Recession in 2009, lipstick really kept you afloat for a while because that seems recession proof. But then the pandemic came, and with it, mask mandates in a ton of places, and basically no or very few special events for a long time. What did that mean for makeup sales?
Hayes: That meant that makeup sales in general took a tremendous hit, something bigger than I could have ever guessed given this category. It meant I needed to figure out how to be really innovative and adaptive if I was going to get through this period. And that’s exactly what we did.
Miller: What kind of adaptations or innovations did you put in place?
Hayes: One of the things that’s unique and special about what we do is that we do our own manufacturing. Especially coming out the gate for any new product, we will manufacture up to a certain point before that product, whatever it is, needs to go to a much larger contract manufacturer. It’s part of my background. And being someone with a background in product chemistry, cosmetic chemistry, it means that there’s a whole lot that I can formulate.
And so as the pandemic hit, first and foremost, I’m a mom of two kids who I was still sending off to school before everything shut down, and I couldn’t even buy them hand sanitizer. So I started making sanitizer, really to make sure my kids were okay. But then I just saw this huge gap that most places, most stores just weren’t carrying the product. So I turned to my investors and said during this period, we’re going to pivot and make hand sanitizer. My machines can handle it. It’s far easier than making makeup, and I think it’ll keep us afloat. And so we focused on that for 2020.
Miller: And that and that worked business-wise for you?
Hayes: It worked business-wise, I mean we definitely weren’t doing the same kind of volume. But it was enough to keep us afloat, and it was enough to focus on one product through a lot of the supply chain issues that were going on. So, again, it was a lifesaver in 2020 for sure.
Miller: Supply chain issues, a phrase that many of us had never heard before 2020, and now it’s inescapable. Early on, what did that look like for you in terms of the cosmetics business? Where had you been getting all the various stuff that goes into cosmetics from? And how much were you able to get it when the world shut down?
Hayes: That was the biggest surprise. I try to get most of the ingredients that go into our products stateside. And that wasn’t a huge issue for us during the pandemic. Some things were more readily accessible in larger quantities than others. But fortunately, with the makeup part of my business dipping, we were able to manage that.
The biggest issue are all of the bottles and tubes and components that those various substances go into. So for instance, when I started making sanitizer, I was able to source some of those bottles that I ultimately used stateside, until all the stateside suppliers just couldn’t provide anymore. That meant I was gonna have to look towards suppliers that are in China. Now in the beauty space, most components come from China. So my biggest a-ha moment in surprised that things were going to be tough was the first bottle of first order of plastic bottles that I placed during the pandemic, and realized that not only was it going to take about 6 to 8 extra weeks to get what I needed, but that the freight costs were going to be four times the cost of the actual components.
Miller: And this was two years ago. This was way before the big increase in fuel costs and the inflation that has become international news over the last six months. So even two years ago, this was already a major issue for you?
Hayes: It was already a major issue shortly after the pandemic hit. This is by May of 2020.
Miller: Alfonso Herrera, what did supply chain issues look like for you early on in the pandemic when you were starting out?
Herrera: Dave, have you heard the term back order?
Miller: I think everybody has.
Herrera: Yup. That’s the story for our industry, parts being on national backorder, or local, can’t get them. And so with supply chain issues, whether parts are coming across seas or even within our country, distributing the parts was an issue. If parts start becoming unavailable, original parts, manufactured parts, the next alternative parts, aftermarket parts, or used or reconditioned parts, those start being used up as well. And pretty much you end up with no parts, because everybody’s used them all up and there’s nothing being restocked or available. So that was one issue.
And then the other issue is distribution, getting all these parts distributed. And with the challenge of COVID and employees, it was hard. Something that should have been here the next day or two or three days FedEx or UPS was now taking a lot longer to get to us. Therefore repairs are taking a lot longer to do, and so it just opened up a whole bunch of challenges for our industry.
Miller: I imagine that one way you could sort of proactively respond to that would be, for certain kinds of parts that aren’t super specific to some make or model, but maybe would be more likely to be used more often, you could just perhaps buy them in advance, thinking or assuming that at some point you’ll need them. But that would cost money and, and space. How much were you able to plan ahead in response to supply chain issues?
Herrera: It’s very tough because we work on a lot of different makes and models of vehicles. Anywhere from Toyotas, Mazdas, Hyundai, Subaru. So it’s very hard to try to plan. We can be as proactive as we can based on the superficial damages that we can see after an accident. There are several steps that go through the repair process. And you usually order parts a couple of times, two or three times throughout the repair process. Initially you can see all the damage from the outside of the vehicle. Once the vehicle is in the shop disassembled, now there’s more parts, more damage underneath. So an additional parts order has to be submitted.
So yes, we can be proactive and order the parts that we can visually see from the outside. But until the vehicle is in the shop disassembled and we know the extent of damage, we can’t really order a complete parts work for each vehicle, which is parts for vehicles or vehicle specific.
Miller: How understanding have your customers been about these issues that are obviously out of your control, but you’re still the bearer of bad news, you’re the one saying “sorry, we can’t fix your car for five weeks”?
Herrera: This is where we’ve coached our team to communicate and be as transparent as we can be with our customers, and just educate as best as we could up front. And that way, everybody is aware. And because this affected everybody across multiple industries, everybody has been very understanding. Most of our customers understand the process. We communicate with our customers at least once a week, and touch base with each one of them and give them an update. Even if there is no progress, if we’re still waiting on parts, customers still appreciate that, um that we still keep them in mind, we still call them, tell them nothing’s changed, but there’s you know what we look forward to. And so as long as we can continue being transparent and communicate with customers, I think things are gonna be okay.
Miller: Thomas Angel, to go back to you, my understanding is that you and your team chose to contract out with existing beverage manufacturers instead of building your own whole facility. How did you decide on that course?
Angel: It’s two pieces. One is capital expenditure. It’s pretty expensive to start your own production facility. And even though that was romantically our initial intentions by starting the beverage company in Bend out of the same page of a lot of the other breweries there, it’s quite expensive. And especially when you want to make a non-alcoholic product, typically you have to pasteurize it in order to make it shelf stable. And that type of equipment, as we came to learn, can be over a million dollars. And when you’re a bootstrap startup, allocating any amount of capital has to be pretty strategic in terms of your returns. And with that expensive of capital expenditure equipment, those returns typically take several years.
The second part, which was a little bit of just going up the learning curve, is it’s quite hard to run a production facility. And unless you have experience doing so, you have to bring on that experience, which is 1: pretty hard to come by, and 2: especially in the labor market that we’ve seen through the pandemic, especially hard to come by. So the opportunity to work with contract manufacturers whose sole specialty and background is production, it enables us to outsource an element of our business that we don’t necessarily have the skill sets in, and utilize people who specifically do.
Miller: You mentioned staffing there, another famously challenging part of the last couple of years. What has staffing been like for you?
Angel: I would say this has been more of a recent issue. As we’ve started to grow, we’ve been fortunate that our oat milk latte line has now launched nationally with Sprouts Farmers Markets in nine states. And as we grow into new markets, it’s quite imperative to have brand ambassadors, to have people that represent your company and your products in these new states, these new cities.
Miller: Beaning people setting up a table at a supermarket with free samples? What are you looking to hire?
Angel: Yeah, a combination. That’s, at a base level, probably from a quantity perspective, the most amount of hires that we’re looking for. In addition to that is territory managers, people to manage those brand ambassadors in larger markets like Los Angeles or Dallas. And in addition to that is starting to hire sales representatives to start to get a higher concentration of stores around our Sprouts Farmers Markets.
Miller: Have you been able to hire the people that you feel like you need to hire to enable this expansion?
Angel: Long story short, no. I think it’s something that we’re starting to dedicate more time, energy, and resources on. Once again, [we] probably underestimated the amount of work required, especially in this environment. One of the biggest things that we’re seeing is it’s very competitive. The rates at which people are being hired at is much higher than expected for a small, still bootstrapped company like us-
Miller: Meaning the salaries that you’d have to pay to be competitive to hire people are higher than can pencil out for you right now?
Angel: Yeah, exactly. Some of these brand ambassador jobs, which we kind of figured would be somewhere in the $20 to $25 range, sometimes are going north of $30, $35. And we’re certainly all for paying people competitive and fair wages. But it does start to become a little bit of a stretch for our budgets, especially when you’re talking about needing to hire 10, 12, 15 people to get the type of reach that we’re looking for with our expansion.
Miller: So Paula Hayes, what about you? What has staffing looked like for Hue Noir cosmetics?
Hayes: Yeah, it’s been an interesting, you said in the beginning of the interview, rollercoaster. At the beginning of the pandemic, I worked as hard as I could to keep my team intact. We were pretty successful in 2020, like I said, with the move towards sanitizer. But as the pandemic continued to last, we started to see a lot of the influxes that many people see. It was also exacerbated by a couple of people who were on my team who had childcare issues, with young kids. And with kids not being in the classroom, learning from home, that started to disrupt our team as well. I kept salaries flat in 2020, again, not really knowing where things were going to go.
But the biggest hit for me was 2021, because I decided I really had to start to wane us off of sanitizer, we were gonna make it back to our primary market. So I did see some layoffs in places that are painful for me, things like folks who know how to properly manufacture and craft a lipstick, that’s a very specialized skill set. And so I worked really hard to try to keep those positions as stable as I can, because no matter who I hire, I’m going to have to train them. So it was a really interesting period.
We’re starting to see things level off this year and return to a sense of “normal”, normal as they can be right now. But I still worry about if we get into a period with high growth, we’re going to be stretched very thin.
Miller: And Alfonso Herrera, what about you? I’m curious, even just in terms of numbers, how many employees you had when you started in August of 2020, and how many you have now?
Herrera: When we first started, we had a handful of employees, and now we’re at about 14. So we’ve tripled in size in the last few years. But it’s been a challenge for sure.
Miller: What kind of challenge has it been in terms of hiring people?
Herrera: Well for some time, you put ads out there and put a sign out front of the building, and you’re not attracting any applicants. And it’s tough when you don’t see any traction there, no phone calls, no applications. You start wondering what are we doing wrong, what else can we do? Social media, the team talked about putting a radio ad. What can we do?
Also this year we had to add a benefits package to become attractive, and also retain the employees that we have. Being a new business, two years old, we didn’t have benefits to start off until recently. So now we offer our employees a benefits package, dental, medical, vision, and retirement. And also increased wages, whether it’s the current team and new positions that are being offered or opened up, they have to be competitive. That’s just where the automotive industry is, the labor costs have just gone really high.
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Following a months-long national search, the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic appointed Christy Trotter as its new chief executive officer earlier this month.
Trotter, who has spent most of her life in the Valley, served as the YVFWC’s chief financial officer as well as its interim CEO. Now that her role is more cemented, Trotter said she’s looking forward to a future where the Farm Workers Clinic is more than just a health care provider, and is a member of the community.
The nonprofit Farm Workers Clinic serves more than 190,000 patients annually in Washington and Oregon and employs about 1,600 people. One in five of the organization’s patients are migrant or agricultural workers.
The Yakima Herald sat down with Trotter and asked her a few questions about her plans for the future, her reasons for staying in Yakima and how she plans to improve the health of Yakima County, as well as the rest of the clinic’s coverage area.
Now that you’re no longer interim, what long term goals do you have for the Farm Workers Clinic?
The first thing I’m doing is I think it’s really important for myself as a leader to listen to our employees and our providers, so I’m going to spend the next two or three months touring all our sites, having listening sessions with each of the employees and the providers. I want to take that information and come back and work with my teams to then come up with a strategy of how to address some employee improvement areas, things that we could do for the providers, things that we can do for our patients to make things better for them.
My focus is really on holistic care for our patients. We want our patients to have the best outcomes. We also want our employees to be high quality and love where they work. I also want to make sure we are relevant in our communities. That may mean different things depending (on where we are). In Yakima we have a large presence so we have a lot more resources here to be better partners. In some other communities like Spokane where we’re a little bit smaller, that may look different.
I still believe that people should know us beyond just the health care we’re providing. We should be an actual member of the community.
With your appointment, all three Federally Qualified Health Centers in Yakima County are now led by women. How does it feel to be a part of this growing group of female CEOs?
To be honest I haven’t really thought about it. I’ve had people approach me with that statement but I just see myself as me. I try to look at other people that way. I want to focus on the individual.
I am proud that I have been able to get to this level in my career. I raised a family and you know, juggling kids and career was a challenge. You always feel like, ‘Am I letting my family down?’ But my boys, they are so proud of me and it just makes me feel very good that I was a good mom too and they’re proud of me. That part is exciting.
You’ve spent most of your life in the Valley and built an impressive resume. You could most likely go and work anywhere you wanted. Why do you choose to stay here?
I love the Valley. When I graduated from high school I was bound and determined to go to a school that no one else was going to so I ended up at University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. I stayed there for a couple of years then I transferred to Central and then moved back to Yakima. It’s my home, it’s where my family is. I love the community, I love the diversity and I’m kind of a farm person so I like being around agriculture and people who work with their hands and work hard every day.
I have a lot of respect for people in the agricultural industry and the people who work in the fields. I understand what it’s like to be part of that and I enjoy it.
Yakima County has a lot of public health issues. What are some local health issues you want to focus on or consider the most important to address?
Well, I don’t want Yakima County to be (one of the highest) in the state for obesity … We’ve already started some programs to at least address obesity and diseases related to that. We started a teaching kitchen in Toppenish and we’ve also added dieticians who are embedded into our clinics so we are trying very much so to have a holistic approach to health care and help our patients create healthy lifestyles for them that they can actually replicate at home.
That is a big initiative for us. We’ve partnered with food banks. We have a program in Toppenish where clients can pick up food at the food bank and then we can teach them how to use that food to create a healthy meal in our testing kitchen.
We’re really trying to work with other partners in the community to build a healthy community. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/community-q-a-meet-the-new-ceo-of-the-yakima-valley-farm-workers-clinic/article_9d79aace-223b-11ed-95ba-d7b1ac01fbdd.html | 2022-08-22T23:21:19Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/community-q-a-meet-the-new-ceo-of-the-yakima-valley-farm-workers-clinic/article_9d79aace-223b-11ed-95ba-d7b1ac01fbdd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Heritage University’s High School Equivalency Program will begin classes at a fourth location — Nuestra Casa in Sunnyside — this week.
The HEP is a GED program for migrant workers and their families. It gives students from those communities an opportunity to learn mathematics, social studies, science and reading and writing and earn their GED.
To enroll, students must meet the following requirements:
• Be over the age of 16
• Worked a seasonal farmworker or have a family who has worked as a seasonal farmworker for at least 75 days in the last two years
• Not yet have a high school diploma or equivalent
• Have a valid ID
Classes will be from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Students will work with instructors and schedule their studies then, but are expected to work on mathematics daily, according to an email from Program Director Jennifer Renteria-Lopez. Students must test when they first enter the program to see what subjects they need to work on the most.
The new location in Sunnyside is opening in partnership with Nuestra Casa at 906 E. Edison Ave. Nuestra Casa is a local community organization which offers many other resources and opportunities. Students also can take classes in Granger, Prescott and on Heritage University’s campus in Toppenish.
“We are grateful for this partnership (with Nuestra Casa),” Renteria-Lopez said in an email. “The GED program is focused on guiding migrant families to a better future by providing free GED courses and inspiring our migrant community to continue furthering their education.”
Enrollment is open. Interested students can call 509-865-0736 to set up an appointment. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/education/new-ged-program-starts-at-nuestra-casa-in-sunnyside-this-week/article_eb404b96-200b-11ed-9a13-8fbd933aa907.html | 2022-08-22T23:21:25Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/education/new-ged-program-starts-at-nuestra-casa-in-sunnyside-this-week/article_eb404b96-200b-11ed-9a13-8fbd933aa907.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A federal lawsuit has been filed seeking to block the transfer of juveniles from Bridge City to Angola.
"Attorneys have filed a federal lawsuit to prevent the transfer of youth currently detained at Bridge City Center for Youth to Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, an adult facility with an environment that would place youth at imminent and grave risk of serious harm. The state’s plans follow a chain of systemic failures [themarshallproject.org] caused by adults within the Office of Juvenile Justice, failures that the lawsuit claims must be addressed immediately," a release from Louisiana's ACLU states.
“There are no circumstances under which it would be safe, legal, or appropriate to house youth at a notorious adult penitentiary like Angola,” said Hector Linares of the Loyola Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice. “Nothing we have seen to this point leads us to believe this is anything but an ill-conceived and impulsive decision that will only heighten the crisis at OJJ, rather than do anything to resolve it.”
“State leadership has had ample opportunity to enact meaningful reforms that act in the best interest of our young people, but instead the state has continued to push forward unjust policies and actions that only further traumatize incarcerated youth, their families, and communities. That is why families are now having to find legal remedies for the state’s failures,” said Gina Womack, co-founder and executive director of Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children. “The move defies all common sense and best practices, and it will cause irrevocable damage to our youth and families.”
“The move to put youth in Angola ignores decades of research showing young people in adult lock-ups makes us less safe, not more,” said David Utter of The Claiborne Firm, one of the lawyers who filed the federal lawsuit today on behalf of youth and families. “The idea that Louisiana is pursuing a policy of placing youth in an adult prison in 2022 truly shocks the conscience.”
“The State of Louisiana has ignored the comprehensive problems within the juvenile justice system for decades,” said Ronald Haley, one of the attorneys representing the youth and their families. “Now, these problems have been deemed unmanageable, and the solution is to send our troubled youth to a place where they will be ignored and forgotten — thus, passing the responsibility to an institution that has been sued for numerous civil and human rights violations. This is an unacceptable response to addressing the problems with OJJ. ”
“Study after study has shown that incarceration has devastating, lifelong effects on young people — cutting them off from their families, disrupting their education, and exposing them to further trauma and violence,” said Nora Ahmed, legal director for the ACLU of Louisiana. “Transferring these children to an adult prison will only cause more pain and suffering, and deprive them of the services, programming, and other tools they need for healthy growth, education, and development. We should be helping kids to grow into productive adults, not harming them further.”
“The juvenile justice system is supposed to be about rehabilitation and creating opportunities for future success to override past missteps,” said Tammie Gregg, deputy director of the ACLU’s National Prison Project. “We must show our youth a vision for their lives and future that is rich with promise and hope. Placing children in a notorious adult prison rife with the history of slavery and racial disparity instead paints a portrait of deep despair, failure, and limitation — certainly not the positive and achievable outcomes we hope for their future.”
The lawsuit was filed in the federal court for the Middle District of Louisiana. A hearing date is pending.
To read our story about the planned transfer, click here. | https://www.katc.com/news/covering-louisiana/federal-lawsuit-filed-to-halt-transfer-of-juveniles-to-angola | 2022-08-22T23:23:38Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/covering-louisiana/federal-lawsuit-filed-to-halt-transfer-of-juveniles-to-angola | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A 22-year-old Texas man left to raise his 12-year-old brother after both of their parents and grandfather died has now received a much-needed home renovation.
Jaylan Gray said, “I’m speechless, way more than we asked for. Completely grateful.” He said, “I love it,” he told Texas station KPRC.
An organization called Katy Responds remodeled the home after it was badly damaged by Hurricane Harvey in 2017, and other storms worsened the situation.
A local church then came through to donate resources to furnish the home.
Ron Peters, executive director for the organization, said, “There’s just no way they could’ve lived in it and probably would’ve never fixed it.”
“I want you to have a safe place to live. I want you to be able to not worry about your home, for a few years,” said Peters. “This is what we do. It’s hard work. It’s non-profit work, but it’s why we do it is for those guys.”
“It makes me so happy to see that there’s good people. I just like the way we’ve been treated. I didn’t think anything good would happen,” said Julian. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/after-their-parents-died-he-was-left-to-raise-his-brother-a-full-home-renovation-gave-them-a-new-start | 2022-08-22T23:24:02Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/after-their-parents-died-he-was-left-to-raise-his-brother-a-full-home-renovation-gave-them-a-new-start | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Yellowstone National Park officials say the human foot inside a shoe found last week floating in the Abyss Pool might be linked to a death that happened on July 31.
"Evidence from the investigation thus far suggests that an incident involving one individual likely occurred on the morning of July 31, 2022, at Abyss Pool," officials said in a press release on Friday. "Currently, the park believes there was no foul play."
Officials added that the investigation into the death by the park's law enforcement officers is still ongoing.
Officials said that the grisly discovery was made Tuesday by a park employee near the West Thumb Geyser Basin.
According to the park's website, the hot spring is one of the deepest at Yellowstone, with a depth of more than 50 feet, and its temperature can reach approximately 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
After the gruesome discovery, the area the foot was found and the nearby parking lot were temporarily closed, park officials said, but it has since reopened.
According to the Associated Press, park officials say since 1890, at least 22 people have died in or around the park from hot spring-related injuries. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/officials-human-foot-inside-a-shoe-found-in-yellowstone-hot-spring-linked-to-july-death | 2022-08-22T23:24:14Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/officials-human-foot-inside-a-shoe-found-in-yellowstone-hot-spring-linked-to-july-death | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Stocks fell broadly on Wall Street, extending the market's losses amid worries about inflation and the path ahead for the economy.
The S&P 500 shed 2.1% Monday, its biggest drop since mid-June. Some 95% of stocks in the benchmark index lost ground. It finished in the red last week, breaking a four-week winning streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq also fell. Technology companies and retailers had some of the heaviest losses. Signify Health soared after The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon would bid for the company. Investors are looking ahead to this week's Federal Reserve conference.
Stocks dropped in afternoon trading on Wall Street Monday, extending the market's losses amid worries about inflation and the path ahead for the economy.
The S&P 500 fell 2.1% as of 3:07 p.m. Eastern and more than 90% of stocks in the benchmark index posted losses. It finished in the red last week, breaking a four-week winning streak.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 649 points, or 1.9%, to 33,058 and the Nasdaq fell 2.5%.
Technology companies and retailers had some of the heaviest losses. Microsoft fell 2.9% and Target fell 3%.
Movie theater operators were volatile following a report that Cineworld is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The industry is still struggling to recover from the virus pandemic. AMC Entertainment fell 3.4% in choppy trading. Cinemark fell 4.6%.
Bright spots in the market included Signify Health, which jumped 32.4% after The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon would bid for the company.
Smaller company stocks also fell, sending the Russell 2000 index 2.2% lower.
Bond yields gained ground. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences rates on home mortgages and other loans, rose to 3.04% from 2.97% late Friday.
The broader market's losses come on the heels of a weeks-long rally. Investors are trying to figure out where the economy goes from here as stubbornly hot inflation hurts businesses and consumers. Record-high inflation also has investors focusing on central banks and their efforts to fight high prices without further damaging economic growth.
"You've had quite a rally and there's reason to not be sure where we're going from here," said Tom Martin, senior portfolio manager with Globalt Investments. "There's still decent potential for a recession."
Minutes last week from the Federal Reserve's July board meeting affirmed plans for more rate hikes despite signs of weaker economic activity. Traders worry aggressive steps to slow the economy might go too far and bring on a recession. The U.S. economy has already contracted through the first half of 2022 and Wall Street will get more information on Thursday when the government releases an updated report on the U.S. economy for the second quarter.
Investors are also looking ahead to this week's Federal Reserve conference for signals about more possible U.S. rate hikes to cool surging inflation. The central bank holds its annual meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on Thursday. Fed Chair Jerome Powell is scheduled to give a speech on Friday morning.
The Fed is holding its meeting following a heavy week of company and economic data that showed inflation is still squeezing the economy, but consumer spending remains resilient. Falling gasoline and food commodity prices, for wheat and corn, have helped relieve some of that pressure. That helped essentially stall inflation's advance in July, though prices still remain stubbornly high.
"I don't think we're out of the woods yet on inflation," Martin said. "We still don't really know how inflation is going to pan out and what the Fed is going to do." | https://www.katc.com/news/national/stocks-fall-broadly-on-wall-street-to-start-the-week-extending-market-losses | 2022-08-22T23:24:27Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/stocks-fall-broadly-on-wall-street-to-start-the-week-extending-market-losses | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
They are the bane of summertime existence: Mosquitoes, eager to bite anytime. Not only are they an itchy nuisance — they carry diseases.
In 2020, the CDC reported “dramatic” increases in illnesses spread by mosquitoes and other blood feeders. Scientists are finding malaria and dengue emerging in previously unaffected areas.
Climate change has extended the mosquito season in some areas, and that’s factoring into surging demand for professional yard spraying.
But there’s a potential downside to yard-wide treatments.
According to the journal Biological Conservation, more than 40% of insect species worldwide are threatened with extinction. That includes pollinator bees and butterflies.
"If you're using a toxic chemical that's toxic to certain types of species like insects, you might expect to see some collateral damage," said John Meeker, an environmental health sciences professor at University of Michigan.
There’s also been a decrease of predators. Three billion North American birds have been lost in recent decades, mostly consisting of insect eaters.
Some companies offer natural alternatives for mosquito control, like water mixed with essential oils from plants like lemongrass, garlic and peppermint.
"One of our dogs likes to eat wood chips from the landscaping," said Marty Marino, who is trying natural mosquito repellents. "I haven't figured out how to stop that yet, but if he's going to do that and there's the synthetic insecticide on it, that's a great concern."
Experts say homeowners can also avoid the unwanted effects of chemicals by using simpler solutions, like emptying stagnant water sources and using electric fans to keep the pests away.
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NORTHBORO, Mass. — As the remaining few days of summer slip away, high school math teacher Mary Rose Steele is feeling something that hasn't been there in quite a while: excitement.
"I'm excited for the first time in three years to be starting the school year on the right foot," Steele explained while sitting in her kitchen.
From where she sits, Mary Rose offers a unique perspective on the upcoming school year. She's both a teacher and the parent of three kids, all of whom are about to begin school in a few weeks, and all of whom are also pretty excited to hit the right marks this school year.
"I feel like we’ve pulled away from COVID in that people are emotionally settled," Steele said.
After almost three years of hybrid learning and masks and disruptions, this upcoming school year feels fairly normal for students across the country.
"Last year, we were partly online. It was a little hard from just being online and then going back to school. This year, I'm excited," Steele's youngest daughter, Sophie, said.
That does not mean though that there won't be challenges. So, we asked this lifelong educator what she needs most this year.
"I want kids to come back with a work ethic. I just am hoping they are ready to come back socially ready to learn this year. That was my biggest challenge last year," she added.
From students to parents and even her colleagues, there's one other thing Mary Rose says she needs to be successful this year.
"Kindness toward each other. Kindness toward ourselves, accepting sometimes we will fail we aren't going to get a problem right but we can get through this. We can get through this as a team." | https://www.katc.com/news/national/teachers-excited-for-upcoming-school-year | 2022-08-22T23:24:39Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/teachers-excited-for-upcoming-school-year | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BATON ROUGE – LSU wide receiver Kayshon Boutte has been named first-team preseason all-American by the Associated Press, the news organization announced on Monday.
Boutte, a junior from New Iberia, is back at full speed after having his sophomore season cut short due to an injury. Boutte suffered his season-ending injury against Kentucky in week 6, and at the time he ranked among the national leaders in several receiving categories.
In six games in 2021, Boutte caught 38 passes for 509 yards and nine touchdowns. Boutte caught at least one TD pass in LSU’s first five games last year, including three against UCLA in the season-opener.
Boutte burst onto the national scene late in his rookie season when he set the Southeastern Conference single-game receiving record with 308 yards and three TDs on 14 receptions in the win over Ole Miss in the season finale.
Boutte capped his first year with the Tigers earning Freshman All-America honors as well as being named to the Freshman All-SEC.
In 16 career games, Boutte has caught 83 passes for 1,244 yards and 14 touchdowns.
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In a press release, the restaurant chain said it wanted to sign offensive line groups rather than individual athletes to underscore "that, like a lineman, bigger is better."
The teams the players signed to NIL deals hail from include Auburn, LSU, the Miami Hurricanes, Texas A&M, Georgia Tech, Missouri, Vanderbilt, Florida Atlantic University, and the University of South Florida, the company said.
“For decades, the physical play, blue-collar mentality and on-field leadership of the offensive lineman has shined, but national praise and attention for these crucial players has all-too-often been sidelined,” said Hooters Chief Marketing Officer Bruce Skala in a news release. “We want to change the narrative and celebrate these elite student-athletes who play a pivotal role in making college football so thrilling and give them their fair share of the spotlight.”
