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Eating healthy can help us feel better and improve our overall medical condition. But, even though many of us work hard to improve our food choices, sometimes a comfort food craving kicks in. Something like a gooey, cheesy casserole just hits the spot some nights.
Fortunately, you don’t have to give up dishes like that. There’s a loaded cauliflower casserole recipe out there that will give you a better alternative to high-carb potato or pasta casseroles.
Delish writer Lindsay Funston shared her recipe for a loaded cauliflower bake that looks so satisfying and yummy. It takes the best of classic mac and cheese or potato au gratin dishes and gives it a little twist.
Think of your favorite loaded baked potato and you’ll get an idea of what to expect from this loaded cauliflower casserole.
You’ll recognize most of the ingredients for this recipe from other favorite creamy side dishes. The cauliflower is the only major adjustment and it’s a fabulous way to get in more veggies for picky eaters.
To make this loaded cauliflower casserole, you’ll need a couple of small heads of cauliflower, minced garlic, green onions, cooked bacon, cheddar cheese, cream cheese, whole milk and a few other ingredients you probably already have on hand.
The secret to nailing this dish is getting the right texture for the cauliflower. To achieve this, you’ll need to blanch it (boil it in salt water) for just under 5 minutes. This cuts down on cooking time in the oven, according to Funston.
If you’re also interested in a lower-fat version of this loaded cauliflower casserole, you can opt for lower-fat milk or cheese. However, this will affect the creamy texture a little bit, so you’ll need to decide if it’s worth it or if you just want to plan for a little splurge with the full-fat varieties.
Ready to make it? Read the full recipe for loaded cauliflower bake from Delish here.
As written, the recipe comes in at 293 calories per serving and 11 grams of protein. For anyone watching their calories or going for a protein goal, this side dish doesn’t have to derail your healthy eating goals, even if it tastes like you’re having a cheat day!
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As gas prices decreased in August, the overall price of goods held relatively steady during the month, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The BLS reported on Tuesday that the Consumer Price Index is up 8.3% in the 12-month period ending in August, a decrease from 8.5% the month before, and down from the June 2022 peak of 9.1%.
Overall, the price of goods and services increased .1% in August. The slowing inflation of July and August was largely due to a decline in gas prices. The cost of gas dropped 10.6% in August, the BLS reported.
The decline in gas prices almost offset increases in the cost of food, shelter and electricity.
In the last year, the cost of food overall has gone up 11.4%. In the month of August alone, prices increased by .8%. Food at home in particular has increased at historic levels.
The price of housing continues to increase as well, as it jumped 6.2% in the 12-month period ending in August.
While most necessities have seen large price increases in the last year, some items have seen price decreases. The cost of a new TV has declined 19.1%, while jewelry prices dropped 1.2%. Smartphone prices are 20.4% lower than a year ago. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/inflation-rate-slows-as-lower-gas-prices-keep-overall-costs-at-bay | 2022-09-13T14:06:24Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/inflation-rate-slows-as-lower-gas-prices-keep-overall-costs-at-bay | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Los Angeles County Public Health reported that a resident died from monkeypox, becoming one of the first confirmed fatalities from the virus in the U.S.
County health officials said the person was immunocompromised and had been hospitalized.
Officials in L.A. County said the case was the first confirmed monkeypox fatality confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In August, officials in Texas said a Houston-area resident died from monkeypox. That person, officials said, also was immunocompromised.
To date, there have been 21,985 cases of monkeypox reported in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In most cases, monkeypox is painful but not life-threatening.
Typical symptoms of monkeypox include a rash, fever, malaise, headache, and muscle aches.
While most cases are mild, the CDC recommends monkeypox vaccinations for the following groups:
- People who have been identified by public health officials as a contact of someone with monkeypox
- People who know one of their sexual partners in the past 2 weeks has been diagnosed with monkeypox
- People who had multiple sexual partners in the past 2 weeks in an area with known monkeypox | https://www.katc.com/news/national/officials-confirm-monkeypox-death-in-los-angeles-area | 2022-09-13T14:06:30Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/officials-confirm-monkeypox-death-in-los-angeles-area | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Betty Mae Miles, 82, of Pocomoke City, passed away on Monday, September 5, 2022 at Christiana Hospital in Newark, DE. Born on December 24, 1939 in North Carolina, she was the daughter of the late Marvin Charles and Lois Ruby Hood Caribo.
To read full obituary, click Here. | https://www.wboc.com/betty-mae-miles/article_74f77fe6-335b-11ed-8bdf-072666713e3e.html | 2022-09-13T14:09:25Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/betty-mae-miles/article_74f77fe6-335b-11ed-8bdf-072666713e3e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Since he was a high school student, Hugh Jackman wanted to play the roguish traveling salesman Professor Harold Hill in “The Music Man” on Broadway. He’s fulfilled that dream — but all things must come to an end.
On the red carpet at the Toronto Film Festival, Jackman told The Associated Press that the revival will play its last performance at the beginning of the new year,
“Jan. 1 is going to be the last show. So we’ve got another three and a half months. So if you haven’t seen it, please come and see,” Jackman said after conferring with his publicist.
Jackman said he had a blast doing the show, which has double Tony Award winner Sutton Foster playing his love interest. “I love it. I love the cast. I love everything about the show. The audiences have been incredible and I’m going to be sad,” he said.
The musical tells the simple story about Harold Hill, a traveling con man who in 1912 convinces a small Iowa town into forming a band and selling them instruments until love changes him. It’s got classic songs like ″Seventy-Six Trombones,” ″Goodnight My Someone,” ″Gary, Indiana” and “Till There Was You.”
The musical revival was delayed several times due to the pandemic, finally opening in February. It has been a box office juggernaut, regularly exceeding $3 million a week, even if it got little love at the Tony Awards.
Jackman was at Toronto for the world premiere of “The Son,” which is the second part of the Florian Zeller trilogy of plays adapted for film. Anthony Hopkins, along with Zeller and Christopher Hampton took home Oscars for “The Father.” | https://nypost.com/2022/09/13/music-man-starring-hugh-jackman-and-sutton-foster-to-close/ | 2022-09-13T14:14:39Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/13/music-man-starring-hugh-jackman-and-sutton-foster-to-close/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – The police unions representing Holyoke officers and supervisors are holding a news conference to respond to a comment by City Councilor Jose Maldonado Velez at a City Council meeting earlier this month.
The event will be held at 12:30 p.m. at the Holyoke Police Headquarters with the Holyoke Police Department’s International Brotherhood of Police Officers Local #409, Supervisor Union, and International Brotherhood of Police Officers Local #388, Patrol Officers Union. During the news conference, Union President’s Captain Matthew Moriarty and Officer Manuel Rivera will speak about a comment made by Holyoke City Councilor Maldonado Velez at an open City Council meeting on September 1st.
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Holyoke Councilor Jose Maldonado Velez represents an area he said would be most impacted by where ShotSpotter would be set up, disproportionality impacting Black and Brown communities.
“This police force, like the presentation yesterday, where they talked about all the gangs and stuff, but the police is a gang. It literally is. They’re there to protect each other to look out for each other and to come out with force.”
Holyoke Councilor Jose Maldonado Velez
22News asked Holyoke Police Chief David Pratt what he thought about the comments. He felt that calling the police department a gang was “disturbing.” “I’m more than willing to sit down with Councilor Velez and go over it again. What we do here every day. It’s disheartening that an elected official would say that,” stated Chief Pratt.
A copy of a letter from the unions was sent to 22News from Holyoke Police Captain Matthew Moriarty:
22News contacted Velez to further elaborate on his recent comment. He stated:
“ShotSpotter / a gunshot detection system is not the solution to the real, systemic public health problems we have in our city. More jobs, education, affordable housing, food, strong infrastructure, and mental health services are what are needed to rid of the plague that is gun violence. I’d rather invest time, capital, and effort into those versus another for-profit company’s product that has been shown to not work in other municipalities.
As for my comment, I am passionate about the future of public safety and re-building our concept of it to best serve everyone, especially people of color. After that meeting, when speaking to people in the community, I received “thank yous” that I shared this as an elected official. I think what was shocking to those who took serious offense is that Holyoke has a councilor that finally feels empowered to share openly about his experience growing up as a Latino man in Holyoke, and has a platform to share that experience in a very public setting. Since the protests in 2020, we have been imploring privileged identities to imagine how people feel when the entity that is meant to protect and serve actually reinforces trauma people may have and throughout communities.
I’d hope the Chief response would be, “We need to work towards not having that image, maybe that’s why they’re not calling us”. Instead, the Chief chose to try and silence me. I will not be silenced. Instead I hope to help him and others on their learning journey of the experiences in this community and share more of my own experiences.“
Holyoke Councilor Jose Maldonado Velez
22News is covering the news conference and will update the story as soon as additional information is available. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/police-unions-hold-news-conference-after-holyoke-city-councilor-compared-officers-to-gang/ | 2022-09-13T14:14:53Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/police-unions-hold-news-conference-after-holyoke-city-councilor-compared-officers-to-gang/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Oprah just announced that her new Oprah’s Book Club pick is That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row, by Jarvis Jay Masters (Harper One). Masters has been incarcerated in California’s San Quentin State Prison for the past 41 years.
Oprah read the book shortly after it was first published by HarperOne, in 2009, and it left a strong impression: “Years ago, I was given a memoir by Jarvis Jay Masters,” said Oprah. “His story, of a young boy victimized by addiction, poverty, violence, the foster care system, and later the justice system, profoundly touched me then, and still does today.”
HarperOne has reissued the book, which contains a foreword by spiritual teacher Pema Chödrön, who has long championed Masters’s cause.
Masters had this to say about the selection of his book for Oprah’s Book Club:
“I turned 60 this year, having entered San Quentin at age 19. I wrote That Bird Has My Wings while in solitary confinement, isolated and alone,” he says. “My greatest hope at that time was that a few young people would read my story and learn from my mistakes. Thanks to Ms. Winfrey and her book club, my story will be introduced to a national audience. It is my greatest hope still is that lives will be the better for it, and I am forever grateful for the honor and the opportunity that Oprah has afforded me.”
Masters, who is also author of Finding Freedom, was first convicted of armed robbery in 1981 at age 19, crimes he freely admits to. Four years later, prison guard Howell Burchfield was stabbed to death while on night duty at San Quentin. Though Masters was locked in his cell at the time, he was among those convicted of his murder, and he was sentenced to die by lethal injection. He has been on death row ever since, and now awaits word on whether he will be granted a new trial. He has long maintained his innocence, and that claim is supported by others, and by evidence.
But the most remarkable aspect of Masters’s story is how he came to transcend his horrific childhood, which reads like something out of a Dickens tale, as well as incarceration, often served in solitary, to become a devoted Buddhist, a poet, and a memoirist. He still fears how he will die, if his appeal doesn’t go forward, but, he says, he has a “clear conscience” knowing he is innocent of the death of the prison guard. In the preface to his autobiography, Masters writes this:
“In spite of the pain and hurt, and however much I engaged in crazed violence and lashed out at the world for thinking it owed me something, in the center, in my heart, there was always something of a natural goodness. This may have been the place from which my tears poured when I was a young child. In that same place, the violence later grew so much larger than life that I stopped believing in myself. But I finally came into a situation where I dared myself to reclaim that natural goodness. That I reclaimed it on San Quentin’s death row doesn’t change who I am. I have experienced an inner journey that brought me to the life-affirming realization that my violent actions were never a reflection of who I really am.”
Over the next weeks, Oprah will be discussing the book with Oprah’s Book Club followers on the OBC social platforms, culminating with a one-on-one interview with Jarvis Jay Masters from San Quentin. Oprah Daily will be publishing additional content throughout the reading cycle, including an excerpt from That Bird Has My Wings and an original poem by Masters. #ReadWithUS.
Leigh Haber is the Books Editor for O, the Oprah Magazine, and the coordinator of Oprah’s Book Club. She has also worked as a book editor for a variety of publishing companies, where she acquired and edited books by Steve Martin, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Al Gore, Richard Hell, Terry Gross, and many others. In her spare time, she reads. | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a41104946/oprah-book-club-2022-that-bird-has-my-wings/ | 2022-09-13T14:16:26Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a41104946/oprah-book-club-2022-that-bird-has-my-wings/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Dalai Lama once said, “We are all potential criminals, and those who we put into prison are no worse, deep down, than any one of us.” In reading Jarvis Jay Masters’s book That Bird Has My Wings, these words resonate as he chronicles his life’s journey—from childhood trauma in which his father was abusive and absent, and his mother addicted to drugs, to the instability of foster care and ultimately a life of crime that culminated in imprisonment at age 19. Faced with similar circumstances, that could have been anyone’s trajectory. But through Buddhism and writing, Masters has made peace both with a wrongful death sentence and with his past, though he continues to fight for his release. Word by word, he wrote his way out of anger and violence while in solitary confinement, with only a pen filler as his writing instrument. That Masters’s book is Oprah’s Book Club Pick is testament to the impact, inspiration, and reach of one man from a prison cell in San Quentin. —Wadzanai Mhute, books editor
Preface
Over the years, I have been asked when it was that I “saw the light,” had a dream, or heard a voice. What experience created a reverberation that transformed me from the person I was then to the person I am today? The truth of the matter is that I have never changed. Rather, I have simply discovered who I’ve always been: the young child who knew that his life mattered, that he could make a difference in the world, and that he was born to fly.
In spite of the pain and hurt, and however much I engaged in crazed violence and lashed out at the world for thinking it owed me something, in the center, in my heart, there was always something of a natural goodness. This may have been the place from which my tears poured when I was a young child. In that same place, the violence later grew so much larger than life that I stopped believing in myself. But I finally came into a situation where I dared myself to reclaim that natural goodness. That I reclaimed it on San Quentin’s death row doesn’t change who I am. I have experienced an inner journey that brought me to the life- affirming realization that my violent actions were never a reflection of who I really am.
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If I had known how painful it would be to sit and write this book about my life, I doubt that I would have ever picked up my pen filler, the only writing instrument allowed to an inmate in solitary confinement on death row. It was only from not knowing what layers of memories—particularly from childhood—would slowly unfold that I innocently began to write. I remember what a friend said when I told him what I was writing. We were walking together out on the death row exercise yard.
“Man,” he said, putting one arm out to bring us to a stop in the middle of the yard, “I wouldn’t do that. Look at this.” He raised his sweatshirt, revealing horrible, healed-over gashes—scars, he said, from dog bites.
“I still dream about this shit,” he said. “You want to sit down and write all night about this kind of stuff?”
“What happened?” I asked.
“Whenever I did anything wrong, I mean anything, my pops would sic his dog Fang on me. He would hold Fang by the chain, and he wouldn’t let him go. He made him bite these holes in me—here, there, everywhere.”
It would have sounded strange to say “thank you” to my friend, but what he said spoke to me. It helped me realize my true purpose in picking up the thin straw of ballpoint pen filler, resting it between my fingers, and beginning to write. At first I wrote in circles, the long way around memories. Then I began to silently challenge myself: Without anyone else having to know, I asked, how honest can I be with myself as I write all the scattered memories of my life? Can I do so without blame, with only a truth that has no place to go beyond these sheets of paper? In essence, questioning my own sincerity is what inspired this book.
Many events recalled in these pages could have kept me angry my entire life; many times just the memories made me want to quit writing. I would forget about not blaming others, fearing the truth that might be triggered by the next word or sentence I wrote. At times I literally cursed the makeshift pen caught painfully between my fingers. There was no name I did not call it. It was not just that it hurt to hold it, but that it moved so slowly, forcing me to attend to every detail. I couldn’t write any faster than it let me; it refused to skim lightly over the surface as I tried to breeze past the unpronounced emotions that would crawl up my throat and fill my eyes with tears. The filler’s slow pace repeatedly dragged me into a swamp of unwanted memories. Only through the patience learned in meditation was I able to settle myself into a place that allowed me to keep writing.
Jarvis Jay Masters
San Quentin
2008 | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a41137622/jarvis-jay-masters-that-bird-has-my-wings-book-excerpt/ | 2022-09-13T14:16:36Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a41137622/jarvis-jay-masters-that-bird-has-my-wings-book-excerpt/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Please note that I am not a financial adviser. My husband and I have not put away enough money for our two children to go to college. Our income is freelance. Our little Cape house could use a coat of paint. But we once saved enough from our beer-bottle and tax returns to write such a recklessly big check to the global wellness organization Partners in Health that they promptly sent us a handwritten invitation to a black-tie fundraising gala. Us, with our thrift-store jeans and library books, our camping holidays and baked-potato dinner parties. "Oh, my God," I said to my husband. "They think we're rich!" This struck us as hilarious. Until our daughter, with the uncanny, unapologetic wisdom of her 11 years, said, "Well, we are rich. I mean, compared to most of the world." And that, of course, is the point exactly. Clean water pours from our faucets; nourishing food fills our fridge; the children are vaccinated against catastrophic illnesses. Our wealth abounds. Ideally, at least in those ways, yours does, too.
Which means we get to be philanthropists! Even if you're having a bad year and you can give only $5, write the $5 check anyway. But first brainstorm a list of what matters most to you. Maybe it's world health. Or wildlife. Or eliminating urban poverty. Education. Politics. Public radio. Talk through the causes, research the related charitable organizations and decide how you want to invest in the best world you can imagine.
And remember that you can break your own rules. We gave money to our son's teacher, whose Guinean family has been hit hard by Ebola, even though our policy is to donate not to individuals but to organizations that know how to distribute aid in a crisis. But these are the ill parents and siblings of someone we know personally, and we can't help being touched by proximity. We also have a policy not to hand out money on the street, given that every dollar donated to our local food bank provides three meals a day for the needy—a more sensible investment. But then I hand out money on the street. Because people ask for it. Because they are ragged and hungry, or they have a new baby or an old dog, or they open a toothless mouth to call me "darling."
But also because it brings me joy. Oh, make sure your giving brings you joy. It's a contradiction, because circumstances can be so dire—and are: Roughly 680 million people live below the international poverty line of $1.90 a day, and 15,000 children under age 5 die daily of avoidable diseases and malnutrition. To help chip away at that need is to experience your membership in the human community, your own courageous refusal to turn away from tragedy. Ask yourself, "Does my dog need pajamas more than someone needs access to clean water?" Buying stuff is the happiness equivalent of dropping your money into a puddle. Giving it away? That's pure sunshine.
Of course, there may come a day when you really want to clad your corgi in flannel, and so you will, and that will be okay. You needn't carve your privilege into a monument to guilt. You aren't Bill Gates. But an immoderately troubled world demands immoderate attention. An act of generosity just short of panic inducing—that's the sweet spot. Stretch toward it. Reach out your hand and open. | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/health/a41190296/the-no-regrets-approach-to-donating-money/ | 2022-09-13T14:16:46Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/health/a41190296/the-no-regrets-approach-to-donating-money/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kelsie-Blake Weeks, a Barrier Island Ocean Rescue lifeguard smiles after being hoisted onto a H-60M Black Hawk helicopter by an FBI Hostage Rescue Team member during FBI HRT search and rescue training in the Charleston Harbor on Aug. 3, 2022, in Charleston, South Carolina. The HRT training was supported by local Law and maritime agencies while Priority 1 Air Rescue was involved in training the FBI personal to familiarize them with rescue operations onboard the H-60M Black Hawk helicopter. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Christopher Ruano)
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Kelsie-Blake Weeks, a Barrier Island Ocean Rescue lifeguard and an FBI Hostage Rescue Team member are hoisted out of the water by a H-60M Black Hawk helicopter during FBI HRT search and rescue training in the Charleston Harbor on Aug. 3, 2022, in Charleston, South Carolina. The HRT training was supported by local Law and maritime agencies while Priority 1 Air Rescue was involved in training the FBI personal to familiarize them with rescue operations onboard the H-60M Black Hawk helicopter. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Christopher Ruano)
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An FBI Hostage Rescue Team member is lowered from a H-60M Black Hawk helicopter during FBI HRT search and rescue training in the Charleston Harbor on Aug. 4, 2022, in Charleston, South Carolina. The HRT training was supported by local Law and maritime agencies while Priority 1 Air Rescue was involved in training the FBI personal to familiarize them with rescue operations onboard the H-60M Black Hawk helicopter. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Christopher Ruano)
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39 mins ago - Economy & Business
AppLovin won't sweeten $20 billion bid for Unity
AppLovin on Tuesday said it won't submit a new bid to acquire video game development platform Unity Software, after its $20 billion all-stock offer was rejected.
Why it matters: Unity now can complete its $4.4 billion acquisition of mobile ad tech firm IronSource, which it would have needed to scrap under the terms of AppLovin's proposal.
- Existing Unity shareholders Silver Lake and Sequoia will buy a combined $1 billion of Unity convertible notes when the IronSource merger closes.
The bottom line: Going with the smaller deal lets Unity provide mobile developers with more monetization tools, without having ad tech dominate company revenue. It also gets to maintain control, whereas the AppLovin deal would have given Unity a 55% stake in the combined company but only 49% of voting rights. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/13/applovin-wont-sweeten-20-billion-bid-for-unity | 2022-09-13T14:23:41Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/13/applovin-wont-sweeten-20-billion-bid-for-unity | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Inflation rises in August as gas prices cool
Consumer prices ticked up during the month of August, bucking expectations that inflation would fall slightly, the Labor Department said on Tuesday.
Why it matters: Costs for shelter and food continued to jump, though plummeting gasoline prices helped ease overall price gains.
Driving the news: Overall consumer prices rose 0.1% last month — after dropping to zero in July — and are up 8.3% over the past year. That compares to the 8.5% year-over-year figure reported in July.
- Core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.6% last month — a marked increase from July's 0.3% pace. Compared to a year ago, core inflation is up 6.3% (compared to the 5.9% increase in July).
The backdrop: The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates aggressively — with another super-sized hike on the table next week — to cool inflation. Fed officials have indicated they aren't likely to back off until there's a meaningful, sustained cooling in price gains.
Where it stands: Much of the inflation relief, though, has come from a sharp drop-off in energy prices.
- Global energy prices rose to staggering levels after Russia invaded Ukraine. Prices started to reverse course earlier this summer and continued a lengthy stretch of declines. That could help future inflation readings.
- The national average price of gasoline is $3.71 as of Tuesday, down more than 25% from its peak in June. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/13/cpi-inflation-august | 2022-09-13T14:23:47Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/13/cpi-inflation-august | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Twitter in the political and business world spotlights
Twitter shareholders on Tuesday will vote to approve or reject Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover offer, while Twitter whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko will testify in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Between the lines: The two events aren't officially related, but there is a through line with Musk hoping that Zatko will become his Get Out Of Deal Free card.
The vote: Twitter needs a simple majority of shareholders to affirmatively support the merger.
- Approval is a foregone conclusion at $54.20 per share, a 30% premium to where shares currently trade and a 38% premium to where they were prior to the deal announcement.
- One wrinkle, though, is that Musk is Twitter's largest outside owner with a 9.6% stake, and almost certainly will hold back his shares. It will interesting to see if Musk has managed to induce any other large shareholders, like Saudi billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud (3.9%) or former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (2.4%).
The testimony: Zatko takes his seat at 10 a.m., with most of the focus likely to be on national security and Zatko's claim that Twitter violated its 2011 settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice (expect those agencies to be paying close attention).
- It's also possible that some senators will do Musk a favor by soliciting information on bots, Zatko's severance package or some other subject that he otherwise might have difficulty obtaining. Recall that Musk is allowed to include Zatko's allegations in an amended complaint, but he's limited when it comes to new information gathering.
- Per last week's court ruling: "Defendants are permitted only incremental discovery relevant to the new allegations. That discovery can be made through targeted document discovery and minimal additional experts and fact witnesses."
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Glendale LVII: Cardinals showed they're not Super Bowl-ready
State leaders are working in overdrive to make sure the best of Arizona is on full display when thousands of visitors descend upon the Valley for Super Bowl LVII — but there's one thing they can't seem to get game-day ready: the Arizona Cardinals.
Catch up quick: The past two years, the teams from the cities hosting the big game won it. That hadn't happened in the previous 54 Super Bowls.
- Arizona fans were hoping the Cards could make it three in a row come Feb. 12.
Yes, but: As is usually the case with Arizona teams, disappointment seems inevitable.
- The team's star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins was suspended for the first six games of the season for violating the NFL's policy on performance-enhancing drugs.
- Sunday's home opener was nothing short of embarrassing, with the Cardinals losing 44-21 to the Kansas City Chiefs.
- FiveThirtyEight gives the Cards 1% odds of winning the Super Bowl.
Flashback: The previous three years Arizona hosted the Super Bowl weren't particularly good for the home team.
- 1995: The 1994 Cards never even got a whiff of playoff contention, losing five of their first six games and ending the season with a 4-12 record.
- 2008: The team fared a bit better in the 2007 season with an 8-8 record but didn't make it to the playoffs
- 2015: There was some hope as the 2014 Cards went 11-5 and made it to the playoffs, but they lost to the Carolina Panthers in the wild-card round.
What's next: Cardinals or not, we're committed to keeping you updated on all things Super Bowl.
- Each Tuesday we'll have a new look at how the Valley is getting ready for one of the biggest sporting events in the world.
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Phoenix to reopen Cholla Trail in late September
Hikers rejoice. The popular Cholla Trail at Camelback Mountain is reopening on Sept. 30.
Catch up fast: The city closed the trail in 2020 for improvements and to relocate the trailhead.
- Previously, hikers had to park on Invergordon Road and walk up Cholla Lane, a residential road, to reach the trailhead.
- Because of trail's popularity, people were often walking in the middle of Cholla Lane instead of the small pathway alongside it, according to the city.
What's new: The trailhead is now on Invergordon Road, which the city hopes will be safer and more convenient for hikers and residents.
- It will have bathrooms, water fountains, bike racks and dedicated space for rideshare pickup and drop-off.
- The city also removed unstable boulders, improved the trail tread and added posts and way-finding signs.
The intrigue: Camelback Mountain is one of the most popular hiking destinations in the state. It's also the site of some of the most expensive homes in the state — and the city has struggled to balance hiker access and resident interests.
- The trailhead relocation was meant to appease residents along Cholla Lane, but now other nearby homeowners are peeved that hikers will be walking near their properties, 12 News reported last year.
Know before you go: Restrooms and chilled water won't be available until later this year when nearby residential construction is completed.
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8-year-old wins San Francisco's top guac honors
Saturday marked the 11th annual "Guac Off," a cooking competition hosted, in part, by Roll Over Easy radio hosts Chris Bunting and Luke Spray.
This year's winner: 8-year-old Eve Shappell, a second grader at the New School of San Francisco, who beat out over 40 other participants.
Details: Eve's dish — dubbed "Somewhere Avo the Rainbow" — included colorful rows of homemade salsa, elote and of course, very limey guacamole.
What they're saying: "I always wanted to make big food and I always wanted to make some sort of rainbow food ... Like, why not add color?" Eve told us. "I just thought it would really stand out."