According to ESPN and The Athletic, 51 players inked NIL deals with Hooters, including McKade Mettauer, Andrew Raym and Wanya Morris from the University of Oklahoma, EJ Ndoma-Ogar from Missouri, Kardell Thomas, Miles Frazier and Marcus Dumervil from LSU.
“It is an honor to have Hooters promote the big guys up front and advocate for the work, dedication and spirit of offensive linemen throughout college football,” said Georgia Tech offensive lineman Pierce Quick in the press release. “Like an offensive line, Hooters is all about comradery and having a good time, and I think I speak for all linemen by saying we are extremely excited to partner with a restaurant we already love and throw down some wings.”
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I am in no way a violent person.
The wasps and yellowjackets (the latter being the assholes of the bee world) that invade our home every summer fall into the them versus me category (I’m severely allergic) but I make Susan dispatch them. She hates doing it not because they’re threatening, but because she’s got this thing about sentient beings, and that includes angry, stinging, deadly bugs. Not everything can be warm and fuzzy.
My mother, though, was a furrier for a very long time after I singlehandedly ended her singing career (she tells me) and I was brought up on visits to the odorous Hudson’s Bay Company in Manhattan where my stepfather would buy skins to fashion into the fur coats I not-so-secretly hated. Still, there is no way in hell that I could harm a furry being, even if he is eating his way through my garden.
Or so I thought.
A few years after we moved into our home in exurban Connecticut, we were lucky enough to be given some dried heirloom pole beans by our neighbor, Sherry. Sherry’s grandfather (I could be getting that wrong–maybe it was her great-grandfather) carried them over from Italy, and now, they’re grown everywhere from my neighborhood to Katherine Whiteside‘s in upstate New York. I even shipped a batch to Deborah Madison, and so they’re growing in Galisteo, New Mexico, too. (These are well-known beans: Marcella Hazan identified them for me shortly before she died, and lovingly calling me a jackass for not cooking them correctly.)
The beans are beautiful: mottled green and purple, meaty, earthy, and totally delicious. And they love my soil. One day, though, some years ago when my garden was located behind our house, I stepped out of the shower and looked out the bathroom window at our thriving raised beds. I didn’t have my glasses on, so when it appeared that our beans suddenly looked a little anemic, I was sure that I wasn’t seeing things clearly. Only, I was: in the time that it took me to take a short shower, something had eaten every last bean, and most of the bush they were growing on. I reached for my glasses, got dressed, and looked back out the window. This time, staring back at me from inside my garden fence was a fat— and I mean really fat— woodchuck.
It sat there, chewing, and did everything but give me the middle finger. When I ran out to the garden, it waddled out through a hole in the fence, and took a swan dive into an overgrown, half-dead juniper bush. That night, Susan and I decided that the juniper bush, and the woodchuck, had to go. We were very serious and grave.
Our growing season was over a short time later, and so we stopped thinking about the woodchuck for about six months, and instead planned all of the delicious things we’d grow in the garden the following year: Hakurei turnips, French breakfast radishes, Bright Lights chard, mizuna, and kohlrabi.
“You’re going to have to do something about the woodchuck,” one of my friends said to me. She used to be a Buddhist monk, so when even she implied that it had to go, I knew I was in trouble. But with snow on the ground, I still had a few months to dream and plan and order my seeds.
I was like gardening’s version of The Village Idiot.
When it came time to plant, we reinforced the fence (which was eight feet tall, because we have deer, too), stapled down its bottom, and hoped for the best. Weeks later, we had magnificent French breakfast radishes, gorgeous turnip greens, two kinds of beets, the beginnings of our chard, and my beloved kohlrabi. I was not pleased when Susan came back from the garden one early morning before work and said you’re not gonna like this.
No kohlrabi.
I cursed like a longshoreman.
A few days later, I went to check the vegetable garden during a weeding break, and all was well. I went back later in the afternoon and the chard had been eaten, the beet greens were missing, and the tomato leaves had been chewed like tobacco. I might have actually shrieked when I saw that the radishes were topless. Over in the herb garden, there were signs of woodchuck feet. I drove to Agway, where I marched in like Lou Ferrigno, and was given a choice:
- Gas pellets to drop into their burrows. (No way.)
- Borrowing the neighbor’s Jack Russell. (Possibly.)
- A large, plastic, battery-operated hooting owl with a revolving head. (Reminded me of Linda Blair.)
- A gun. (Forget it. No guns.)
“Can’t I just reinforce the fence some more?” I asked the Agway guy.
“Sure. It’ll climb it, like a ladder.”
“How about putting a top on the fence. “
“It’ll burrow.”
I nearly wept. And I remembered that scene in Caddyshack, when Bill Murray blows up the whole golf course just to get rid of the little bastard. Was I going to destroy my garden just to rid it of a (big) pest? If I managed to get the woodchuck to leave, I’d still have to face chipmunks, birds, deer, and, probably, other woodchucks.
There’s a lesson in here, somewhere. And although I continue to receive dozens of suggestions ranging from having a few different men relieve themselves on the periphery of the space, to dropping Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum down the woodchuck burrows, I’m pretty much resigned to this being an on-going battle. Because in the northeast, where I live, if you grow it, they will come.
Is it worth the hassle?
Definitely. My radishes are delicious.
And the battle rages on.
French breakfast radishes + soft sweet butter + Maldon sea salt
Remove the tender leaves from the radishes. If they’re in good condition and not yellowing, wrap them up in paper towel, and put them in the salad crisper. Make pesto with them the way you’d make pesto with anything: in the bowl of a food processor put chopped leaves, olive oil, garlic, toasted pine nuts, Parmigiana Reggiano. Whir, taste for seasoning. Or go full on Chez Panisse and use a big mortar and pestle.
Serve the radishes with softened sweet butter and a sprinkle of Maldon sea salt. Black bread is nice too.
This post was originally published on Elissa Altman’s blog Poor Man’s Feast, The Beard Award-winning journal about the intersection of food, spirit, and the families that drive you crazy. Read more on her Substack, or keep up with her archives here. | https://www.printmag.com/creative-voices/poor-mans-feast-fighting-the-neighborhood-woodchuck/ | 2022-08-22T23:37:54Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/creative-voices/poor-mans-feast-fighting-the-neighborhood-woodchuck/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sgt. Yamil Jorge, veterinary food inspector and Public Health Activity-Hawaii Soldier, inspected the food that was in Guise's walk-in freezer and refrigerator storage after a fire caused them to be without power for more than four days. (Courtesy Photo)
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Birds of Prey’s Cathy Yan Will Direct Amazon’s Live-Action Paprika Series
On the heels of receiving her first-ever Emmy nomination, Cathy Yan has landed her next film project. According to Deadline, Yan has signed on to direct a new live-action series based on Paprika, the 1993 sci-fi novel written by Yasutaka Tsutsui.
Tsutsui’s novel imagined a future where scientists use dream monitoring and intervention as a means of psychotherapy. One scientist, Atsuko Chiba, adopts an alter-ego named Paprika to infiltrate her patients’ dreams and cure their mental illnesses. But when their technology suddenly falls into the wrong hands, Chiba and her colleagues must race against the clock to get it back.
This won’t be the first time that Paprika has made its way to screens. Legendary Japanese animator Satoshi Kon previously turned the book into a critically-acclaimed anime film in 2006. It was also the last movie that Kon directed before his death four years later. Rumors about a live-action American remake began circulating as early as 2009. In fact, the recently departed Wolfgang Peterson was once planning to direct the movie himself. But this version of the project never materialized.
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Last year, Yan directed an episode of Succession’s third season on HBO, which earned her a Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. The episode also marked her first directorial effort since Birds of Prey hit theaters in early 2020. But before the opportunity to visit the DC Universe came along, she made waves at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival for her debut feature, Dead Pigs, which finally got an international release via Mubi in 2021. Yan is also currently readying her next film, a sci-fi comedy called The Freshening.
Paprika hails from Amazon Studios and Hivemind. In addition to directing the series, Yan will serve as an executive producer alongside her longtime collaborator, Ash Sarohia, through their Rewild banner. Former Heroes star Masi Oka and Hivemind’s Jason F. Brown are executive producing as well.
Do you think Yan is a good choice to direct a live-action Paprika remake? Give us your impressions in the comment section below!
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Ameteur 2D winners include Brooke Anderson, 1st place and Mariah McDowell, 2nd place during the 17th Annual Art on the Green on Saturday, Aug. 20 at Expedition Island.
Semi-Professional 2D winners include Mary Parker, 1st place, Ben Nathan, 2nd place and Bryce Castillon, 3rd place for the 2022 Art on the Green competition at Expedition Island in Green River.
Artist Chad Spalding won the Rudy Gunter Memorial Award during the 17th annual Art on the Green at Expedition Island in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Ameteur 2D winners include Brooke Anderson, 1st place and Mariah McDowell, 2nd place during the 17th Annual Art on the Green on Saturday, Aug. 20 at Expedition Island.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Recreation Center
Professional 2D winners for the annual Art on the Green include Michael Parker, Jill Hartley and Scott Blume.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Recreational Center
Semi-Professional 2D winners include Mary Parker, 1st place, Ben Nathan, 2nd place and Bryce Castillon, 3rd place for the 2022 Art on the Green competition at Expedition Island in Green River.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Recreational Center
Artist Chad Spalding won the Rudy Gunter Memorial Award during the 17th annual Art on the Green at Expedition Island in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
GREEN RIVER -- The 17th Annual Art on the Green was held Aug. 19 and 20, 2022. The event was well received by the community. Forty-Five artists from Utah and Wyoming competed in the 2D and 3D Art competition for 24 hours straight. The weekend began with a bang at 11 a.m. on Friday. All competitors began the creative process in a variety of mediums including, watercolor, oil, clay, airbrush and more. The following are the results from this weekend’s Art on the Green event.
Artists’ Choice:
(Professional 2D)
1st place - Jill Hartley
2nd place: Tyrell Jasperson
3rd place: Michael Parker
Semi-Professional 2D:
1st place - Mary Parker
2nd place - Ben Nathan
3rd place - Bryce Castillon
Professional 3D:
1st place - Jeff Rudolph
2nd place - Mont Crosland
3rd place - Mary Shaw
Non-Professional 3D:
1st place - Wayne Kertz
2nd place - Aiden Shultz
Mayor’s Choice Awards:
Mia Rosas
Bryce Castillon
Andrew Kneeland
People’s Choice:
2D - Jamie Green
3D - Mary Shaw
Judges’ Choice Results
High School 2D:
1st place - Tyler Castillon
2nd place - Natalie Parker
High School 3D:
1st place - Maya Wiekhorst
2nd place - Mia Rosas
Amateur 2D:
1st place - Brooke Andreasen
2nd place - Mariah McDowell
Semi-Professional 2D:
1st place - Ben Nathan
2nd place - Amanda Romero
3rd place - Bryce Castillon
Non-Professional 3D:
1st place - Aiden Schultz
2nd place - Wayne Kertz
Professional 2D:
1st place - Michael Parker
2nd place - Jill Hartley
3rd place - Scott Blume
Professional 3D:
1st place - Mary Shaw
2nd place - Mont Crosland
3rd place - Jeff Rudolph
Rudy Gunter Memorial Award:
Chad Spalding
Other associated events included the 7th Annual Battle on the Green competition which kicked off on Friday at 4:30 p.m. with nine competitors painting head to head. A theme for each battle round was drawn by a member of the Green River Arts Council and competitors had only five minutes to prepare. After the five minutes of preparation, they had 30 minutes to create a work of art that was then judged by the community and a panel of judges. The judges’ choice for Battle on the Green was Brooke Andreasen and the People’s Choice went to Andrew Kneeland. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/art-on-the-green-competitors-drum-up-masterpieces-in-24-hours/article_8f239046-2265-11ed-94b7-87b8767853c5.html | 2022-08-22T23:40:45Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/art-on-the-green-competitors-drum-up-masterpieces-in-24-hours/article_8f239046-2265-11ed-94b7-87b8767853c5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Department of Health announced Monday morning that the first monkeypox case in a Wyoming resident has been identified in Laramie County.
Dr. Alexia Harrist, state health officer and state epidemiologist with WDH, said public health representatives are following up with the individual to see if additional Wyoming residents are at higher risk of contracting monkeypox due to direct contact with the adult man, who was tested within the last week.
“Because monkeypox spreads through close, intimate contact we do not believe the risk for the virus is now a higher concern for the local community or for most people in Wyoming,” she said in a statement. “Monkeypox does not spread easily like familiar viruses such as influenza or COVID-19.”
As of Aug. 18, there were more than 14,000 monkeypox cases confirmed in the U.S. by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The highest number of cases are located in New York and California.
WDH Public Information Officer Kim Deti told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle that the agency would not be surprised to see additional cases in the state, but can’t predict how many or when those might be identified. She reiterated it is unlike other viruses witnessed during the pandemic, and can’t be spread in situations such as being in an elevator with someone infected or touching a shopping cart.
Monkeypox is characterized by a rash with other symptoms such as fever, chills, headache, muscle aches and tiredness. Monkeypox is rarely fatal, but is unpleasant and painful, and can cause serious illness in some people, according to WDH. Experts have been tracking a growing outbreak of monkeypox in areas that don’t normally report the disease, including across the United States.
“Symptoms usually start within 3 weeks of exposure to the virus. If someone has flu-like symptoms, they will usually develop a rash 1-4 days later,” according to the health organization. “Monkeypox can be spread from the time symptoms start until the rash has healed, all scabs have fallen off and a fresh layer of skin has formed. The illness typically lasts 2-4 weeks."
Detailed facts, including rash photos, data and prevention recommendations are available from the CDC at https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html.
“We do want to prevent further spread within our state as much as possible. That’s why we will recommend vaccination for people who have been exposed to monkeypox, and also for people who may be more likely to get monkeypox based on the current outbreak and how it has been spreading,” Harrist said in the Monday news release.
The following people are eligible for pre-exposure vaccination if they live or work in Wyoming:
- Men who have sex with men and who have had multiple or anonymous sexual partners in the last year
- Partners of men who have sex with men who have had multiple or anonymous sexual partners in the last year
- Transgender and nonbinary persons assigned male at birth who have sex with multiple or anonymous sexual partners who are male or male assigned at birth within the past year
- Sex workers (of any sex)
“While anyone can become ill with monkeypox, vaccine eligibility is currently limited to people who are at highest risk in connection with this outbreak and how its spreading,” Harrist said in the release. “The goal is to put available vaccine supplies to the best possible use.”
Deti said she doesn’t know the exact amount of vaccination doses the state has, but it is a small supply. She said there are different circumstances in which it would be used, including for someone identified as high risk of infection post-exposure to an individual who tested positive for monkeypox.
Eligible individuals interested in vaccination appointments should contact the public health office in their area. Contact information for county public health offices can be found at https://health.wyo.gov/publichealth/nursing/phn-co-offices/. Wyoming residents may also call WDH at 307-777-6004 for help finding the closest local public health office.
Cheyenne-Laramie County Health Department will offer pre-exposure Jynneous (monkeypox) vaccine to individuals who meet the criteria every Tuesday and Friday. Call 307-633-4000 to schedule an appointment.
There is no proof of eligibility for the pre-exposure vaccination required, and details will be discussed with a local health provider. This applies for patients showing symptoms, as well.
“That would be the best thing to do, because they’re going to know the patient the best,” Cheyenne-Laramie County Health Department Director Kathy Emmons said. “And we always recommend people go with their local provider.”
While available monkeypox vaccine doses are being provided by the federal government through the state at no cost, a small administration fee may be charged.
More Wyoming-related information and updates about monkeypox can be found at https://health.wyo.gov/publichealth/infectious-disease-epidemiology-unit/disease/monkeypox/. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/health_care/first-wyoming-case-of-monkeypox-identified-in-laramie-county/article_53ccc294-2263-11ed-a016-9b360153f4ba.html | 2022-08-22T23:40:57Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/health_care/first-wyoming-case-of-monkeypox-identified-in-laramie-county/article_53ccc294-2263-11ed-a016-9b360153f4ba.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Incoming University of Wyoming freshman Kanilehua Miller works on a keychain at the makerspace in Coe Library. The crafting time was part of Saddle Up, UW’s new orientation program. Abby Vander Graaff/Laramie Boomerang
Students create flags at the makerspace in Coe Library on the University of Wyoming campus. The crafting time was part of Saddle Up, UW's orientation program.
A University of Wyoming student learns how to make a small banner at the makerspace in Coe Library. The crafting time was part of Saddle Up, the university’s orientation program.
Incoming University of Wyoming freshman Kanilehua Miller works on a keychain at the makerspace in Coe Library. The crafting time was part of Saddle Up, UW’s new orientation program. Abby Vander Graaff/Laramie Boomerang
Abby Vander Graaff/Boomerang
A University of Wyoming student learns how to make a small banner at the makerspace in Coe Library. The crafting time was part of Saddle Up, the university’s orientation program.
University of Wyoming students are getting an early preview of the joys and challenges that could face them across their academic careers.
Monday was the first day of Saddle Up, the university’s orientation program for incoming students. The program is meant to prepare students for their studies and social lives over the course of a week packed with activities that go far beyond a campus tour and learning the UW fight song.
“Our expectation is this incoming class of students will be the best prepared ever in part because of Saddle Up,” UW President Ed Seidel said during a Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday.
UW students and employees helped create the program, which was modeled off of similar practices at other universities that have been shown to increase student retention rates by 8%-10%, said Dean of Student Success and Graduation Nycole Courtney.
During the orientation, students take a weeklong course with their peers with same or similar majors. The courses are meant to mimic a real college-level class complete with tests and quizzes. Engineering students even build a car in their class.
When not in class, students spend time learning about the resources and activities on campus, take tours and do team building activities with their assigned orientation groups. The week also includes seminars on wellness topics, such as bystander intervention and mental health.
“Busy, tired and sweaty” was the way one student described the experience, with the consensus of many others.
The week wasn’t without its challenges, especially for student leaders and staff members running the orientation. When the basements of some campus buildings flooded during last weekend’s storm, the group rushed to save the 1,000 “Saddle Up” bags that had been laid out ready to give to the students.
They succeeded in saving the bags and worked to keep spirits up as some students sat in flooded classrooms Monday to the ambiance of fans and a smell one orientation leader described as “mucky.”
In some ways the difficulties were a perfect introduction to college for the students: things were hard at times, but together the group learned how to make the best of it — and build connections with one another along the way.
Teaching students how to advocate for themselves, whether it be to seek help from a professor, counselor or friend, is a central goal of the program.
“We want to get them to success from Day One,” Courtney said.
This type of comprehensive tour of college life and all it entails is something the orientation leaders said they wish they had when starting college.
“I would’ve loved meeting more geology students and getting (involved) in the department sooner,” said orientation leader Sarah Copertino.
Some freshman students said they made friends with people they wouldn’t have met otherwise, while others were exposed to corners of campus they may not have found on their own.
Some students gathered in the makerspace of the Coe Library, where there is equipment available for students to make items like buttons and keychains.
“I don’t think outside of this I would have been here,” incoming student Keagan Bowen said of the space.
The crafting time gave students an opportunity to reflect on what they are looking forward to in the upcoming semester. For Bowen, it’s experiencing more independence and freedom from a high school class schedule.
Others were excited to be closer to family who live in Laramie and start the next phases of their lives.
“I’m excited to start class and clubs,” Kanilehua Miller said.
More than 1,400 students checked into the residence halls by Wednesday, with a total of 1,677 set up to check in throughout the week, UW spokesperson Chad Baldwin said. The first day of classes is Monday.
For many of the new students, heading to class this fall will be a welcome change after a series of difficult school years during the pandemic.
“As freshmen we got booted out of the dorms,” said senior orientation leader Danielle Ernste. “Now it feels like (COVID-19) never happened.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/health_care/working-out-the-kinks-uw-students-study-socialize-ahead-of-semester/article_719f0f1a-2264-11ed-96db-d7081a85ab8b.html | 2022-08-22T23:41:03Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/health_care/working-out-the-kinks-uw-students-study-socialize-ahead-of-semester/article_719f0f1a-2264-11ed-96db-d7081a85ab8b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LARAMIE – The University of Wyoming soccer team dropped its second nonconference match to begin the season with a 4-1 loss against Oregon State on Sunday at Paul Lorenz Field in Corvallis, Oregon.
Wyoming (0-2) scored for the first time this season when sophomore Maddi Chance created the opportunity after she was fouled by Oregon State’s Valerie Tobias in the penalty box in the 40th minute.
UW senior Jamie Tatum took the penalty kick and deposited the ball in the upper-right corner of the net to cut the Beavers' lead to one goal at 2-1. It marked the 14th score of Tatum’s career.
Oregon State (1-0-1) opened the scoring in the fourth minute from the foot of Ava Benedetti. McKenna Martinez extended the Beavers’ advantage in the 17th minute with a feed from Amber Jackson.
Oregon State gave itself a two-goal cushion early in the second half when Martinez netted her second goal of the game 11 seconds into the half. Jackson closed the scoring by finding the back of the net in the 77th minute.
Oregon State tallied 21 shots, with a third of those on target. The Cowgirls had seven shots, with three of those on frame.
UW senior goalkeeper Miyuki Shoyen made three saves. Oregon State goalie Hailey Coll logged a pair of saves. Chance and Tatum accounted for two shots each, and junior Jazi Barela also had a pair of shots.
Wyoming completes its road trip with a contest against Montana at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at South Campus Stadium in Missoula, Montana. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/uw-soccer-drops-match-at-oregon-state/article_64e4763c-2257-11ed-a23b-67836516168d.html | 2022-08-22T23:41:09Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/uw-soccer-drops-match-at-oregon-state/article_64e4763c-2257-11ed-a23b-67836516168d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — A landmark social program now being pioneered in the nation’s capital could cut the wealth gap if rolled out at the federal level, proponents say.
The program now being tested in Washington, D.C., is called “Baby Bonds” and it’s designed to narrow the wealth gap. The children of capital’s poorest families would get up to $25,000 when they reach adulthood for college, to invest in a business or make a down payment on a home.
The District of Columbia is the first laboratory, and U.S. lawmakers are monitoring the experiment. The bonds are designed to provide a boost of capital at a critical time in the lives of the country’s poorest children
In just over a decade, the Baby Bonds idea has moved from a fringe leftist concept to actual policy. Lawmakers from coast to coast are monitoring the experiment, one that proponents say could reshape America’s growing wealth gap in a single generation if instituted on a federal level.
Despite the name, the bonds are more accurately trust funds, designed to provide a boost of capital at a critical time in the lives of some of the country’s poorest children. At age 18, each enrolled child will receive a lump sum payment.
“Think about all the things that people with money do to support themselves or what parents do for kids,” said Kenyan McDuffie, a D.C. Council member who pushed through Washington’s Baby Bonds program last summer. The clock started ticking in October and as of mid-August the city has so far identified 833 babies born since then who will receive up to $25,000 when they turn 18.
“Think about all those young folks who are going to be here in a city trapped in poverty, graduated from high schools turning 18,” McDuffie said. “And then having an account with money in it for them.”
It’s an expensive and long-simmering investment that by definition will take a generation of sustained political willpower to truly bear fruit. The district’s program will cost $32 million for the first four years alone.
The idea was originally proposed in 2010 by academics William Darity and Darrick Hamilton as a way to break the poverty cycle by giving children of poor families a chance to build long-term equity — either actual property, a stake in a business or the earning potential that comes from higher education.
It came to mainstream attention when Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., made it a centerpiece of his 2020 presidential campaign.
“I think it’s an idea that’s growing,” Booker told the AP. “And it’s a big idea. It’s on the level of Social Security. It’s on the level of Medicare. One generation would create a dramatic change.”
For politicians, the price tag can be daunting. Booker’s national plan envisioned annual costs of $60 billion, something he proposes financing by raising taxes on the wealthy.
For now, the Washington experiment will be closely watched by other state and local governments, with Baby Bonds proposals recently emerging in Wisconsin and Washington state and Massachusetts studying the issue. California just created a more targeted version, with Baby Bonds funds specifically for children who lost parents to COVID-19.
Which states are considering Baby Bonds?
The concept’s journey from academic thought experiment to on-the-ground policy received a major boost from the national conversation on poverty brought on by the pandemic. The economic iniquities exposed by COVID-19 fueled calls for a new approach to the cycle of generational poverty. And the Baby Bonds concept, already familiar from Booker’s campaign, gained fresh momentum with multiple proposals receiving serious consideration at a state level.
But most of them have failed to see daylight.
Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J., made headlines in 2020 for backing a Baby Bonds proposal. But the Legislature stripped it out of his budget, and Murphy did not propose it again.
In June 2021, Connecticut’s legislature approved the country’s first state-level Baby Bonds program. But in May of this year, lawmakers, in coordination with the governor’s office, chose to delay the program’s start by two years.
That makes Washington, D.C., the first real test case.
Connecticut’s treasurer, Shawn Wooden, who championed the program, said he was surprised and disappointed by the delay in his own state but remains convinced that the policy’s time has come.
“There’s quite the level of interest in this, and always with these things we need what we call first movers,” Wooden said. For the concept to spread, “there needs to be success in Connecticut. There needs to be success in the District of Columbia.”
Wooden has discussed Baby Bonds with members of President Joe Biden’s domestic policy team. McDuffie’s office has fielded queries from multiple state governments.
Who will manage the Baby Bond funds?
The concept is new enough that it’s still being tinkered with, with multiple models and internal debates among advocates on issues such as how best to determine eligibility. Washington’s program is so new that the families who have qualified have not been informed yet and will not be until the city hires a fund manager.
Connecticut’s will automatically enroll any newborn from a family on the state’s Medicaid program. Booker’s proposal would have sidestepped that issue by granting every child born in the country a Baby Bonds fund and $1,000 in seed money. Then, all subsequent payments into the fund would have been heavily weighted toward poorer families.
Washington’s program is open to families on Medicaid who make less than 300% of the federal poverty line, meaning earnings of up to about $83,250 for a family of four.
There are differences among plans in the size of the final payout. Booker’s proposal would have paid about $46,000 to children of the poorest families, while the district expects to pay out a maximum of $25,000. Connecticut’s plan would pay an estimated $13,000 — something Wooden described as “pretty much the floor” for a serious attempt at a Baby Bonds program.
Naomi Zewde, an assistant professor in health economics at the City University of New York who conducted a 2019 analysis of the concept, set the lowest impactful payment at $15,000.
“It has to be a sum of money that’s kind of outside what people would normally come across,” she said.
Zewde’s analysis suggested that a nationwide federal Baby Bonds program would massively reduce the racial wealth gap between white and Black Americans in a single generation, even as it boosted both races.
Currently the median wealth of young white Americans stands at $46,000, compared with $2,900 for Black Americans.
For a Baby Bonds program to succeed, it has to be on a national level and have strong popular support, advocates said.
Darity, a Duke professor who co-authored the original Baby Bonds proposal, points to Britain, which instituted a similar program called the child trust fund in 2005. But the program was discontinued and all future payments halted in 2010 in a government austerity campaign.
“I think the assessment in England was that they had not built grassroots support for the policy when they started it,” he said. “So there wasn’t any strong resistance to eliminating the plan.”
In the United States, the program already has been strongly endorsed by prominent liberal organizations such as the Urban Institute and Prosperity Now.
But there are detractors.
Veronique de Rugy, a senior research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, said the one-way nature of the deposits, with no mechanism for the families themselves to add money, “does nothing to encourage the culture of savings.”
She added that the program could tie up millions that could be used to address immediate societal conditions that also help feed the cycle of poverty.
“A lot of these kids are still going to be stuck in bad schools,” she said.
Michael Strain, an economist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, says Baby Bonds advocates will struggle to persuade lawmakers around the country to make such an expensive commitment. “I absolutely think it’s a hard sell,” he said. “The 18-year lag is less of a political obstacle than the price tag.”
Wooden rejected the perception of Baby Bonds as having no payoff for 18 years, saying the benefits will be immediate and measurable. That nest egg, he said, will inspire real-time changes in planning, academic achievement and overall ambition in both children and families.
“There is a high value that should be placed on hope,” he said. “We know what hopelessness looks like in our communities. | https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/2022/08/22/baby-bonds-now-being-tested-in-dc-could-cut-wealth-gap-backers-say/ | 2022-08-22T23:51:41Z | federaltimes.com | control | https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/2022/08/22/baby-bonds-now-being-tested-in-dc-could-cut-wealth-gap-backers-say/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For entrepreneurs, it’s part of the central mythology: You launch your own business because you want to be your own boss. To thrive as a business owner, it helps to have an independent streak and be comfortable going it alone.
But when small and mid-sized companies begin pursuing government contracts, it can help — immensely — if they strategically collaborate with other businesses.
There are several ways to make this happen:
- Getting work as a subcontractor is one good possibility.
- You can also seek mentoring from more experienced companies already working with the government and use that knowledge as you pursue your first contract.
- Some companies break into the industry through a true partnership, pairing up with another applicant to submit a joint bid.
“One new entrant might complement a gap or a void that another existing business may have, and together they have a better opportunity moving forward,” says Antonio Doss, deputy associate administrator for government contracting and business development at the Small Business Administration.
What kind of matches can work?
If you’re considering working as a subcontractor, ask yourself: How might your product or service be used by a larger company to help fulfill a contract they’ve won or they’re pursuing?
Building a relationship with a prime contractor “can be a great place to start and learn,” says Lauren Weiner, co-founder of WWC Global. She has worked as a government contractor since 2006.
One key to landing a contract: really understanding the needs of a particular government department or agency, Weiner says. While working as a subcontractor, you can learn about a particular sector and really come to understand those needs – while getting paid.
Going in on a joint bid with another company can give you the same advantage. If you’re partnering with someone who has a bit of experience, it can help speed up your learning curve.
But whether you’re seeking to be an equal partner on a contract or looking to be a subcontractor, the key is building relationships.
Where does a company find potential partners?
Your local SBA office may be able to help you connect with potential partners or folks who would need you as a subcontractor.
SBA district offices do their own training and also do training in partnership with local chambers of commerce and economic development organizations “to help demystify the whole government contracting space,” says Antonio Doss, deputy associate administrator for government contracting and business development.
These training events can be opportunities for networking with other entrepreneurs who are curious about government contracting or already pursuing contracts.
The current administration is making it a priority to increase the number of American small businesses working as government contractors, Doss says, and supporting business owners in networking with others is part of their plan. “Not only can you be a part of that space,” Doss says, but “as a newer entrant into the environment, you can learn from the other people.”
Seek mentors, even among competitors
The SBA points businesses to mentorship through organizations like score.org. But Doss also recommends reaching out directly to companies that are more experienced and thriving in the government space.
You might be surprised how many people – even competitors – are willing to share their knowledge about breaking into contracting within a specific industry.
“Those persons are often a season or two or three further down the path of where you are right now,” Doss says. “Often they’re willing to share with you, because sometimes they’re also realizing that you might be a good teaming partner at some point.”
One way to avoid stepping on toes as you seek advice: Since companies usually choose a particular government agency to do business with, you might learn from a competitor and then target a different area of the government.
As you pursue subcontracting jobs, partnerships and mentorship, Weiner says, keep this in mind: There are as many ways of earning a government contract as there are businesses that do it.
“So don’t get discouraged if another business owner says, ‘it was impossible,’” she says. “It may not be impossible for you, given what you offer.” | https://www.federaltimes.com/govcon/2022/08/22/how-business-partnering-can-help-you-become-a-government-contractor/ | 2022-08-22T23:51:48Z | federaltimes.com | control | https://www.federaltimes.com/govcon/2022/08/22/how-business-partnering-can-help-you-become-a-government-contractor/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lesson 5: Components to Calculate Pension-Retirement Service Computation Date
Lesson 5: There are three components needed to calculate your pension. The first is Retirement Service Computation Date and the actual years of service employed by the federal government.
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Yesterday we had rate cuts from the People's Bank of China:
Via China's Securities Times this morning, an opinion piece saying:
- China may reduce RRR this year to compensate for MLF maturity
- RRR cuts may lower lending prime rates
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Via China's Securities Times this morning, an opinion piece saying:
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SALISBURY -- It is confirmed that Colin H. Lin, the 29-year-old killed in the tragic hit and run on Tuesday, August 16th, is the son of the family that owns Tokyo Steakhouse in Salisbury. Information has also surfaced that the original photo released by police, which described a blue "bobtail" truck with a white stripe down the side, might be incorrect. According to the Maryland State Police Department, based on new evidence found at the scene, they believe they have a new lead on the vehicle that was involved in that hit and run. That being said, details of that new vehicles make and model have yet to be released.
We spoke with the family of Colin Lin, and his family members just want answers more than anything else. Until they get those answers, Tokyo Steakhouse in Salisbury is closed indefinitely.
Customers just want to see the family get closure.
"I know it's a staple for our community, but the family needs time to grieve and try and get some closure," said Debra Reynolds. "I hope the family can get the answers they're looking for and just prayers to them."
The Lin family originally posted a reward of $5,000 to anyone who came forward with information that led to an arrest, but according to the family, they have rescinded that offer. Instead, they are hoping the relationship they've built with the Salisbury community will lead to somebody coming forward. | https://www.wboc.com/news/new-details-about-the-deadly-hit-and-run-near-tokyo-steakhouse/article_f22a2c22-2265-11ed-a839-27b40b05aeb6.html | 2022-08-22T23:56:04Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/new-details-about-the-deadly-hit-and-run-near-tokyo-steakhouse/article_f22a2c22-2265-11ed-a839-27b40b05aeb6.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
EASTON, Md. - Voting, at the next town council meeting, will include the possible ban of single-use plastic bags.
The town of Easton is close to banning single-use plastic bags. If passed, this would apply to places like grocery stores, convenience stores, service stations, and others.
This would not apply to things like fresh fish, meat, and poultry. As well as, unpackaged fruits, nuts, fresh cheese, baked goods, or prescription drugs from a pharmacy. And newspapers and dry-cleaned goods, would be excluded.
"About four or five months going through this thing. The idea is to find the correct thing to do and the right thing to do," says Easton Council member Ron Engle.
If the ban is passed, grocery stores would be warned for a first time violation. Then, they would fined $25 to $50 dollars for second and multiple violations; after a grace period.
"We haven't quite figured out a grace period. I think we were leaning towards six months. That's the last I heard, to make that transition. It's not like we are going to pass a law and do something. We are going to be pretty active in getting public information out, so everybody will know about it," says Engle.
Mary Gleason said she had switched to reusable bags since she heard about a potential ban. "I have always used plastic for years. Then when things started getting out of hand, I went to the reusable. That's what I have been using ever since. Every place I go, I take them with me in my car. There is no need for plastic," says Gleason.
There were some in the town who did not agree with the ban at all. However, Engle says he has heard an overall positive opinion on this ordinance. | https://www.wboc.com/news/potential-plastic-bag-ban-in-easton/article_5023bfce-226a-11ed-b108-5fabead6875a.html | 2022-08-22T23:56:11Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/potential-plastic-bag-ban-in-easton/article_5023bfce-226a-11ed-b108-5fabead6875a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Princess Anne, Md. --- You can't travel through historic Princess Anne without passing the Washington Inn and Tavern. Rich in history and charm the inn is now up for sale.
Henry Hanna, the agent over the sale, says that when the previous owner retired and the town purchased the inn, locals invested in renovating the building to keep the inn alive.
"The community was afraid that it might get demolished," Hanna said. "And so 5 families decided on a plan to restore it and save the historic nature."
And the history of this building dates back to the 1700s which was before America was even a country.
"One of the stories about it was that George Washington slept here and so that would have been before it was a country," Hanna said. "So that was operated for a long time. It was a cornerstone for the community."
As Princess Anne has changed over the years, there are hopes from community members like Lynnell Fletcher-Pugh, that the new owner will make an effort to target a more diverse audience.
"They don't do anything that accommodates us, so if they have anything there, it's just centered around their culture," Pugh said, "If they're going to have a band there make it a band that has diversity so that everybody can participate."
And has a rare feature, separate staircases which were built back then for men and women. So if you have a spare 1.2 million as well as a love for history and the community, continuing the history of the Washington Inn may be of interest to you. | https://www.wboc.com/news/the-historic-washington-inn-and-tavern-is-for-sale/article_e2207a36-2268-11ed-960f-1f745b6ca7bb.html | 2022-08-22T23:56:17Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/the-historic-washington-inn-and-tavern-is-for-sale/article_e2207a36-2268-11ed-960f-1f745b6ca7bb.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Integrated Warfighting Network(IWN) is a technical architecture developed by the Department of the Air Force Chief Architect Office (DAF CAO) that delivers a coherent Space Force and Air Force architecture that converges Warfighting Information Technology and Enterprise Information Technology into an integrated network -both in the office and for the operator on-the-move in the field –across multiple classification levels.
The Integrated Warfighting Network (IWN) has two primary components existing within the same architecture –Enterprise Connect and Edge Connect. Six IWN-Edge Connect MVP kits were provided to PACAF during Valiant Shield ’22. In addition to the primary mission of supporting deployed Air Force units, Edge Connect has the capacity to support other austere warfighting requirements; during VS‘22, this included supporting the Integrated Fire Control Network, which moved high-bandwidth fire-control-quality data throughout the INDOPACOM theater to enable distributed command and control concepts.
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Elkhorn man finds possible 90-million-year-old fish fossil in Missouri River
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - An Elkhorn man made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery in the Missouri River—a fossil of what appears to 90-million-year-old fish.
Fishing is more than a sport for Andy Moore.
“It’s the feeling you get when that fish bites your line,” Moore said. “It’s that primordial jolt you get in your spine, and it goes right to your brain.”
Moore got a jolt like no other from his catch at a tournament in mid-August. He was fishing just west of Yankton, South Dakota.
At first, Moore wasn’t doing very well in the tournament.
“I pitched my jig and it’s horrible. It’s like way left and I’m like oh man.”
Moore had snagged the back of a rock and couldn’t get it off his line. So, he paddled his kayak up to the rock.
“I get up to it and I’m like oh wow that’s kind of cool. I thought it was a big catfish skeleton or a deer skeleton. Something told me to take a picture of this.”
Later, Moore posted the pictures online. Within minutes, texts and phone calls started flooding in.
“It was like, ‘Uh dude. Did you know that’s a 90-million-year-old fossil that’s in that picture?’ I’m like what?”
So Moore contacted a biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
They went back out and found the rock, using the coordinates from pictures on Moore’s cell phone.
“The geologist guy saw it and he’s like he just jumped out of the boat in his boots goes up to it and he goes oh my god.”
The biologist confirmed with 6 News that the fossil does appear to be that of a prehistoric predator fish that’s up to 90 million years old.
“I’m still kind of mind blown about the whole thing.”
As for the tournament, Moore didn’t do very well. He says this time he doesn’t mind.
“Because I have the discovery of a lifetime.”
The fossil will be on display at the Lewis and Clark Visitor’s Center on the Nebraska side.
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Pakistan on edge over terrorism case against ex-PM Imran Khan
Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan have surrounded his home to prevent police from arresting him on terrorism charges.
Why it matters: Since being ousted in April, Khan has been mobilizing huge crowds while railing against the government and breaking a long-standing taboo by criticizing the military. The threat of arrest raises the stakes of that showdown dramatically.
Driving the news: At a rally on Saturday, Khan named a police chief and judge involved in a treason case against one of his aides, and said, "We will not spare you, we will sue you," per Reuters.
- The police deemed that a direct threat and charged Khan with spreading terrorism. Pakistan's information minister accused him of "inciting the people to violence, lawlessness, rebellion and riot."
- Pakistan's media regulator also banned live coverage of Khan's speeches.
Between the lines: Khan's aide, Shahbaz Gill, was arrested after calling on members of the military to reject "illegal orders" from their superiors, hinting at the idea that military leaders have turned on Khan but the rank-and-file stands behind him.
- Analysts believe the military, Pakistan's most powerful institution, helped bring Khan to power and later removed him.
Khan's removal in a no-confidence vote remains extremely contentious.
- The new government, led by Shehbaz Sharif, claims Khan's economic mismanagement was his undoing. Pakistan is in the midst of a debt crisis made worse by spikes in the cost of food and fuel.
- Khan claims, without evidence, that his ouster was engineered by the U.S. because he was too close to China and Russia. The U.S. denies that, but Khan's anti-U.S. rhetoric has energized his supporters.
What we're watching: Khan is back in campaign mode with a potent sense of grievance and a devoted base of support — a role to which the former cricket star, who previously spent two decades in opposition, is well-suited.
- His party won a crushing upset in regional elections last month, and Khan has been holding huge rallies to pressure the government to hold early elections.
- "Every effort Pakistan's government makes to weaken Imran Khan will only end up making him stronger," contends Michael Kugelman, an expert on Pakistan at the Wilson Center. "[D]ysfunctional and repressive policies play to his strengths as a populist and enable him to channel public outrage to his advantage."
What's next: Khan's lawyer said Monday that he'd been granted three days of pre-arrest bail, likely meaning he won't be arrested in that time. However, the Islamabad High Court launched separate contempt of court proceedings over Khan's comments about the judge.
- For now, Khan's supporters have vowed to remain outside his home. "Police will have to step over our dead bodies before they get to him. He is our last hope," one man told the BBC.
- If Khan is arrested, "we will take over Islamabad," a former senior official from Khan's party threatened.
Worth noting: The government seems more focused on the feud with Khan than on responding to floods that have killed more than 600 people, notes Madiha Afzal of Brookings. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/22/pakistan-terrorism-charges-imran-khan | 2022-08-23T00:16:07Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/22/pakistan-terrorism-charges-imran-khan | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska – U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., visited Eielson Air Base, Alaska, August 12 to engage with the Icemen who live and work here.
Brown’s Eielson visit was just one stop on a tour of the Indo-Pacific, during which he visited several military installations and met with representatives from allied and partner nations. While at Eielson, Brown spoke with Icemen about the importance of the wing’s mission and the teams who execute it every day.
“We’re the most respected air force in the world, not because of our capabilities and our equipment, but because of our Airmen,” said Brown.
During the visit, Brown received a mission and arctic strategy brief from Eielson leadership. He toured the installation, including the flightline, to discuss RED FLAG-Alaska operations and airfield modernization. He also met with Airmen and held an all-call for Icemen where he discussed recent and upcoming changes to Air Force policies and addressed quality of life issues facing all personnel living here.
“I understand Eielson is a unique location, so I ask you to challenge the status quo,” said Brown. “If you have an idea for a program that would solve a local problem, create it. Our goal is to provide you the opportunity, the intent, the authority and, to the best of our ability, provide you the resources to be able to do these things. And if there’s something in your way, whether it’s an Air Force Instruction or a local policy, I want to know about it.”
Brown concluded his visit by coining superior performers and thanking the entire Iceman team for their dedication to mission success.
“I very much appreciate the opportunity to spend a little time with the Iceman team, but more importantly I appreciate what you do,” said Brown. “I appreciate what you do for our Air Force and what you do for our nation. We could not do what we do without you.”
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by Lori S. Stewart, USAICoE Command Historian
On August 25, 1961, fifteen MI reserve units were called up in response to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s demand that the United States, Great Britain, and France remove their forces from West Berlin by the end of the year. The mobilization lasted nearly a year and, while not popular, helped deter a fighting war with the Soviet Union.
In the years following World War II, distrust and tension ran high between the western allies and the Soviet Union over the division of the German city of Berlin. By the late 1950s, the mass exodus of East Germans fleeing into West Berlin led Khrushchev to issue an ultimatum demanding the United States, France, and Great Britain depart their sectors of the city within six months. Discussions between Khrushchev and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower broke down without solution. Shortly after taking office in early 1961, President John F. Kennedy resumed talks with Khrushchev but, in June, the Soviet Premier restated his earlier ultimatum with a clear warning of military response if it went unheeded.
On July 25, 1961, Kennedy asserted the United States would fight over West Berlin if necessary. At his request, on 1 August, Congress authorized him to order as many as 250,000 Ready Reservists, both units and individuals, to active duty for not more than twelve months. Two weeks later, Khrushchev sealed the borders between East and West Berlin and began construction of the Berlin Wall.
In response, on August 25, the U.S. Army alerted 113 Army National Guard (ARNG) and U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) units for mobilization. The number was soon increased to 210. The first 76,500 troops were to report to their mobilization points by October 1, while another 82,350 were to report by October 15. These personnel backfilled positions in stateside active-duty divisions that deployed to Europe in response to the crisis. MI units mobilized during this period included:
324th U.S. Army Security Agency (ASA) Battalion, Chicago, Illinois
325th U.S. ASA Battalion, Bell, California
197th ASA Company, New York, New York
310th MI Platoon (Regimental Combat Team [RCT]), St. Petersburg, Florida
372d MI Platoon (RCT), Jasper, Alabama
380th MI Platoon (RCT), Madison, Wisconsin
393d MI Platoon (RCT), Las Cruces, New Mexico
531st MI Platoon (RCT), Jacksonville, Florida
223d MI Detachment (Division), Fort Meyer, Virginia
226th MI Detachment (Corps), Fort Meyer, Virginia
342d MI Detachment (Division), Cleveland, Ohio
347th MI Detachment (Logistics Command), Fort Worth, Texas
349th MI Detachment (Counterintelligence), Dallas, Texas
421st MI Detachment (Strategic), Boston, Massachusetts
469th MI Detachment (Strategic), Fort Snelling, Minnesota
Although the Berlin Crisis escalated in October, with American and Soviet tanks facing each other across the border, by mid-November, the immediate threat abated. On November 17, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara halted additional mobilizations. Five months later, he called for the mobilized forces to be released on August 1, 1962.
Military authorities called the mobilization effort a “qualified success,” but it had been unpopular among many of the reservists. They complained they had no clear purpose, little meaningful work, assignments for which they were not qualified or trained, inadequate or obsolete equipment, and poor living conditions. Still, the mobilization had helped deter a hot war with the Soviets and demonstrated the U.S. commitment to the security of West Berlin.
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – Last week, 23 newcomers to the 189th Infantry Brigade, First Army Division West took part in Cold Steel Academy at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, a unique training opportunity within the First Army framework to ensure their success while serving with the unit as Observer, Coach, Trainers (OC/Ts).
“The importance of this course is to provide an outline of what their job as an OC/T is going to look like and what [resources and doctrine] they will be applying,” said Sgt. 1st Class Ian Moffatt, a vertical construction OC/T assigned to 3-364th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 189th Inf. Bde.
Since its inception, the course has adapted to better meet the training requirements outlined by both policy and doctrinal standards.
“Its mission in its current iteration is to address the majority of Phase I requirements for First Army’s four-phase OC/T certification,” said Staff Sgt. Jessica Foster, a geospatial intelligence OC/T also assigned to 3-364th Bde. Eng. Btn., 189th Inf. Bde. “Our intent is to conduct classroom instruction, to facilitate drivers training opportunities as well as Tactical Combat Casualty Care certification to make sure [students complete] as many of their initial requirements as possible before they go to York Academy for their First Army level certification, which trains them on conducting collective exercises, how to facilitate an effective AAR and how to build and evaluate training lanes.”
Both instructors have been teaching the course for roughly a year, and are constantly reviewing training methodologies to ensure efficiency.
“There are always improvements that can be made, but despite the class size being much larger than usual, I thought it went absolutely phenomenal,” Moffatt said.
Brigade Leadership has long had an appreciation for the educational benefits the program provides in ensuring its Soldiers are ready to train units effectively.
“Cold Steel Academy actually started off as the ‘Rampant Academy’, a program solely serving under the brigade engineer battalion,” Foster said. “The [brigade-wide] program in its current form has been around for about two years, but the idea of having a centralized course that takes care of all Phase I requirements took place within the battalion well before.”
The course also helps introduce new OC/Ts to other OC/Ts throughout the brigade.
“I think when you show up to something like this, at first you don’t know what to expect,” Moffatt said. “As they start working more within their shops, talk to more people and start understanding the language we use here, it really helps them break in.”
Cold Steel Academy is structured to assist Leaders build upon their previous experiences to develop their proficiency as OC/Ts.
“We facilitate discussions and get out that 85 percent the training audience knows and help lead them to the 15 percent that we are trying to make sure they are learning with us,” Foster said. “You have a lot of people with a lot of knowledge coming from different backgrounds, and then having that standard pushed out through the academy, we get everyone at least aware of who others are and train them on the specifics and how we all fit together.”
The course bolsters the brigade’s goal of cultivating a culture of learning and development.
“I’m always impressed by that spirit of collaboration and willingness to learn and grow as individuals within the organization,” Foster said.
Ultimately, the program has been recognized as a best practice throughout the division by providing a common knowledge base.
“It definitely makes a huge difference when they go to their next level of certification in terms of the knowledge base they have going in there compared to [those from other brigades],” Moffatt said.
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Local Volunteer Receives National Scouting Award
Scouting volunteer Mike Matzinger received the 2022 National Outstanding Eagle Scout Award (NOESA) at the Old North State Council Character in Action Banquet on August 9 at the Koury Convention Center. This award recognizes notable Eagle Scouts who have performed distinguished service at the local, state, or regional level. They also “have inspired others through their actions and have devoted a lifetime to their profession, avocation, community, and beliefs, at great sacrifice to themselves and their families,” according to the National Eagle Scout Association website.
Eagle Scout is scouting’s highest rank and those who achieve it are encouraged to wear the award with humility, knowing Eagle Scouts are to be looked up to as an example of honor, loyalty, courage, cheerfulness, and service. The NOESA recognizes those, like Matzinger, who use these qualities to guide their actions and endeavors now and in the future.
“Scouting has been an important part of my life since I became a Cub Scout at age eight. My roles as business executive, community volunteer, parent, and spouse are heavily influenced by the preparation scouting provided me to make moral and ethical decisions for a lifetime based on the tenants of the Scout Oath and Law,” explains Matzinger.
After earning a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Emory University, Matzinger started his career as a research scientist during which time he was granted 32 patents. Later, he earned an MBA from the University of South Carolina and transitioned to technical and business leadership roles before becoming president of Burlington Chemical Company 12 years ago.
Matzinger has served in many scouting roles for over 30 years at the unit, district, council, and territory levels. In our community, he is Scoutmaster to 71 young men in Troop 600, chartered to Oak Ridge Presbyterian Church, and Scoutmaster to 40 young women in Troop 219, chartered to Northwest Guilford Woman’s Club. He has served as the founding unit leader of each for 16 and three years, respectively, and has helped almost 100 Scouts reach the rank of Eagle Scout.
“Scoutmaster Matzinger embodies what it means to be a true servant leader,” says Selby Chipman, one of Troop 219’s four inaugural female Eagle Scouts. “Thanks to his guidance and support, I have gained confidence and resilience, experienced adventures of a lifetime, and value the importance of paying it forward.”
“During the pandemic, Scoutmaster Matzinger provided the mentorship and resources that enabled our troop to thrive and grow at a time when most activities stopped,” adds Caden Miller, a Troop 600 Eagle Scout who served as senior patrol leader during that time. “Not only did we continue meeting virtually and outdoors, but he encouraged us to help our community by collecting tens of thousands of pounds of food for months to help people in need.”
In 2023, Matzinger will be Scoutmaster of a contingent of 36 Scouts from local troops participating in the BSA National Jamboree. He has served as a unit leader for three national and two international jamborees.
Matzinger has previously received other scouting recognitions including the Celtic Cross Award, Sea Scout Leadership Award, Venturing Leadership Award, Special Needs Scouting Service Award, District Award of Merit, and Silver Beaver Award.
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PTI Holds Campus Wide Job Fair
Piedmont Triad – The Piedmont Triad Airport Authority will host an airport wide Job Fair at PTI on August 25th from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The event will be in the terminal building, 1000 Ted Johnson Parkway on the departure/upper level near American Airlines.
Various types of jobs will be available. You will be able to connect with companies located all around the airport campus. Interviews may be available on-the-spot. Guests will be able to connect with companies located all around the airport campus in one location.
Companies in attendance:
- Archangels Transit Incorporated
- The Budd Group
- Envoy Air
- FedEx Express - Airport
- HAECO Americas
- HMS Host Restaurant/Bar Services
- Honda Jet
- Jetstream Ground Services
- Paradies Lagardere Travel Retail
- Piedmont Triad Airport Authority
- Prime Flight Services
- SP+ Parking
- Transportation Security Administration
If you have questions please call 336-665-5600 or go to https://flyfrompti.com/job-fair/.
The Piedmont Triad International Airport is owned, operated and managed by the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority. The Airport Authority is governed by a board of directors representing three cities, Greensboro, High Point, and Winston-Salem, and two counties Forsyth, and Guilford. The Airport, located off of Bryan Boulevard, is the third bus | https://www.yesweekly.com/business/pti-holds-campus-wide-job-fair/article_81a6a1e6-222a-11ed-be6a-bf75d0be5ce3.html | 2022-08-23T00:21:34Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/business/pti-holds-campus-wide-job-fair/article_81a6a1e6-222a-11ed-be6a-bf75d0be5ce3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HPU Welcomes Historic Number of New Students this Move-In Weekend
High Point University’s Move-In Weekend brings 20,000 visitors to the city, generating $5.15 million in economic impact.
HIGH POINT, N.C., Aug. 20, 2022 – Energy levels were at maximum capacity this weekend on High Point University’s campus as hundreds of faculty, staff and student volunteers welcomed HPU’s largest group of new students.
As is tradition, volunteers and the HPU Marching Panthers band cheered for the Class of 2026 when they arrived throughout Friday and today. Then, volunteers swiftly unloaded vehicles moved items to residence halls, making the day seamless for HPU’s newest family members.
“Driving onto campus and seeing everyone happy and smiling makes you feel at home at HPU,” said Marie Engel, parent of freshman Vanessa from Hamilton Square, New Jersey. “The energy and the vibe when we pulled up to her dorm was very welcoming. You won’t see this happen at any other university.”
HPU welcomes this weekend its largest group of new students in history at 1,600, as well as the largest total enrollment of 6,000 students. The Class of 2026 represents 44 states, with New Jersey and New York the most represented. This year’s new students have completed more than 90,000 community service hours, 49 students are joining their siblings on campus and 20% of the class are first generation college students.
HPU’s Move-In Weekend brings in more than 20,000 people to campus and around the community, boosting the economy for local restaurants, hotels and shops.
“Move-In weekend is an impactful boost to our local economy as a record-breaking 20,000 visitors generate an estimated $5.15 million of economic impact in our city and surrounding communities,” said Melody Burnett, president of Visit High Point. “Our area businesses are rejoicing in this homecoming as HPU students and families are valued customers.”
Freshman Carson Teed, whose family traveled from their home near Boston, Massachusetts, said his older brother Grant’s experience at HPU influenced his decision. Teed got a head start by taking the four-week Summer Advantage program.
“Because of the experience of my brother, it just made sense that this was the college I would apply to,” said Teed, who is interested in studying sport management or psychology.
“To me it is the true caring of everybody in every role here, starting with Dr. Qubein all the way down,” said Diane Teed, mother of Carson and Grant. “I had not envisioned our two boys going to school so far away from home. After our first visit here with Grant, I just had a sense that the commitment to excellence and the support for students was real. I knew that individualized attention would be here in a way I hadn’t seen at all the other schools.”
She and her husband, Glenn Teed, say their son Grant, an incoming senior, had been happy and transformed since he started attending HPU. Grant gained self-confidence and became ready for a professional career, his father said. Even though the brothers will be far from home, the Teeds feel confident the HPU community will be supportive.
New students chose HPU for a variety of reasons, from impressive academic programs to experiential learning opportunities and an inviting campus atmosphere. Grace Gainey, a Presidential Scholar, is looking forward to the Women’s L.I.F.T. Fellowship Program.
“I chose HPU because of the life skills opportunities that will prepare me like no other school would,” said Gainey, from Summerfield, North Carolina. “The life skills at HPU prepare you to have the interview skills, communication skills and other skills that you won’t get at other schools. Dr. Qubein is very inspirational, and I love the aspects HPU celebrates of God, family and country. Those three things are important to me.”
Gainey’s brother, Sam, is a sophomore at HPU. The family found out about the university when their father, Jason, heard Dr. Qubein provide the keynote presentation at a national conference.
“I started hearing more and more about Dr. Qubein and the university,” said Jason Gainey. “You see him around campus interacting with students, and you don’t find that at other schools. He's very involved with students and with the community. The experiential learning is important to me as a parent, too. When these students graduate, they leave with real-world experience and skills beyond textbooks.”