- Pro tip: You gotta watch the video of Eve's victory announcement.
For winning, Eve received the Guac Off championship belt (passed on from the previous champ), a Fog & Gold flag, a trophy, and free bowling at Mission Bowling Club.
What's next: The 8-year-old says next year she might incorporate something "shiny or sparkly," so expect to see some edible glitter.
- As for tips for future Guac Off competitors, Eve says to consider putting something together that "nobody else would ever make and that would be really good."
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A few years ago, the local Community Chest drive fundraising period took on a different look, as the community fund drive groups in Alden and Iowa Falls combined into one entity.
Held once per year, the Community Chest Drive is held to provide monetary support to local businesses and groups in both communities. The drive does not feature any door-to-door solicitation, and is done through mail and media advertising.
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Summit Carbon Solutions, one of the hazardous pipeline companies with plans to cross Hardin County, was granted a Motion to Reconsider with the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB), in reference to presenting an emergency response plan. This plan would have asked how Summit would “equip Hardin County and others similarly situated to meet the prime objective of protecting the health, safety and property of the public.”
According to court documents, in July the (IUB) had originally issued an order that Summit produce “risk assessment and modeling information” and its “emergency response plan” for their pipeline, which zig zags the entire north and south length across the county, affecting population centers of New Providence, Eldora, Steamboat Rock, Ackley and Iowa Falls.
This article is not correct. The decision will be made on September 16th. Two of the IUB wanted to grant it and 1 said it was a Federal issue. Those who have chosen to intervene can plead there case at the IUB meeting on September 16th. Brian Jorde and Wally Taylor of the Sierra Club have already said they will be there. Hardin County Attorney Darrel Meyer has until September 13th to say if he will participate.
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If they didn’t improve their times, the Iowa Falls-Alden/AGWSR Cadet certainly improved their positions as they returned to the classed Ballard Invite in Huxley on Monday. Having seen some of the best in the state last week in a race featuring the top Class 4A schools and runners, the Cadets welcomed the split classes – earning three medals in the process.
Running in Class B, the 14th-ranked in Class 3A Cadet girls finished fourth with Nakia Ollivierre (4th) and Teah Miller (10th) earning medals. The boys were paced by a medal-winning performance by Jace Beaubien (15th), but finished 10th.
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Exclusive: Titan partners with Carlyle and Apollo for alt investing
Titan, a managed investment portfolio app for retail investors, is adding alternative assets to its platform through partnerships with two of the biggest names in real estate and private equity.
Why it matters: The app enables retail investors to access asset classes that previously were only available to high-wealth, accredited investors or people with private wealth managers.
- On the flip side, Titan is connecting its private equity and real estate partners with retail AUM that they wouldn’t be able to serve at scale.
How it works: The Titan app already gave retail investors wealth management services and the ability to access a managed portfolio of stocks and cryptocurrency assets.
- The latest update will allow users to further diversify their portfolios by adding private credit and institutional real estate offerings to its menu of potential investments.
- “Every retail investor is trading just stocks and bonds, but when you're in a bear market, you need other asset classes to diversify and give you stability and income,” Titan founder and co-CEO Joe Percoco says.
- While institutional real estate and private credit typically require ultra-high minimums just to invest, Titan clients can invest in those asset classes with as little as $2,000.
Between the lines: To open up those asset classes, Titan partnered with Carlyle on the private credit side and Apollo on the real estate portion.
- “If you put yourself in the shoes of Carlyle… There are these elite asset managers on Wall Street managing hundreds of billions of dollars. And they see the $25 trillion of assets that retail has, but don't know how to service them,” Percoco says.
- "So we've built a platform where managers like Carlyle can finally launch and list their products and connect to a retail investor," he adds.
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Kolkata: Parts of Bengal turned into a battlefield on Tuesday as BJP activists clashed with the police during a protest march to the state secretariat.
Several police officers and saffron camp members, including leaders Mina Devi Purohit and Swapan Dasgupta, were reportedly injured in the melee.
Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, the party's Hooghly MP Locket Chatterjee and senior leader Rahul Sinha were among those detained during the march, taken out by the saffron party to protest against the TMC regime's alleged corrupt practices.
The police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the agitators, who tried to go past the barricades that were put in place at several points in the city and its adjoining areas.
"Everyone got to see how the partisan police tried scuttling a leader of the opposition's democratic right to protest outside Nabanna. I was manhandled by a woman constable, people saw that too," Adhikari told reporters before being whisked away in a prison van.
In Santragachhi, the police were pelted with stones as they chased away the protesters.
A police kiosk was damaged as the demonstrators were stopped from moving forward.
Similar scenes were witnessed in Howrah, Kolkata's Lalbazar and MG Road areas where violent protesters engaged in a scuffle with the police.
In Lalbazar, a police vehicle was set on fire.
A Kolkata Police officer said, "there was no report of any serious injury to any protestors though police personnel have suffered injuries".
Normal life was disrupted in the city amid the protests, with common people facing huge inconvenience on the thoroughfares, many of which had plunged into chaos.
BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar staged a sit-in in Howrah after being stopped from carrying forward the rally."This autocratic Mamata Banerjee government does not believe in giving space to opposition parties," he said.
Majumdar also claimed that it was a shame that the police were acting in a partisan manner, further claiming that "some of them have turned into puppets of ruling TMC".
The BJP state chief and senior leader Agnimitra Paul were later detained from a protest site at Howrah Maidan.
BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh, who led the protesters near Howrah bridge, left the site in the midst of a lathicharge on his party's supporters.
"Our fight against this jungle raj will continue," Ghosh said.
BJP state youth wing president Saumitra Khan said "days of the TMC is numbered" and BJP will surely give a reply to all the atrocities committed on party men.
The TMC, in a tweet, said, "BJP4Bengal karyakartas or hooligans?"
"Destroying and damaging government property, attacking police personnel, causing chaos and disrupting peace across the state -- today's activities of BJP that brought shame upon the entire nation. We strongly condemn such outrageous behaviour," the party said in the microblogging site.
TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh alleged that the BJP was fomenting trouble under the garb of protest.
"It is part of a bigger game plan to destabilise West Bengal this festive season. This is not a democratic movement. This is goondaism," he added.
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New Delhi: A parliamentary committee has recommended the Union Health Ministry "audit deaths due to oxygen shortage", especially during the Covid second wave, in coordination with states to enable robust documentation of the mortalities.
The committee said it was "disturbed" by the ministry's "unfortunate denial" of COVID-19 deaths due to oxygen shortage.
"The ministry must meticulously examine the oxygen-stricken Covid deaths and ensure that proper compensation is accorded to the families of the victims," the panel said, adding it expected more transparency and accountability from government agencies.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health, in its 137th report presented to Rajya Sabha on Monday, said the increase in the number of Covid-positive cases had put severe pressure on the health infrastructure.
There were several instances of patients' families pleading for oxygen and waiting in queues for cylinders and the media reports about hospitals running out of the life-saving gas and making desperate appeals when they were reportedly left with only a few hours of supply, it said.
The committee said that in its 123rd report it had warned the government of the possible shortage of oxygen cylinders and supply of oxygen in hospitals.
"The committee is disappointed to note that the ministry in its submission in 2020 had assured that the country is self-sufficient in oxygen and oxygen cylinders; however, their hollow claim was brutally exposed during the second wave," the panel said in its 137th report.
"The government failed to manage even distribution of oxygen in states and amidst the skyrocketing demand it could not maintain a steady flow of oxygen leading to an unprecedented medical crisis," the panel said.
It added that poor logistic management and the failure of the government in ensuring a quick response from the healthcare system speak volumes of the utter chaos in the government machinery, especially during the second wave.
Poor monitoring of the oxygen generation capacity and availability of medical oxygen, oxygenated and ventilator beds in hospitals further aggravated the situation, the panel said.
"The committee wonders that in response to the Union government's request to states and Union Territories to furnish details of Covid deaths owing to lack of oxygen, 20 states and Union Territories responded and none of these have reported confirmed death due to oxygen shortage," it said.
"The committee is disturbed at the unfortunate denial of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare regarding Covid deaths due to oxygen shortage in the country."
It said that it takes into account media reports that there were many deaths due to oxygen shortage in hospitals. However, the sheer "negligence of the fact" shows the absence of empathy in government parlance, the parliamentary panel alleged.
The panel noted there were no definite guidelines for identifying the deaths due to inadequate supply of oxygen.
"Oxygen shortage is not noted as a cause of death in the medical records and most of the deaths were attributed to co-morbidities," the committee said, expressing disappointment at this utter "ignorance" by the government.
"The ministry, in coordination with the states, must audit the deaths due to oxygen shortage and enable robust documentation of the Covid deaths that will in fact generate the responsive and responsible sense of government and cautious formulation of policy and combat situational health care emergency," it said.
'Classify cancer as a notifiable disease'
In another report on 'Cancer Care Plan and Management: Prevention, Diagnosis, Research and Affordability of Cancer Treatment' the committee recommended that cancer be classified as a notifiable disease.
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Swiss electric vehicle startup Piech has hired some big guns to help bring its zero-emission performance cars to market.
The company last week announced the hiring of Manfred Fitzgerald as chairman and Tobias Moers as chief technology officer, both veterans of the industry. Both executives will also share the role of CEO at Piech.
Fitzgerald replaces Matthias Müller, a former Volkswagen Group CEO who was only with Piech for 11 months. Fitzgerald’s last role was as head of Genesis, but perhaps more important to Piech is his time spent at Lamborghini. Fitzgerald spent 12 years at Lamborghini as its head of brand and design, a role in which he helped turn Lamborghini into the globally successful brand it is today.
Moers joins Piech following a brief and somewhat rocky stint as CEO of Aston Martin. Moers’ greatest success has been with Mercedes-Benz AMG. Under his leadership, he helped to double AMG’s product portfolio and quadruple its sales, as well as lay the groundwork for the current expansion into EVs.
Piech, co-founded by a son of Ferdinand Piëch and backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, first made headlines in 2019 when it presented at the Geneva auto show the striking Mark Zero concept, an electric grand tourer with sultry lines reminiscent of classic Aston Martins. The Piëch family has been part-owners of VW and Porsche for decades.
The company last fall said the production version of the Mark Zero was on track for launch in mid-2024, after which a crossover and 2+2 coupe would be added. The cars would all use bespoke platforms developed in-house at Piech.
For the production Mark Zero, Piech promises a trio of electric motors generating 603 hp, and a 75-kwh battery good for a range approaching 300 miles on a charge. According to Piech, an 80% charge will be possible in just eight minutes using a DC fast charger.
“With Manfred Fitzgerald and Tobias Moers, two established authorities from the sophisticated and rapidly evolving world of sports cars and automotive luxury brands join the Piëch team,” Toni Piëch, Piech’s co-founder, said in a statement. “Both have a proven and enviable track record in this segment and possess extensive knowledge, an adept sense of how to communicate with exclusive customers and a distinct understanding of luxury brands.”
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The successor to the Pagani Huayra, codenamed C10, has finally been revealed. it’s called the Pagani Utopia, and it aims to live up to that lofty name by emphasizing driving purity.
The result of a six-year design process, the Utopia purposely minimizes the spoilers, ducts, and other aerodynamic devices seen on other supercars for a cleaner design, Pagani said in a press release. It’s also recognizably a Pagani, with the automaker’s signature quad headlights (in housings machined from solid aluminum) and centered quad exhaust tips.
Aero devices are subtly integrated with the bodywork. The Utopia has a front splitter, large intakes and vents that channel air through the grille and around the sides of the car, and active flaps at the rear. These combine to give the Utopia near-perfect aerodynamic balance at a wide range of speeds, while reducing the sensitivity to ground clearance for more predictable, safer, handling characteristics, according to Pagani.
Pagani once again turned to Mercedes-AMG for the Utopia’s engine. After ruling out electric and hybrid powertrains, Pagani went with a twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter V-12 producing 852 hp at 6,000 rpm and 811 lb-ft of torque between 2,800 rpm and 5,900 rpm. The redline is 6,700 rpm.
The mid-mounted V-12 drives the rear wheels through an Xtrac 7-speed automated-manual transmission (a full-manual version will also be available, Pagani said). A dual-clutch transmission would be more efficient, Pagani noted, but the automaker claims the Xtrac gearbox is lighter and gives the driver more control, adding that its transverse arrangement reduces the polar moment of inertia to keep oversteer in check.
Pagani hasn’t published any performance figures, but with a claimed 2,822-lb dry curb weight, the Utopia should be pretty lively. A carbon-titanium monocoque (with chromium-molybdenum steel subframes) and aluminum suspension components help contribute to that relatively low curb weight. Pagani also claims a 10.5% increase in torsional rigidity over the Huayra monocoque.
The Utopia also gets independent double-wishbone suspension with helical springs and semi-active shocks, as well as a Brembo carbon-ceramic brake system. Wheels measure 21 inches in front and 22 inches in the rear, with standard Pirelli Zero Corsa tires. Pirelli SottoZero tires are also available in the unlikely event owners decide to take their cars out in winter conditions.
The interior features Pagani’s usual high level of craftsmanship, including a steering wheel machined from a single block of aluminum. Pagani also made a point of not including any screens, instead using the space for switches and dials that look right out of an aircraft cockpit.
Pagani plans to build 99 Utopia coupes at an undisclosed price. If the automaker follows the same pattern as the Zonda and Huayra, a Utopia Roadster will follow the coupe, as well as a series of special editions and hardcore track versions.
While the Utopia officially succeeds the Huayra, that car may not go away. After all, Pagani unveiled a new Zonda 760 Roadster in January—more than a decade after production of that car technically ended.
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Honda may no longer be in Formula 1 officially, but it’s still using reigning world champion Max Verstappen to show off the upcoming 2023 Civic Type R.
In an ad first spotted by Carscoops, the Red Bull Racing driver is let loose in the Type R at the Euroring, a 1.7-mile circuit near Budapest. The premise of the ad is that, after the 2022 Hungarian Grand Prix, Verstappen is called into a meeting by Red Bull team principal Christian Horner (who makes a voice cameo), and decides to take a detour. The add is titled “The Ultimate Detour.”
Ending up at the track, Verstappen drives the Type R for a few laps then, realizing he is now late, drives the hot hatch straight to the meeting.
Honda withdrew from F1 at the end of the 2021 season, but Red Bull still uses its power units. The team is now responsible for building its own power units under license from Honda, and does the same for sibling team AlphaTauri. Talks with Porsche recently ended without a deal, leaving Red Bull without an automaker partner for the time being.
Expected to arrive in the U.S. as a 2023 model, the new Civic Type R gets a more powerful version of the outgoing model’s 2.0-liter turbo-4. The engine now produces 315 hp and 310 lb-ft of torque, compared to the previous Type R’s 306 hp and 295 lb-ft of torque.
Power is sent to the front wheels through a revised 6-speed manual transmission. The 2023 Civic Type R also gets updated suspension and more restrained styling based on the 11th-generation Civic body shell.
Honda hasn’t said how much the 2023 Civic Type R will cost when it goes on sale this fall, but it will be built at the automaker’s Yorii Plant in Japan.
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LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency has recommended the authorization of a tweaked booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine that includes protection against two of the latest versions of omicron, as countries look to bolster their immunization programs ahead of winter.
The EU regulator said Monday that laboratory studies suggest the combination vaccine — which targets both the original COVID-19 virus as well as the omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 — should trigger an effective immune response. The vaccine is expected to be as safe as the original version, but the agency will continue to track its rollout globally since the data is limited.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the modified vaccine shot the green light last month.
According to the World Health Organization, the BA.5 version of omicron is responsible for most of the COVID-19 spreading globally; it made up about 87% of all virus sequences shared with the biggest public database.
Earlier this month, the European Medicines Agency also cleared two combination vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Inc. which aimed at protecting against the earlier omicron subvariant BA.1.
It’s unclear how well the updated boosters will work since experts are still gathering data. But there’s evidence that they are safe, so waiting for more study on their effectiveness would risk another mutation appearing before people are immunized.
Scientists warn that the coronavirus will linger far into the future, partly because it is getting better and better at getting around immunity from vaccination and past infection.
Globally, coronavirus cases and deaths have been dropping for weeks, but experts expect a surge of hospitalizations and deaths with the coming winter in the northern hemisphere. So far the virus has killed over 6.5 million people worldwide.
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LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency has recommended the authorization of a tweaked booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine that includes protection against two of the latest versions of omicron, as countries look to bolster their immunization programs ahead of winter.
The EU regulator said Monday that laboratory studies suggest the combination vaccine — which targets both the original COVID-19 virus as well as the omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 — should trigger an effective immune response. The vaccine is expected to be as safe as the original version, but the agency will continue to track its rollout globally since the data is limited.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the modified vaccine shot the green light last month.
According to the World Health Organization, the BA.5 version of omicron is responsible for most of the COVID-19 spreading globally; it made up about 87% of all virus sequences shared with the biggest public database.
Earlier this month, the European Medicines Agency also cleared two combination vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Inc. which aimed at protecting against the earlier omicron subvariant BA.1.
It’s unclear how well the updated boosters will work since experts are still gathering data. But there’s evidence that they are safe, so waiting for more study on their effectiveness would risk another mutation appearing before people are immunized.
Scientists warn that the coronavirus will linger far into the future, partly because it is getting better and better at getting around immunity from vaccination and past infection.
Globally, coronavirus cases and deaths have been dropping for weeks, but experts expect a surge of hospitalizations and deaths with the coming winter in the northern hemisphere. So far the virus has killed over 6.5 million people worldwide.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower who is warning of security flaws, privacy threats and lax controls at the social platform, will take his case to Congress on Tuesday.
Senators who will hear Zatko’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee are alarmed by his Twitter allegations at a time of heightened concern over the safety of powerful tech platforms.
It’s Zatko’s second Capitol Hill appearance, and in some ways a 21st-century echo of his first. In 1998, he testified before a Senate panel along with fellow members of a hacker collective who warned about the security dangers of the then-emerging internet age.
Zatko, a respected cybersecurity expert, was Twitter’s head of security until he was fired early this year. He has brought the stunning allegations to Congress and federal regulators, asserting that the influential social platform misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control millions of “spam” or fake accounts.
Sen. Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democrat who chairs the panel, called Zatko’s allegations “serious business.”
“If it’s anywhere along the lines that (he) suggested, I think it’s a matter of grave personal-privacy concern,” Durbin told reporters Monday. “The question is whether information gathered by Twitter has been used for purposes which we’re not aware of.”
Zatko’s accusations are also playing into billionaire tycoon Elon Musk’s battle with Twitter. The Tesla CEO is trying to get out of his $44 billion bid to buy the company; Twitter has sued to force him to complete the deal. The Delaware judge overseeing that case ruled last week that Musk can include new evidence related to Zatko’s allegations in the high-stakes trial set to start Oct. 17.
The allegation that Twitter engaged in deception in its handling of automated “spam bot” accounts is at the core of Musk’s attempt to back out of the Twitter deal.
At the same time, many of Zatko’s claims are uncorroborated and appear to have little documentary support. In a statement, Twitter has called Zatko’s description of events “a false narrative.”
Also on Tuesday, Twitter’s shareholders are scheduled to vote on the company’s pending buyout by Musk. The vote is something of a formality given that the deal is on hold while the court case plays out. But if the measure passes as expected, it would also pave the way for a Musk takeover should Twitter prevail in court.
Zatko also filed complaints with the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among his most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users.
The SEC is questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform. Twitter uses counts of its presumably real users to attract advertisers, whose payments make up about 90% of its revenue. The “spam bots” have no value to advertisers because there’s no person behind them.
San Francisco-based Twitter has an estimated 238 million daily active users worldwide. The company says it removes 1 million spam accounts daily.
Zatko’s 84-page complaint alleges that he found “extreme, egregious deficiencies” on the platform, including issues with “user privacy, digital and physical security, and platform integrity/content moderation.”
It accuses CEO Parag Agrawal and other senior executives and board members of making “false and misleading statements to users and the FTC” about these issues. Twitter denies those claims and said that Zatko was fired in January for “ineffective leadership and poor performance.” Zatko’s attorneys say the performance claim is false.
Twitter also hinted that Zatko’s complaint might be designed to bolster Musk’s legal fight with the company. Twitter called Zatko’s complaint “a false narrative” that is “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and lacks important context.”
News of Zatko’s complaint surfaced on Aug. 23, almost two months before the Twitter-Musk trial is scheduled to begin. One of Zatko’s attorneys has said “he’s never met Elon Musk. Doesn’t know Elon Musk. They know people in common.”
The company also says it has significantly tightened security since 2020.
Among Zatko’s specific allegations:
— The company had such poor cybersecurity that it easily could have been exposed to outside attacks or attempts to siphon off its internal data.
—The company lacked effective leadership, with its top executives practicing “deliberate ignorance” of pressing problems. Zatko described former CEO Jack Dorsey as “extremely disengaged” during the last months of his tenure, to the point where he wouldn’t even speak during meetings on complex issues. Dorsey stepped down in November 2021.
—That Twitter knowingly allowed the government of India to place its agents on the company payroll, where they had “direct unsupervised access” to highly sensitive data on users. It makes a parallel but less detailed accusation that Twitter took funding from unidentified Chinese entities who may have been enabled to access the identities and sensitive data of Chinese users who secretly use Twitter, which is officially banned in China.
The 51-year-old Zatko, better known by his hacker handle “Mudge,” first gained prominence in the 1990s. He was the best-known member of the Boston-based collective L0pht, which pioneered ethical hacking, embarrassing companies including Microsoft for poor security. His work raised awareness in the computing world that forced such major companies to take security seriously. He co-founded the consultancy @Stake, which was later acquired by Symantec.
Zatko later worked in senior positions at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Google. He joined Twitter at Dorsey’s urging in late 2020, the same year the company suffered an embarrassing security breach involving hackers who broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls, including Musk, in an attempt to scam their followers out of bitcoin.
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AP technology writers Frank Bajak in Boston and Matt O’Brien in Providence, Rhode Island, contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower who is warning of security flaws, privacy threats and lax controls at the social platform, will take his case to Congress on Tuesday.
Senators who will hear Zatko’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee are alarmed by his Twitter allegations at a time of heightened concern over the safety of powerful tech platforms.
It’s Zatko’s second Capitol Hill appearance, and in some ways a 21st-century echo of his first. In 1998, he testified before a Senate panel along with fellow members of a hacker collective who warned about the security dangers of the then-emerging internet age.
Zatko, a respected cybersecurity expert, was Twitter’s head of security until he was fired early this year. He has brought the stunning allegations to Congress and federal regulators, asserting that the influential social platform misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control millions of “spam” or fake accounts.
Sen. Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democrat who chairs the panel, called Zatko’s allegations “serious business.”
“If it’s anywhere along the lines that (he) suggested, I think it’s a matter of grave personal-privacy concern,” Durbin told reporters Monday. “The question is whether information gathered by Twitter has been used for purposes which we’re not aware of.”
Zatko’s accusations are also playing into billionaire tycoon Elon Musk’s battle with Twitter. The Tesla CEO is trying to get out of his $44 billion bid to buy the company; Twitter has sued to force him to complete the deal. The Delaware judge overseeing that case ruled last week that Musk can include new evidence related to Zatko’s allegations in the high-stakes trial set to start Oct. 17.
The allegation that Twitter engaged in deception in its handling of automated “spam bot” accounts is at the core of Musk’s attempt to back out of the Twitter deal.
At the same time, many of Zatko’s claims are uncorroborated and appear to have little documentary support. In a statement, Twitter has called Zatko’s description of events “a false narrative.”
Also on Tuesday, Twitter’s shareholders are scheduled to vote on the company’s pending buyout by Musk. The vote is something of a formality given that the deal is on hold while the court case plays out. But if the measure passes as expected, it would also pave the way for a Musk takeover should Twitter prevail in court.
Zatko also filed complaints with the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among his most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users.
The SEC is questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform. Twitter uses counts of its presumably real users to attract advertisers, whose payments make up about 90% of its revenue. The “spam bots” have no value to advertisers because there’s no person behind them.
San Francisco-based Twitter has an estimated 238 million daily active users worldwide. The company says it removes 1 million spam accounts daily.
Zatko’s 84-page complaint alleges that he found “extreme, egregious deficiencies” on the platform, including issues with “user privacy, digital and physical security, and platform integrity/content moderation.”
It accuses CEO Parag Agrawal and other senior executives and board members of making “false and misleading statements to users and the FTC” about these issues. Twitter denies those claims and said that Zatko was fired in January for “ineffective leadership and poor performance.” Zatko’s attorneys say the performance claim is false.
Twitter also hinted that Zatko’s complaint might be designed to bolster Musk’s legal fight with the company. Twitter called Zatko’s complaint “a false narrative” that is “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and lacks important context.”
News of Zatko’s complaint surfaced on Aug. 23, almost two months before the Twitter-Musk trial is scheduled to begin. One of Zatko’s attorneys has said “he’s never met Elon Musk. Doesn’t know Elon Musk. They know people in common.”
The company also says it has significantly tightened security since 2020.
Among Zatko’s specific allegations:
— The company had such poor cybersecurity that it easily could have been exposed to outside attacks or attempts to siphon off its internal data.
—The company lacked effective leadership, with its top executives practicing “deliberate ignorance” of pressing problems. Zatko described former CEO Jack Dorsey as “extremely disengaged” during the last months of his tenure, to the point where he wouldn’t even speak during meetings on complex issues. Dorsey stepped down in November 2021.
—That Twitter knowingly allowed the government of India to place its agents on the company payroll, where they had “direct unsupervised access” to highly sensitive data on users. It makes a parallel but less detailed accusation that Twitter took funding from unidentified Chinese entities who may have been enabled to access the identities and sensitive data of Chinese users who secretly use Twitter, which is officially banned in China.
The 51-year-old Zatko, better known by his hacker handle “Mudge,” first gained prominence in the 1990s. He was the best-known member of the Boston-based collective L0pht, which pioneered ethical hacking, embarrassing companies including Microsoft for poor security. His work raised awareness in the computing world that forced such major companies to take security seriously. He co-founded the consultancy @Stake, which was later acquired by Symantec.
Zatko later worked in senior positions at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Google. He joined Twitter at Dorsey’s urging in late 2020, the same year the company suffered an embarrassing security breach involving hackers who broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls, including Musk, in an attempt to scam their followers out of bitcoin.
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AP technology writers Frank Bajak in Boston and Matt O’Brien in Providence, Rhode Island, contributed to this report.
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United Auto Workers union members who went on strike Saturday at a Stellantis casting plant in Indiana are returning to work after ratifying a deal with the company.
Stellantis said that operations at the plant in Kokomo will resume late Monday after UAW Local 1166 workers voted to ratify the agreement. The two sides had announced a tentative agreement earlier in the day pending the ratification vote.
The strike was related to health and safety issues, including the company’s alleged refusal to repair and replace the plant’s air conditioning and heating systems.