Freshman Leah Quill of New Jersey selected High Point University because she felt like she was at home as soon as she walked onto campus.
“There are so many resources available at HPU that made me feel I could be very successful here,” said Quill. “HPU is quite differently than other universities because the president comes from a business background rather than one in teaching/academic administration. I think this is groundbreaking, not only in the way campus is run, but also in what connections and resources are available on campus. As many say, ‘It’s about who you know and what experience you have.’ HPU can provide that, which will allow it to be a fantastic avenue for me to achieve my goals.”
Mac Webster, a freshman from Boise, Idaho, credits his sister for introducing him to HPU. He remembers her saying that this would be a great university for him to attend and that he was home.
“As soon as I entered, everyone was very welcoming,” said Webster. “I like how I’m continuing to learn life skills at The Premier Life Skills University, which I also learned in high school. At HPU, you’re not only going to learn the stuff that you need to know, but also how to prepare for a business dinner or how to dress for events.”
The Marley family is originally from Australia and moved to the United States 18 years ago. This is their second Move-In Weekend experience at HPU, with their daughter Jess graduating in May and their son Ben just starting his college journey.
“HPU has impressed us by the breadth of opportunities they offer to students and how welcoming everyone is,” said Georgie Marley, mother of Ben from Eastchester, New York. “We love the life skills aspect that is preparing students for life, and we love what Dr. Qubein has done for the university to make it a well-rounded place to send our kids. We are certain that Ben will thrive and have just as great an experience at HPU as his sister did.”
“I selected High Point University because it aligned with my values,” said freshman Catarina Guimaraes, of Cranford, New Jersey. “I wanted a school that would nurture my competitiveness and wasn’t just about studying from a book. I believe HPU will help me navigate the professional world and teach me to become the best version of myself. I want to become someone who helps others, and High Point University is the best place to help me with that.”
Welcome Week continues Sunday with Opening Convocation at 9 a.m., when HPU President Qubein will lead the keynote address at the Qubein Arena and Conference Center.
Overheard at HPU Move-In Day
Below is a snapshot of reactions from HPU freshmen and their parents.
“The environment and the people I met here are really welcoming,” said Maddie Smith, a freshman from York, South Carolina. “I applied Early Decision because I liked HPU more than all the other schools I looked at and really saw myself growing here. The early move-in day for Early Decision students on Friday was the easiest thing ever.”
“Move-In Day has been incredibly efficient,” said Julie Padgett, mother of Anna from Richmond, Virginia. “I think we had my daughter’s car unpacked in two minutes and we were off to unpack. It’s fantastic that such nice students brought her stuff to her room. Today has been effortless.”
“Just getting things set up and walking around and exploring stuff I haven’t seen before has been great,” said Ethan Luth, a freshman from Marion, Iowa, who found move-in activities exciting. He said he selected HPU because of its computer engineering program. He looks forward to meeting new people and joining clubs.
“It’s been awesome so far,” said his mother, Tabitha Luth. “Our welcome was incredibly fun. We’ve made quite a few new friends.”
“Flawless execution” was how parent Jacki Feild of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, described moving her daughter, Carter Feild, into Blessing Hall. “As long as it took us to pack the car, it was empty in nanoseconds. The vibe is so positive. Everybody has been so welcoming and generous to lighten the mood, which can be pretty heavy. We’re very happy with how it all went.”
“I love the life skills focus and being a part of the honors program,” said freshman Rowan Trietley, from Castle Rock, Colorado. “If you want a university that will help you get on the right career track and have professors that want to support and care about you, this is the right place to be.”
The Blanda family is from Santa Clara, California, and heard about HPU from family friends.
“I knew my son would be safe at HPU, that he would be taken care of and he would be supported here,” said Renee Blanda, mother of Mitchell, a freshman who moved in on Saturday. “It was very important for me to have Mitchell at a place where I wouldn’t worry about him. I know how well the university handled COVID-19, and I know this is a place where students can openly communicate and learn.”
The Lawhorne family drove hundreds of miles to move in their son, Reed, on Friday. They say the values of HPU aligns with their values.
“The God, family, country aspect is huge for us,” said Brad Lawhorne, father of Reed, from Reading, Pennsylvania. “Both of our families have people in our lives who have served and are in law enforcement. It’s important to us to see a university that instills those values in our son.”
“One of the reasons I applied Early Decision to HPU was the community service opportunities on campus and around the community,” said freshman Zaria Owens, from Hampton, Georgia, and founder of a nonprofit. “I also knew HPU was the school for me when I first visited it in eighth grade.”
“Visiting campus made me realize High Point University really was the spot for me,” said Calvin Byrd, a freshman from Grand Rapids, Michigan. “Getting to know people and adjusting to life on campus is the next step.”
Kim Shipes, of Cary, North Carolina, was all smiles after moving her daughter Hampton into her dorm room.
“This is our second child here,” said Snipes. “There’s tons of energy and a celebration going on that set the tone. When we were waiting in line, a Student Success Coach came up and started chatting with her, gave her some resources and completely put her at ease. The personal touch is exceptional. | https://www.yesweekly.com/education/hpu-welcomes-historic-number-of-new-students-this-move-in-weekend/article_19f3995a-2239-11ed-8701-0788d5d366da.html | 2022-08-23T00:21:40Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/education/hpu-welcomes-historic-number-of-new-students-this-move-in-weekend/article_19f3995a-2239-11ed-8701-0788d5d366da.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SEPTEMBER CLASSES AT CAN-NC
Creative Aging Network-NC is offering a wide variety of classes for aging adults at their Greensboro campus this fall. CAN-NC uses creativity as a means to teach new skills, reduce stress, build social connections, and improve overall well-being. We’re offering classes in movement, chair yoga, painting, printmaking, wood burning, and more.
Thanks to a grant from the Harris and Frances Block Foundation as well as sponsorships from HealthTeam Advantage and Alignment Health, CAN-NC is able to offer some free and reduced rate classes to ensure those with limited income have no barrier to participation. Registration is required and donations are always appreciated. To learn more, visit us online at https://can-nc.org/classes. For more information, please contact CAN-NC Executive Director Lia Miller at lia@can-nc.org or 336-303-9963.
About Creative Aging Network-NC: The mission of the Creative Aging Network-NC (CAN-NC) is to provide innovative arts programming and education to enhance the well-being and social connection among older adults throughout North Carolina. The CAN-NC campus, located just 3 miles from downtown Greensboro, NC, serves as a site for intergenerational and multicultural engagement, collaboration and education.
CAN-NC aims to create a healthier, more positive aging experience with creativity as the catalyst. Adult learners of all ability levels are internally motivated and self-directed, and they bring a wealth of knowledge and life experiences to learning. The creative arts give them a platform to share their voice and pass their legacy to the next generation. Our professionally trained teaching artists respect this and encourage incorporating life history into the art-making process whenever possible. CAN-NC fulfills its mission by educating others about the field of creative aging and offering a wide array of creative opportunities to help older adults stay socially, emotionally, and civically engaged. | https://www.yesweekly.com/education/september-classes-at-can-nc/article_45a83c42-224b-11ed-9920-e71e71789476.html | 2022-08-23T00:21:46Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/education/september-classes-at-can-nc/article_45a83c42-224b-11ed-9920-e71e71789476.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Mayberry today: Sheriff Andy still lives in Mayberry, or does he?
Last week’s Sunday’s CBS-TV’s Sunday Morning show featured a repeat of a feature hosted by former news anchor Ted Koppel and bringing the country’s attention to North Carolina again.
Reporting from Mount Airy, Koppel noted that it had been almost 55 years since Sheriff Andy left the popular Andy Griffith show, along with other favorite characters such as Ron Howard, who played Andy’s son, Don Knotts, who played Andy’s deputy Barney Fife, and the actors who played Aunt Bea and Floyd the barber. All are dead now except Howard.
With all these important actors gone, Koppel said, “It may come as something of a surprise to learn that Mayberry is doing just fine even though its actual name is Mount Airy, and its only genuine link to the Andy Griffith show is that Andy was born and grew up here.”
Randy Collins, president and CEO of the Greater Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce, explained how important the memory of the Andy Griffith show has been to his town, especially, Koppel added, “after tobacco and textile industries had the stuffing knocked out of them and the mills closed.”
Koppel continued, the TV show “captured a memory that never was true. Mayberry is fictitious.”
Collins agreed, “most everyone knows that except maybe some of the rabid fans of the show, they believe it’s real.”
Today, people from all over the country visit Mount Airy to see Mayberry, but the connection did not happen automatically.
Collins continued, “I think a lot of the town fathers and the business owners got together and said, hey, you know, what about this Mayberry thing? Maybe we can do something with it, and businesses were born or reinvented. It's a little bizarre, isn't it?”
Koppel explained, ‘It went off the air more than 50 years ago. Yes sir, it captured a reality that never was true.
In fact, as Collins explained, “We are constantly looking at other ways that we could promote the community because we know the Mayberry generation won't be here forever. But now with streaming television Andy will be forever with us and we hope the younger generation will pick it up.”
One visiting family explained they liked Mayberry so much because they could get clean comedy. “Yeah, good clean comedy with moral values. You don't see that a lot today in TV.”
Another said that Mount Airy’s real Snappy Lunch played a part even though it only got a few mentions on the TV show: “We drove from Louisiana for the famous pork chop sandwich.”
Another visitor explained, “I think the generations now long for that simplicity of the episodes of Andy being real with his son about stealing or doing the right thing and as a godless society that we see today is longing for simple life that when neighbors were neighbors and they provided for everybody else.”
Koppel tried to measure the political views of a group of visitors on a trolley bus. When he asked if they thought the 2020 presidential election was fair, only two hands shot up.
One visitor explained, “We don't even watch news on TV. We don't feel like that we are being told the truth, and we found our truth in other ways, and I won't say what those other ways are, but I feel like we're not being told the truth because we're trying to be swayed in a direction that we know is not the right direction.”
Another complained, “This conversation about politics is what people come here to get away from. We don't care what color you are. We don't care what your politics are. We just want to be good neighbors and treat everybody alike and that's why they're coming here.”
If only Mayberry were real.
D.G. Martin, a lawyer, served as UNC-System’s vice president for public affairs and hosted PBS-NC’s North Carolina Bookwatch. | https://www.yesweekly.com/film/mayberry-today-sheriff-andy-still-lives-in-mayberry-or-does-he/article_4b33e386-2224-11ed-b93f-a3aa2ad20fd4.html | 2022-08-23T00:21:52Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/film/mayberry-today-sheriff-andy-still-lives-in-mayberry-or-does-he/article_4b33e386-2224-11ed-b93f-a3aa2ad20fd4.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Five Proven Tips for a Healthier Gut
The health of your gut plays a surprisingly important role in other areas of your overall wellbeing, such as weight maintenance, energy levels and digestion. If you’re neglecting your digestive system, you might be causing some unwanted side effects that leave you feeling lethargic and rundown. In this article, we’ll be discussing five proven tips for a healthier gut, and how you can implement some changes to your lifestyle that promote good gut health.
Manage Your Stress Levels
First things first, when it comes to improving your gut health, you need to assess which areas of your life might be causing you undue stress. A lot of stomach problems are directly caused by anxiety or stress, which means that if your job or home life are leaving you overworked, you might be suffering from some physical symptoms too.
Because of the links between gut health and mental health, it’s important to manage your stress levels appropriately, by prioritizing a work-life balance and delegating tasks to others wherever you can. By reducing your workload, you can give yourself enough time to rest and recover, and your gut will thank you.
Optimize Your Diet
On top of your stress levels, your gut health can be highly affected by what you eat. Most of the 40 trillion bacteria that can be found in your body exist in your gut which are referred to as your gut microbiome. The foods you eat are therefore a big contributing factor to the type of bacteria that can be found in your microbiome, as well as its overall health. Luckily, there are lots of proven ways to improve your diet for gut health, which include eating more fiber, consuming a high number of fruits and veggies, and choosing the right foods when cooking.
Drink More Water
Staying hydrated is key to good gut health, and a recent study even found that people who drink more water are at a lower risk of developing the bacteria found in certain gastrointestinal infections. Higher water consumption can also reduce constipation and bring a whole host of other physical benefits like clear skin and increased hair growth - staying hydrated is a no-brainer when it comes to your health and wellbeing!
Get Regular Exercise
Another key element of gut health is regular exercise, which works to reduce your overall stress levels and support efficient digestion. If you’re short on time due to work commitments, then a quick yoga session in your lunch break might be all you need to kickstart your gut health journey and see changes to your overall wellbeing. If you’re looking for an exercise style that can also improve your cardiovascular endurance, then taking up running before work can bring a range of other benefits on top of improved digestion.
Try a Histamine Blocker
If you feel like you’ve tried everything and you’re still suffering with the unwanted consequences of poor gut health, like weight gain, acne or low energy, then it might be useful to consider a natural supplement that can boost your overall gut health and leave you feeling revitalized. You can try a low low histamine probiotic that is designed to boost your gut’s wellbeing, which might be the missing ingredient that you’ve been looking for. Using a natural histamine blocker is a sure-fire way to see quick improvements to your gut health, so giving it a go is definitely worth it.
Supporting your gut is one of the best ways to improve your digestion and feel better. From day one, implementing changes to your lifestyle that prioritize your gut health will make you feel healthier, more energized and ready to take on the world! | https://www.yesweekly.com/five-proven-tips-for-a-healthier-gut/article_a8a35556-2238-11ed-9418-b75ba114b90d.html | 2022-08-23T00:21:58Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/five-proven-tips-for-a-healthier-gut/article_a8a35556-2238-11ed-9418-b75ba114b90d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Adventure Landing Hosts a Police, Fire & First Responder Appreciation Weekend Aug. 27-28
Winston-Salem, NC – August 22nd, 2022 – Adventure Landing in Winston-Salem is hosting a Police, Fire & First Responder Appreciation Weekend on August 27th & 28th. All police, fire and first responders receive a free game of mini golf at the park.
Our first responders can enjoy a fun-filled day at the park on us. President and Owner, Hank Woodburn decided to celebrate the first responders toward the end of the summer season. “This is a terrific occasion for the first responders who have helped the community over the past years enjoy a free and fun experience on us. We appreciate all of their hard work and effort to help the community get back to normal,” he says.
The park is also hiring for various different positions, both full-time and part-time. Benefits include a discount on food, beverage and select merchandise, discounts on park attractions as well additional medical benefits for full-time employees. Anyone interested in applying should apply through the website at https://winston-salem.adventurelanding.com/about-us/employment/
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Adventure Landing is headquartered in Jacksonville Beach and consists of eleven family entertainment centers and one waterpark around the country. The entertainment parks offer a combination of family fun attractions including waterpark, video games, go-karts, laser tag, miniature golf courses, batting cages, birthday parties, corporate team building and group events.
Visit Adventure Landing’s website for more details, www.adventurelanding.com. | https://www.yesweekly.com/kids_family/adventure-landing-hosts-a-police-fire-first-responder-appreciation-weekend-aug-27-28/article_09e52b82-2257-11ed-ad0e-4b5d4e0ac161.html | 2022-08-23T00:22:04Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/kids_family/adventure-landing-hosts-a-police-fire-first-responder-appreciation-weekend-aug-27-28/article_09e52b82-2257-11ed-ad0e-4b5d4e0ac161.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CASTING FOR CAMERON MACKINTOSH’S ACCLAIMED PRODUCTION OF BOUBLIL AND SCHÖNBERG’S LES MISÉRABLES HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED
CELEBRATED ALUMS NICK CARTELL AS ‘JEAN VALJEAN’ AND PRESTON TRUMAN BOYD AS ‘JAVERT’ RETURN TO THE TOUR
Greensboro, N.C. – Casting for Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES, has been announced. Tickets for its Triad engagement at the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts will go on sale Friday, August 26 at 10 a.m.
Single tickets for Les Misérables start at $33 (plus taxes/ticket fees) will be available via:
Groups of 10+ now available (TangerCenter.com/Groups)
More information can be found at LesMis.com, the official global website for LES MISÉRABLES.
Cameron Mackintosh said, “The phenomenon of Les Misérables never fails to astound me. No show in history has been able to continually reinvent itself and remain a contemporary musical attracting new generations of brilliant new talent, many of whom go on to international stardom. No show in the world has ever demonstrated the survival of the human spirit better than Les Miz, and it's time to let the people sing again. We are all thrilled to be Bringing Her Home to you."
Celebrated tour alums Nick Cartell and Preston Truman Boyd will return to the barricades to portray the fugitive ‘Jean Valjean’ and ‘Inspector Javert,’ respectively. They are joined by Matt Crowle as ‘Thénardier,’ Christina Rose Hall as ‘Madame Thénardier,’ Haley Dortch as ‘Fantine,’ Devin Archer as ‘Enjolras,’ Christine Heesun Hwang as ‘Éponine,’ Gregory Lee Rodriguez as ‘Marius’ and Addie Morales as ‘Cosette.’ Cora Jane Messer and Hazel Vogel alternate in the role of ‘Little Cosette/Young Éponine.’ Harrison Fox and Gabriel Lafazan alternate in the role of ‘Gavroche.’
The new touring ensemble includes Kyle Adams, Daniel Gerard Bittner, Ciaran Bowling, Jenna Burns, Ben Cherington, Steve Czarnecki, Kelsey Denae, Arianne DiCerbo, Genevieve Ellis, Randy Jeter, Daelynn Carter Jorif, Olivia J. Lu, Eden Mau, Andrew Marks Maughan, Benjamin H. Moore, Nicole Morris, Ashley Dawn Mortensen, Julia Ellen Richardson, Ethan Rogers, Christopher Robin Sapp, Emily Somé, Christopher James Tamayo, Kyle Timson, J.T. Wood and David Young.
★★★★★ “This reborn dream of a production looks and sounds fresher than ever. Sends shivers of excitement racing down the spine - You emerge feeling stirred and exhilarated.” - Daily Telegraph
“One of the greatest musicals ever created.” – Chicago Tribune
“The defining musical of the last 50 years.” – BroadwayWorld
★★★★★ “The mighty Les Mis is still revolutionary.” – Daily Mail
“Les Mis for the 21st Century.” – The Huffington Post
Set against the backdrop of 19th century France, LES MISÉRABLES tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. This epic and uplifting story has become one of the most celebrated musicals in theatrical history.
Boublil & Schönberg’s magnificent score of LES MISÉRABLES includes the classic songs “I Dreamed a Dream,” “On My Own,” “Bring Him Home,” “Do You Hear The People Sing?,” “One Day More,” “Master of the House” and many more. Seen by over 130 million people worldwide in 53 countries and 22 languages, LES MISÉRABLES is undisputedly still one of the world’s most popular musicals.
To date, LES MISÉRABLES remains the 6th longest-running Broadway production of all time.
Since Cameron Mackintosh first conceived this acclaimed new production of LES MISÉRABLES in 2009 to celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary, it has taken the world by storm continuing to enjoy record-breaking runs in countries including North America, Australia, Japan, Korea, France and Spain. It is currently on tour in the UK and Ireland, and a new tour of The Netherlands is set for early 2023 with further productions to be announced. The most recent North American production toured from 2017 to March 2020, playing 94 engagements until the production was halted due to the global pandemic.
Cameron Mackintosh’s production of LES MISÉRABLES is written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and is based on the novel by Victor Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, additional material by James Fenton and adaptation by Trevor Nunn and John Caird. Orchestrations are by Stephen Metcalfe, Christopher Jahnke and Stephen Brooker with original orchestrations by John Cameron. The production is directed by James Powell and Laurence Connor, designed by Matt Kinley inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo, with costumes by Andreane Neofitou and Christine Rowland and costume consultant, Paul Wills, lighting by Paule Constable, sound by Mick Potter, projections realized by Finn Ross, Jonathan Lyle and Fifty Nine Productions, musical staging by Geoffrey Garratt, music supervision by Stephen Brooker and James Moore, and casting by Tara Rubin Casting.
The LES MISÉRABLES tour stage management team is led by Jack McLeod with Ryan W. Gardner and Claire Farrokh. The LES MISÉRABLES resident director is Richard Barth and music direction is by Brian Eads. The company management team is Chris Danner and Elle Aghabala.
For more information, visit this link. | https://www.yesweekly.com/music/les-mis-rables-the-worlds-most-popular-musical-will-play-greensboros-tanger-center-march-28/article_f698614c-222f-11ed-bea0-4b888fc73489.html | 2022-08-23T00:22:11Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/music/les-mis-rables-the-worlds-most-popular-musical-will-play-greensboros-tanger-center-march-28/article_f698614c-222f-11ed-bea0-4b888fc73489.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
City of Greensboro Selling Compost Bins and Rain Barrels
GREENSBORO, NC (August 22, 2022) – The City of Greensboro is making it easy for residents to lower their carbon footprint and conserve water by offering backyard compost bins and rain barrels for sale. The City is offering 65-gallon compost bins for $52 and 50-gallon Ivy rain barrels for $71 online. To order a compost bin or rain barrel, visit www.greensboro-nc.gov/BinBarrelSale and place your order by September 18.
Bins and barrels will not be shipped to you, but you can pick them up from 9 am to 12 noon on Saturday, October 8, at the White Street Landfill, 2503 White St.
“Whether you want to enrich your soil or take better care of the planet, there are plenty of reasons to start composting,” said Masey DeMoss, waste reduction educator.
Twenty-five percent of a typical household’s waste can be composted. Keeping these items out of your trash can frees up space at the landfill and cuts down on carbon and methane emissions released in landfills. Composting also reduces the need for chemical fertilizers, helps soil retain moisture, and prevents soil erosion. Rain barrels help conserve water, reduce stormwater runoff, and minimize the need for chemical fertilizers.
“Every gallon of water conserved using rain barrels means spending less on your water bill for watering your lawns and gardens,” said Laine Roberts. | https://www.yesweekly.com/news/city-of-greensboro-selling-compost-bins-and-rain-barrels/article_86fff814-222e-11ed-99c9-7b72636b583e.html | 2022-08-23T00:22:17Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/news/city-of-greensboro-selling-compost-bins-and-rain-barrels/article_86fff814-222e-11ed-99c9-7b72636b583e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
September sees Hawk Watch return to Grandfather Mountain
LINVILLE, N.C. – Grandfather Mountain, the not-for-profit nature park run by the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation, is gearing up for its annual Hawk Watch, which takes place throughout the entire month of September and is included with park admission. Visitors can grab a front-row seat to one of nature’s most stunning spectacles – thousands of raptors migrating over the mountains and heading south toward their wintering grounds.
Guests are invited to join the mountain’s naturalists as they count and celebrate the number of passersby in the sky.
Participants will be able to observe the migration from viewing locations on Linville Peak (across the Mile High Swinging Bridge) and Half Moon Overlook (the first major overlook when entering the park).
Raptors are birds of prey, such as hawks, eagles, owls and vultures. The telltale signs of the raptor are sharp talons, a hooked upper bill and keen eyesight. While some raptors remain in place during winter, most will travel south, where food is more abundant.
Grandfather Mountain is a prime spot for viewing this phenomenon because it sits along the eastern escarpment of the Appalachian Mountains, and its rocky peaks generate strong thermal uplifts and allow excellent visibility.
Perhaps the most dramatic visual display comes courtesy of the broad-winged hawk, which migrates in groups of hundreds or thousands, called kettles. Those sightings are most common around the second or third week of September.
During 2015’s Hawk Watch, Grandfather Mountain President and Executive Director Jesse Pope spotted a kettle of some 4,800 broad-wings passing over in less than 30 minutes, along with numerous other kettles of considerable size, amounting to nearly 10,000 raptors in one day.
Aside from offering quite a show, Hawk Watch serves an important purpose. The annual counts from Grandfather Mountain and other locations help track hawk populations and migration routes over time and provide important data to inform land management decisions.
In fact, Grandfather Mountain is one of more than 300 Hawk Watch sites officially designated by the Hawk Migration Association of North America.
Counts will be conducted every day the weather permits – the hawks don’t typically fly in fog or storms – from an area inaccessible to the general public and will be posted daily at HawkCount.org.
Furthermore, Grandfather Mountain is welcoming volunteers to aid in the official count. Volunteers must attend a mandatory orientation session on Aug. 26 at 1 p.m. to participate. Registration is required. Those interested should contact Jacob Morse, Grandfather Mountain’s research coordinator, at hawkwatch@grandfather.com or 828-737-0833.
“This is just one of those truly awe-inspiring experiences that makes Grandfather Mountain such a special place, and one where you can take in the natural world in all its glory,” said John Caveny, director of education and natural resources with the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation. “It’s so rewarding to see our guests have the opportunity to witness these creatures on their fall migration and share in the wonder with our staff and volunteers.”
Along with the migration, September is a very transformative month and a time when Grandfather sees a number of seasonal changes, where the mountain goes from the flora and fauna of summer to those of autumn.
To learn more about Hawk Watch at Grandfather Mountain, visit www.grandfather.com/hawk-watch.
The nonprofit Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation strives to inspire conservation of the natural world by helping guests explore, understand and value the wonders of Grandfather Mountain. For more information, visit www.grandfather.com. | https://www.yesweekly.com/september-sees-hawk-watch-return-to-grandfather-mountain/article_88fce3f4-2236-11ed-a976-c7d119d45f2f.html | 2022-08-23T00:22:23Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/september-sees-hawk-watch-return-to-grandfather-mountain/article_88fce3f4-2236-11ed-a976-c7d119d45f2f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Six Motivation-Building Tips We All Need
Nobody likes the thought of their dreams slipping away, but often, lacking the motivation we need to get moving on our goals can lead to feelings of helplessness and frustration. The good news is that building motivation is a process, and there are some handy daily habits that you can introduce to keep yourself moving forward. In this guide, we’ll be bringing you the top six motivation-building tips that we use ourselves when we need that extra push.
Set Clear Goals
First things first, to build motivation you need to set the right goals. Using the SMART goal setting system is a good way to do this – these goals should be:
S – Specific (Keep things simple, with a clear end result)
M – Measurable (Have a clear, structured way to measure your results)
A – Attainable (Make sure you have the resources and ability to feasibly achieve them)
R – Relevant (They should be realistic, and fit your overall journey)
T – Timely (Try to set goals that are time-sensitive – this will keep motivation high)
By creating goals in this way, you can keep your enthusiasm high, and by realistically reviewing them regularly, you can double check that you’re on the right track, which makes staying motivated a lot easier.
Surround Yourself with Positivity
Another key element of motivation building is surrounding yourself with positivity as much as you can. Happiness is contagious, and there’s a reason why the most successful people approach life with positivity – it works!
Join a Support Group
Having support on hand when things get tough is priceless in any area of life, but if you join a support group specific to your goals, this is an amazing way to build your motivation and keep you accountable. For instance, if you’re saving money for a house, then joining a budgeting or saving group on social media lets you make new friends, share your story, and feel supported during challenging periods.
Eat Healthily
How we treat our body makes a big difference to our mental health and eating healthily is vital if you want to keep your motivation high. A stable, varied diet plays a key role in your overall wellbeing by improving heart health, as well as maintaining normal blood pressure and an optimal BMI score. It’s true what they say – a healthy body is a healthy mind.
Use a Dopamine Supplement
Dubbed the ‘happy hormone’, dopamine is released by the brain when we experience something pleasurable, like good food, exercise or the completion of a difficult task. However, if you’re facing mental health difficulties, your brain might not release dopamine normally, so you might need to take matters into your own hands, and invest in supplements to boost your dopamine levels – natural supplements increase your dopamine and regulate your hormones so that you can stay upbeat and motivated day in, day out.
Be Patient
Finally, one of the best ways to build motivation is to work on staying patient and focusing on the long-haul. Most goals cannot be achieved overnight and require months if not years of consistent progress to yield results. This isn’t to say that they aren’t worth pursuing, though! Understanding that your goals will take time, but are perfectly achievable, thanks in part to the SMART goal setting system, will help you keep the end in sight and stay motivated during more difficult periods.
Staying motivated to achieve your goals can be tough, especially if you face setbacks. However, building motivation is something that we can all work on, and by following the top tips that we use, you can do this successfully. Before you know it, you’ll be celebrating at the finish line! | https://www.yesweekly.com/six-motivation-building-tips-we-all-need/article_75c444c2-2226-11ed-aa2c-4bb895cc9c61.html | 2022-08-23T00:22:29Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/six-motivation-building-tips-we-all-need/article_75c444c2-2226-11ed-aa2c-4bb895cc9c61.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New CVA exhibition features up-and-coming area artists for an intimate look at Personhood (opening September 2)
Greensboro, N.C. - The Center for Visual Artists (CVA) announces a new exhibition opening September 2, 2022. Personhood is a small group show featuring the work of five talented area artists: Aliyah Bonnette, Jessica Bloch-Schulman, Jesse Hoyle, Kathryn Fulp, and Tre Wilkes.
The Wikipedia description of personhood notes that “the concept of personhood is difficult to define in a way that is universally accepted, due to its historical and cultural variability and the controversies surrounding its use in some contexts. Capacities or attributes common to definitions of personhood can include human nature, agency, self-awareness, a notion of the past and future, and the possession of rights and duties, among others.”[6]
The five artists selected for this exhibit explore this concept using the human figure - whether depicting themselves or others – in their artwork in a variety of media, including painting/drawing, photography and film, collage, textiles, and clay.
“I am excited to see work from these very different artists together in the gallery and hear what conversations emerge from the viewing and presentation of work, especially within the context of what it means to be a person,” said Devon McKnight, CVA Art + Community Coordinator.
CVA will host an opening reception for Personhood on First Friday, September 2, 6-9pm at the CVA Gallery located inside the downtown Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 North Davie St.
The Personhood exhibition runs from September 2 – October 15, 2022, and the gallery is open weekly Tuesday-Saturday from 12-5pm, and until 7pm on Wednesdays.
Stay tuned for more events and artist talks associated with this exhibition by following CVA on Facebook @CVAgreensboro and Instagram @centerforvisualartists and visiting our website www.mycvagreensboro.org.
The CVA is grateful for the support of Creative Greensboro and Arts Greensboro, without which exhibitions like this would not be possible.
About the Center for Visual Artists
The Center for Visual Artists (CVA) is a 501(c)(3) visual art non-profit organization in the downtown Greensboro Cultural Center at 200 N. Davie St. that supports emerging artists of all ages through educational programs, exhibition opportunities, and community outreach. Without the strong support of donors, grantors, and other supporters in the Greensboro community, our efforts would not be possible.
The CVA is a non-profit resident organization of the Greensboro Cultural Center, made possible by a significant in-kind contribution from Creative Greensboro, the City of Greensboro’s office for arts & culture. | https://www.yesweekly.com/thearts/new-cva-exhibition-features-up-and-coming-area-artists-for-an-intimate-look-at-personhood/article_fe185ba0-223b-11ed-8808-6b2a54038ee0.html | 2022-08-23T00:22:35Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/thearts/new-cva-exhibition-features-up-and-coming-area-artists-for-an-intimate-look-at-personhood/article_fe185ba0-223b-11ed-8808-6b2a54038ee0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Three Tips for Beating Fatigue and Feeling More Energized
Battling constant fatigue can be demotivating, and even leave you missing out on some of the most important events in your life, such as family celebrations or work opportunities. Fatigue can cause a range of unwanted side-effects like migraines, low energy and mood swings, so it’s important that you take action to regulate your tiredness levels and leave fatigue behind you. In this article, we’ll be discussing three of our top tips for beating fatigue, so that you can feel more energized when you get up to take on the day.
Sleep Better
It goes without saying that getting more sleep can help you to beat tiredness and fatigue. However, it’s important that you don’t just work on sleeping more often, but that you also focus on improving your overall sleep health. Good sleep health is a vital underlying component to waking up refreshed, and there are a number of things you can do to improve it, such as:
Developing A Sleep Routine: One of the best ways to improve your sleep health is through developing a sleep routine that involves you winding down for bed at a certain time every evening, before sleeping and waking up at roughly the same time each day. This allows your body to settle into a healthy routine and prioritizes a solid sleep-wake cycle. It’s also important to remember that your body’s needs don’t change throughout the week, so try to get the same amount of sleep and stick to your routine as closely as possible, even on the weekends.
Put Your Phone Away: Social media can be addictive, and often leave you sitting up late at night scrolling through funny videos or recent news articles – we’ve all been there! However, the blue light emitted from your electronics can actually hinder your body’s production of melatonin, which regulates your sleep-wake cycle, so it’s important that you turn your phone off or put it away at least an hour before you go to bed. This will leave you with a better sleep routine that will help you beat fatigue.
Eat Well
On top of a regular, quality sleep cycle, eating well can play a key role in helping you to beat fatigue and feel more energized. Fresh fruits and vegetables come with a range of vitamins and nutrients that help to regulate your hormones and support you to maintain a healthy weight. This can reduce fatigue and give you more energy to take on the day. You can also include foods that are high in fiber in order to promote healthy digestion. As part of your diet, you should also ensure that you stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water, as this helps your digestive system to flush out any toxins that can leave you feeling rundown.
Take a Natural Supplement
If you want to implement a lifestyle change that can help to boost your energy levels long-term, then there are a lot of natural supplements on the market that can help you to beat fatigue. This in turn will leave you feeling more energized, so if you’re struggling to stay motivated throughout the day, then it is a great option to consider. When searching for a supplement, choose one that provides mitochondrial support to promote good gut health and improve your digestion, as this will have a lasting, long-term positive impact on your overall health and wellbeing.
Beating fatigue might require you to take a range of different actions that can support your health, but these lifestyle changes are worth it – just by following these three top tips and sleeping better, eating well, and taking the right supplements, you can see your energy levels skyrocket and beat fatigue once and for all! | https://www.yesweekly.com/three-tips-for-beating-fatigue-and-feeling-more-energized/article_42390658-2238-11ed-a4f9-439fdfa0d503.html | 2022-08-23T00:22:41Z | yesweekly.com | control | https://www.yesweekly.com/three-tips-for-beating-fatigue-and-feeling-more-energized/article_42390658-2238-11ed-a4f9-439fdfa0d503.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The latest example of the chaos caused by President Biden’s border crisis emerged Monday in a recording of a panicked migrant who had to call 911 so he and others could get off a bus headed to New York City.
In the 7-minute audio clip, obtained exclusively by The Post, the unidentified man told a Spanish-language interpreter that he and a large group of fellow passengers wanted to disembark during a stop in Tennessee.
“We’re in Chattanooga and over here, some men have us held us on the bus against our will,” he said.
“Our families are waiting for us. They won’t let us off and they are holding us against our will.”
The migrant said he was supposed to get off the bus in Chattanooga so he could go to the airport and join relatives already in America.
“We are immigrants that are being sent to different places in the US,” he said.
“Now the driver is telling us we can’t get off until we get to New York. We are being forced to go to New York. I don’t understand why if I was told I would be getting off in Chattanooga.”
The man also said the bus driver hid his identity midway through the call.
“I’m seeing the driver put a ski mask on his face and won’t let me see his face,” he said.
The call ended abruptly, apparently because the wireless connection to the migrant’s cellphone failed.
The 911 call took place at 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 13 following an incident at the Favorite Markets gas station and convenience store at 3117 Parker Lane in Chattanooga, just off Interstate 24, according to a Chattanooga Police Department incident report.
Cops showed up at the gas station around 12:50 p.m. but the bus “had left the scene,” according to the incident report.
“No other police action was needed at this time,” Officer B. Smith added.
A short time later, however, the bus stopped and dozens of migrants were allowed to get off.
“We were dropped off at a park about 45 minutes away from the airport and police were waiting for us there,” a migrant who gave his name as Jose told The Post that day.
“They told us to stay at the park for our protection. We waited there until an Uber came to pick us up and took us to the airport.”
When the bus finally arrived in the Big Apple, only five migrants were left on board.
The bus was chartered by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to relocate migrants to Washington, DC, and New York City to protest what he calls Biden’s “irresponsible open border policies.”
The number of migrants stopped along the southern border this fiscal year is already greater than last year’s record figure and is on pace to exceed 2 million for the first time, according to figures released by US Customs and Border Protection last week.
Both the Aug. 13 incident report and the 911 recording were released to The Post following an open records request submitted pursuant to Tennessee law.
In a prepared statement Monday, Abbott press secretary Renae Eze said, “Buses take different routes to the agreed-upon destinations of Washington, DC, and New York City and make several stops along the way for refueling.”
“Migrants are allowed to purchase any needed provisions or disembark at any of these stops, as they have been processed and released by the federal government,” Eze added.
“These migrants willingly chose to go to New York City or our nation’s capital, having signed a voluntary consent waiver available in multiple languages, upon boarding that they agreed on the destination.”
A charter bus company involved in Abbott’s migrant-relocation effort to New York City didn’t immediately return a request for comment. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/911-recording-reveals-chaos-on-migrant-bus-bound-for-nyc/ | 2022-08-23T00:26:08Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/911-recording-reveals-chaos-on-migrant-bus-bound-for-nyc/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
With networks and network access now more vital than ever, cybersecurity firms like Palo Alto Networks (PANW) take on a whole new life. Palo Alto Networks announced its earnings after Monday’s closing bell, and the news made it clear just how valuable cybersecurity tools are to businesses throughout the spectrum.
Palo Alto Networks’ earnings report featured a string of wins. Earnings came in at $2.39 per diluted share. That was well ahead of TipRanks’ projections, which looked for a figure of $2.28 per share. Revenue featured an even better performance. The company posted fourth-quarter revenue of $1.6 billion, which was up 27% from this time last year.
It’s hard not to like Palo Alto Networks. The company has a broad array of solutions available in a field that’s still enjoying a renaissance, even in a post-COVID era where remote work is starting to decline in popularity. I’m bullish because this is a company that’s likely to survive any economic downturn.
The last 12 months for Palo Alto Networks shares are up overall, though not as up as they once were. The company climbed but faced volatility all along the way until it briefly touched its 52-week high up around $640. Now, the stock sits at around $508.
Is Palo Alto Networks a Good Stock to Buy?
Turning to Wall Street, Palo Alto Networks has a Strong Buy consensus rating. That’s based on 10 Buys assigned in the past three months. The average Palo Alto Networks price target of $657.50 implies 29.4% upside potential.
Analyst price targets range from a low of $517 per share to a high of $823 per share.
Flawless Smart Score, Yet, Insiders are Selling
Interestingly, Palo Alto Networks is facing some real splits in its investor sentiment figures. Palo Alto Networks currently has a ‘Perfect 10’ Smart Score on TipRanks. That’s the highest level possible. Palo Alto Networks, therefore, is one of the most likely stocks to outperform the broader market, according to this metric.
Yet, even as Palo Alto enjoys such a high rank, its own insiders aren’t so sure. Insider trading at Palo Alto Networks is strongly Sell-weighted. In fact, no insider has made an Informative Buy so far this year. It’s been over eight months since any buying has been seen at all.
Insiders actually sold $477,000 worth of shares just this month. Granted, that’s less than a thousand shares at current values. Nonetheless, it’s something worth considering.
Right Place, Right Time, Right Arsenal of Solutions
Cybersecurity spent most of the 2010s era as a growing concern, with businesses ramping up their spending therein as more shoppers and customers turned to online solutions. However, it was in 2020 that cybersecurity truly exploded (amid lockdowns). Online businesses needed to protect themselves and their customers. Their customers needed to protect themselves as well. Palo Alto Networks handily stepped in, ready to take on a range of threats.
Even a cursory look at the company’s “Solutions” page will show a dizzying array of options for businesses concerned about everything from malware to ransomware readiness and beyond.
What’s more, it’s not like any of these solutions are mere “nice to haves.” They’re vital, important solutions that will actively save money – just ask anyone who’s recovered from a ransomware attack.
Cloud Ally recently posted a study on the impact of ransomware. Just the monetary costs alone for ransomware are on the rise. The average cost is now between $570,000 and $812,360 per attack.
Attacks also cause downtime, which of course, varies from business to business. Back in mid-2021, 98% of businesses in one study said that one hour of unplanned downtime cost them over $100,000.
That also doesn’t factor in the damage to your business’s brand and reputation from the downtime. Ditto the costs of insurance, which go up with each attack.
Those figures demonstrate why Palo Alto and its contemporaries will likely have a market for as long as businesses exist. That puts Palo Alto in a great position, going forward.
Even with a recession likely in play, businesses will still need to protect themselves. The only real risk to Palo Alto is that businesses start running without ransomware or other protections because they’re simply unaffordable.
It really doesn’t matter how much downtime costs a business when it doesn’t have the money to pay for its own protection anyway. As more businesses close outright, that will be fewer potential customers for Palo Alto.
Also, expansion efforts at its current customer base will dwindle. That’s going to put the company in a hard spot, but no less hard than that of its customers.
Conclusion: PANW’s Recession-Resilient Business is Attractive
Palo Alto will not get out of a recession unscathed. However, it’s likely to be one of the last expenses cut and one of the companies best placed to survive. If a company is operating, then it’s likely going to turn to Palo Alto to protect itself and actually continue operating.
The sheer diversity of its lineup of solutions doesn’t hurt either. It can take on just about any cybersecurity threat, and given how many of those we’ve already seen, that should make Palo Alto popular.
Palo Alto stock still has plenty of upside potential left. If you’re ready to take on a big enterprise that’s likely to survive a recession, Palo Alto Networks is worth a second look, and that’s the biggest reason why I’m bullish. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/palo-alto-networks-nasdaqpanw-stock-soars-after-q4-earnings-heres-why | 2022-08-23T00:26:34Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/palo-alto-networks-nasdaqpanw-stock-soars-after-q4-earnings-heres-why | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jerry “JI” Allison — drummer for Buddy Holly and the Crickets, as well as a co-writer on some of the group’s biggest songs — has died. He was 82.
The news was posted to Buddy Holly’s Facebook page on Monday.
“JI was a musician ahead of his time, and undoubtedly his energy, ideas and exceptional skill contributed to both The Crickets, and rock n’ roll itself, becoming such a success,” the announcement read.
“Buddy is often heralded as the original singer-songwriter, but JI, too, wrote and inspired so many of the songs that would go on to be eternal classics.”
“There’s more to be said and posted here in the coming days. For today, we think about his family and friends and wish JI to rest in peace,” the statement closed.
No cause of death was listed in the announcement.
Born in 1939, Allison and Holly met in the 1950s and started playing music as a duo. In 1957, the pair met bassist Joe B. Mauldin and formed the Crickets — who would go on to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.
In addition to playing drums, Allison is credited with co-writing some of the acts’ biggest hits, including their debut single, “That’ll Be the Day,” and Holly’s classics “Peggy Sue” and “More Than I Can Say.”
Holly died in a plane crash in 1959, but the Crickets continued to make music, even collaborating with Paul McCartney on their 1988 single “T Shirt.”
Allison also became a popular studio musician and worked with J.J. Cale and Johnny Rivers. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/jerry-allison-buddy-holly-and-the-crickets-drummer-dead-at-82/ | 2022-08-23T00:26:39Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/jerry-allison-buddy-holly-and-the-crickets-drummer-dead-at-82/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After market close today, Zoom Video Communications (ZM) reported its Fiscal Q2-2023 earnings results. While revenue missed expectations, non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS) beat estimates. Zoom has beaten earnings expectations in nine of the past nine quarters. However, the company’s guidance fell short of expectations. As a result, the stock is down after reporting the results.
Zoom’s revenue grew 8% year-over-year, reaching $1.1 billion, while estimates called for $1.2 billion in revenue. Non-GAAP EPS came in at $1.05, handily beating the $0.94 consensus. The company’s non-GAAP operating margin was 35.8%, down 580 basis points from the 41.6% margin recorded in the same period last year. As a result, its non-GAAP operating income was $393.7 million, falling 7% year-over-year.
Also, its GAAP operating margin fell from 28.8% to 11.1%. Similarly, Zoom’s cash flow saw a big drop, as the company recorded adjusted free cash flow of $221.1 million against last year’s figure of $455 million.
Zoom’s Guidance Comes in Worse Than Expected
Moving on to Zoom’s outlook, it expects next quarter’s revenue to come in at $1.095 billion to $1.1 billion; analysts were expecting guidance of $1.15 billion. Likewise, ZM sees Fiscal 2023 revenue of $4.385 billion to $4.395 billion, missing the consensus estimate of $4.54 billion.
In terms of earnings per share, ZM expects $0.82 to $0.83 for the next quarter and $3.66 to $3.69 for the full fiscal year. Analysts were expecting EPS of $0.91 and $3.76, respectively.
Is ZM Stock a Buy or Sell?
Turning to Wall Street, ZM stock earns a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on nine Buys, nine Holds, and one Sell rating assigned in the past three months. The average Zoom price prediction of $132.13 implies 35.6% upside potential. Analyst price targets range from a high of $190 to a low of $91.
Top TipRanks Investors are Slightly Bullish on ZM Stock
TipRanks currently tracks 557,268 investor portfolios that use the Smart Portfolio tool. The top investors, which amount to 111,453 portfolios, appear highly bullish on ZM stock.
In the past 30 days, the number of top-performing TipRanks portfolios holding ZM stock increased by 3.7%, leading to 1.2% of portfolios holding the stock. However, in the past seven days, this number decreased by 0.6%. Zoom has positive investor sentiment, but it is close to neutral and is below the sector average, as shown in the image below:
Conclusion: Zoom Stock is Still Worth Considering
While Zoom’s revenue grew year-over-year, tough economic conditions caused the company’s profits to fall significantly. Also, besides beating on EPS, Zoom missed analysts’ estimates regarding Fiscal Q2 revenue and its future outlook, which is likely why the stock is down. Nonetheless, it’s still a growing company that is well off its highs, and analysts and top TipRanks investors are currently cautiously optimistic about the stock, making it worth considering. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/why-zoom-nasdaqzm-stock-is-down-after-reporting-q2-results | 2022-08-23T00:26:40Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/why-zoom-nasdaqzm-stock-is-down-after-reporting-q2-results | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
More young Americans are smoking marijuana and spacing out on psychedelic drugs than ever before, a new federally-funded health survey released Monday reveals.
The study conducted by the University of Michigan for the National Institutes of Health In found that 43% of adults ages 19 to 30 smoked cannabis at some point last year — a significant jump from 34% five years ago and 29% in 2011 and the highest recorded since 1988.
Similarly, 29% of young adults reported smoking weed in the prior months compared to 21% in 2016 and 17% in 2011.
Daily marijuana use also surged to 11% last year, compared to 8% in 2016 and 6% in 2011.
The increase in marijuana comes as 19 states have legalized the recreational use of cannabis in recent years — including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Polls also show more public acceptance of cannabis use.
Use of psychedelic drugs or hallucinogens had been stable for decades — until last year.
Eight percent of young adults reported past-year hallucinogen use, representing an all-time high since the category was first surveyed in 1988.
By comparison, just 5% of young adults reported hallucinogen use in 2016, and only 3% did so in 2011.
The types of psychedelic drugs cited by users included LSD, MDMA, mescaline, peyote, “shrooms” or psilocybin, and PCP.
“As the drug landscape shifts over time, this data provides a window into the substances and patterns of use favored by young adults. We need to know more about how young adults are using drugs like marijuana and hallucinogens, and the health effects that result from consuming different potencies and forms of these substances,” said National Institute on Drug Abuse Director Nora Volkow.
“Young adults are in a critical life stage and honing their ability to make informed choices. Understanding how substance use can impact the formative choices in young adulthood is critical to help position the new generations for success.”
Still, alcohol remains the most popular substance among adults in the study –though drinking booze has dropped or remained stable over the past decade.
For example, 66% of young adults reported alcohol use in the prior 30 days in 2021, a significant decline from 70% recorded in 2016 and 69% in 2011.
But reports of binge drinking – having 5 or more drinks in a row in the prior two weeks – returned to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels in 2021 after significantly decreasing in 2020. Last year, 32% of young adults reported binge drinking– the same as in pre-pandemic 2019 — versus 28% in 2020.
Meanwhile, 13% of young adults reported high-intensity drinking — having 10 or more drinks over the prior two weeks — the highest level recorded since the question was first asked 2005 when 11% had that many drinks.
Elsewhere, nicotine vaping continues to rise as smoking of cigarettes plummets.
Vaping nearly tripled to 16% compared to 6% in 2017 despite leveling off during the pandemic. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/more-young-americans-smoking-marijuana/ | 2022-08-23T00:27:03Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/more-young-americans-smoking-marijuana/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Zach Wilson may be a long shot to start the season on the Jets’ active roster, but he’s the betting favorite to lead the league in a dubious honor.
Last year’s No. 2 overall pick, who showed flashes amid an uneven rookie season, is tied for the shortest betting odds at BetMGM (+800) to lead the NFL in interceptions in 2022. He’s priced alongside Texans quarterback Davis Mills (+800) as the co-favorite, while fellow sophomores Justin Fields (+900) and Trevor Lawrence (+1000) – who led the league in interceptions (17) in his first year – round out the top four in this unenviable field.
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NFL Futures: Odds to lead NFL in interceptions (BetMGM)
Will Zach Wilson lead NFL in interceptions in 2022?
Wilson may seem like a peculiar candidate to pace this market after throwing just 11 interceptions a year ago, which ranked 17th among all passers. A closer look at his profile suggests that the number could have been much higher.
As a rookie, the Jets quarterback ranked dead last among qualified passers in completion percentage (55.6%), and he ranked 32nd among 33 signal-callers in QBR (28.2). While his season total of 11 interceptions ranked outside of the top 15, he ranked 28th in passing attempts (383) – fewer than two-thirds of the total attempts from INT leaders Lawrence (602) and Matthew Stafford (601).
In his 13 starts last year, Wilson owned the NFL’s seventh-highest interception rate (2.9%) – higher than Lawrence or Stafford – and ranked 10th in interceptions per game (0.85). That includes a four-INT effort in Week 2 against the Patriots, joining eight other quarterbacks to throw four picks in a game in 2021.
There are silver linings to Wilson’s rocky first season, though. Seven of his 11 interceptions came in his first three starts, and he didn’t throw a pick in any of his final five starts. He also led all qualified starters in drop rate (12.7%), with a staggering 31 passes bouncing off his receivers’ hands.
That high drop rate means one of two things: he didn’t get a lot of help from his receivers, or he didn’t help them enough with precise ball placement. Given Wilson’s NFL-worst completion rate, it’s probably a combination of both, though adding top-10 pick Garrett Wilson and tight end C.J. Uzomah to a group that already features emerging wideouts Elijah Moore and Corey Davis is a boon for the sophomore QB.
There’s also the practical reality that, once again, Wilson seems highly unlikely to play a full 17-game slate. He’s already uncertain to play Week 1 after suffering a torn meniscus and bone bruise in last week’s preseason win, and the Jets have made it clear they won’t rush their potential franchise QB back onto the field.
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Sure, an injured Wilson may be more susceptible to an ill-placed ball, but he’d have to be pretty rotten to pace the field in interceptions in a limited sample. Of the eight quarterbacks to throw at least 14 picks in 2021, all of them played in at least 16 games, and six of them made a full 17 starts.
So don’t put too much stock into Wilson’s embarrassing honor as the favorite in this field. He’s still an unlikely bet to post an NFL-worst mark in interceptions – even if his potential absence is his best defense. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/nfl-futures-odds-zach-wilson-leads-candidates-to-throw-most-interceptions/ | 2022-08-23T00:27:09Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/nfl-futures-odds-zach-wilson-leads-candidates-to-throw-most-interceptions/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What a celebration it was in winter, when Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivered his “Zeitenwende” speech. A transformation of German foreign policy was afoot; the leader of a party addicted to détente suddenly promised $100 billion for defense. But Scholz made his pledge only three days into the Russia-Ukraine war, and no one in Germany or elsewhere, for that matter, expected the conflict to drag on.
Now, six months into Russia’s invasion, the Germans are jittery. Winter is coming. Anxiety over inflation and talk of recession are in the air. Watch for the German Chancellery to support phony peace plans and partition of Ukraine if Russian President Vladimir Putin suddenly sues for peace.
If Berlin abandons the Ukrainian cause, we have a transatlantic nightmare. The Biden administration must help stiffen its backbone.
Germany has already been dragging its feet on military aid for Kyiv. Since Scholz’s February speech, the term “Scholzing” has become a common expression in Ukraine: It means promising something repeatedly without delivering on the promise.
Bigger picture: Germany has always had an Eastern European blind spot. Since the 1970s, Berlin has often prioritized Russian interests over Central and Eastern European concerns. The old West Germany made itself dependent on Soviet gas, arguing that pumping money into Moscow coffers would somehow democratize the totalitarian state.
The Nord Stream pipelines have been a continuation of this deeply flawed premise. “Trust but verify” has never been part of the German policymaker’s DNA. “Even in the darkest hours of the Cold War, Russia respected its contracts,” Germany’s then foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel, said just after the 2014 invasion of Ukraine — though Russia turned off gas to Ukraine in 2006 and 2009. He also overlooked that Germany’s Disneyland fantasies about Kremlin behavior affected other Eastern European partners and their energy needs, too.
German politics is wired to favor accommodation and appeasement. Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who’s been doing Putin’s bidding at Nord Stream, Rosneft and Gazprom, is still welcome in the Social Democratic party. In June, Scholz’s foreign policy adviser, Jens Plötner, argued for improving relations with Russia (and China, too). Not the best ear for timing. But Plötner served as chief of staff to current President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, another Social Democrat, who was Schröder’s right hand for many years.
Oh, and Gabriel — another Schröder protégé — now chairs the prestigious think tank Atlantik-Brücke, charged with promoting “German-American understanding.” There’s a vibrant pro-Russian network in Berlin.
Enter industry and Germany’s energy conundrum. Germans find themselves in a predicament of their own making: They’re starting to see the consequences of energy dependence on Russia. Jittery Germans, anxious about a winter that can start as early as October, have been dimming street lamps this summer and have ceased illuminating important monuments.
In Kyiv, October is expected to bring daytime highs in the 50s with overnight lows in the low 40s. German cities are but a tick behind. Germany has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with five other European Union countries (all in Central and Eastern Europe) for intensive cooperation in the event that Russia precipitates full-on blackouts this year. Of course, Germans could revert to nuclear power. Alas and bewilderingly, no German party supports such a step at this time.
If the German economy — Europe’s largest — goes into freefall, the rest of Europe is toast. (EU inflation is at 8.9%.) Deutsche Bank is warning that the country is on the brink of recession. The Handelsblatt, Germany’s leading financial paper, says recession is not a matter of “if” but “for how long.” Jobs will be lost, companies will be hammered, consumers will be hurt. Next in the chain is politicians who go wobbly.
If our goal is to help Ukraine recover its territorial integrity and sovereignty, losing Germany means losing Europe. And a transatlantic break will be a regime-saving gift for Vladimir Putin.
So Germany has dragged its feet on military assistance, and for this Germans have earned our scolding. But let’s keep our eye on the ball. Germany is a military dwarf but an economic giant with considerable diplomatic sway in Europe. Strengthen German resolve now or pay dearly when spooked and misguided German politicians plead for pragmatism and bad peace deals later.
Iulia Sabina-Joja teaches at Georgetown and George Washington University, runs the Middle East Institute’s Black Sea program in Washington, DC, and is co-host of the AEI podcast “Eastern Front.” | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/ukraines-success-depends-on-biden-bolstering-the-germans/ | 2022-08-23T00:27:43Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/ukraines-success-depends-on-biden-bolstering-the-germans/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dogs can cry tears of joy when reunited with owner, study finds
A new study has revealed insight into dogs that many owners may already know and love.
The study, published Monday in Current Biology, said the eyes of man’s best friend can well up with tears of joy regularly when reunited with their owner.
"We found that dogs shed tears associated with positive emotions," Takefumi Kikusui of Azabu University in Japan said in a news release (https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/962142). "We also made the discovery of oxytocin as a possible mechanism underlying it."
Kikusui and his team made the discovery after his two standard poodles had puppies six years ago. Kikusui noticed that whenever his dog was nursing the puppies— he noticed tears on the dog's face, although they weren't falling like human tears.
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"That gave me the idea that oxytocin might increase tears," Kikusui continued.
Oxytocin is described as the "love hormone," according to Kikusui.
He then conducted an experiment.
His team of researchers used a standard test to measure dogs’ tear volume before and after reuniting with their owners. They found that tear volume increased when they were reunited with their owners as opposed to other humans.