The 35-acre plant in Kokomo makes parts used in the power trains of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and RAM vehicles. The 1,200-worker plant, Kokomo Casting, is the world’s largest die cast facility, according to Stellantis.
In May, Stellantis announced a $2.5 billion joint venture with Samsung to build an electric vehicle battery factory in Kokomo that is to employ 1,400 workers.
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United Auto Workers union members who went on strike Saturday at a Stellantis casting plant in Indiana are returning to work after ratifying a deal with the company.
Stellantis said that operations at the plant in Kokomo will resume late Monday after UAW Local 1166 workers voted to ratify the agreement. The two sides had announced a tentative agreement earlier in the day pending the ratification vote.
The strike was related to health and safety issues, including the company’s alleged refusal to repair and replace the plant’s air conditioning and heating systems.
The 35-acre plant in Kokomo makes parts used in the power trains of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and RAM vehicles. The 1,200-worker plant, Kokomo Casting, is the world’s largest die cast facility, according to Stellantis.
In May, Stellantis announced a $2.5 billion joint venture with Samsung to build an electric vehicle battery factory in Kokomo that is to employ 1,400 workers.
Stellantis, created last year through the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA Peugeot, had said it would build two electric vehicle battery factories in North America. The other is slated for Windsor, Ontario. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-uaw-workers-in-indiana-stellantis-reach-tentative-deal/ | 2022-09-13T14:29:31Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-uaw-workers-in-indiana-stellantis-reach-tentative-deal/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 31 |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico and the United States plan to take advantage of the Biden administration’s massive investment in semiconductor production to push the integration of their supply chains and cooperate on expanding the production of electric vehicles through Mexico’s nationalized lithium industry, officials from both countries said Monday
Both efforts seek to eat into Asia’s advantage in semiconductors and batteries needed for electric vehicles and promote North American production.
They were among the main topics discussed within and on the sidelines of the two countries’ High-Level Economic Dialogue in Mexico’s capital.
“Major elements of the semiconductor supply chains are already well established in Mexico, with U.S. based companies like Intel and Skyworks conducting research and development, design, assembly and test manufacturing in parts of Mexico,” U.S. Secretary Antony Blinken said.
Blinken and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimundo had spoken earlier in the day with Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador about the opportunities for Mexico to take advantage of recently passed U.S. legislation that would provide $28 billion in incentives for semiconductor production, $10 billion for new manufacturing of chips and $11 billion for research and development.
López Obrador, for his part, explained his plan to make the northern border state of Sonora a leader in lithium, electric vehicle and solar energy production, Mexico Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said. Lithium is a key component of batteries for electric vehicles. The president said last month he had already discussed the idea with U.S. President Joe Biden.
Blinken said another piece of new U.S. legislation aims to incentivize the shift to electric vehicles and the production of the batteries they need in North America.
Ebrard said it was a big opening for Mexico’s economy.
“This means more jobs for Mexico, more integration,” Ebrard said. “We think Mexico could grow twice as much with what was proposed to Mexico today and this means we can reduce poverty even faster in our country and that the infrastructure of Mexico can grow faster.”
The dialogue, which was launched by then-Vice President Biden in 2013, resumed last year in Washington after stopping during the Trump administration.
The global shortage of semiconductors has slashed into production of autos, household appliances and other goods, fueling high inflation. Biden appeared at the future site of a massive Intel plant in Ohio on Friday.
Last month, López Obrador said the government had created the state-run lithium company that would be in charge of the exploration and extraction of the mineral. Mexico nationalized lithium production in May.
Asked about ongoing trade disputes between the U.S. and Mexico in the energy sector, officials from both countries downplayed the disputes and emphasized that there was a separate process for resolving those disagreements under their trade accord and that it was not an agenda item for these meetings.
Ahead of the talks, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols, who is also attending, said one of the priorities for the talks was promoting development in southern Mexico and Central America.
U.S. border agents’ encounters with migrants from the Northern Triangle countries — El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala — have been running lower this year than last, despite overall encounters at the border being up this year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. Encounters with Mexican migrants have also been higher for most of the past year.
Mexico has more recently avoided direct clashes with migrants moving across its territory, instead regularly offering them temporary documents to relieve pressure at its southern border.
López Obrador has come under fire from some international and domestic organizations for transferring the recently created National Guard to the Defense Ministry. In many ways, the military already ran the force — and filled its ranks — but it had been created as a civilian force. López Obrador criticized the U.N. and the Organization of American States for expressing their concern over the move.
Mexico continues to struggle with high rates of violence. On Friday, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons said at that violence related to Mexico’s drug cartels was the main force causing internal displacements. She called on the government to create an official registry of the displaced, but said data collected from non-governmental organizations suggested there are some 400,000.
The talks come just days before Mexico celebrates its independence day, to which López Obrador has invited figures such as the daughter of revolutionary leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara and the father of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
At López Obrador’s daily news conference Monday, the president said he planned to submit a proposal to the U.N. aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. López Obrador, who did not join other countries by imposing economic sanctions on Russia, proposed creating a mediation commission made up by Pope Francis, the U.N. secretary general and India’s prime minister that would open talks between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-us-invites-mexico-to-join-semiconductor-production-effort/ | 2022-09-13T14:29:38Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-us-invites-mexico-to-join-semiconductor-production-effort/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 35 |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico and the United States plan to take advantage of the Biden administration’s massive investment in semiconductor production to push the integration of their supply chains and cooperate on expanding the production of electric vehicles through Mexico’s nationalized lithium industry, officials from both countries said Monday
Both efforts seek to eat into Asia’s advantage in semiconductors and batteries needed for electric vehicles and promote North American production.
They were among the main topics discussed within and on the sidelines of the two countries’ High-Level Economic Dialogue in Mexico’s capital.
“Major elements of the semiconductor supply chains are already well established in Mexico, with U.S. based companies like Intel and Skyworks conducting research and development, design, assembly and test manufacturing in parts of Mexico,” U.S. Secretary Antony Blinken said.
Blinken and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimundo had spoken earlier in the day with Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador about the opportunities for Mexico to take advantage of recently passed U.S. legislation that would provide $28 billion in incentives for semiconductor production, $10 billion for new manufacturing of chips and $11 billion for research and development.
López Obrador, for his part, explained his plan to make the northern border state of Sonora a leader in lithium, electric vehicle and solar energy production, Mexico Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said. Lithium is a key component of batteries for electric vehicles. The president said last month he had already discussed the idea with U.S. President Joe Biden.
Blinken said another piece of new U.S. legislation aims to incentivize the shift to electric vehicles and the production of the batteries they need in North America.
Ebrard said it was a big opening for Mexico’s economy.
“This means more jobs for Mexico, more integration,” Ebrard said. “We think Mexico could grow twice as much with what was proposed to Mexico today and this means we can reduce poverty even faster in our country and that the infrastructure of Mexico can grow faster.”
The dialogue, which was launched by then-Vice President Biden in 2013, resumed last year in Washington after stopping during the Trump administration.
The global shortage of semiconductors has slashed into production of autos, household appliances and other goods, fueling high inflation. Biden appeared at the future site of a massive Intel plant in Ohio on Friday.
Last month, López Obrador said the government had created the state-run lithium company that would be in charge of the exploration and extraction of the mineral. Mexico nationalized lithium production in May.
Asked about ongoing trade disputes between the U.S. and Mexico in the energy sector, officials from both countries downplayed the disputes and emphasized that there was a separate process for resolving those disagreements under their trade accord and that it was not an agenda item for these meetings.
Ahead of the talks, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols, who is also attending, said one of the priorities for the talks was promoting development in southern Mexico and Central America.
U.S. border agents’ encounters with migrants from the Northern Triangle countries — El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala — have been running lower this year than last, despite overall encounters at the border being up this year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. Encounters with Mexican migrants have also been higher for most of the past year.
Mexico has more recently avoided direct clashes with migrants moving across its territory, instead regularly offering them temporary documents to relieve pressure at its southern border.
López Obrador has come under fire from some international and domestic organizations for transferring the recently created National Guard to the Defense Ministry. In many ways, the military already ran the force — and filled its ranks — but it had been created as a civilian force. López Obrador criticized the U.N. and the Organization of American States for expressing their concern over the move.
Mexico continues to struggle with high rates of violence. On Friday, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons said at that violence related to Mexico’s drug cartels was the main force causing internal displacements. She called on the government to create an official registry of the displaced, but said data collected from non-governmental organizations suggested there are some 400,000.
The talks come just days before Mexico celebrates its independence day, to which López Obrador has invited figures such as the daughter of revolutionary leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara and the father of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
At López Obrador’s daily news conference Monday, the president said he planned to submit a proposal to the U.N. aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. López Obrador, who did not join other countries by imposing economic sanctions on Russia, proposed creating a mediation commission made up by Pope Francis, the U.N. secretary general and India’s prime minister that would open talks between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-us-invites-mexico-to-join-semiconductor-production-effort/ | 2022-09-13T14:29:38Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-us-invites-mexico-to-join-semiconductor-production-effort/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 35 |
BERLIN (AP) — Nine nations bordering the North Sea announced plans Monday to massively increase offshore wind power in the coming decades as part of an effort to combat climate change and become independent of fossil fuel imports, particularly from Russia.
German officials said members of the North Seas Energy Cooperation aim to expand wind power generation in the region to 76 gigawatts by 2030.
Subsequent targets are for 193 gigawatts of wind power in the North Sea by 2040 and 260 gigawatts by mid-century. Germany’s Economy and Energy Ministry said current generation capacity in the region is less than 20 gigawatts.
The countries that agreed to those goals include Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The United Kingdom, whose territory is surrounded by the North Sea and which has significant offshore wind plans of its own, is not a member of the group since leaving the European Union in January 2020.
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BERLIN (AP) — Nine nations bordering the North Sea announced plans Monday to massively increase offshore wind power in the coming decades as part of an effort to combat climate change and become independent of fossil fuel imports, particularly from Russia.
German officials said members of the North Seas Energy Cooperation aim to expand wind power generation in the region to 76 gigawatts by 2030.
Subsequent targets are for 193 gigawatts of wind power in the North Sea by 2040 and 260 gigawatts by mid-century. Germany’s Economy and Energy Ministry said current generation capacity in the region is less than 20 gigawatts.
The countries that agreed to those goals include Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The United Kingdom, whose territory is surrounded by the North Sea and which has significant offshore wind plans of its own, is not a member of the group since leaving the European Union in January 2020.
Last month, seven European countries bordering the neighboring Baltic Sea committed themselves to a seven-fold increase of offshore wind power production there by 2030. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-north-sea-nations-plan-huge-expansion-of-wind-power-by-2050/ | 2022-09-13T14:29:46Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-north-sea-nations-plan-huge-expansion-of-wind-power-by-2050/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 31 |
Last Thursday (September 8) tens of thousands of children sat the Kent Test. Year 6 students across the county sat down to be tested on a wide range of areas including verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, English and Maths.
The Kent test is designed to assess whether a child is likely to be suitable for selective education. Each child will get 3 standardised scores, one for English, one for maths and one for reasoning, and a total (aggregate) score.
The grammar school threshold for the 2022 tests will not be published until the results have been sent out. However in 2021 children needed a total score of 332 or more, with no single score lower than 109, to be given a grammar school place.
The results of this year's Kent test will be emailed to those who provided an email address after 4pm on Tuesday October 18 or posted to parents on results day by first class post. You can ask your child’s primary school for their test scores the day after results go out.
But how would you fare if you took the Kent test as an adult? Your school days may be long in the past but could you still pass? Take our 14-question quiz below to find out.
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Results day
If you provided an email address when you registered, your Kent Test result will be emailed to you after 4pm on Tuesday 18 October 2022 (the delivery time will depend on your email service provider). We can only send this to the email address used to register your child.
If you did not provide an email address, we will post your child’s result to you on results day by first class post. You can ask your child’s primary school for their test scores the day after results go out.
What the scores mean
Your child will get 3 standardised scores, one for English, one for maths and one for reasoning, and a total (aggregate) score.
Standardisation is a statistical process which compares your child's performance with the average performance of other children in each test. A slight adjustment is made to take account of each child's age so that the youngest are not at a disadvantage.
The grammar school threshold for the 2022 tests will not be published until the results have been sent out.
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These computer images show the new SEN secondary school which has been approved for Sheppey and is due to open next September. It will open gradually once built on the former Danley Middle School site next to Halfway Houses Primary School.
It should provide places by 2023/2024 for 120 children aged between 11 and 16 with autism spectrum disorder needs and social, emotional and mental health needs.
The news about the school in Sheerness has created a buzz among many parents, with comments such as "much needed" and "finally". Another parent said it would mean children would not have to spend so much time travelling to "Maidstone and beyond" for their education.
But others have wondered if residents will be upset by the additional disturbance from another school. The Sabden Multi Academy Trust has been appointed as the sponsor of the school which is being built in Minster-on-Sea. But that has prompted questions from parents about what is happening to the old Halfway Houses site which has been up for sale until recently.
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The new facility will have a two-storey building, along with outdoor games areas, a sports outdoor pitch and play areas. Access to the school will be via the existing entrance used by the primary school. There will be 54 parking spaces which includes a mini bus space.
Residents have raised their concern about disruption from another school in formal objections to the planning application. There were seven letters of objection which, although recognised a school of that nature was needed for Sheppey, raised concerns about congestion on site at the start and end of the school day, more development adding traffic on the road, current parking not being "considerate" and is "unsafe", harm to wildlife, the Halfway Houses junction being already at over capacity and other complaints.
The estimated pupil journeys have been calculated by using other SEN schools trip data. It is predicted of the 120 pupils, 14 would be driven independently and 103 would come by mini bus or taxi. However, of the 60 staff, it was estimated just one would come by train and 10 would walk.
Conservative Swale Borough councillor Cameron Beart said the commissioning plan also set out a proposed 50 place SEN primary school for Sheppey in 2025/2026 either as an expansion or as a satellite site.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Republican lawmakers will keep trying to enact new abortion restrictions later this month.
Speaker Murrell Smith announced Monday that the House will meet on Sept. 27, more than two weeks after the Senate sent back a markedly different proposal from the one passed earlier by the lower chamber. Contentious debates among Republicans over exceptions have emerged in a special session on abortion that convened after the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
It is unclear if the House will take up the Senate’s bill. Smith told reporters earlier Monday that “all options are on the table.” While Smith was disappointed with the outcome last week, he said this is how legislation gets made.
“I understand that each body has a different makeup and each body has the ability to put their imprint on a bill,” Smith said to reporters. “I respect the Senate as a body and their votes. Obviously, the House is vastly different from their position.”
The House passed a ban on abortion at all stages of pregnancy in late August with exceptions for the mother’s life and rape or incest up to 12 weeks. The Senate passed a six-week ban, based on when cardiac activity can be detected in an embryo, with exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest, to save the life of the mother and, when approved by two doctors, in cases of fatal fetal anomaly.
The upper chamber’s bill varies slightly from a 2021 South Carolina law that’s on hold while the state Supreme Court considers a new legal challenge from abortion providers. One change included cutting the period when pregnancies resulting from rape or incest may be aborted from 20 weeks to about 12 weeks. The proposal also requires that police receive the fetus’ DNA.
The state currently bans abortions 20 weeks after conception.
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James Pollard is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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Police are investigating after four vehicles were set on fire in one night. Witnesses are now being sought as police brand the Margate fires 'suspicious'.
Two arrests have been made while officers continue to investigate the circumstances of the fires. During the evening of September 12, officers were made aware that Kent Fire and Rescue Service had been called to a total of four fires between 9pm and 11.20pm.
A motorbike was found alight in Hartsdown Road, and three cars were found on fire in Millmead Road, Selborne Road and Argyle Avenue. In the early hours of September 13, two men aged 20 and 24 from Broadstairs were arrested on suspicion of arson and were taken into custody while enquiries are ongoing.
Kent Police is appealing for anyone who saw anything suspicious or has CCTV footage of any of the four fires to come forward. Witnesses should call Kent Police on 01843 222289 quoting 46/178561/22.
You can also call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 or complete the online form on their website.
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Well, all is excitement at The Seasons Performance Hall! We’re getting the place spiffed up with refreshed lobby carpet, new lobby box office and a new ticketing service, new lighting in the hall and Bistro, new signage, and a regular front lobby wine and snack bar.
Ticket sales are as brisk as they’ve been in years — VIP tickets for each upcoming show are nearing sold out. Sponsorships and donations that are so necessary to bringing music at the highest level to Yakima have picked up significantly as we start our 2022-23 concert year.
Not all is peaches and cream, of course. That’s an impossibility after an earth-altering national pandemic that spelled disaster for venues like The Seasons — a hole we are still trying to dig out of.
Still, we survived and continued to serve our community even in the depths of the pandemic with frequent livestreaming and, later, the addition of a full-time Bistro. These assets mean a “return to normalcy” and promise an incredible richness in the night-out experience for everyone who makes The Seasons a destination. And in spite of the two-year challenge, we are closer than ever to our long-held dream of being a full-time performance space where everyone in Yakima can enjoy the live music they love, find community, perform and be inspired.
The opening weekend of our 2022-23 season demonstrates how rich those options are.
Opening act for this year is Saturday night, Sept. 17, at 7:30 with The Paperboys, one of the longest-running, most popular folk bands to play The Seasons. We love their energy and commitment to their music and how beautifully they convey that joy to their audience. They play a heady mix of Irish, Mexican, original music and new creations. Our gala opening night is also full of fun, Bistro events, surprises and rewards for all — not to mention a special Irish Lamb Stew to honor the band.
Opening weekend in The Seasons Gallery & Bistro (Thursday-Sunday, Sept. 15-18) highlights another facet of the new and improved Seasons, a unique performance space that can feature local and regional artists (and students) of significance along with food, drink and conversation.
Also:
• Our Thursdays regularly feature a 7 p.m. open mic session in The Bistro.
• At 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, singer Dora Barnes takes the Bistro stage with Bart Roderick.
• Saturday is our Gala Opening night. As always, the Bistro opens at 5 p.m. before a concert in The Seasons Performance Hall (our main stage) and stays open for 45 minutes after the concert to meet the artists and mingle with friends.
• And for the Bistro’s Sunday Serenade on Sept. 18, local piano prodigy Luke Kwon plays at 6 p.m. It would be a delightful way to end your weekend.
The following weekend, Sept. 22-25, has a similar profile:
• Our main stage concert is Friday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m. It features John Mark McMillan and his Band. McMillan is one of the most prolific and popular Christian rock bands in the U.S. today — and these tickets are selling fast.
• The McMillan concert is followed at 10 p.m. with our Friday Night Salsa in the Bistro.
• Sunday Serenade (Sept. 25) features the always-popular Joe Brooks Quartet in the Bistro at 6 p.m.
The last weekend of September is best described as a mini-festival of all kinds of music. If you’re adventurous, you can’t miss by trying out a musical category that you haven’t before:
• Friday, Sept. 30, 7:30 p.m.: MainStreet, a Bob Seger tribute, is selling briskly. Steve Kelly headlines this engaging tribute for one of rock’s great musicians. Check out our Fan Favorite Series featuring this concert as well as Heart by Heart, Good Day Sunshine (Beatles tribute) and Seattle Rock Orchestra next spring.
• Saturday, Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m.: The Mel Brown B-3 Organ Group. We are proud that this band of international stars — including Mel, a long-time Motown drummer in the studio and on tour, and fabulous B-3 Organ player King Louie Pain — has made a second home at The Seasons, and remain perennially popular. The concert kicks off our “A-Train Jazz Series” featuring the Miguel Zenon Quartet and Chuck Redd, with the Northwest Jazz Masters. Vocalist Dianne Schuur, a true legend, and Bill Mays Trio are already scheduled in 2023.
• Sunday, Oct. 2, 6 p.m.: Sempre Chamber Music … Pairs Well with Clarinet kicks off the Sempre 2022-23 season with a concert that features clarinetist Angelique Poteat playing Mozart’s scintillating Clarinet Quintet in A. Dvorak’s “American” String Quintet completes the program. A full five-concert Sempre season ticket is available, including pairings with saxophone, mezzo soprano, cellist Efe Batacigil, and a late spring concert featuring Claude Bolling’s Jazz Suite.
Along with our recent YH-R Reader’s Choice awards in the Music Venue and Nightlife categories (thank you all!), these first six concerts give a clue to the amazing variety, the quality, the cornucopia of concerts that await you all year long.
And when I say “you,” I mean every reader of this page, everyone who signs up for our weekly newsletter, everyone who follows us on Facebook or TikTok, everyone who follows our ever-evolving calendar of performances by students, local and regional musicians and international stars. Want to scout it out and purchase tickets? Bookmark theseasonsyakima.com.
Our fall slogan is “The Seasons: Make It a Habit.” Won’t you?
• Pat Strosahl is executive director of The Seasons Performance Hall. This column appears every four weeks in Explore. For more information, go to theseasonsyakima.com. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/notes-from-the-seasons-seasons-sets-dynamic-2022-23-concert-series/article_e675504e-32c5-11ed-9ba7-7bc0805dd319.html | 2022-09-13T14:31:10Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/notes-from-the-seasons-seasons-sets-dynamic-2022-23-concert-series/article_e675504e-32c5-11ed-9ba7-7bc0805dd319.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Chatham school has issued a statement after one of its pupils was stabbed outside of the premises yesterday (September 12) afternoon. Kent Police responded to the incident that took place outside of The Victory Academy on Magpie Hall Road at 3.19pm.
A teenage boy, who is now confirmed to be a student of the academy, had suffered injuries consistent with two stab wounds to his leg. He was promptly taken to a local hospital for treatment, and has since been been discharged, with the school confirming that he is now "at home and safe".
An ongoing investigation from Kent Police saw two teenagers arrested who are believed to be known to the victim. Both have since been discharged on bail until on bail until October 7, pending further enquiries.
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The Victory Academy Headteacher, Michelle Smith, told KentLive: "We can confirm there was an incident yesterday evening outside school involving a Victory student. We are pleased to say that he is now at home and safe. We are continuing to work closely with the authorities to support their enquiries.
"As an Academy, the health, safety and wellbeing of our students is our highest priority, and as such we are providing pastoral support if any students have questions. We would encourage any parents or carers who may have concerns to contact the Academy directly."
Police are currently urging witnesses of the incident to contact the appeal line. Motorists with dashcam and residents with private CCTV are also asked to check for footage that may assist the investigation.
Anyone with information should call Kent Police on 01634 792209, quoting reference 12-0769. You can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 or by completing the online form on their website.
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• Now that Crumbl Cookies has opened, the next Hogback Development project drawing huge interest from Yakima residents is the nearby Chipotle being built at 2416 W. Nob Hill Blvd.
The exterior of the building appears complete, with crews seen working inside the nationwide Mexican food chain this past week. A post on Hogback Development’s Facebook page says the Yakima Chipotle will open “soon … very soon!”
• As the new Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic facility on Summitview Avenue nears completion, renovations also are being made at the Medical-Dental Center at 2205 W. Lincoln Ave. A building permit was issued last month to re-roof a portion of the building, create a new maintenance office and convert exam rooms to negative pressure rooms. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/business/yakima-valley-business-tidbits-new-restaurant-and-medical-clinics/article_9807c442-304e-11ed-b89d-8787ed5ecdfa.html | 2022-09-13T14:31:22Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/business/yakima-valley-business-tidbits-new-restaurant-and-medical-clinics/article_9807c442-304e-11ed-b89d-8787ed5ecdfa.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A royal photographer has revealed the real reason why Prince William invited Meghan Markle on the walkabout around Windsor Castle. Arthur Edwards revealed in an interview with Piers Morgan that he was surprised King Charles III had reached out to Prince Harry and his wife Meghan in his first address.
He was also surprised the so-called Fab Four had been reunited outside Windsor Castle to greet the adoring public. Mr Edwards said: "When Prince Charles said he loved Harry and Meghan in his speech that shook me as well. Then when Meghan got out the car, I was amazed.
"But obviously William has got to do something about it. He spoke to his brother and said, 'Let's make a combined effort here.'
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"They did it because if Meghan had turned up for the funeral on Monday all the papers would be talking about Meghan and the King does not want that. He wants it all about The Queen and nothing else. No distractions. Whether they will get back together who knows, there is a big rift between the brothers."
Mr Edwards also divulged his relationship with the new king, Charles III. He said Charles is a fantastic person and that he and Camilla are "fantastic people", Hello Magazine reports.
He continued: "The reason I still work, Piers, is because I work with this man and The Queen, the new Queen Camilla. They are just fabulous people. I really enjoy it. If I've got a job with say the King, the next one will probably be on Wednesday when they follow the coffin. I will look to him, but he will be solid."
However it was reported that King Charles III had told Prince Harry that his wife was "not welcome" at Balmoral as the family gathered to be with the Queen in her final moments. A source told The Sun: "Charles told Harry that it wasn’t right or appropriate for Meghan to be in Balmoral at such a deeply sad time. It was pointed out to him that Kate was not going and that the numbers really should be limited to the very closest family. Charles made it very, very clear Meghan would not be welcome."
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A Toppenish School District administrator filed a lawsuit against the district and Superintendent John Cerna over alleged retaliation she faced for cooperating with an investigation into claims of inappropriate behavior by John and Bertha Cerna, according to documents filed in Yakima County Superior Court Friday.
In the complaint, Brenda Mallonee alleged that after her involvement in the investigation, Superintendent Cerna demoted her from her position as the district’s curriculum director, which she held from fall 2017 to spring 2022, to CATS Academy principal for the 2022-23 school year. Mallonee stated that this position switch came after years of receiving strong performance reviews.
The investigation commissioned by the school district and conducted by Yakima lawyer Sarah Wixson in 2021 and 2022 found it more probable than not that Toppenish High School employees John L. “Johnny” and Bertha Cerna developed inappropriately close relationships with a high school student and supplied her with alcohol. In her investigation on Johnny Cerna, Wixson found it more probable than not that he was intoxicated with a live firearm during a district firearm training in 2021, during which only toy guns were supposed to be used.
The district fired Johnny and Bertha in January 2022 after learning of the results of the investigation. Johnny and Bertha Cerna are the son and daughter-in-law, respectively, of Superintendent Cerna.
In the complaint, Mallonee said she cooperated with the investigation as a part of her professional responsibilities, and discussed instances when Johnny Cerna appeared to be intoxicated at school. Johnny Cerna was vice principal at Toppenish High School before the district placed him on paid administrative leave in May 2021. In the investigation, Mallonee also expressed doubt that John Cerna or the school board would be impartial in its decisions regarding Johnny and Bertha Cerna.
In professional evaluations in the years before the investigation, Superintendent Cerna gave Mallonee high marks, according to the complaint. In her 2019-20 evaluation, Cerna called her a ‘team player,'” the complaint said.
After her involvement in the investigation, Cerna allegedly changed categories in Mallonee’s evaluation form for the 2021-22 school year, according to the complaint. In the evaluation he gave her significantly lower marks and alluded to disloyal behavior and recommended she learn to “stay in her lane,” according to the complaint.