When the researchers added oxytocin to the dogs’ eyes, their tear volume also went up similar to the previous experiment. They said the result proves that the release of oxytocin plays a role in tear production when dogs and their people get back together.
Researchers then asked people to rate pictures of dogs’ faces with and without artificial tears in them. As a result, people gave more positive responses when they saw dogs with teary eyes. Researchers believe the findings suggest that dogs’ tear production helps to build stronger connections between people and their dogs.
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"We had never heard of the discovery that animals shed tears in joyful situations, such as reuniting with their owners, and we were all excited that this would be a world first!" Kikusui said.
"Dogs have become a partner of humans, and we can form bonds," he continued. "In this process, it is possible that the dogs that show teary eyes during interaction with the owner would be cared for by the owner more."
On the flip side, researchers haven’t yet tested whether dogs produce tears in response to negative emotions or if they get back together with other dogs.
This story was reported from Los Angeles. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/dogs-can-cry-tears-of-joy-when-reunited-with-owner-study-finds | 2022-08-23T00:29:19Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/dogs-can-cry-tears-of-joy-when-reunited-with-owner-study-finds | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DuPage County K-9 recruit begins rigorous training program to help locate people
DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. - There’s a new member of the DuPage County Sheriff’s Department, and he’s just 13-weeks-old. But within months, he should be helping save lives.
Jake is a bloodhound that is being trained to perform one of the most important duties of a police agency - finding people.
On Monday, trainers performed some simple exercises with Jake in the courtyard of the DuPage County law enforcement complex, giving the dog a scent article.
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On the command "find", Jake takes off, his nose to the ground, and locates the officer who was wearing that article.
"And we have a puppy so we're just making it fun. It's playing the game of hide and seek. It will progress from little short trails, happy trails and it will introduce things that are a little more complex, distance, unknowns, blind hides," said Deputy Ryan Culver.
"It might be dementia. It might be autism, Alzheimer’s or could even be a suspect in a high caliber crime. We call that the blue wave, where we've got to take all of our resources and put it into finding a person very quickly before something bad happens," said Sheriff Jim Mendrick.
And Jake’s name carries special significance. He is named after Jacob Keltner, an officer who was shot and killed three years ago while serving a search warrant. Keltner’s family has long ties to DuPage County law enforcement.
Jake is replacing another bloodhound, Praise, who died earlier this year after 10 years of service to DuPage County sheriffs. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/dupage-county-k-9-recruit-begins-rigorous-training-program-to-help-locate-people | 2022-08-23T00:29:25Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/dupage-county-k-9-recruit-begins-rigorous-training-program-to-help-locate-people | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb meets with Taiwan's president, discusses economic development
CHICAGO - Indiana's governor is in Taiwan for trade talks in a third high-profile U.S. visit to the country.
Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb led a group of delegates, who met with Taiwan's president Monday morning.
The four-day visit will focus on economic development, particularly semiconductors.
This comes in the wake of the new Federal Chips Act, and the recent announcement that Taiwan-based semiconductor company Mediatek will open a design center in Indiana.
"The Indiana Taiwan agreement is focused on building upon those economic ties and critical industries as you mentioned, like semiconductors, and bioscience, advanced manufacturing and technology, and the Purdue University memorandums of understanding that they will sign will equally propel us forward on that research front in those areas and many more," said Holcomb.
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Holcomb's visit comes after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi caused an uproar in China over her trip to Taiwan earlier this month.
China has long claimed Taiwan as its territory, despite the island being democratic and self-governed.
The U.S. Delegation will also visit South Korea. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/indiana-gov-eric-holcomb-meets-with-taiwans-president-discusses-economic-development | 2022-08-23T00:29:37Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/indiana-gov-eric-holcomb-meets-with-taiwans-president-discusses-economic-development | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New mobile narcotics treatment center helping to prevent overdoses in Chicago
CHICAGO - There were 1,930 opioid deaths in Cook County in 2021.
In 2020, there were 1,846.
So far in 2022, there have been 868 and many deaths are still pending.
The majority of overdoses are being contributed to the synthetic opioid known as fentanyl being used in cocaine, meth, and pills.
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Just last week three people were discovered on the ground in an alley in Lake View near Belmont and Halsted. Two of them were males, and they died from a suspected overdose.
The third person was a woman. She was revived because of Narcan and CPR.
One of Chicago's hardest hit areas for overdoses is on the West Side, with many open-air drug markets. That’s the reasoning behind a new mobile UIC Narcotics Treatment Center parked in a vacant lot near Pulaski and Van Buren.
Three days a week, the bus offers fewer addictive options and even clean needles for users.
"One of the reasons we've seen an increase in the opioid overdose deaths is that the market has changed drastically in the last four, five years as synthetic opioids have hit the market. So synthetic opioids being higher potency such as fentanyl, and that has become a part of the drug supply, We know that over 90 percent of our opioid overdoses in Chicago are fentanyl. And so, when we're in the field we assume that that's what everything is, is that high potency out there. But that's what we're seeing a lot of," said Jennie Jarrett, lead clinical pharmacist.
The UIC's converted RV is one of two approved by the DEA’s Chicago Field Office. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/new-mobile-narcotics-treatment-center-helping-to-prevent-overdoses-in-chicago | 2022-08-23T00:29:50Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/new-mobile-narcotics-treatment-center-helping-to-prevent-overdoses-in-chicago | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Snapchat users can receive settlement money from new Illinois lawsuit
CHICAGO - A settlement has been reached in a new $35 million class action lawsuit against Snapchat, meaning you may qualify to collect a portion of the money.
The lawsuit — known as "Boone, et al. v. Snap Inc." — accuses Snapchat of using its "Lenses" and "Filters" features to collect "biometric data," thereby violating Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act, or BIPA.
Snapchat is denying any wrongdoing, but is still choosing to settle the matter without going to trial.
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If you have not submitted your claim yet, here are some answers to important questions about the settlement for those who qualify:
Who is eligible?
You qualify if you were a Snapchat user in Illinois who used the app features "Lenses" and "Filters" between November 17, 2015, and the present.
If you are unsure if you qualify for a payment, you can ask for free help by emailing the Settlement Administrator at Info@snapillinoisbipasettlement.com — or call 1-844-939-4343.
How much money could I receive?
Individual settlement amounts have not yet been determined. It will depend on how many people submit a claim and are approved to receive settlement money out of the $35 million. Court and administrative fees will also be taken into account.
CHINA - 2021/04/23: In this photo illustration, a SnapChat logo seen displayed on a smartphone with USD (United States dollar) currency in the background. (Photo Illustration by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Is there anything I need to do to receive a portion of the settlement?
You must submit a claim form to qualify for a payment. Anyone who submits a valid claim form by November 5, 2022, can receive settlement money — if their form is approved by the Settlement Administrator.
You can submit a claim form online, or download it and mail it to the Settlement Administrator.
How will I get paid?
You will be able to select the option of receiving your payment by check or electronically through Zelle, PayPal, Venmo, or direct deposit. You can also choose to receive a prepaid MasterCard.
When will my settlement payment arrive?
A final court hearing for the settlement of this case will be held on November 17, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. in Wheaton, Illinois, at the 18th Judicial Circuit Court, 505 N. County Farm Rd., Room 2016.
The hearing will decide whether the settlement is "fair, reasonable, and adequate."
It is uncertain how long the "Final Approval Hearing" could take.
Settlement payments will be distributed as soon as possible after the court grants final approval of the settlement.
How can I submit a claim?
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MEDINA — Artist Brandi Zavitz knew when she retired from Holley Central School that she would spend her free time painting.
Having rode her bike or walked underneath the North Main Street bridge thousands of times over the years, she said, “I often thought, ‘When I retire, I’d like to paint a mural there under the bridge.’”
Zavitz, a Medina native, retired in June 2021 after 31 years teaching art in the Holley district. While teaching, she painted murals, musical sets, backdrops and scenery for dance recitals — but it wasn't enough.
“I said after I retired I was going to paint myself into oblivion, and I went out and bought 30 canvases,” she said.
Then the Village of Medina posted a notice calling for an artist to paint a mural under the North Main Street bridge. Zavitz applied.
Actually, she was the only artist who applied, she said. Once she was hired, she applied for, and won, a grant from GO-Art!
“On the application they asked for three examples of my work. I didn’t have pictures of the murals I had painted, but I sent them four pages of some of my artwork I had created through the years,” Zavitz said.
The village wanted Zavitz to create something "historic," which she said isn't her normal style artistically.
“I consider myself an expressionist, impressionist surrealist painter. I love color," she said. "Arthur Barnes has done a lot of historic things in the area and I wanted to do something that represents peaceful Medina, that shared my memories. I wanted ... to tell a story, create something that takes you time to walk through the mural.”
Zavitz also wanted to focus on everyday life, the simple things, like a Journal-Register newspaper carrier, wild lilies growing along the road or a Mini League baseball player.
She sketched her ideas on the wall and began painting in early August. Her mural includes apples, a pet cat she lost, a window from Newell Shirt Factory, the culvert under the Erie Canal, Medina Falls, fall leaves, a marching band, and the steeple at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church.
Zavitz said one of the most enjoyable aspects of her project is meeting the people who have passed by on the towpath or in boats on the canal.
“I have talked to people from North Carolina, South Carolina, Germany, Maine, Colorado, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Pennsylvania,” she said.
One Medina resident who walks the towpath every day is Paul Wengrzycki, who said he loves the mural and stops to watch and chat with Zavitz.
“She’s showing everything about Medina. She is showing the village,” he said.
Zavitz hopes to have the mural done no later than Sept. 30, if rain doesn’t slow her progress.
One thing that takes a lot of time is setting up and taking care of her supplies every day. She parks as close to the bridge as she can, then carries six or eight cans of paint, plus brushes and other tools, to the site. Much of the painting has to be done from a scaffold and ladder.
Zavitz doesn’t consider herself a typical artist.
“An artist is like the Pied Piper,” she said. “I poured my heart into my classes. I always taught my students to respect each other and themselves. Art has been such a wonderful tool.”
She has taught exchange students from Colombia, Switzerland and Korea who are now artists all over the world, she added.
“A true artist sees the world with a different set of eyes. You look at something and make it your own. It takes a special amount of creativity.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/medina-mural-in-progress/article_17bdeeca-2265-11ed-ae99-bf3d5292fe44.html | 2022-08-23T00:30:10Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/medina-mural-in-progress/article_17bdeeca-2265-11ed-ae99-bf3d5292fe44.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Man allegedly fired shots at woman during road rage incident, arrested after following her to police station
HANOVER PARK, Ill. - Bond has been denied for a suburban man accused of shooting at a driver during a road rage incident Sunday morning.
Reco Murray, 25, has been charged with one count of attempted murder and one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm.
At about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, a woman was in her vehicle and stopped at a red light at Lake Street and Ontarioville Road in Hanover Park.
Murray pulled up behind her, and when the light turned green, he allegedly began honking at the woman and tailgated her as she pulled away.
The woman then pulled over to let Murray pass, prosecutors said.
Murray allegedly passed the woman, and then stopped shortly after passing her.
She then attempted to continue driving past Murray, and the two vehicles ended up in a minor traffic crash, prosecutors said.
The woman got out of her vehicle to exchange information, and Murray allegedly began yelling at her.
At that time, Murray pulled out a handgun and fired three shots at her, prosecutors said.
She allegedly ran back to her vehicle and drove away, while Murray followed her.
He allegedly caught up to the woman at a red light at the intersection of County Farm Road and Lake Street and fired three more rounds at her vehicle.
She then drove to the Hanover Park Police Department and circled the parking lot with Murray still following her, prosecutors said.
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Murray was taken into custody at this time by Hanover officers.
"It is alleged that as a result of road rage, Mr. Murray opened fire on two separate occasions on an innocent woman, first shooting three times at her after a minor accident and then shooting three additional times when he followed her and they were stopped at a red light," DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin said. "This type of violent, unprovoked behavior will not be tolerated in DuPage County and will be aggressively prosecuted.
Officers recovered a 9mm Taurus from under the driver's seat of Murray's vehicle, police said.
A total of six shell casings from two locations and five bullet cartridges from the victim's vehicle were also recovered.
The woman's vehicle had several bullet holes and a shattered passenger side window.
Prosecutors said the woman was uninjured. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/suburban-man-charged-with-firing-shots-at-woman-during-road-rage-incident-follows-her-to-police-department | 2022-08-23T00:30:14Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/suburban-man-charged-with-firing-shots-at-woman-during-road-rage-incident-follows-her-to-police-department | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Erie County District Attorney’s Office has released further details on the fatal shooting of a Niagara Falls teen early Friday morning in Buffalo.
DA John J. Flynn said Monday that two juveniles from Buffalo, ages 14 and 17, were arraigned over the weekend on charges of second-degree murder and first-degree attempted robbery. Both juveniles appeared Monday before Erie County Family Court Judge Brenda M. Freedman for a bail hearing where the 17-year-old was remanded and the 14-year old had bail set at $50,000.
Flynn said just after midnight on Friday, the juveniles attempted to rob a 20-year-old male who was in a vehicle on Elmer Avenue and in the course of the attempted robbery, shot Emily Keiper, 16, of Niagara Falls. Keiper died from her injuries after being taken to Erie County Medical Center for treatment.
“It was allegedly a marijuana sale gone bad,” Flynn said during a press conference.
Flynn commends BPD Homicide Squad detectives for their work in this investigation and noted the case is being prosecuted by Chief Gary Hackbush of the Homicide Bureau.
A Go Fund Me page to help Keiper’s family with funeral expenses had raised more than $9,700 by Monday afternoon. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/crime/more-information-on-fatal-shooting-involving-falls-teen-released-by-erie-county-da/article_66fc1ae0-2268-11ed-8d4b-e7ee01dc518e.html | 2022-08-23T00:30:17Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/crime/more-information-on-fatal-shooting-involving-falls-teen-released-by-erie-county-da/article_66fc1ae0-2268-11ed-8d4b-e7ee01dc518e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Teen, 35-year-old woman shot in drive-by on Chicago's South Side
CHICAGO - A teenage boy and 35-year-old woman were wounded in a drive-by shooting in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood Monday afternoon.
Around 4:27 p.m., police say the teen and woman were on the street in the 1500 block of East 63rd Street when a dark-color vehicle drove by and someone inside fired shots.
The teen was shot in the left leg and taken to the University of Chicago Hospital in good condition, police said.
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The woman was wounded in the right shoulder and taken to the same hospital in critical condition.
Nobody was reported in custody.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The world’s newest and biggest space telescope is showing Jupiter as never before, auroras and all.
Scientists released the shots Monday of the solar system's biggest planet.
The James Webb Space Telescope took the photos in July, capturing unprecedented views of Jupiter’s northern and southern lights, and swirling polar haze. Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow Earth, stands out brightly alongside countless smaller storms.
One wide-field picture is particularly dramatic, showing the faint rings around the planet, as well as two tiny moons against a glittering background of galaxies.
“We’ve never seen Jupiter like this. It’s all quite incredible,” said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, of the University of California, Berkeley, who helped lead the observations.
“We hadn’t really expected it to be this good, to be honest," she added in a statement.
The infrared images were artificially colored in blue, white, green, yellow and orange, according to the U.S.-French research team, to make the features stand out.
NASA and the European Space Agency's $10 billion successor to the Hubble Space Telescope rocketed away at the end of last year and has been observing the cosmos in the infrared since summer. Scientists hope to behold the dawn of the universe with Webb, peering all the way back to when the first stars and galaxies were forming 13.7 billion years ago.
The observatory is positioned 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/new-space-telescope-shows-jupiters-auroras-tiny-moons/article_5d96a18c-225e-11ed-be33-4344892bd48f.html | 2022-08-23T00:30:23Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/new-space-telescope-shows-jupiters-auroras-tiny-moons/article_5d96a18c-225e-11ed-be33-4344892bd48f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GENEVA — Switzerland's 1,400 glaciers have lost more than half their total volume since the early 1930s, a new study has found, and researchers say the ice retreat is accelerating at a time of growing concerns about climate change.
ETH Zurich, a respected federal polytechnic university, and the Swiss Federal Institute on Forest, Snow and Landscape Research on Monday announced the findings from a first-ever reconstruction of ice loss in Switzerland in the 20th century, based in part on an analysis of changes to the topography of glaciers since 1931.
The researchers estimated that ice volumes on the glaciers had shrunk by half over the subsequent 85 years — until 2016. Since then, the glaciers have lost an additional 12%, over just six years.
“Glacier retreat is accelerating. Closely observing this phenomenon and quantifying its historical dimensions is important because it allows us to infer the glaciers’ responses to a changing climate,” said Daniel Farinotti, a co-author of the study, which was published in scientific journal The Cryosphere.
By area, Switzerland’s glaciers amount to about half of all the total glaciers in the European Alps.
The teams drew on a combination of long-term observations of glaciers. That included measurements in the field and aerial and mountaintop photographs — including 22,000 taken from peaks between the two world wars. By using multiple sources, the researchers could fill in gaps. Only a few of Switzerland's glaciers have been studied regularly over the years.
The research involved using decades-old techniques to allow for comparisons of the shape and position of images of terrain, and the use of cameras and instruments to measure angles of land areas. The teams compared surface topography of glaciers at different moments, allowing for calculations about the evolution in ice volumes.
Not all Swiss glaciers have been losing ice at the same rates, the researchers said. Altitude, amounts of debris on the glaciers, and the flatness of a glacier's “snout” — its lowest part, which is the most vulnerable to melting — all affect the speeds of ice retreat.
The researchers also found that two periods — in the 1920s and the 1980s — actually experienced sporadic growth in glacier mass, but that was overshadowed by the broader trend of decline.
The findings could have broad implications for Switzerland's long-term energy sources, since hydropower produces nearly 60% of the country's electricity, according to government data. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/study-already-shrunk-by-half-swiss-glaciers-melting-faster/article_e03c80a2-225e-11ed-adba-7b1d4a5fe9e5.html | 2022-08-23T00:30:29Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/study-already-shrunk-by-half-swiss-glaciers-melting-faster/article_e03c80a2-225e-11ed-adba-7b1d4a5fe9e5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Andrew Wantz’s cutter was born during the pandemic and it got new life thanks to work with Ryan Tepera.
Now, it could be the key to Wantz taking a step toward becoming a reliable major league reliever.
The Angels right-hander didn’t really throw his cutter much early in the season, but he’s used it increasingly over the past couple of months, and the results have been clear.
Wantz has a 2.20 ERA over his last 15 games, dating to July 3. In his last two games, he has retired all eight hitters he’s faced, with four strikeouts. For the season, he has a 3.15 ERA in 28 games.
The last two games have also seen Wantz throw some of his hardest four-seam fastballs, averaging 94.7 mph.
Wantz said the increased velocity is just a combination of extra rest and some anger from an Aug. 10 outing in Oakland, when he walked two of the three batters he faced.
“I know I’m better than that,” Wantz said. “Added a little fuel to the fire.”
Mostly, though, Wantz said his improvement this season is because of more focus on his command – which he attributed to working with pitching coaches Matt Wise and Dom Chiti – and the better cutter.
Wantz, 26, was not high on the Angels’ prospect list after he finished 2019 at Double-A, with a 7.13 ERA. When the sport was shut down for the pandemic in 2020, Wantz wasn’t invited to summer camp or the alternate site. So he was at home playing catch with a friend when he decided to start fooling around with a cutter.
“I was just kind of getting bored doing the same pitches every day and I was like, you know I’m just gonna mess around, gripped it kind of a like a football,” Wantz said. “My friend was like, ‘That is late and nasty.’ I brought it to spring training 2021. That definitely got me to the bigs.”
Wantz said Tepera added another piece to the development of the pitch because he realized it had a similar grip and action to his slider.
“I talked to him about it, ‘What’s your thought process? How do you approach hitters with it? What are you looking at, what’s your target?’” Wantz said. “Working with him has definitely helped.”
Wantz now has a cutter and a slider, which break in opposite directions. The cutter can be particularly effective against lefties. He used the cutter on two of his three strikeouts in a perfect outing on Sunday.
“It’s on the same plane as his fastball, just kind of makes a little bit of a left turn late, and he’s got good ride on his fastball that he continues to work on,” Manager Phil Nevin said. “The cutter has been a big, big pitch for him.”
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Shohei Ohtani was not in the lineup on Monday, a day after he had to leave a game because of a stomach virus. Nevin said he didn’t even wait to get Ohtani’s opinion before telling him that he was not going to play.
“Those little things, for a day they kick your butt a little bit,” Nevin said. “I just felt like today was a good day to get him off his feet.”
Nevin said Ohtani was still available to pinch-hit on Monday. He will DH the rest of the week, and he will pitch on Saturday in Toronto.
NOTES
Mike Mayers will make start on Wednesday, his first traditional start for the Angels after they had him stretch out in the minor leagues. He had started twice as an opener previously. Mayers threw 96 pitches in relief in his previous outing, so he will be able to make a normal start. “He deserved the right to have that,” Nevin said. “It’s a lot to ask to build up your innings to become a starter in the middle of the year and he’s done a fine job with that. We’ll see what we can get out of him on Wednesday.” …
Mike Trout was in the lineup as the DH on Monday, with Ohtani off. Nevin said that Trout would start in center field on Tuesday and Wednesday and get Thursday off. Nevin is trying to be cautious with all of his players this week because the Angels are playing seven consecutive games on artificial turf. Trout warrants extra caution because he’s just back from missing more than a month with a back issue.
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Angels (LHP José Suarez, 4-5, 4.12) at Rays (RHP Corey Kluber, 7-7, 4.33), Monday, 4:10 p.m., Bally Sports West, 830 AM
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Hot days and nights will have Antelope Valley cities approaching record-breaking territory Tuesday while the residual effects of the heat will be felt throughout inland Southern California, meteorologists said Monday, Aug. 22.
An excessive heat warning is in place for the Antelope Valley on Tuesday with temperatures expected to be as high as 108 degrees, the National Weather Service said.
Excessive Heat Warning has been issued for the Antelope Valley for Tuesday. Record high temperatures possible! Heat Advisories also issued for the mountains, Santa Clarita Valley, and SLO Co interior. Overnight temps will also be very warm. Some cooling is expected Wed. #CAwx pic.twitter.com/8LrZvy49i1
— NWS Los Angeles (@NWSLosAngeles) August 22, 2022
Through a combination of triple-digit daytime temperatures and nightly lows hovering around the high 70s, Lancaster and Palmdale are facing a “probable” scenario where their decades-old daily high records will be tied, if not exceeded by a few degrees, said Joe Sirard, a meteorologist for the NWS. Lancaster reached a record daily high of 107 in 1945 while Palmdale peaked at 103 in 1964, Sirard said.
“High overnight lows are the recipe to records being broken,” Sirard said. “I’d say there’s a pretty high probability of (Palmdale and Lancaster’s daily high records) at least being tied, if not broken.”
Parts of the lower-elevation mountain areas of Los Angeles County, such as Sandberg, are expected to reach record-breaking territory as well, Sirard said. Sandberg set a daily high record of 96 degrees in 1991, Sirard said.
Thanks to an onshore flow, most of the rest of Los Angeles County will be spared the excessive heat, but hot weather is still anticipated, Sirard said.
The Santa Clarita Valley can expect high temperatures Tuesday around 102 degrees while much of the San Fernando Valley is expected to hang around the low-to-mid 90s, Sirard said.
“It’s going to be hot in the LA County valleys, not excessively hot though,” Sirard said.
In the Riverside County, triple-digit heat is expected for areas like Lake Elsinore and Hemet, where highs of 101 degrees are anticipated, said Dan Gregoria, meteorologist with the NWS. San Bernardino is projected to reach a high mark of 101 as well Tuesday, with Redlands expected to top out at 100 degrees, according to the NWS.
In Orange County, highs are expected to be in the mid-80s for inland areas while the coast will remain around the 70-degree range, Gregoria said.
The temperature increase is expected to subside Wednesday throughout most of the region, moving into a gradual cooling pattern through the weekend, Gregoria said.
Some monsoonal activity is expected Tuesday in the San Bernardino and Riverside county mountains, Gregoria said. But the bulk of potential heavy precipitation is expected for Wednesday, Aug. 24, and Thursday, Aug. 25, he said.
Forecasted temperatures for Tuesday:
— Downtown Los Angeles: 87
— Fullerton: 88
— Long Beach: 82
— Anaheim: 86
— Mission Viejo: 87
— Pomona: 95
— Redlands: 100
— Riverside: 98
— San Bernardino: 101
— Lake Elsinore: 101
— Torrance: 79
— Van Nuys: 100
— Whittier: 91
— Pasadena: 92
Source: National Weather Service
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California’s worsening drought is enough to spark new water conservation measures in Pasadena, where residents are again being asked to limit how often they water their lawn during the week.
To encourage water conservation in light of the state’s ongoing drought, Pasadena is implementing a new watering schedule effective Sept. 1.
Under the water shortage plan, residents are restricted to outdoor watering to one day per week. Even-numbered street addresses are limited to watering only on Mondays, while odd-numbered street addresses are limited to watering only on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Officials have noted they are not looking for lawns to go brown. However, the city does want the community to recognize the majority of a household’s water is used outdoors.
Approximately 60% of Pasadena’s water comes from imported water sources supplied by the Metropolitan Water District, a regional wholesaler that provides water for 26 member public agencies.
But the district, like California as a whole, is contending with unprecedented drought conditions — with the last three years setting the record as the driest three-year period in state history, according to city leaders. These conditions, along with severe to exceptional drought conditions across the southwestern United States, are significantly affecting water supplies throughout the Southern California region.
So much so, the Metropolitan Water District declared a Water Supply Alert last August, which served as a call for the region’s water agencies to safeguard storage reserves and reduce water usage as California’s water supply continued to weaken.
Adding to the need to save more water, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California will soon require a two-week emergency shutdown of an upstream MWD feeder to complete an urgent repair in early September.
Pasadena Water and Power will continue to receive water deliveries from MWD during the shutdown. But MWD is calling for a significant reduction in water use since the supply source will be switched to the severely limited State Water Project supplies for the duration of the shutdown.
Fortunately, city leaders noted, water can be saved by replacing leaks, using efficient sprinkler heads, or installing drip irrigation.
Other water-saving steps include:
- watering trees by hand on a weekly basis;
- replacing turf with drought-tolerant and California native plants, which use less water and are more resilient to heat and drought;
- adjusting sprinklers and automated irrigation systems to run no more than one day per week;
- adding mulch around shrubs, flower beds and trees to help reduce water evaporation;
- collecting water while showering or from the kitchen sink in a bucket, and use it to water trees and shrubs;
- optimizing irrigation systems by retrofitting to a drip irrigation system;
- repairing all leaks and adjust sprinkler spray to avoid water waste;
- updating all water fixtures and appliances to high-efficiency models; and
- using pool covers to reduce water loss.
“Every drop of water that we save now puts us in a better position in the future,” said PWP Interim General Manager Jeffrey Kightlinger.
“Pasadena continues to be a leader in conservation, and residents and businesses are making great strides in water savings,” Kightlinger added. However, now is the time for customers “to make long-term investments in water-use efficiency by making changes like removing thirsty turf and replacing it with drought-tolerant landscaping, and upgrading to more efficient outdoor watering systems.”
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The St. John Bosco football team, one of the top high school programs in the nation, has reached a name, image and likeness (NIL) agreement with a Dallas-based sports performance and wellness group that might be the first ever to pay all members of a high school team.
The deal was announced Monday by KONGiQ Sports Performance, which said it will “provide an NIL opportunity to each member of the St. John Bosco High football team for the 2022 season …”
Sources told the Southern California News Group that the deal, which is optional for each player on the varsity team, is worth $400 per player, made in two payments ($200 per semester).
Bosco’s 70-plus varsity players will have the opportunity to become what’s known as an “influencer” for the KONGiQ App as part of the iNPOWERiQ program. They will be contractually obligated to post personal experiences using the KONGiQ Sports Performance system on their own personal social media accounts and also on the KONGiQ App.
The deal is notable because it appears to be the first that is a team-wide arrangement. For some, it’s more notable for what it means about the future of high school sports.
In 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that collegiate athletes can monetize their name, image, and likeness. This allowed college athletes to sign endorsements and still retain their college eligibility.
Soon after, California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), which governs high school sports in the state, stated its position that high school athletes have similar NIL rights.
The CIF constitution and bylaws state that “any student-athlete can be compensated for their name, image, and likeness, so long as there is no recognition of the student-athletes’ school, school logos, uniforms, or insignia.”
The CIF bylaws further explain that a student-athlete shall become ineligible if they are “wearing a school team uniform or any identifying school insignia while appearing in any advertisement, promotional activity or endorsement for any commercial product or service” or “lending his/her name and team affiliation for purposes of commercial endorsement.”
Last May, Nike secured its first NIL deals with athletes at the high school level, signing sisters Alyssa and Gisele Thompson of Harvard-Westlake to a multi-year deal worth an undisclosed amount.
Alyssa and Gisele are soccer players at Harvard-Westlake who have experience with Team USA national soccer and are committed to Stanford.
Los Alamitos senior quarterback Malachi Nelson (USC commit) signed an individual deal with Klutch Sports Group last week for NIL opportunities. That is the same agency that represents Lakers superstar LeBron James.
Nelson is Klutch Sports Group’s first high school football client. He could be in line for historic NIL contracts in high school and in college.
Welcome @Malachi! #Klutch #NIL pic.twitter.com/PEsHuMSoir
— Klutch Sports Group (@KlutchSports) August 18, 2022
St. John Bosco kicks off the 2022 season Friday in Allen, Texas, with a game in a $60-million high school stadium that holds 18,000 fans.
Bosco will also play a game this season at the University of Oregon’s Autzen Stadium on Sept. 9.
“Our faculty and staff do an amazing job preparing our students to achieve at the highest levels in academics and athletics,” St. John Bosco President and Chief Executive Officer Brian Wickstrom said via a press release Monday, “so they are ready to excel at the top higher education institutions in the country.”
California is one of 14 states that sanction NIL opportunities for high school students.
“Actors, models, singers and musicians in high school have been earning from their talents and Name, Image and Likeness for years, and now as media changes, we see young product influencers making large sums as well,” said Mouzon Bass, CEO and president of Bass Enterprises, which owns iNPOWERiQ, KONGiQ, HealthiQ.
“In this new reality, students now also have the opportunity to earn, and learn about their own brand and marketing themselves, while enhancing their performance, health and fitness.”
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The US Festival of 1982, wow.
Rumored to be the West Coast’s version of Woodstock, this weird blend of music and technology was the creation of Steve Wozniak, one of the co-founders of Apple Computer, Inc., as a thank you to friends who helped him become successful in the home computer industry.
I have to admit my ignorance 40 years ago, that the buildup for the US Festival was a bit confusing to me.
All this talk about a big techno-musical extravaganza produced by Unuson Corporation and Wozniac. Frankly, I didn’t know what an Apple was — except for the one I eat with my lunch.
Compounding the confusion for me and probably 100,000 other concertgoers was the show’s theme; something called the “US” decade. According to the organizers who came up with the moniker, it was a promotional idea of working together for the common good.
My understanding is that Wozniak paid for everything, including a $1 million fixed fee to San Bernardino County, the grading of the land, the building of the temporary stage and all additional costs to the county.
Nine months went into planning the event. To address the intense triple-digit heat, water cannons were placed at the foot of the stage, blasting concertgoers.
More than 400,000 people had a great time listening to 30-plus hours of music sitting on blankets resting on a recently carved out amphitheater at Glen Helen Park in Devore on Labor Day weekend in 1982.
The three-day event — September 3-5 –was an attraction of some 20 rock bands, including some of the biggest names in rock ‘n’ roll from the 1960s to 1982, including Santana, The Grateful Dead, The Kinks, Fleetwood Mac, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty and The Police.
Tickets for all three days were $37.50, a bit high for the time but well worth the price. My sisters, Joanne and Kathy, and I drove from our north San Bernardino home each day and endured the traffic at night. Many of our favorite bands were performing so we didn’t regret it one bit.
The gates opened at 9 a.m. each day with a technology fair. The opening day’s festivities featured technological demonstrations until 4 p.m. and then the music started. A lineup of seven “new wave” bands — Gang of Four, The Ramones, The English Beat, Oingo Boingo, The B-52’s, Talking Heads, and The Police — played until past midnight.
The music was classic rock ‘n’ roll on Saturday. In addition to the ongoing technology fair, a plethora of talent took the stage beginning at 10 a.m. and what a lineup. Dave Edmunds, Eddie Money, Santana, The Cars, The Kinks, Pat Benatar, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers rocking until the wee hours.
On Sunday, everyone woke up (except for my sisters and me) with “Breakfast in Bed with the Grateful Dead.” We were still catching up on our sleep from the previous night as it took us more than two hours to get home.
Anyway, we made it back to the US Festival in time to catch Jimmy Buffet’s celebrated “Margaritaville.” Other bands that played until closing — around 5 p.m. — were Jerry Jeff Walker, Fleetwood Mac and Jackson Browne.
Looking back, that US Festival scene was really something.
Thousands of people getting squirted by water bottles and hoses (the temperature was over 110 degrees each day), more than a few drugs circulating, some girls taking off their tops (that was interesting), and a staggering assortment of music.
There were some little fights and disturbances but there really weren’t many problems with people getting out of hand.
Everyone seemed to have a wonderful time and it certainly looked like a rousing success to me. However, when the US Festival was over, it was estimated that Steve Wozniak lost about $12.5 million.
The Apple guru tried again with a sequel over Memorial Day Weekend in 1983 with three days of heavy metal and the following Saturday one full-day of country music. We skipped the heavy metal part, but our whole family (our parents included) went on June 4 to see Waylon and Willie, Alabama, Emmylou Harris, and other outstanding country musicians.
Hoping that this second US Festival would become more lucrative, Wozniak once again forked out a lot of cash. But despite the thousands of us who had one heck of a time, US Festival No. 2 turned out to be another financial bomb.
Nevertheless, the US Festival carried on a legacy of great bands coming to the San Bernardino-area that began with the Swing Auditorium, which played host to such legendary rocks acts as Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and the Jimi Hendrix Experience in the 1960s and 1970s.
This US Festival reflected a time of prosperity in San Bernardino, which had been named an All America City only five years earlier. It also set the stage for construction of today’s Glen Helen Amphitheater, the largest outdoor music venue in the United States.
Looking back 40 years now, the US Festival was certainly the highlight of my concert-going career. I still have my program and T-shirt.
You can contact Nick Cataldo at Yankeenut15@gmail.com and read more of his local history articles at Facebook.com/BackRoadsPress. He is the author of “Images of America: San Bernardino” (published by Arcadia Publishing in 2002), “The Earp Clan: The Southern California Years” (published by Back Roads Press in October of 2006) and “Creating the Gate City: San Bernardino, Ca.” (published by Back Roads Press) released in July 2021.
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The Justice Department has issued a new grand jury subpoena to the National Archives for more documents as part of its investigation into the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, two sources familiar with the investigation tell CNN.
This latest subpoena, issued on August 17, is in addition to a subpoena the Department of Justice sent to the Archives earlier this year, requesting the same documents and information that the Archives had previously handed over to the House select committee investigating January 6.
This new subpoena, which has not been previously reported, is understood to request additional documents and data from the Archives, pertaining to a period of time both before and after January 6.
Thomas Windom, an Assistant US Attorney, who is leading the criminal probe into the effort to impede the transfer of power after the 2020 election, including the potential role played by former President Donald Trump and allies to organize a group of fake electors who could keep Trump in power despite losing the election. The US Attorney's Office declined to comment.
The subpoena requests that the documents be produced by the end of August.
The new subpoena is the latest indication that the Justice Department is ramping up its investigation and has broadened the scope of its probe into the potential role White House staff played in events leading up to the attack on the Capitol that day.
Last week, CNN and others reported that Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann, who pushed back on efforts by the former President and his allies to overturn the 2020 election, had been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating the events surrounding January 6.
Other Trump lawyers, including Pat Cipollone and Patrick Philbin, have also been subpoenaed, and DOJ officials have been gearing up to try to access direct communications with Trump when he was in office, which could set off a legal fight over executive privilege.
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The parent of a Robb Elementary student who was not injured but is suffering emotional affects following the massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead said Monday he and four other parents have each filed complaints with the school district calling for the superintendent's removal.
The school board was holding a special meeting Monday night to review the complaints against Superintendent Hal Harrell.
Adam Martinez told CNN he wants "accountability" in the wake of a Texas statehouse report reviewing the May 24 mass shooting, and "that starts with superintendent and anyone below him."
The report from a Texas House investigative committee cited Robb Elementary's "culture of non-compliance with safety policies," including its failure to adequately prepare for the risk of an armed intruder and the common practice of leaving doors unlocked. The massacre was the United States' deadliest school shooting since 2012.
The school board's meeting began with a public comment period of about 10 minutes but moved into private executive session.
The board has another meeting scheduled for Wednesday where it will consider firing school district police chief Pete Arredondo.
Officials have said Arredondo was the on-scene commander during the shooting, but the chief has disputed this, saying he did not believe he was in charge.
Responding officers from multiple agencies did not enter the classroom to confront the shooter until more than an hour after the shooting began -- a move that some law enforcement experts say could have cost lives.
Harrell has recommended Arredondo -- who is on unpaid leave -- be fired.
The school board has postponed Arredondo's termination hearing twice because of requests from his attorney involving his right to due process.
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Nokia revealed the completion of what it described as Africa’s first fixed wireless access (FWA) 5G slicing trial alongside operator customer Safaricom, as the pair continue to work on developing enterprise services.
The vendor noted the pilot used the operator’s live 4G and 5G networks comprising radio, core and transport. It used a multi-vendor network environment and took place in Western Kenya.
Safaricom’s trial is part of a move to widen its enterprise offering which includes ambitions to deliver application slicing and fast line internet access.
James Maitai, Safaricom network director, noted it intended to begin “tailoring our service offerings to individual customers and industries, to meet their needs for high-speed connectivity precisely and without unnecessary cost”.
The development comes as Safaricom continues work to develop 5G in its home market, which was one of the first in Africa to receive the latest network technology when Safaricom began live trials in parts of its footprint during March 2021.
Its vendors for its 5G network rollout are Huawei and Nokia.
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Australia's equity manager is the latest firm to join 50+ asset managers leveraging Eze Eclipse in APAC
WINDSOR, Conn., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) today announced that Fairlight Asset Management, a Sydney, Australia–based global equity manager, has selected Eze Eclipse as its front-to-back investment management platform. The emerging asset manager is the latest firm to join over 50 asset managers of all sizes leveraging Eze Eclipse in APAC.
"When we set out to upgrade our existing workflows, we were looking for a provider to help streamline operations and scale business," said Ian Carmichael, Senior Portfolio Manager and Partner at Fairlight. "Eze Eclipse fits our needs perfectly. The all-in-one front-to-back solution is helping us optimize our team's activities and the tightly integrated and easy-to-use compliance engine simplifies managing global portfolios."
Eze Eclipse features 60 pre-built compliance rule templates and allows firms to build custom rules to accommodate unique restrictions. The system is also helping Fairlight reconcile its full investment book of record daily.
"We are excited to work with Fairlight to help the team grow their strong portfolio," said Michael Hutner, General Manager of SS&C Eze. "We have a long history of servicing clients across APAC and are proud to support this expanding market. Eze Eclipse is ideally suited to support emerging and growing managers. We continue to make significant investments in the platform, regularly releasing new features to meet our clients' needs."
Since its launch in the APAC market in 2019, Eze Eclipse has become a top choice for investment technology for emerging hedge funds and institutional managers across the Asia Pacific and was named "Best Cloud Tech Provider - Public" at the HFM Asia Services Awards 2021 for exceptional innovation, customer service, and business performance.
SS&C has continued to build on its investment management offerings in APAC. SS&C Eze officially launched in Japan in June, with Hiroki Allen taking over operations. SS&C Eze is Tokyo Metropolitan Authority's Qualified Outsourcing Provider, supporting emerging and growing managers launching funds in the region. In addition, SS&C Eze continues to grow its managed services across APAC.
Fairlight Asset Management is an employee-owned boutique firm investing exclusively in global equity markets. We are focused on contributing to superior investment outcomes for our clients through exceptional performance. Our team take an ethically-aware, quality-driven approach to investing, dedicated to deep fundamental research of both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of investee companies. Principals invest the majority of their liquid assets in the business and the fund itself in order to maximise alignment with investors and partners.
SS&C is a global provider of services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices around the world. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale and technology.
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MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It has been a rollercoaster couple of years for investors and traders alike - with incredible levels of stimulus resulting in genuine risk taking in financial markets and, of course, multi-decade high inflation. We are all feeling the effects of this in our daily lives now and as central banks try to reign in price pressures the opportunity for traders is everywhere.
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DUNCAN, S.C. (WSPA) — The town of Duncan paid tribute to its mayor who passed away last week.
People lined the streets Sunday as Mayor Clyde “Rog” Rogers’ funeral procession traveled through Duncan’s downtown.
“He was a good man,” said Terry Warlick. “If you had any problems, he would be right there with you.”
“He’s done so much for the community around here,” added Tonya McCullough. “We’re going to miss him.”
Rogers died last Monday after a battle with health issues. He was a lifelong Duncan resident and served in town council before becoming mayor.
“He’s done miracles for this town,” said Sonny Waddell.
“He always had a smile on his face,” added Town Administrator Cameron Fant. “He had a passion for this town and community. Under his leadership, we saw the most residential, commercial and industrial growth we’ve ever seen.”
Rogers began his career in his family-owned barbershop on Main Street, following in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps.
“I grew up here,” said McCullough. “I can remember the times I went to his barber shop because he used to cut my hair for school.”
Several people gathered at the barber shop as they paid their final respects to him.
“He would have done anything in the world for anybody, especially for our community” said McCullough. “It’s a small town in Duncan, and he did everything he could.”
“This was his heart — this town, his church and his community,” added Fant. “He was truly an amazing individual.”
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WOODBINE, Ga. (AP) — The family of a woman killed by gunfire last year as Georgia sheriff’s deputies with a drug warrant raided her cousin’s home announced a federal lawsuit Monday against the sheriff and others.
Attorneys for the family of 37-year-old Latoya James have argued her death echoes the fatal shooting in 2020 of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. Both cases involved Black women killed in shootouts after law officers forced their way into darkened homes with little to no warning.
The civil lawsuit claims the deadly raid violated the slain woman’s civil rights. It was filed Sunday after the district attorney for coastal Camden County decided in April not to bring criminal charges against deputies in James’ death after concluding they were justified in using deadly force.
“I can never get her back,” the slain woman’s mother, Betty James, said through tears at a news conference Monday. “I got to hear her tell me `I love you, mommy’ for the last time the night before they took her life. And I can never hear that again. My family wants justice. We deserve justice.”
The lawsuit names Camden County Sheriff Jim Proctor as a defendant as well as several deputies who took part in the fatal raid May 4, 2021. Filed on behalf of James’ 9-year-old daughter, the lawsuit seeks at least $25 million in damages. It argues deputies violated James’ rights by forcing entry without giving the home’s occupants time to answer their knock.
James was spending the night at the home of her cousin, Varshan Brown, when deputies with a warrant to search for drugs knocked down the door of the darkened house at about 5 a.m. in Woodbine, located in Georgia’s coastal southeastern corner near the Florida line.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation released body camera video that showed deputies announcing themselves, then immediately forcing their way inside. Multiple gunshots were fired within seconds.
The deputy wearing the body camera was carrying a shield that obstructed much of the video. It doesn’t show who opened fire, and neither James nor Brown can be seen in the three-minute clip.
The lawsuit says James was killed by bullets striking her in the shoulder and back as deputies and Brown fired guns at each other. Brown was wounded and later charged with crimes. Attorneys for the family said he opened fire not knowing that it was law enforcement officers entering his home.
“It was under the dark of night, it was unexpected,” said Reginald Greene, an attorney for James’ family. “It was unlawful, it was unjustified.”
Capt. Larry Bruce, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said the department does not comment on pending litigation.
District Attorney Keith Higgins’ office and the GBI have declined to say whether it was the deputies or Brown who fired the shots that killed James. Attorneys for James’ relatives said prosecutors have told the family that she was shot by deputies.
Regardless, Higgins’ office persuaded a grand jury to indict Brown on a charge of felony murder, arguing that he was responsible for the death of his cousin, James, by firing a gun at deputies.
Under Georgia law, someone can be convicted of felony murder if they commit a felony that results in a death, regardless of intent. Brown is also charged with felony counts of aggravated assault against peace officers, possessing cocaine with intent to distribute and illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Brown has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He remains jailed in Camden County. Attorneys for James’ family have called on prosecutors to drop the murder charge against him.
James’ family last week asked the Justice Department to investigate her death, saying there are striking parallels between the Georgia case and the 2020 raid by police officers in Louisville, Kentucky, that left Taylor dead. The Justice Department filed federal civil rights charges against four Louisville officers earlier this month in connection to Taylor’s death. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/family-sues-georgia-sheriff-over-drug-raid-that-killed-woman | 2022-08-23T00:54:58Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/family-sues-georgia-sheriff-over-drug-raid-that-killed-woman | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 40 |
WOODBINE, Ga. (AP) — The family of a woman killed by gunfire last year as Georgia sheriff’s deputies with a drug warrant raided her cousin’s home announced a federal lawsuit Monday against the sheriff and others.
Attorneys for the family of 37-year-old Latoya James have argued her death echoes the fatal shooting in 2020 of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. Both cases involved Black women killed in shootouts after law officers forced their way into darkened homes with little to no warning.
The civil lawsuit claims the deadly raid violated the slain woman’s civil rights. It was filed Sunday after the district attorney for coastal Camden County decided in April not to bring criminal charges against deputies in James’ death after concluding they were justified in using deadly force.
“I can never get her back,” the slain woman’s mother, Betty James, said through tears at a news conference Monday. “I got to hear her tell me `I love you, mommy’ for the last time the night before they took her life. And I can never hear that again. My family wants justice. We deserve justice.”
The lawsuit names Camden County Sheriff Jim Proctor as a defendant as well as several deputies who took part in the fatal raid May 4, 2021. Filed on behalf of James’ 9-year-old daughter, the lawsuit seeks at least $25 million in damages. It argues deputies violated James’ rights by forcing entry without giving the home’s occupants time to answer their knock.
James was spending the night at the home of her cousin, Varshan Brown, when deputies with a warrant to search for drugs knocked down the door of the darkened house at about 5 a.m. in Woodbine, located in Georgia’s coastal southeastern corner near the Florida line.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation released body camera video that showed deputies announcing themselves, then immediately forcing their way inside. Multiple gunshots were fired within seconds.
The deputy wearing the body camera was carrying a shield that obstructed much of the video. It doesn’t show who opened fire, and neither James nor Brown can be seen in the three-minute clip.
The lawsuit says James was killed by bullets striking her in the shoulder and back as deputies and Brown fired guns at each other. Brown was wounded and later charged with crimes. Attorneys for the family said he opened fire not knowing that it was law enforcement officers entering his home.
“It was under the dark of night, it was unexpected,” said Reginald Greene, an attorney for James’ family. “It was unlawful, it was unjustified.”
Capt. Larry Bruce, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said the department does not comment on pending litigation.
District Attorney Keith Higgins’ office and the GBI have declined to say whether it was the deputies or Brown who fired the shots that killed James. Attorneys for James’ relatives said prosecutors have told the family that she was shot by deputies.
Regardless, Higgins’ office persuaded a grand jury to indict Brown on a charge of felony murder, arguing that he was responsible for the death of his cousin, James, by firing a gun at deputies.
Under Georgia law, someone can be convicted of felony murder if they commit a felony that results in a death, regardless of intent. Brown is also charged with felony counts of aggravated assault against peace officers, possessing cocaine with intent to distribute and illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Brown has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He remains jailed in Camden County. Attorneys for James’ family have called on prosecutors to drop the murder charge against him.
James’ family last week asked the Justice Department to investigate her death, saying there are striking parallels between the Georgia case and the 2020 raid by police officers in Louisville, Kentucky, that left Taylor dead. The Justice Department filed federal civil rights charges against four Louisville officers earlier this month in connection to Taylor’s death. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/family-sues-georgia-sheriff-over-drug-raid-that-killed-woman | 2022-08-23T00:54:58Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-news/family-sues-georgia-sheriff-over-drug-raid-that-killed-woman | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 40 |
SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane police responded to reports of a shooting on Aug. 21, 2022 just before 11 p.m. on West Shannon Avenue.
According to a press release, once officers arrived, they found a victim suffering from gunshot wounds and the suspect. Police said despite the efforts of first responders, the victim died from his injuries at the hospital.
The suspect, 68-year-old Duarte Cordero, was reportedly detained by officers immediately after the incident. He was later booked into the Spokane County Jail for second-degree murder.
According to police, Cordero is a convicted felon with a criminal history, including a 1990 conviction for first-degree murder. This criminal history prevents him from possessing firearms, police said.
Though initial information indicates this was not a random incident, the investigation remains ongoing. The identity of the victim will be released at a later date by the medical examiner's officer, police said.
This is a developing news story and we will provide more updates as they become available.
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WASHINGTON — Virginia Patton Moss, most recognizable as Ruth Dakin Bailey in the 1946 holiday movie 'It's a Wonderful Life," died Thursday from natural causes. She was 97.
Karolyn Grimes, a child actor from the movie confirmed the starlet's death in a Facebook post Sunday. Patton was the last surviving adult member of the cast.
"We have another angel! Virginia Patton Moss. She was 97 years old. She played Harry Bailey's wife in the film, it's a Wonderful Life! She is now with her beloved Cruse," Grimes wrote. "She will be missed!"
Mathews Funeral Home in Albany, Georgia, announced Thursday that the 1940s star died of natural causes.
Patton was born in Ohio on June 25, 1925 and began her career in acting as teenager, having landed a contract with Warner Bros., Universal Studios and more. During her career she also held her own popular line of women's and children's wear called "Virginia Patton of Hollywood."
Patton played Harry Bailey's wife in Frank Capra's Christmas fantasy drama "It's a Wonderful Life," which is considered one of the greatest American films, ranking No. 11 behind "Singin' in the Rain."
However, the starlet's Hollywood career was short-lived as she retired at 24, after only seven years in the movie business. She married Cruse Moss, who accompanied her through her old age until his death in 2018.
Patton and Moss moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., where they were involved in the arts community. Patton served on the Boards of the American Institute of Archeology, the Washtenaw County Mental Health Services Agency and Cleary College's Board of Trustees.
Patton is survived by her two children Carol Moss Loop and Michael Cruse Moss. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/entertainment-news/virginia-patton-moss-dies-at-97/507-647c812d-36db-4e49-998e-30a2374617d9 | 2022-08-23T00:55:05Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/entertainment-news/virginia-patton-moss-dies-at-97/507-647c812d-36db-4e49-998e-30a2374617d9 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Monday to prevent the FBI from continuing to review documents recovered from his Florida estate earlier this month until a neutral special master can be appointed to inspect the records.
The request was included in a federal lawsuit, the first filing by Trump's legal team in the two weeks since the search, that takes broad aim at the FBI investigation into the discovery of classified records at Mar-a-Lago and that foreshadows arguments his lawyers are likely to make as the probe proceeds.
The filing casts the Aug. 8 search, in which the FBI said it recovered 11 sets of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, as a “shockingly aggressive move” and asserts that the action took place even through Trump had been “fully cooperative” for weeks as federal agents scrutinized the presence of presidential records at Mar-a-Lago. It also attacks the warrant as overly broad and asserts that the Justice Department should not be afforded “trust us” deference in conducting the investigation.
"Law enforcement is a shield that protects America. It cannot be used as a weapon for political purposes," the lawyers wrote Monday. “Therefore, we seek judicial assistance in the aftermath of an unprecedented and unnecessary raid” at Mar-a-Lago.
In a separate statement, Trump said “ALL documents have been declassified” and described the records as having been “illegally seized” from his home. The Justice Department countered in a terse three-sentence statement that the search had been authorized by a federal judge after the FBI showed there was probable cause to believe a crime had been committed. It said it would respond in court to the motion.
The filing specifically requests the appointment of a special master not connected the case who would be tasked with inspecting the records recovered from Mar-a-Lago and setting aside those that are covered by executive privilege — a principle that permits presidents to withhold certain communications from public disclosure.
In some other high-profile cases — including investigations involving Rudy Giuliani and Michael Cohen, two of Trump's personal attorneys — that role has been filled by a retired judge.
“This matter has captured the attention of the American public. Merely ‘adequate’ safeguards are not acceptable when the matter at hand involves not only the constitutional rights of President Trump, but also the presumption of executive privilege,” the attorneys wrote.
The lawsuit argues that the records, by virtue of having been created during Trump's White House tenure, are “presumptively privileged.” But the Supreme Court has never determined whether a former president can assert executive privilege over documents, writing in January that the issue is unprecedented and raises “serious and substantial concerns.”
The high court turned down Trump’s plea to block records held by the National Archives from being turned over to the Jan. 6 committee, saying then that his request would have been denied even if he had been the incumbent president, so there was no need to tackle the thorny issue of a former president’s claims.
The lawsuit seeks to paint Trump as compliant with investigators, saying members of his personal and household staff were made available for voluntary interviews and quoting him as telling FBI and Justice Department officials during a June visit to Mar-a-Lago, “Whatever you need, just let us know.”
But the chronology of events suggests that search took place only after other options to recover classified documents from the home had been incomplete or unsuccessful. In May, for instance, weeks before the search, the Justice Department issued a subpoena for records bearing classification markings.
After the meeting at Mar-a-Lago in June involving FBI and Justice Department officials, investigators interviewed another witness who told them that there were likely additional classified documents still stored at Mar-a-Lago, according to person familiar with the investigation who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.
The new lawsuit filed Monday was assigned to U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who was nominated by Trump in 2020 and confirmed by the Senate 56-21 later that year. She is a former assistant U.S. attorney in Florida, handling mainly criminal appeals, and is a member of the conservative Federalist Society, according to her biography.
The months-long investigation, which burst into public view with the Mar-a-Lago search, emerged from a referral from the National Archives, which had retrieved 15 boxes of documents and other items from the estate that should have been turned over to the agency when Trump left the White House. An initial review of that material concluded that Trump had brought presidential records and several other documents that were marked classified to Mar-a-Lago.
Separately Monday, a federal judge acknowledged that redactions to an FBI affidavit spelling out the basis for the search might be so extensive as to make the document “meaningless” if released to the public. But he said he continued to believe it should not remain sealed in its entirety because of the “intense” public interest in the investigation.
A written order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart largely restates what he said in court last week, when he directed the Justice Department to propose redactions about the information in the affidavit that it wants to remain secret. That submission is due Thursday at noon.
Justice Department officials have sought to keep the entire document sealed, saying disclosing any portion of it risks compromising an ongoing criminal investigation, revealing information about witnesses and divulging investigative techniques. They have advised the judge that the necessary redactions to the affidavit would be so numerous that they would strip the document of any substantive information and make it effectively meaningless for the public.
Reinhart acknowledged that possibility in his Monday order, writing, “I cannot say at this point that partial redactions will be so extensive that they will result in a meaningless disclosure, but I may ultimately reach that conclusion after hearing further from the Government.” | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/federal-judge-trump-affidavit-for-mar-a-lago-fbi-search/507-64e96eda-823b-4235-acbf-18e12e996f18 | 2022-08-23T00:55:11Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/federal-judge-trump-affidavit-for-mar-a-lago-fbi-search/507-64e96eda-823b-4235-acbf-18e12e996f18 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — MoviePass, the movie theater subscription service that shut down after offering seemingly too good to be true deals, is making a comeback. But don't expect the same deals this time around.
The previous iteration really took off in August 2017 by offering consumers the ability to see one movie every day of the year for as little as $10 per month. It was a great setup for a while, but MoviePass eventually had to raise prices, limit access to certain films and restrict the number of movies its subscribers could see each week.
It shut down for good in mid-September 2019. Now nearly three years later, MoviePass is plotting its big screen comeback.
While details remain limited on exactly how the new operation will work, the company posted on its website that the new "MoviePass Beta service" will be relaunching around Labor Day.
According to the site, those interested in joining the MoviePass Beta App have to sign up on a waitlist - which will be open for 5 days starting on Thursday at 9 a.m. Eastern.