After the investigation, the district transferred her from curriculum director to CATS Academy principal for the 2022-23 school year with no written explanation, according to the complaint. In the complaint. Mallonee alleges the move was retaliation for her cooperation with the investigation. Mallonee’s new position earns $72,000 less than her previous one, according to the complaint.
In July 2022, Mallonee sent a letter to the school board that accused Superintendent Cerna of acting in retaliation against her and filed a request that the district investigate the claim. According to the complaint, the board did not investigate or a hold a hearing on the matter.
Mallonee believes district is liable for general and special damages, including the reinstatement of her position, back pay, costs and attorney’s fees, the complaint said. She also wants the court to compel the district to investigate Cerna for his alleged retaliation against her, according to the complaint.
Superintendent Cerna and the district have 20 days to respond.
Superintendent Cerna declined to comment for this article. Assistant Superintendent Shawn Myers said he was not familiar with the complaint filed against the district as of Monday morning and had no comment.
Johnny Cerna did not respond to a call for comment. Bertha Cerna was arrested in August in Southern California on a warrant charging her with first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor and two counts of furnishing liquor to minors. She refused to waive extradition and was released from Orange County Jail after posting bond. Bertha Cerna declined to comment for this article. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/education/toppenish-administrator-sues-school-district-and-superintendent-over-alleged-retaliation/article_d6c9e42a-32d4-11ed-8068-7f8e0012a17b.html | 2022-09-13T14:31:28Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/education/toppenish-administrator-sues-school-district-and-superintendent-over-alleged-retaliation/article_d6c9e42a-32d4-11ed-8068-7f8e0012a17b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Prince Harry will go ahead with a controversial new memoir to tell his and Meghan's side of the royal feud. A royal expert claims the Duke of Sussex is adamant his book is released in November and could even pursue legal action if it is delayed.
Tom Bower is the author of Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors which reveals the inside story of Meghan Markle's journey from actress to royalty. Speaking to GB News' Dan Wootton, Mr Bower said Prince Harry believes he is "in the right" and will go ahead with the book despite the Queen sadly passing away last week.
Mr Bower said: "I'm told tonight that Harry's insisting that his book is published in November.
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Mr Wootton replied, "You're kidding?", to which Mr Bower added, "It's absolutely astonishing".
The author added: "The publishers are not too certain but he says that if they don't publish it, it's a breach of contract. It's extraordinary, on the other hand, it fits the bill, Harry and Meghan's finances depend entirely on the book, and on Netflix. Also, I think they're convinced that they're in the right, and they want to get their own back."
He also mentioned Meghan and Harry's surprise appearance on Saturday, where they joined Prince William and Kate in Windsor, the Express reports. He said: "I think, part of the problem with getting them to come out on that walk, was very much because they couldn’t decide whether they should be there or not. After all, they didn't plan to be here for a funeral. They thought they were coming for just a visit just to promote themselves."
The Sussexes, arrived in the UK on September 3, five days before the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The couple's intended purpose for the visit was the attend a few events for charities "close to their hearts".
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MEXICALI (AP) — When Gilbert Quintana, a farmer in the Mexicali Valley, learned he would soon lose 15% of his water supply, he did what he’s done before in a pinch: buy water from other growers in northern Mexico.
But Quintana worries that such workarounds won’t always be possible. The water used to irrigate his 2,000 acres of (800 hectares) of Brussel sprouts, green onions, and lettuce comes from the over-tapped Colorado River, which a megadrought in the American West due in part to climate change is rapidly depleting.
Buying water from other farmers is often the only way to grow the same acreage anymore, Quintana said, “but it’s short term.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a collaborative series on the Colorado River as the 100th anniversary of the historic Colorado River Compact approaches. The Associated Press, The Colorado Sun, The Albuquerque Journal, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Arizona Daily Star and The Nevada Independent are working together to explore the pressures on the river in 2022.
By the time the Colorado River reaches Mexico, just a fraction of its water is left for the fields of the Mexicali Valley and millions of people in northwestern desert cities. Now, that supply is more at risk than ever.
Water experts and scientists say Mexico, at the end of the river, will need to find other water for the two northwestern states that depend on it. They say the country will also have to use its supply more efficiently. But Mexico has been slow to act.
“This hit us so fast that it took us a while to understand that it’s not a drought, it’s a new era. It’s a new regime,” said Carlos de la Parra, an urban and environmental studies professor at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana.
The National Water Commission declared an emergency in four northern states in July. Roughly 65% of the country was facing drought. A swath stretching from Tijuana to Matamoros, more than 1,500 miles (2,414 kilometers), is still bone dry, with water shutoffs common in cities and towns and key reservoirs near all-time lows.
Tijuana, the sprawling border city of 2 million people, is especially dependent on the Colorado. About 90% of its water comes from the river. Parts of the city have baked this summer as taps ran dry — sometimes due to mismanagement — with local water authorities blaming it on the drought.
“It’s mismanagement linked with drought,” said Mario López Pérez, a consultant at the World Bank who previously worked for Mexico’s national water commission.
To fill the gap, the government has sent water tankers, a common sight in Mexican cities, to neighborhoods without running water. People have also bought water from private sellers.
PLANS FOR DESALINATION, WATER RECYCLING
For more than a decade, officials in Baja California talked about building a large, desalination plant in a beach town near Tijuana. In 2016, state officials finalized a plan only to shelve it four years later, citing its high cost. The energy-intensive technology works by removing impurities from seawater. Mexico has other, small desalination plants elsewhere in the state and country.
Roberto Salmón helped oversee U.S.-Mexico treaties on borders and rivers as Mexico’s representative to the International Boundary and Water Commission between 2009 and 2020. He said a desalination plant would help Tijuana considerably.
“But discussions had been going on ever since I came into the commission,” Salmón said, “and there is no plant yet.”
A single aqueduct that crosses the state, including a rugged 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) mountain pass, brings Colorado River water into Tijuana. “It’s a one-source city,” Salmón said.
Officials and companies have similarly talked about using treated recycled wastewater to boost the city’s water supply for years, but the city has little to show for it.
UNCERTAINTY FOR FARMERS
Maria-Elena Giner, the U.S. representative to the IBWC, said the U.S. is looking at projects that could help Mexico conserve more Colorado River water with about $32 million that became available in 2017. The money could go toward lining leaking canals, helping farmers switch to water-efficient drip irrigation, and paying others to leave fields unplanted, she said.
But getting Mexico to use significantly less water — and fast — will be hard.
“We did a lot of the low-hanging fruit,” Giner said. “Our problem right now is how we do the more difficult projects in Mexico.”
Mexican officials, meanwhile, say water conservation should be balanced with needs.
“We need to evaluate how we can contribute,” said Francisco Bernal, who directs the National Water Commission in Baja California. “But we also have to see that there isn’t a severe impact on our allocation.”
Since 1944, Mexico has received slightly more than a third of what California can take each year from the Colorado River. Next year, it will lose 7% of that, or more than what the industrial border city of Mexicali — population 1 million — uses in a year, according to Alfonso Cortez-Lara, an environmental professor at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Mexicali who researches transboundary water issues.
Nicolás Rodriguez, the director of an irrigation district in the Mexicali Valley, said water shortages (this year, Mexico lost 5% of its overall supply from the river) are starting to cause friction between irrigation district managers and farmers.
Farmers in the Mexicali Valley produce an almost identical range of crops — most for U.S. export — as what’s grown just north of the border in California’s Imperial Valley. Leafy greens, broccoli, alfalfa, and wheat are common. The farms tend to be much smaller.
Rodriguez said he has encouraged farmers for years to grow more drought-resistant crops and plant tighter rows to use less water, which some farmers have taken up. Eventually, he thinks the government could restrict how much alfalfa and cotton Mexicali Valley farmers can grow.
According to a recent study, the state of Baja California could need nearly 30% more than it gets now from the Colorado River by 2030 to not be water stressed.
Cortez-Lara, the study’s author, said that while cities should reduce their water use, coming up with that much water would involve significantly cutting how much alfalfa and cotton is grown in the Mexicali Valley. But doing so would come at an enormous cost, he said, adding that Mexico’s federal government should play a role in funding and enforcing water efficiency.
Absent such action, water managers, experts and farmers like Quintana, who bought his way out of trouble this year, agree that shortages will only get worse.
“The less water there is,” Quintana said, “the more farmers in the Mexicali Valley will have to fight.”
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Naishadham reported from Washington, D.C.
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MEXICALI (AP) — When Gilbert Quintana, a farmer in the Mexicali Valley, learned he would soon lose 15% of his water supply, he did what he’s done before in a pinch: buy water from other growers in northern Mexico.
But Quintana worries that such workarounds won’t always be possible. The water used to irrigate his 2,000 acres of (800 hectares) of Brussel sprouts, green onions, and lettuce comes from the over-tapped Colorado River, which a megadrought in the American West due in part to climate change is rapidly depleting.
Buying water from other farmers is often the only way to grow the same acreage anymore, Quintana said, “but it’s short term.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a collaborative series on the Colorado River as the 100th anniversary of the historic Colorado River Compact approaches. The Associated Press, The Colorado Sun, The Albuquerque Journal, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Arizona Daily Star and The Nevada Independent are working together to explore the pressures on the river in 2022.
By the time the Colorado River reaches Mexico, just a fraction of its water is left for the fields of the Mexicali Valley and millions of people in northwestern desert cities. Now, that supply is more at risk than ever.
Water experts and scientists say Mexico, at the end of the river, will need to find other water for the two northwestern states that depend on it. They say the country will also have to use its supply more efficiently. But Mexico has been slow to act.
“This hit us so fast that it took us a while to understand that it’s not a drought, it’s a new era. It’s a new regime,” said Carlos de la Parra, an urban and environmental studies professor at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana.
The National Water Commission declared an emergency in four northern states in July. Roughly 65% of the country was facing drought. A swath stretching from Tijuana to Matamoros, more than 1,500 miles (2,414 kilometers), is still bone dry, with water shutoffs common in cities and towns and key reservoirs near all-time lows.
Tijuana, the sprawling border city of 2 million people, is especially dependent on the Colorado. About 90% of its water comes from the river. Parts of the city have baked this summer as taps ran dry — sometimes due to mismanagement — with local water authorities blaming it on the drought.
“It’s mismanagement linked with drought,” said Mario López Pérez, a consultant at the World Bank who previously worked for Mexico’s national water commission.
To fill the gap, the government has sent water tankers, a common sight in Mexican cities, to neighborhoods without running water. People have also bought water from private sellers.
PLANS FOR DESALINATION, WATER RECYCLING
For more than a decade, officials in Baja California talked about building a large, desalination plant in a beach town near Tijuana. In 2016, state officials finalized a plan only to shelve it four years later, citing its high cost. The energy-intensive technology works by removing impurities from seawater. Mexico has other, small desalination plants elsewhere in the state and country.
Roberto Salmón helped oversee U.S.-Mexico treaties on borders and rivers as Mexico’s representative to the International Boundary and Water Commission between 2009 and 2020. He said a desalination plant would help Tijuana considerably.
“But discussions had been going on ever since I came into the commission,” Salmón said, “and there is no plant yet.”
A single aqueduct that crosses the state, including a rugged 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) mountain pass, brings Colorado River water into Tijuana. “It’s a one-source city,” Salmón said.
Officials and companies have similarly talked about using treated recycled wastewater to boost the city’s water supply for years, but the city has little to show for it.
UNCERTAINTY FOR FARMERS
Maria-Elena Giner, the U.S. representative to the IBWC, said the U.S. is looking at projects that could help Mexico conserve more Colorado River water with about $32 million that became available in 2017. The money could go toward lining leaking canals, helping farmers switch to water-efficient drip irrigation, and paying others to leave fields unplanted, she said.
But getting Mexico to use significantly less water — and fast — will be hard.
“We did a lot of the low-hanging fruit,” Giner said. “Our problem right now is how we do the more difficult projects in Mexico.”
Mexican officials, meanwhile, say water conservation should be balanced with needs.
“We need to evaluate how we can contribute,” said Francisco Bernal, who directs the National Water Commission in Baja California. “But we also have to see that there isn’t a severe impact on our allocation.”
Since 1944, Mexico has received slightly more than a third of what California can take each year from the Colorado River. Next year, it will lose 7% of that, or more than what the industrial border city of Mexicali — population 1 million — uses in a year, according to Alfonso Cortez-Lara, an environmental professor at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Mexicali who researches transboundary water issues.
Nicolás Rodriguez, the director of an irrigation district in the Mexicali Valley, said water shortages (this year, Mexico lost 5% of its overall supply from the river) are starting to cause friction between irrigation district managers and farmers.
Farmers in the Mexicali Valley produce an almost identical range of crops — most for U.S. export — as what’s grown just north of the border in California’s Imperial Valley. Leafy greens, broccoli, alfalfa, and wheat are common. The farms tend to be much smaller.
Rodriguez said he has encouraged farmers for years to grow more drought-resistant crops and plant tighter rows to use less water, which some farmers have taken up. Eventually, he thinks the government could restrict how much alfalfa and cotton Mexicali Valley farmers can grow.
According to a recent study, the state of Baja California could need nearly 30% more than it gets now from the Colorado River by 2030 to not be water stressed.
Cortez-Lara, the study’s author, said that while cities should reduce their water use, coming up with that much water would involve significantly cutting how much alfalfa and cotton is grown in the Mexicali Valley. But doing so would come at an enormous cost, he said, adding that Mexico’s federal government should play a role in funding and enforcing water efficiency.
Absent such action, water managers, experts and farmers like Quintana, who bought his way out of trouble this year, agree that shortages will only get worse.
“The less water there is,” Quintana said, “the more farmers in the Mexicali Valley will have to fight.”
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Naishadham reported from Washington, D.C.
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Vanessa Feltz has clashed against a royal expert who criticised Meghan Markle. Vanessa appeared on Talk TV to speak to Angela Levin on Monday night (September 12).
Mrs Levin is a royal commentator, biographer and journalist. She claimed Harry "looked incredibly unhappy" while visiting the UK.
Harry and Meghan arrived in the UK to appear at an awards ceremony in Manchester. They just so happened to be in the country when the Queen died and they had made no plans to see any other royal.
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Mrs Levin described the Duchess of Sussex as rude and arrogant after she had appeared in magazine The Cut to fire shots at the royal family. Vanessa hit back at the criticism saying: "Do you feel any guilt? Do you feel responsible for fuelling a kind of anti-Meghan faction that has been spiteful and targeting and possible fanciful as well? Quite a lot of what's been said about her has been manufactured anyway."
Mrs Levin replied: "It's up to what you think of me but of course not. I think that talking to Oprah Winfrey was a disgrace, there were at least 17 lies there.
"I think she attacked the royals completely unnecessarily. I think she's changed Harry to be a sort of walking victim."
She continued: "I don't have to justify myself to you. I'm not in court. This is what I've said.
"People ask me questions and I answer them honestly to what I've said. I've followed them very closely, I've spent 15 months with Prince Harry.
"The Prince Harry I knew was absolutely charming, instinctive like his mother, full of fun, and now he looks incredibly unhappy and very tense and resentful."
Mrs Phelps replied: "I wonder whether you know if it's based on any real knowledge of her personality and what she truly feels. After all, how can you know? How can any of us really know?"
Harry is said to be writing a tell-all memoir about the royal family that is bound to be controversial. Despite the Queen's death, the book is said to be pipped for release only months away.
The Duchess of Sussex has paused the release of her Spotify podcast, Archetypes, for the duration of the mourning period for the Queen. Three full episodes of the audio series have been released since its launch on August 23, featuring conversations with veteran tennis player Serena Williams, pop star Mariah Carey and actress and producer Mindy Kaling.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Democrats who run state government celebrated while announcing that tax-rebate checks — totaling more than $1.2 billion — on Monday began heading to 6 million taxpayers.
Rebates on income and property taxes are part of a $1.83 billion inflation-relief package built into this year’s budget.
“Everyone knows inflation is a global problem with local consequences,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said at a Chicago news conference. “Prices at the pump and at the supermarket have taken Illinois families on a roller-coaster ride over the past months. It’s exactly the kind of thing that responsible government should help our residents with and we have, starting today.”
With eight weeks remaining before the November election, the timing is perfect for Pritzker, Comptroller Susana Mendoza, who shared Monday’s spotlight, and virtually every member of the General Assembly. Rebates will arrive by mail or direct deposit in the closing days of the campaign season, when voters make up their minds.
Individual taxpayers making less than $200,000 will receive a $50 rebate, with $100 to couples filing jointly earning less than $400,000, Revenue Director David Harris said. Taxpayers will also receive $100 for claimed dependents, up to three. Property tax rebates will be equal to the amount a homeowner claimed as a credit on income tax returns last year, up to $300, Harris said.
The rebates are the capstone to the effort begun last winter by Pritzker, and beefed up by legislative Democrats, to fight near-record inflation, which ran as high as 9% this year. Other initiatives include a six-month freeze on an increased motor fuel tax, a year-long suspension of the sales tax on groceries, and a back-to-school sales tax holiday on classroom supplies during August. At the same time, more than $1 billion is put aside for future emergency expenditures.
“We’ve done something very historic. … And if I had to, in this case, sum it up into kind of two words, I would probably say ‘Cha-ching!’” said Rep. Will Davis, a Homewood Democrat who helped negotiate the package.
Pritzker’s fourth budget is extraordinary in Illinois history, particularly given the state’s woeful economic condition during a 2015 to 2017 spending stalemate between legislative Democrats and an intransigent ex-Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.
But despite all the bluster about fiscal discipline and spending sanity, Pritzker and Democratic lawmakers couldn’t pull off the massive tax-savings plan without playing an old game in the Capitol — borrowing from a fund set aside for a special purpose and which has a separate funding stream.
To backfill money lost to the road fund from the freeze on motor fuel taxes, officials took $140 million from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank fund. Financed by a separate 1.1-cents-per-gallon gas tax, property owners who have cleaned up sites where leaking fuel tanks threatened the environment are already owed at least $900 million, so the diversion of money puts them further behind, advocates said.
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New York is poised to strengthen its oversight of private and religious schools following years of complaints that thousands of children are graduating from ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools lacking basic academic skills, including the ability to read English.
A Board of Regents committee unanimously approved guidelines Monday to make sure instruction at the state’s private and religious schools is equivalent to that of its public schools.
The rules would apply to all of New York’s 1,800 nonpublic schools but would have the greatest impact on the ultra-Orthodox schools, called yeshivas, some of which provide rigorous religious instruction but little or no teaching in secular subjects like English, math, science and history.
Defenders of the schools say parents have the right to send their children to programs consistent with their beliefs and traditions. As the Regents met Monday, protesters assembled outside, some with signs reading: “We will sit in jail rather than change our childrens education.”
Many yeshivas in New York state are modern Orthodox schools that provide a full secular curriculum along with religious studies. But there have been complaints that some yeshivas run by strictly observant Hasidic Jews were not meeting basic academic standards.
A New York Times investigation published Sunday cited instances of English teachers speaking only Yiddish to students, teachers using corporal punishment and graduates who said they were woefully unprepared for life or employment outside of their communities.
Virtually all of the Hasidic boys who took state standardized math and reading exams in 2019 failed, the report said.
A final vote is scheduled for Tuesday on new Board of Regents rules that would give private schools multiple pathways to show they meet a longstanding legal mandate to provide an education that is “substantially equivalent” to that of a public school. Among the criteria is that primary subjects be taught in English.
“We are trying to obviously adhere to the law but also create some flexibility around that as well,” state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa said.
State education officials have spent years trying to strike a balance. An initial set of guidelines released in 2018 was struck down by a state judge who said they were not implemented correctly. The department reviewed about 350,000 public comments following the release of the latest proposal and made adjustments in response, authorities said.
“The regulation respects that parents have a constitutional right to send their children to an independent school and that we respect the worldviews of the schools and their communities,” assistant commissioner Christina Coughlin said.
The group Parents for Educational and Religious Liberty in Schools, which represents yeshivas, said families choose to pay for private or religious schools because they believe in their educational approach.
“A government checklist, devised by lawyers and enforced by bureaucrats, hampers rather than advances education,” the group said in an email. “Parents in New York have been choosing a yeshiva education for more than 120 years, and they are proud of the successful results, and will continue to do the same, with or without the blessing or support of state leaders in Albany.”
Under the rules, a school can demonstrate equivalency, for example, by using state-approved assessments or operating a high school registered by the Board of Regents. It also can be reviewed by the local school district.
Groups representing Roman Catholic and Christian schools said they are confident their schools meet the substantially equivalent standards.
Naftuli Moster, who founded a group to improve secular standards at yeshivas, said he worried the schools would use the issue of cultural sensitivity to exploit loopholes without clearer guidance on how the regulations will be enforced, something the state is expected to address in the next few months.
“How you teach it or what you incorporate into the teaching is not what matters,” Moster said by phone. “It’s objective whether you teach science. There’s no Jewish science. It’s objective whether you do or do not teach social studies.”
Private schools that fall short of the threshold will be given time to adjust their instruction, state education officials said.
But those that may refuse to comply could lose state funding and their standing as a school with the state. Parents who continue to send their children to such a school could find themselves in violation of the state’s compulsory education law requiring that children between the ages of six and 16 be provided with a program of instruction, either at a public school or elsewhere.
Daniel Morton Bentley, a lawyer for the state Education Department, said Friday that much of the public pushback has focused on “philosophical opposition to state regulation of nonpublic schools,” which he said is required by law and not changed by the Regents’ action.
Public school districts would be required to complete initial reviews of nonpublic schools within their boundaries by the end of the 2024-25 school year.
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MILAN (AP) — Migrants picked up at sea by a mercantile ship and brought to Italy by the coast guard have reported that six people died of thirst during the voyage, the U.N. refugee agency said Monday.
The Italian Coast Guard said it transported 26 migrants to the Sicilian port of Pozzallo who were among 28 people, mostly Syrians and Afghans, rescued in recent days from a small boat in distress off the coast of Libya by a mercantile ship flying the Liberian flag. A child with dehydration and his mother were transported to the Maltese capital of Valletta by helicopter from ship.
The migrants arriving in Italy told officials from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees that six people, including a small child and a 12-year-old, had died of dehydration while on board the ship and that their bodies had been left at sea. The victims appeared to have all been Syrians.
So far this year, more than 1,200 people have died or are missing at sea in the perilous central Mediterranean crossing from North Africa to Europe. The U.N. refugee agency said the route the small boat had taken and how many days it had been at sea was not clear.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama could be ready to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence as soon as next week, a state attorney told a federal judge Monday.
James Houts, a deputy state attorney general, told U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. that it is “very likely” the method could be available for the execution of Alan Eugene Miller, currently set for Sept. 22, if the judge blocks the use of lethal injection. Houts said the protocol “is there,” but said the final decision on when to use the new method is up to Corrections Commissioner John Hamm.
Nitrogen hypoxia, which is supposed to cause death by replacing oxygen with nitrogen, has been authorized by Alabama and two other states for executions but has never used by a state.
The disclosure about the possibility of using the new method came during a court hearing on Miller’s request for a preliminary injunction to block his execution by lethal injection. Miller maintains prison staff lost paperwork he returned in 2018 that requested nitrogen as his execution method rather than lethal injection. The Alabama attorney general’s office argued there is no corroborating evidence that Miller returned the form.
Huffaker heard testimony and arguments during an evidentiary hearing in Montgomery federal court. He noted the “high stakes” involved with a looming execution date, but did not immediately rule on the request to block the lethal injection.
When Alabama approved nitrogen hypoxia as an alternative execution method in 2018, state law gave inmates a brief window to designate it as their execution method.
Wearing a maroon shirt and with his hands shackled in front of him, Miller testified that he returned a state form selecting nitrogen on the same day it was distributed to inmates by a prison worker.
“I remember the guy yelling he was going to put something in the door and would be back to pick them up,” Miller testified. He said he signed the form and placed it in the “bean hole” — the prison nickname for the cell door slot used to pass mail, food trays and paperwork — but he did not see who collected it. Miller said he yelled that he wanted the form copied and notarized, but he did not get that.
Miller described how he disliked needles because of painful attempts at drawing blood. He said nitrogen gas sounded like the nitrous oxide gas used at dentist offices, and that seemed better than lethal injection.
“I did not want to be stabbed with a needle,” Miller said.
Houts, attempting to cast doubt on the inmate’s story about the form, asked him if he could describe anything about the officer who distributed the paper, but Miller said he couldn’t.
“I think we are very much entitled to question his veracity,” Houts told the judge.
Alabama told a federal judge last year that it has finished construction of a “system” to put condemned inmates to death using nitrogen gas, but did not give an estimate of when it would be put to use.
Miller’s lawyer, Mara Klebaner, said the state had asked if Miller would waive his claims if nitrogen was ready, but she said they need more information about the nitrogen process. Miller’s lawyers don’t want him to be the test case for an untried execution method, she said.
Klebaner said the Alabama attorney general’s office recently withdrew an execution date request for another inmate after his lawyers provided proof that the inmate had selected nitrogen hypoxia. She said Miller should be treated the same.
The state argued Miller was trying to delay his execution. Houts told the judge the state had gone as far as to see if Miller would agree to be fitted with a mask for use of nitrogen, but the inmate declined. Miller’s attorney said the state presented the gas mask during a deposition and that Miller was understandably upset.
Miller, a delivery truck driver, was convicted in workplace shootings that killed Lee Holdbrooks, Scott Yancy and Terry Jarvis in suburban Birmingham. Miller shot Holdbrooks and Yancy at one business and then drove to another location to shoot Jarvis, evidence showed.
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Which window bird feeder is best?
Window bird feeders bring birds right up to your home, giving you an insight into their everyday lives. They’re great additions to other backyard feeders but can also let people who live in apartments and don’t have yards feed birds more easily.
At first glance, all window feeders look similar, but some subtle differences set them apart. If you’re looking for a durable, well-designed feeder, the Homebird Window Bird Feeder is a top choice.
What to know before you buy a window bird feeder
Capacity
Some window feeders hold more seeds than others. Compact feeders hold around 0.5 pounds, while large versions can hold upward of 2 pounds. Some manufacturers list the seed capacity, but you can also take an educated guess based on the overall dimensions of the feeder. Generally speaking, larger feeders hold more seed, but the depth of the seed trays is also a factor.
Bear in mind that a larger capacity isn’t always better. If you don’t have enough birds come to your feeder, you can end up having to throw away moldy seeds from a large or over-filled feeder.
Entrance size
The size of the entrance of your bird feeder dictates the size of birds that can comfortably fit inside to feed. Those with pitched roofs generally have bigger entrances at their largest point, so larger birds, such as cardinals, can eat. However, if the entrance is too big, you may attract nothing but wood pigeons and squirrels.