The website notes that the new MoviePass won't be available nationwide at first. Instead, markets will be launched in waves determined "on level of engagement from the waitlist in each market as well as locations of exhibition partners."
So how much will the new MoviePass cost?
The company says there will be 3 pricing tiers for those who sign up after being on the wait list: $10, $20 or $30. The site notes those prices could vary "depending on each market."
"Each level will get a certain amount of credits to be able to use towards movies each month. More details to come," the website states.
MoviePass claims the new service will include all major theater chains that accept credit cards in the U.S.
Business Insider reporter Jason Guerrasio, who was first to report the relaunch plans, shared an image of the MoviePass card for the new service.
A lot has changed since MoviePass first launched. The movie theater industry is still facing impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and major chains including AMC Theaters and Regal Cinemas have their own successful subscription services with millions of customers.
This summer's $3.3 billion in ticket sales is still running nearly 20% behind the summer of 2019, before the pandemic, as of Sunday, according to data firm Comscore.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/moviepass-coming-back-how-to-sign-up-pricing-details/507-ef8c4293-6be5-4ee6-b1c6-781bdf40b22e | 2022-08-23T00:55:17Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/moviepass-coming-back-how-to-sign-up-pricing-details/507-ef8c4293-6be5-4ee6-b1c6-781bdf40b22e | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In 2022, Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients saw a 5.9% increase to their benefits, the largest since 1982, due to an annual cost-of-living adjustment based on inflation rates.
Social Security provides people with an income when they retire or can’t work due to disability. Those who are retired can typically start receiving their Social Security benefits as early as age 62.
In recent weeks, some people on social media have claimed that Social Security payments will increase as much as 10% in 2023.
Ruby and other VERIFY readers also asked the team if Social Security recipients will see a bigger increase than normal in their checks next year.
THE QUESTION
Is the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2023 expected to be higher than average?
THE SOURCES
- Social Security Administration (SSA)
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Mary Johnson, Social Security and Medicare policy analyst for The Senior Citizens League
- AARP
THE ANSWER
Yes, the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2023 is expected to be higher than average.
WHAT WE FOUND
The Social Security Administration (SSA) adjusts benefit amounts every year to account for inflation through a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). The agency will announce the 2023 COLA in October of this year, a spokesperson told VERIFY.
The COLA is calculated based on the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), an inflation gauge measured by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It measures the average change over time in the prices that workers are paying for in a “basket of consumer goods and services.”
The SSA explains on its website that the COLA is equal to the percentage increase in the CPI-W from the third quarter average of the previous year to the same average from the current year. If there is an increase, it’s rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent. That same increase is applied to monthly Social Security payments.
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To determine the COLA for 2023, SSA will compare the CPI-W for July, August and September of 2021 to the same period in 2022.
In July 2022, the CPI-W increased 9.1% annually, BLS data show. Data is not yet available for August or September.
Data from SSA show that the highest COLA on record was 14.3% in 1980. But, over the past decade, the COLA has averaged just below 2%.
More recently, it increased from 1.3% in 2021 to 5.9% in 2022. The last time the COLA was close to this percentage increase was in 2009, when it was 5.8%.
Though SSA hasn’t yet announced the COLA for 2023, experts estimate that benefits could increase by the largest amount since 1981. The COLA was 11.2% that year.
David Certner, legislative counsel and director of legislative policy for government affairs at AARP, says Social Security recipients can expect a COLA of 8-10% for 2023, though these estimates are preliminary and depend on consumer price data through September.
Mary Johnson, the Social Security and Medicare policy analyst for the Senior Citizens League, predicts that the 2023 COLA will be 9.6%. That would average out to about $160 more per month for retired workers. That number could vary slightly depending on how inflation trends over the next several months, she said.
COLAs for the SSI program, which provides monthly payments to adults and children with a disability who have limited incomes and resources, are generally the same as those for Social Security, though they usually take effect the month after Social Security benefit increases, SSA says on its website. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/economy-verify/how-much-social-security-cola-could-increase-2023/536-0b1a385a-2f8d-40f9-9215-56d3e2eae993 | 2022-08-23T00:55:36Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/economy-verify/how-much-social-security-cola-could-increase-2023/536-0b1a385a-2f8d-40f9-9215-56d3e2eae993 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Monday to prevent the FBI from continuing to review documents recovered from his Florida estate earlier this month until a neutral special master can be appointed to inspect the records.
The request was included in a federal lawsuit, the first filing by Trump's legal team in the two weeks since the search, that takes broad aim at the FBI investigation into the discovery of classified records at Mar-a-Lago and that foreshadows arguments his lawyers are likely to make as the probe proceeds.
The filing casts the Aug. 8 search, in which the FBI said it recovered 11 sets of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, as a "shockingly aggressive move" and asserts that the action took place even through Trump had been "fully cooperative" for weeks as federal agents scrutinized the presence of presidential records at Mar-a-Lago. It also attacks the warrant as overly broad and asserts that the Justice Department should not be afforded "trust us" deference in conducting the investigation.
"Law enforcement is a shield that protects America. It cannot be used as a weapon for political purposes," the lawyers wrote Monday. "Therefore, we seek judicial assistance in the aftermath of an unprecedented and unnecessary raid" at Mar-a-Lago.
In a separate statement, Trump said "ALL documents have been declassified" and described the records as having been "illegally seized" from his home. The Justice Department countered in a terse three-sentence statement that the search had been authorized by a federal judge after the FBI showed there was probable cause to believe a crime had been committed. It said it would respond in court to the motion.
The filing specifically requests the appointment of a special master not connected the case who would be tasked with inspecting the records recovered from Mar-a-Lago and setting aside those that are covered by executive privilege — a principle that permits presidents to withhold certain communications from public disclosure.
In some other high-profile cases — including investigations involving Rudy Giuliani and Michael Cohen, two of Trump's personal attorneys — that role has been filled by a retired judge.
"This matter has captured the attention of the American public. Merely 'adequate' safeguards are not acceptable when the matter at hand involves not only the constitutional rights of President Trump, but also the presumption of executive privilege," the attorneys wrote.
The lawsuit argues that the records, by virtue of having been created during Trump's White House tenure, are "presumptively privileged." But the Supreme Court has never determined whether a former president can assert executive privilege over documents, writing in January that the issue is unprecedented and raises "serious and substantial concerns."
The high court turned down Trump's plea to block records held by the National Archives from being turned over to the Jan. 6 committee, saying then that his request would have been denied even if he had been the incumbent president, so there was no need to tackle the thorny issue of a former president's claims.
The lawsuit seeks to paint Trump as compliant with investigators, saying members of his personal and household staff were made available for voluntary interviews and quoting him as telling FBI and Justice Department officials during a June visit to Mar-a-Lago, "Whatever you need, just let us know."
But the chronology of events suggests that search took place only after other options to recover classified documents from the home had been incomplete or unsuccessful. In May, for instance, weeks before the search, the Justice Department issued a subpoena for records bearing classification markings.
After the meeting at Mar-a-Lago in June involving FBI and Justice Department officials, investigators interviewed another witness who told them that there were likely additional classified documents still stored at Mar-a-Lago, according to person familiar with the investigation who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.
The new lawsuit filed Monday was assigned to U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who was nominated by Trump in 2020 and confirmed by the Senate 56-21 later that year. She is a former assistant U.S. attorney in Florida, handling mainly criminal appeals, and is a member of the conservative Federalist Society, according to her biography.
The months-long investigation, which burst into public view with the Mar-a-Lago search, emerged from a referral from the National Archives, which had retrieved 15 boxes of documents and other items from the estate that should have been turned over to the agency when Trump left the White House. An initial review of that material concluded that Trump had brought presidential records and several other documents that were marked classified to Mar-a-Lago.
Separately Monday, a federal judge acknowledged that redactions to an FBI affidavit spelling out the basis for the search might be so extensive as to make the document "meaningless" if released to the public. But he said he continued to believe it should not remain sealed in its entirety because of the "intense" public interest in the investigation.
A written order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart largely restates what he said in court last week, when he directed the Justice Department to propose redactions about the information in the affidavit that it wants to remain secret. That submission is due Thursday at noon.
Justice Department officials have sought to keep the entire document sealed, saying disclosing any portion of it risks compromising an ongoing criminal investigation, revealing information about witnesses and divulging investigative techniques. They have advised the judge that the necessary redactions to the affidavit would be so numerous that they would strip the document of any substantive information and make it effectively meaningless for the public.
Reinhart acknowledged that possibility in his Monday order, writing, "I cannot say at this point that partial redactions will be so extensive that they will result in a meaningless disclosure, but I may ultimately reach that conclusion after hearing further from the Government."
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Associated Press writers Curt Anderson in St. Petersburg, Jill Colvin in New York and Mark Sherman in Washington contributed to this report.
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been the target of many false claims in recent weeks in connection with funding it will receive from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
A tweet about the IRS recently went viral claiming Congress voted to make its members exempt from tax audits.
“In order to safeguard democracy, Congress has voted to exempt itself and its members from upcoming IRS audits,” the tweet from @ThatmattersNews said. As of Aug. 22, it had more than 18,000 likes and nearly 11,000 retweets.
VERIFY viewer Ron emailed us to ask if it was true.
THE QUESTION
Has Congress voted to make its members exempt from IRS audits?
THE SOURCES
- Internal Revenue Service
- Congress.gov
- @ThatmattersNews, a satirical Twitter account
THE ANSWER
No, Congress has not voted to make its members exempt from IRS audits. The tweet was satire.
WHAT WE FOUND
The viral tweet came from an account called News That Matters that is known for posting satirical content. After the post about congressional audits went viral, a different tweet was pinned to the top of the profile acknowledging the account is satire (satirical examples from the account here, here and here).
“REPORT A new study shows that a shocking number of American adults have trouble spelling the word ‘satire,’ let alone recognizing it,” the tweet said.
In a search of recent legislation, VERIFY could find no evidence to suggest Congress has passed a bill or is slated to vote on a bill that would make its members exempt from IRS audits.
An IRS spokesperson confirmed to VERIFY that the viral tweet is untrue, and “there is no such special exemption. All tax filers are treated equally under the tax law.”
Audits are determined ultimately on what is – or isn’t – included on the tax return. The IRS uses a number of processes to determine when to conduct an audit, including what information is on a person’s tax forms.
“The IRS has strong safeguards in place to ensure that audits are conducted only based on what is on the tax return – and not other factors,” the IRS spokesperson told VERIFY.
Any person or company that files a tax return is eligible to be audited by the IRS. So, we can VERIFY that members of Congress aren’t exempt from tax audits. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/congress-not-exempt-from-irs-audits-fact-check/536-1586c78c-445a-491a-b0db-2a44345f7995 | 2022-08-23T00:55:42Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/congress-not-exempt-from-irs-audits-fact-check/536-1586c78c-445a-491a-b0db-2a44345f7995 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SEATTLE — In one year, the value of the Seattle Seahawks has increased by $1 billion, according to Forbes' annual franchise valuation list.
The Seahawks are the National Football League's (NFL) 14th most valuable franchise, with a $4.5 billion evaluation. That's a 29% increase from 2021 when the Seahawks were worth $3.5 billion, according to Forbes.
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Seattle's operating income, or the amount of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization are factored in, was $122.7 million in its recent NFL season, according to Forbes. The franchise's operating income was $20.8 million the previous season.
Forbes said the average NFL team's franchise value jumped by an average of 28% in one year. That's in part, Forbes explained, because of the NFL's revenue growth (31% in the past five years), profitability (the average team had an operating income of $146 million) and the salary cap for players taking up 48% of team revenue.
The league mandates that each team equally shares over 70% of football-related revenue, but franchises are allowed to leverage their individual brands for luxury suites, sponsorships, hospitality and non-NFL events to generate more revenue.
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Despite rumors circulating over a potential Seahawks sale in the near future, team chair Jody Allen said in July she is not looking to sell the franchise.
The Denver Broncos, the most recent NFL team available on the open market, was sold for a record-breaking $4.65 billion in June.
"A time will come when that changes given Paul's plans to dedicate the vast majority of his wealth to philanthropy, but estates of this size and complexity can take 10 to 20 years to wind down," Allen said in the statement. "There is no pre-ordained timeline by which the teams must be sold. Until then, my focus - and that of our teams - is on winning."
Paul Allen bought the Seahawks in 1997 for $194 million, ushering in a two-decade period that saw Seattle win its first and only Super Bowl in 2013. The franchise value has soared by 2,219% in the last 25 years. | https://www.krem.com/article/sports/nfl/seahawks/seahawks-franchise-value-improves-by-1-billion-one-year/281-ac729dca-3151-4a5e-a0a9-17861d5261ac | 2022-08-23T00:55:48Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/sports/nfl/seahawks/seahawks-franchise-value-improves-by-1-billion-one-year/281-ac729dca-3151-4a5e-a0a9-17861d5261ac | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Officials have approved a quarantine around Grandview to combat the spread of the invasive Japanese beetle.
The quarantine begins Sept. 15 and restricts the movement of potted plants, leaves, grass clippings and other yard waste outside of the Grandview area, Washington State Department of Agriculture officials said Monday.
The announcement comes as more than 18,000 adult insects have been trapped and counted within Yakima and Benton counties. The pest has spread beyond its original area in and around Grandview, WSDA spokesperson Amber Betts said.
The vast majority of this year’s count is from the soon-to-be quarantined area, but at least 82 adult insects have been counted in Wapato, roughly 30 miles away. Betts said adult beetles also have been found in Parker, Granger, Sunnyside, Mabton, Outlook and Richland. Only one bug was found in Richland, and none have been reported in the Tri-Cities since.
At public meetings earlier this month, WSDA officials stressed the importance of containing and, hopefully, eradicating the problem.
“If the Japanese beetle becomes permanently established in Washington state, it could pose a significant economic threat to the state’s agricultural industries,” said Greg Haubrich, pest program manager for WSDA.
First found in New Jersey in 1916, Japanese beetles will eat more than 300 types of plants, including roses, grapes and hops. The adult beetles damage plants by skeletonizing the leaves. Adults also feed on buds, flowers and fruit on the plants.
Quarantine items listed
The quarantine was first proposed last year after 900 traps caught more than 24,000 Japanese beetles in and around Grandview in 2021. It would regulate certain items and impose restrictions on their movement out of the quarantine area.
WSDA reached out to the public and businesses potentially impacted by the proposed quarantine, culminating in a public hearing held Aug. 2. WSDA Director Derek Sandison adopted the rule Aug. 15, and the rule will become effective 31 days after filing, on Sept. 15.
The rule amends the existing quarantine that prohibits movement of items into the state from known infested areas outside of the state.
The rule covers a 49-square mile area in and around Grandview.
The rule restricts movement of several items, including:
• Topsoil containing vegetative material
• Noncommercial humus and compost
• Noncommercial growing media
• Yard debris including grass clippings, leaves, branches, brush, weeds, flowers, roots, windfall fruit, and vegetable garden debris
• Potted plants, and plants used for planting or propagation unless free from growing media
• Sod
• Hop bines and unshucked corn ears harvested during the Japanese beetle adult flight season (May 15 through Oct. 15)
• Cut flowers for decorative purposes
• Any other plant, plant part, or article that presents a hazard of spreading Japanese beetle due to either infestation or exposure to infestation.
Commercial growers within the quarantine area may have to meet trapping and treatment requirements to move their products outside of the quarantine area. Growers can contact the WSDA Plant Protection division with questions about these requirements.
After the beetles’ summer flight season ends, WSDA will determine if emergency rulemaking may be necessary to expand the quarantine area to include additional areas of infestation.
Growers can consult crop protection specialists and community members can consult the Washington State University Extension website for guidance on protecting their crops and gardens from this invasive pest.
The WSDA created a real-time detection map that growers can use to determine how close they are to known Japanese beetle detections.
Report new sightings of beetles
State officials are urging growers and community members in Yakima, Benton, and Franklin counties to monitor for these beetles.
“More than ever, public participation is key in fighting invasive species,” WSDA Japanese Beetle Eradication Coordinator Camilo Acosta said.
Anyone living in Washington who thinks they see a Japanese beetle is asked to snap a photo and report the sighting online.
“A photo is imperative to helping us identify the beetles,” Acosta added.
Japanese beetle adults are metallic green and brown and have little tufts of white hair on their sides. They emerge – usually from lawns or in other soil – in the spring and feed throughout the summer. From fall to spring the grubs (larvae) overwinter in the soil and slowly develop into mature adults ready to emerge again in the spring.
Community members can help by trapping, reporting, and killing the beetles on their properties. They also can help by following the quarantine.
WSDA set up a drop-off site for yard debris in Grandview. Businesses and residents can take all accepted items to 875 Bridgeview Road in Grandview between 7:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. There is no charge for disposal. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/japanese-beetle-quarantine-approved-for-grandview-area/article_fa765508-2270-11ed-a4a3-7f39f9ad59be.html | 2022-08-23T00:56:55Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/japanese-beetle-quarantine-approved-for-grandview-area/article_fa765508-2270-11ed-a4a3-7f39f9ad59be.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For NaTika Rowles, emphasizing how Black residents have always found ways to give within their community is an important message in August.
As executive director for the Black Community Fund in Kansas City, Rowles wants to "show that Black people are philanthropists, too," but that it doesn't have to manifest as a dollar amount. Black philanthropy focuses on equity and organizations led by people of color helping people of color.
Tiffany Price is an example of this. With funds from the Black Community Fund, Price has been able to expand her nonprofit, Hold 'Em Up 4 Care, which provides properly fitted bras to women and girls in need. The organization now is able to include a boys program, providing underwear and bowties. Price says it's a matter of self-esteem and confidence for her clients, who can be as young as nine years of age.
- NaTika Rowles, executive director for the Black Community Fund in Kansas City
- Tiffany Price, founder and CEO of Hold 'Em Up 4 Care | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-08-22/expanding-the-meaning-of-philanthropy-in-kansas-city | 2022-08-23T00:58:52Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-08-22/expanding-the-meaning-of-philanthropy-in-kansas-city | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Emergency officials urge safety ahead of peak hurricane season
N.C. (WITN) - The peak of hurricane season is just weeks away and emergency response officials continue to encourage safety.
Eastern Carolina is no stranger to devastating hurricanes. Hurricane Florence in September of 2018 is just one example.
There have been no hurricanes in our region so far this season, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration still predicts an above-average Atlantic hurricane season.
Emergency response officials like Stanley Kite with Craven County Emergency Services are reminding people of the importance of stocking up their preparedness kits ahead of time.
“Bottled water and non-perishable food items. Your personal medications that you have, make sure you have a few extras,” Kite urges. “Don’t sit there with the attitude of ‘well if I need help, I’ll call someone because those resources are going to be very limited. You can’t wait until the named storm occurs to start that process.”
Officials say you should store copies of important insurance and property documents in water-resistant containers in the event of property damages during a hurricane.
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BEIJING (AP) — Brush fires have forced the evacuation of more than 1,500 people in southwest China and power rationing for factories has reportedly been extended as weeks of record heat and drought batter the region.
Some shopping malls in the megacity of Chongqing have been ordered closed for most of the day to reduce electricity demand, state broadcaster CCTV said, limiting opening hours to 4 to 9 p.m.
The drought and heat have wilted crops and caused rivers including the giant Yangtze to shrink, disrupting cargo traffic and reducing power supply from hydroelectric dams at a time of soaring demand for air conditioning. State media say the government will try to protect the autumn grain harvest, which is 75% of China’s annual total, by shooting chemicals into clouds to try to generate rain.
The disruption adds to challenges for the ruling Communist Party, which is trying to shore up sagging economic growth before a meeting this fall at which President Xi Jinping is expected to be given a third five-year term as party leader.
There was no public announcement of the extension of power rationing in Sichuan province into a second week, but it was detailed in a company statement and a government notice to companies that was reported by Chinese news outlets.
The “tense situation” of power supplies in Sichuan province “has further intensified,” Tencent News said Monday in a report that included a photo of the government notice.
LIER Chemical Co. said in an announcement through the stock exchange in the southern city of Shenzhen that its facilities in the cities of Jinyang and Guang’an in Sichuan received an order extending power rationing through Thursday.
Factories in Sichuan that make processor chips, solar panels, auto components and other industrial goods were required to shut down or reduce activity last week to conserve power for homes as air conditioning demand surged in temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). Air conditioning, elevators and lights were shut off in offices and shopping malls.
In Shanghai, a factory and shipping hub on China’s east coast, Tesla Ltd. and a major state-owned automaker suspended production last week due to disruption in supplies of components from Sichuan, the Shanghai city government said.
Sichuan, with 94 million people, is especially hard-hit because it gets 80% of its power from hydroelectric dams. Other provinces rely more on coal-fired power, which isn’t affected.
Economists say if Sichuan reopens relatively soon, the national impact should be limited because the province accounts for only 4% of China’s industrial output.
The Chinese government says this summer is China’s hottest and driest since it began keeping temperature and rainfall records in 1961. Temperatures have exceeded 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for the past week and longer.
Brush fires in outlying areas of Chongqing, which borders Sichuan, are the latest scourge resulting from the heat and drought.
More than 1,500 residents had been moved to shelters, while around 5,000 civilian and military personnel had been mobilized to put out the blazes, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday.
Helicopters have been sent to drop water on the fires, supporting crews on the ground who have in the past been left to their own resources.
In 2019, a wildfire in the mountains of Sichuan province killed 30 firefighters and volunteers.
No deaths have yet been reported as a result of the heat wave, Xinhua said, although that could not be independently verified. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/china-extends-power-rationing-for-factories-in-drought/ | 2022-08-23T01:04:05Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/china-extends-power-rationing-for-factories-in-drought/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 34 |
BEIJING (AP) — Brush fires have forced the evacuation of more than 1,500 people in southwest China and power rationing for factories has reportedly been extended as weeks of record heat and drought batter the region.
Some shopping malls in the megacity of Chongqing have been ordered closed for most of the day to reduce electricity demand, state broadcaster CCTV said, limiting opening hours to 4 to 9 p.m.
The drought and heat have wilted crops and caused rivers including the giant Yangtze to shrink, disrupting cargo traffic and reducing power supply from hydroelectric dams at a time of soaring demand for air conditioning. State media say the government will try to protect the autumn grain harvest, which is 75% of China’s annual total, by shooting chemicals into clouds to try to generate rain.
The disruption adds to challenges for the ruling Communist Party, which is trying to shore up sagging economic growth before a meeting this fall at which President Xi Jinping is expected to be given a third five-year term as party leader.
There was no public announcement of the extension of power rationing in Sichuan province into a second week, but it was detailed in a company statement and a government notice to companies that was reported by Chinese news outlets.
The “tense situation” of power supplies in Sichuan province “has further intensified,” Tencent News said Monday in a report that included a photo of the government notice.
LIER Chemical Co. said in an announcement through the stock exchange in the southern city of Shenzhen that its facilities in the cities of Jinyang and Guang’an in Sichuan received an order extending power rationing through Thursday.
Factories in Sichuan that make processor chips, solar panels, auto components and other industrial goods were required to shut down or reduce activity last week to conserve power for homes as air conditioning demand surged in temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). Air conditioning, elevators and lights were shut off in offices and shopping malls.
In Shanghai, a factory and shipping hub on China’s east coast, Tesla Ltd. and a major state-owned automaker suspended production last week due to disruption in supplies of components from Sichuan, the Shanghai city government said.
Sichuan, with 94 million people, is especially hard-hit because it gets 80% of its power from hydroelectric dams. Other provinces rely more on coal-fired power, which isn’t affected.
Economists say if Sichuan reopens relatively soon, the national impact should be limited because the province accounts for only 4% of China’s industrial output.
The Chinese government says this summer is China’s hottest and driest since it began keeping temperature and rainfall records in 1961. Temperatures have exceeded 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for the past week and longer.
Brush fires in outlying areas of Chongqing, which borders Sichuan, are the latest scourge resulting from the heat and drought.
More than 1,500 residents had been moved to shelters, while around 5,000 civilian and military personnel had been mobilized to put out the blazes, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday.
Helicopters have been sent to drop water on the fires, supporting crews on the ground who have in the past been left to their own resources.
In 2019, a wildfire in the mountains of Sichuan province killed 30 firefighters and volunteers.
No deaths have yet been reported as a result of the heat wave, Xinhua said, although that could not be independently verified. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/china-extends-power-rationing-for-factories-in-drought/ | 2022-08-23T01:04:05Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/china-extends-power-rationing-for-factories-in-drought/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 34 |
LONDON (AP) — Conditions are dimming at many movie theaters around the world.
Cineworld Group PLC, one of the industry’s biggest theater operators, confirmed Monday that it’s considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S., as it contends with billions of dollars in debt and more empty seats in front of its screens than expected.
The British company, which owns Regal Cinemas in the United States and operates in 10 countries, said its theaters remain “open for business as usual” as it considers options for relief from its debt load. Cineworld said it expects to continue operating even after any potential filing, though its stock investors could face steep or total losses on their holdings.
Cineworld faces challenges specific to itself after building up $4.8 billion in net debt, not including lease liabilities. But the entire industry is navigating a tenuous recovery after the pandemic shut theaters worldwide.
To be sure, moviegoers have streamed back into theaters this year to see blockbusters like “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” and ”Jurassic Park: Dominion.” Industry giant Warner Discovery has said it’s doubling down on theaters and moving away from debuting films on its HBO Max streaming service.
But this summer’s $3.3 billion in ticket sales is still running nearly 20% behind the summer of 2019, before the pandemic, as of Sunday, according to data firm Comscore. And there don’t seem to be any big hits on the immediate horizon to make those numbers much better.
Cineworld said its admissions levels have recently been below expectations. And with a “limited film slate,” it expects the lower levels to continue until November. That would mean an additional crunch to its finances.
Cineworld said it’s holding talks with lenders and other major stakeholders as it reviews its financial options. It also said it expects “ultimately to continue its business over the longer term with no significant impact upon its employees.” It has about 28,000 workers, according to the company’s website.
Even if employees could make it through intact, shareholders may not. The company warned again Monday that a transaction to ease the debt on its balance sheet could hurt its stock investors.
The company’s stock in London tumbled 21.4% to the equivalent of roughly 3.8 U.S. cents. That followed a 58.3% plunge on Friday after The Wall Street Journal reported the company was preparing to file for bankruptcy protection within weeks.
Shares of other theater chains also stumbled Monday, but nowhere near as much as Cineworld. Cinemark Holdings fell 5.8% to $15.33, for example.
Its executives said earlier in August that the next two months will be challenged by a dip in new releases. But they also said they’re hopeful for a strong close of the year.
Rival AMC Entertainment has also called the upcoming film schedule relatively weak, though it’s optimistic about the end of the year and about 2023.
This year, about a third less wide-release films have been put into theaters as before the pandemic. Some of that has to do with residual delays in Hollywood’s production pipeline caused by earlier COVID-19 shutdowns and postponements. But it’s also because a lot of movies go straight to streaming.
One of the summer’s most-watched movies, the Ryan Gosling-Chris Evans action thriller “The Gray Man,” played on Netflix.
Unless films like Sony Pictures’ “Woman King,” with Viola Davis, or the buzzy Warner Bros. release “Don’t Worry Darling,” with Harry Styles and Florence Pugh, overperform expectations, the next month or two in theaters lack sure-things before “Halloween Ends” and “Black Adam” arrive in late October. Farther on the horizon, though, are a few sequels that could set box-office records: “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Nov. 11) and “Avatar” (Dec. 16).
AMC’s stock fell to $10.46 from $18.02 on Friday, though it had other factors impacting the shares. Monday marked the first day of trading for the company’s new preferred equity units, which have the ticker symbol “APE.”
Investors received one share of APE for every AMC share they owned at the end of Friday. Analysts said it was similar to a two-for-one stock split, a deal that often sees a company’s share price drop by roughly half. Analysts said the new APE shares offer AMC a way to raise cash in the future, which it could use to reduce its debt.
The company last year tapped the stock market to raise cash, taking advantage of a huge run-up in its share price when it got caught up the frenzy surrounding so-called meme stocks.
Its shares rose sixfold in January 2021 and then more than doubled that May and again in June. The gains were driven by hordes of amateur investors, with some referring to themselves as “apes” willing to hold the stock regardless of whether professional Wall Street called it a bad buy.
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