Rear window
Although a window feeder is made from clear acrylic, it can still somewhat obstruct your view of feeding birds, especially as it gets dirty over time. As such, most feeders have a window cut into the rear to provide a perfectly clear view. The size of this window varies between models. Some are designed so that the whole back is open for the best view possible, while others have smaller windows.
What to look for in a quality window bird feeder
Drainage holes
Even though window feeders have roofs, there’s still a chance that rain will get in, depending on the angle at which it’s falling. The seed tray should have drainage holes to stop rainwater from waterlogging the seeds and causing them to overflow.
Removable seed tray
It’s much easier to refill the seed tray if it’s removable. Otherwise, you’ll need to bring the seed to the feeder and pour it in or remove the whole feeder from the suction cups to fill it. You’ll also be able to clean the seed tray more easily, but remember that regularly cleaning the whole feeder is also important.
Strong suction cups
Not all suction cups are equally good. It’s essential to choose a feeder with strong suction cups because, without them, the feeder is basically useless.
How much you can expect to spend on a window bird feeder
Basic feeders start at around $15-$20, while particularly large, strong or well-made versions can cost as much as $35-$45.
Window bird feeder FAQ
How can I attract birds to my window feeder?
A. A common problem when people first place window feeders is that no birds come to them and they quickly get disheartened and give up. While some are lucky enough to have birds feed at their windows right away, it’s quite normal for them to take more than a month to discover a new feeding spot, so it can take time and a little coaxing.
Try filling your feeder with high-value seed rather than a generic seed mix. Sunflower hearts are popular with most birds. You can also try sprinkling some seeds on the ground close to the feeder to draw in the birds. Removing any other feeders from your yard can also encourage birds to come closer. Once they discover the feeder, don’t sit too close to watch them or make sudden movements at first, as this may scare them off.
Are window bird feeders safe?
A. It might seem counterintuitive, but it’s safer for feeders to be positioned close to windows or fixed to them. If a bird hits a window while taking off or landing, it’ll be traveling at a slower speed than if the feeder was further from the window. This makes it more likely to escape serious injury.
What’s the best window bird feeder to buy?
Top window bird feeder
What you need to know: While it’s pricier than some models, the quality is impressive.
What you’ll love: This feeder is well-constructed from thick, durable acrylic. It has extra-strong suction cups and a large viewing window. The wide-angled perch platform lets birds feed more comfortably.
What you should consider: It claims to be squirrel-proof, but it isn’t.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top window bird feeder for the money
What you need to know: With a 1-pound seed capacity, it offers excellent value.
What you’ll love: The pitched roof increases the entrance size at the apex, giving larger birds, such as cardinals, easier access. The seed tray is removable for easier refilling and has holes in it for drainage.
What you should consider: The suction cups were missing from some buyers’ orders, though this is an error that the manufacturer will rectify.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Nature’s Hangout Clear Window Bird Feeder
What you need to know: This large window feeder is perfect for small and medium-sized garden birds.
What you’ll love: The seed trays have drainage holes to prevent waterlogging. The rear window lets you see birds more clearly. The extra-strong suction cups keep it in place effectively.
What you should consider: The drainage holes can get clogged with small seeds.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which TCL TV is best?
If you’re shopping for a new TV, it’s natural to want to go with the best-looking one. However, you want to ensure you get a high-quality TV and the features you want.
TCL probably isn’t the first brand that pops into your head when thinking about smart TVs, but it offers models with a high-quality image and premium features. For example, the TCL 85-Inch Class 4K UHD QLED Roku Smart TV is a big-screen TV with dazzling visuals, vibrant colors and a user-friendly interface.
What to know before you buy a TCL TV
Screen size
The size of your new TV should correspond to the room you’re planning on placing it in and the space you have to work with.
For example, a TV with a smaller display of 27 to 37 inches is ideal for kitchens and small-to-medium-sized bedrooms. Any TV 37 to 55 inches is suitable for a primary bedroom, a family room or a basement. If you want a full-fledged home theater or entertainment hub, you’ll need ample room since TVs over 55 inches take up a lot of space.
A big-screen TV can be a worthwhile investment if you have a basement or a large living room where you can ensure there would be a significant distance between yourself and the TV for a comfortable viewing experience.
Resolution
4K TVs are the most popular, and for a good reason. 4K TVs look excellent when streaming ultra high-definition content. However, they’re usually more expensive than full high-definition and quad high-definition.
Full HD and Quad HD TVs look excellent, and although the clarity isn’t as crisp as an Ultra HD TV, they reproduce vibrant colors and deep contrast, and some users can’t even tell the difference.
Series
TCL TVs are categorized into one of four Series groups.
- Series 3 TVs are usually 32 to 40 inches wide and have an integrated Roku platform.
- Series 4 TVs range from 43 to 75 inches and have Roku or Android operating software.
- Series 5 TVs usually have HDR and Dolby Visual technology to reproduce a high-quality image and improved contrast.
- Series 6 TVs are the newest and use quantum light-emitting diode displays to deliver a 4K ultra high-definition resolution.
What to look for in a quality TCL TV
Refresh rate
Refresh rate refers to how often a display loads and refreshes the frame. Most TVs have a standard refresh rate of 60 hertz, but if you want a smooth gaming experience or watch HD sports, look for a TV with at least a 120-hertz refresh rate.
Roku and Android TV interface
Most TCL smart TVs have a built-in Roku or Android TV interface. Roku is easier to use and more user-friendly than Android TV, but both give users access to thousands of streaming apps where they can listen to music and watch live TV and movies. Less tech-savvy users are more likely to enjoy a Roku smart TV, but Android TV is more versatile and lets users download and install third-party apps.
High-dynamic range
HDR technology tweaks a TV’s displays to provide better contrast during bright or dark scenes in movies or games. It boosts brightness, makes colors more vibrant, and delivers improved picture quality. HDR10 is an improvement of the base HDR and offers even more clarity.
How much you can expect to spend on a TCL TV
The cost of any TV depends primarily on its size and resolution. TVs under 50 inches can cost anywhere between $200-$1,000. However, for TVs between 50 to 85 inches, you can expect to pay $1,000-$2,000.
TCL TV FAQ
Are TCL TVs as reliable as those offered by top brands?
A. Although TCL TVs aren’t as well-built or feature-packed as TVs by top brands such as Samsung and LG, they offer a high-quality image, are excellent for casual TV-watching and are more affordable.
Do TCL TVs support HDR10+?
A. No, most TCL TVs only support HDR and HDR10 technology.
What’s the best TCL TV to buy?
Top TCL TV
TCL 85-Inch Class 4K UHD QLED Roku Smart TV
What you need to know: This big-screen TV looks fantastic and is perfect as the central piece for a home theater or entertainment hub setup.
What you’ll love: This QLED TV uses Dolby Vision and HDR10 to deliver stunning visuals and lets you use voice commands. The contrast is individually optimized for a high-quality image, and the THX Game Mode reduces input lag and increases the response time for a smooth gaming experience.
What you should consider: It’s a large TV, so it might not be suitable for some rooms in your home. Also, the image quality during dark scenes can be mediocre.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top TCL TV for the money
TCL 43-Inch Class 4-Series 4K UHD Smart Android TV
What you need to know: This TV offers excellent value for its size and access to the top music and TV streaming apps.
What you’ll love: This TV has a sleek, modern design, supports HDR, and displays vivid colors for a high-quality picture. The interface is super fast, users can browse through Google Photos and it has a built-in Chromecast and Google Assistant for launching apps, movies and other functions.
What you should consider: The virtual remote control from the Google Home app can only adjust the volume, and some users reported having trouble getting some preloaded apps to work.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
TCL 65-Inch 5-Series 4K UHD QLED Roku Smart TV
What you need to know: This TV offers stunning clarity and is excellent for basement home theater setups.
What you’ll love: It has a built-in Roku interface for downloading and launching music and TV streaming apps, and the image contrast is optimized across localized zones for improved depth. It supports Dolby Vision HDR and HDR10, and has a broad color spectrum for a vivid and immersive picture.
What you should consider: There’s no built-in Bluetooth, and the color temperature can’t be adjusted. Also, some customers complained about it randomly rebooting.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout homered in his seventh consecutive game Monday night, one shy of the major league record.
The three-time AL MVP hit a two-run drive off Cleveland’s Konnor Pilkington in the fifth inning. Trout’s 35th homer of the season traveled 422 feet to dead center at Progressive Field.
Ken Griffey Jr., Don Mattingly and Dale Long share the major league record of eight straight games with a home run.
Trout can tie the mark Tuesday night when the Angels continue their series with the Guardians.
Trout is the first AL player with a seven-game home run streak since Kendrys Morales of Toronto in 2018. Cincinnati’s Joey Votto homered in seven straight last season from July 24-30.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid pleaded guilty Monday to felony driving while intoxicated resulting in serious physical injury stemming from a 2021 crash, which occurred when his pickup truck struck two stopped cars on an interstate entrance ramp and seriously injured a 5-year-old girl.
Reid, the 37-year-old son of Chiefs coach Andy Reid, had been scheduled to go to trial on Sept. 26. Britt Reid had faced up to seven years in prison, but the plea deal means he now faces a possible sentence of up to four years in prison. He entered his plea in Jackson County Circuit Court in Kansas City. Sentencing is set for Oct. 28.
While questioning Reid to confirm that he understood the plea deal, Circuit Judge Charles McKenzie said Reid also could serve a short period of time in prison and then be placed on probation if he qualifies for good behavior.
Investigators said Reid was intoxicated and driving about 84 mph (135 kph) when his Dodge truck hit the cars on an entrance ramp to Interstate 435 near Arrowhead Stadium on Feb. 4, 2021.
A girl inside one of the cars, Ariel Young, suffered a traumatic brain injury. Six people, including Reid, were injured in the crash.
In court Monday, Reid acknowledged he was drinking on the night of the crash.
“I really regret what I did,” Reid said. “I made a huge mistake. I apologize to the family. I didn’t mean to hurt anyone.”
Tom Porto, an attorney representing Ariel’s family, said they opposed the plea deal.
“The five victims of this crime are outraged the prosecuting attorney is not seeking maximum sentence allowable by law,” Porto said. “The defendant is a prior offender whose actions caused a 5-year-old girl to be in a coma and seriously injured three others.”
A Kansas City police officer who arrived at the scene of the crash reported he could smell alcohol and that Reid’s eyes were bloodshot, according to court documents. Reid had a blood-alcohol level of 0.113 two hours after the crash, police said. The legal limit is 0.08.
One of the vehicles he hit had stalled because of a dead battery and the second was owned by Ariel’s mother, who had arrived to help.
The Chiefs reached a confidential agreement with Ariel’s family in November to pay for her ongoing medical treatment and other expenses.
Reid underwent emergency surgery for a groin injury after the crash. The Chiefs placed Reid on administrative leave and his job with the team ended after his contract was allowed to expire.
This is not the first legal issue for Reid, who graduated from a drug treatment program in Pennsylvania in 2009 after a series of run-ins with law enforcement. His father was coach of the Philadelphia Eagles at the time.
Britt Reid’s older brother, Garrett, served a two-year sentence in a Pennsylvania state drug program after he was arrested on drug-related charges. Garrett Reid was found dead in August 2012 in his dorm room at Lehigh University, where he was assisting at the Eagles’ training camp. A coroner ruled that he died of an accidental heroin overdose.
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Larimer County health department shuts down Fort Collins restaurant for 2nd time in 2 months
The Garlic Knot restaurant remained shut down Monday after the Larimer County Department of Health and Environment ordered it closed for the second time last week, citing numerous food safety violations including a faulty cooler that was not keeping food at the proper temperature.
Wednesday was the second time in two months that the restaurant at 2601 S. Lemay Ave., No. 30, had been shut down for "failing to meet basic food safety standards."
The restaurant was reinspected Monday morning, but the health department said it was not approved to reopen until a walk-in cooler was repaired.
A note on the door Monday said the restaurant was "temporarily closed for repairs." Owner Stephen Madden Sr. did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment and the restaurant's voicemail was full.
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The restaurant last passed inspection on May 20. But inspectors closed it down July 15 following a complaint about hygienic practices and improper temperature control.
During the inspection, inspectors noticed the walk-in cooler was not holding its temperature properly and also cited the restaurant for poor hygienic practices, lack of hand washing and utensil use, a kitchen in need of cleaning and heavily soiled appliances and floors.
Inspectors visited another four times between July 15 and Sept. 7 and each time reported not all violations had been resolved.
During the Sept. 7 inspection, the walk-in cooler was still not holding its temperature and inspectors ordered that it be repaired, according to health inspection reports. Foods that should have been stored at 41 degrees Fahrenheit or colder, including creams, cheeses, raw sausage and chicken, had temperatures several degrees warmer.
Latest inspections:Larimer County restaurant inspections: 14 pass, 3 require reinspection
The ambient temperature of the walk-in cooler was 45 degrees, according to the report. Food that had been stored in the cooler was thrown out.
According to inspection reports, the following items need to be completed before it can reopen:
- All refrigeration must be holding at 41 degrees or less.
- An invoice must be provided that all three refrigeration units have been repaired by a technician.
- A standard operating procedure for sanitizer solution must be revised to ensure proper concentrations are used.
- A standard operating procedure for date marking must be provided.
- There must be proof that someone has a Certified Food Protection Manager certificate.
- Temperature logs must be provided and used for hot and cold foods.
- Verification must be provided that food handlers have been scheduled to basic food safety training.
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A woman whose DNA from a rape kit was used by cops to arrest her for an unrelated burglary has filed a federal lawsuit against San Francisco Monday, alleging that police invaded her privacy.
The DNA of the woman, known as Jane Doe, was stored by the SFPD as part of a domestic violence and sexual assault case in 2016. According to her lawyer, Adanté Pointer, the same sample was used to charge her with retail theft five years later.
The lawsuit claims that the victim’s DNA was entered without her knowledge or consent into a database used to identify perpetrators in other crimes.
“This is government overreach of the highest order, using the most unique and personal thing we have— our genetic code— without our knowledge to try and connect us to crime,” Pointer said in a statement.
The suit says the database misused “thousands” of victims’ DNA, although it is unclear if there were other arrests.
Jane Doe’s case led to a widespread revelation of the practice within the SFPD earlier this year, when then-DA Chesa Boudin heard of her arrest and declined to prosecute her.
Speaking at a press conference in February, Boudin called the DNA evidence the “fruit of the poisonous tree” and an “egregious violation of victim privacy.” At the time, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott stated that he had ordered an investigation.
“We must never create disincentives for crime victims to cooperate with police,” he said.
Within days, the SFPD officially ended the practice of sharing victim DNA outside the crime lab.
There is already a federal law that prohibits the inclusion of victims’ DNA in the national Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). There is no state law in California prohibiting investigators from retaining victim profiles and searching them in connection to different crimes later on.
In a statement to Bloomberg, Jen Kwart, a spokesperson for San Francisco City Attorney David Chin, said the city “is committed to ensuring all victims of crime feel comfortable reporting issues to law enforcement and has taken steps to safeguard victim information.”
Kwart also noted municipal legislation approved this spring prohibiting San Francisco police or other departments from sharing or storing crime victims’ DNA in any database not subject to federal or state rules.
Last month, California lawmakers approved a bill that would forbid DNA collected from sexual assault survivors and other victims for anything other than identifying the perpetrator. Local police would also be banned from keeping and searching victim DNA in order to incriminate them in unrelated investigations.
The legislation is pending before Gov. Gavin Newsom.
In an article about the exploitation of victim DNA for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Surveillance Litigation Director Jennifer Lynch pointed to other local “rogue” databases, including an infamous “spit-and-acquit” program in Orange County. The issue, Lynch argues, hinges on how police officers push the boundaries of consent when collecting genetic material.
“A law that merely addresses DNA collected from rape victims is not enough to prevent other improper and unconstitutional DNA searches in the future, both in San Francisco and throughout the country,” Lynch wrote.
“Any legislation that’s introduced must also address the consent issues more broadly.”
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The CFP Board Center for Financial Planning ("Center") announced today that Merrill Wealth Management has pledged $1.25 million to support the Center's various initiatives, including the annual Diversity Summit and 16 scholarship awards over the next four years for diverse individuals pursuing CFP® certification.
Merrill has been a longtime supporter of the Diversity Summit, and with this gift becomes the newest Founding Sponsor of the Center. This gift will allow the Center to further grow its event series. For example, this year, university students from underrepresented backgrounds pursuing CFP® certification will be granted stipends to attend the Diversity Summit in Washington, D.C.
"The Center was founded to address systemic challenges within the profession and build a more inclusive talent pipeline, welcoming people with diverse backgrounds as well as attracting younger financial planners," said CFP Board CEO Kevin R. Keller, CAE. "Merrill's support helps to ensure that Center initiatives continue to foster progress and positively impact CFP® professionals and those considering CFP® certification."
The Center relies on corporate contributors such as Merrill, as well as individual donors, to support meaningful initiatives to achieve its mission: to create a more diverse and sustainable financial planning profession.
"We partnered with the Center many years ago to advance our shared goal of increasing diversity within the wealth management profession," said Andy Sieg, President, Merrill Wealth Management. "Merrill financial advisors are on the front lines in our efforts to improve the financial lives of our clients. We are pleased to help the CFP Board support a new generation of CFP® professionals that better reflect the diverse communities we serve."
This additional support from Merrill directly addresses two of the Center's main strategies — Talent Pipeline and Diversity and Inclusion. Since its founding in 2015, the Center's initiatives have made a measurable impact:
- The number of CFP® professionals under 30 increased by 83% and, as reported in January, the number of female CFP® professionals increased to an all-time high of 21,504 (23.4% of all CFP® professionals).
- Further, at the end of 2021 the number of Black and Hispanic CFP® professionals had increased over 2020 by 13.8% — nearly four times the growth rate of all CFP® professionals.
ABOUT CFP BOARD
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. is the professional body for personal financial planners in the U.S. CFP Board sets standards for financial planning and administers the prestigious CFP® certification – one of the most respected certifications in financial services – so that the public has access to and benefits from competent and ethical financial planning. CFP Board, along with its Center for Financial Planning, is committed to increasing the public's awareness of CFP® certification and access to a diverse, ethical and competent financial planning workforce. Widely recognized by the public, advisors and firms as the standard for financial planning, CFP® certification is held by more than 93,000 people in the United States.
ABOUT THE CFP BOARD CENTER FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING
The CFP Board Center for Financial Planning seeks to create a more diverse and sustainable financial planning profession so that every American has access to competent and ethical financial planning advice. The Center brings together CFP® professionals, firms, educators, researchers and experts to address profession-wide challenges in the areas of diversity and workforce development, and to build an academic home that offers opportunities for conducting and publishing new research that adds to the financial planning body of knowledge
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New results from the PPMI Data Modeling Core reveal the power of digital health technologies to remotely detect motor symptoms of Parkinson's Disease
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brain research and advocacy non-profit Cohen Veterans Bioscience (CVB) announces the publication of results from its digital health research program analyzing data from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) to detect the presence or absence of Parkinson's disease (PD).
Published in the Journal Sensors https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/18/6831/htm on September 9, 2022, the article, titled "Deep Learning for Daily Monitoring of Parkinson's Disease Outside the Clinic Using Wearable Sensors" presents the results of a novel machine-learning analysis led by CVB with support from The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF), demonstrating the potential of using sensors, human activity recognition, and deep-learning to aid in the classification of PD.
PD is one of the most common and fastest growing neurological disorders that results in a progressive decline in both motor and non-motor (e.g., cognition and mood) symptoms. Since there are currently no objective biomarkers in PD, diagnosis is complicated and typically involves clinically administered subjective questionnaires to assess severity of symptoms, potentially leading to symptoms being undetected or misclassified.
Sensor technology has shown promise in aiding in detection and classification of diseases like PD but have very limited validation in real-world settings. As part of the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) study cohort, investigators collected data passively and continuously using the Verily Study Watch in a subject's natural environment. Using this data, researchers at CVB in collaboration with PPMI investigators, used novel deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to explore the potential for predicting the presence of PD through real-life activity.
Results of this research are promising. In a pilot sample, investigators were able to discriminate between subjects with and without a PD diagnosis with near 90% accuracy on single walk-like measures and 100% accuracy when assessing data accumulated over the duration of one day.
"This study shows the feasibility of leveraging unconstrained and unlabeled wearable sensor data to accurately detect Parkinson's disease using powerful deep learning methods," states Lee Lancashire, Principal Investigator of the study and Chief Information Officer at CVB. "Through this combination of wearables and AI, we are one step closer to monitoring individual healthcare-related activity, such as motor function outside the clinic, unleashing the potential for early detection and diagnosis of diseases such as Parkinson's disease."
The results from this novel proof of concept study can pave the way for the use of sensors as a valuable tool in monitoring PD symptom progression more objectively and more frequently. States Co-Author Mark Frasier, the Chief Scientific Officer at MJFF: "Although additional studies are needed, we are excited about the potential of using sensor data obtained through a patients' normal activity to enable physicians to monitor and classify PD symptoms through easy to obtain objective measures which can be used to improve clinical decision making and guide therapeutic interventions."
This work was jointly funded by Cohen Veterans Bioscience (COH-0003) and a generous grant to CVB from The Michael J. Fox Foundation as part of the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative. (MJFF-020749).
Atri, R.; Urban, K.; Marebwa, B.; Simuni, T.; Tanner, C.; Siderowf, A.; Frasier, M.; Haas, M.; Lancashire, L. Deep Learning for Daily Monitoring of Parkinson's Disease Outside the Clinic Using Wearable Sensors. Sensors 2022, 22, 6831. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22186831
Cohen Veterans Bioscience is a non-profit 501(c)(3) biomedical research and technology organization dedicated to advancing brain health by fast-tracking precision diagnostics and tailored therapeutics. To support & learn more about our digital health and computational disease research efforts visit www.cohenveteransbioscience.org.
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Cloud-native platform simplifies, automates, and analyzes the transactional communication delivery process
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at SaaStr Annual 2022, Paris Deliver, the cloud-based document delivery service, announced the launch of the first programmatic communication delivery platform that handles both physical and digital transactional mail.
The pandemic has disrupted company operations across every industry. With more businesses operating across multiple offices and distributed at-home work environments, the need to securely automate and manage document delivery is essential to foster an agile work environment. Paris Deliver bridges the gap between print and digital document delivery by allowing organizations to outsource business-critical communications, like statements, letters, policies, and any other correspondence in an innovative, secure, and modern platform.
"Paris Deliver is revolutionizing and modernizing the way businesses manage and deliver their customer communications to physical and digital channels," said Matt Robards, Founder and CEO, Paris Deliver. "Managing and maintaining internal print rooms or working with traditional print service providers needed to be shaken up. There needs to be a simpler and easier way for businesses to aggregate their outgoing communications, from one-off letters to monthly statement runs, using a single platform, and with full control and visibility of the entire process. That is what Paris Deliver does."
"By leveraging our company's heritage in XLPrint, a leader and pioneer in the document production space for over 35 years, we learned that customers are looking for ways to drive costs and complexity out of the print rooms and streamline their communication delivery processes," said Gerard Callaghan, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Paris Deliver. "Using that experience, Paris Deliver has been thoughtfully designed to give customers a friction-free experience and enable their business to scale with demand, while also providing greater choice in how communications are delivered to their customers."
As a single platform for delivering all business-critical communications, the Paris Deliver Document Delivery Platform offers features that make physical and digital mail distribution simple, cost-effective, and secure. With SOC and GDPR compliance, the platform adheres to industry-wide security standards. Furthermore, the platform supports both modern business applications and traditional legacy platforms through the latest API technologies and emulated print processes.
With the Paris Deliver platform, users can achieve:
- Seamless Printing – The Paris Deliver Previewer UI allows users to print remotely, directly from their computer or through enterprise applications (CRM, ERP, etc.) to have their documents delivered to the channel they choose. Ad hoc and one-off documents can be physically or digitally delivered by staff working in the office or remotely.
- Secure Document Delivery - Documents are encrypted and protected using the latest technologies and business processes to ensure secure delivery. Batch and high-volume documents can be delivered through various channels based on consumer preference.
- Full Analytics Visibility and Control – Users or managers have full visibility and control over what communications are sent and when, plus real-time analytics on the status of each delivery, including when they are delivered in the post, emails opened, etc.
To learn more about Paris Deliver and how they can help your company meet and exceed your print and digital communications needs, visit https://www.parisdeliver.com.
Paris Deliver is on a mission to deliver superior customer engagement experiences by bridging the document communication gap between print and digital. The Paris Deliver platform offers companies of every size an outsourced document delivery service that is fast, easy and secure, allowing for quick return on investment.
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Students and advocates gather to celebrate efforts to provide free period products to K-12 students and donate to schools and community organizations
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Members from The Policy Project/Utah Period Project and Aunt Flow®, which is on a mission to change the world one cycle at a time, will host Utah's first Period Party® to pack nearly 3,000 period packs to distribute to students in lower-income areas and nonprofit organizations that support youth in need. The period packs are for youth who are experiencing period poverty as the lack of access to menstrual products for students remains a significant issue. The Period Party also celebrates the efforts of student ambassadors who were instrumental in Utah's state legislature passing a law that now requires K-12 public and charter schools across the state to provide free period products.
"Accessibility is an issue for students in grades K-12 across the country as one in four menstruating students say they cannot afford period products," said Emily Bell McCormick, president and founder of The Policy Project/Utah Period Project. "We want to ensure students have pads and tampons both in and out of school. We are proud to partner with Aunt Flow to celebrate the beginning of this school year marking the first time that school-age menstruators have access to quality period products, free of charge––restoring dignity and confidence in students who face period poverty."
Being held on Sept. 13 at Twenty & Creek in Sandy, UT, the event will gather more than 250 of the organization's student ambassadors to celebrate the success of free, quality period products in public schools and to mark the commitment to students learning to make a difference in their communities and states. Student ambassadors from around the state also will pack period kits with tampons and pads to donate to schools where period poverty may be an issue. Period kits will also be donated to nonprofits throughout the state to distribute to those in need.
For the 2022-2023 school year, 6,300 Aunt Flow free-vend dispensers were installed in the majority of public and private K-12 school bathrooms in Utah to provide students with Aunt Flow organic cotton period products, as part of an effort made possible by private donors and The Policy Project.
"We have received amazing feedback from students across the state about the period products in their school bathrooms," said Jane Clayton, chair of Utah Period Project's student ambassador program. "Comments range from, 'I'm so excited I don't have to worry about my period at school' to 'the products are actually comfortable, organic and cute!' Our girls are starting to feel that their world is reflecting an understanding of their needs just a bit more."
One in five menstruating students have missed school because of a lack of period supplies and resources, and according to the National Education Association, one school system that offered free menstrual products saw a 2.4% increase in school attendance.
"We are excited to celebrate the tireless efforts of the students and advocates from the Utah Period Project, as they are helping to lead the menstrual movement and setting the standard for other states to follow," said Aunt Flow Chief Estrogen Officer (CEO) Claire Coder. "It is so inspiring to see students come together to ensure no menstruator goes without period products. We are proud to be part of this monumental effort not only in Utah, but across the country."
Aunt Flow is committed to ensuring that everyone has access to period products. Claire Coder founded Aunt Flow after getting her period in public without the supplies needed. At 18-years-old, she dedicated her life to developing a solution to ensure businesses and schools could sustainably provide high-quality menstrual products for free in bathrooms. Now, thousands of companies have joined the menstrual movement with Aunt Flow, providing free-vend dispensers stocked with organic tampons and pads. For every 10 tampons and pads sold, Aunt Flow donates one to a menstruator in need. We call this people helping people. PERIOD.® For more information and to join the menstrual movement, visit www.goauntflow.com.
The Policy Project is a nonprofit (501c3), non-partisan organization that promotes solution-based policies to remove barriers to opportunity. We work toward healthy, equitable policy for the future of our children, our community and our world. We are currently working to end period poverty in our lifetime as part of our initiative, Utah Period Project.
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In partnership with OliverBuchananGroup (OBG), Sentral RiNo will be a premier mixed-use development, featuring spacious apartments, retail, office and event space, located in Denver's bustling River North District (RiNo)
DENVER, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sentral, the modern property management company innovating flexible living communities throughout the United States, today announced its newest collaboration with OliverBuchananGroup (OBG): Sentral RiNo, located in Denver's River North District. Sentral RiNo will commence construction in 2023 and represents the first project undertaken as part of an exclusive partnership with OliverBuchananGroup that will develop new neighborhood-defining, multifamily communities and mixed-use projects in high-growth U.S. markets. Sentral RiNo will be the brand's second flexible living community in Denver, joining the successful Sentral Union Station.
Situated between the vibrant RiNo Art District and Cole Historic Neighborhood, Sentral RiNo will be located at what was formerly the Denver Rock Drill site. More than 300 apartments will be developed in this exciting project's initial phase, with further retail, office, and event space to be developed soon after. Sentral RiNo will boast European-style public areas with curved streets and courtyards, while preserving the distinctive historic elements of the Denver Rock Drill structures currently in place.
"Targeting some of the country's highest-growth, in-demand markets has been a top priority for the Sentral brand, especially those with rich history, vibrant culture, and an array of arts, dining, and entertainment," said Jon Slavet, Chief Executive Officer at Sentral. "The Denver RiNo neighborhood is one of the most historic areas of the city, and experiencing tremendous revival, making it a premier location for Sentral's flexible living concept."
The development's location sits in one of the city's most sought-after districts, with the highest concentrations of bars, restaurants, and breweries in Denver. Sentral RiNo will offer both designer furnished and unfurnished apartments with flexible lengths of stay, as well as best-in-class community amenities for residents and guests.
"With development of Sentral RiNo underway, we are looking forward to bringing the brand's innovative flexible living concept to such an in-demand city like Denver," said OBG's Chairman Morgan Dene Oliver. "The Sentral RiNo community will be the first of many properties as part of our partnership to debut across the country, offering residents and guests deluxe accommodations, best-in-class amenities, and close proximity to the city's most unique, vibrant local experiences. We are extremely excited to introduce this property in 2023."
Denver is one of the leading U.S. cities for digital nomads and mobile professionals due to its appeal to nature lovers, proximity to the Rocky Mountains, favorable cost of living, flourishing art and music scene, exceptional restaurants and shops, walkable neighborhoods, and other attributes. Sentral RiNo will offer mobile professionals the best of flexible living, with beautifully-designed work and living spaces, all within walking distance of one of the city's hippest areas.
Sentral RiNo will be one of many collaborations with OliverBuchananGroup that will introduce Sentral's industry-leading and innovative offering to residential communities throughout the country. OliverBuchananGroup has previously developed some of the most successful and well-received mixed-use developments in the industry, including Lilia in Waikiki, Fifth and Broadway in Nashville, and Buckhead Village in Atlanta. In addition to Denver River North, Sentral and OliverBuchanan Group are aiming to target key markets in cities, including San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas, Austin, and Nashville. Sentral will serve as the exclusive property management company for these residential properties.
For more information on Sentral RiNo and future developments in partnership with OBG, please visit www.sentral.com/realestate and follow @SentralLife.
Sentral is the modern property management company innovating flexible living communities throughout the United States. The company is redefining home by transforming upscale, multifamily properties into more dynamic and profitable communities, offering any length of stay in the nation's most coveted cities — including Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, Scottsdale, and Seattle, with many more to come. Sentral delivers authentic local experiences, premium amenities, community connection for residents and guests, and a tech-enabled platform that optimizes operating income for owners. The company manages over $2 billion in Class A multifamily assets and is backed by world-class firms in technology, hospitality, and real estate, including ICONIQ Capital, Highgate, Ascendant Capital Partners, and the Bozzuto Group. Sentral.com @SentralLife
OliverBuchananGroup is a mixed-use real estate development firm advancing the traditions of great placemaking with emotional connection. OBG grew from its roots in OliverMcMillan, an internationally renowned development firm. In its storied 42-year history, OliverMcMillan was grounded in making special places happen, transforming $4.0 billion in assets into unique, special places over its forty plus years. For more information, visit OliverBuchananGroup.com or LinkedIn.
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Fuller Theological Seminary, the largest interdenominational seminary in the country, has picked its first Black president to run the 75-year-old Pasadena educational institution, citing his wide scope of global and leadership experience.
David Emmanuel Goatley will become the seminary’s sixth president, Fuller announced on Tuesday morning, Sept. 13. He will take the help on Jan. 3, after current President Mark Labberton steps down; Labberton initially announced the planned transition in October 2021.
Goatley, currently associate dean for academic and vocational formation at Duke Divinity School, in North Carolina, was the right fit to lead an increasingly diverse seminary, officials said.
“The confluence of David Goatley’s professional expertise in the fields of theology, psychology and missiology, together with his experience as an academic dean at a premier university,” Dan Meyer, chair of the Board of Trustees, said in a statement, “make him a remarkable match for Fuller Seminary at this pivotal moment in its history.”
That experience encompasses administration, teaching, mission work, counseling and writing, which officials described as key attributes. He’ll need them as he leads an institution serving nearly 3,500 students from more than 75 countries and 110 denominations, spread across the main Pasadena campus, and hubs in Houston and Phoenix.
“I rejoice that the Lord has called me to join this community of theological education and vocational formation at Fuller Seminary,” Goatley said in a statement. “Innovation and imagination are no strangers at Fuller, and I am thrilled to follow the Spirit’s lead into a new era of teaching, learning, and serving the church and the world.”
That new era represents a tall task.
Fuller — conceived in the mid-1940s by evangelist Charles E. Fuller, who reached thousands through his radio show, “The Old Fashioned Revival Hour” — has grown to encompass two schools covering four major disciplines ––theology, intercultural studies, psychology, and marriage and family therapy. It also has established online programs to reach students across the country and the globe.
Fuller — a Pasadena institution since the seminary’s founding days in 1947, when classes were held in the Lake Avenue Congregational Church — faces the shifts and turns of a changing society and educational marketplace.
The seminary, which has been at Oakland Avenue and Walnut Street since 1953, was poised to leave Pasadena in 2018 and move to a smaller footprint in Pomona. Labberton cited Pasadena’s high cost of living as the reason for the planned move, which city officials lamented as a “huge loss.”
But by 2019, seminary officials cited high construction costs surpassing initial estimates as the reason for staying put on its 13-acre campus in Pasadena.
It isn’t just a changing real estate marketplace impacting the campus, however. It is also a changing society.
A lawsuit by two students originally filed in November 2019 in federal court accused the seminary of expelling them from the Christian school for being in same-sex marriages.
The suit said the seminary violated federal Title IX rules barring discrimination against students on the basis of sex, including sexual orientation and gender identity.
The seminary’s lawyers argued that as a religious organization, Fuller Theological Seminary had a First Amendment right, “and the religious duty,” to uphold specific standards of ethics and morality for the members of its community.
Ultimately, a federal district court sided with Fuller, finding that the court in this case could not step in to regulate the institution’s standards of sexual conduct because of an exemption for religious organizations written into federal law.
A native of Kentucky, Goatley has studied or worked in more than 35 countries, and has a keen understanding of “the unique needs of the global church,” official said.
That, along with his life experience, makes him “uniquely prepared to further propel Fuller’s mission right into the heart of the opportunity our present reality demands,” Santiago “Jimmy” Mellado, a Fuller trustee and chair of the school’s Transition Discernment Team, said in a statement.
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Golfers teed off in the shadows of the San Gabriel Mountains and the Rose Bowl — and even got to launch shots from inside the iconic stadium itself.
And it was all for charity.
The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation held its inaugural Golf Classic on Monday, Sept. 12, at the Brookside Golf Course, adjacent to the Rose Bowl.
Participants enjoyed a day of drives, chips and putts at Brookside, designed by famed golf architect William P. Bell, on a day that was warm — but not overwhelmingly so, at least compared to the searing heat wave of the past week.
The golfers also got to end their day inside the Rose Bowl, where they got to drive their final shots onto the turf.
The golf tournament sold out its player spots, with 144 people participating. While organizers are still doing a final tally, they estimate the even brought in more than $130,000, said foundation spokeswoman Candy Carlson.
Foundation officials couldn’t be reached for comment Monday evening.
But since 1983, the foundation, a fundraising arm of the Tournament of Roses, has given $3 million to various local organizations to help fund sports and recreation activities, visual and performing arts, and education programs.
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Can Bob Chapek change the popular model for CEOs in America?
The chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company has been taking heat from many Disney fans over decisions he has overseen since the company emerged from the lockdowns that closed theme parks and theaters around the world. In response, Chapek has embarked on a bit of media tour recently, speaking on and off the record with many reporters before and during last week’s D23 Expo in Anaheim.
Chapek came up to the top job at Disney through its theme park division, so I have been following his career for many years. During that time, I have had several opportunities to speak with Chapek, including during the Expo. While some have been roasting Chapek since he took over the CEO job, my opinion of the man has not changed. But I also understand why Chapek elicits such heat.
If there is one word that I would choose to describe Chapek it would be “frank” — sometimes, inelegantly so. But speaking the truth does not always serve the cause of a CEO. Over the past decades, the job of CEO at many American companies has evolved into one of a corporate cheerleader. The CEO tells Wall Street, partners, customers and employees what they want to hear, to keep all those constituencies happy and on board with the CEO’s vision.
But so long as a business remains solvent, its customers and employees don’t really care about shareholder returns. Meanwhile, shareholders are happy to squeeze customers and employees. To keep them all happy, CEOs have to obscure as much, if not more, than they inform. Dance a happy dance and hope no one notices what’s happening in the wings.
Except that when you are running a company as widely followed as Disney, there is no hiding anything off stage. So Chapek doesn’t bother with the happy dance. He explains the inherent conflicts between Disney’s constituencies and the trade-offs the company chooses to make. Demand for Disney’s theme parks far outpaces the company’s ability to accommodate it, so Disney raises prices to lower demand and make the additional money that will keep investors happy and allow an increase in park capacity through new attractions.
That complex message is not what some fans want to hear. Social media today frames public opinion. Yet social media algorithms’ goal to promote engagement often amplifies the most divisive voices, because they are ones that provoke the most spirited response. Hate on a widely known target for defying expectations, then watch the traffic and resulting income flow. Chapek fits that model perfectly.
But Americans need to hear from more people willing to tell them the truths they might not like. And we need media that amplifies those voices rather than dismissing them in favor of rabble-rousers. Chapek does not always get it right, and he might not fit the mold that some Disney fans want in a CEO. But his frank transparency provides an example I would like to see more CEOs follow in America.
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San Gabriel Valley Girls Athlete of the Week
Name: Jenna Garner
School: South Pasadena
Sport: Volleyball
Year: Junior
Noteworthy: Garner is among the CIF Southern Section leaders in kills with 137 for the 14-1 Tigers, who are ranked No. 5 in Division 3. In a five-set thriller over Campbell Hall last week, Garner had 25 kills and 11 digs as the Tigers pulled it out with a 20-18 victory in the fifth set. Garner also had 11 kills in a three-set sweep of Camarillo to close out the week.
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20th Century Studios Reveals Two New Avatar Posters Ahead of the Re-release
It’s been 12 years since James Cameron brought audiences to the world of Pandora, but the acclaimed filmmaker is looking to bring fans back later this year. Before the release of the long-awaited sequel, Avatar: The Way of the Water, fans will be able to relieve Avatar in theaters for a two-week limited engagement. Ahead of the re-release, 20th Century Studios released two new Avatar posters.
The film is set in 2154 and it follows the story of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a disabled marine in the Avatar program who is sent to Pandora to broker peace between humans and the native race, the Na’vi. When Jake grows close to Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), the daughter of the Na’vi’s spiritual leader, he must choose between following the orders of Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) and protecting the creatures of Pandora.
The first poster entices fans to see it at a Dolby Cinema while the second poster persuades fans to experience the film in IMAX. You can view both posters below.
RELATED: Producer Updates the Status of Further Avatar Sequels
The 2009 sci-fi epic is the highest-grossing film of all time with $2.8 billion earned at the worldwide box office. It won three Oscars, all of which rewarded the film’s impressive visuals.
Avatar returns to theaters in 3D and 2D on Friday, September 23. The film’s sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, will hit theaters on December 16.
What do you think about the new posters? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Andor Character Posters Showcase the Heroes of the Rebellion
Because this weekend’s trailer wasn’t enough, Lucasfilm has debuted three new Andor character posters to get fans excited for next week’s premiere. Aside from Diego Luna’s returning Rogue One character, the upcoming series will show how other Rebels did their part to fight the Empire. Now, the studio is spotlighting a few of these heroes with some colorful new key art. You can check it out for yourself below.
Leading the is Luna’s title character, Cassian Andor, whom viewers already met Rogue One. But since Andor takes place five years before that film, Cassian is far more cocky and inexperienced than the Rebel who sacrificed himself to steal the plans for the Death Star. Regardless, his fearlessness is exactly what the Alliance needs to turn the tide of war in the Rebellion’s favor.
Genevieve O’Reilly is also coming back from Rogue One as Rebel leader Mon Mothma, the role originally played by Caroline Blakiston in Return of the Jedi. Around the time of Andor, however, Mothma still holds her position as an Imperial senator. So most of her character arc is expected show her struggle with trying to maintain a façade among her fellow politicians while plotting the Empire’s downfall in secret. O’Reilly has also teased that exploring Mothma’s humanity is one of the most alluring parts of the series.
RELATED: Cassian Embraces His Destiny in Lucasfilm’s New Andor Trailer
The third poster features Stellan Skarsgård as Luthen Rael, another key presence in the Rebellion’s rise. Since he is a Star Wars newcomer, most of his backstory will remains a mystery until Andor finally sheds some light on his motivations. But based on early footage, Luthen is unflinchingly loyal to the Rebel cause, and he may turn out to be one of the most influential figures in Cassian’s life.
Andor will premiere its first three episodes on Disney+ on September 21.
What do you think of these new character posters for the series? Let us know in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: The Art of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
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KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office tells FOX 17 Nathaniel Brown was found. An investigation into his disappearance is still ongoing.
Brown went missing on September 8th around 9:30 p.m. His vehicle was found some time later at Woods Lake Park.
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DENVER (AP) — The intensifying crisis facing the Colorado River amounts to what is fundamentally a math problem.
The 40 million people who depend on the river to fill up a glass of water at the dinner table or wash their clothes or grow food across millions of acres use significantly more each year than actually flows through the banks of the Colorado.
In fact, first sliced up 100 years ago in a document known as the Colorado River Compact, the calculation of who gets what amount of that water may never have been balanced.
“The framers of the compact — and water leaders since then — have always either known or had access to the information that the allocations they were making were more than what the river could supply,” said Anne Castle, a senior fellow at the Getches-Wilkinson Center at the University of Colorado Law School.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a collaborative series on the Colorado River as the 100th anniversary of the historic Colorado River Compact approaches. The Associated Press, The Colorado Sun, The Albuquerque Journal, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Arizona Daily Star and The Nevada Independent are working together to explore the pressures on the river in 2022.
During the past two decades, however, the situation on the Colorado River has become significantly more unbalanced, more dire.
A drought scientists now believe is the driest 22-year stretch in the past 1,200 years has gripped the southwestern U.S., zapping flows in the river. What’s more, people continue to move to this part of the country. Arizona, Utah and Nevada all rank among the top 10 fastest growing states, according to U.S. Census data.
While Wyoming and New Mexico aren’t growing as quickly, residents watch as two key reservoirs — popular recreation destinations — are drawn down to prop up Lake Powell. Meanwhile, southern California’s Imperial Irrigation District uses more water than Arizona and Nevada combined, but stresses their essential role providing cattle feed and winter produce to the nation.
Until recently, water managers and politicians whose constituents rely on the river have avoided the most difficult questions about how to rebalance a system in which demand far outpaces supply. Instead, water managers have drained the country’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, faster than Mother Nature refills them.
In 2000, both reservoirs were about 95% full. Today, Mead and Powell are each about 27% full — once-healthy savings accounts now dangerously low.
The reservoirs are now so low that this summer Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton testified before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that between 2 million and 4 million acre-feet would need to be cut next year to prevent the system from reaching “critically low water levels,” threatening reservoir infrastructure and hydropower production.
The commissioner set an August deadline for the basin states to come up with options for potential water cuts. The Upper Basin states — Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming — submitted a plan. The Lower Basin states — California, Arizona and Nevada — did not submit a combined plan.
The bureau threatened unilateral action in lieu of a basin-wide plan. When the 60-day deadline arrived, however, it did not announce any new water cuts. Instead, the bureau announced that predetermined water cuts for Arizona, Nevada and Mexico had kicked in and gave the states more time to come up with a basin-wide agreement.
STILL LEFT OUT
A week before Touton’s deadline, the representatives of 14 Native American tribes with water rights on the river sent the Bureau of Reclamation a letter expressing concern about being left out of the negotiating process.
“What is being discussed behind closed doors among the United States and the Basin States will likely have a direct impact on Basin Tribes’ water rights and other resources and we expect and demand that you protect our interests,” tribal representatives wrote.
Being left out of Colorado River talks is not a new problem for the tribes in the Colorado River Basin.
The initial compact was negotiated and signed on Nov. 24, 1922, by seven land-owning white men, who brokered the deal to benefit people who looked like them, said Jennifer Pitt of the National Audubon Society, who is working to restore rivers throughout the basin.
“They divided the water among themselves and their constituents without recognizing water needs for Mexico, the water needs of Native American tribes who were living in their midst and without recognizing the needs of the environment,” Pitt said.
Mexico, through which the tail of the Colorado meanders before trickling into the Pacific Ocean, secured its supply through a treaty in 1944. The treaty granted 1.5 million acre-feet on top of the original 15 million acre-feet that had already been divided, 7.5 million each for the Upper and Lower Basins.
Tribes, however, still don’t have full access to the Colorado River. Although the compact briefly noted that tribal rights predate all others, it lacked specificity, forcing individual tribes to negotiate settlements or file lawsuits to quantify those rights, many of which are still unresolved. It’s important to recognize the relationship between Native and non-Native people at that time, said Daryl Vigil, water administrator for the Jicarilla Apache Nation in New Mexico.
“In 1922, my tribe was subsistence living,” Vigil said. “The only way we could survive was through government rations on a piece of land that wasn’t our traditional homeland. That’s where we were at when the foundational law of the river was created.”
COMPETING INTERESTS
Agriculture uses the majority of the water on the river, around 70% or 80% depending on what organization is making the estimate. When it comes to the difficult question of how to reduce water use, farmers and ranchers are often looked to first.
Some pilot programs have focused on paying farmers to use less water, but unanswered questions remain about how to transfer the savings to Lake Powell for storage or how to create a program in a way that would not negatively impact a farmer’s water rights.
Antiquated state laws mean the amount of water that a water right gives someone access to can be decreased if not fully used.
That’s why the Camblin family ranch in Craig in northwest Colorado plans to flood irrigate once a decade, despite recently upgrading to an expensive, water-conserving pivot irrigation system. Nine years out of 10, they’ll receive payment from a conservation group in exchange for leaving the surplus water in the river. But in Colorado, the state revokes water rights after 10 years if they aren’t used.
Not only would losing that right mean they can’t access a backup water supply should their pivot system fail, but their property’s value would plummet, Mike Camblin explained. He runs a yearling cattle operation with his wife and daughter, and says an acre of land without water sells for $1,000, about a fifth of what it would sell for with a water right attached.
There are other ways to improve efficiency, but money is still often a barrier.
Wastewater recycling is growing across the region, albeit slowly, as it requires massive infrastructure overhauls. San Diego built a robust desalination plant to turn seawater to drinking water, and yet some agricultural users are trying to get out of their contract since the water is so expensive. Some cities are integrating natural wastewater filtration into their landscaping before the water flows back to the river. It’s all feasible, but is costly, and those costs often get passed directly to water users.
One of the biggest opportunities for water conservation is changing the way our landscapes look, said Lindsay Rogers, a water policy analyst at Western Resource Advocates, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting water and land in the West.
Converting a significant amount of outdoor landscaping to more drought-tolerant plants would require a combination of policies and incentives, Rogers explained. “Those are going to be really critical to closing our supply-demand gap.”
After years of incentive programs for residents, Las Vegas recently outlawed all nonfunctional grass by 2026, setting a blueprint for other Western communities. For years, the city has also paid residents to rip out their lawns.
Several water agencies, including the one that serves Las Vegas, recently wrote to the Bureau of Reclamation committing to more water reuse and lawn replacement. Denver Water signed it, although it does not offer incentives for replacing residential lawns. Its neighbor, Aurora Water, has done so for 15 years and recently restricted non-functional grass in new housing.
This summer, in southern California, the Metropolitan Water District instituted an unprecedented one-day-a-week water restriction.
Still, regardless of the type of water use, more concessions must be made.
“The law of the river is not suited to what the river has become and what we see it increasingly becoming,” Audubon’s Pitt said. “It was built on the expectation of a larger water supply than we have.” | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/100-years-after-compact-colorado-river-nearing-crisis-point/ | 2022-09-13T15:01:15Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/100-years-after-compact-colorado-river-nearing-crisis-point/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KETCHUM, Idaho —
Idaho's ongoing housing crisis has been especially difficult in Blaine County, where, according to the 2020 census, more than 46% of residences are used as second homes and short-term rentals.
The cities of Ketchum, Sun Valley and Hailey are implementing a pilot program, Lease to Locals, to create and preserve housing for locals in the community.
Ketchum is spearheading the project as a part of their Housing Action Plan (HAP) and has contracted with Landing Locals to market and administer the one-year program with over $400,000 in funding for grants to homeowners.
HAP addresses the housing crisis, with the Lease to Locals program aimed at creating and preserving housing for locals. Since Ketchum City Councilors approved HAP in May, the city has also initiated programs to stabilize renters and increase access to housing.
Ketchum is also developing programs for homeownership assistance and housing preservation.
On Sep. 6, 2022, the Ketchum City Council unanimously voted for the Lease to Locals program.
"I am delighted to see the launch of the Lease to Locals program," Ketchum Mayor Neil Bradshaw said. "It represents another arrow in our housing quiver and has the potential to make an immediate impact on our housing crisis."
Landing Locals runs similar Lease to Locals incentive programs across the country and helps local governments with housing needs through innovative programs.
In order to qualify, properties must be located in the city limits of Ketchum, Sun Valley or Hailey and must not already be rented long-term in the last 12 months.
Properties cannot rent for more than $3,500 per month.
Property owners can rent their property for seasonal leases or long-term leases for twelve months or longer.
Incentive amounts for seasonal leases will be $2,000 for qualified tenants, while long-term leases will be $4,500 per tenant, with the maximum grant amount being $18,000.
The qualified households must consist of at least 50% qualified tenants and must earn less than an average of $77,552, or $39 an hour, and be employed at least 20 hours a week within Blaine County.
The Wood River Lease to Locals program launches on Oct. 1, and Landing Locals will work with homeowners to guide them through the process of qualifying for the grant.
Ketchum will be administering the program and providing incentives once leases are signed.
Half of the grant is provided when the lease is signed, and the remaining half is provided at the end of the lease.
Tenants and homeowners can learn more about the program by:
- Visiting the website
- Calling Landing Locals at (208)271-3043
- Emailing hello@landinglocals.com
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MONROE, Wash. — Heavy smoke is preventing firefighters from aggressively attacking the Bolt Creek Fire that is burning out of control between Skykomish and Index.
The fire was first reported at 5:15 a.m. on Sept. 10 and has been burning stubbornly ever since. The fire has burned an estimated 7,600 – 8,000 acres as of Monday evening.
The fire is approximately 2% contained, according to InciWeb. About 400 homes are threatened by the flames. No injuries have been reported.
Level 3 evacuation orders, meaning residents should leave now, are in place for those north of US 2 from Skykomish to Baring and for Index.
As of Sunday, up to 50% of the people in the Level 3 mandatory evacuation zone had not left, according to officials. Firefighters are asking all people in the Level 3 evacuation areas to evacuate so fire crews will not have to rescue them if the fire changes direction.
"We'd like them to reconsider," said Ben Shearer, the incidents management team's public information officer. "This fire is still very active. Having to take the time to help those citizens and keep those citizens safe makes it that much less time that we can devote to the fire itself."
Shearer said the focal point of the fire was the small town of Grotto, with crews working to protect life and property.
"All those homes all those businesses, the power lines, the rail lines, we're trying to keep that all in place so there's very little damage," said Shearer. "Otherwise, all that will have to be rebuilt."
Level 2 evacuations, meaning residents should be prepared to leave at any moment, are in place between Index and Zeke's Drive-in.
Level 1 evacuations, meaning residents should start preparing to evacuate, are in place for the area between Zeke's Drive-in and the east city limits of Gold Bar.
The Red Cross opened an emergency shelter at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe. The shelter is at the Gary D. Weikel Event Center, located at 14405 179th Ave SE in Monroe. Spaces for RVs are also available at the fairgrounds for anyone who had to evacuate due to the fire.
Winds have pushed the fire back into itself, keeping it from spreading extensively. However, those same winds are causing dense smoke, hampering firefighting efforts.
"Firefighters get pretty frustrated because we want to get in there and aggressively attack that fire," Shearer said. "The problem is it's blowing smoke back over the fire, so we're having a hard time seeing where the fire actually is - where the fire line is."
Two full days into the firefighting effort, crews still hadn't been able to put water on the flames or get a good sense of how many acres were burning because of winds and smoke.
With conditions too dangerous to fly, fire crews have only been able to dig containment lines around cities in the fire's path.
About 340 people were fighting the fire on Monday, including a team of six from Mason County.
"I assume it's gonna be really steep topography, lots of foliage on the ground, some heavy timbers, some torching and crowning and steep terrain in general," said firefighter Tory Underwood.
An 18-mile stretch of Highway 2 from milepost 32 to milepost 50, which is between Gold Bar and Skykomish, remains closed for the foreseeable future due to falling rocks and trees. Travelers are asked to use caution while driving on US 2, “particularly when encountering fire-fighting vehicles headed to and from wildfire areas.”
The Federal Emergency Management Agency authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs Sunday.
The cause of the fire still has not been determined. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/wildfire/bolt-creek-fire-index-skykomish-goldbar-us2/281-18cebd30-ee1b-4584-99e1-47283341ca85 | 2022-09-13T15:02:49Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/wildfire/bolt-creek-fire-index-skykomish-goldbar-us2/281-18cebd30-ee1b-4584-99e1-47283341ca85 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES — Heavy rains Monday unleashed mudslides in a mountain area east of Los Angeles that burned two years ago, sending boulders and other debris across roads and prompting evacuation and shelter-in-place orders for thousands of residents.
Firefighters went street by street in the community of Forest Falls to make sure no residents were trapped. Eric Sherwin, spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Fire Department, said crews hadn’t found anyone who needed to be rescued and no one was reported missing.
Many structures in the area had varying levels of damage, Sherwin said, including a commercial building where the mud was so high it collapsed the roof.
The rains were the remnants of a tropical storm that brought high winds and some badly needed rainfall to drought-stricken Southern California last week, helping firefighters largely corral a wildfire that had been burning out of control about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of the mudslides.
The mud flows and flash flooding occurred in parts of the San Bernardino Mountains where there are burn scars — areas where there's little vegetation to hold the soil — from the 2020 wildfires.
“All of that dirt turns to mud and starts slipping down the mountain,” Sherwin said.
One of the wildfires, the El Dorado Fire, was sparked by a smoke device used by a couple to reveal their baby's gender. A firefighter died and the couple was criminally charged in a pending case.
Concerns about additional mud and debris flows Monday night prompted authorities to put 2,000 homes in the San Bernardino Mountain communities of Oak Glen and Forest Falls under evacuation orders after nearly 2 inches (5 centimeters) of rain fell on Yucaipa Ridge.
For some homes in Forest Falls it was too late to evacuate and residents were told to shelter in place through the night because it was safer than venturing out.
"The roads are compromised or they’re covered in debris,” Sherwin said, adding that crews planned to work all night using heavy equipment to clear routes.
The mudslides came after a week that saw California endure a record-long heatwave, where temperatures in many parts of the state rocket past 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius), and pushed the state's electrical grid to the breaking point as air conditioners sucked up power. The Fairview Fire and the Mosquito Fire burning east of Sacramento broke out and raged out of control.
The tropical storm aided crews battling the Fairview Fire about 75 miles (121 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles. The 44-square-mile (114-square-kilometer) blaze was 56% contained by late Monday. Two people died fleeing the fire, which destroyed at least 30 homes and other structures in Riverside County.
The Mosquito Fire has grown to 76 square miles (197 square kilometers), with 16% containment, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. While crews were able to take advantage of cooler temperatures and higher humidity Monday to strengthen control lines, more than 5,800 structures in Placer and El Dorado counties remained under threat, and some 11,000 residents were under evacuation orders.
Smoky skies from wildfires in many areas of the West caused air quality to deteriorate Monday, with dangerous levels of particulate pollution detected by government and private monitors in portions of eastern Oregon and Washington, Northern California, central Idaho and western Montana. In some areas, people were told to avoid all outdoor activity until the pollution cleared.
In Washington, fire officials scrambled to secure resources for a blaze sparked Saturday in the remote Stevens Pass area that sent hikers fleeing and forced evacuations of mountain communities. As of Monday, the Bolt Creek Fire was 2% contained and had scorched nearly 12 square miles (31 square kilometers) of forestland about 65 miles (104 kilometers) northeast of Seattle. A larger incident management team and additional fire crews were slated to arrive Tuesday, officials said.
In Oregon, utility companies said Monday they restored power to tens of thousands of customers after shutting down service over the weekend to try to prevent wildfires during high winds, low humidity and hot temperatures.
Both Portland General Electric and Pacific Power enacted planned power shutoffs Friday as gusting winds and low humidity moved into Oregon, posing extreme fire danger. The utilities were concerned that the winds would cause power lines to break or sag, making sparks that could ignite tinder-dry vegetation.
South of Portland, evacuation levels were reduced near the 135-square-mile (349-square-kilometer) Cedar Creek Fire, which has burned for over a month across Lane and Deschutes counties. Firefighters were protecting remote homes in Oakridge, Westfir and surrounding mountain communities. Sheriff’s officials warned that people should remain ready to leave at a moment’s notice should conditions change.
Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in its history. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/evacuations-southern-california-mudslides/507-b36dc1d9-af92-4c2a-b15e-9ec812fd9db0 | 2022-09-13T15:02:55Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/evacuations-southern-california-mudslides/507-b36dc1d9-af92-4c2a-b15e-9ec812fd9db0 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES — Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock was fatally shot during a robbery in South Los Angeles, according to police and his representatives.
The rapper, whose real name is Rakim Allen, was eating inside a Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles restaurant with his girlfriend Monday afternoon when a suspect approached their table, media reports said.
PnB Rock is best known for his 2016 hit “Selfish.” He released his latest song, “Luv Me Again,” on Sept. 2.
Los Angeles police confirmed details of the shooting, which occurred around 1:15 p.m., but would not identify PnB Rock as the victim and referred reporters to the coroner's office, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
PnB Rock’s label, Atlantic Records, confirmed his death Tuesday morning, calling it a “senseless loss” in a post on Instagram. The statement was confirmed by a representative for the rapper.
TMZ first reported the shooting. A graphic video reportedly taken at the scene shows PnB Rock laying in a pool of blood on the restaurant's floor.
Atlantic Records called PnB Rock a great friend and a “wonderful father to two beautiful little girls.”
Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles offered the company's condolences to the Allen family.
“The safety of our employees and guests are our utmost priority,” the restaurant posted on Facebook. “We have and will continue to keep our place of business as safe as possible.”
Officer Jeff Lee, an LAPD spokesperson, said the suspect brandished a gun and demanded items from the victim. A verbal exchange ended when the suspect opened fire, striking the rapper multiple times.
The suspect took some items from the victim and fled in a car that had been waiting in the parking lot, Lee said. No one else was injured in the shooting and the victim was pronounced dead at the hospital. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/rapper-pnb-rock-fatally-shot-los-angeles-roscoes-chicken-waffles/507-bddd930c-a51b-4dab-9a56-dfb26c9c49ec | 2022-09-13T15:03:07Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/rapper-pnb-rock-fatally-shot-los-angeles-roscoes-chicken-waffles/507-bddd930c-a51b-4dab-9a56-dfb26c9c49ec | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Buhari can’t be blamed solely for unemployment rate ― Senate Chip Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, has said the high rate of unemployment in the country should not be blamed on the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
Speaking on Tuesday at the commencement of the Graduate Skills Training (GST) programme, an initiative of an Abuja-based tech company, TerraSkills, the former Abia State governor noted that skills acquisition is lacking in the knowledge imparted by post secondary schools institutions in the country.
He maintained that producing graduates not employable would only continue to swell the number of youths desperately looking for jobs.
He said:” We should not blame President Muhammadu Buhari nor the national assembly over the high rate of unemployment in the country which is causing insecurity. I’ve been a governor so I know what I am talking about.
“Most of our graduates are not properly trained for the jobs. That’s why there is insecurity. Everything is not on Buhari or the national assembly. It is because most people are not groomed properly for leadership.
“Going to the university is not enough because most of these lecturers don’t even know what they are teaching you. I became an entrepreneur before I went into politics and I am still the chief adviser of my companies that employ over 13,000 people so I know what I am talking about.”
Senator Kalu maintained that adequate training is key as he noted that no knowledge acquired is a waste.
“Training is the key. No human being is perfect. Government is not perfect, the private sector cannot be perfect. What you should do is take the good and throw away the bad.
“No knowledge is a waste. Even now, I want to leave the comfort of my office and go to the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) and study. I won’t mind being a student with you here at TerraSkills because studies are important,” Kalu stated, adding that most of his factories are in Lagos but now want to establish 150,000 tons of rice mill in his village. ”
Senate Deputy Chief Whip, Sabi Abdullahi, who is also the founder of TerraSkills, said it took three years of research to come up with the graduate skills training programme.
“This is not about making money, but about developing human capital. Many graduates don’t have the skills. I’ve told the staff that anyone that is not trainable, after two weeks, his money should be refunded because he or she doesn’t have a place here.
“The essence is to improve the productivity of companies in Nigeria. We also want to help reduce the number of graduates without jobs in the country. We will continue to equip the graduates with the necessary skills to fit into the job environment.
Also speaking, the representative of the Director General (DG) of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Aminu Mohammed, said TarraSkills is replicating what they are doing at the ITF adding that they will ensure they continue to make Nigerian youths employable.
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The US stocks are opening sharply lower after tumbling after the higher than expected CPI data this morning. The declines are led by the NASDAQ index. Which is now down around -3.0% on the day trading at session lows.
A snapshot of the market currently shows:
- Dow industrial average -620.73 points or -1.92% at 31760.62
- S&P index -94.49 points or -2.30% at 4015.93
- NASDAQ index -3 and 70 points or -3.02% 11896.46
- Russell 2000-45 points or -2.37% at 1860.97
Looking at the hourly chart of the NASDAQ index, the price is approaching the 50% midpoint of the move up from the September low which comes in at 11868.51 (the price is now down -3.19% as the selling continues at the open). The price also fell back below its 100 hour moving average at 12024.02. That level will now be a resistance level once again.
The US CPI data today saw increases in shelter, food, medical care as the largest contributors to the upside. Those gains were offset by a 10.6% decline in gasoline index.
- Food also continue to rise by 0.8% over the month.
- Energy fell -5.0%, but electricity natural gas increased.
- Ex food and energy the CPI rose 0.6%.
- The indices for shelter, medical care, household furnishings and operations, new vehicles, motor vehicle insurance, and education were among those increased over the month.
- Declines came in airline fares, communication, used cars and trucks. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-stocks-open-sharply-lower-after-higher-than-expected-cpi-20220913/ | 2022-09-13T15:05:25Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-stocks-open-sharply-lower-after-higher-than-expected-cpi-20220913/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Nigerian standup comedian Bovi Ugboma known popularly as Bovi has explained in detail why he renovated the University of Benin Staff School, where he had his primary education.
The comedian made headlines in the media on Monday when he inaugurated projects renovated by him in his alma mater.
However, taking to Instagram on Tuesday to share a video of the projects which he accompanied with lengthy captions, the comedian said he had always given credit to the school for all his present accomplishments and success.
According to him, the poor condition of the facilities of the school moved him to dedicate the last three months to renovate the school which consists of 20-classroom blocks, two staff rooms and one library.
While relishing his childhood memories at the school, the comedian said, he still remembers the names of all his teachers from kindergarten to primary 5 as they were good people who took care of him in his foundation years.
He said, “Those who know me well know how I have always given credit to my primary school for what I have become. I consider my foundational path fortunate because I had the best teachers on my route from kindergarten to primary 5. They were so good that I remember all of them by name to this day.
“It was a prestigious institution sitting on a hectare of land. That’s triple the size of many learning institutions today. It was a school with international standards that only a few private schools can boast of today.
“So you can imagine my sadness when I visited the institution and saw the degenerative state of the facilities. I broke inside. Hence I spent the last three months painstakingly seeing the renovation of the 20 classroom blocks, 2 staff rooms and 1 library. In this building, I spent my final years (primaries 4 and 5).”
In another post by the comedian, he specially appreciated the deputy governor of Edo state, Comrade Philip Shuaibu for showing up for the occasion on very short notice.
“I say thank you to one of the most functional deputy governors in Nigeria, Comrade Philip Shuaibu for squeezing the commissioning into his busy schedule. He only heard of this 12 hours to its opening and promised to be there. Thank you sir. ” he said.
He also acknowledged and appreciated the vice-chancellor of the University of Benin, Professor Lilian Salami, for encouraging the renovation and subsequently showing up at the inauguration.
He further praised fellow comedians Igodye, and Igosave among others for their contribution to the success of the project.
The post has however generated reactions from the likes of Obi Cubana, Richard Mofe Damijo (RMD), Lasisi Elenu, and Official Arole among other celebrities and Nigerians who took to his comment section to praise and pour encomium on the comedian for the philanthropic act. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/comedian-bovi-explains-why-he-renovated-his-primary-school-in-benin/ | 2022-09-13T15:05:30Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/comedian-bovi-explains-why-he-renovated-his-primary-school-in-benin/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
US stocks are taken another run to the downside. The Dow industrial average is now down over 700 points while the NASDAQ index has declined over 400 points. The S&P is down over 100 points and in the process tested to 4000 level.
The percentage gains range from -2.2% for the Dow to -3.3% for the NASDAQ.
S&P moves down to test the 4000 level and 50% midpoint
Looking at the hourly chart of the S&P index, the high price yesterday stalled just below the 200 hour moving average of 4120.36 (green line in the chart above). Today the price fell below its 100 hour moving average at 4035.11, and stayed below that level. The high price reached 4031.44 today.
The price did move briefly below the 50% retracement 4003.022 intraday and also fell back below the 4000 level to 3999.33. However there has been a modest rebound back above the 4000 level in the last few minutes of trading. The level represents a key natural support level
Support Level
A trading support or support level represents a given price that acts as a temporary barrier for an asset. In particular, this level ensures an asset’s price will not fall below it or will encounter difficulty in doing so.All assets can utilize supports, be it forex, equities, commodities, etc. A given asset's support level is created by buyers that enter the market whenever the asset falls to a lower price. Basic support levels can be calculated and charted by identifying the lowest lows for a time period being considered. This can occur over any period, be it daily, hourly, etc.A support line can be either flat or skewed up or down relative to the overall price trend. Looking deeper, other technical indicators and charting techniques can be used to identify more advanced versions of support.Support levels differ from resistance, which illustrate the opposite direction of price movements.Understanding Support LevelsWhen the price of an asset falls towards a defined support level, the asset can either hold at this level or fall further. In this case, additional supports must be identified to compensate for a breach or decline.Support levels in many assets can be created by limit orders or simply the market action of traders and investors.Traders can rely on support levels to plan either entry and exit points for trades, as well as crafting more detailed trading strategies. For example, if the price action on a chart falls below a support level, it is seen as an opportunity to buy or take a short position. Additionally, if this breach of the support level occurs during uptrend, it may possibly be a sign of a reversal and strength.
A trading support or support level represents a given price that acts as a temporary barrier for an asset. In particular, this level ensures an asset’s price will not fall below it or will encounter difficulty in doing so.All assets can utilize supports, be it forex, equities, commodities, etc. A given asset's support level is created by buyers that enter the market whenever the asset falls to a lower price. Basic support levels can be calculated and charted by identifying the lowest lows for a time period being considered. This can occur over any period, be it daily, hourly, etc.A support line can be either flat or skewed up or down relative to the overall price trend. Looking deeper, other technical indicators and charting techniques can be used to identify more advanced versions of support.Support levels differ from resistance, which illustrate the opposite direction of price movements.Understanding Support LevelsWhen the price of an asset falls towards a defined support level, the asset can either hold at this level or fall further. In this case, additional supports must be identified to compensate for a breach or decline.Support levels in many assets can be created by limit orders or simply the market action of traders and investors.Traders can rely on support levels to plan either entry and exit points for trades, as well as crafting more detailed trading strategies. For example, if the price action on a chart falls below a support level, it is seen as an opportunity to buy or take a short position. Additionally, if this breach of the support level occurs during uptrend, it may possibly be a sign of a reversal and strength.
Read this Term for the index.
Yields continue to stay elevated:
2 year 3.73%, +16 basis points 10 year 3.437% +7.7 basis points 30 year 3.56%, +4.0 basis point Crude oil
Crude Oil
Crude oil is the most popular tradable instrument in the energy sector, offering exposure to global market conditions, geopolitical risk, and economics. The instrument is strategically relied upon and situated in the global economy. Crude oil has proven to be a unique option for traders given volatility and the efficacy of both swing trading and longer-term strategies. Despite its popularity, crude oil is a very complex investing instrument, given the litany of fluctuations in oil prices, risk, and impact of politics stemming from OPEC. Short for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC operates as an intergovernmental organization of 13 countries, helping set and dictate the global oil market.How to Trade Crude Oil Crude oil is most commonly traded as an exchange-traded fund (ETF) or through other instruments with exposure to it. This includes energy stocks, the USD/CAD, and other investing options. Crude oil itself is traded across a duality of markets, including the West Texas Intermediate Crude (WTI) and Brent crude. Brent is the more relied upon index in recent years, while WTI is more heavily traded across futures trading at the time of writing. Other than geopolitical events or decisions by OPEC, crude oil can move due to a variety of different ways. The most basic is through simple supply and demand, which is affected by global output. Increased industrial output, economic prosperity, and other factors all play a role in crude prices. By extension, recessions, lockdowns, or other stifling factors can also influence crude prices. For example, an oversupply or mitigated demand due to the aforementioned factors would result in lower crude prices. This is due to traders selling crude oil futures or other instruments. Should demand rise or production plateau, traders will bid increasingly on crude, whereby driving prices up.
Crude oil is the most popular tradable instrument in the energy sector, offering exposure to global market conditions, geopolitical risk, and economics. The instrument is strategically relied upon and situated in the global economy. Crude oil has proven to be a unique option for traders given volatility and the efficacy of both swing trading and longer-term strategies. Despite its popularity, crude oil is a very complex investing instrument, given the litany of fluctuations in oil prices, risk, and impact of politics stemming from OPEC. Short for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC operates as an intergovernmental organization of 13 countries, helping set and dictate the global oil market.How to Trade Crude Oil Crude oil is most commonly traded as an exchange-traded fund (ETF) or through other instruments with exposure to it. This includes energy stocks, the USD/CAD, and other investing options. Crude oil itself is traded across a duality of markets, including the West Texas Intermediate Crude (WTI) and Brent crude. Brent is the more relied upon index in recent years, while WTI is more heavily traded across futures trading at the time of writing. Other than geopolitical events or decisions by OPEC, crude oil can move due to a variety of different ways. The most basic is through simple supply and demand, which is affected by global output. Increased industrial output, economic prosperity, and other factors all play a role in crude prices. By extension, recessions, lockdowns, or other stifling factors can also influence crude prices. For example, an oversupply or mitigated demand due to the aforementioned factors would result in lower crude prices. This is due to traders selling crude oil futures or other instruments. Should demand rise or production plateau, traders will bid increasingly on crude, whereby driving prices up.
Read this Term is trading at $87.70 that is down -0.05%.. The low price reached $86.65. The high price was up at $89.29
Needless to say the US dollar is the strongest of the majors. There has been a slowing of the rise however as traders consolidate and take a breather after the surge to the upside. The USD was the weakest of the major currencies coming into the North American session.
The biggest mover is the NZDUSD which has tumbled -1.45%.
The strongest to weakest of the major currencies
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LOS ANGELES — Two teenage boys were killed in a shooting at a neighborhood carnival in the Lincoln Heights area of Los Angeles and a search was underway for the male suspect, authorities said Monday.
The shooting occurred at 9:03 p.m. Sunday at Broadway and Workman Street, according to a dispatcher at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Operations Center.
A male suspect approached on foot, then fired multiple shots at the two boys before fleeing the scene on foot, she said.
The boys, between the ages of 15 and 17, were pronounced dead at the scene, the dispatcher said.
It was unknown whether the shooting was gang-related, she said. A crime scene investigation was underway.
The carnival was organized by a neighborhood Boys & Girls Club, ABC7 reported.
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US equities are at fresh session lows with the S&P 500 now down 3% and the Nasdaq off by 3.8%. It's an ugly day and comes with the market pricing in higher rates.
CIBC hasn't changed its calls but flagged the chance of a more-aggressive Fed.
"Americans saved on gasoline, but paid more for just about everything else in August. The result was that core inflation was red hot, raising the odds that that the Fed will consider either a 100bp move at next week's FOMC, or a higher terminal rate than 4%," economists at CIBC wrote.
Looking deeper at the report, they note that a variety of core measures were particularly hot.
"There were broad-based advances in core categories that weren't expected in August, as health insurance and dental service prices accelerated, adding to strong increases in car insurance and car repair costs, along with new car prices. The increase in new car prices was unexpected given the fading of supply chain issues in that industry, and the impact of higher borrowing costs on demand," they wrote.
The market is now pricing in a 19% chance of a 100 bps hike next week with the terminal rate now at 4.30% in March.
"We'll admit that this data was far enough above our expectations to have at least some consequence for our Fed call. We were looking for a 75 bp point September move and a peak of 4%, and while softer economic reports still suggest that the Fed will have to pause by year end, either a 100 bp move in September, or a peak of 4.25%, are more in play than we thought ahead of these data," CIBC writes.
The US dollar is edging back towards the highs of the day and has reached them versus CAD and AUD as oil falls to a session low at $85.83. | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/100-basis-point-hike-from-the-fed-is-in-play-cibc-20220913/ | 2022-09-13T15:09:28Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/100-basis-point-hike-from-the-fed-is-in-play-cibc-20220913/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NASA is planning to crash its Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft into an asteroid on September 26.
It is part of a test to see if scientists can alter the path of Didymos. The small asteroid is a half-mile wide and has an elliptical orbit around the solar system.
Scientists want to know if a spacecraft can deflect an asteroid for planetary defense. The asteroid poses no threat to Earth.
NASA was recently able to fine-tune the spacecraft's path after scientists were able to take images of the asteroid.
“This first set of images is being used as a test to prove our imaging techniques,” said Elena Adams, the DART mission systems engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. “The quality of the image is similar to what we could obtain from ground-based telescopes, but it is important to show that DRACO is working properly and can see its target to make any adjustments needed before we begin using the images to guide the spacecraft into the asteroid autonomously.”
The asteroid’s surface is believed to be extremely rough and full of boulders. It does not have a known atmosphere.
In 2003, the asteroid came within about 5 million miles of Earth. By comparison, the moon is nearly 250,000 miles from our planet. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/nasa-sets-date-to-crash-spacecraft-in-an-attempt-to-deflect-asteroid | 2022-09-13T15:12:39Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/nasa-sets-date-to-crash-spacecraft-in-an-attempt-to-deflect-asteroid | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Los Angeles County Public Health reported that a resident died from monkeypox, becoming one of the first confirmed fatalities from the virus in the U.S.
County health officials said the person was immunocompromised and had been hospitalized.
Officials in L.A. County said the case was the first confirmed monkeypox fatality confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In August, officials in Texas said a Houston-area resident died from monkeypox. That person, officials said, also was immunocompromised.
To date, there have been 21,985 cases of monkeypox reported in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In most cases, monkeypox is painful but not life-threatening.
Typical symptoms of monkeypox include a rash, fever, malaise, headache, and muscle aches.
While most cases are mild, the CDC recommends monkeypox vaccinations for the following groups:
- People who have been identified by public health officials as a contact of someone with monkeypox
- People who know one of their sexual partners in the past 2 weeks has been diagnosed with monkeypox
- People who had multiple sexual partners in the past 2 weeks in an area with known monkeypox | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/officials-confirm-monkeypox-death-in-los-angeles-area | 2022-09-13T15:12:51Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/officials-confirm-monkeypox-death-in-los-angeles-area | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — After nearly 80 years in an unmarked grave, former Leon High school student turned Army veteran Billy Maddox now has a headstone to honor his life and legacy.
"What this means to me is there's some closure," said Maddox's niece, Sarah Farren.
For nearly eight decades, Maddox has laid in an unmarked grave at the highest point in Oakland Cemetary in Tallahassee, who died in 1944 after he was hit by a car while helping change a tire on the side of a road. He died in a Camp Blanding hospital.
The grave is nameless no more.
"That's the idea behind the headstone, that people will speak his name, and he is not forgotten," said David Wilson, who helped secure the headstone for Maddox.
Wilson began identifying Veterans who died during our wars during the pandemic. Farren had been searching for answers of her own.
"We didn't know where he was buried. The family didn't talk about it," she said. "We have nobody to ask. There's nobody on my father's side of the family to ask."
Maddox's mother died in 1943. What the family didn't know then was that Maddox's brother Bobby was killed in action in France a day before his car accident.
"It was too painful for my father to discuss having lost both his brothers and his mother in a year and a half," said Farren. "Finally I opened an ancestry page. I need to know more!"
"She posted a picture on Ancestry that I had not seen, and I clicked on the picture, and it said that was her uncle," remembered Wilson.
And so the dots were connected. Maddox was hailed as one of the greatest athletes to come out of Leon High school when he graduated in 1944.
"If you go back and look through the records, he was a major factor in key ball games," said Wilson. Maddox was a four sport letterwinner, and thanks to Wilson's research, he is now a member of Leon High School's Football Hall of Fame.
"They called him little Billy Maddox, 5-foot-ten, 135 pounds, they just said he was all heart," said Ferran. "I felt so proud too. It's hard for me to find the words to express it. You have no idea what this means for our family."
A family with a name that will now never be forgotten. Maddox's older brother is buried in France in a military cemetary. Maddox's headstone was paid for Tallahassee's AMVETS 1776, and Wilson said the plan is to add a military headstone in the future. | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/a-name-spoken-and-now-never-forgotten-former-leon-lion-and-army-veteran-billy-maddox-receives-headstone | 2022-09-13T15:13:09Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/sports/a-name-spoken-and-now-never-forgotten-former-leon-lion-and-army-veteran-billy-maddox-receives-headstone | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Chicago man charged in attempted kidnapping of 5-year-old girl in Cragin
CHICAGO - A man is facing felony charges in connection with the attempted kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl last week in the Cragin neighborhood.
Gerardo Posadas, 25, is accused of following the girl and her mother on Thursday just before noon in the 5100 block of West Fullerton Avenue, according to Chicago police.
Posadas allegedly started talking with the girl's mother and offered her $150 to buy her daughter, according to court documents.
When the mother refused, Posadas tried to grab the girl by the hair and pull her towards him, police said.
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The girl and her mother were able to escape to safety and Posadas fled the area.
Chicago police issued a community alert Thursday night along with video of the incident.
Posadas, of Mayfair, was arrested Friday charged with aggravated battery in a public place and attempted aggravated kidnapping of a person under 13 years old. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-man-charged-in-attempted-kidnapping-of-5-year-old-girl-in-cragin | 2022-09-13T15:16:02Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-man-charged-in-attempted-kidnapping-of-5-year-old-girl-in-cragin | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Inflation falls for 2nd consecutive month on lower gas prices
WASHINGTON - Sharply lower prices for gas and cheaper used cars slowed U.S. inflation in August for a second straight month, though many other items rose in price, indicating that inflation remains a heavy burden for American households.
Consumer prices surged 8.3% in August compared with a year earlier, the government said Tuesday. Though still painfully high, that was down from an 8.5% jump in July and a four-decade high of 9.1% in June. On a monthly basis, prices rose 0.1%, after a flat reading in July.
Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, so-called core prices jumped 0.6% from July to August, higher than many economists had expected and a sign of inflation's persistence.
RELATED: US inflation slips from 40-year peak but remains high at 8.5%
Inflation remains far higher than many Americans have ever experienced and is keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve, the agency tasked with keeping prices stable. The Fed is expected to announce another big increase in its benchmark interest rate next week, which will lead to higher costs for many consumer and business loans.
Inflation has escalated families’ grocery bills, rents and utility costs, among other expenses, inflicting hardships on many households and deepening gloom about the economy despite strong job growth and low unemployment.
Even if inflation peaks, economists expect it could take two years or more to fall back to something close to the Fed’s annual 2% target. The cost of rental apartments and other services, such as health care, are likely to keep rising in the months ahead.
RELATED: Is inflation cooling off? It depends where you live
Republicans have sought to make inflation a central issue in the midterm congressional elections. They blame President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package passed last year for much of the increase.
Many economists generally agree, though they also say that snarled supply chains, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and widespread shortages of items like semiconductors have been key factors in the inflation surge.
Yet the signs that inflation might have peaked — or will soon — could bolster Democrats’ prospects in the midterm elections and may already have contributed to slightly higher public approval ratings for Biden. In his speeches, Biden has generally stopped referring to the impact of high prices on family budgets.
RELATED: US hiring slowed in August as employers face high inflation, sluggish spending
He has instead highlighted his administration’s recent legislative accomplishments, including a law enacted last month that’s intended to reduce pharmaceutical prices and fight climate change.
Nationally, the average cost of a gallon of gas has dropped to $3.71, down from just above $5 in mid-June. Many businesses are also reporting signs that supply backlogs and inflation are beginning to fade.
General Motors has said the pandemic disruptions to overseas production of semiconductors, which have reduced auto output, have largely dissipated and that supply chain disruptions overall have improved about 80% from the worst days of the pandemic.
Over the past year, prices of meat, milk and fruits and vegetables have soared by double-digits. But executives at Kroger, the nation’s largest grocery chain, said that falling prices for farm commodities like wheat and corn could slow cost increases for food.
RELATED: Inflation Reduction Act: Biden signs massive climate and health care bill
Next week, most Fed watchers expect the central bank to announce a third straight three-quarter-point hike, to a range of 3% to 3.25%.
The Fed’s rapid rate increases — the fastest since the early 1980s — typically lead to higher costs for mortgages, auto loans and business loans, with the goal of slowing growth and reducing inflation. The average 30-year mortgage rate jumped to nearly 5.9% last week, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac, the highest figure in nearly 14 years.
Chair Jerome Powell has said the Fed will need to see several months of low inflation readings that suggest price increases are falling back toward its 2% target before it might suspend its rate hikes.
Wages are still rising at a strong pace — before adjusting for inflation — which has elevated demand for apartments as more people move out on their own. A shortage of available houses has also forced more people to keep renting, thereby intensifying competition for apartments.
Rising rents and more expensive services, such as medical care, are also keeping inflation high. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/inflation-falls-2nd-month | 2022-09-13T15:16:15Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/inflation-falls-2nd-month | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Man, 57, shot on Gresham sidewalk
CHICAGO - A man was shot and hospitalized Tuesday morning in the Gresham neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.
The 57-year-old was standing on the sidewalk around 1:13 a.m. in the 7600 block of South Racine Avenue when someone started shooting, police said.
He suffered a gunshot wound to the torso and was transported by paramedics to Advocate Christ Medical Center where he was listed in fair condition, police said.
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Man impersonating police officer sought by CPD
CHICAGO - Police are seeking a man who has been impersonating a Chicago police officer on three separate occasions in the past couple of weeks.
In each incident, the man announces he is a Chicago police officer while wearing CPD apparel dressed to pass as an officer, police said in a community alert.
The impersonator flashes a badge while attempting to enter establishments and is also carrying a handgun, police said.
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There have been three reported incidents at the following times and locations:
- In the evening hours of Aug. 29 at 10906 S. Wallace St. in Roseland
- In the evening hours of Sept. 1 at 1200 S. Lake Shore Dr.
- In the morning hours of Sept. 12 at 550 W. Roosevelt Rd. in the South Loop
Police said the suspect is in his early 40s and is between 5-feet and 5-foot-5, weighing roughly 230 pounds.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Area Three detectives at (312) 744-8263. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-impersonating-police-officer-sought-by-cpd | 2022-09-13T15:16:27Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-impersonating-police-officer-sought-by-cpd | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Online prices rise in August as food, apparel lead gains
Online inflation climbed in August compared with the same period year ago, led by rising food costs, according to Adobe Analytics.
The Adobe Digital Price Index shows that prices for groceries surged 14.1% compared with a year ago, its highest annual increase since tracked by Adobe started tracking the data. Grocery prices jumped 1.1% since July.
The cost of groceries rose for 31 straight months and "remains the only category to move in lockstep with the Consumer Price Index on a long-term basis," according to Adobe.
The rise in grocery prices shows "no signs of abating," Patrick Brown, vice president of growth marketing and insights at Adobe, said.
ONLINE PRICES FALL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2 YEARS
Consumers didn't get any relief with apparel prices either. In August, the cost of apparel rose 4.9% year over year and jumped 8.7% from July due to slowing seasonal promotions, according to the data.
FILE - VISA and Mastercards credit cards are seen on the top of a laptop keyboards. (Photo by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Meanwhile, personal care products rose 2.7% over the past year and 1.1% from the prior month.
Still, the data showed that consumer demand remains resilient.
"Consumer demand for e-commerce also remains steady and will keep prices elevated, especially for growing categories such as groceries, pet products, and other consumer staples," said Brown.
At the same time, some categories saw prices decline. The electronics category fell 10% from a year ago while the cost of computers, specifically, fell 12.6%.
AMID INFLATION, PEOPLE DESPERATE FOR CASH ARE TURNING TO PAWN SHOPS
Consumers collectively spent $64.6 billion online in August, a 6.5% increase compared with the same time last year.
In July, consumers spent roughly $73.7 billion, due to "Prime Day discounts that drove record sales for the retail industry overall," according to Adobe.
FILE - Amazon Prime delivery van outside apartment building, Queens, New York. (Photo by: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
July sales were a 20.9% increase over last year.
So far in 2022, shoppers have already spent $580 billion online, up 8.9% compared with a year ago. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/online-prices-rise-in-august-as-food-apparel-lead-gains | 2022-09-13T15:16:33Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/online-prices-rise-in-august-as-food-apparel-lead-gains | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HybridCompute is industry-first to provide full control of where data is stored and queried via its native reverse ETL capabilities.
Highlights:
- ActionIQ brings the full power and flexibility of the AIQ CX Hub, including audience segmentation, journey orchestration and real-time experiences, directly into cloud data lakes via native push-down SQL and reverse ETL capabilities
- This new architecture offers improved data security and governance by allowing full control over where customer data is stored and processed
- HybridCompute enables enterprises to decide where to create their source of truth for customer data
- ActionIQ supports an agnostic approach to data storage and processing, working with leading data and analytics platforms like Databricks, Snowflake and Teradata
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ActionIQ, the leader in customer experience (CX) solutions that deliver actionable insight from customer data, today announced the launch of HybridCompute, a new feature of the AIQ InfiniteCompute technology that removes the requirement to replicate and move data, allowing enterprise IT teams to unbundle their customer data stack and take full control over where data is stored and queried. The AIQ CX Hub with HybridCompute now seamlessly integrates directly on top of cloud data lakes, helping enterprise IT teams maximize the value of existing technology investments, while empowering business users with drag and drop simplicity. .
InfiniteCompute is the data infrastructure technology that delivers unlimited computational power, making it possible for AIQ to manage and process more data than any other solution available. And with the addition of HybridCompute, InfiniteCompute can query data stored across multiple systems, enabling analytics anywhere data lives and post-processing that provides a consistent view of data across the entire AIQ CX Hub.
"AIQ's mission has always been to empower IT and business leaders to orchestrate personalized customer experiences at scale, and we've approached innovations in infrastructure as a key enabler to that," said Justin DeBrabant, Senior Vice President of Product at AIQ. "However, a lot has changed in data infrastructure space over the last 8 years since we started on that mission. Many companies have made investments to consolidate their customer data into a cloud data lake, and the gap to leveraging that data is less on data unification and more on simplified business access."
"We want to meet our customers wherever they are on their data infrastructure journey, and help them generate greater value on those investments by providing them scalable storage and compute infrastructure when they need it, or the ability to query the data where it is with HybridCompute if they've already done the work of data unification. And importantly, they won't need to choose all of one or the other, as InfiniteCompute will span seamlessly across any of these systems," he continued.
The AIQ CX Hub with HybridCompute gives enterprise IT teams the ability to unbundle their customer data stack, significantly streamlining resources, increasing flexibility, generating greater value on IT investments and driving accelerated CX transformation.
"By 2024, 80% of CIOs surveyed will list modular business redesign through composability, as a top-five reason for accelerated business performance," cites "Predicts 2022: Composable Applications Accelerate Digital Business" a Gartner® report published Dec. 1, 2021. The report goes on to say, "Composable digital business will use digital resources to cope with the rapid pace of business change, unfamiliar risks, diversifying customer expectations, and business, economic, societal and other uncertainties."
See also related announcements today and this week on partnerships with Databricks, Snowflake and Teradata to integrate HybridCompute and maximize value of existing investments.
Enterprise brands such as Autodesk, M&T Bank, The New York Times, Neiman Marcus, Hertz and many more use the AIQ CX Hub to drive growth through extraordinary customer experiences.
More information about ActionIQ HybridCompute and InfiniteCompute can be found here.
AIQ brings order to CX chaos. Our Customer Experience Hub empowers everyone to be a CX champion by giving business teams the freedom to explore and action on customer data while helping technical teams extend and enhance existing technology investments to manage data governance, costs and performance. Enterprise brands such as Autodesk, M&T Bank, The New York Times, Neiman Marcus, Hertz and many more use our CX Hub to drive growth through extraordinary customer experiences. Learn more at actioniq.com.
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Get Real Stuff at the Airheads Fun Money Shop Where Play Money is the Only Currency
Accepted
CHICAGO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today more than ever, thinking about money is less fun – but that wasn't always the case. Play money, piggy banks, and plastic cash registers have historically been all the rage for children, so why not reimagine them for grown-ups, too?
It's no secret that money is stressful these days. Airheads candy is about to change that by making money fun again at a temporary pop-up shop, located at 3419 W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago, Illinois, where only play money will be accepted. The pop-up shop will run from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022 and will accept play money and toy money, but no real money in exchange for tasty and tangible items – ranging anywhere from a bag of Airheads candy, to wireless earbuds, a 10-foot balloon giraffe, a unicycle, e-scooters, and more. That's right, any and all forms of real currency are not accepted at the Airheads Fun Money Shop. Not only this, but play money could even buy you a car! Just kidding, but Airheads has partnered with the Jeep brand to give all Airheads Fun Money Shop visitors ages 18+ who qualify a chance to win a 2022 Jeep® Renegade (RED) Edition by entering into our on-site Sweepstakes.† The vehicle supports the Jeep brand's commitment to (RED) in service of the Global Fund. Images of the pop-up shop can be found HERE.
Customers at the Airheads Fun Money Shop get to take home one shop item in exchange for any amount of play money they have on hand, as no available items will have an assigned price point. Terms and conditions apply.*
"Look, even when things get tough, it's important to find moments to stay playful. That's what we're always trying to do at Airheads...besides, who wouldn't want a giant balloon giraffe for play dollars?" said Craig Cuchra, VP of Marketing at Perfetti Van Melle, maker of Airheads candy.
Not in the Chicago area? No problem. Airheads is also hosting multiple Instagram sweepstakes throughout the day of the in-store pop-up. To enter, customers can leave a comment on a sweepstakes post with a money-related emoji, include #sweepstakes, and follow the official Airheads account on Instagram, @Airheadscandy. Shop items will be awarded at random to 15 individuals on each sweepstakes post.‡
*Pop-Up Terms: Items available on first-come basis, while supplies last. Very limited availability of items shown (1 balloon animal, 4 wireless earbuds, 2 e-scooters, 1 unicycle) and certain items. One item per person. Type/denomination of fun money does not matter. All welcome, must be 16+ to exchange. No returns/exchanges. For unforeseen circumstances or abuse, Airheads may cancel, suspend, or modify promotion in whole or in part, with or without notice.
†Jeep sweepstakes abbrev. rules: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Open to legal residents of 48 U.S. or D.C. (excluding NY & FL), 18+. Sweepstakes begins 12PM ET and ends 7PM ET on 9/13/22. Prize: 2022 Jeep Renegade (RED). ARV: $32,175. Odds of winning depend on number of eligible entries received during the entry period. Void where prohibited. For Official Rules visit https://airheads.com/officialrules or request a copy from Sponsor's representative at the Event. Sponsor: Perfetti Van Melle, 3645 Turfway Rd, Erlanger, KY 41018.
‡Instagram sweepstakes abbrev. rules: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. INSTAGRAM® ACCT. REQ'D (free). Ends 9/13/2022 at 7:00 pm EST. Open to legal res. of US (incl. DC); 18+. Limit: 1 entry/person/post. Odds vary. Void where prohibited. For restrictions, prize information and Official Rules: http://airheads.com/rules. Sponsor: Perfetti Van Melle USA Inc., 3645 Turfway Rd., Erlanger, KY 41018.
About Airheads
Airheads is a brand long loved by people of all ages for its chewy texture, tangy fruit flavors and bright colors. Invented in Erlanger, KY, Airheads are available in original bar form as well as chewy and intense bite-sized pieces called Airheads Bites. For a sweetly sour candy that packs a punch, Airheads Xtremes belts and bites are available. And, for those who want the tangy, chewy goodness in gum form, there's Airheads Gum, with micro-candies offering a playful burst of fruit sensation in each chew. Airheads are perfect for a quick treat, social gatherings and for sharing with others.
About Perfetti Van Melle
Perfetti Van Melle Benelux B.V. is a privately-owned global company established in March 2001 through the merger of Perfetti SpA and Van Melle B.V. Perfetti Van Melle manufactures and markets confectionery and chewing gum products in more than 150 countries. Today Perfetti Van Melle is one of the world's largest confectionery groups, marketing highly renowned brands such as Mentos, Frisk, Chupa Chups, Smint, Fruit-tella, Alpenliebe, Golia, Vivident, Airheads, Happydent & Big Babol. The Group has corporate headquarters in Italy and The Netherlands. U.S. operations are solely out of Erlanger, KY.
About Jeep x (RED)
The Jeep Brand is proud to be one of the first automotive brands to join forces with (RED), a leader in the worldwide fight against pandemics. Every Jeep Compass (RED) edition and Jeep Renegade (RED) edition, along with limited edition merchandise, will support a commitment to the Global Fund that strengthens healthcare systems and helps fund life-saving programs.
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Join The Miles Group's Stephen Miles and Taylor Griffin as they discuss how energy, carriage, messaging, delivery, rising to leadership, and being the best follower define an effective executive presence
Episode 1: "Beyond the Sartorial" airs Tuesday, September 13th
Episode 2: "Introverts and Extroverts; Thinkers and Blinkers" airs Tuesday, September 27th
Episode 3: "Followership" airs Tuesday, October 11th
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Executive presence is particularly important when you are a leader, as your life is full of first impressions," says Stephen Miles, CEO of The Miles Group. "If you are an acquired taste, it can be more difficult to get things done and manage a broad set of critical stakeholders."
The Miles Group's C-Suite Intelligence podcast returns with a 3-part series featuring Miles and COO Taylor Griffin on "The Real Meaning of Executive Presence."
"You've heard a lot about dressing for the job that you want and looking the part. But what we want to do is go beyond that, to what we would define as what real executive presence means," says Miles, on today's episode of the podcast, "Beyond the Sartorial." "It's really about how you carry yourself, how you manage your energy, how you deliver your messages – and to what audience – how you rise to your new leadership roles, and how are you the best follower on your team."
This series examines how to develop an effective executive presence by showing up well and in the right way, identifying where you are on the continuum of introverts vs. extroverts, thinkers vs. blinkers, and being the best, high-performing follower by getting off of autopilot, and "going to manual."
There is "a set of variables that are incredibly important to the way people perceive you," says Miles. "Your performance is your perception in your current role; your potential is the perception of you in future roles. What we want to talk about is how do we get the potential score through the roof."
The first installment of C-Suite Intelligence's Executive Presence three-part series drops Tuesday, September 13 with episode 9, "Beyond the Sartorial." Released biweekly, episodes 10 and 11 of the series will air September 27 and October 11, respectively.
Beyond the Sartorial (Season 2, Episode 9)
Many executives who have been working from home during Covid may need a wardrobe and executive appearance refresh. Yet the challenge for most leaders who receive feedback around their executive presence is that their sartorial style is fine. Real executive presence extends far beyond dress, to the substance of their contributions and their ability to both elevate and adapt their styles to new challenges, reporting relationships, and colleagues.
Introverts and Extroverts; Thinkers and Blinkers (Season 2, Episode 10)
We often think of "Blinkers" as extroverts who are good 'on the fly' – improvisational, instinctual, and in-the-moment. "Thinkers," on the other hand, can be mostly introverts who like to have a chance to prepare and triangulate data so that they can anticipate topics of discussion. Building off the work of Daniel Kahneman (author of Thinking, Fast and Slow), Stephen Miles and Taylor Griffin discuss how this useful two-system framework can help leaders better understand themselves and how to show up appropriately and with confidence.
Followership (Season 2, Episode 11)
Conversations around developing an effective executive presence tend to focus heavily on 'leadership' but not enough on 'followership.' Most executives are followers long before they are leaders. For Stephen Miles and Taylor Griffin, good followership requires understanding your own style and making sure it complements both your boss's and your teammates' style. And it is critical to becoming a good leader.
To hear more about how to develop and elevate your executive presence, listen to the first installment of "The Real Meaning of Executive Presence: Beyond the Sartorial," released today on the C-Suite Intelligence podcast, available everywhere, including Apple, Google, and Spotify.
For more information, please contact Davia Temin or Trang Mar of Temin and Company at 212.588.8788 or news@teminandco.com.
About the C-Suite Intelligence podcast
CEOs running the world's top companies don't start out that way – they pull ahead of their peers with behaviors and practices that make them the "best of the best." Stephen Miles and the team at TMG coach some of the world's most successful executives, helping them continuously up their game even as business conditions grow more complex every day. Learn the secrets of the highest performers and use this intelligence to power your career. New episodes are released bi-weekly on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
About The Miles Group/TMG
TMG develops talent strategies for organizations, teams, and individuals – focusing on high-performance, world-class leadership. Through assessments and development, coaching, leadership transition planning, and organizational design, TMG helps clients cultivate exceptional talent from the C-suite to the next generation of leaders throughout the organization. Clients include many of the Fortune 100 as well as VC portfolio companies, firms in transition, and organizations around the globe and across industries. TMG has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, Fortune, C-Suite, Entrepreneur, and Chief Executive. The firm is headquartered in New York City and operates globally. For more information, visit https://miles-group.com. Follow TMG on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk. (IDX: BBRI) collaborates with PT Syngenta Indonesia to provide financial services for farmers through the CENTRIGO™ Farming Ecosystem. The end-to-end ecosystem, aimed to support farmers' needs and increase productivity and profitability, will be launched in October 2022.
The collaboration was formally announced at the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Agus Noorsanto, Director of Institutional and Wholesale Business of BRI and Kazim Hasnain, President Director of PT Syngenta Indonesia on 13 September 2022. The collaboration involves various banking services provided by BRI for PT Syngenta Indonesia and all the stakeholders in its business ecosystem.
Agus Noorsanto said this collaboration will help improve the living standards of farmers and advance the agricultural sector in Indonesia. "All financial transaction management will be carried out efficiently through digital solutions, such as the Cash Management Platform - BRICaMS, Corporate Billing Management - BRICBM, Pasar Rakyat Indonesia - PARI, and others."
PT Syngenta Indonesia is committed to advancing agriculture in Indonesia and ensuring sufficiency as well as quality in a sustainable manner. Through cutting-edge technologies, worldwide experience, and partnerships across the value chain, PT Syngenta Indonesia believes it can help accelerate the growth of the agricultural sector in Indonesia.
"We are pleased with this collaboration and confident that BRI's wide range of digital banking services will unlock the potential of Indonesian farmers and support the growth of PT Syngenta Indonesia's business in Indonesia," said Kazim.
On the same occasion, Supari, Director of Micro Business of BRI, and Ronnie Keh, Director of PT Syngenta Indonesia, also signed a cooperation agreement on microcredits and digital solutions for farmers of the CENTRIGO™ Farming Ecosystem. In addition, A Letter of Intent (LOI) was also delivered to Amam Sukrianto, Director of Small and Medium Business of BRI, regarding business cooperations in the SME sector.
The goal of CENTRIGO™ Farming Ecosystem is in line with BRI's mission to become the champion of financial inclusion that embraces all levels of society. BRI's experience in disbursing loans from ultra-micro, micro, small and medium enterprises to the corporate segment, will greatly support Indonesia's agricultural ecosystem.
For more information about Bank BRI, visit www.bri.co.id
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WSPA) – A man was injured during a shooting Monday evening in Asheville.
According to the Asheville Police Department, officers responded to reports of gunshots in the 200 block of Deaverview Road around 5:55 p.m.
Once officers responded to the scene, they found a man who had been shot. He was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Officers are working to identify a possible suspect and are asking anyone who may have information about the case to call the Asheville Police Department at (828) 252-1110. | https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/man-injured-during-shooting-in-asheville/ | 2022-09-13T15:21:09Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/man-injured-during-shooting-in-asheville/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Two Las Vegas-based podcasts are teaming up to offer a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who killed rapper Tupac Shakur.
Tuesday marks 26 years since the death of Shakur, one of the most prolific figures in hip-hop.
On Sept. 7, 1996, Shakur was hit by four bullets in a drive-by shooting at an intersection a block off the Las Vegas Strip while leaving a Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand Plaza. He died on Sept. 13, 1996, in the hospital.
He was 25.
The Problem Solver Show and the Action Junkeez Podcast are now offering $100,000 for the arrest and conviction of Shakur’s killer, the shows confirmed Sunday.
The Problem Solver Show’s producer, David Kohlmeier, is a retired Henderson police officer.
In May, Kohlmeier and Daniel Minor said they were offering a reward of $5,000 for finding additional remains in Lake Mead.
Anyone with any information can contact The Problem Solver Show at 702-999-1111. There is also an anonymous hotline: 1-833-TIPSCASH (847-7227).
Police urge anyone with information on the crime to contact LVMPD Homicide at (702) 828-3521, or by email at homicide@lvmpd.com. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at (702) 385-5555 or go online to crimestoppersofnv.com. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/las-vegas-based-podcasts-offering-100k-to-find-who-killed-tupac-shakur/ | 2022-09-13T15:21:27Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/las-vegas-based-podcasts-offering-100k-to-find-who-killed-tupac-shakur/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Highly decorated veteran and recipient of the Pat Tillman Award for Service at the 2022 ESPYS leads effort to raise awareness and funds for service dogs for veterans
PHOENIX, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dogtopia, the national dog daycare franchise, announced today its new Dogs Save Lives campaign, which runs through Veterans Day on November 11 with retired Command Sergeant Major (CSM) Gretchen Evans leading the way. The campaign includes national speaking engagements and a limited-edition Dogs Save Lives T-shirt that will benefit the brand's charitable arm, Dogtopia Foundation, and its mission to provide service dogs for veterans.
The Dogs Save Lives campaign is an effort to raise the public's awareness of the benefits of service dogs for veterans by highlighting the experience of CSM Gretchen Evans, a US Army veteran whose 27-year military career ended abruptly in Afghanistan when rocket blast threw her headfirst into a concrete bunker, leaving her with a traumatic brain injury and total hearing loss. Evans was feeling hopeless and without purpose when America's VetDogs introduced her to Aura, a service dog who would become her ears and loyal companion on a journey of healing. America's VetDogs is a national nonprofit that trains and places guide and service dogs with veterans, first responders and active-duty service members, with disabilities, free of charge. Evans credits Aura with saving her life and is now on a mission to amplify the importance of service dogs for veterans as the ambassador of Dogtopia's Dogs Save Lives campaign.
"I am living proof that dogs save lives," said Evans. "I'll wear this T-shirt proudly as both an ambassador and as a personal testimony to the incredible healing power that dogs have in the lives of their humans."
Over the next two months, Evans will be wearing a Dogs Save Lives T-shirt as she shares her inspirational story and engages supporters at fundraisers hosted by Dogtopia franchisees in select markets across the country.
Gretchen also can be seen sharing her story and wearing the Dogs Save Lives T-shirt in a video on the campaign website, where supporters across the country can join the effort by purchasing the limited-edition Dogs Save Lives T-shirt for $22.99 including shipping. One hundred percent of all net proceeds from the T-shirt sales will support the Dogtopia Foundation's efforts to unite service dogs with veterans through its partnerships with America's VetDogs, K9s For Warriors and other Assistance Dog International (ADI) certified nonprofit organizations.
Each limited-edition Dogs Save Lives T-shirt is delivered with a Buy It. Wear it. Share it. call-to-action postcard insert encouraging purchasers to share their tees on social media using the #DogsSaveLives hashtag and engaging friends to join the campaign.
"We are incredibly fortunate to have Gretchen as our ambassador for our Dogs Save Lives campaign," said Dogtopia CEO Neil Gill. "She is a servant leader who has pivoted her life's purpose in a powerful way and with a very important message that resonates with anyone who has a dog in their life. Our hope is to see thousands of people across the country wearing Dogs Save Lives tees and getting behind this noble cause, and Gretchen absolutely has the gumption to make it happen."
About Dogtopia:
Founded in 2002, Dogtopia is an early pioneer and innovator in the pet services industry, offering an experience focused on wellness, quality of care, safety and transparency in the market. The ultimate destination for improving the physical and mental well-being of dogs and pet parents, Dogtopia helps our furry friends live long, healthy, and happy lives with services that address canine wellness in a holistic manner. Pet parents have the assurance of leaving their beloved furry family members in the hands of trained professionals in an environment created with the safety of dogs in mind, including an open-play environment with comfortable rubber flooring to ease joints and paws, top quality meals and snacks, as well as webcams for pet parents to check in on their pups. For more information, visit www.dogtopia.com.
About Dogtopia Foundation
The Dogtopia Foundation's mission is to "enable dogs to positively change our world" and does this by supporting programs, research and initiatives focused around three worthy causes: Service Dogs for Veterans, Youth Literacy Programs that foster the joy of reading, and Employment Initiatives for Adults with Autism. 100 percent of all donations are given directly organizations that help returning veterans, young school children, and adults with autism reach their full potential. To learn more, visit www.dogtopiafoundation.org.
Media Contact: David Robertson, Fishman Public Relations, drobertson@fishmanpr.com or 847-945-1300
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